This week in GO! Magazine’s music section
Polecat, Cornmeal and Hot Buttered Rum. My review of last weekend’s Twin Atlantic show at The Sound Garden. A new album from local pop-rockers Elliot. Ben Macy and Chamber Jazz, the fourth annual Jim...
View ArticleHuey Lewis and the News appears to be coming to Bend in September
Both leading tour date resource Pollstar and the band’s own site have blue-eyed soul/rock hit-makers Huey Lewis and the News playing Bend’s Les Schwab Amphitheater on Sept. 11. The Schwab itself hasn’t...
View Article4 Peaks festival lineup + tickets on sale now
The good folks at the 4 Peaks Music Festival — to be held June 22-24 at Rockin’ A Ranch near Tumalo — have unveiled part of this year’s lineup, and it’s a nice mix of rootsy stringbenders, jam bands,...
View ArticleThis week in GO! Magazine’s music section
If you will indulge me for just one minute, I would simply like to say that regularly reading our music section in GO! Magazine (every Friday in The Bulletin) is by far your best bet for staying...
View ArticleGet to know Filastine (“Colony Collapse” video / in Bend April 6)
If you went to see Beats Antique at Midtown Ballroom in February, and you got inside early enough and were paying attention, then you may have caught a dynamic opening set by transglobal bass-music...
View ArticleMore Les Schwab Amphitheater news: Norah Jones on Aug. 15
Per Pollstar and the artist’s own website, jazz-pop star Norah Jones will play Bend’s Les Schwab Amphitheather on Aug. 15. More details to come when I know them. Word on the street is that her new...
View Article[Photos] Bobby Watson at The Oxford Hotel
Last weekend, I saw jazz saxophonist Bobby Watson perform with a backing band of Portlanders (including drummer Mel Brown) at The Oxford Hotel in downtown Bend. Watson’s visit was the next-to-last...
View ArticleTonight: Galactic, yes … but also Outer Minds
The Galactic / Orgone show at the Domino Room should be the biggest thing happening in Bend tonight, but I also want to call your attention to a band called Outer Minds (Facebook / Tumblr / Bandcamp)...
View Article[Video] Galactic at the Domino Room
I don’t think I absolutely adored New Orleans’ foremost multifarious funk band, Galactic, as much as the rest of a very full Domino Room last night, but I will say this: What a powerhouse pack of...
View ArticleThis week in GO! Magazine’s music section
Whoops! I forgot to do this yesterday. Sorry, folks. Here’s what’s in the music section of this week’s GO! Magazine: –Atlanta-based orchestral pop band Little Tybee will play twice in town next week,...
View ArticleHigh Desert Madness!
For the past three weeks in The Bulletin’s Community Life section, we’ve been whittling down 64 very Central Oregon people, places, events and abstract concepts in a tongue-in-cheek tournament to...
View Article[Video / Review] Outer Minds at The Horned Hand
So, this is a week old, but cut me some slack, buddy. The Chicago-based band Outer Minds (Facebook / Bandcamp) slipped into The Horned Hand last Thursday and played a really terrific set of psychedelic...
View ArticleCake, Sigur Ros coming to Les Schwab Amphitheater for Memorial Day weekend
Bend’s Les Schwab Amphitheater just announced two concerts for Memorial Day weekend: – ’90s alt-rock survivors Cake will perform on Saturday, May 25. Tickets cost $37 plus fees in advance. – Icelandic...
View ArticleGet to know Mindscape and Doc & Wyatt before tonight’s Method Man show
In last week’s GO! Magazine, I wrote this respectful but not fawning piece on the career of Method Man, the Wu-Tang Clan rapper who’ll perform at Bend’s Domino Room tonight. After listening to a bunch...
View ArticleSpeaking of tonight: The Preservation at The Horned Hand
The Austin, Texas band The Preservation is playing at The Horned Hand (507 N.W. Colorado Ave., Bend) tonight. 8 p.m. start time, and a $5 cover. Well worth it to see these folks make mighty fine music....
View ArticleThis week in GO! Magazine’s music section
Nice weather, First Friday, live music … OK! – Northwest folk singer Nathaniel Talbot (and his band) will hold a CD-release show Thursday at The Belfry in Sisters. My colleague David Jasper spoke with...
View Article[Stream] Eluvium, “Don’t Get Any Closer”
Here’s a beautiful new track from one of my all-time favorite artists, Portland-based ambient/classical paragon Eluvium, who I’ve written about many times — both live reviews and recordings — on this...
View ArticleThis week in GO! Magazine’s music section
Here’s what’s happening, musically, in Central Oregon over the next seven days. – The famous South African singing group Ladysmith Black Mambazo returns to Bend’s Tower Theatre on Sunday night. My...
View ArticleFirst acts announced for 2013 Sisters Folk Festival
The wonderful Sisters Folk Festival‘s 2013 lineup will feature dozens of folk and not-so-folk acts by the time the event rolls around on the weekend of Sept. 6-8. In 2011, I had a folky experience;...
View ArticleTyler, the Creator and Earl Sweatshirt are coming to Bend
Well this is a feather in our rap cap: The two most prominent figures (unless you count Frank Ocean) in super-hyped L.A. hip-hop collective Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All — Tyler, the Creator and...
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