Pacific Northwest Music News & Events
After the eclipse, the rest of the day was filled with more music including second shows from CocoRosie and the String Cheese Incident, but at that point it hardly mattered. We had just collectively witnessed a rare cosmic event and not even Jimi Hendrix reincarnated could have topped such an experience.
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After the dust had settled (literally), it’s hard to imagine the folks at Symbiosis won’t put together another event on these grounds despite no solar eclipse coming through in the near future.
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Shortly into this, I realized I was embarking a task too large for traditional methods and embraced who I was a person. I created a spreadsheet.
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We’ll see first-hand what happens when you send an aging journalist to a six day party where activities such as mind expansion and exploration are not only allowed, they’re encouraged. This is an event that puts more thought into their yoga instructions than most festivals put into their headliners. In planer words is going to be so special I know attendees who are skipping Burning Man.
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Somewhere along the timeline, organizers of Portland’s two biggest festivals realized they were putting together two extremely similar festivals barely
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The enigmatic rock band from the past three decades returned to Oregon during Musicfest NW Presents Project Pabst to find
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According to the test of time that this festival has passed with flying colors by completing its fifteenth year, it’s
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Somewhere outside of Portland, deep in the forest, there’s a magical place called Horning’s Hideout. There are amphitheaters, disc golf,
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This past weekend, hundreds of bluegrass heads were taken back to school by the beloved Railroad Earth. No, there wasn’t a
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The Cave Singers have sustained a long-reigning career and, have become regular names in the northwest for many reasons. One
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January doesn’t come with a lot of upsides, but it does spark the beginning of touring season for bands gearing
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The ODESZA trail started with the release of Summer’s Gone in 2012. They’ve kept these songs in Rotation since and unleashed “How Did I Get Here” and the ultra-dreamy “Today” shortly into their set. Not only has their sound made improvements, but the visuals stepped up big in a scene where suddenly high production visuals are necessary (thanks Daft Punk).
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When you’re looking onto a sea of massive lasers, it can be easy to overlook world class showmanship by a
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After “One Big Holiday” rounded out a four song encore, my emotions were running high. I tried to hold onto the euphoria as if it were my youth making one last attempt to feel like I was in college again.
Read moreAlthough though the number of bands shrank dramatically since the old days, they were able to put together a sound lineup with a good amount of diversity while remaining fluid. For some reason though, I left with an urging sensation to cruise around in a neon green Scion and smoke Marlboro Blacks. Weird.
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