At Mental Hygiene’s first show in quite some time, I caught up with the ladies from Mental Hygiene and chatted with them about where they’d been and where they’re going. Liz Livengood: Hi I’m Liz with Best New Bands and I’m here with Mental Hygiene, I just watched their show at the Tonic Lounge. It
Congratulations to Allison! You’ve won a pair of tickets to see The Parlotones at Portland’s Doug Fir Lounge on Sunday, and before the show, you’ll be meeting the band! Here’s the winning comment: I fell IN LOVE with the Parlotones when the opened for Blue October last fall. I got see them play four shows
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
A song like Luck-One’s “More” is why you have to listen to every link that lands in your inbox. Gradually layering steady handclaps, a little Roger Troutman, and strong horns over a shuffling beat, the Portland rapper exclaims, “There’s gotta be more!” But the emotion underneath the question isn’t desperate, and when you read his
Saturday night at the Tonic Lounge marked a comeback of sorts for Portland’s Mental Hygiene. In their first show since last year, Mental Hygiene has added two new members to the lineup (rhythm guitarist Onyx and bassist Mary Steele) and now rock with a fuller and more cohesive sound. The girls pleased the crowd with
South African rock darlings (and former BestNewBands.com Artists in Residence) The Parlotones are touring the United States, and we want to help YOU meet the band and see a show for free! This February and March, BestNewBands.com will be giving away chances to meet The Parlotones in New York City, Portland (Oregon) and Los Angeles.
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
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
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
Eux Autres, which is pronounced ooz-oh-tra and means, literally “them others,” aren’t French. They’re ‘kind of from Portland’ but call San Francisco home. At the Mississippi Studios last night, Eux Autres were the opening band for Chain Gang of 1974 and Candy Claws. The pop band claims to “write songs with sparse instrumentation,” but to