The Blender

Yesterday, Tim Cash of Far From Earth Films stopped by my office and said he’d just wrapped up shooting a video for local blues rocker Leif James.
Then this morning, I get an e-mail with a link to the video.

So you like Powerman 5000, don’t you? You probably wouldn’t click on this link if you weren’t.
And there’s a good chance you also know that PM5K, as their fans know them, are coming to the Domino Room on Monday, May 3.

By the time I pulled open one of the heavy wooden doors at the Old Stone Church here in Bend on Friday night, I could already hear that Tony Furtado’s acoustic guitar wizardry was well underway.
Inside, a nearly full house sat rapt by the Portland multi-instrumentalist — who was going solo for this show.

It’s been a year — to the freaking day — since Redmond native and confirmed beardo Randy Liedtke played a show in Bend. But he is back home for a brief spell and once again is bringing with him a superbly funny and equally bearded fellow named Kyle Kinane.

Well, darn it if the summer music schedule didn’t just go and get even more awesome with the addition of Michael Franti and Spearhead to the Les Schwab Amphitheater lineup.
The show is slated for August 5 and tickets go on sale at 10:00 a.

After returning from a cross-country trip last week, I was endlessly bummed to learn that the Larry and His Flask’s show at Silver Moon on April 8 I had missed had been one of the zaniest gigs ever at the venue. But thankfully, just a week later, I had a chance to see LAHF in full buck-wild form — and for free.