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A preview of just some of the bands playing this weekend at the Pickathon festival in Portland.

(artist - song - album :: extra info)

Blitzen Trapper - Gold For Bread - Furr
Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys - You Don’t Know Me At All - Turntable Matinee
Seth Bernard and Daisy May - Song of the Burrowing Owl - The Copper Country Quintet
Thao with the Get Down Stay Down - Bag of Hammers - We Brave Bee Stings and All
Horse Feathers with Portland Cello Project - Mother’s Sick - Limited Edition EP (PS - Check this out.)
The Wiyos - Side by Side - The Wiyos
Pancake Breakfast - Apple Wood - EP 3
Jaymay - Gray or Blue - Autumn Fallin’
Joe Pug - Hymn 35 - Nation of Heat EP
Dr Dog - The Old Days - Fate
CW Stoneking - Jungle Blues - Jungle Blues
Paleface - You Are The Girl - The Show Is On The Road
Ethan Rose & Laura Gibson - Sun - PDX POP NOW! 2009 :: fortcoming release later this year
Headless Heroes - Just Like Honey - he Silence Of Love
The Deep Dark Woods - All the Money I Had Is Gone - Winter Hours
Breathe Owl Breathe - Drop and Roll - Ghost Glacier
Frank Fairfield - Darling Corey - I’ve Always Been a Rambler
John Doe And The Sadies - (Now and Then) There’s a Fool Such as I - Country Club
Vetiver - Everyday - Tight Knit

 

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Part 2 of  PDX POP NOW! preview.

(artist - song - album :: extra info)

Ah Holly Famly - EIEIO - PDX Pop Now! 2009
Guidance Counselor - Culture Junkies - Get Brave
The Quick & Easy Boys - Stealing Glances
The Old Believers - The Glories All Been Done - live on That Sound @ KPSU
Grouper - Heavy Water / I’d Rather Be Sleeping - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
Nurses - Caterpillar Playground - Apple’s Acre
The Shaky Hands - We Are Young - Lunglight
Lightheaded - Sunrise Cypher - Wrong Way
Au - Sum - Au
Jeffrey Jerusalem - Disco Dry Mouth - Grimace
Menomena - Gay A - Wet and Rusting EP

 

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After a five-month hiatus from this show (read more), I’m back with a podcast, highlighting acts from this year’s PDX POP NOW! festival, happening this weekend at Rotture in Portland. This is part 1 of 2, I’ll likely be posting the second tomorrow.

(artist - song - album :: extra info)

Dirty Mittens - The Dock - Pinky Swear EP
Peter Broderick - Not at Home - Home
The Mint Chicks - 2010
Explode into Colors - Paper (Hot Sax Version) - PDX Pop Now 2009
The Minus 5 - The Long Hall - Killingsworth
White Hinterland - Dreaming of the Plum Trees - Phylactery Factory
Benoit Pioulard - Palimend - Precis
Breakfast Mountain - Dunn (Not Done)
Inside Voices - It Happened Without Expectation
Tara Jane ONeil - Drowning - A Ways Away
Deelay Ceelay - No Vex - Thank You :: a free album on website
Laura Gibson - Spirited - Beasts of Seasons

So, the bad news first. As of June 30, I’ve been laid off from OPB. There will be a lot of things I miss about working there, and doing in-studio sessions with bands is near the top of the list. I’ve had the privilege of interviewing bands and artists I wouldn’t have had access to at KPSU, and Steven Kray, our audio engineer, made the recordings sound top-notch. Also, OPB was SUPER good in how they let me go, they gave me notice of Biblical proportions (that’s 40 days), and a karaoke send-off. I would definitely take them back, if or when our economy gets its head out of its arse.

In the meantime, there’s still a few sessions in the can that will be airing this summer. Two have been posted already:

opbmusic.org/performances/104-Great-Northern

and

opbmusic.org/performances/105-Padre-Pio

I’m in the process of determining the future of this podcast, I’ll post an announcement here as soon as I’m ready. If you’re reading this, you probably listen regularly and want more, thanks for that.

Peace!