When Bridgette Moody and John Seasons discovered they were having similar kinds of dreams and nightmares, the decision to collaborate musically seemed natural. Friends for more than a decade before forming Haunted Summer, Moody and Seasons found themselves in similar circumstances with their respective bands at the time. They both felt like they were running […]
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A Little Bit Country, A Little Bit Rock-n-Roll
Leon Russell has been there, done that
Leon Russell is a Hall of Fame inductee, Grammy Award nominee for Song of the Year in 1977, and a musician who has played with musicians as diverse as Herb Alpert and Frank Sinatra, and counts among his friends Willie Nelson, Elton John, and George Harrison. Reading Leon Russell’s musical biography is a matrix of […]
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Pink Martini Comes to Bend July 25
Pink Martini will perform with China Forbes Saturday, July 25, at the Les Schwab Amphitheater. Tickets for the show run $35 and $65 plus fees, and go on sale Friday at 10 am online and at the Ticket Mill in the Old Mill District. Check out Pink Martini performing with China Forbes and Storm Large […]
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Picks 4/8-4/15
thursday 9 Calamity Cubes! MUSIC—It is surprising that Calamity Cubes hasn’t added a jug and spoons to its lineup of self-described “thrashicana” songs—acoustic punk ditties that ponder murder and rough love with porch-sitting banjo picking, roughly harmonized crooning, and yearning harmonica chords. I’d say it’s beautiful if I didn’t think they punch me in my […]
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Capacity to Overcome
Despite absentee parents, singer Neko Case raised herself into a Grammy nominated artist
On more than one occasion, singer Neko Case has claimed, “I should have been an abortion.” Her quotes typically read as a tad flippant and with a measurable distaste for the two humans who—despite clearly deficient life skills—brought her into the world and subjected her to a whirlwind of dysfunction. “My dad was mentally ill […]
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Sheryl Crow Returns to Bend July 6
If all you want to do is have some fun, you’re in luck. Sheryl Crow is coming to the Les Schwab Amphitheater July 6. Tickets, which are running $45 and $85 plus service fees, go on sale Friday, April 10 at 10 am. The LSA summer concert series is really staking up. Who are you […]
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Picks 4/1-4/8
thursday 2 Be Calm Honcho MUSIC—Like Best Coast, Be Calm Honcho seems to adore California, and play guitar-forward anthems about the state’s carefree mindset, songs beset with just the right mix of LA surf and SF psychedelic influences. Most notable is Shannon Harney sweet, but saucy voice. 9 pm. Volcanic Theatre Pub, 70 SW Century […]
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A Love Supreme
Jazz quartet brings John Coltrane’s legacy to Bend
Though jazz music doesn’t enjoy the mainstream popularity it did in the mid-20th century, there are certain albums and songs whose influence has permeated the nation’s musical ground water. John Coltrane’s masterpiece “A Love Supreme,” release 50 years ago February, is one of these classics. While it’s not uncommon for jazz to touch on religious […]
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Exploding from the Wilderness
Corner Gospel Explosion makes their own splash
Bradley David Parsons is finally ready to invite you into his world. A drummer since the age of 10 and the percussive backbone of Bend’s popular folk-rock quartet Wilderness, Parsons has been writing songs of his own for years—quietly honing his voice as a songwriter and vocalist. Though more than happy playing drums in Wilderness […]
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Source Suggests 4/1-4/8
Dana and Susan Robinson Hailing from the green mountains of Vermont, Dana and Susan Robinson bring their “new-time, old-time” music to an intimate house concert setting in the Newport Hills of Bend. The combination of Dana’s masculine, yet smooth, vocals with Susan’s harmonies creates a brand of American folk music made for easy listening. Uplifting […]