Tweakers on the Speakers

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Tweakers on the Speakers

The Source Staff

Nature boys. Tweak Bird looks like hippie freakers and sound like a jet engine, a
strange combination of traits that is only the edge of the weirdness
emitted by this pair of Los Angeles-based brothers. With a helping hand
from producers Dale Crover (Melvins) and Toshi Kasai (Big Business),
Caleb and Ashton Bird released a quirky steamroller of an EP dubbed
Reservations in September that showcases the duo's ability to produce
an F'in S-load of sound with only drums and guitar.

Posted inMusic

It’s a Good Winter: The new Bon Iver EP

Mike Bookey

Bon Iver
Blood Bank
Jagjaguwar
Where does Blood Bank fit with the frozen fog of For Emma, Forever Ago,
Bon Iver's much-acclaimed debut from last winter? It isn't an
afterthought, or an echo, or B-sides, though some of the songs were
recorded around the same time as For Emma in a little cabin in
Wisconsin during the good winter (French translation: Bon Hiver) after
which the band is named. It has similarities to
the experimental, beautiful mess that Justin Vernon captured in his
wooded solitude, but Blood Bank also feels like a series of postcards -
letting us know that the singer is traveling on, his heartbreak perhaps
slightly dulled.

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Return of the Colony: David Bowers says he’s halfway dead, but his music is fully alive

The Source Staff

David Bowers is celebrating the release of the David Bowers Colony's
first full-length album on Saturday night. Two days later he turns 44
years old.

"For me that's halfway dead, because, ya know, if I made it to 88 that would be pretty sweet," Bowers says.
He
could pass for younger with just a few wispy gray hairs around his
temples and a bone curled through his left ear lobe (a style he says is
inspired in part by the Decemberists' Chris Funk, an acquaintance from
Bowers' Eugene days) but seems comfortable with his age, as well as his
status in the local music scene.

Posted inOpinion

Slow Down, Turbo

Eric Flowers

Hi, I've been gone from Bend for a year and just got back and wanted to say to you blind drivers out there. Will you please pay attention to people in the crosswalks, okay? I have had so many close calls with drivers and do not want to get hit especially over at Brosterhouse (sic) and 3rd Street.

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Our Picks for the Week of 1/28-2/5

The Source Staff

Hester Prynne
thursday 29
And you didn't think you'd ever need
the knowledge you gleaned from reading The Scarlet Letter in 9th
grade…This Kansas-based death metal band is stopping off in town along
with And Hell Followed With, Whisteria Cottage, American Me, Knuckle
Sandwich and Give Nothing. Check out the bargain price on this one…very
nice. 7:30pm. $10. Midtown Music Hall. All Ages.
Meissner Sno Park Fundraiser
friday 30
Do
you like skiing, snowshoeing, hiking, mountain biking or just plain
chilling up at Meissner? Well then get yourself to this fundraiser to
help keep the park up and running. This event includes dinner,
entertainment, prizes and the delicate sounds of Bend's own Sweet
Harlots. 5:30pm. Aspen Hall at Shevlin Park, 18920 Shevlin Park Rd.
$10. $5 children under 12.

Posted inNews

Recession Refugees: COCC scrambles as laid-off workers turn to the classroom

Mike Bookey

Archie Hamilton, a 45-year-old student at Central Oregon Community
College, describes himself as a dislocated worker. He’s spent most of
his adult life in the wood industry, primarily as a mill worker, but
his last job was with Bend’s Host Industries building motor homes and
campers. Last summer, when gas prices peaked out and the economy
nosedived, Hamilton, went to the Oregon Employment Department to apply
for benefits and to find work using the state’s iMatchSkills jobs
database, only to discover that there were only 200 job openings posted
across the state.

"I was told at the unemployment office that all of the skills I had
were really tough to match with a job," Hamilton said. "I had a friend
who had gone back to school in addiction studies at COCC and he talked
me into filling out forms for grants and applying to get into school."

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Bend is Killing it.

Intern

So someone at Fuel TV is really liking Bend. In the recent installment of "Snowboard Diaries," a documentary style show that follows some of the best riders in the world through a winter season, they tail Hampus Mosesson, and Jacob Wilhelmson as they film for their new production company Actionhorse Films.

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