To use the word “unusual” to describe the performance February 19th, at the Merkin Concert Hall in NYC, is an understatement. As part of the Ecstatic Music Festival taking place from Jan-March 2011 in NYC, Roomful Of Teeth performed...
Rarely do I end up at DIY house shows or in the town of Olympia, but I took a gamble to see the almightly Algernon Cadwallader on their first West Coast tour, and it was a night to remember. Just the act of getting to this was even a challenge, as...
In no time at all, the Decibel Festival in Seattle has apparently become one of the premier all-things-electronic festivals in the nation. Most electronic music isn’t really my bag; year in, year out, I know maybe one or two of the...
My experience at Musicfest NW this year went a little less smoothly than usual. There were decisions that needed to be made, and bands that needed to be missed because they played just slightly out of the means of timely transportation (as generally...
One of the best aspects of Musicfest NW is its intimate club settings. Whereas most music festivals are synonymous with enormous outdoor stages designed to fit tens of thousands of people, Portland sticks to its quirky Portland roots and packs...
Man Man
Man Man
Man Man’s Crowd
Sleep
Sleep
Thee Oh Sees
Thee Oh Sees
Man Man
Man Man
Dead Man’s Bones
Dead Man’s Bones
Local Natives
Wavves
Wavves’ crowd
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PHOTOGRAPHY BY CURT DOUGHTY
My Goodness
The Redwood Plan
Hair Vest
Holy Fuck
The Drowning Men
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Crowds
PHOTOGRAPHY BY RUSTEE PACE
Fences
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5. Beach House www.myspace.com/beachhousemusic Beach House are one of those bands that people kept talking about — you know, those buzz bands that get hyped up and are made out to be the new cool thing to listen to. However, Beach House...