Great Lake Swimmers – Cozmic Pizza, Eugene, OR 6/8/15 (SHOW REVIEW)
A mellow Monday night in Eugene was complemented by the soft folk rock delivered by Toronto’s very own Great Lake Swimmers. The night kicked off with a solo performance by fellow Toronto musician Tamara Lindeman of The Weather Station. Her opening set was intimate and started what would remain a very relaxed evening. Eugene on […]
Good Tunes Win At Sasquatch Music Festival (FESTIVAL RECAP)
In its fourteenth year Sasquatch! Music Festival, at the iconic Gorge Amphitheater, gave fans an experience they will not soon forget. There were issues with the high-tech wristbands that kept many festival goers from entering the grounds on the first day, and the sound pollution from stage to stage was at times was truly awful, […]
Mac DeMarco – Cozmic Pizza, Eugene, OR 4/21/15 (SHOW REVIEW)
Mac DeMarco’s Tuesday night show at Cozmic Pizza in Eugene was sandwiched between sold out shows at The Independent in San Francisco and The Crystal Ballroom in Portland. The chance to see Mac in such an intimate venue did not go unnoticed, selling out by the time most had even heard the announcement, much to […]
Keller Williams – Vape (ALBUM REVIEW)
[rating=8.00] Keller William’s Vape marks his twentieth album over a span of twenty-one years. Often referred to as a one man jam band, Keller has been heavily influenced by The Grateful Dead and played with The String Cheese Incident in the late 90’s culminating with the Keller Williams Incident release Breath. Vape features Keller with […]
Stromae – Crystal Ballroom, Portland, OR 4/7/15 (SHOW REVIEW)
Since his debut album, Cheese, was released in 2011, Belgian hip-hop artist Stromae has found huge success in Europe. His success in the U.S. has been slowed due to his songs being predominantly in the French language. Nonetheless, Stromae is starting to make ripples in the American music scene. In 2013 he released his hit […]
MilkDrive – Places You’ve Not Been (ALBUM REVIEW
[rating=7.00] Composed of multi-instrumentalists Brian Beken, Dennis Ludiker, Noah Jeffries and Jesse Dalton, Austin-based jammers MilkDrive have been nourishing their local bluegrass scene for a little while now. The group is known for swapping instruments and laying down hot rhythms with tight vocal harmonies. Beken, Ludiker and Jeffries met while competing in fiddle contests in […]