The Mynabirds and Oregon's Greatest Natural Resource
If you've noticed we've been blogging a lot about Pickathon lately, you're right! (There is a prize for you taped to the back of your monitor; go find it.) The surge in Pickathon-related posts is...
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The Sad Waltz of Denver
For those keeping track at home, that's four trucker caps and two plaid Western shirts. Last year saw the release of the self-titled debut from Portland's Denver (not be confused with Denver's...
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This Week's Mercury Music Section
David HartleyThe War on Drugs Another week, another Mercury music section to ignore as you reel in confusion about all these pop stars changing their names. First Snoop Dogg becomes Snoop Lion, and...
View ArticleWin Tickets to See the Cult!
Long before Cults, or Cloud Cult, or Pure Bathing Culture, or Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam—but not, it should be mentioned, before Blue Öyster Cult—there was the Cult, the one and only British hard...
View ArticleTonight in Music: Stay Calm, Scout Niblett, Freedom Club and Ruby Feathers
STAY CALM, NEAL MORGAN, SAD HORSE, MARISA ANDERSON(Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison) Read our article on Stay Calm. SCOUT NIBLETT, 1939 ENSEMBLE, GENDERS(Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi) Judging...
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Things to Look Forward to at Pickathon: Robert Ellis
Pictured above is one Robert Ellis, from Houston, Texas. Mercury Music Editor Ned Lannamann, who generally knows what music I'll like and what I'll find repugnant, pointed me in the direction of Ellis...
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Laser Menomena! Or, Dark Side of the Moms
Alicia J. Rose/HipgnosisMenomena's new album, Moms, is on the way, coming out on Barsuk on September 18. But Menomena is hosting a very special listening party for the new album on Friday, August 24,...
View ArticleThings to Look Forward to at Pickathon: Kitty, Daisy & Lewis
Hey, it's summer! Which means it's the perfect time to be outside drinking beer and listening to songs like "I'm So Sorry" by the unknown-in-the-U.S.-but-justifiably-big-everywhere-else London...
View ArticleTonight in Music: Pickathon, SMMR BMMR, Chris Pureka and more!
PICKATHON: HEARTLESS BASTARDS, THE CAVE SINGERS, TYPHOON, WHITE DENIM, THE BARR BROTHERS, TODD SNIDER, DENVER, LAURA GIBSON, SIERRA LEONE'S REFUGEE ALL STARS & MORE(Pendarvis Farm, 16581 SE Hagen)...
View ArticlePickathon, Sun, and Blisters
One last Pickathon post before heading out to the farm. It's gonna be a hot one. Wear skimpy clothes and lubricate yourself liberally. No, I'm not a doctor. Here's one from the Lost Bayou Ramblers....
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A Little Taste: Video at Pickathon
It was a year ago today and I was offered some work out of town. Taking it meant I would miss Pickathon. Not an easy decision. But I had. In the meantime I soothed myself with some bullshit notion...
View ArticleTonight in Music: Pickathon, Fang Island, SMMR BMMR and more!!
PICKATHON: NEKO CASE, DR. DOG, THEE SATISFACTION, KITTY DAISY AND LEWIS, BOMBINO, LANGHORNE SLIM, PHOSPHORESCENT, THEE OH SEES, THE MYNABIRDS, SONNY AND THE SUNSETS, CASS MCCOMBS & MORE(Pendarvis...
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A Pickathon Report
It's not just a hippie fest. It's not!... Oh, who am I kidding.The first full day of Pickathon kicked off yesterday with a good amount of summer heat—although it won't have a patch on today—and some...
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Pickathon Highlights
1. Seeing Neko Case twice, on two different stages and within two different sets of chemical parameters. I've been a fan of Case's for years but somehow I guess I've never seen her; that she is...
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My Favorite Things at Pickathon (Besides the Bands)
I had never been to Pickathon before and I usually hate music festivals, but yesterday I biked out to Pickathon and found it was wonderful, wonderful. The festival doesn't give out maps of the...
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Deschutes' Annual Street Fare Returns
On Thursday, August 16, Deschutes Brewery is hosting their third annual Street Fare, which is like a Street Fayre, but less Renaissancey. Actually, it's a block party with great food and music, all...
View ArticleTonight in Music: Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Dax Riggs & Billions...
TOTALLY ENORMOUS EXTINCT DINOSAURS(Doug Fir, 830 E Burnside) Orlando Higginbottom, out of Oxford, has been releasing songs and remixes under his Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs moniker for a few...
View ArticleSome More Pickathon Impressions
We'll have just a couple more Pickathon wrap-ups in the coming days, along with some pictures, so apologies if you're feeling saturated with coverage. (I'm not that sorry, though. There's a lot to...
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Win Tickets to Sharon Van Etten!
Shervin LainezHere are some things that well-respected critics have said about Sharon Van Etten*:"Gaaaaa!""Goooooo!""Wowowowow!""Holy majoly!"*I don't have sources for these. As you can plainly see,...
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A New Song from Black Prairie
Jason QuigleyBlack Prairie have a new record coming out next month, and NPR posted a first taste of the upcoming A Tear in the Eye Is a Wound in the Heart (an album title nearly long enough to put...
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