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View more of Branden’s photos from the show here.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Shearwater, of course, will be touring in support of their forthcoming Matador LP, The Golden Archipelago, 2010′s follow-up to their killer 2008 record Rook. Lead single “Castaways” has been floating around for a few weeks now; nab it from Matador Records.  Billions has a glowing (but not hyperbolic) write-up. 2007′s Palo Santo and Rook leave no doubt that Jonathan Meiburg can write a thoughtful and compelling song, and that his band has struck upon a distinct and beautiful sound all its own.

What’ll the show set you back? $12 if you pay ahead, $15 if you wait till you’re at the Bell Tower door on the night of the show. Keep an eye out here for more details and eye candy, not to mention a record review and anything else we can pass along to y’all. Spread the word, tweet it and retweet it, and see you there.

The Hunter’s Star from 2008′s Rook

The band’s 2006 Daytrotter Session

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.

Kicking off Stereopathic’s busy week, tonight at Mikey’s we present the brilliant and intense Richard Buckner, touring in support of Merge’s recent digital reissues of three of his fine and criminally out-of-print records: Bloomed, The Hill, and Impasse. Sam Dickison and a few friends will open; door at 9, and ten American dollars gets you in.

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Richard Buckner: Polly Waltz (from 1997′s Devotion + Doubt) . . .

Then, Friday at the American Legion Cabin, Seattle’s Sera Cahoone will bring us her elegant and beautifully-arranged country-folk-rock, playing songs off her self-released, eponymous debut record from 2006 and 2008′s superb Only as the Day is Long. Spokane’s Karli Fairbanks and Bluesy Betsy Olson opens; door at 8, eight dollars gets you in, and three dollars puts a pint of Mirror Pond Ale in your hand.

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Sera Cahoone: You Might As Well (from 2008′s Only as the Day is Long) . . .

Capping off the week, this Saturday back at Mikey’s, Portland’s Weinland bring their ornate and melancholic indie folk to Moscow, touring in support of their brand-new (as of April 21st) record Breaks in the Sun, an album “committed to 2” tape amidst sleep deprivation, whiskey consumption, and trust” and released by Portland’s Badman records. Adam Shearer and company will be playing songs from Breaks and last year’s La Lamentor, and will be joined by Leonard Mynx and Audie Darling. Door at9, and eight green dollars lets you in.

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Weinland: The Letters II (from 2009′s Breaks in the Sun) . . .

Poster by David Dalbey