Some more insight into songwriter Justin Froese
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PHOTOS: Old Crow Medicine Show Plays Bend’s Century Center
Last night, the old-timey alt-country crooners, pickers and fiddlers of Old Crow Medicine Show brought their Tennessee charms to Bend’s Century Center stage for a sold-out show. The crowd spanned every cross-section of Bendites, from moms with babies and white-haired fellas wearing bolos to scruffy dudes in plaid shirts and trucker hats and ladies with […]
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Old Crow Medicine Show at Century Center
Old Crow Medicine Show performed at Bend’s Century Center with openers The Deslondes on September 23, 2014.
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Local Music Update
Roots Festival showcases Bend’s finest
The annual Roots Festival has become an artistic staple in Bend’s cultural landscape over the last half-decade. Shut down in 2012 for lack of venue, and facing nasty weather in 2013 that almost shut down the arts collaboration, Roots Festival has proved it’s quick thinking and resilient in the face of challenging circumstances. Having held […]
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Out of Town 9/25-10/2
portland thursday 25 The Orwells, with Skaters and The Picturebooks The Orwells come from a lineage of what could best be known as “The Illinois sound.” Like Cheap Trick and OK Go, fun, likable and rocking, with thumping bass drums and driving, cascading guitar riffs, and like their Midwestern brethren, they are as tight-knit as […]
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Locavore Musician
Annie Girl and the Flight devours what’s around it
Annie Girl and the Flight is an impeccably apt ’90s throwback, a post-grunge, lady-fronted reverb rock band with a lo-fi charm and a smoothness that comes from a lack of forcing music to happen. There’s a swaying proclivity to the band’s songs. Dreamy, bulldozing guitar riffs fill the void left by leisurely tempos and Annie’s […]
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From Sullen to Pop
Singer/songwriter Justin Froese strikes sing-a-long gold (finally)
Look no further than the jazzy blues standard, “Love Has,” from Justin Froese‘s latest album, Fireflies, in order to accurately imagine the bulk of his catalogue, which now spans two full-length albums and an EP. That track—a slinky song that touts fragile vocals and crashing emotion—is something you might emphatically and repeatedly dip your chin […]
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The Sound of Science
Where physics and rock stars collide
Playing with Jonatha Brooke is Christine McKinley, a mechanical engineer, or as she describes it, “science nerd,” musician and author who recently released her book, “Physics for Rock Stars: Making the Laws of the Universe Work for You.” The Source caught up with McKinley about how rock stars and science are both sexy, and about […]
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Source Suggests 9/24-10/2
Roots Festival Kickoff with Patchy Sanders Ashland is more known for its top-notch theater than for its music scene, but folk orchestra Patchy Saunders is trying to change that. Combining minor-key medieval song structures with Americana soul, the band ventures outside of the typical realm of southern Oregon music in a classically influenced menagerie with […]
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On Growing Up and Growing Old
Jonatha Brooke writes theatrical insights to life, time and hula dolls
I’ve loved Jonatha Brooke since I was 12 years old. I’m not sure what it was about her delicately crafted pop songs and her veneered emotive voice that appealed to an awkward seventh grade girl whose music collection consisted mostly of what I pulled out of my parents jewel-case CD rack and 12 of the […]