It doesn’t take much for CAAMP to make a huge sound. Evan Westfall’s banjo, and Taylor Meier’s booming, raspy voice have been filling rooms since 2013. The childhood friends began putting together songs in Athens, Ohio. Propelled by encouragement from their fans they’ve added the extra (so extra) guitars and harmonies of Matt Vinson, and […]

A queer, indigenous artist from Washington, now living in Portland, Black Belt Eagle Scout’s Katherine Paul crafts aching bedroom pop with a rock n’ roll bend. Growing up just outside of Anacortes at the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community reservation, Paul combines influences from her culture with the Riot Grrrl and grunge she discovered as a […]

Join us for our FINAL DAY of this years Pickathon… Tickets are limited and selling fast – don’t wait! First of all, Nathaniel Rateliff and a rare folk band set headlining the Woods Stage, pulling from the pre- Night Sweats catalog! Mandolin Orange return for their fourth Pickathon and first time headlining the Mt. Hood […]

Mdou Moctar’s Transcendental, Psychedelic Blues, And Portland Connection Mdou Moctar‘s fiery guitar playing –an electrified, rarified, version of Tuareg traditional wedding music– made him popular in North Africa’s Sahel region. As a child in Northern Niger, he built his own guitar, and taught himself to play. After the release of his first album in 2008, […]

Let me tell you a little about Nathaniel Rateliff at Pickathon… The truth is, our conversations go back to 2011, which as we now know, things never worked out to have them on the lineup… Why? The simple answer is that we were being poor listeners, so much that it almost feels revealing to write […]