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Run on Sentence

Run on Phrase is the music byline employed by Portland, OR-based singer/songwriter Dustin Hamman, whose lo fi indie folk design has drawn evaluations to Neutral Dairy Resort, Devendra Banhart, and Bon Iver, amongst others. By using a perpetually revolving cast of music artists borrowed from regional rings like Loch Lomond, …

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Horse Feathers

An indie folk music group from Portland, Oregon, Equine Feathers includes singer/songwriter Justin Ringle (classical guitar, vocals, percussion) and a rotating ensemble of supporting music artists, including multi-instrumentalist Peter Broderick and many string players. Ringle was raised in Idaho and performed in a number of short-lived indie rock and roll …

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Little Beirut

Not to end up being confused with Zach Condon’s Eastern European-influenced indie collective Beirut, Small Beirut certainly are a quartet from Portland, OR, who took their name from a nickname bestowed on the city simply by former leader George Herbert Walker Bush after protestors disrupted a presidential image opportunity even …

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Supernaut

Portland’s Supernaut had been formed in late 2004 by vocalist/guitarist Scott Chapin, a couple of years following the dissolution of his previous music group, the Daylights, who have been together seven years and found small MTV achievement. He installed 1st with drummer Mike “Basil” Ternyik (ex-Sweaty Nipples) and, following a …

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Wet Confetti

Like a trio that has two guys taking part in drums and acoustic guitar behind a waifish Asian bass-playing frontwoman, Wet Confetti talk about a whole lot visually and musically with Blonde Redhead. Likewise, they are a difficult music group to categorize, fitted in to the post-punk genre due to …

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Blue Cranes

Produced in Portland, Oregon in 2004, Blue Cranes certainly are a creative jazz group using a sometimes prominent indie rock and roll sensibility, expressed not merely in the band’s accept of rock and roll rhythms and keyboard voicings however in the melodic, songlike themes often performed by saxophonists Reed Wallsmith …

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