Music Blog Archive: July 2010

The first night of the 2010 PDX Pop Now! festival seemed to belong to bands announcing their arrivals: Tu Fawning, And And And, and AgesAndAges held personal coming out parties. See it here...

Your summer music festival of festivals begins in earnest tonight with PDX Pop Now! and the first of 3 days and 48 acts at Rotture. Blue Horns to Blue Cranes, Lewi Longmire to Luck-One, we'll be there for coverage here throughout the weekend. Read on...

We look ahead to the week with an eye on next weekend's PDX Pop Now! festival by featuring our recent session with Typhoon-- one of the bands helping to put a wrap on things at Rotture one week from tonight. Also tonight, new and recent releases from Menomena, Best Coast, Jesca Hoop, Wolf Parade, We Are Scientists, Phosphorescent and more. Join the conversation...

Performances from The Dead Weather and Harlem at the Crystal Ballroom, and Grand Archives, S and Casey Neill & the Norway Rats at Mississippi Studios (not to mention a number of fine locals elsewhere highlight tonight's live action around Portland. Plus, new music on the air from Ra Ra Riot, Menomena, and School of Seven Bells, as well as an in-studio visit with Michigan-based trio Breathe Owl Breathe. Join the conversation...

44 acts, 5 stages, and 3 days strong, the 12th annual Pickathon boasts one of its best line-ups ever. It's always a great time, and names like Dr. Dog, Langhorne Slim, Bonnie Prince Billy and Frazey Ford-- not to mention the festival's friendly, laid back vibe-- suggest no different this year. So how'd you like to go.....for FREE? Details within...

Folk redefined? Classical overlays from Newcastle & Polish America.

PDX Pop Now! offers up what is now an annual appetizer for their annual (and fast-approaching) festival tonight outside City Hall. The Andrew Oliver Quartet, Kelli Schaefer, Atole and the Nick Jaina Band is the line-up beginning at 5:30, rolling how PDX Pop Now! always rolls: live and free.

Arcade Fire, Maps and Atlases, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, the debut from Portland band Blue Giant and the PDX Pop Now! compilation -- these are the records we're been playing most on opbmusic. We post our weekly airplay list.

Now an "old man" himself, Neil Young plays Portland's Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall tonight as part of his solo Twisted Road tour. Here's a portrait of the artist as a young man...

It's your chance to win more tickets tonight-- this time to next weekend's Uprising at the Aladdin Theater featuring the Oregon ballet Theater, Weinland and Laura Gibson in collaboration. Tune in during the 8 o'clock hour for the email giveaway. Also tonight, Jamie Lidell plays in-studio for us from his new album Compass, and we'll look ahead to the week's live action, which includes an upstart Canadian by the name of Neil Young. Join the conversation...