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Sunday, November 4 Hello, November
Some big and intriguing names playing Portland in our weekly look ahead this week, perhaps none so now as Leslie Feist. The Canadian singer-songwriter, simply Feist to the music world, returns to Portland to play the Schnitzer Concert Hall on Tuesday night. She's fresh off of an impressive couple of performances last night on Saturday Night Live (quite a feat given the generally dead production that seems to go on with their musical guests), and has generally been "blowing up," as they say, all year long. In case you've somehow missed it (though you've likely heard from it in a TV ad or two), her latest is The Reminder.
Also this week, much ballyhooed (and deservedly so) Swede Jens Lekman hits town nearing the end of a relatively rare North American tour. "Witty" and "lovable" are thrown about like mad when discussions of Lekman come up, and his charm is, indeed, hard to miss (or ignore). His latest, Night Falls Over Kortedala, is full of strange but true tales that find him pining for a hairdresser and posing as a lesbian friend's boyfriend in order to fool her father. One imagines him dealing with childhood bullies in such a way that they ended up laughing at (and liking) him in spite of themselves-- it might be interesting to see if the effects would be at all similar on metalheads attending one of his shows. Speaking of which, it's Wednesday at the Someday Lounge.....metalheads welcome.
And that's hardly the end of it, with names like the Hold Steady (Monday, Crystal Ballroom), Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova (Tuesday, Crystal Ballroom), Erin McKeown (Wednesday, Doug Fir), Minus the Bear, Helio Sequence, and Grand Archives (Thursday, Crystal Ballroom), Suzanne Vega (Thursday, Aladdin Theater), the Long Winters' John Roderick (Friday, Doug Fir), and John Wesley Harding (Friday, Mississippi Studios), among others, all playing around town this week.
Comments:
On Sunday, November 4 at 10:34pm, todd said:
Hi Jeremy, there was an awesome indie dance song that was played last night (sat), but I checked the playlist and its not on it, so maybe it was at the tail end of the previous show, it was a dance tune with a boy and a girl switching singing “would you go home with a boy like me” etc… any idea who this was?? it was great! it played sometime between 8:30 and 10. Similar to postal service, of montreal, but fast dance beat, surely a chart topper…
On Sunday, November 4 at 11:24pm, jpetersen said:
Hi Todd,
It sounds good, I wish I knew what it was. It doesn't exactly sound like something that Afro-Pop Worldwide (the show on right before In House) would play, but I suppose it's possible. I've been trying to track down playlists for that episode, but no luck thus far. Let me know if you find it before I do.
On Sunday, November 4 at 11:35pm, Nicole said:
No luck for me yet with the "We Have the Facts" music yet. However, I have office hours tomorrow. Perhaps I will have the time then.
Please keep sending me great stuff until then. Even if it's recommendations. :)
Nice show tonight as usual. I'm liking the Jeff Tweedy cover of Dylan. Very cool. I really want to see that movie now.
On Sunday, November 4 at 11:51pm, tiffany said:
I hate to admit it, but at first I was a skeptic, but after listening tonight and checking out your blog and wonderful ability to list the precise minute each song is played, you have won me over. Great job! I look forward to listening more. Oh. And I love your words about DMV the musical. I think that more and more of those moments are quickly heading our way, which I agree is unfortunate. I too will take another Kenny Loggins over ruining my music by exposing it to the overly public sphere.
On Monday, November 5 at 0:09am, jpetersen said:
Well alright! So you know what I'm saying then about the Kenny Loggins and all of that-- if you've got any recent examples I'd love to hear them. I mean, I feel like I should be happy for the bands because I can only assume there's some sort of monetary gain for them, if not directly from the playing than at least from the random, few & far between convert who discovered Spoon while shopping for...I don't know, carpet? But I'm torn.
Thanks for listening (and reading).