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Howe Gelb is touring through the Northwest this weekend, don’t miss him.

This week marks the return of Howe Gelb to the West Coast. Spending time with us in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Salem, Cottage Grove, Portland, and Seattle. Singing new songs from The Coincidentalist, which is Howe’s debut release with the esteemed New West Records (who are definitely having a great end of year for releases). […]

Fruit Bats to play final show in Portland this weekend. See them one last time!

The news came out earlier this week in the form of an open letter to the Fruit Bats fan community. Principal songwriter and Mr. Fruit Bat himself, Eric D. Johnson let us all know that this is officially it for Fruit Bats… BUT, there will be plenty more to come from Eric in the near […]

Fond Memories… The Avett Brothers – November Blue from Pickathon 2006

The year was 2006, and at that time much of the world had yet to come across this famed band of brothers from Concord, North Carolina. I can honestly remember it like this happened last week… We were in the early phase of booking the 2006 festival and this band came out of nowhere and […]

THEESatisfaction return to Portland this Friday.. revisit their Bunny Glade Session from Pickathon 2012

Stas and Cat of THEESatisfaction. grace us with sweet soulful sounds straight out of Seattle… an amazing combination of rap and soul. Watch the Bunny Glade Sessions with KEXP as they gives us acapella versions of Sista Ya Been On My Mind & Enchantress. And… catch their return to Portland this Friday (11/8) at the […]

Lake Street Dive return to Portland this Friday!

Pickathon alum and fan-favorites Lake Street Dive will be playing the Doug Fir this Friday, Nov 1st. While advance tickets have been sold out for quite a while, we have it on good authority that there will be a handful of tickets available at the door. Price is $15 and you can bet this will […]

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