Aug

12

Sera Cahoone, Goldfinch & Bart Budwig at Belltower

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Check out photos from the show shot by Pullman photographer, Branden Harvey.

Bart Budwig
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Jul

20

Photography from STRFKR, Yarn Owl & Rhytmmemory Show at Belltower

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On June 20, STRFKR, Yarn Owl and Rhythmmemory played Pullman’s Belltower. Check out photos from the show shot by Pullman photographer, Branden Harvey.

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Jan

10

Dawes Makes BellTower Debut

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From touring with Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros in the last year, to recording with big-name musicians like Conor Oberst, Jenny Lewis, and Black Crowes’ Chris Robinson, Dawes have steadily been making a name for themselves in the music industry.

The California natives have often heard their folk-rock tunes compared to the likes of Neil Young, A.A. Bondy, and Delta Spirit, and will be making their Pullman debut at the BellTower on Thursday, January 27th at 8 p.m.

Take a look below as they perform a version of “If You Let Me Be Your Anchor” while accompanied by The Morning Benders:

Dawes & The Morning Benders “If You Let Me Be Your Anchor”

Dawes – When My Time Comes

Dawes will be accompanied by Nashville alt-country artist Jonny Corndawg.

You can purchase tickets online in advance for $7, or at the door for $10.

Dec

7

Y La Bamba

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Opening for Horse Feathers at the BellTower tonight: Portland’s Y La Bamba. Fronted by Luzelena Mendoza, the heavily-tatted daughter of Michaocan immigrants, Y La Bamba makes music redolent of Mexican folk music and the Rose City’s distinctive indie scene. They have two LP’s to their credit—2008′s Alida St. and the two-month-old Lupon—both of which will be available at tonight’s merch table. Check the widescreen video for “Juniper” from Lupon below; Alida St., as it happens, is streaming (and for sale) over at Bandcamp.

Doors for tonight’s show swing open about 8 PM. Twelve green, American, federally-backed IOU’s will get you past the ticket-takers and into Pullman’s finest performing arts venue—which does, in fact, have a liquor license. See y’all tonight!

Y La Bamba – Juniper from Tangible Worldwide on Vimeo.

Oct

28

Horse Feathers in the Green Room (and, returning to Pullman!)

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Portland, Oregon’s Horse Feathers have been out to Moscow a few times, most recently for last March’s Birds on a Wire Folk Festival. The second night of the Festival, they played a show at the BellTower that occasional Stereopathic contributor Josh Stevenson said pretty much justified to him the existence of live music. The BellTower, a former church, is a peerless venue for the detailed, introspective music that Horse Feathers plays. Its stone walls were made to amplify human voices and acoustic instruments; Justin Ringle and company found in the sanctuary a space that so perfectly served his songs it was almost like a fifth instrument.

You can get a sense of how well this band does at the Bell Tower from this Green Room Session, caught last March after their BOAW set. Horse Feathers performs Thistled Spring, the beautiful title track from their most recent record.

Horse Feathers – Thistled Spring from Stereopathic on Vimeo.

As you may have heard, Horse Feathers returns to the Bell Tower on December 7th.

Needless to say, we’re beyond pleased to have them back in Pullman. The band has three records’ worth of material to draw from, to say nothing of their various singles and minor releases—such as their new 7-inch cover of Nirvana’s “Drain You” backed with a new song called “Bonnet of Briars”. One Lesley Graves caught them performing the song at Portland’s Doug Fir Lounge; that’s it, right below.

Horse Feathers / Drain You cover from Lesley Graves on Vimeo.

Aug

3

Pickathon starts in a few days

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Friday to Sunday, August 6th, 7th, and 8th, Pendarvis Farm, just outside of Portland, Oregon. If you’re at all in or near the Portland area, we aren’t aware of anything else you oughtta be doing that weekend. Discounted advance tickets remain on sale until Thursday the 5th. That’s tomorrow, people.

Pickathon, dammit.

A locally-owned, family-friendly, sustainably-run indie roots music festival with a killer lineup, great food, and on-site camping. Not only that, but Stereopathic mastermind Larson Hicks will be volunteering there, so if you see a relatively sober, 6’1″ Texan concierg-ing Bonnie Prince Billy from the Beer Garden to the stage, say hello to the man. Our dear friend Nate Wolff will be there, too.

We can’t say enough nice things about Pickathon, and those of us who aren’t making it down this year (some of us so we can run the Roadside Graves’ show this Friday) deeply resent those who are.

Jan

14

Shearwater’s Coming to Pullman

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Shearwater. The band, not the bird.

Stereopathic is pleased to announce totally blown away that Shearwater is playing at the Bell Tower in Pullman on Tuesday, April 20th Friday, April 30th. The show starts at 8 PM. We’re lining up a local act to kick things off; Lawrence, Kansas’ Hospital Ships opens, followed by Shearwater’s thrilling and epic live show.

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Nov

17

Helen Money at The Jewel Box Theater in Seattle, WA

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helenmoney01_printFor her first ever performance in Seattle, cellist Alison Chesley, who performs under the name Helen Money, certainly deserved better than she got. Her set of experimental solo cello playing augmented and amplified by an array of effects pedals was shoehorned into a bill featuring hardcore rock acts, and her quieter moments were in constant threat of being drowned out by the unrelenting house music bleeding through the walls from the club next door.

The effects of all of these factors had an obvious effect on Chesley, who cut her set to a serviceable but woefully short 20 minutes. But during this abbreviated performance, she was able to stunningly bring to bear the many facets of her solo material. There was the elongated, almost jazz-y pieces that echoed the exploratory work of the Sun Ra and his Astro Infinity Orchestra album Strange Strings alongside some more aggressive and noisy pieces that used her mass of effects pedals, some of which looped in prerecorded sounds or helped to add meaty fuzz to her cello lines.

What frustration Chesley vocalized and exhibited in her furrowed brow was channeled right into her playing. She plucked at the strings with her fingers, used them percussively by hitting them with her bow, and eked out any number of raw tones and squelches. The tense feeling also added an extra bit of drive to her instrumental take on the Minutemen classic, “Political Song For Michael Jackson To Sing”. Over a clattering, driving drum beat, Chesley scratched out D. Boon’s vocal melody on her cello, losing none of the grit and pent up distress in the translation. It was a breathtaking cover that felt heavier than anything the other bands on the bill attempted that evening.

Review by Robert Ham. Read more of his work at The Voice of Energy.

Apr

28

Stereopathic: Entertaining Moscow-Pullman

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boawIt’s Stereopathic’s busiest week yet.  All told, we’re bringing in six out-of-town artists to entertain Moscow with various forms of folk music, countrified and otherwise. Check out our Birds on a Wire page for links to everyone’s respective myspaces, and for a big fat pic of David Dalbey’s beautiful poster. And, of course, there’s more after the jump . . . Read more

Apr

8

The Birds on a Wire Folk Series

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Poster by David Dalbey

Poster by David Dalbey

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