pampelmoose Dave Allen of Gang of Four’s Music and Media Blog

This is the only picture I could snap and there’s definitely no video due to the band’s overzealous tour manager, but more on that when I’ve gathered my thoughts.

On August 15th, Chicago’s Berry play their hometown and then hit the road, or rather the train tracks, as they tour the country by train to avoid the high price of touring by van now that gas prices are still flirting around the $4.00 mark. Good idea. The band’s Paul Goodenough says the tour poses [...]

Here’s Ian back in 2007 extolling on his ideas of what exactly musicians should be doing when they think about releasing a CD. Example: He says why are you touring to support the release of the CD? The CD should be released to support the touring Mackaye says. Good point. Thanks to Rodger at Strange [...]

One of my favorite bands, The Notwist, have lined up a whole slew of dates that have them starting out in the summer in Europe then heading to the USA this fall. Touring in support of their rather wonderful new album, The Devil, You + Me they arrive in Portland to play Berbatis Pan, October [...]

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I’ve read a few articles lately about how the price of gas is crimping many bands’ touring activities. I’m not surprised given that for a band to get from Portland to San Francisco and back, a round trip of 1,266 miles, a decent van loaded with equipment and band members might get 12 miles a [...]

Portland band, Hockey, prepare to blast the Bay Area
As we noted in the Wal-Mart/Handelman story below, music sales are still in decline and haven’t quite found the bottom yet. Meanwhile retailers are getting creative at least. Insound.com is an online music retailer that focuses on alternative music mostly, if not exclusively, but I admit I [...]

Pictures and post from Nilina Mason-Campbell:
Last time Foals trotted over to the west of the US, they only played one show in Seattle, hometown of their American label Sub Pop. This time the journey was more extensive as they made their way up the entire coast, finally gracing Portland after a show in San Diego. [...]

Consisting of Johnny Whitney (vocals, piano) and Cody Votolato (guitar, bass) — both formerly of the Blood Brothers — and friend J Clark (drums, bass, keyboards), formerly the guitar wiz in the recently split Pretty Girls Make Graves, Jaguar Love bear some stylistic similarities to the trio’s old outfits but based on early live evidence, [...]