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Starting out beneath the head-turning moniker Starfucker, STRFKR are an indie pop/indie electro group made up of Sexton Blake’s Josh Hodges, Junkface’s Ryan Bjornstad, and Mr. Fredrick’s Shawn Glassford. After key songwriter Hodges came back to Portland, Oregon carrying out a four-year stint in NEW YORK, he released two Sexton …

Seattle-based art rock-band Obscured by Clouds took their name from Red Floyd’s 1972 album from the same name, and their sound also shows the spacy, electronic-induced psychedelia of this era — but with contemporary sound reinforcements and technical digital improvements. William Weikart may be the human brain trust and creator …

However the Builders as well as the Butchers formed in Portland through the middle-2000s, the band’s hybrid of folk, country, and twangy rock and roll evokes the fantastic Depression a lot more than the contemporary Northwest. The group’s origins date back again to fall 2003, when frontman Ryan Sollee relocated …

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 …

Era Unleashed is to teens and twentysomethings what Enthusiasm is to university students. Founded by Doug and Donna Lasit in 1993 as a little youngsters event in Portland, Oregon, the function grew from a moderate gathering inside a college gymnasium to two independent conferences hosting a lot more than 8,000 …

Since her aunt trained racehorses, ethereal singer/songwriter Heather Duby once imagined being truly a jockey when she was raised. But just like a lot of kids from the ’70s, she found out the Remedy and Joy Department as an adolescent. Duby started composing songs; she focused on melody and discovered …

b. 18 March 1893, USA, d. 18 March 1971, Paramus, NJ, USA. Olsen began his initial dance music group in Portland, Oregon, USA, in 1917. A six-piece group, this early combo included Wilbur Johnson, who in those days travelled beneath the billing ‘the globe’s just mellophone soloist’, violinist Herman Kanin, …

Located in Portland, OR, and made up of vocalist Ian Fike, guitarists Danny Harbold and Brian Blade, bassist Cam Bledsoe, and drummer Aaron Marsh, It Prevails stick to in the melodic metalcore footsteps of Shai Hulud, Killswitch Employ, and other rings of their ilk. After touring the U.S. Western world …

Portland, OR power trio Middian was founded in 2005 by vocalist and guitarist Mike Scheidt, when his previous music concern, YOB, collapsed after releasing four albums of often acclaimed, epic-trance steel. Faced with your choice to either re-staff YOB with brand-new players (bassist Isamu Sato and drummer Travis Foster having …

Saxophonist Jon Raskin was created in 1954 in Heppner, OR. He examined structure with Dr. Barney Childs and Allaudin Mathieu and saxophone with John Handy, and in the ’70s, helped discovered San Francisco’s substitute art areas the Blue Dolphin as well as the Plantation. Raskin was music movie director from …