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So did Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band live up to the hype when they played the Doug Fir on Tuesday night? Well, if you weren’t there to witness the performance yourself, you can wipe your brow with relief because the quintet most definitely did.
I stepped into the underground venue having heard oh so much [...]
This is the Pampelmoose edition of the New Music Hour on Portland’s 94.7FM. I failed to post Tuesday’s show in time so here’s a two for one…
I’m on 94.7FM with resident DJ Squid every Tuesday and Thursday at 8PM. This is the show from Tuesday December 2nd and Thursday December 4th. For more local and [...]
Moving towards ‘feels free’ while further devaluing music.
A press release arrived within the email pile today and it trumpeted this - Nokia launches pioneering ‘Comes With Music‘ digital entertainment service. New service offers customers unprecedented freedom and value. EMI Music, independents and music publishers join offering.
Let me take a deep breath here……ok. There’s nothing but [...]
Yup, the fine people at Vice Music are giving away an early Xmas present in the form of a free, 10 song sampler via Amazon’s MP3 store. Here’s the link.
Found on Twitter from LargeHeartedBoy.
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. [...]