Music
A Brief History of the Music Industry over the Last 10 Years
The old broken Ideas For Dozens
Recently, my college music professor, David Schiff, came to me to get my perspective on the subject of a class he’s putting together for this coming semester covering music from 1968 to the present. After thinking about the topic for a little while I had an amazing realization: the kids taking the class were all […]
White Fang
KmikeyM
Full Disclosure: I have terrible taste in music. Before I moved to Portland I had a collection of CDs that came to be referred to as my “Book of Shame”. It was full of soundtracks and top 40 mixed with the odd and unlistenable (whale songs and train recordings for example). I am routinely (and […]
My PDX Pop Now! 2007 Liveblog
The old broken Ideas For Dozens
This past weekend was the fourth annual PDX Pop Now! free all-ages festival of Portland music. I’ve been on the board of PDX Pop since it’s inception and I feel pretty confident saying that this was the most successful year we’ve ever had. We moved the fest to a new venue, Audio Cinema, directly under […]
I’m mp3 Blogging on Pampelmoose
The old broken Ideas For Dozens
So, today I’m officially an mp3 blogger. I just published my first post for Pampelmoose, a Portland-based record label, management company, and music blog run by the legendary British punker, and recent Portland transplant, Dave Allen. Dave’s resume is pretty jaw-dropping, including, amongst other things, being the bassist for Gang of Four and a stint […]
Another Red Day: Largehearted Goat Follow-Up
The old broken Ideas For Dozens
Well, I’m proud to say that because of me today was red: If you mouseover that Goat, you’ll see that the most recent edition of Shorties quoted at length from my post introducing Largehearted Goat. Since I mentioned The Mountain Goats in there it was the quote itself which qualified that Shorties post for a […]
Largehearted Goat?
The old broken Ideas For Dozens
Here’s something ridiculous. Like many people who find themselves both music- and blog-inclined, I read Largeheared Boy with some regularity. It’s amongst the more influential and more professional members of the mp3-blogosphere, replacing the conventional diary-driven individual record and song responses with regular daily postings that cover a wide swath of indie culture from book […]
Blogging the Sh*t Out of PDX Pop Now! 2006
The old broken Ideas For Dozens
One of the many things that keeps me from writing more around here is the work I do on PDX Pop Now!, a free all-ages three day Portland music festival I helped found with a group of other Portland musicians and music fans three years ago. That’s why it was particularly satisfying this year that […]