Hot Buttered Rum Your first December dose of progressive bluegrass, Hot Buttered Rum, returns to the Belfry with twang-laden country-bluegrass arrangements strapped with wholesome three-part harmonies. The band are the kinds of dudes you want to crack a beer with, kick back, and maybe even add a fourth part to those hedonistic harmonies. 8 pm. […]
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Source Suggests 11/26-12/4
Zachary Lucky It may seem like an oxymoron, Canadian country music. What could be more wholly American than the twangy Nashville-esque sounds of pedal steel ringing through low and lauding laments? But rambling Canadian native, Zachary Lucky comes from the stock of country music, his grandfather Smiling Johnny Lucky, who the younger Lucky claims was […]
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Source Suggests 11/19-11/27
Champagne Charlie A horror-jug band with a gravel-gargling singer, Champagne Charlie doesn’t take it easy on the creepy minor keys or the malicious, moustache curling content. A baritone growl howls drinking man’s songs, making the Denver band a B-horror flick junkie’s dream. The snarling polka music could easily lend background to a banjo-driven folk circus, […]
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Source Suggests 11/13-11/20
Head for the Hills The foursome covers the spectrum of prairie music with the solid backbone of Adam Kinghorn on guitar and Matt Loewen on upright bass, and the tumbleweed riffs of Michael Chappell on mandolin and Joe Lessard on fiddle. But Head for the Hills isn’t just for the bluegrass crowd. The band’s new […]
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Source Suggests 11/5-11/13
Heavyweight Dub Champion A stacked lineup of vibrant reggae acts. Heavyweight Dub Champion hales from Colorado with a hip-hop/rock sound in the style of Lincoln Park. Liberation Movement is a world-dub group out of Santa Cruz who specialize in trippy ambiance music. Oregon grown Indubious play pop-based uplifting reggae crossover. Sun., Nov. 9. 8 pm. […]
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Source Suggests 10/29-11/6
Halloween at Volcanic Local music reigns at this diverse Halloween extravaganza, featuring everything from rocking protests songs, to hip-hop to sludge rock. Bend’s hip-hop royalty Mosley Wotta will be joined by nightmarish and industrial electro-metal band Warm Gadget, cello-looper Third Seven, and Jesse Marshall of Larry and His Flask and friends performing an acoustic rock […]
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Source Suggests 10/22-10/30
David Jacob Strain and Crunk Mountain Boys Slide guitar and poetry are rarely better matched than in the hands of David Jacob Strain, the Oregonian who specializes in rootsy blues songwriting. Strain captures the Laurel Canyon style of James Taylor and Jackson Browne—simultaneously complex and accessible. 8 pm. Sat., Oct. 25. Belfry, 302 E Main […]
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Source Suggests 10/15-10/22
DJ QBert Don’t expect an evening of laptop-rock, QBert isn’t that kind of DJ. He was a founding member of Invisibl Skratch Piklz, has been the subject of two documentaries, and is considered to be one of the Godfathers and masters of scratching technique. His rhythmic manipulation of records is unmatched and has been an […]
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Source Suggests 10/8-10/16
Petunia and the Vipers Let’s start by saying Petunia is a dude. A dude that musically blends every American genre from ragtime to rockabilly. Over western ditties, Petunia yodels and croons in a sweetly ’60s country waltz. The band says they thrive on the challenge of adding Latin rhythms to a country blues tune, or […]
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Source Suggests 10/2-10/9
Kytami and Friends Mixing electronica beats and quick-paced violin instrumentals, Kytami is a unique blend of live music and laptop rock. Taking both classical and EDM to the extremes, her snowballing sound is the perfect backdrop for a digital rocket-fueled adventure through the outer-rim stars and planets, perhaps with some narration by Neil deGrasse Tyson. […]
