Good vibes and shimmering chords filled the air last night at the Doug Fir Lounge in Portland where Real Estate played a brief but wonderful set in promotion of their excellent new album, Days. The five-piece kicked off their set with “Suburban Beverage,” harkening back to their first record with the repeated, perfectly meaningless line,
It was a twangy, rocking good time on Saturday night at the Doug Fir Lounge in Portland Oregon for a night with Fruit Bats and The Parson Red Heads. The Parson Red Heads took the stage first, the back wall of the staged covered in a cool blue light, the foreground draped in red. Singer/Songwriter
Thursday night at Portland’s Wonder Ballroom might not have been the best place to see too many great singers, but stellar musicians abounded. First up was Walls, a two-piece electronic act that took the stage right at 9:00. The band lived up to the implications of it’s name, filling the room with thumping beats that
freelance whales, courtesy their myspace The line outside of the Wonder Ballroom in North East Portland Tuesday night was nearly to the end of the block for The Naked and Famous, Foals, and Freelance Whales. A sold-out crowd was arriving early as the doors remained shut past their promised 7:30 opening. The crowded venue was
Reading Rainbow by Maxwell Monty Tuesday night’s Reading Rainbow & The Dodos show at the Doug Fir Lounge jumped out the the gate, with opener Reading Rainbow taking the stage at exactly their assigned time of 9:15. The Boy-Girl garage-pop duo got to it straight off, Drummer Sarah Everton pounding away while hitting peppy and
cloud nothings Friday night’s show at the Doug Fir Lounge in South East Portland was all about variety, as three bands with completely different sounds took the stage one after another. First on was Cloud Nothings, who appeared promptly at their assigned time of 9:30. Cloaked in a simple, unchanging blue light, the garage rockers
The tone for last night’s show at the Roseland Theater in Downtown Portland, OR was set the moment that Suuns took the stage. Wasting no time in getting started, the four-piece was hard at work with their pounding synths and grinding guitars the instant that the clock struck Eight PM. Surrounded on stage by flashing
wavves rock out, courtesy their myspace Saturday, February 19th was no night for vocalists at the Hawthorne Theater in the South East corner of Portland, Oregon. With a line-up that consisted of No Joy, Best Coast, and Wavves, volume and reverb were key figures in nearly every song, drowning out lyrics that no one, including
Filling up a whole stage all by your lonesome can prove a difficult task, but it’s one that Ólöf Arnalds was mostly up to last night at the Roseland Theater. The Icelandic singer-song writer and member of Múm strummed and picked through a beautiful set that was witnessed with subdued appreciation and closed-eyed-swaying by the