Pampelmoose New Music Hour on Portland’s 94.7FM 10-30-08

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008

The night before Halloween and more new music on the second hour of this week’s Pampelmoose edition of the New Music Hour on Portland’s 94.7FM. In this show you’ll hear cuts from Friendly Fires, a remix, Future Clouds & Radar, Black Sheep and Portland’s Red Fang. I’m on 94.7FM with resident DJ Squid every Tuesday [...]

Santogold Rocked the Crystal Ballroom Sunday Night

Monday, October 6th, 2008

Pictures by Justin Kent.
Snazzy outfits, let the kids dance up on stage…a regular dancefloor riot.
Santogold - Shove It (Switch Remix)

Pampelmoose Playlist on 94.7FM New Music Hour 10-02-08

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

Nick Jaina. Pic Melanie Brown
My second hour on this week’s New Music Hour on Portland’s 94.7FM includes Portland musicians Nick Jaina and Little Hunks, a new cut from Luomo with Apparat and a Santogold remix. I’m on air with resident DJ Squid every Tuesday and Thursday at 8PM. This is the show from Thursday October [...]

Portland’s 94.7 FM starts New Music Hour, weeknights at 8PM

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

New Music Hour from 94.7 and a locals-only HD channel
I was chatting with 94.7FM Program Director, Mark Hamilton, the other day about FM radio and how it used to be the place for everyone to discover new music. It’s no exaggeration to say that today music fans have many ways to hear the latest and [...]

Why Do You Run a Music Blog?

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

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 [...]

New MP3s and it’s about time too..

Friday, July 18th, 2008

I’ve been sliding on the music discovery angle lately. I’ve been busy writing lengthy posts on the human condition and social media on the Nemo blog, Social Cache, so forgive me. Anyway enjoy.
Booka Shade - Solo City
Matthew Dear - Sound & Vision [Bowie Cover]
Mogwai - Sun Smells Too Loud
Bodies Of Water - Gold Tan Peach [...]

the roots new cd rising down is out now

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Along with the new Santogold album that was released yesterday, The Roots dropped ‘Rising Down’ and it is pretty awesome. Much harder, tighter and stripped down than previous albums ‘Rising Down’ has the band delivering some angry and scorching lyrics - everyone in this camp is pissed apparently…
Watch the Ric Cordero directed video of 75 [...]

santogold the album, out today, rejoice

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Santogold is in stores today. One of the few artists that I’ve actually been waiting for a full-length album from.
Santogold - Shove It feat Spank Rock (Switch remix)