BRZOWSKI is back. Three years after the excellent maryshelleyoverdrive, he’ll release Blooddrive Vol. 2, a collection of 23 tracks created over the past four years, with a show July 14 at the Big Easy. AGENT8 helped out with producing duties, and Brzowski has lately been teaming with GRAYMATTER on stage for DJing duties. Listen for guest spots from K-THE-I???,ONEPERSON, NOMAR SLEVIK, and MOSHE, along with European artists XNDL, DJ EXTEND, and MONSIEUR SAI. The album will be available for widespread purchase July 15 on P.O.E./MILLED PAVEMENT RECORDS.
Remember how us “Sibilance” types told you about the weird personal connections that led all of the members of BIRD IN THE RAFTERS to have to be in Omaha last weekend, thus causing them to book a show while they were out there? Well, it didn’t happen. A once-in-a-generation storm blew threw, with 90 mph winds and flash flooding, and the O’LEAVERS gig got cancelled. And they even got press from the local alt-weekly! The Rafters’ ROY GHIM put it this way: “The Bird in the Rafters crew sat in the dark, drinking the remaining beer in the refrigerator that was getting gradually warmer. Oh well. Our only consolation is that we were doing probably the same thing as WILLIE NELSON and KOOL & THE GANG (also had concerts canceled in the area).”
At one point, we told you TODD BERNARD (formerly of SPACE GALLERY) would be part of a consortium opening a larger club in the STADIUM space on Congress Street. Here is how we know for sure he’s no longer involved: There is going to be a focus group convened by an area ad agency to bounce around ideas for the club. A focus group. For a club.
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- Portland scene report: May 16, 2008
Pinksy, the new band that grew from the ashes of Local Nothing, were hoping to drop their first EP, Two for the Road , May 6.
- The new year is full of promise
Local music took a few hits in 2006, with the shuttering of more venues, leaving us with a small cluster of fully functioning outlets for homegrown bands: AS220, the Ocean Mist, Cats, and the Living Room.
- Bon appétit
With apologies to those of my readers who were expecting a poignant analysis of Rabbi Shmuley Boteach’s Shalom in the Home .
- Dirt merchants
In the hegemony of mid-’80s mega-rock-star benefits, Farm Aid stands as the American blue-collar uncle to Live Aid’s international whiz kid.
- 2009: The top 10 in pop music
Hmm, lots of women, a few old dudes, and some African banjo (not to be confused with Steve Martin's Hollywood banjo).
- No 'Wasted' effort
If you know the guys from Paranoid Social Club, it’s not hard to believe they’d like a movie like Beerfest , full of booze jokes, scantily clad women, and scatological humor.
- On with the shows . . .
If freezing your ass off builds character, music fans should prepare to develop way too much character over the next few months.
- Eric Clapton: Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007
Every so often in Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007 you can see the beaming host, Eric Clapton, behind a stack of amps shooting photos of his fellow performers.
- Merle Haggard
Merle Haggard has always been a keen observer of American thought and spirit.
- Rising sun
What else could a mid-level, socially conscious band of affable guys writing listenable pop music want? To lose their collegiate reputation.
- Bring on the blues
There’s lots of music in store just around the proverbial corner for local music aficionados.
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