Last night Jeremy Silver rocked the Hotel Café with his CD release show, and the great turn out of fans, friends, and music fiends were not disappointed. Silver waded his way through every track off his just-dropped “Everybody Knows” and the transitions between the more upbeat to the softer slightly more self-reflective songs was an
Horse Feathers Everything about last night’s show at The Echo was Portland-esque, from the intimate, nondescript venue; to the good (and cheap) tap selection and flannel clad band and audience members. If I hadn’t known better, I would’ve sworn that all three acts on the bill hailed from the City of Roses, but no, the
Instrumental segments are bittersweet. A lot of new bands don’t have the skill-set or the patience to rely on their instruments. They are over-zealous is making a name for themselves to the point where they think a catchy lyric is all the need to rest on their laurels. Although an infectious chorus is. . .well
Listening to Los Angeles based El Ten Eleven’s new album, It’s Still Like A Secret, is like experiencing an overload of sounds and landscapes that begs to be called schizophrenic. The 10 tracks found on this album will surely conjure up various images, like flying slow-motion through clouds to what it must be like driving
Little Beirut is one of my new favorite bands. Ever since I heard them on 94.7 Too, a radio station that plays only Northwest artists, I have been captivated by their solid indie pop sounds. I caught a free (!) show by Little Beirut at University of Portland’s Buckley Hall last night. It was a
If you have a heart, you will like Kina Grannis. If you do not like Kina Grannis, you either have not heard of her or you kick puppies. This is what I learned from going to see her play her impossibly cheery live set last night. On this oddly warm night, I headed down Wilshire
Atomic Tom, composed of lead vocalist Luke White, Philip Galitzine on bass, drummer Tobias Smith, and guitarist Eric Espiritu, performed at Mercury Lounge last night in NYC to a frenzied crowd. Opening for Atomic Tom were The Dance Party and Lion of Ido, both bands which were a little recklessly dramatic, coating on layers and
Via Audio has been getting a bit of press at BestNewBands recently. Their song “Babies,” was nominated for the site’s Best Song of 2010. We’ve got live footage of them playing “Wanted” at the NX25 2010 conference. And our very own Laurel called them “one of the freshest indie pop bands to come out of
Last night I ventured into Oakland to witness Lucky Dragons, The Fresh & Onlys and No Age at the New Parish. This was my first time in Oakland and my first time seeing any of these bands, but the experience I had vaguely reminded me of the shows I used to go to when I was
The process of turning something into an art-form is tiered; there’s a deliberation and a dedication to preserving the integrity of a sounds and an idea. Lead vocalist of The Art of Shooting, Kelly Irene Corson, said it best on stage when she playfully added before the intro to the third song in the set, “I