MFNW is entering its tenth year as Portland, Oregon's largest and most successful music festival. Willamette Week teams up with music professionals from the local, regional and national music scene to curate a multi-venue festival with bands from indie, hip hop and punk backgrounds.
Incase wants to give you free stuff! Incase and MFNW want to give you Incase gear, free wristbands to Musiåcfest NW, tickets to see Portland’s premiere screening of Mogwai’s Burning and a couple of Mogwai Burning dvd’s. Share our post on facebook or retweet us on twitter for your chance to win some of these great prizes! MusicfestNW takes place September 8-12 and features The National, The Decemberists and many more. Find out more here.
The Walkmen play at the Levi’s Pioneer Stage on Pioneer Courthouse Square at MusicfestNW on Sunday, September 12, with The National, The Helio Sequence and Talkdemonic. Entry with MusicfestNW wristband or $32 advance ticket fromTicketswest. Doors open at 3:00 pm.
Nashville’s Jeff the Brotherhood has been doing its mutant pop thing since 2001, but the duo’s habit-forming, genre-bending jams flew under the radar until fairly recently. Brothers Jake and Jamin Orrall—Jeff’s not here, maaan—served time in the short-lived sensation Be Your Own Pet, and they’ve released a goodly number of CD-Rs and cassettes through their own Infinity Cat imprint. But it was last year’s Heavy Days that finally pricked everyone’s ears.
A 30-minute tour of pretty much every good thing that’s happened to rock in the past 40 years, Heavy Days swings from stoner riffage to pop-punk sweetness to yelpy dissonance and back again, sometimes in a single song.
Jake jokes that he shares a “telepathic communication system” with his brother, which might hold more truth than he knows—it’s hard to imagine two guys so skillfully cherry-picking pop’s past without some mystical access to each other’s pleasure centers.
At the very least, they’ve been raiding from each other’s record collections, those dusty stratifications starring Nirvana, the Wipers, the Ramones, Thin Lizzy, Jay Reatard and Fu Manchu. Weird list, you say? Well, the Orrall brothers are so damn dialed in that they manage to synthesize those bands’ trademark sounds into pharmaceutical-grade nuggets.
Cold Cave are an experimental electronic pop group from Philadelphia and New York City who make melodic synthscapes with jackhammer beats. They acknowledge the dark roots of synthesizer music as well as its potential for making the brightest pop with their hard songs celebrating the contradictory beauty of the human condition…Watch More
Nike Sportswear and MusicfestNW are once again teaming up for a series of shows during this year’s festival. The Sneak & Destroy series features 6 bands over the course of 2 days at the Wonder Ballroom. First, on Thursday, Sept. 9 see Ra Ra Riot, Phantogram, and Washed Out. Then on Friday, Sept. 10 the series continues with Black Lips, Surfer Blood and Male Bonding. All this great music is brought to you for FREE by Nike Sportswear and MusicfestNW. Entry is on a first come first serve basis. Just show up with your MusicfestNW wristband or FREE Nike Sportswear Sneak & Destroypass (given away at Jackpot Records on the day of each show).
NPR Music’s First Listen of Lisbon is up on the site right now. Get an exclusive preview of the new album before it hits stores this September.
