Oct

5

Fruit Bats to Play Belltower

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Stereopathic is pleased to announce its first fall show: Sub Pop Records’ own Fruit Bats! Finishing up a nationwide trek , Fruit Bats will play Pullman’s Belltower on Friday, October 23 at 8 p.m.

Once an outlet for former Califone member (and current member of The Shins) Eric D. Johnson, Fruit Bats have come a long way from their solo side project roots. Though it’s taken over a decade, Johnson now shares the instrumentation duties, fully trusting his band members with the songs he writes.

The result of this trust and collaboration is 2009′s The Ruminant Band, a lush record with folk roots, but unafraid to explore the rocking, stomping benefits of having five talented musicians. The band lists their influences as Incredible String Band and Little River Band as their influences, and while the comparisons can be made, Johnson and crew keep things fresh. Fruit Bats are a contemporary band with strong roots, to be sure. A solid section of traditional folk instruments provide the basis for the band to explore lush sonic territory without straying too far from tradition.

Recently, Fruit Bats covered Hall & Oates basketball-themed romantic come-on “One on One” for AV Club’s AV Undercover project. We really hope they play it when they stop by.


Fruit Bats cover Hall & Oates

Tickets are $10 in advance via PayPal (button below) or $12 day of show or at the door. Yarn Owl and Moss Campion open.


Enjoy a few free Fruit Bats tracks thanks to Sub Pop Records:

Fruit Bats – The Ruminant Band
Fruit Bats – My Unusual Friend
Fruit Bats – Silent Life
Fruit Bats – Lives of Crime
Fruit Bats – A Bit of Wind
Fruit Bats – Slipping Through the Sensors

Sep

22

James Pants in Moscow

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I don’t look forward to dancing in public, but I’m gladly making an exception this Saturday night and there is no wedding reception in sight. James Pants, an Inland Pacific Northwest native and Stones Throw Records artist will be performing his blend of funk, hip hop, and whatever else he feels at Mikey’s Gyros in Moscow at 9pm. Read more

May

2

Weinland

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Weinland

Weinland

Weinland gets both the Most Public-Spirited and the Cutest Best Friend of the Portland folk community yearbook.  They’re honest, they have a strong sense of community, all five of them “avid” chess players, and they always have good things to say. Read more

Apr

30

Sera Cahoone

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Sera CahooneNPR Music calls her “soft as an old shawl.” Sub-Pop Records labels her country-noir, indie ling coined in the attempt to disassociate the term country from connotations of Toby Keith, Martina McBride and Dodge Ram advertisements.  Sera Cahoone\’s graceful lo-fi alternative-country canters half-way back to the classic 70’s folk movement with a soft firm drum and a strong alto and wedges the rest of her music in comfy blue-grass denim. “I got my own style! BAM!” she says, and then acknowledges her favorite decade. Read more

Apr

28

Samuel Dickison

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 Samuel Dickison
Samuel Dickison, a sandy-haired, white-browed son of the Palouse and Moscow, has recently stepped out of the lentil fields with a clean-cut guitar and a well-built voice as one of the most promising nuggets of talent that that this Heart of the Arts has to offer. Read more