Portland – Merchandise are desperately afraid of being put in a box. You may have already gotten this impression from the nightmarish cube on the cover of their third album, out this week and optimistically titled After The End. It seems that no one can quite put a finger on what (or who) these Tampa
This week of marked the remainder of my wild ride at Northside Music Festival, where I saw the quirky Xenia Rubinos, the feel good jams of Sinkane, the untamed energy of Milk Music (who I still can’t get out of my head) and Merchandise. Kristen had her own whirlwind experience at Bonnaroo, conveniently broken down
Day three of Northside Music Festival was the fullest, and best. This is when I finally decided to take advantage of the Jameson Black Barrel lounge, where there was free Jameson whiskey, Brooklyn BBQ, lobster mac n’ cheese, “cold toddies” which were basically whiskey slushies, AND a demonstration from Jameson’s Master Cooper himself, Ger Buckley.