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 [...]
Menomena Pic by Sarah Cass.
In the midst of recording a dozen or so songs for a full length disc next year, Portland’s most talented trio since Clyde Drexler, Terry Porter and Jerome Kersey made time to play a local benefit at Doug Fir Lounge on Sunday night. Along with several songs from Friend and Foe [...]
All Pictures ©Nilina Mason-Campbell
Sometimes the only words are those to say that there simply are none. Still, I’ll try to give a basic overview of last night’s Of Montreal show at the Roseland. I’d gotten a glimpse of what might be in store by way of photo heavy reviews, but nothing could’ve prepared me for [...]
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. [...]
Camille. Pic Banu Cennetoglu
More new music from the second of last week’s 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 13th. For more local and Northwest music you can also tune in to [...]
My favorite local kick-ass, proto-punk outfit The Thermals, have changed teams moving from Seattle’s Sub Pop to Portland’s Kill Rock Stars. There’s a new album underway that should see the light of day around April 2009. After three albums on Sub Pop, ‘More Parts Per Million,’ Fuckin’ A’ and ‘The Body, The Blood, The Machine,’ [...]
[L-R] Noel Redding, Jimi Hendrix and Mitch Mitchell
R.I.P. Mitch Mitchell the original drummer for the Jimi Hendrix Experience. He apparently died of natural causes in his hotel room at Portland’s Benson Hotel. Yahoo! has the story:
PORTLAND, Ore. – Mitch Mitchell, drummer for the legendary Jimi Hendrix Experience of the 1960s and the group’s last surviving [...]