Upcoming Shows
Roadside Graves
w/Bart Budwig
FRIDAY, Aug. 6, 9PM
@ Mikey's GyrosStereopathic on Hypem
Aug
18
In The Green Room: Rocky Votolato
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Rocky Votolato‘s one of the many Northwest gems to grace the stage at our first annual Birds on a Wire festival in Pullman, WA back in March. We captured several Green Room Sessions during the weekend and we’re pretty excited to share this one with you. Rocky’s one of those rare musicians who can completely dominate your attention with nothing more than his voice and a guitar. We felt that a simple, unadorned black and white video was appropriate. Hope you like it!
Rocky Votolato – Sparklers from Stereopathic on Vimeo.
Aug
3
We have a lot of love for Metuchen, New Jersey’s Roadside Graves. They released what I (Brendan) consider 2009′s finest record, My Son’s Home, and have merited mentions on this here website for fine, fine songs like Ruby and West Coast. Singer and lyricist John Gleason was good enough to have an interview with us, and one of the reasons we like Pickathon so much is that they draft bands like the Graves to play on their stages.
Well, this Friday, Stereopathic is pleased to shout it out loud that the Graves are gonna grace the stage at Mikey’s on Main Street on their way from Boise to Pickathon. Doors at 9 PM, and $5 gets you inside. Bart Budwig opens, and Mikey’s sells beer. We’re pretty excited about this show, and no one reading this has any excuse not to be there.
In the meantime, dig the Roadside Graves’ Tour Tumblr, follow them on Twitter, and get on over to Aquarium Drunkard to nab their two new cover songs. See y’all on Friday night!
Aug
3
PDX Report: Menomena’s “Mines”
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Menomena’s new album, Mines, has gotten universal love from reviewers since it dropped at the end of July. It is a fantastic record. Music lovers know of Menomena as the band that records using software they developed. They are one of the few indie bands who use a saxophone. And they are from Portland. Those are the facts, but the songs are so much sweeter. For your sampling pleasure, listen to the lyrically-undermined bravado of the album’s second track, “Taos”. The song moves in a way that sounds familiar to the band’s fans, quickly segueing from chaotic rock to piano-driven introspection and back again. Menomena are still proving that they’re very good at creating highly controlled mayhem. But “Taos” takes that approach to new heights. The music’s swagger propels the song, providing a backdrop which acts like a brave face for the song’s reflective lyrics. This is the sound of a talented and hugely entertaining band doing a little maturing. Do yourself a serious favor—make Mines a part of your summer’s soundtrack.
Jul
26
As promised, we’d like to present the first (of several) Green Room Sessions filmed during the first ever Birds on a Wire festival. After recording this, Joe Pug proceeded to blow minds at the BellTower stage. We were honored to have him and hope you enjoy this session as much as we do.
Here’s Joe Pug playing “In the Meantime”
Joe Pug – In the Meantime from Stereopathic on Vimeo.
Jul
23
New Avett Brothers song – live in Spokane!
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A friend of Stereopathic happened to be in the right place at the right time and caught this brand new Avett Brothers song live in Spokane, WA on Tuesday. If you’ve enjoyed the trajectory that Avett Brothers have been on with this last album, then you’ll love this song. Tell us what you think!
Jul
21
In the Green Room: The Holiday Friends
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Ever since they opened up for Local Natives earlier this year, we’ve had a thing for The Holiday Friends. They played a song for us in the Green Room. and, as always, they were great. Check it out:
Holiday Friends – Turn the Light on from Stereopathic on Vimeo.
Stay tuned – we hope to start releasing some of our Birds on a Wire Green Room Sessions soon!
Jun
28
Upcoming Justin Townes Earle record announced: Harlem River Blues
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Found this in the ol’ inbox this morning:
Greetings!
We are pleased to announce the details of the next Justin Townes Earle record. Harlem River Blues will hit stores on September 14th.
Compared to the much-lauded Midnight at the Movies, Harlem River Blues is more mature and increasingly nuanced, while still embracing the raw voice and clean sound of previous standout tracks like “Mama’s Eyes.” Featuring guest appearances from Jason Isbell, Bryn Davies, Ketch Secor from Old Crow Medicine Show and Calexico’s Paul Niehaus, it’s rockin’ and reelin’ at times, sweet and slow at others – and it’s great….and it was produced by JTE and his old friend Skylar Wilson.
We’re counting the days till September 14th.
Justin Townes Earle: I Don’t Care (from the Yuma EP)
May
19
The Stones: Ventilator Blues
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Exile on Main Street was released in remastered form yesterday. There’s a song on it called Ventilator Blues, which by the three-second mark is already one of the raunchiest, sleaziest, scariest things I’ve ever heard. One of Keith’s most visceral, physical, venal riffs.
No one does hedonism like the Stones, and no one gets at the sheer exhaustion and the come-down like them, either. It’s a pointless way to live. But what a song. What a song.
brendan o’donnell could generally care less about non-American music. he makes occasional exceptions.
May
5
Any of you Moscow music fans remember a band called Postal Joe? The power pop trio ransacked the Palouse back in the days when John’s Alley sported a tiny corner stage and a ceiling about seven feet high. (They played the hottest cover of the Tiffany hit “I Think We’re Alone Now” I’ve ever heard.) Drummer Mike Last, who also helped out on vocals, was Postal Joe’s catalyst, ranking somewhere just below the Band’s Levon Helm and the Eagles’ Don Henley on the list of coolest singing drummers of all time. Unknown to many, he was (and is) also a heck of a writer, songwriter and poet. Now, after years of drumming for a bunch of Northwest and Chicago-area bands, Mike has stepped to the front of the stage. As lead singer and principle songwriter of the Eugene, Oregon folk rock three-piece the Stagger and Sway, his natural charisma and dusty poetics are unmistakably the main attraction. The Stagger and Sway will share the (now much larger) John’s Alley stage this Saturday with fellow Eugeners John Shipe, Patrick Kavaney and the Last Drags.
“Wyoming” by the Stagger and Sway
– The Mark
UPDATE: The Stagger and Sway will instead be joined by Dan Jones and the Golden Motors. John Shipe, Patrick Kavaney and the Last Drags have canceled.
“Hot Pink UFOs” by Dan Jones and the Squids
Apr
27
Pickathon 2010: The Final, Full Lineup
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The good folks running Pickathon down in Portland, Oregon just released the full lineup for the music festival going down August 6-8. It’s just stacked like a brick, uh… henhouse… (family-friendly indie music blog) with Stereopathic favorites. Bonnie Prince Billy, Dr. Dog, Deep Dark Woods… good golly, just read the list. The Roadside Graves are dropping by here on August 6th on their way to a pair of sets at Pendarvis Farm, site of the three-day indie roots music festival.
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