Before the White Stripes and the Black Keys, there was a time in indie-rock when two-piece rock bands were an anomaly. And now with backing tracks and loop pedals, most rock duos these days can create a sound that suggests a bigger outfit. Not so with Portland’s Quasi. When the duo started…
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Handsome Hawk’s Horrorween welcomed the Halloween party season with a night of psychobilly featuring with the Koffin Kats, Hayride to Hell and The Memphis City Murder Men at the Blank Club.
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Sean McCourt on September 3, 2013
Coupling a wide variety of influences, sounds and styles out of his musical roundhouse, Wayne “The Train” Hancock has barreled across stages for nearly 20 years now.
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Jonny Manak has always been a busy guy. It used to be that in addition to fronting his own group, Jonny Manak and the Depressives, he was playing in every other local punk rock band (Odd Numbers, Texas Thieves, the Forgotten to name a few), and would play whatever instrument they needed…
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Huntington Beach punk rockers Guttermouth got their start 25 years ago, penning some of the funniest, most sarcastic, foul-mouthed punk rock songs ever written. Today, they are doing pretty much the exact same thing. Their website says it all: “10 Albums later…we’re still punk”. The band plays the Blank Club on July…
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Sisters Jennifer and Jessica Clavin have played music together for a long time, but only with the formation of their new group Bleached in late 2010 have they taken songwriting seriously.
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Aaron Carnes on March 13, 2013
Milestones for rock venues and nightclubs would be better measured in dog years. It seems that each year is elongated by constant battles: noise complaints, bitchy artists, technical failures, unruly patrons and nights that, for whatever reason, are utter failures.
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This past month has been was busy for local musician Anya Kvitka and her band Anya and the Get Down. After talking with different record labels—indie and major—she was asked to do a private showcase for Red Bull Records, where she and her band played an hour set to about 40 people,…
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Brandon Roos on January 22, 2013
Kyle Gass describes Tenacious D, his comedic group with actor Jack Black, as a slow-moving dinosaur: “We just plod along, but we’re not always that busy.” Though their mission is to single-handedly save rock & roll, such grand steps take time. To fulfill his need to continue making music between steps, Gass…
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Even if the Supersuckers aren’t the greatest rock & roll band ever—a claim they made with their 1999 greatest-hits collection—they shouldn’t be docked just for indulging in some overheated hype. The “greatest hits” album, covering the band’s years on SubPop, from 1988 to 1999, is funny considering that the Supersuckers didn’t really…
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