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The Dirty Words, Bend’s indie, experimental rock squad dropped off a video of their show at the Silver Moon a few weeks back. Take a look.
Still Burnin’?
Just two months ago, it looked like the Bend City Council was moving
full speed ahead to ban all open burning within city limits in an
effort to clean up the city's air, but now it appears that a complete
ban on burning yard waste and other debris isn't in the cards.
At
last week's meeting, the council discussed an ordinance that would ban
open burning, except during two days in November - a divergence from
earlier indications that the city might ban all forms of burning. By
the end of the discussion, however, the council decided by way of a
four-to-three vote to amend the proposed ordinance to allow burning
during the two-day November period, but only on parcels of land two
acres or larger with a Fire Department-issued permit. The council has
not approved the ordinance, but will revisit the item at future
meetings.
Soldiers of Jah Army, honorary mayors of Reggaetown.We've pounded it into these pages more than enough in the past six
months, and a sincere apology to all if this seems like a message from
the Department of Redundancy Department, but … what is up with all the
friggin' reggae going down in this town? At this point, I'm not even
sure how I feel about it, but I sure as hell can't avoid it. And maybe
we shouldn't even worry - the Benders (we're taking a week off from
mentioning "Bendites" in the paper) seem to love it.
This weekend could very well be the peak of the local reggae movement with three separate reggae shows in a matter
of 48 hours. Here's a rundown of what
you can (if you so choose) sway, bob and swing your dreads to:
Keeping the steel in the family.In a weird way, it's accurate to call the Campbell Brothers "church
music," because, technically they play their tunes in a church, just as
they've been doing since they were kids. But this isn't the church
music of organs, autoharps and white-haired women singing falsetto with
one hand raised, leading a drowsy congregation though a down-tempo hymn
- this is pretty much rock music.
Chuck Campbell grew up in the House
of God Church, a Pentecostal, predominately African-American
denomination that shies away from the pipe organ, opting for the steel
guitar to lift the spirits of the congregation, and get them moving
their feet. This isn't a whining, yawning county Western slide guitar -
the House of God sound, often referred to as "Sacred Steel," is more of
a shouting, screaming, wailing manipulation of the instrument that,
when accompanied by a band, is pretty hard not to dance to.
The venerable Inn of the Seventh Mountain on the road to Mt. Bachelor has been through a lot in its 35-year life, and it shows. The dark wood siding on its condos is weathered and deteriorating. Roofs leak. Uninsulated water pipes freeze.
Here are some free, full-length MP3s from the Laurel Brauns and Canaan Canaan albums we reviewed in this week’s mysteriously magical Sound Check column. We won’t even make you click through to get ’em.
The nice fellas of Sweatshop Union were kind enough to allow us to dish out a couple tracks from their latest album United We Fall. If you like what you hear, check out their show at the Domino Room on Friday, Jan.
Black and White, yes. But not old timey.Langhorne Slim is in North Carolina gearing up for a friend's wedding and he's telling me about the iPod that his girlfriend gave him for Christmas. But he's not talking about the new Radiohead he just dumped onto the device - like a whole lot of new iPod owners probably did in the wake of the holidays - he's telling me about all the Lee Hazlewood tracks he loaded up.
Hazlewood, the iconic country music rebel who died of cancer just this past summer, isn't who I'd expected Langhorne Slim - one of the most promising young songwriters playing today - to be listening to. Then again, after a few more listens to Langhorne's tunes, it makes sense.
Not only do Central Oregon musicians just generally kick ass, but they also tend to be nice and open to the idea of letting you hear their music — even if you’re not ready to track ’em down at a show or buy their album. In that spirit, here are two tracks apiece from Coyo and Shireen Amini, the local artists whose lastest CD releases we reviewed in this week’s Sound Check. Read on for the goods.
Jim Thomassen was elected in November to chair the Deschutes County Democratic Party. A graduate of the University of Oregon, he was a professional economist for state government before working in marketing in the high-tech field. He and his wife moved to Bend in 2004. This is an edited transcript of a conversation with him by Source Senior Writer H. Bruce Miller.
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