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I’ve got more video footage from last week than I can shake a stick at so I’m taking a break and posting a video of MGMT performing in the Abbey Road Studios in London.

Nilina Mason-Campbell posts:
Maybe it’s that I saw the second ever Jaguar Love gig, but that band of ex-Blood Brothers just didn’t wow me when I stumbled upon them opening for New Young Pony Club last October. However, it was quite the opposite when I caught another fraction of ex-Blood Brother this weekend at Situations in [...]

Pickathon 2008 - A Video Sampler from Dave Allen on Vimeo.
A five minute sampler of sets from Langhorne Slim, Johnny Connolly, Crooked Still, Hackensaw Boys and Sean Hayes at Pickathon 2008.

Photo: Andrew Henderson/The New York Times
For all you budding concert and tour promoters out there here’s a great article on the trials and tribulations of Sean Carlson and his cross-country tour, the Fuck Yeah Tour, which wrapped up recently. It ain’t easy but it sure is fun….

Pendleton Rock Camp 2008 Video Scenes from Dave Allen on Vimeo.
Another day, another dollar. Pendleton Rock Camp just wrapped day 2. This is a video of the kids playing in their various group set ups with The Thermals “Your Future” dubbed to the footage.

Day 2 and the kids are still turning up in droves so we must all be doing the right thing. Tonight some of them will perform downtown and I’m looking forward to it. Casey and I had a class this morning on rock journalism and had the budding rock critics write a review of a [...]

Another PDX POP NOW! is ‘in the can’. Once again it came, it saw, it kicked our ass.
I took some behind the scenes pics on Saturday and Sunday. Also, here’s a group of ‘POP’ pics I put together (for you, baby), including the one above of Fist Fite’s Jonnie Monroe. Aw Yeah. [...]

This week the Third Annual Pendleton Rock Camp takes place. It’s a week-long event and I am out here in Eastern Oregon volunteering along with members of Point Juncture, WA, Laura Gibson, Casey Jarman, Paul Collins of Beirut and many more. It’s free for the kids and they love it. This morning, Day 1, I [...]