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Sera Cahoone, Goldfinch & Bart Budwig at Belltower

Branden Harvey — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 23:28:23 +0000

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

More photos after the jump!

Betsy Olson

miltensauce — Fri, 01 May 2009 04:04:20 +0000

“A lot of my songs are blues-based and guitar driven. For me, it’s more about the feeling that the sound of the song gives you. I would hope that it gets you to tap your foot and think about how that crazy fool broke your heart!” Betsy Olson’s metal blues pulls shoulders to swaying and old flames to re-kindling. Imagine a 70’s garage-rock band with a Patsy Cline at the mic and you are balancing at the intensity level of a suspension cable. That’s good. That’s Betsy Olson of Billings, Montana. After a childhood of Saturday mornings infused with classic rock and an education in classical music, Olson is toting some pretty hefty weights at both ends of the spectrum, but dang, she’s a two-bucket woman and so she can do what she wants to and do it better than you or the scum-ball that left her.

Betsy Olson, playing Friday night, 1st May, 8:00 p.m., with Sera Cahoone and Karli Fairbanks, the American Legion Cabin. Don’t be late.

Sera Cahoone

miltensauce — Fri, 01 May 2009 03:27:33 +0000

NPR 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.

Cahoone’s tight hand at the drums earned herself a stint with Carissa\’s Wierd and Carissa’s offspring, Band of Horses, before she took matters into her own hands and moved on to the greener pastures of creative freedom where she is currently playing. “If something hits me a certain way that gets me to sit down and write,” says Cahoone, who grew up in Denver and began performing drums at age 12. “There are a lot of issues that move me, but more recent is [the] Columbine High School 10 year anniversary,” she shares, “It breaks my heart. It’s a little too close to home for me.”
Jay Kardong, the band’s pedal-steel player hails from Moscow, “so we are really looking forward to the show,” Cahoone volunteers. Might I submit that we are pretty entirely stoked for this show as well? We are pretty entirely stoked for this show.
Friday, 1st May, 8:00 p.m., Sera Cahoone is playing with Betsy Olson and Karli Fairbanks at the American Legion Cabin.

Stereopathic: Entertaining Moscow-Pullman

shiatzu — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:32:04 +0000

It’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 . . .

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) . . .