On Friday, Portland’s heavy-rock pianist, Machine, will pour on the Fiona Apple-style fire and storytelling. Drummer Peter Thomas (of Hopeless Jack and the Handsome Devil) plays a dynamic backbone to Madeline Mahrie’s smoky expansive vocals and Madonna-esque chameleon aesthetic. Machine is a sultry eye and ear-catching duo that will kickoff a sprawling United States tour […]
Brianna Brey
Bri Brey is a Bend native who started as an intern at the Source Weekly after her graduation from the University of Oregon three years ago. She is now the full-time arts, culture and music editor.
Committed to bolstering Bend’s growing musical and arts community, Bri takes after the semi-fictional William Miller of Almost Famous. Despite a cynicism cultivated over the 20 years she’s lived in Bend, Bri loves Christmas. She loves decorating and gift giving and prides herself on having the best white elephant strategy. She once devised an It’s a Wonderful Life drinking game. Contact her at bri@bendsource.com with local music, arts and culture events (or the rules to that drinking game).
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And Then There Was Jay Tablet
A review of West Ghostin’
Scheduled to bring his effortlessly unflappable rhymes and beats to the Volcanic Theatre Pub on Thursday, was half of the prolific duo The Cool Kids, Chuck Inglish. Unfortunately, a last minute cancellation of all of Inglish’s Oregon dates, Bend among them, is a big letdown for the sparse, but growing hip-hop community. Local producer, DJ […]
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Wilderness Music Video: Shoot the Moon
Local band Wilderness has released a new music video for the song “Shoot the Moon!” The video is a voyeuristic look into the lives of office-working, forest-partying clown-people, directed and produced by Jesse Locke of AMZ Productions and with with body paint by Natalie Fletcher. Check it out below and see Wilderness perform at the WilderFest Block Party, the fiftieth anniversary celebration […]
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PICK: Orquesta Monte Calvo
saturday 6 Orquesta Monte Calvo MORE DANCE MUSIC—It isn’t too often that an Afro-Latin dance band twists its snakey danceable world-music grip around Bend. Corvallis’ Orquesta Monte Calvo mixes traditional and modern music styles from Peru and Colombia—Psychedelic Cumbia, Chicha, Samba, funk and more 9 pm. Volcanic Theatre Pub, 70 SW Century Dr. $6.
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PICK: First Friday
friday 5 First Friday ART—Take a stroll downtown filled with art bites and booze samples. Make sure to swing by Crow’s Feet Commons, hosting a slew of great events including Base Camp Studio’s painting marathon and On Ensemble, forward thinking taiko (Japanese ensemble drumming) artists. Bishop’s Barber Shop will host work from the Source’s artist […]
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An Interview with Panther Attack
Seattle-based noise band Panther Attack play obtuse, nontraditionally structured experimental rock music. Panther Attack songs take a meandering path that can lead from gong-smashing percussion to mathy guitar riffs to space-age dreamy loops, often spiraling off into stream of consciousness tinted jams. Sung Amongst Shadows, the band’s 2014 release, is a cleaned up amalgamation of […]
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Bend Zine Library Now at Townshend’s Teahouse
Last year, we wrote a story about Bend’s Zine Library, a fun collaboration between the local independent publishing community that compiled private archives of zines, local and national, and put them up for rent and reading free of charge. Formerly housed at the Work House and then at Armature Studio, last week, the Zine Library […]
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Source Suggests 9/4-9/11
This special edition of the Source Suggests covers a few of our many picks from the incredible lineup of the 2014 Sisters Folk Festival. The festival is mostly sold out, but there are a handful of Sunday tickets still available online at sistersfolkfestival.org. Sisters Folk Festival, Sept. 5-7 Shakey Graves This charming Austin singer-songwriter is […]
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From a Mouse to a Rat
Casey Neill’s perpetually maturing music
Casey Neill isn’t that old. He will tell you so himself. “Still a pup,” he joked in a recent email exchange with the Source. But at 43, Neill has become a recognizable and well respected, collaborative musician in the Portland music scene. Solo, and under the guise of the Norway Rats, he has worked with […]
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Banjo, Plus
Plucking around Supermule
Diversifying appears to be a trend that the Bay Area bluegrass scene has embraced. Take for example the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park. Founded in 2001 by the late Warren Hellman, a banjo-loving billionaire, the free festival has expanded beyond strictly picking and, in recent years, grown to include distinctly non-bluegrass bands […]
