W ho’s stoked for the George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic show tonight at the Midtown Ballroom?! We are. It’s gonna be a night full of the funk—and to get you ready, here’s a blast from the past, featuring the group at the Capitol Theatre in […]
We tend to have a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants culture in the music scene in Bend—which means few shows sell out months in advance. You can usually head down to the door and pay to get in at will. A few shows, on the other hand, demand a pre-sale code and tickets purchased as soon as they go […]
In a recent Rolling Stone interview, Mr. P Funk himself, George Clinton, describes an alien encounter he had. But he also delves into his extensive knowledge of music—from doo woop to jazz to what he’s best known for—funk… and that last bit is why we’ll be at this week’s show, front and center. While thinking […]
Lukas Nelson has been releasing music and touring for nearly a decade now, but he’s treating the recently released self-titled album from his band, “Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real” as if it’s a second beginning to his music career. There’s plenty of logic to that thinking. The past few years have seen the […]
In 2015, a few friends and I ventured to Volcanic Theatre Pub to check out a band called Joseph that we’d heard had beautiful harmonies. We were blown away. The three sisters that make up the band, Joseph, vocalize together to create stunning soundscapes. A year later, it seemed like every other Spotify compilation playlist […]
Pennywise didn’t just make up most of the anthemic punk rock I listened to in high school. They had my middle school years covered also. In the early 1990s, Epitaph Records was already legendary for releases of Bad Religion and NOFX records, single handedly saving the slowly dying Southern California punk rock scene. By 1993, […]
Sheryl Crow announced a handful of new tour dates on Monday, including a stop in Bend in July. This will be Crow’s first show back in Bend since playing the Les Schwab Amphitheater in 2015. The pop star has earned nine Grammys over the span of her career, along with five Platinum albums and more […]
Just announced! Grammy Award Winner Ray LaMontagne teams up with Neko Case to tour the U.S.—making a stop in Bend at Les Schwab this May. F ans may already know of the release of LaMontagne’s seventh album, “Part of The Life,” May 18. However, some of you may not know, starting today through March 4 […]
If you’ve been a fan of the Mt. Bachelor Riverhouse Jazz series, this might come as bad news: The series will end after the current season. Executive Producer Marshall Glickman penned a letter sent Feb. 20, announcing the decision to discontinue the series after this season. Glickman told the Source Weekly the decision was a […]
Born in the Ukraine, Eugene Hutz formed bands there before coming to the United States, creating a distinctive global music sound with his band, Gogol Bordello. The musician has also acted in movies and even lived in Brazil. Not surprisingly, Hutz has been encouraged to retell his story in a memoir—and has tried and failed […]
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