4 Peaks Preparty After the advent of a new, more expansive permit that will allow for the event to grow beyond its 1,000 attendee capacity, the seventh year of this jamgrass festival looks to be the best lineup yet. Railroad Earth, Dumpstaphunk, Poor Man’s Whiskey, Hot Buttered Rum and Brothers Comatose—just to name a few. […]
Slaughter Daughters
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thursday 23 Tango Alpha Tango MUSIC—Portland’s Tango Alpha Tango is a winning combination of blues, twang, distortion, sexy guitar solos and group jams that are just long enough, not Phish long, but still grove-worthy. The icing on the cake is well-written lyrics and the band’s lovely female bassist, Mirabai Trueb, who serves as the soulfully […]
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Blood is Thicker than Water
Slaughter Daughter’s macabre, nomadic, punkgrass is double take-worthy
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 […]