Mike Bookey

You may not even know it exists, but there is a remarkably high-quality electronic music scene here in Bend. To say this faction of the music scene is underground would be an understatement – if you haven't seen a show flyer or caught wind of a gig by way of social media, you may have never even known that some of the region's best DJs reside right here in Bend.
But if you're walking past the Midtown Ballroom on Saturday night, the electronic music community will be tough to ignore. Local DJs and promoters are throwing a show called Quarantine featuring a sampling of Bend's finest electronic music purveyors, as well as two emerging European acts, Cottonmouth and Robokop. With one of the most high-end and sizable sound systems you're likely to see in an indoor music venue in Central Oregon, Quarantine should provide the sort of bowel-shaking bass notes and dubstep glitches that bring dance party lovers out of the shadows and into the club until the early morning hours.

There is little in the music world that polarizes a room quite like a discussion about the merits of music originating from the 1980s. You either love it or you hate it and if you say something like, “I dunno. It's OK, I guess,” you'll be outed as the fence-sitter that you are.

Yes, this is the same Cake you're thinking of – the one that scored a handful of hits in the mid-to-late 1990s and has survived on our conscience by way of inclusion in movies and television shows. Somewhat unexpectedly, Cake has returned with what might be one of the Sacramento-based acts strongest offerings in Showroom of Compassion.