wednesday 9 Kalai featuring Tim Snider MUSIC—Kalai, a Hawaiian folk/blues/rock musician who has both toured with Bob Marley’s “The Wailers” and performed as part of Glenn Beck’s 2012 “Restoring Love” rally stops in Bend for a show with the likewise eclectic violin virtuoso Tim Snider (Kalai has been compared to both James Taylor and Prince, while […]
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Ear Snacks
The Source’s food and music pairings for 2014 Bite of Bend
There are two things that we love here at the Source Weekly more than just about anything (except for our moms, our dogs and beer): Music and food. So when the Bite of Bend starts sizzling in downtown this weekend, you can bet your hungry buns that we will be alternating munching from the long […]
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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 […]
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It’s in the Music
Either Provo, Utah, band Desert Noises willfully chooses not to share too much during interviews or the only way lead singer Kyle Henderson and his bandmates actually know how to express themselves is through harmony laden, dusty rock tracks with boyish themes and seasoned chops. Alright, there could be a third option: the band’s publicist […]
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What to Buy on Vinyl This Week
Stay Gold First Aid Kit | Columbia Records Swedish sister duo First Aid Kit has a very peculiar way of crafting classical sounding American country tunes despite calling Scandinavia home. The third studio album from Johanna and Klara Söderberg, Stay Gold, out this week, continues their nod to tradition born out of influences that include […]
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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
Young band Patrimony shows promise, not age
I want those pants. I want the pair of paisley-splattered blue bellbottoms that Trevor Martell—the singer and lead guitarist for local throwback rock collective Patrimony—wore as he sauntered onto stage at Volcanic Theatre Pub. The three-piece, young in years but not experience, played opening fiddle to one of the its many role model groups, Hopeless […]
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Sustained Heat
Locals Warm Gadget release second full-length album
Warm Gadget has been producing some of the most interesting, nightmarish and industrial electro-metal in the area for nearly five years. Correction: the only nightmarish industrial electro-metal in the area. Warm Gadget is made up of a backbone of heavy discordant guitar and mechanized programed drum beats by Colton Williams, throat-rattling vocals by Tim Vester, […]
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Better Living Through Music: Tobacco
Tobacco, a one-time member of Black Moth Super Rainbow, has been issuing electro-influenced hip-hop albums for the last six years. And his pending release, Ultima II Massage, has been trickling out onto the Internet over the last several weeks, track by track. The latest cut to make it our way, “Father Sister Berzerker,” which was […]
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Isles jams ever so slightly
If you haven’t already read Bri Brey’s bit on the re-emergence of Armature, a local gallery and event space at 50 N.E. Scott St., you probably should. Regardless, though, there’s more than just art to catch at the space’s reopening at 6:30 pm. Saturday. There’re bands, too. Isles, a Bend quartet, is one of the […]
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What in the World?
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Lamb Studios Archive A lot happens while you’re not paying attention. So, just like Lewis Black, we catch what’s fallen through the cracks. Chemical Trespass: Curry County residents have complained about helicopters dropping pesticides on their properties while doing work on privately held land. The spraying continues. (via […]