Casey Neill & The Norway Rats, 29 Apr 2006, Mighty Ruckus Festival, Bay Area Motor Club, San Francisco, CA setlist: Bluetar Road / We Are The City / Throw Me To The Dogs / Storyline / She Floated Away (Husker Du) / Lowground / Memory Against Forgetting / Raleigh & Spencer / It Won’t [...]

From this week’s Willamette Week:
Hush Records heroine Corrina Repp will be exploring uncharted waters when she releases her new album on Mark Kozelek’s independent label, Caldo Verde. Repp originally had been in talks to release the album on Sub Pop but grew impatient after discovering that the label wouldn’t be able to release the album, [...]

Let me just throw this out there: I am married. I have 3 children, including a 5-month old boy. For the purposes of this blog, this means that my nights out are few and far between. I am a huge fan of live music, but I can’t go out as much as I used to. [...]

Kristin Hersh is packing up the husband and kids and moving here to Stumptown!

Not only am I hoping for a KH weekly residency at the White Eagle, but I’m also hoping for entire albums influenced by living in our river-y town.

Kristin has finished recording a new solo album. It’s currently being mixed, by Trina Shoemaker.

“Gut [...]

It’s baseball season, and you know what that means: Dan Bern is on the road again; this time making his way across the midwest. For this tour, Dan is showcasing songs from his upcoming new cd and as an added treat he’ll be dusting off a ton of old forgotten fan favorites — you know [...]

Mondegreens from two newish college-rock singles:
If you could make an erotic porn
Just so you could be rich
Would you do it?
Flaming Lips - The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song
Don’t fall asleep with a Mormon
She’ll make you sweat in the water
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Phenomena
(I realized I had the Flaming Lips words wrong when I saw them live [...]