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Local Venues 101

New to Central Oregon’s music scene? Here’s your guide to the places you can see live shows
The Source Staff

The Domino Room/Midtown Ballroom/The Annex From the outside, you wouldn’t suspect the Midtown Ballroom to house three different venues, including the largest indoor music venue in town. The Domino Room, a mid-sized space that falls somewhere between the size of Midtown Ballroom and the upstairs Annex, is a minimal space with the feel of a […]

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Persistence Pays Off for The Receiver

It shouldn’t be this hard to sell music
Alan Sculley

The Receiver, a synth-pop-centered duo from Columbus, Ohio, had to go quite a ways to get a stalled career restarted: all the way to England, in fact. Things got off to a reasonable enough start when brothers Casey Cooper (vocals/keyboards/bass) and Jesse Cooper (drums/vocals) started out a decade ago as The Receiver. Signed to a […]

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All in the Game

Rapper TOPE comes to Bend
Avatar photo Jared Rasic

Portland-born rapper/producer Anthony “Tope” Anderson is on the way up. Since his debut in 2010, he has collaborated with some of the best names in hip-hop music including Abstract Rude, Scarub, Myka 9 and Slum Village. He’s shared the stage with names like Aesop Rock, Talib Kweli, Run the Jewels, Black Milk and Digable Planets. […]

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Source Suggests 6/24-7/1

Anne Pick

This Frontier Needs Heroes and Paula Boggs Band Singer-songwriter Paula Boggs of the Paula Boggs Band had an interesting career trajectory. Before deciding to pursue music, she scaled the heights of the military and then corporate world. In the Army, Boggs was an Airborne Officer, served on the White House Iran Contra task force and, […]

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Source Suggests 4/29-5/6

The Source Staff

First Friday Party Featuring Bobby Lindstrom and Mean Ed Sharlet “The blues,” Steve Martin once explained, “just get me so blue.” But this First Friday, Bobby Lindstrom brings upbeat, bluesy rock to the Crow’s Feet Commons courtyard. With raspy vocals, high energy, and passion, Lindstrom plays a set of his favorite blues covers mixed in […]

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Source Suggests 4/15-4/22

Anne Pick

Shawn James & The Shapeshifters Shawn James & The Shapeshifters fulfill the promise their name suggests by shifting sound with every album. While maintaining the same rock and roll musical momentum, the band can play softer, more folky and soulful songs like “Pendulum Swim” from their Deliverance album. Their most recent album, The Gospel According […]

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Magic Little Moments

Lost Lander is doing what they want to do
Eric Skelton

Marrying a vibrant pop sound full of sparkling synths, and celebratory harmonies with emotional thought-provoking songwriting, Lost Lander songs can feel a lot like having a life-altering realization while driving down a sunny coastline on a beautiful summer day. “You can make a decision to dress your child in whatever clothes you want to,” says […]

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Source Suggests 2/25-3/4

Anne Pick

Jive Coulis As part of Broken Top Bottle Shop’s Brews & Band series, which features free live music in the company of many fine brews, Jive Coulis brings its classic rock and roll from southern Oregon to Bend. This is the type of funky, rock and blues jams that sounds pulled from Almost Famous. Guitar […]

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Blood is Thicker than Water

Slaughter Daughter’s macabre, nomadic, punkgrass is double take-worthy
Avatar photo Brianna Brey

The Slaughter Daughters are simultaneously adorable and terrifying. The sister(esque) duo takes the stage in cowboy boots and sundresses with their hair tied up in pinup bandanas and proceed to grind out dark, up-tempo, yet downtrodden murder ballads and melodic but agonizing tales of lonely torment. It is confusing. A curious murmur slinks through the […]

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