Christmas is nine days away, but my present comes early in the form of a fantastic tour stopping through Portland.
Sic Alps was probably the group I was most excited about during this year’s SMMR BMMR, both before and after the actual show. Something about the earnestness of their demeanor coupled with the [...]

It’s been a week now since the beginning of this year’s SMMR BMMR, the appropriate time needed to wind down from such an exhausting event. Most of us probably didn’t catch the show from start to finish each day (yours truly included), but even in drifting in and out of the 40+bands playing, one [...]

The very confusingly titled SMMR BMMR festival is happening this weekend at Rotture, and I’m far from bummed. Boasting probably the most pretentious line-up of any festival this year, SMMR BMMR proves to be the hippest place on earth this coming weekend. Hip for a reason however, as the artists they’ve brought together [...]

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 3, 2008; 5:00 pm; ]

Starting today, and throughout the week I’ll be posting to the calendar shows you should probably be going to that correspond to this years MusicFestNW, along with MP3’s so you can preview the artists before the shows. At $50 for 4 days, there is no good reason not to make it out.
After the jump check [...]

Everyone Is In A Band
White Fang
Panther
Eat Skull
Parenthetical Girls
Starfucker
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
The Thermals
Fist Fite
AU
Brace Pain
Horse Feathers
YACHT
Colin Meloy
White Rainbow
Menomena
Southern Belle
M.Ward
Meth Teeth
Valet
What do they all have in common?