The lack of independent small-scale music venues has been a chronic problem for the burgeoning Bend music scene. Almost exactly a year after the infamous Horned Hand shut down amid noise ordinance and zoning controversy, Bend will loose another DIY concert outlet. Pakit Liquidators, the 17-year old junkyard that has been hosting shows since last […]
Pakit Liquidators
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Pakit Announces Closing…In Other News, Junkyard for Sale
For a few days there have been rumors that the future of Pakit Liquidators—the junkyard/music venue near Bend High School—was up in the air. This morning, Pakit made this announcement via Facebook: Via Facebook The announcment comes after Pakit hosted a seemingly successful TedxBend after party on Saturday night. The venue also has several shows […]
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Roots Rap
Country boys rise from Southern origins to national fame
When Nappy Roots hit peak popularity in 2002, gas cost $1.67 a gallon. George W. Bush was in his second year of office. That same year, he had a choking incident with a pretzel. Nickelback, Avril Lavigne, P!nk and Ja Rule topped Billboard’s pop charts and Nappy Roots, a Southern-fried hip-hop crew following in the […]
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From the Desert
Reno’s Moondog Matinee brings the heat
Like a tattooed, grizzly, sunburnt Santa Claus, Reno’s Moondog Matinee travels from town to town—almost non-stop—gifting audiences with grungy classic rock as grimy as a lump of coal and just as good at conducting fire. As such, music writer Whitherby Sutton calls Moondog Matinee a group of “wandering heathens,” and bass guitarist Adam Carpenter—who will […]
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Stevie Ray Vaughan lives… in the dreams (and music) of Hobbs Magaret
A rocket ship shredding space on its way to the blazing sun; a charging bull free from confinement; or, the final scene in Fight Club where towering buildings all come tumbling down in fiery plumes—all good ways to visualize the massive rock sound of local blues group Hobbs the Band. It also doesn’t hurt to […]