Halloween at Volcanic Local music reigns at this diverse Halloween extravaganza, featuring everything from rocking protests songs, to hip-hop to sludge rock. Bend’s hip-hop royalty Mosley Wotta will be joined by nightmarish and industrial electro-metal band Warm Gadget, cello-looper Third Seven, and Jesse Marshall of Larry and His Flask and friends performing an acoustic rock […]
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Out of Town 10/29-11/6
portland friday 31 The Black Keys Blues music, costumes. Need we say more? One of the biggest revivalist successes in the indie-world and on the Top-40 charts in the last five years has been Ohio duo The Black Keys. Influenced by blues greats from Junior Kimbrough to Howlin’ Wolf and Robert Johnson, the band recently […]
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The Odyssey of McDougall
The itinerant one-man show
Scott McDougall’s road dog lifestyle as a peripatetic one-man band has inspired much of his songwriting. His folk tunes are about long rides, towns passing by in the glow of golden leaves lining the highways, forgotten cities and tired travelers—quintessential roving songs. Tales of his long, verbose journeys are always characterized through the lens of […]
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’90s Guys Redman and Method Man
Smokers Club Tour has only one Oregon date: Bend!
Two of the most iconic and innovative hip-hop artists of the last two decades, Method Man and Redman got their start with Wu-Tang Clan and Def Squad respectively in the golden age of East Coast versus West Coast hip-hop. After teaming up in the mid-’90s they have produced two full-length albums as a team, been […]
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Out of Town 10/22-10/30
portland friday 24 Tom Green It’s been quite a while since I watched Road Trip or Freddy Got Fingered, but that doesn’t erase the quotable and totally timeless fart and butt jokes spewed by Tom Green in both films from my mind. Remember that time he documented the removal of his testicle? Or his ridiculous […]
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Bass Chemistry
Beat Lab twists the 92.9 FM airwaves
When Shane Thomas—best known as the tall, skinny guy who is always behind the turntables at Dojo—started DJing on an iPad with a controller last June, he didn’t think it would turn into a weekly gig. But when his day job, Bloom Well Medical Marijuana Dispensary, started talking about advertising with local, independent radio station […]
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Source Suggests 10/22-10/30
David Jacob Strain and Crunk Mountain Boys Slide guitar and poetry are rarely better matched than in the hands of David Jacob Strain, the Oregonian who specializes in rootsy blues songwriting. Strain captures the Laurel Canyon style of James Taylor and Jackson Browne—simultaneously complex and accessible. 8 pm. Sat., Oct. 25. Belfry, 302 E Main […]
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Shooting for the Moon
Moonalice, the techy jam band
Music and tech startups may not immediately seem to go hand-in-hand, but for Roger McNamee—founder of Elevation Partners, a venture capital firm, former head of T. Rowe Price Science and Technology Fund, and guitarist for the ’60s inspired jam band Moonalice—the two go together better than peanut butter and chocolate. Traditionally young up-and-coming artists have […]
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Midwest Minimalist
Jeffrey Foucault’s stripped-down songwriting
Jeffrey Foucault grew up in a small town set amongst the cornfields of Wisconsin, going to school, church and fishing with the same kids kindergarten to twelfth grade—a recognizable rural Midwest upbringing that set him on his path to becoming a troubadour country ballad writer. His description of his musical upbringing is as poetic as […]
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Source Suggests 10/15-10/22
DJ QBert Don’t expect an evening of laptop-rock, QBert isn’t that kind of DJ. He was a founding member of Invisibl Skratch Piklz, has been the subject of two documentaries, and is considered to be one of the Godfathers and masters of scratching technique. His rhythmic manipulation of records is unmatched and has been an […]