Online: Spotify Gift Cards Don’t give the gift of an overpriced digital album from that fruit-based online store—think bigger. Instead stuff someone’s stocking with the gift of on-demand, unlimited and mobile streaming of millions of albums. This year, everyone’s favorite streaming service, Spotify, is offering gift cards so the music lovers in your life can […]
Sound Stories & Interviews
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College Town Vinyl
Happy Trails meant being a Beaver had musical advantages
If you remember when I editorialized about how I became a fan of music—you know, it started when I was just a little kid. What I didn’t touch on in that piece is the fact that I lived in a town of less than a thousand people. This meant—get ready for this one—I grew up […]
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Fans with a Cause
For many, following Brandi Carlile is about more than going to concerts
Dead Heads, Parrotheads, Beliebers—if you get big enough, your fans name themselves. While followers of country-folk singer Brandi Carlile may not have a name as cool as fans of Jimmy Buffet—they call themselves AT’ers after the Carlile fan site againtoday.com—they are just as committed. Maybe even more so. If you were at Carlile’s Les Schwab […]
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Weinland
Los Processaur
The third studio album from Portland group Weinland finds lead singer Adam Shearer and company further steeped in the vintage folk sound they’re known for, but this time they’re packing a rock-and-roll punch. The cast of characters in Weinland provide a myriad of instrumentation, including organ and Dobro. Along with full band harmonies, Los Processaur […]
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Listen Local
Psych-rock group All You All is one of Bend’s most eclectic groups
Bendites who think a typical night out for live music must involve folk, will get a pleasant shock should they stumble into a show by psych-rock group All you All.
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Music Discovery Guide
Be just a little intentional in your
search for new music
Here’s a handful of music-finding tools
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Out of Town
portland wednesday 28- sunday 2 Holiday Ale Festival The Northwest’s only outdoor winter beer festival, this beer bash will have all the holiday essentials: Christmas trees, music, food and, most importantly, a whole lot of alcohol. Despite the rain and cold that makes up most of Portland’s winter months, attendees will be drinking under a large […]
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I am Thankful for These Five Albums
Be grateful for music this Thanksgiving
Before I got up the guts to start sneaking my parents vinyl records into my room—a big no-no in my house—I was pressing 'play' on a cassette tape of The Beatles.
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Re-inventing Bluegrass
Brooklyn group Punch Brothers take classical and emotional swings at the genre
ot only is Brooklyn-based Punch Brothers, who are playing the Tower on Nov. 26, another great example of a bluegrass-bending group visiting Bend, it just so happens that the band has turned out to be a sort of vortex bringing all three of our recent bluegrass stories together.
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Out of Town 11/22-11/29
The Lumineers play folk-pop at the Crystal Ballroom on 12/2. portland saturday 1 Pinball Tournament Portland’s pinball masters go head to head in a battle of quick fingers v. stiff drinks. A benefit for David Hassenpflug, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, the tournament has a $20 entry fee. The battle royale will take place on […]
