It might be Wednesday, but tonight’s live music lineup #inBend is pretty unbeatable. Tumbleweed folk band Carrie Nation and the Speakeasy plays at Silver Moon Brewing at 7 pm. Horns and strings! What’s not to like! Just west will be intricate art rockers Emby Alexander at Volcanic Theatre Pub. 9 pm. Read the Source’s full interview […]
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Interview with Phoenix Art Rockers Emby Alexander
When Phoenix, AZ. band Emby Alexander played in Bend just over a year ago, the Source Weekly’s music editor Ethan Maffy described their “wildly aggressive baroque music,” as “an ill-supervised field trip of feral urchins scattered through the Louvre’s halls with abandoned wonder.” I’m not even going to try to beat that. Since their last […]
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Source Suggests 8/13-8/21
JPNSGRLS Normally I’m against removing vowels and unnecessary letter capitalization in band names (I’m talking to you Strfkr and tUnE-yArDs), but after taking a good hard listen to JPNSGRLS, a Queens of the Stone Age-esque crew that includes exactly zero people from Japan and zero women, I’ve concluded that the Vancouver, BC, band’s loud, danceable […]
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The Art of Growing Up
Creative Phoenix group Emby Alexander has serious-ish charm
If the meticulously crafted sound of art rock maven St. Vincent is the equivalent of a measured stroll through the Louvre in Paris, then the wildly aggressive baroque music of Phoenix band Emby Alexander sounds more like an ill-supervised field trip of feral urchins scattered through the museum’s halls with abandoned wonder. And, in much […]