Where the food sounds good, and the music is pretty tasty too.
Acclaimed Portland, Oregon rock quintet Blitzen Trapper will release their new album All Across This Land on October 2nd through Lojinx in Europe (on Vagrant in the US). Continue reading “blitzen trapper | lonsome angel”
Mimicking Birds opens up a main vein and let’s the essence of audible offerings out. We’re thankful as Sunday parishioners for the track Bloodlines. This song is of such character it’ll manage subtle slights of hand and leaves you wanting to visit often to unravel it’s tricks. But there aren’t any charades here, the music just surrounds you in feelings seldom unleashed. The track Owl Hoots is a flourish of breath stealing vapor and I am enamored like a certain Montague sweet on a beauteous Capulet.
Check out the band’s Eon album out now via Glacial Pace Records. Currently, the band is on tour with Modest Mouse and mayhap you can catch ’em. Peace. Continue reading “mimicking birds | bloodlines”
Hailing from Portland, Oregon, the young Turks of Rare Monk have a sonic resilience that’s like everything and nothing you’ve ever heard. While the obvious signposts are there to guide you (Modest Mouse, Sonic Youth, Phoenix), Rare Monk combine their love of both 90s and contemporary Indie Rock with a fevered Pop intensity, before shooting the whole thing into outer space to see what comes back. As frontman Dorian Aites puts it, “Although we draw upon many genres for inspiration, we’ve been creating our own thing based on nothing other than the idea that, ‘these are the songs we wrote cause they sound cool’”. Continue reading “rare monk | ain’t no sunshine | bill withers cover”
Barsuk Records is excited to announce that Menomena is touring this fall in support of their latest album Moms. The co-headlining tour with fellow Portland duo The Helio Sequence starts on September 28th 2013 at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco and ends on October 25th at Urban Lounge in Salt Lake City. Full tour dates are below.
Moms is the Portland-based band’s fifth album, and their first as a duo. The album has been receiving wide praise, with Pitchfork proclaiming “Moms is without doubt the most aggressive record Menomena have ever made” and calling the lead single “Heavy Is As Heavy Does” “gloriously morose.” Rolling Stone likewise hailed the track as “an emotive outburst of a song that expertly sidesteps melodrama – confessional rock thrills without the cheesy aftertaste.” Paste remarked that the record is “the most candid and personal Menomena release to date,” while Under the Radar called Menomena “one of the most well thought-out bands working today, never sacrificing structure or composition in the name of delivering a series of power chords.” Alarm declared that Moms “is arguably Menomena’s best effort to date.” Peace.
Continue reading “menomena // co-headlining fall tour with the helio sequence”
Today is a good day. Why? Today the Portland, Oregon-based band Typhoon premiered their Matthew Thomas Ross directed video for Dreams Of Cannibalism. The song, with all of it’s wild ranging folk-rockin’ docility comes from their forthcoming album White Lighter, which drops August 20th, 2013 courtesy of Roll Call Records. My favorite song on the new album is “Common Sentiments,” and man can Kyle Morton sing his heinie off!
Of note, if you like what you hear then check out the bands much lauded and sweetly colossus EP, A New Kind Of House. Peace. Continue reading “typhoon // dreams of cannibalism + video”
for STRFKR‘s third full-length album group helmsman Josh Hodges retreated to the wilds of astoria, oregon and went to work. the result the lp ‘Miracle Mile’ and is said to be the band’s …”biggest and brightest to date…” expect the album to drop february 19th 2013. also, you can pre-order it via Polyvinyl Records. peace. Continue reading “strfkr // while i’m alive”
daniel hindman + sarah versprille = pure bathing culture. their music is as bright as a longed for summer day replete with whimsical soulful birdsong and fragrant wildflowers. the brooklyn, nyc transplants have put down roots out west, and although the duo saw an early 2012 release via father daughter records the four-track self-titled pure bathing culture ep was being newly released by memphis industries a few months ago (august). peace. Continue reading “pure bathing culture // pure bathing culture ep”
i’m always excited when i hear news about one of my favorite bands …ever! so, needless to say i am more than a little excited to announce the swift sessions record store day exclusive 7-inch single, available at select retailers on November 23rd.
the forthcoming single will feature the swift session versions of “no way down” and “fall of 82”, produced by the shins most excellent keyboardist, richard swift.
stay tuned to RecordStoreDay.com for details about where you can purchase. peace. Continue reading “the shins // swift sessions 7-inch out nov. 23rd”
the chromatics have been getting a lot of request for the songs used in a recent interview, so the ever gracious johnny jewel put together this sunday morning mix minus with a few extras thrown in for good measure. you’ll hear from bands symmetry, new farah, komeda and tangerine dream just to name a few. by the way, i’ve also included the complete chromatic’s album ‘kill for love’ for your listening pleasure. peace. Continue reading “chromatics // let’s kiss (sunday morning mix)”
The Helio Sequence are a mainstay in the Portland, Oregon music scene and for good reason, Brandon Summers and Benjamin Weikel make good music. With the duos fifth studio release Negotiations you’ll hear imaginative songwriting and a much more expansive and warmer, albeit vintage sound. The Helio Sequence have come into their own with this release and you’re heart and ears will be thoroughly pleased. Peace. Continue reading “the helio sequence // october”