I know, as a Portland based blog we should really be promoting the PDX-POP NOW festival going on this weekend at Rotture, but I just can’t deny the superiority of Seattle’s Capitol Hill Block Party. Not only does it contain some of Portland’s biggest bands (The Thermals, The Gossip), but even those artists making [...]

Past Lives play Portland more often than even some local bands, and each time I’m right there watching.  If you haven’t noticed, Past Lives are my very favorite band to rise from the ashes of the Blood Brothers and projects past.  Everytime they play, they put on a show which embodies the best elements of [...]

[ September 7, 2008; 9:30 pm; ]

To know me well is to know I wouldn’t miss a dubstep show for the world; but as it just so happens, the entire world is getting together to play with Parenthetical Girls for their record release party tonight. Ok so 20 people isn’t the world, but if 230,000+ will get excited for a 9-piece [...]

[ 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.
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Prior to their set at the always smokey Situations, I spent some time in a tour van talking to Jordan Billie and Devin Welch of Past Lives about everything from the demise of The Blood Brothers (and the difference between projects) to the absurdity of pop music & Lil’ Wayne.

FBM: Is this you guys’ first [...]

[ August 2, 2008; 9:00 pm; ]

I wish I could make one of those web things describing the way in which all of Seattle’s best bands connect. If you ‘Continue Reading’, please be prepared for your head to explode, not just because what i am going to describe is very confusing, but also because the music contained within this post has [...]