The Blender

No, I’m not serious. Well, not that serious.

On Saturday night in the newly refurbished Old Stone Church, some of the most honestly awesome rock music I’ve heard in Bend in quite some time was being played. Sure, this was the Portland Indie Invasion, which our paper sponsored, but that’s not weighing into my opinion.

Things just keep looking better and better for the summer music scene here in Bend — and doubly so now that it’s been announced that progressive popsters Pinback are playing the Domino Room on July 8.
The band played a sold-out show at the Domino in February of 2007, but haven’t been back since.

In a move to bring more indie rock to town, The Source and Lay it Out Events have put together the Portland Indie Invasion at the Old Stone Church, a show on Saturday night featuring three quality acts from PDX, including The Dimes, Norman and Tortune. If you haven’t seen it yet, here’s our feature on The Dimes from this week’s issue.

Forget everything you know about cellos. Did you do that yet? Even Yo-Yo Ma? How about your time in the elementary school orchestra? Memory wiped clean? Good, because you need to realize that a group out of Portland has decided to make the cello — actually a whole s-load of cellos — cool.

…and in that order, too.
The Supersuckers, a hard-nosed rockabilly crew from Seattle who’ve made a few stops in town over the years, have been booked by Random Presents at the Domino Room on Friday, April 9. Fronted by the boisterous Eddie Spaghetti, the Supersuckers were born out of the early ‘90s Seattle scene and have toured with big acts like Pearl Jam over the years.

Bend doesn’t seem like the place where a high-end music video would be under construction, but that’s essentially what was going on a couple weeks ago at Rage Films’ studio.
It was there that Tim Cash from Far From Earth Films was directing the music video for reggae/dance hall star Jah Sun, the pride of Humboldt County.