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,’ [...]
Matt & Kim rocked Backspace on Friday night….
…smile
…and the audience lapped it up…
All pics ©Justin Kent.
Matt & Kim - No More Long Years
Radiohead :: “Tell Me Why” (neil young cover) from gorilla vs. bear on Vimeo.
It’s interesting that Radiohead (or at least Greenwood and Yorke) should perform Neil Young’s ‘Tell Me Why?’ at the Hollywood Bowl. This generations musical mavericks pay homage to one of rock’s elder statesmen who was himself a serious musical maverick. He recorded [...]
Incoming press release everyone duck… “If a foreclosed home in Detroit can be purchased for $1 (as I recently read in the newspaper) I have to wonder how much a night at a Rogue Motel would cost…? And while I can’t answer that question without doing some serious research with the band, I can promise [...]
I had a lot of fun last night playing with Boy Eats Drum Machine at the Wonder Ballroom, my first bass outing in a while. Dat’r, The Xploding Boys and Caves were the other bands on the bill reinterpreting classic songs from The Cure and Talking Heads. Dat’r re-imagining music from Talking Heads’ Remain In [...]
Dead Confederate release their debut LP - WRECKING BALL on September 16 via TAO Records. At Sasquatch Festival this year one of my new music discoveries was these guys. I’m not a lover of the Rock Music so much as you know, but Dead Confederate grabbed me and held on so there was something there [...]
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 [...]