Some of the best music at Pickathon doesn’t happen in front of the audience. It happens in the tin, 10-foot-by-10-foot pumphouse that’s tucked away in the woods that surround Pendarvis Farm. Over the course of the (really hot) Pickathon weekend this August, 33 of the performing bands toted their instruments up to the little pumphouse for stripped-down, casual sessions for only the camera and microphones of the folks at Live & Breathing. And now a number of videos are up over at Live & Breathing‘s site. Here’s a handful, including clips by Denver, the Barr Brothers, and—after the jump—Langhorne Slim and Y La Bamba. Go over to Live & Breathing for more; there are videos from Dr. Dog, Shovels and Rope, Kitty Daisy & Lewis, Southeast Engine, Petunia and the Vipers, and lots more, with more on the way.
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Those Denver guys are riding a very thin line of Portland hipster parodyyeeaah probably not though.
Mr. Mustache looks suspiciously like the douchebag that left his beagle outside of a Stumptown on an 18° day a few winters ago.
Therefore, his band sucks.