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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.
El Perro Del Mar Review
We review El Perro Del Mar’s latest album, From the Valley to the Stars.
From the Valley to the Stars is beautiful music. The album is like a great typeface, it’s what’s not there that makes the form, fit; makes the creation expressive. The album features short tracks, but there’s a lot to be discovered here.
BARR Playing Portland
BARR, Brendan Fowler, signed to Kill Rock Stars, will be playing at Backspace this Friday, April 25th. BARR’s artful representations through his music are both interesting, unique and alarming – my girlfriend listened to BARR and asked, is he really just talking?. No Rae, there’s more there, in the music.
Brendan is also an editor at the ANPQuarterly – a venture of sorts between artists and RVCP clothing line (the ‘V’ is a Roman ‘U’). Here’s a taste of Brendan’s art.
BARR – The Song Is The Single
How to Make a Great Band Website
Ok, we get asked frequently, “should I just rely on MySpace? does our band really need our own website?”.
Yes, you need your own website and no don’t just rely on MySpace, or imeem, or Amie St. Why send all your traffic to those sites and none none to your own, where at you can control the look, feel and message of your music? That’s a rhetorical question, but really, you want to take advantage of the massiveness of MySpace but still get people to experience your music (maybe even buy your music) at your website. We don’t think this is a contended topic, but we understand that putting the pieces together because of time, money and technology can be fucking hard and confusing. We’d like to help you sort some things out.
Continue reading How to Make a Great Band Website
Review of Debra Arlyn's Tomorrow Another Day
Just posted, a review of Debra Arlyn’s soon to be released album, Tomorrow Another Day. Check it out.
Alright! 2 People in PDX Want to see She and Him
Over at Eventful, I created a Demand for She & Him to come to Portland page. Show your support for She & Him by signing the petition for them to drop by Portland.
The Dimes to Perform New Songs
The Dimes are scheduled to perform with Justin King and Ehren Ebbage at the Mississippi Studios on April 19th at 9pm. The Dimes will be playing, for the first time, songs from their upcoming, second full-length album.
It was just in December of last year that The Dimes released their first full-length album, The Silent Generation; reviewed here at NW Noise and was reviewed and liked by SPIN magazine, with the mag saying:
“The hooky debut from this tuneful quartet is a moving meditation on hard times…The Dimes employ an array of flutes, glockenspiels, melodicas, tambourines, and handclaps to heighten the mood, with “Catch Me Jumping” and “Paul Kern Can’t Sleep” skyrocketing exuberantly. 3.5 STARS!”
The Silent Generation was picked up by college radio, played on music blogs, aggregated on Hype Machine and all this on top of debuting at #37 on CMJ’s first Top 200 Chart of 2008.
WHO: The Dimes (Northwest indie-pop). Supported by Justin King, Ehren Ebbage.
WHAT: Live performance featuring ALL NEW MUSIC and FREE CD’s
WHEN: Saturday, April 19th at 9pm
WHERE: Mississippi Studios (Portland, Oregon)
WHY: The Dimes are mid-way through recording their second full-length
record and want to share what they’ve got so far!
The Tripwire Reviews Panther
The Tripwire recently reviewed Panther’s (KRS) latest release, 14kt God.
Vote The Lark
For this year’s PDX Pop Now festival.
Vote here for The Lark.
