All photos ©Nilina Mason-Campbell
After numerous recommendations from friends and bands alike, I finally caught Explode into Colors live on New Year’s Eve at Holocene. While the sound of the trio definitely has some retro tones to it, never has a band seemed so refreshing. Seriously. For weeks and months I’ve been hearing about the group’s [...]
Pic:©Nilina Mason-Campbell
[It's my fault that this is late to the blog - DA.]
Post from Nilina Mason-Campbell. Who cares about Mondays? Or rather Tuesday mornings. Day-job duties were out the door when it came to Born Ruffian’s set at Holocene last night. Typically shows at the start of the week tend to simmer down around midnight, [...]
Yacht sweating it out at Holocene. Pic ©Nilina Mason-Campbell
Nilina Mason-Campbell reports from the PdxPopNow! show last night:
I was a bit surprised that Fist Fite opened the PDX Pop Now! CD release show last night at 9:25, but maybe it was so drummer Christian Carmine could still make it to work on time as he works [...]
Linger & Quiet took a break from lingering and being quiet to send the moose an exclusive dj set.
We saw them recently at holocene. It was nice to hear effortless beat matching with a danceable electro set.
Here’s the itunes mix.
(44 meg m4a file)
Here’s the tracklist:
A Song is Worth A Thousand Pictures
John Carpenter - The End [...]
About twice a year I find myself at a random party overhearing the same conversation: “What happened to good song writing? What happened to the song?” It’s at that point names like Elvis Costello, Burt Bacharach, or Roy Orbison appear and I head back to the keg. I mean, how the hell [...]