Following a several weeks packed with awesome new albums, Portland’s seminal indie rock group Menomena adds their latest LP Moms to the group today. Moms is the first Menomena album without founding member Brent Knopf, who left to work on Ramona Falls. This leaves the duo of Danny Seim and Justin Harris. Their MusicFestNW 2012 performance in Portland demonstrated […]
Portland’s Unknown Mortal Orchestra will return with a follow-up to their 2011 self-titled LP in early 2013 via Jagjaguwar Records. The first track off that album was released today, titled “Swim and Sleep (Like a Shark)”. Stream it below, plus check out upcoming UMO tour dates with both Dirty Projectors and Grizzly Bear. Unknown Mortal […]
Pure Bathing Culture is the Portland project of former Vetiver members Daniel Hindman and Sarah Versprille. I caught their MFNW set in PDX’s The Old Church for some excellent, laid-back, breezy pop tunes. They’ve released a new video today for “Ivory Coast”, presumably off of their upcoming self-titled EP which is out 11/19 on Memphis Industries. […]
The past few weeks have offered a ridiculous amount of brand new awesome albums, ranging from the XX to Animal Collective to Grizzly Bear to Helio Sequence to David Byrne and St Vicent to….the list goes on, but I’ll shy up. Anyhow, we can now add Dinosaur Jr. to that list. Their new album I […]
Earlier this summer, we shared a new track called “YAY” from Zammuto’s new self-titled album. Zammuto is the project of Nick Zammuto, former member of the experimental group The Books. Anyhow, Pitchfork released a fascinating little documentary about Zammuto, his creative process, the farm he lives on in Vermont and his home-grown-food, sustainable lifestyle in Vermont. This […]