Music Blog: “Mp3”
It's another fresh batch of no-guilt digital musical goodness to send you to the weekend. Right-click away!
Jon Ragel's one-man act is busy working on a new full-length release and has been providing a blow by blow of sorts as of late, posting new (and maybe or maybe not fully completed) tracks online. Ladies and gentlemen, your sleepy afternoon just got woke the funk up.
We fire the long lost random five machine back up again with a batch of digital-musical goodness to send you into the weekend (including Ramona Falls, Beach House and more!)
Laura Gibson's video for her new album's title track is "Mary Poppins meets The Shining".
The Portland duo releases Both Lights this April 3rd on the Hometapes label. Here's the cover art, tracklist and first single from the first AU release in almost four years.
The singer of beautifully morose songs turned Fleet Foxes drummer announces his departure from the band, and a return to the "gaping maw of obscurity."
Portland artist Rachel Blumberg creates her first music video, an Eastern European-inspired piece of stop-motion animation.
We wrap up our holiday countdown with a modern day classic from The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl. "Fairytale of New York" holds an increasingly deserved place in the seasonal mixed bag that the holiday music canon.
One of the best tracks from YACHT's Shangri-La gets the spotlight in this minimalist video treatment from director Mitchell Davis. The band stars. Let's watch...
The veteran Seattle-based singer-songwriter returns early in 2012 with a new Richard Swift-produced record. Here's a first taste.
Mum's been the word on where the Portland singer-songwriter's next album-- now slated for an early 2012 release-- would land. Mum no longer! Hear the title track from the upcoming La Grande.
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