New Music Video from Father John Misty (and more)
New FJM music video: things that make you go hmmm…
Friday Mixtape! (with bonus video)
Enter a virtual indie record store.
Opening Night Spamalot Tickets FOR FREE!
HEY EVERYBODY! Do you like Monty Python? Are you free Friday night? Do you want to see one of the biggest theatrical productions of the year at the Tower Theatre? The Source has you covered. We have two tickets to opening night of Monty Python’s Spamalot produced by Stage Right Productions at the Tower Theatre.…
Find Your Niche
Two years from now, it is projected that four out of five “radio” listeners will stream their music through online sites like Spotify or Pandora. Put in more precise numbers: Every six months, Spotify is adding another million paying customers! But while these well-known sites dominate 21st century radio—as, say, ABC, NBC and CBS dominated…
Music Out of Town
portland thursday 12 Grouplove Start thirsty Thursday off right with an acoustic set from this alternative, indie group. Known for its simple song structure paired with catchy choruses, Grouplove delivers cheerful, summery vibe tunes perfect for jumping, hopping, bouncing, or whatever tickles any hipster’s fancy. Get a sneak peek at the upcoming album, Spreading Rumors,…
The Democracy of Smoothies
As we sat on a collection of chairs lining the alley running parallel to Colorado Avenue, with moody weather blowing through streets, we witnessed a strange phenomenon: SUV after hulking white suburban pulled into the tight lot behind the row of Craftsman buildings and bulldozed into the few parking spaces there; a middle-aged woman would…
Crux Gets Fresh
The boys at Crux Fermentation Project didn’t travel far to collect their hop harvest this season. Sticky hop cones growing on tall green vines were climbing all over Crux’s chain link fence. On Labor Day, the owners and about 10 others picked bushels full of hops without ever leaving the property. “We already have a…
God Be Praised, We Have a Quest!
“I think there’s a seat over there, by the hand of God,” directed Spamalot’s producer, Sandy Klein, gesturing across the small hot black box theater on 2nd Street. The theater was filled shoulder-to-shoulder with resting cast members and oversized props on a muggy rehearsal night in early September. Snuggled between enormous wooden clouds and the…
Librarians of the Apocalypse
Doomsday scenario 1: A mysterious and seemingly incurable virus has broken out in your region and presumably—because all lines of communication are indefinitely down—around the world. Urban areas have fallen to hordes of infected persons who appear to be hungry for live human flesh and impervious to death. The infection is extremely contagious and spreading…
The Source Picks for 9/13 to 9/19
friday 13 Opening Day, Mt. Bachelor Bike Park OUTSIDE—Bend’s cycling community has long debated whether to carve rideable downhill trails out of Mt. Bachelor’s loose, volcanic hillside. We rode the trails last month and are here to tell you they’re damn fun. Enjoy opening day, and return on Saturday for a BBQ, music and clinics.…
City Council Roundup
City Shifts Intersection Construction to Accommodate Galveston Businesses No one likes a detour. But when that detour catches neighbors by surprise, sends heavy traffic onto small side streets, and diverts the flow of customers from area businesses, people are likely to be a bit miffed. And that frustration came out at last Wednesday’s City Council meeting,…
Washington is a Window into Our Future
Last year, Washington state voters approved same-sex marriage, legalized marijuana and ended the state’s decades-long liquor-sale monopoly. While such changes may seem like some fantasyland for progressives, rife with dancing unicorns and hookah-puffing caterpillars, in fact, the legislative changes really are more mainstream than radical. As part of a swelling trend, Washington joined 13 other…
Not So Fast, NSA
Three weeks ago, declassified materials revealed that in 2011 a federal judge had admonished the National Security Agency for its spying practices, a far-reaching endeavor that involved collecting tens of thousands of domestic emails without a warrant. The NSA, the judge said, was also guilty of repeatedly misleading the court about its practices. This revelation…
One Day At A Time
MONDAY 2 Get some eye wash ready—because what follows is a headline that could blind you for life: “Kris Jenner Has a Sex Tape.” Yeeeeaughhh! Our eyes! OUR EYES! (Splash, splash.) Unfortunately, it’s true: In a teaser for an upcoming episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians—which only a true, self-loathing masochist would ever watch—the…
This Weeks Letters
The circus is coming to town, but how? The Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey circus is coming to town, featuring Asian Elephants. As a woman who travels with her horses, I wondered, “How do the elephants actually live as part of a traveling show?” The Ringling Bros. circus travels around 25,000 miles a year…
Say Goodbye to Summer
Summer is ending. And, as much as that means the start of football season, the coming of the World Series and time to ramp up for ski season, it also means that, soon, the Cascade Lakes Highway will be snowed in. Like a summertime daydream, much of the Cascade Lakes Highway only exists during the…
Space Mountain Man
There are supposedly only a few stories out there: man against nature, man against self, man against society, and man against man. Not content with any of those, 2000's low-budget sci-fi flick Pitch Black mashed up all four. The result was a low-fi, clever chunk of violent pulp, starring Vin Diesel as Riddick, a conflicted…
A True Underdog Story
Although there is plenty of flexing and grunting, Bending Steel is a surprisingly soft and intimate story about a 43-year-old New York man who decides to become a sideshow strongman at Coney Island. Certainly there are scenes when the strongmen straighten out horseshoes and, veins bulging, smash nails into pieces of wood (without the use…
On Stage: Dad Rock for Springsteen
Hip Hatchet is an easier name to remember than that of the man behind the sepia-tone sounds of the one-man band, Philippe Bronchtein. Jersey-born, Bronchtein is a traveler with a grizzly beard and close-set bookworm glasses—a cross between a fur trapper and a Renaissance man. It wouldn’t be surprising, as the band name suggests, for…
One Less Venue: Sound Garden Studio to close
Another venue is shutting down.
