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Here they are, the seven finalists for the Source Weekly/Far From Earth Films music video contest. For those not savvy to the contest: here's how it works.
In office for barely 10 days, Oregon's new attorney general, John Kroger, has come out swinging.
Due to technical difficulties, the voting for the Source Weekly/Far
From Earth Films music video contest will begin tomorrow, rather than
today, as originally posted. Sorry about this, but we promise to have
all the tracks posted tomorrow.
Everybody else is getting a bailout, so why not the newspaper industry?
Our readers know that we've celebrated a recent surge in our local music scene in these pages over the past year or so and we'd like to assure these readers that things should remain strong in 2009. Our evidence, in case you were wondering, lies in the list of new local CDs that are slated for release this year.
Blues through the fisheye.Tim Langford has seen some of the wildest weather of his life in the
recent weeks. More than a foot of snow fell outside his downtown
Seattle home, which forced someone to abandon a city bus in front of
his house. Not long afterwards he was dealing with flooding from the
melting snow. And the road didn't offer any refuge for Langford, better
known as Too Slim, who had a large-scale Christmas show slated in
Spokane canceled before the holidays when some five feet of snow fell
on that city - which happens to be his hometown.
But with I-5
reopened and a freakish warming trend hitting the Northwest, all looks
good for Too Slim and the Taildraggers' show at the Domino Room on
Friday night. With the tumultuous weather behind him, Langford is
excited to get back on the stage - something he's been doing for much
of his life and more than 20 years alone with his current band.
Too Slim & The Taildraggers
friday 16
Check out the sound
section for more on this longstanding Northwest band that is
self-described as "whiskey blues with a southern rock beer chaser." As
far as alcohol-based analogies go, this is pretty damn spot on. 9pm.
$14/advance, $16/door. Domino Room, 51 NW Greenwood Ave.
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friday 16-tuesday 20
With
Obama's inauguration coming up (see writeup on this page) the last
thing many of us want to do is think about the past eight years. But
what this past administration has done is inspire a steady wave of
protest, which this display puts front and center with photos of
protests, a slideshow, protest signs and more. You can also swing by
the location on Tuesday for an inauguration watch party. Fri 7pm-12am,
Sat-Mon. 10am-10pm, Tues 8am. Old Mill Marketplace, 550 SW Industrial
Dr. (between Webcyclery and Curiosity Shop). Free.
Check out the double exclamation mark on that title.
Kari Chisholm of the Blue Oregon blog laments this week about the increasingly sad state of Oregon journalism and the stampede of journalists into PR jobs with government and the private sector.
Doesn’t look like a golfer, does she?Jessie Baylin, who relocated to Nashville after a six-year stretch in
Los Angeles, has just received her Tennessee-issued driver's license.
And she's not all that excited.
"I kind of look like a dweeb in it. My California license was really
cool and I'm kinda upset about this one," she says from the home in
Nashville that she shares with her fiancée Nathan Followill, the
drummer for Kings of Leon.
The new license and its accompanying dweeby photo has hardly been the
only change for the 24-year-old Baylin over the past year. During 2008,
Baylin saw her disc, Firesight, become one of the most well received
singer-songwriter albums of the year, played at Bonnaroo, and made a
name for herself on the pop music landscape. With a soulful sound laced
with folk and rock flavors, Baylin has earned spots on several
high-profile tours, including her opening gig for Marc Broussard that
brings her to the Tower Theatre on Tuesday night.
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