Sunday Viewing Recommendation: Catch up on possible Oscar nominees
With the 2011 Academy Award nominee announcements coming this week on Tuesday at 5-freaking-30-am, you'll want to catch up on all the films getting Oscar…
Imaginary Watch This: Nada Surf covers Depeche Mode
[Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_1XboN7UGg] Craving some cover action? This new video from Nada Surf was filmed during their 2010 European tour in Nuremberg, Munich and Dresden and features…
Recommended all ages show: The Thermals @Neumos {Friday, 1/21}
[Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EgeecG1Eh0] Another discovery via my boyfriend - I love, love, LOVE the way this Portland band rocks my socks off! I can’t really put a…
Recommended show: Tom Brosseau live on A Prairie Home Companion this Saturday {1/15}
There are days when I miss the land of actual mailing lists, of finding out about a band's appearance close to your town only by…
Tonight's recommended show: Damien Jurado at Columbia City Theater
Our friends over at Sound on the Sound are presenting their first show of 2011, and it's sure a doozy: none other than one of…
Please Stand By
The pastoral pleasures of Brent Amaker and the Rodeo's third album Please Stand By are hard to resist, if you love either the mod 60s…
A Bird In The Opera House
Nick Jaina is a very accomplished and demiurgic Portland, OR-based singer-songwriter whose lyrically romantic scenarios luxuriate in diversely orchestrated carnival folk-pop. His stately and quietly…
Coming Home
Bloodshot Records, a label always known for high quality music as well as eclectic realness, has put out the new album by Steve Fisk and…
Broken Bow
Eux Autres has been releasing records since their first seven inch came out in 2003, and you can hear a band that grew up on…
Body Talk
OMG! Yes, I freaking love Robin Miriam Carlsson, and have since her first eponymous release (as, um, Robyn) in the States and the 2007 sampler…