Andrew Kuykendall THE BREEDERS Last splashers. In case there was any question, the Breeders are fully, definitely back. After revisiting Last Splash last year for its 20th anniversary, the Boston/Dayton band is back in business with new songs and a new tour. And said tour is bringing them to the Wonder Ballroom next week, for […]
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Win Tickets to Strand of Oaks
Strand of Oaks‘ “Shut In” is one of my favorite songs in a long time, and the album it comes from, the yearning, astonishing HEAL is one of the most wrenching (and best) albums of the year. Basically, I’m hear to tell you that Strand of Oaks—the recording alter ego of Timothy Showalter—is really, really […]
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Win Tickets to AKA at the Burgundy Wildcat!
It’s the AKA fest! Next Saturday, 14 Portland bands will be taking over the Vancouver Red Lion’s Quay Bar, playing from 6 pm until the wee hours. What bands, you ask? Well, there’s the rub: Almost all the bands are performing under aliases, and we’re not at liberty to divulge their names. You, however, are […]
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Win Tickets to Hamilton Leithauser
LEFT TO RIGHT: Leithauser, leitweight. You probably best know Hamilton Leithauser from his tenure in New York band the Walkmen, and now he’s touring on the back of his first solo album, Black Hours. HamLeit, as I’ve taken to calling him over the course of typing out this blog post, will be hitting the Doug […]
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Win Tickets to Genders at the Doug Fir
Shannon Wolf Lovely Portland band Genders left on their summer mini-tour with Athens’ band New Madrid earlier this week, and they’re already down one van. (This band does not have good luck with tour vans.) They’ll be returning to their home turf on Friday, August 1 for a show at the Doug Fir, and we’re […]
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Come Check Out Portland’s Answer to the Ultimate Urban Bike Tonight
As we mentioned in March, Oregon Manifest has returned after a years-long hiatus. Back in 2011, the competition produced more than 30 entrants, all with their own takes on the most bad-ass urban utility bike imaginable—a bike with the blingy bells and convenient whistles that could inspire fence-sitting car commuters to tumble off that stubborn […]
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Win Tickets to Slint
Hey, who are these guys? Well, just imagine them in black and white (with one extra member), swimming in a Kentucky quarry. Hey, that’s Slint! The Louisville band has reformed sporadically over the past few years, but on the heels of Lance Bangs’ documentary Breadcrumb Trail, Slint is coming to Portland to play an all-ages […]
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Win Tickets to Natural Child
Felipe Hernandez Nashville’s Natural Child called their new album Dancin’ with Wolves, and if that excellently placed apostrophe doesn’t make you fall in love, check this: Yep, they’re pretty great. And we’re giving away a pair of tickets to see ’em at Mississippi Studios on July 16! Set that browser to End Hits, and get […]
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Ticket Giveaway
Mary Ellen Matthews Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers hit the Moda Center on Tuesday, August 12, and it will be a rock concert of the finest order. You don’t want to miss it. And we’re giving away two pairs of tickets to the show! Yeah. You’ll want to get over to End Hits lickety-split.
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Win Tickets to S. Carey
Mister Sean Carey of Wisconsin—that’s S. Carey to you—is known for his Bon Iver connections, of course, but he’s got a deep and fulfilling solo career that’s been running concurrently since the release of 2010’s All We Grow. Carey’s latest is the heartening, delicate Range of Light, and he’s stopping in Portland on Wednesday, July […]
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Win Tickets to the Melvins’ King Buzzo
King Buzzo—AKA Buzz Osborne of the Melvins—is on his first ever solo acoustic tour, supporting his brand new solo album This Machine Kills Artists. And if that sounds like a strange proposition for one of grunge’s progenitors, it does to Osborne, too. “I have no interest in sounding like a crappy version of James Taylor […]
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Win Tickets to Chad VanGaalen
Wizards aren’t real, but I could probably be convinced that Chad VanGaalen is one. The Canadian musician/artist/genius-of-insane-proportions makes everything from screeching noise music and gentle folk songs (not to mention single-handedly turning out the kind of wackjob animation seen above). On VanGaalen’s latest album for Sub Pop, the lovely Shrink Dust, angel-dust weirdness creeps its […]