Portlanders (and anyone who wants to come to Portland), clear your calendars! September 7-11 is Music Fest NorthWest, and it looks incredible this year. Aside from the amazing headliners like Band of Horses and Iron and Wine, MFNW has something for everyone from Portland’s diverse assortment of amazing music. Read on to check out the lineup, with pictures, comments, videos and endorsements on who you should catch. I’m proud to say that BestNewBands has featured so many of these great artists!
Band of Horses Love, love love this band…of horses. Chances are their live performance of their latest album Infinite Arms will be sublime.
Iron and Wine
Explosions In The Sky
The Kills Read Kristina Villarini’s review of their new album Blood Pressures here !
Butthole Surfers As sick as I am of hearing “Pepper,” I’m curious to see these guys now.
Archers of Loaf
Neurosis
Blind Pilot
Blitzen Trapper Portland’s own!
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Sebadoh
Handsome Furs
Little Dragon
The Vaccines
The Antlers Kristina Villarini likes The Antlers. Do you?
The Joy Formidable : Check out Kristina Villarini’s review of The Joy Formidable’s show at Webster Hall in May.
YACHT : Read Kelly Montgomery’s interview with YACHT here !
Sharon Van Etten : Folk chanteuse extraordinaire!
Charles Bradley
Thee Oh Sees : FYF Fest . Can they tear it up again?
Horse Feathers : Katrina Nattress loves this Portland band…
Avi Buffalo : Please, Oh Please play “What’s In It For!”
The Horrors : All the way from London town!
Dennis Coffey
Cass McCombs
Phantogram
The Thermals : Rockin’ Portland since 2002!
Glass Candy
Rhett Miller
Portland Cello Project : Check out this video of The Portland Cello Project covering Kanye!
Big Freedia
Givers
Kylesa
Pig Destroyer : Maybe I’ll finally find out what ‘deathgrind’ means.
Ty Segall
You Am I
The Olivia Tremor Control
Crooked Fingers
Ted Leo : Without the Pharmacists??
Dam-Funk and Master Blaster
Grails
Ema
Shabazz Palaces
Bobby Bare Jr.
Tennis : Read about Kelly Knapp’s experience at the Tennis show in March.
Centro-Matic : New album coming out June 21st!
The Hood Internet
Typhoon : Portland’s EPIC mini-orchestra!
The Moondoggies : Kelly Montgomery wanted more from The Moonggies’s last album . Will they bring it?
Talkdemonic
Twin Sister
PS I Love You
The Gaslamp Killer : Scary…or awesome?
The Soft Moon
Dirty Beaches : Kelly Knapp interviewed Alex Zhang Hungtai just a week ago!
Morning Teleportation
Thrones
YOB
Akimbo
Viva Voce
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Alela Diane
Black Prairie
Sleepy Sun : here !
White Hills
Joe Pug
Lifesavas
Emily Wells
Pierced Arrows
Richmond Fontaine
BOAT
Rebecca Gates
RTX
Heavy Cream
Ladybug Transistor
The Minders
Weinland
Rabbits
Dolorean
Bare Wires
The Miracles Club
A Storm Of Light
Zuzuka Poderosa
Blouse
Anais Mitchell
Dirty Mittens
DJ Anjali
The Incredible Kid
E3
Y La Bamba : show that Katrina Natress covered.
Holcombe Waller
UME
And And And : Willamette Week’s Best New Band of 2011!
Archers
Beat Connection
Caleb Klauder
Celilo : Read about Celilo’s latest show at the Doug Fir here !
Climber
Crown Point
Crypts
Dangerous Boys Club
Death Songs
Diesto
Elitist
E-Rock
Eternal Tapestry
Fernando
Jared Mees And The Grown Children
Jeffrey Jerusalem
Kasey Anderson And The Honkies
Kelly Blair Bauman
Mad Rad : Monica Christoffels put Mad Rad on Sasquatch watch , and they rocked it!
Marius Libman : Better known as simply Copy.
Mnemonic Sounds
Monarques
Natasha Kmeto
Nether Regions
New York Rifles
Old Light
Operative
Priory
Purple & Green
Quiet Life
Ravishers
Reporter
Sean Flinn & The Royal We
Soft Kill
Sweet Teen Killing Machine
The Angry Orts : One of my favorite Portland bands- go here to see an interview I did with them.
The Dimes
The Needful Longings
The Thornes
Thousands : Laurel Kathleen interviewed Thousands!
Transient
TXE
Violet Isle
Wild Ones
Witch Mountain
Wizard Rifle
For more information, visit MFNW’s web site . Tickets went on sale June 3rd. It’s $115 for an all show wristband, $70 for a general admission wristband and $250 for a VIP wristband. Make an investment in Northwest music! I’ll see you there!
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