There is more to Bend than beautiful sights and crippling unemployment.

The folks behind Visit Bend want you to bring your family to their city, and they even made this neat little video that just so happens to feature a tune from Portland (not Bend) artists Mimicking Birds. “Burning Stars” is off the band’s self-titled debut, which was released on Isaac Brock’s Glacial Pace imprint last year.

Outsourcing your musical needs to another city can’t be ideal, but when Matisyahu and some woman from Danity Kane are your most famous musical residents, it’s for the best.

End Hits: Matisyahu Mouse.

Ezra Ace Caraeff is the former Music Editor for the Mercury, and spent nearly a third of his life working at the paper. More importantly, he is the owner of Olive, the Mercury’s unofficial office dog....