“I’m writing this from an airplane. We are currently experiencing much turbulence. I’m confident, though, that all will turn out well and I will get safely to my destination…” says Christopher Paul Stelling in an email interview with the Source. That’s what it’s like being on the road as religion, he says. “It’s like that.” […]
Volcanic Theatre Pub
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Like Live Music? Go to Volcanic Tonight.
Tonight at Volcanic Theatre Pub, six kick-ass songwriters perfrom during the Loud As Folk Songwriter’s Showcase. While none of the guys will have full bands with them, you can enjoy the craft and detail of their songwriting as they play solo. Tonight’s lineup features: Jeshua William Marshall of Larry and His Flask Chis Fox of […]
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PICK: McDougall
saturday 1 McDougall ONE MAN BAND—The boot-stomping, drumming, and chugging guitar from bearded wonder Scott McDougall are reminiscent of old-timey, dusty road, folk-country. With lyrical storytelling songwriting and self-made punky percussion, there’s no better way to listen to McDougall than swinging a bottle of whiskey to and fro and shouting along. 9 pm. Volcanic Theatre […]
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Not Soft and Fluffy
Not for the faint of heart, The Pillowman is dark, but weirdly hopeful
If it isn’t your cup of tea to walk out of the theater questioning whether there is any good left in the world, then, well, The Pillowman probably isn’t for you. A dark comedy-drama written by Martin McDonagh (Seven Psychopaths, In Bruges), the play is even creepier than its title implies. The story watches the […]
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Locavore Musician
Annie Girl and the Flight devours what’s around it
Annie Girl and the Flight is an impeccably apt ’90s throwback, a post-grunge, lady-fronted reverb rock band with a lo-fi charm and a smoothness that comes from a lack of forcing music to happen. There’s a swaying proclivity to the band’s songs. Dreamy, bulldozing guitar riffs fill the void left by leisurely tempos and Annie’s […]
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From Sullen to Pop
Singer/songwriter Justin Froese strikes sing-a-long gold (finally)
Look no further than the jazzy blues standard, “Love Has,” from Justin Froese‘s latest album, Fireflies, in order to accurately imagine the bulk of his catalogue, which now spans two full-length albums and an EP. That track—a slinky song that touts fragile vocals and crashing emotion—is something you might emphatically and repeatedly dip your chin […]
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PICK: Larry and His Flask
monday 15 Larry and His Flask MUSIC—Fresh off their European tour, hometown grass-rockers Larry and His Flask are symbol crash, a power chord and a shotgunned beer away from superstardom. With a style mixing traditional roots and punk rock that is all its own, the Flask plays music for lamenting loss, drinking too hard and […]
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Pond-Hopping Punk Rock
Larry and His Flask are home, for a hot minute
Three weeks ago, Dallin Bulkley, Andrew Carew, Ian Cook and Jamin and Jeshua Marshall were onstage under a giant circus tent in Biddinghuizen, Netherlands. As Larry and His Flask, the spirited and wild five-piece band screamed, spit, headbanged, plucked and strummed to a crowd of thousands at the Lowlands music festival that drew more than […]
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No Flux Capacitor Required
Southern Oregon’s VAM Commanders reunite
When the VAM Commanders started out in Ashland during the mid-90s—smack in the middle of the era of bleached-hair boy bands adorned with puka shell necklaces and Gap cargo shorts—they were counterculture thrash-rock teenagers ready to destroy the world with distorted power chords. “Like so many bad decisions, it was fueled by alcohol,” explained Josh […]