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Lauren of Ume
This is the Pampelmoose edition of the New Music Hour on Portland’s 94.7FM. I decided to settle on a theme for this one - female musicians - which is not as facile as it sounds. Just recently I’ve been thrilled to hear a new breed of female musicians bringing the alt-rock and fronting [...]

Pic ©Nilina Mason-Campbell
Finally a Yeasayer song that captures just how danceable the Brooklyn based band is when in the live arena! Leave it to fellow Brooklyn dweller and remix extraordinaire Pocketknife to make the leap. Propping up “Sunrise” with additional percussion while leaving the vocals and original flow of the song intact, he’s succeeded in [...]

Tricky - Knowle West Boy
This is the second episode of the week of the Pampelmoose edition of the New Music Hour on Portland’s 94.7FM. I’m on 94.7FM with resident DJ Squid every Tuesday and Thursday at 8PM. This is the show from Thursday November 20th. For more local and Northwest music you can also tune [...]

How could I have not known about Ume? An Austin trio fronted by a whirling dervish of a singer guitarist who in the standard PR band head shot looks like she wouldn’t hurt a fly; yet give her a guitar, a Marshall stack and a mic and stand back, way back. She shreds. They have [...]

Former Sleater-Kinney member Carrie Brownstein announced on her NPR Monitor Mix blog that she is streaming four songs and offering up two MP3 downloads that are the results of an 8 year old recording session she and Mary Timony [who was a member of Helium, one of my favorite bands] had in Olympia in 2000. [...]

Dead Confederate. Pic by Squid
Dead Confederate released their debut LP - Wrecking Ball on September 16 via TAO Records. One of my new music discoveries at the Sasquatch Festival this year was these guys. I’m not a lover of the Rock Music these days as you know but Dead Confederate grabbed me and held on; [...]

Hardy of Dead Confederate
This episode of the Pampelmoose edition of the New Music Hour on Portland’s 94.7FM is slightly shorter as we had special guests Dead Confederate in the studio to play an acoustic version of The Rat. After the show Squid and I saw them put on an amazing show at the Doug Fir. [...]