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Artist Fact Sheet: Keith Harkin

The Irishman brings his well-rounded abilities to Bend

Keith Harkin is the type of artist whose blend of rock music is able to appease a lot of different people. So even if you weren’t familiar with his tunes before reading this article, I’d say his show at The Domino Room is definitely worth checking out. His latest album, “10 Years Later,” just released […]

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Gung Ho For Shows: Vampire Weekend

The Father of the Bride tour is coming to Bend, and it might be a life-changing event

The summer is winding down for 2019, but that doesn’t mean summer 2020 isn’t already starting to heat up.  Les Schwab Amphitheater has officially announced its first show for next season, and well, it’s a big one: Vampire Weekend is making a stop in Bend for the band’s Father of the Bride Tour 2020. Vampire […]

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Totally Worth It

The artists you might not know, but need to see at the 2019 Sisters Folk Festival

It’s that time of the year again: the Sisters Folk Festival is back and ready to deliver a heaping amount of music. With such a great lineup that spreads across the town of Sisters, it can be hard to properly divvy up your time, and you might miss something that would have been worth knowing […]

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Source Material

A look back at a few of musicโ€™s gems from August

Not to be harsh or anything, but summer is almost over, guys. That means we need to fill our lives with plenty of summertime bops and play them on repeat until it’s officially over. Luckily for us a lot of awesome music was put out just before the tail-end of the season! Check out some […]

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Having Each Other’s Backs

Jeffrey Silverstein & Alex Crowson’s connection is more than music

First meeting about two years ago while both teaching at a school in Portland, Jeffrey Silverstein and Alex Crowson quickly bonded through music and their appreciation for early punk and pop tunes. Now their friendship has grown beyond that and they’ve each put out their first solo projectsโ€“ which they realized were only released a […]

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Artist Fact Sheet: Ray Fulcher

One of country music’s best songwriters comes to Bend

Country music has plenty of big namesโ€”many dominating the charts for quite some time. If you aren’t one to dig into the genre, you might be missing out on a lot of different music or players in the game. Ray Fulcher is one of those guys. Fulcher is a Southern man who might have gotten […]

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Bluegrass & Podcasts

The former front man of Nickel Creek is paving new ground

Sean Watkins has been playing music for a long time. From starting Nickel Creek when he was 12, playing variety type shows with the Watkins Family Hour and now moving out into solo projects, Watkins has definitely made the rounds, with each stop leaving an impression that has helped him grow. “I had no idea that […]

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Four Favorites: “Big D.O.L.L.A.”

Damian Lillard, aka Dame D.O.L.L.A, is blessing our ears this offseason with his third album

When he isn’t busy hitting bigtime buzzer beaters over Paul George, or being a father, you can probably find Damian Lillard in the studio rapping his a** off. The Portland Trail Blazers’ starting point guard now officially has three albums under his belt with the release of his latest effort, “Big D.O.L.L.A.” While you’ve probably […]

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Banding Together

Musicians in the Central Oregon scene join forces to throw a two-night music festival

There’s an abundance of good music coming out of Central Oregon. You might not always find it if you don’t know where to look (our calendar helps)โ€”but that’s part of the reason local bands are taking matters into their own hands with a new festival hosted at the Volcanic Theatre Pub. Appropriately titled the High […]

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“The Scene is what You Make It”

A High Desert Underground Q&A with the Roof Rabbits’ Johnny Bourbon

One of the main players behind the High Desert Underground Music Fest is the Roof Rabbits’ Johnny Bourbon. You can catch this trio of rockers performing on night two of the festival, for what is sure to be a high-octane affair. I chatted with Bourbon, guitarist and vocalist, about the band’s beginnings and the current […]

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