You may or may not know that the Bend Roots Revival, the late-September local music extravaganza, is moving for this September’s festival. The super popular event quickly outgrew its previous location between Parrilla Grill and the Victorian Cafe and is now setting up shop in the Century Center, which includes the West Bend Tennis Center (1355 SW Commerce St.
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Bend-Rooted Band Adventure Galley Makes Finals of Toyota Music Contest
Help Adventure Galley win a recording contract and more.
If you haven’t had enough with music competitions in the wake of the three-month Last Band Standing, here’s another one you can cast your vote in — the Toyota Music Rock the Space contest.
Featured in the finals of this contest is Adventure Galley a band that began its career in Bend before heading over to Eugene.
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Bend Summer Fest Music Schedule
Complete day/time schedule for the Bend Summer Festival.
So, it appears there have been some changes to the Bend Summer Festival music schedule since we put together the Picks page for this week’s print edition.
Here is an updated roster of what’s going on at which stage this weekend in downtown Bend.
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92.7FM Bumps Up the Dial to 92.9
The popular rock radio station is moving frequencies, so change your presets.
If you tuned into 92.7FM — or 92/7, as the station labeled itself upon taking to the air back in 2006 — you probably heard something that sounded like alien robots talking over remixed popular rock songs.
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Last Band Standing: The Correct Results
There was an error when the Last Band Standing Results were announced – here’s what went wrong.
OK. So we all know by now that Mosley Wotta won Last Band Standing last Thursday.
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Video from Sara Jackson-Holman’s First Bend Show
Sara Jackson-Holman plays her first local show in Bend,
Sara Jackson-Holman, the 21-year-old Bend native who suddenly rose to national prominence after Expunged Records came across her demos on MySpace last year, finally played her first local show last night at the Oxford Hotel.
With a near-capacity crowd on hand that was full of family and friends, Jackson-Holman took the stage and played a neatly packaged one-hour set that included most, if not all, of the songs from her studio record, When You Dream.
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Mosley Wotta Wins Last Band Standing Bend
After 12 weeks, Last Band Standing has a winner and it’s Mosley Wotta.
After 12 weeks of preliminary, semifinals and now the finals round, a winner has been crowned in the first-ever Last Band Standing Bend competition and his name is Mosley Wotta.The local hip-hop hero, known for his larger-than-life stage presence and high-minded lyrics, takes home a big bag of goodies worth some $30,000, including a 15-passenger van.
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Bob Dylan and John Mellencamp’s Addition to Amphitheater Schedule Is Pretty Rad
Once it finally got started, this summer has been pretty rad musically. I’m talking about the Band of Horses explosion that kicked off the “summer music season” and then killer sets this past weekend at the Bite of Bend, but now there’s more on the horizon.
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Video From the Bite of Bend Stage: Rubblebucket and March Fourth Marching Band
OK, I’m a little late on this, but there are some things people need to know about last weekend:
1) The Saturday lineup for the Bite of Bend was some of the best festival music we’ve ever had in this town.
2) When it’s rained for three straight weeks and finally gets sunny, people in Bend go nuts, bonkers, bananas.
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Last Band Standing Finals are Set: Empty Space Orchestra and Klever Kill advance
The finals for the Thursday, July 1 are set and here’s the complete lineup.
Inside the packed and sweaty — I mean “summery” — Boondocks Bar and Grill last night, two more bands punched their tickets for an appearance in the finals of Last Band Standing.
Well-known space-prog-rockers Empty Space Orchestra and the crunchy metalistas of Klever Kill, will both appear in the final round of Last Band Standing, to be held on Thursday, July 1 at Boondocks.
