Roseburg saturday 21 Poker Craze Texas Hold’Em Poker Tournament No need to have a tax return yet, the $100 initial buy-in gets 5,000 chips, with a one-time $100 add-on getting 10,000 chips. “Team Casino” will run the tournament, complete with multiple prizes (including a grand prize) and a smoked tri-tip dinner. All blind levels will […]
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Moving Quickly to a Spontaneous New Sound
The Helio Sequence jumps in with lively new material
After releasing its fifth full-length album, Negotiations, in 2012, The Helio Sequence was ready to try something new. The Portland alternative pop/rock duo had been kicking around the idea of recording another band in the full professional studio they’d built for themselves, so they jumped at the chance to record and produce a new album […]
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Source Suggests 2/18-2/25
Blue Lotus Calling all Phish Phans and Grateful Deadheads! If you’re someone who considers yourself a fan of jam bands, Blue Lotus fills your need for rockin’ blues, jazz and funk-inspired sets. With one listen to the band’s melodic, yet high energy, danceable sound, it’ll come as no surprise that this group of Eugene-based musicians […]
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First It Was Love, Then Came The Band
Blackberry Bushes are a bramble of tradition and local flavor
Nearly a decade ago, in 2006, Jakob Breitbach was playing fiddle in a band in Olympia, Washington. He often bumped into Jes Raymond, who sang in another band. “We fell in love in 2006,” remembers Raymond. Yet it wasn’t until three years later until Breitbach joined her band. “We’ve been touring together since,” she says. […]
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Lady Leaders
Chicks with Picks celebrates women in music
When viewing my playlist, concert ticket stubs and vinyl records, several themes come into play, but the most prominent trend is my affinity for strong, female musicians. I’ve been known to listen to Brandi Carlile, album after album, to no discernable end. Imagine my excitement, then, for the upcoming Chicks with Picks event, which features […]
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Source Suggests 2/11-2/18
Ayron Jones and The Way Few rock bands can say that in 2013 Sir Mix A-Lot opened for them at their debut record release party. But Aryon Jones and The Way can! The band caught the hip-hop icon’s attention and he produced their album. What’s so special about Ayron Jones and The Way? For one, […]
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Out of Town 2/11-2/18
Eugene saturday 14 – sunday 15 30th Annual Oregon Asian Celebration Extra wasabi, please! The Eugene/Springfield Asian Council coordinates this event every year to show the little state of Oregon all that the largest continent in the world has to offer. Three stages host constant artistic, martial arts and cooking demonstrations, along with Asian arts […]
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Marching Party
Portland’s MarchFourth booms into WinterFest
Sometime during the 90-minute explosion of brass, acrobatics, and general mayhem, what begins disguised as a concert reveals itself as something much more than musical chaos. “When you come to a MarchFourth show, we don’t want you to feel like you’re just sitting in your chair watching a performance,” explains Phill Stasz, who is a […]
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Mosley Wotta Records New Spoken Word Track ‘Markets’ with Collothen
Local artist and musician MOsley WOtta (Jason Graham) shared a new track yesterday—a spoken word piece titled “Markets (Song from thew Field), a collaboration with Collothen (Colten Tyler Williams), mixed by third seven (Billy Mickelson). Currently available streaming on MOWO’s Bandcamp site, the track promises to be the first in an ongoing spoken word project […]
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Adrian + Meredith bring forthright folk to Bend
Adrian Krygowski pens songs of the everyday working man (or woman) because he’s not so far removed from that life. A few years back he was going through the motions like most Americans, commuting to a day job with Verizob to pay the bills and giving his evenings and weekends to his passion—in this case, […]