• Yeah, this makes us feel a little old: The June 27 show at the Port City Music Hall will be a 20th anniversary show for TWISTED ROOTS. SUN GODS IN EXILE (fresh off a release show for their debut album) and SIDECAR RADIO open, and there's word that original TR bassist NEIL COLLINS will sit in for a few songs.
• The SPENCER AND THE SCHOOL SPIRIT MAFIA album will be out before July's over.
• DILLY DILLY's talking about an online release date for Of Art and Intention, her first full-length, of June 21. Sounds like it'll be free, with donations optional.
• The CAMBIATA are over. They'll play their last show July 10. This is a major bummer for the "Sibilance" staff. Expect a number of ramped-up side projects in quick fashion, though, which could be really great, akin to the breakups/hiatuses of CERBERUS SHOAL and RUSTIC OVERTONES.
• Folk-core duo ARBOREA's June 27 show at SPACE with MARIEE SIOUX, SONDRA SUN-ODEON, and DEAREST will celebrate the release of Leaves of Life, a collection of indie-folk tracks that has been curated and produced by Arborea's BUCK CURRAN and features other local types like MICAH BLUE SMALDONE, CURSILLISTAS, and BIG BLOOD, along with well-knowns like DEVENDRA BANHART.
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Gypsy Tailwind have been a slow build. Though Halo Sessions was one of the best local albums of 2008, it seems no one really heard it until 2009, thanks largely to the radio success of "So Lonely," a single whose melancholy bounce was heartbreakingly honest: "I'll tell you a secret: I drank myself to sleep last night."
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First things first: Neko Case is the complete package, an unmitigated bombshell (gorgeous, wry, self-effacing) with a singular artistic vision (country/folk songs so heavy on metaphor and animistic and obscure mythological references that you could — and should — unpack them for months) and a voice like an air-raid siren.
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The Portland Phoenix launched in 1999, just as the Portland music scene was turning.
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As almost always seems to be the case, I have to start the "fall preview" by detailing this upcoming weekend, which promises to be one of the most active of the year.
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