Are there any cool bands from Portland?

Or, better yet QUARTERFLASH and NU SHOOZ, both led by married couples!!!

He said "cool" bands.

I heard about this guy called Celesteville, too.

And there's a three piece just born recently containing:
Lana Rebel (ex Last Of The Juanitas)
Sara Lund (ex Unwound)
Kirk Branstetter (Trumans Water).

They seem promising.

jack.
cole.

i was thinkin' about moving there for a while.

M. Ward, Little Wings and Casiotone For The Painfully Alone have all returned to California.

As far as past bands, the best ever from Portland: THE WIPERS

great portland band, now defunct:
The Surf Maggots! (now in Durham as The Last Nerves)

portland band on the way up:
The Range Pigs

They seem promising.

-- donut bitch (do...) (webmail), May 28th, 2004 8:21 PM. (donut) (later) (link)

TELLME

THEY HAVE NO NAME THEY WROTE FOUR SONG WHO KNOWS WHAT WILL HAPPEN

...

Also, I forgot to mention Anne Eickelburg. Not sure if she's doing solo material or involved in anything artistically there right now and if so, what it is, but her living in Portland is the main reason (I'm guessing) I get to see the Fellers do their first show in years in a few weeks. So she should get mad props.

And for the last time: stockholm cindy, are you from/in Stockholm? or what.

stephen morris: Chill.

i am not.

Gygax! is also right -- the best band ever formed and having existed in Portland is the Wipers

As for the Decemberists -- I'd rather drink myself to sleep in a snow drift.

Also, DESTROY the Portland noise scene. Thank god the Yellow Swans are moving to SF. Please take the Monitor Bats, too. Thanx!

Plus: holy crap, Anne Eickelberg lives here now? Somebody MUST START A BAND WITH HER. I mean, I'd volunteer.

yes, the job market is no good in portland, you could get a graveyard shift at the plaid maybe, and really, it's more of an inflated town than a real city. also, it has the highest # of strip clubs per capita

Thanksgiving plays a lot around here, so I think this is correct.

Yes, I have heard that TJO is living in Portland.
-- ianinportland (ia...), March 14th, 2005.

Ian is right.

Other cool bands so far unmentioned:

Blitzen Trapper
Menomenon
Tea for Julie
Empty Set
The Joggers
The Minders
Viva Voce
Mirah
Kind of like Spitting

And don't forget Tommy Tutone and the Kingsmen!

Nope not a single one.

Not even these guys?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WUcKgOav0c

^ Thank you, Jesus.

there are way too many english majors reviewing records.
― gygax! (gygax!)

probably true

Nope.

Pierced Arrows are from Clackamas, which is close.

See also Valet, Grails etc., Quasi, Evolutionary Jass Band, and White Rainbow.

Evolutionary Jass Band so good when on

Portland, OR has a band called Point Line Plane who I've heard are good, but can't confirm -- do you all know?

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Friday, May 28, 2004 12:20 PM (5 years ago)

I'm not so into Point Line Plane, but I know others who think they're great.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, May 28, 2004 1:18 PM (5 years ago)"

Ha, my old band. We were pretty great but then my bandmate decided to grow a beard and play psych/folk with his wife :(

Anyway, a list of current faves here:

Rollerball
SubArachnoid Space
Thrones
Black Elk
Agalloch
Danava
Rabbits
Trees
Silentist
Purple Rhinestone Eagle
Dude Lord
Magick Daggers
Lost Lockets
Sedan
Stovokor
Jonny X & the Groadies
Nice Nice
Fist Fite
Trawler Bycatch
Mongoloid Village
Dragging an Ox Through Water
Hot Victory

I could go on and on... (and that's leaving a ton of luminaries off the list like Grails & Thermals & shit like that).

Black Elk are the best band from pdx bar none

I mean listen to "eyebone" -- good shit

Oh, Dragging An Ox Through Water are really good!

(Is really good? I saw him and it was solo.)

I searched and I can't believe there is no thread for Black Elk. That band is fucking great. I'm sure there are a few ilxors who like this band :(

ooh yeah Nice Nice are great, forgot about them.

there are way too many english majors reviewing records.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEC3X4LJKlw&feature=player_embedded

Does Elliott Smith count?

Magick Daggers are some of the folks from Get Hustle, right?

anyone heard Soft Metals? Italo/synth/wave kinda stuff, sounds great!

http://www.myspace.com/softmetals

i'm slightly surprised to hear this sort of music coming from portland, it's cool.

italians do it better is based in portland, no?

Short answer to this question is "no".

Rev I'd be into hearing the long one (no troll)

Mostly cause I think there's a lot of great stuff here from a lot of different scenes even if I don't often engage w/a lot of it

Yeah, Reverend, you should check out some of the music festivals this summer like PDX Pop Now or the NW music fest. There are so many bands in PDX, I'm sure there are at least a few that you would dig.

the long one has me whining at length about issues of represention and how soulcrushingly whitebread and indie this damn town is and I will spare you it

anyway, I was being facetious

IDIB is based in New Jersey. Glass Candy is from Portland however.

"soulcrushingly whitebread and indie" is my impression of PDX too, but at least now there is a band or two that I'd actually care to listen to.

Grouper has not been mentioned yet, and deserves a nod.
Also, psych band Eternal Tapestry are based there too

Yeah, Portland just isn't the hip hop capital everyone makes it out to be.

WIPERS.

that's it.

on the real side, my favorite portland musician =

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsrIfyZS0AM

Miracles Club is a great new-ish acid house-ish act featuring Honey Owens from Nudge & Valet... great stuff.

recently had the pleasure of finding Shallow Seas (http://www.myspace.com/shallowseas ) and was quite impressed. indie rawk of a higher order. really dig the tracks they have up on their page, 'slow to the grave' is a current favorite.

being relatively new to portland, i'm uncertain what other bands they've been a part of, if any, but would love to find out.

yacht
starfucker
copy
explode into colors

i was really disappointed with the pdx music scene when i was there. whitebread and indie to be sure, but also insular and kinda half-assed for it. um ... smegma is the best portland band however. also the chromatics! i was surprised to find that they are a pdx band. second grouper. the forkner/ownes axis of power turns out some good stuff but also a lot of meandering wash. DESTROY: adrian oragne

pdx music has this childlike quality that reflects the city's status as a dead-end hispter never-never land for 35 year olds who don't want to be like their dad

best song to ever come out of portland by several country miles: louie louie

pshrbrn: did you listen to the soft metals tracks? kinda similar to miracles club, but better to my ears.

I love Explode Into Colors. They're groovy.
j

Has anybody HEARD or SEEN the Pink Snowflakes ??? They are by far one of the best
bands portland has as far as spirit and creativity! psychedelic, fun and loud as hell!

As a veritable grandfather in this scene (or at least creepy uncle), I am trying not to say much.

But anyone that thinks it's all indie rock here is missing out on a huge and under-heralded punk/metal/noise/experimental scene that lurks beneath the rain-soaked streets.

Best new band in town is called Wizard Rifle. Two young guys on guitar & drums making a helluva racket and sometimes wearing wings and horns.

myspace.com/wizardrifle

Any pdx'ers go see the Karp tribute show "Karp Lives" last tuesday? Fist Fite, Lord Dying, Black Elk, Rapids, and Thrones were covering songs apparently. I would have liked to been there

p bummed to have been out of town fr that

No.

i for one would like to know who Nate's old bandmate was that grew a beard and played psych/folk w/ his wife.

Info Reggie at one point says he was born in Texas, and he comes from a fairly well-to-do family, although certainly nowhere near the level of Veronica Lodge's. His father Reginald "Ricky" Mantle Jr. owns a newspaper-publishing company with varying names, one of which is The Riverdale Gazette. Reggie seems to show journalistic aspirations himself, often working as the editor of the high school paper. He's quick to use the term "freedom of the press" to defend controversial or inflammatory articles. His mother's name is unknown.

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