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Music
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By Dominic Aulisio and Dan Lurie
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Tuesday, 21 August 2007 |
 Editor’s note: Each September, a heaping helping of truly gifted musical artisans convene in Portland, Oregon to rock Musicfest Northwest (MFNW), a three-day, multi-venue festival that celebrates some of the best independent music in the land.
Last year, Nada Mucho sent Dominic Aulisio and Dan Lurie (of local band Solyoni) to cover the event. The courageous duo scribbled down their personal experiences in a pink felt-covered diary that, until this week, was held shut by a heart-shaped lock.
With MFNW 2007 just around the corner, we felt the timing was right to pick that lock and reveal their secrets to the world. Unfortunately, what we found read more like a journal entry from a Creative Writing class than coverage of a live music festival. It is our hope that these harrowing first-hand accounts of pretty much every nuance of Dan and Dom's 2006 MFNW sojourn - other than the music - will help you better prepare for this year’s festival, which runs Sept. 6. - 9.
We've also decided to give them a chance to redeem themselves at this year's festival, so keep your eyes peeled for the two skinny guys with pink notebooks.
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Music
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By Tyson Lynn
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Sunday, 19 August 2007 |
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 Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra
Live @ Neumos
June 2007
There is a small, but not insignificant, chance that if Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra performed on a slow night, there'd be more people on stage than in the crowd. Touring with anywhere between eleven and fourteen members, and having recorded with a score more, Antibalas plays Afrobeat—music by the people, for the people.
That wasn't the case recently however, as the orchestra played to a packed Neumo's house (with the newly remodeled Moe's bar in place of the former Crystal Ball Room right next door). Space was at a premium among the gyrating listeners; late-comers had to watch the stage from the back of the room, as hot-bodied funk and Afrobeat filled the air and fueled the floor.
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Music
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By Graham Isaac
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Thursday, 26 July 2007 |
 The Trucks’ story is one about a sort of accidental success that's positively goddamn heartwarming, supposing things like fun, friendship and complete lack of pretension warm your heart.
Even if your heart is too cold and dead, it's a story worth taking note of for the simple fact that the Trucks seem poised to strike big, either suddenly or because of the steady but exponential growth that's marked their career to date.
The band found itself sharing stages with local luminaries and received favorable reviews from critics and audiences for their glitchy, sassy dance pop that alternates between tongue-in-cheek sexuality and wide-smiling whimsy.
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Music
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By Red Lehman
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Tuesday, 17 April 2007 |
 My neck hurts.
It’s a common complaint after a Bullet Club show, thanks to the Seattle-based band’s high intensity rawk music delivered with industrious musical timing. This is tough, dirty stuff from a band who sounds like they could drag you into an alley, pound you into submission then take your money and buy cheap whiskey shots and bareback Camels.Â
Listening to the band’s excellent Red State EP from 2005, I found myself wonderfully impressed at the capture of their awesome live power. From the spit of the lyrics to the barrage of drums to the detail spent on getting each of the guitars to sound unique (both live and recorded), instead of just becoming a fuzzy mess, is a true testament to their painstaking approach the band takes with their music.Â
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Nada Mucho Presents
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By Jason Fisher
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Tuesday, 06 March 2007 |
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Music
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By Dominic Aulisio
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Thursday, 07 September 2006 |
 In what is promising to be the most impressive succession of festivals
in the arts and music industry this year, Portland’s younger, hipper
Music Fest Northwest returns this year with an impressive array of
talent. This year’s festival (Sept. 7-9) follows Bumbershoot’s stellar
Labor Day weekend long extravaganza with an impressive array of talent,
culled from the wet woods of the Northwest and lands beyond.
While
Bumbershoot has the arts festival market cornered for diversity and
grandeur (this year’s lineup is an impressive return to form), Music
Fest NW is boasting the kind of pound for pound ‘music for the money’
that a festival the size of Bumbershoot can’t dream to accommodate. If
Bumbershoot simply hasn’t sated your festival needs, or has simply
gotten far too mind-blowingly beyond scope in all it encompasses – just
hop on I-5 and head southward for a relentless tour-de-force of
intimate performances and stellar venues.
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Nada Mucho Presents
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By Matt Ashworth
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Friday, 23 June 2006 |
Live @ Mars Bar & Venus Cafe
Friday, June 23rd @ 9pm - $7
This Friday, Nada is proud to present one of our most exciting, well-rounded line ups of the summer.
The Hot Rollers have been a NadaMucho favorite for ages and, on
the eve of their upcoming West Coast summer tour, they’re kicking off a
busy weekend with Friday’s show. Lori (the bacon-chomping,
vodka-guzzling sexy mastermind of the band), Suzanne (a.k.a. Suzi Jett,
of the Joan Jett tribute band Jett City) and Starr (defending her title
as Ladies Arm Wrestling Champion of Ballard this Sunday at the Tin Hat)
are a raucous, consistently entertaining live act with ‘60s girl group
melodies gone badass. Watch for a special country-flavored surprise
from the ladies on Friday, as well as a NadaMucho full feature article
on the band to see them on their way south…
Sugar Farm
are everything you love about real rock n’ roll stripped to its barest
essential – the blues – and then stripped down even further - a
controlled explosion of a drummer and a polyrhythmic dynamo of a
singer/guitarist. Marty and Margaret are an absolute mind-blowing treat
for fans of true Mississippi blues… and anyone who digs the hard rock
those blues inspired. Sugar Farm is finely distilled aural sex,
defiantly impure and anything but simple.
Memphis Radio Kings, another band heading down the Left Coast
soon, have been busy shedding their alt-country image – writing some
synthesizer-driven pure pop songs that still retain their Paul
Westerberg-style guitar bite. MRK are guaranteed to bring sharp lyrics,
irresistible melodies and a sweat-soaked live show that’ll leave you
aching for their return home.
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