If there’s a heartstring that can be pulled by the sound of smooth toe-tapping jazz, Jeremy Pelt’s passionate trumpet playing will find a way to tug at it. After all, he’s been honing his craft since he was five years old. Pelt plays the Oxford Hotel Nov. 23 and 24 and, at those shows, Bendites […]
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Out of Town
seattle saturday 17 Benjamin Gibbard Death Cab for Cutie front man Ben Gibbard recently released his long awaited second solo album titled Former Lives. Although the album sounds like it may be an homage to Gibbard’s ex-wife, Zooey Deschanel, he claims that Former Lives spans three relationships. Deschannel herself sings backup on the track "Something's […]
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Live Music PSA Part Two
Helping you navigate the world of live music both in Bend and beyond
In September we told you about why the Doug Fir and Silvermoon were great places to see live music. In this second installment of our new “best places to see live music” series we’ve got another one over the mountains and one here at home. Both owe their heritage to old-timey religion. In Town McMenamins […]
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Listen Local
This IS the Bend music scene
Sure, each week one or two great regional or national acts come through town, but it’s the other five or six nights of the week where the real business of building the Bend music scene happens. And that work is being done by talented local artists. If you’ve only been seeing out-of-town bands when they […]
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Simply the Blues
Legendary guitarist Robert Cray hits classic notes
Robert Cray’s Oregon story begins in Eugene in the late ‘70s. The five time Grammy award winner had moved there and formed a blues band with another relative unknown at the time, Curtis Salgado.
Salgado, who recently kicked off the Jazz at the Oxford series, and Cray’s lives changed in 1978 when National Lampoon’s Animal House came to Eugene. Salgado became friends with John Belushi and became the inspiration for one of the characters in The Blues Brothers.
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Third Time’s a Charm: Former Bendite finds harmony with Seattle band The Horde & The Harem
The Seattle-based band, which will perform at The Horned Hand on Nov. 8, is gaining traction around the Northwest and at national festivals such as South by Southwest in Austin, Texas.
Mountain View graduate Ryan Barber has finally found a formula that works. After working for years to create the right sound, Barber has found chemistry with The Horde & The Harem.
The Seattle-based band, which will perform at The Horned Hand on Nov. 8, is gaining traction around the Northwest and at national festivals such as South by Southwest in Austin, Texas.
Barber comes from an ever-growing list of former Bend residents who have gone on to find musical success in big Pacific Northwest cities. But before he was singing catchy pop choruses while playing guitar and trumpet with TH&TH, Barber was a Bend teen gaining street-smarts in popular local outlets for live music.
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Balmorhea: Stranger
Label: Western Vinyl
Sure a track list exists for Austin, Texas, avant-garde jazz group Balmorhea’s latest album, Stranger, but it probably doesn’t need one. From start to finish the album truly is a singular adventure where songs transition into one another with rest periods rather than true breaks in the music.
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Music Millennium Still Spinning: Oregon’s oldest record store has serious cache
Go to this store.
We’re launching a new series here at the Source.
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Hiking Through Bluegrass:Stringdusters harness spirit of outdoor adventure through song
Then they went for a bike ride.
Look no further than the song “Night on the River” from bluegrass princes The Infamous Stringdusters to find that this band’s music is an escape from the daily grind into the beautiful wild.
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Poised For Success: Adventure Galley set to validate the hype
The six guys of Portland band Adventure Galley—comprised of 67 percent Mountain View graduates from Bend—are somewhere between struggling to survive and getting discovered on that arc.
We’d get in a photo booth with these guys.
It’s the obvious angle to take—hometown kids learn to play guitar, move to the big city, form a band, eke out a living, get discovered, make it big and then get rich.
The six guys of Portland band Adventure Galley—comprised of 67 percent Mountain View graduates from Bend—are somewhere between struggling to survive and getting discovered on that arc. The cool part about this story, though, is Adventure Galley has all the rock-n-roll tools necessary to eventually snatch that happy ending.