Shwood Mixtape #3 is here! Featuring 10 more Portland bands that we love, there’s a little bit of something for everybody here: Blouse massages your 80’s post-punk nostalgia, AgesandAges lilts through your best summer day, and Sun Angle beats down the door with their frantic tropicalia. As always, you should feel free to look these […]
We ventured out to Forest Grove, OR with rapidly-up-and-coming Portland band Radiation City to visit the botanical garden that they help maintain when not on tour. Surrounded by budding rhododendrons, 30-year old bonsai, and the glow of a rare sunny winter day, Cameron, Lizzy and Matt discuss their personal investment in the garden, their work-music-life […]
Excellent Portland indie-folk band Y La Bamba‘s new record “Court the Storm” is comes out February 28th on Tender Loving Empire. Until then, check out this video or listen to the whole album streaming over at NPR’s website.
We’re very proud to bring you the second installation of Shwood Mixtapes. Featuring some incredible bands that also call Portland home, this compilation cuts across Stumptown’s diverse independent music scene both in terms of genre and renown. Here, you’ll find Radiation City’s sprawling wall of guitars, Nurses’ echoing percussive pop, Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s subtle psychedelia, […]
Bud and Jon from Portland-based experimental-pop band AAN introduced us to the field by the freeway on Mississippi Avenue’s less traveled south end. A serene, grassy field that abruptly runs into I-5, Bud used to frequent this chaotically beautiful place to reflect on the day, find inspiration, or just watch the cars go by. weareaan.com […]
