Peter WoodburnOne 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...
Sounding sharper and more focused (dare one even say “concise”!) Pelican offer up their fourth long player, What We All Come To Need, their second for venerable heavy label Southern Lord. While its predecessor, City Of Echoes, featured...
While it would be nice to read a piece on Shrinebuilder without the use of the word supergroup, there is no getting around it. Shrinebuilder is most definitely a supergroup, comprised of Wino Weinrich on guitar (St. Vitus), Al Cisneros on bass (Om...
2009 October 30 @ Parkside, San Francisco, CA Divine Heresy If I liked this kind of music, I would call it a good set. It was metal, but hardly a genre that draws as much attention today that it may have about a decade or more ago. The music was...
Om Prior to watching Om, I had absolutely no idea what kind of band they were. Imagine my surprise, then, when the San Francisco-based doom metal trio turned out to be one of my favorite Musicfest NW performances! Especially because I’d...
"Learning to hear differently is part of the progression. Your hearing evolves and the perception [becomes] more musical." -- Stephen O'Malley
"Anything that makes people focus more on learning to play their instruments is cool with me." -- Daniel La Rochelle