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Scott Wynn Interview
Photo by Michael Calanan
NW Noise’s interviewed Scott Wynn of The Panderers last Saturday before their performance at the Wonder Ballroom in Portland, OR. The Panderers just wrapped up their tour with Mike Doughty.
MP3, NW Noise’s interview with Scott Wynn of The Panderers on April 26th, 2008 at the Wonder Ballroom.
The Heavenly States Interview
Before The Heavenly States rocked Doug Fir on Friday night, Jason Gears and Justin Royce sat down with the band in the Green Room. Jason and Justin’s experience summed up in a brief statement: “…this band is hilarious!”. Yep, and they can rock. If you missed them at Doug Fir, check them out at the Sasquatch Music Festival in May.
MP3, NW Noise’s interview with The Heavenly States on April 25th, 2008 at the Doug Fir
Buy The Heavenly States latest album Delayer on iTunes
New Music
The Gossip - Standing In the Way of Control (Le Tigre Remix)
Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeemix. This time of The Gossip’s Standing In the Way of Control by Le Tigre (2007)
MP3, The Gossip with Standing In the Way of Control (Le Tigre Remix)
CSS - Rat Is Dead
New CSS! Their new album, Donkey, comes out June 22nd on Sub Pop.
MP3, CSS with Rat Is Dead (Rage) on Donkey
Lykke Li - Little Bit
Sweden’s Lykke Li has seen growing success here in the States with her single, Little Bit. The 22-year-old artist will be in Portland on May 16th at Doug Fir with another Swedish act, El Perro Del Mar.
MP3, Lykke Li with Little Bit
Cut Copy in Portland Today!
Expect Cut Copy to put down an amazing show within the confines of Doug Fir tomorrow night, April 28th. Cut Copy is joined by the Black Kids and Mobius Band. The show starts at 9pm and tickets are $15. I have no idea if tickets are still available, call Doug Fir’s box office for the info, 503.231.WOOD.
MP3, Cut Copy with Feel The Love
News
John Moen Celebrating Album Release at Holocene
John Moen, of The Decemberists, is set to release his solo project/band’s self-titled, full-length album on June 11th at the Holocene. John’s project is called Perhapst, and the album is titled Perhapst, and the album is being released on Portland-based indie record label In Music We Trust.
Being completely superficial I’ll say I like the solo project’s name (ok, I’m not superficial but in this instance, I’m being such…) because it’s close to word “Perhaps”, a word I like to use when people ask me if I’m going to [a] a show, [b] a party; and I also like it because the word looks like Pabst.
John is the drummer for The Decemberists; you are aware of The Decemberists. The album will speak for itself, but I hear it’s indie pop, folk-rock laden. So work with that for awhile until the album comes out. The good news (because he’s a good musician) is that John plays most of the instruments on the album – channeling some Dave Grohl perhaps; what’s with it with drummers, are they are the most versatile part of a band? Answer = yes.
Perhapst will be playing with Norfolk & Western and opening will be Two Beers. The show starts at 9pm. It’s at the Holocene.
Portland Art Spark in April
Discuss the arts in Portland! It happens the 3rd Thursday of each month. This is what April looks like:
Soooooo, the 3rd Thursday of April would be 17th and the event goes from 5-7 pm at Living Room Theaters’ Lounge & Bar (SW 10th and Stark in Portland, OR). This month’s host is PNCA President Tom Manley and he’ll be talking about the future of the local arts college. Hope to see you there!
Articles
Urban Outfitters Summer Mix
The Urban Outfitters blog has posted music for what their calling the Summer Mix. Or essential music to listen to this summer. All the songs are streamed on their blog, with links to buy each track. The bands and tracks are listed below:
- The Black Ghosts – Anyway You Choose To Give It (Extended Mix)
- The Teenagers – Love No (Delorean Remix)
- M83 – Graveyard Girl
- These New Puritans – Elvis
- Holy Fuck – Lovely Allen
- The Night Marchers – I Wanna Deadbeat You
- The Kills – Sour Cherry
- James Pants – Finger On The Knife
- No Age – Eraser
- Dark Meat – Freedom Ritual
- Frightened Rabbit – Head Rolls Off
- Wolf Parade – Call It A Ritual
- Tokyo Police Club – In A Cave
- French Kiss – Abandon
- Flight of The Conchords – Ladies of The World
- Shout Out Louds – Impossible (Possible Remix by Studio)
- Ladyhawke – Back of The Van (Fred Falke Ultimate Beverly Mix)
- Hercules and Love Affair – Hercules Theme
- Get Shakes – Air (Final Vocal)
- Dave P & Adam Sparkles – Sunday Nite In Glasgow
The Dimes Big West Coast Tour Schedule
After The Dimes laid down their best live performance (in our opinion) at the Doug Fir friday night, they moved on to Seattle. In attendance at the Doug Fir Friday night to catch a listen of The Dimes were Britt Daniel of Spoon, Nate Query of The Decemberists, Fernando Viciconte, Jon Ragel of Boy Eats Drum Machine, members of Derby, Oh Darling, DCRS and UHF — (hit tip to The Dimes MySpace blog)
Apr 25: Doug Fir – Portland, Oregon (SOLD OUT!)
Apr 26: The Mars Bar – Seattle, Washington
Apr 29: Willamette University – Salem, Oregon
Apr 30: Good Morning Sacramento (TV News show!)
Apr 30: Sacramento State U. – Sacramento, California
Apr 30: UC Davis – Davis, California
May 1: Fresno State University – Fresno, California
May 1: KSCU 103.3FM Live In-Studio – Santa Clara, California
May 1: Santa Clara University – The Bronco – Santa Clara, California
May 2: UC Berkeley – Berkeley, California
May 2: KDVS 90.3fm – Live In-Studio – Davis, California
May 2: Old Ironsides – Sacramento, California
May 3: Sophias Thai Kitchen w/ Tyler Ramsey (BandofHorses) Davis, CA
May 4: TBA – Monterey, California
May 5: Sonoma State University – Rohnert Park, California
May 5: TBA – Ashland, Oregon
May 15: Spokane Community College – Spokane, Washington
May 16: The Great Pacific – Pendleton, Oregon
May 17: The Yakima Sports Center – Yakima, Washington
May 21: McMenamin‘s Boone‘s Treasury – Acoustic Set -Salem, Oregon
May 30: Oregon State University – Corvallis, Oregon
May 30: Sam Bonds Garage – with John Shipe – Eugene, Oregon
May 31: Bottom of the Hill w/ The Heaveny States – San Francisco, CA
June 5: Nectar – Seattle – Seattle, Washington
June 6: Go home and rest. Ugh.
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