Hello Dear Readers,I had to work all day at work again. So dumb. Anyway there is a lot of good stuff happening tonight. Last night I get real lazy and didn't go to any shows but went to last Thursday instead. And guess what I saw. Some music. In particular I want to say that Nicoluminous was awesome. He is beat boxer/really good freestyler. He had a...
Friday, July 31, 2009
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Ben Meyercord's Live Music Picks for July 30th
Hello Dear Readers,I actually had to work today. Suck. I wanted to post this stuff earlier. Whoops.Thursday, July 30thBerbati's is having First Fest: Swim Swam Swum, Carcrashlander, Thee Headliners, Petracovich, Ocean Age and Wishyunu. That's a lot of cool bands for not a whole lot of moneys. Some of these bands I have been meaning to check out....
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Ben Meyercord's Live Music Picks for July 29th
Hello Dear Readers,It is soooo hot. Here are the shows for today.Wednesday, July 29thBerbati's is having the last Wednesday Restaurant Residency with Nucular Aminals. I missed their set at PDX Pop Now!, but I heard that it was pretty good. This is kind of like the festival. I mean except that it is not all ages. And there is only one other band,...
Ben Meyercord's Live Music Picks for July 29th
Hello Dear Readers,It is soooo hot. Here are the shows for today.Wednesday, July 29thBerbati's is having the last Wednesday Restaurant Residency with Nucular Aminals. I missed their set at PDX Pop Now!, but I heard that it was pretty good. This is kind of like the festival. I mean except that it is not all ages. And there is only one other band,...
Monday, July 27, 2009
Ben Meyercord's Live Music Picks for July 27th and 28th
Hello Dear Readers,Good lord did I see a lot of music last Weekend. PDX Pop Now! is always a good time to be Ben Meyercord. I get to see a bunch of music I love or have been meaning to check out and sometimes even some music that I have never heard of. But Over all my highlights are as follows: Chamber of Commerce (Blue Cranes and Paxselin Quartet's...
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Animal Farm @ PDX-POP NOW '09.
Gonna keep it short and sweet.I had fun @ the Animal Farm set. Although I did not wave my hands in the air, because I just didn't care.A lot of people made some snide comments about the only hip-hop act of the day. Whatever though, I'm used to that. Which led me to leave early despite Soul Plane (Unrated Mile High Edition) playing on the dance party...
Friday, July 24, 2009
We claim this town's music scene for baby formula
So we've all heard about the child prodigy, and the crazy scheme where the parent has the kid smear some finger paint around then sells it as modern art- this is not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about how awesome my daughter Amelia is going to grow up to be, living in Portland with its diversely wonderful music scene...
Ben Meyercord's Live Music Picks for July 24th to July 26th
Hello Dear Readers,Holy Crap Guys! My favorite weekend of the year has arrived. Glorious glorious PDX Pop NOW! 2009 will begin by the end of tonight. There are other shows happening this weekend, but I wouldn't bank on my being at them. However, in the spirit of this blog's usually decent coverage, I will list them.Friday, July 24rdJack Pot Records...
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Ben Meyercord's Live Music Picks for July 21st and 22nd
Hello Dear ReadersWednesday is a pretty good day. It is generally my "Saturday". The new Willamette Week comes out. I sleep in until noon or whatever. For the rest of you guys it is "hump day". The rest of the week is down hill from here, right? Good times. And to make things even better, there are shows to got to. Here is what is looking good...
Monday, July 20, 2009
What's a Portland hipster?
From the site Portland Hipster: DEFINTION OF HIPSTER? Webster's definition: Hip-ster (-ster) n. [Slang] 1. a hip person, esp. a devote of modern jazz 2. same as BEATNIK: a term of the 1950's and early 1960's: cf. HIPPIE Wikepedias definition: Those individuals devoted to retro fashions, independent...
Ben Meyercord's Live Music Picks for July 20th and 21st
Hello Dear Readers,How's it hanging? Is that an inapproprate question? Perhaps. Anyway, last night I finally got to see Justin Power play. He was really good. He plays on an interesting stringed instrument. Is it a bass? Is it a guitar? It is actually somewhere in between. It is a bass with some guitar strings and some bass strings mostly capoed. It...
MCA has a tumor
MCA talks about treatment and apologizes for canceling shows:subscribe to The Beastie Boy's YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/BeastieBoysphoto from http://www.portroids.c...
Turn this thing around, I'm going home. Lozen show preview 8/5
Now, not to date myself, if it isn't already painfully obvious that I am old and uncool, but I went to high school in the first half of the nineties. This was good for me in many respects, as I had moved from a small town in the rural south and shed my school brain image by growing very long hair and developing a habit of inappropriately...
Sunday, July 19, 2009
best mash-up ever?
You be the judge! I vote yes.Vote on one more thing. Notice the "reaction buttons" at the bottom of our posts. Is there one you want to add? Do you like one of them? Do we get rid of any of th...
Saturday, July 18, 2009
CD Review : (Destroy) Nate Allen Double CD - Perfect Recipe For A Smile\Don't Let This Smile Fool You
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Ben Meyercord's Live Muisc Picks for July 18th and 19th
Hello Dear Readers,I want to remind people that I sometimes (often?) miss shows in my listings. For Example, I meant to mention that Y La Bamba played on KPSU yesterday. Whoops. Right after we played a girl who plays under the name Dusty Highway played. She had our friend James (the drummer from Nurses) with her so both Luz Elena and I stayed to...
Friday, July 17, 2009
Kid Tyger's Photo/Video Journalism: PDX Pop Now! kick off at City Hall.
This is what it looked like when I first got there.Seriously. Kind of looks familiar. Y La Bamba had just finished their soundcheck and I believe the drummer had to re-park his vehicle prior to the full set starting, so I decided to roll down the block for a quick beer and some air-conditioning as a brief respite from the heat.Indeed....
Ben Meyercord's Live Music Picks for July 17th
Hello Dear Readers,Yesterday at City Hall was fun. I thought all the bands were great. I want to thank St. Goldie and Kid Tyger for their posts. Anyway, here are some musical events you might be into.Friday, July 17thDunes is having show with Breakfast Mountain, Serious Business and Lactacious. ALl of these groups make awesome electronic music and...
Goldie's Photo Journalism: PDX Pop Now! kick off at City Hall
This is what it looked like when I first got there.I always get Casey Kasem, Casey Jarmen and Cary Clarke mixed up.Lynn is quoted as saying that there were roughly 200 people watching Y La BambaSound guy! Sounded great!These kids came directly from target practice. He can't even hear that shoe!Ben was there.all photo's from...
PDX-POP @ City Hall
In case you missed it, the PDX-POP kickoff at City Hall was a blast. I'm currently uploading videos and will have a full report posted tomorrow, but in the meantime here are some pictures I took. First the Glisan bus poetry and the rest at the actual event....Oddly didn't snap any YACHT photos as I was strictly capturing video...
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Ben Meyercord's Live Music Picks for July 16th
Hello Dear Readers,It is so nice out today. Nothing goes better with nice weather is live music. And living in the area of Portland, there is no shortage of that. Take for example this seeming ordinary Thursday we have the following shows:Thursday, July 16PDX Pop Now! 2009 is hosting a show at City Hall with YACHT, Point Juncture, WA and Y la Bamba....
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