Former Chamber Chief To Run For City Council

Once again, the rural Indiana country blues rockers of Rev. Peyton’s Big Damn Band are stopping off at the Domino Room tonight (Monday), making that — by my count — the band’s third appearance in just over a year.

I’ve been working on a profile of local ska-punk-funk band Necktie Killer this week and in the process, I learned that the band is in the process of helping to build their very own ska scene here in Bend by bringing in some huge names from the genre to Mountain’s Edge Bar (formerly Timber’s South): The Toasters and The Slackers.
This is all in addition to next weekend’s show featuring Florida ska punks The Supervillains.

Tonight, Seattle’s deliciously danceable Redwood Plan plays at Players Bar and Grill and in doing so, introduces our town to a style that as far I as know, has never been heard here: Dance Punk.
Here’s my profile of the Redwood Plan from this week’s Source.

We’re all aware of punk rock and surf rock and indie rock and alternative rock, but there’s plenty of other rock genres out there, one of which has recently come to my attention: pirate rock. And yes, the music sounds exactly like the name suggests — lots of angry growls and talks of planks and such.