The third day started off once again with a two-headed free set, this time by Britt Daniel and Built To Spill. Although I couldn’t stick around for Built To Spill, I managed to catch a great deal of Britt’s set which consisted mostly of solo-Spoon renditions. I recall a split record with Britt Daniel and [...]

[ September 5, 2008; 11:00 pm; ]

The first show I want to highlight in this years MusicFest NW is unfortunately at Dante’s, and unfortunately the same night as Nico Muhly’s last scheduled Portland performance: Friday September 5th.

8:00 pm
Rapids

9:00 pm
The Muslims

10:00 pm
Colour Revolt

11:00 pm
These Arms Are Snakes

12:00 am
The Night Marchers

The first time I saw These Arms Are Snakes was over 5 years [...]

Not sure if this guy is serious or not (Read: SOFT PINK TUBE) but apparently he’s gone and changed his name from The Soft Pink Truth, to The Soft Pink Tube. Apparently now he’s drawing inspiration from You-Tube clips, which his songs are fully constructed from (now).
“In the manic and overstimulated spirit of the new [...]

-in which we discuss: Success where others have failed.

Let me preface this by saying, The Juan Maclean do not need to be remixed. Given the nature of their tunes, this is inevitable, but with all the fleshed out blips and beeps in their under-two-to-over-fourteen minute songs, they’ve pretty much covered every which way to [...]

-in which we discuss: Success where others have failed.

Remixing one’s own work is a curious idea. Surely we’ve seen this done before by the likes of Gabriel Ananda on ‘Der Sinn des Lebens’, and even Trentemøller remixed his own “Always Something Better”, but unlike those two, Gui Boratto has taken the track that [...]