Pickathon

Tim LaBarge Here’s the new episode of our ongoing Pickathon Starlight Series, with special performances from the 2016 Pickathon festival that took place on the Starlight Stage. Today’s video comes from Cass McCombs, whose hushed songs are an apt fit for those late-night performances. “County Line” is the opening track on 2011’s Wit’s End and […]

Boulevards Liz Devine We’ve got a brand-new Pickathon video for you in our ongoing presentation of the Portland-area music festival’s Starlight Series, spotlighting the performances from that intimate, late-night stage on Pendarvis Farm. Today’s performance comes from Raleigh, North Carolina’s funkiest, Boulevards. Fronted by Jamil Rashad, they lock into “The Spot,” a tasty floor-warmer with […]

Pickathon announced a hefty chunk of their 2017 lineup at a preview party tonight at Revolution Hall, an unveiling that included performances by Y La Bamba, TYuS, Cat Hoch, 1939 Ensemble, and the Last Artful, Dodgr—all of whom will be performing at this year’s festival on August 3-6. Tonight’s live presentation, hosted by Aaron Ross, […]

Heather Binns We’ve got a new Pickathon video for you, coming from our ongoing Starlight Series, which you can find exclusively on The Stranger and Portland Mercury sites. In this episode, Ezra Furman and the Boyfriends offer up a mean rendition of “Lousy Connection,” complete with doo-wop harmonies and saxophone. Mapping out a previously uncharted […]

Anthony Pidgeon The new season of Pickathon‘s Starlight Series continues today with this terrific video from Futurebirds, shot this past summer at the always-awesome Pickathon festival. The Athens band, dressed in tie-dyed finery, delivers a rendition of Australian singer/songwriter Caitlyn Harnett’s tune “Bad Man.” Their three-guitar offensive line, rather than assaultive, is thick and cozy […]

Natalie Behring Pickathon 2016 feels like it was only yesterday, but we’re almost a full solar season out from the last installment of the Portland-area music festival, which took place way back at the start of August. That means it’s high time to start looking at the excellent audio and video from this year’s fest, […]

[UPDATE: This stream is working now, sorry about before.] All weekend long they’re beaming out performances from Pendarvis Farm. The Pickathon Live Broadcast starts right now and continues through Sunday. If you couldn’t make it out there, simply bookmark this page, and we’ll see you throughout the weekend. Here’s the complete schedule of the livestream […]

Nehemiah Sliwoski Pickathon 2016 starts this week! (Check back tomorrow for the Mercury‘s VERY THOROUGH guide to Portland’s finest and funnest music festival.) And that means our video series of performances from Pickathon 2015 is drawing to a close. Shed a tear. This special series has highlighted the Starlight Stage, the intimate after-hours stage that […]

Todd Cooper Would you believe that Pickathon is less than a month away? It is, and although that’s very good news, it also means we’re getting closer than ever to the end of our ongoing Pickathon video series that spotlights performances from last year’s amazing festival. This month we’ve got Episode 5 from the special […]

Yesterday the folks at Pickathon announced the next two releases in their “Live at Pickathon” vinyl series, in which each side of a full-length LP features a performer recorded live at the Portland-area music festival. The two new releases for 2016 will be Woods/The Men (featuring sets recorded in 2014) and Vetiver/Wolf People (with sets […]

Autumn Andel This morning we’ve got a brand new Pickathon video to show for you as part of our ongoing Starlight Stage series, filmed during the wee small hours at the Pickathon festival just outside Portland. Today’s installment features a performance by King Tuff from last summer’s fest, and it’s a stripped-down take of “Black […]