portland PDX Bicycle Show saturday 23-sunday 24 Two-wheeling madness takes over Portland at the Pedal Nation 2013 PDX Bike Show. Portlanders are in love with bikes, so the convention should be right at home in the Rose City. There will be demos, an indoor racing track, Hop Works bike bar, handmade Oregon bikes, a bike fashion […]
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Ladies Light It Up
These three women rock the Central Oregon music scene
Destiny’s Child sang a song about them—independent women. And Central Oregon’s music scene has been benefiting from ladies like that for a while now. They command attention as stage performers, as business owners supporting local live music and as website developers aiming to connect music fans with new social media tools. It’s time their contributions […]
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Hail to the Chief
A good night at GoodLife with Obama’s beer and Wilderness
The keg of GoodLife Brewing Compnay’s special edition honey porter—made from a recipe used by chefs at the White House—was tapped at 5 p.m. Friday night. Fifty minutes later, it was empty. But the dining room of GoodLife remained packed for the next hour plus as Bend’s indie-alt-pop-rock band Wilderness absolutely killed it. Yes—all those […]
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Out of Town 3/13 – 3/21
austin,tx SXSW monday 11-sunday 17 This column is typically reserved for events in the Northwest, things that Bendites could check out within a day’s drive of Central Oregon, but SXSW is a huge freaking deal and I’m not going to let it slip by without at least honorable mention. This music/film/interactive festival is the largest of […]
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Friday Mix Tape
Scan our QR code and take a journey that begins with the sinister 2007 track “Bullets” by Tuung. From there relive the era of acid wash jeans with “Don’t Save Me,” a modern take on '80s pop from Haim. Travel to the land of forgotten Canadian alt-rock with Montreal’s Unicorns and its 2004 song “I […]
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Shark Attack
Electronic artist Eliot Lipp is aggressive in every way
The cover of Brooklyn electronic music artist Eliot Lipp’s 2012 album depicts a shark eating a wolf eating a rabbit eating a snake. The carnage seems to be the perfect metaphor for his approach to the music industry. Be the eater—not the eaten. And In this equation, being the shark means constructing imaginative beats that […]
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Listen Local
Grit and Grizzle’s foot-stomping bluegrass ready to take town by storm
I know we write a lot about bluegrass. But it's popular right now for a reason—people like to get rowdy and listen to good stuff while they do. It doesn’t hurt that whiskey is tasty. I mean, no writer is talking about music you can sip vodka to now are they? So, it doesn't hurt […]
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Out of Town 3/6 – 3/14
portland Electric Six thursday 7 Spending a night with Electric Six means dancing until there’s a fire in the disco. The after party is dancing until there is a fire in the Taco Bell. Jack White was rumored to have sung backup vocals on their song “Danger! High Voltage” back in 2003, at which point […]
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Mutual Friends
BOY
Mutual Friends BOY Nettwerk Records The debut album Mutual Friends from European duo BOY is the musical equivalent of a chick flick. Not the obvious kind of tomfoolery like How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, but more like the lighthearted seriousness of The Notebook. OK, I know way too much about these movies. […]
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From Oxiliary
From Oxiliary Avarice Amsterdam Label: Independent By Ethan Maffey From the opening track, in which Bend rapper Gabe Van Eikeren—who goes by Amsterdam—quotes “Mad Men’s” Don Draper, Avarice is one damn good hip-hop album. The solo effort by one half of the rap duo Top Shelf surprises with atypical ambient hip-hop beats on the first […]
