IT'S PORTLAND'S TURN TONIGHT - THE RUMBLE @ HOLOCENE

THE RUMBLE: PORTLAND pulls into Holocene this evening for this month's edition featuring two locals and the touring band - Chasing Kings. Our Portland friends - Pampelmoose, Music Millennium and Cravedog are the local hosts and the party is FREE.

Headlining the party is BLOOD BEACH, a haunting shoegazy lo-fi outfit originally from Texas, calling Portland home and recently opened for Smith Westerns at Backspace. Velvet Underground combined with heavy distortion.

"Blood Beach is the weirdest. It is the new band from Tex Winters. It is folk music with psychedelic freak outs." - Crappy Indie Music

Speaking of creepy and weird (in the best possible way), check out this video....


Rolling in for night #2 of their 6 night run of Rumbles it's LA's CHASING KINGS. Without offending dozens of other 'nice' bands I've known over the years, these guys could actually be the nicest crew we've met. Singer Matt Schwartz posses that something extra, the kind of spark and God-given talent that only comes around once in awhile, and he could evolve into someone on the Chris Martin level - he's that good. Portland, support your locals but this is one out-of-towner we urge you to see.

Opening up are guys that we've quickly called 'friends' - PRIORY - a PDX four-piece calling themselves spacious folk rockers with touches of classic rock and soul with their debut scheduled to come out in June. Track “Devil vs. Heater” is sprawling number peppered with three part a cappella harmonies. Few bands have worked as hard as spreading the word, so if you already knew about tonight's party, you probably heard it from these boys. They have an EP that's just released and should be sitting on the counter of MUSIC MILLENNIUM for an easy pick-up (thanks Terry!).

Not only is the party FREE, but with TRUMER PILS beer specials all night, THE RUMBLE PDX easily trumps Taco Tuesday.

Holocene is located at 1001 Southeast Morrison Street

THE RUMBLE: PORTLAND TONIGHT @ HOLOCENE

THE RUMBLE: PORTLAND returns to Holocene TONIGHT with an incredible line up of Portland bands + a traveling act that make this FREE party something you can't miss.

First up is 1776, a band we got turned onto by our partners at CRAVEDOG, and then after listening we understand why this band was recently signed to the Dandy Warhols' label, Beat The World Records, because this band has the songs, and tonight we'll see their live chops.

The band playing through all The Rumbles is the SF based duo, THE FEROCIOUS FEW. Since first meeting frontman Francisco Fernandez (that's a lot of F's) at a Rumble SF party by the DJ booth, and FF talking the most smack I had ever heard, we've been fast friends ever since. They've graced the Rumble SF and Rumble LA in past years and played our first Hollywood BrewFest last fall. They are supporting the instant classic - 'Juices' - and it's memorable that they are all official and on a label after all these years selling thousands of CD's on the street corners out of their guitar case.

Portland Mercury darlings, MONARQUES round out the night, as this seven piece are set to bring their sunny, 1950’s inspired indie pop. We're pumped that they are playing the party this month indeed.
"Portland's Monarques churn out sunny bubblegum pop that would feel equally at home in a '50s sock hop as it would in a cramped basement show in 2010. What's most impressive is that Oh Captain, My Captain's Josh Spacek pulled the whole project together in just a matter of months." - Portland Mercury

We'll also be having TRUMER PILS beer specials all night long!

As always, the party is FREE, and is brought to you by Future Sounds, Pampelmoose, Music Millennium, Cravedog, XO Publicity, Trumer Pils and Spin Earth.

This is indie supporting indie, so come out and join all of us and these incredible up-and-coming bands.

Holocene is located at 1001 SE Morrison Street

THE RUMBLE: PORTLAND TONIGHT @ HOLOCENE

It's night #2 on April's Rumble circuit, and PEPPER RABBIT and THE GLOBES move south to Portland this evening after kicking off the The Rumble: Seattle on Monday. In PDX we add local up-and-comers THE GOLDEN HOURS, for this 3-band line-up that's FREE to the city of Portland. We've even made it easier on you and have added TRUMER PILS beer specials all night long.

The RUMBLE: PORTLAND is brought to you by FS, Pampelmoose, Music Millennium, Cravedog, XO Publicity, Trumer Pils and Spin Earth.

Holocene is located at 1001 Southeast Morrison Street

TONIGHT THE RUMBLE: PORTLAND RUMBLES INTO HOLOCENE

Ok, so we had too much fun over New Years and skipped hosting a hangover Rumble party in January, THE RUMBLE: PORTLAND is back for February with an incredible line-up @ Holocene tonight with three Portland based acts.

JAGUAR LOVE is our featured act on this month's Rumble Tour of the West Coast parties, and from the sound of last night's action in Seattle, they 'Started A Fire'.

Our Portland partners recently turned us onto the support and the electro-indie stylings of LOGAN LYNN, who recently dropped a cover version of The Dandy Warhols' 'The Last High' that owned us. Logan is signed to the Dandys' BEAT THE WORLD RECORDS and is prepping for the follow-up from last fall's 'From Pillar To Post'.

Opening up and providing music throughout the evening is DJ A TRAIN. Again, we're trusting the locals on this one because we've heard about AT all the way down in Southern California. You will dance at some point if you attend the party with these three performers.

The Rumble: Portland is brought to you by Future Sounds, Cravedog, Pamplemoose, Music Millennium, XO Publicity, WOXY, and Spin Earth.

THE PARTY IS FREE

HOLOCENE is located at 1001 Southeast Morrison Street

THE RUMBLE: PORTLAND TONIGHT @ HOLOCENE

THE RUMBLE: PORTLAND touches down TONIGHT at Holocene for another night of FREE music brought to you by your friends at Future Sounds, Pampelmoose, Cravedog, Music Millennium, WOXY and XO Publicity.

Headlining the party is RAVISHERS (Formerly the Rock Savants) a band that only started up in February, but have quickly pushed to the front of the line and are known for their blistering live show. Listen to "Keep You Around".

Bringing the freak to the party will be SERIOUS BUSINESS. Think GRAVVY TRAIN or PEACHES with a twist of CSS and you're getting close to Serious Business. Lots of songs about underwear and scandalous nights add up to their brand of business.

Opening up are APES OF WRATH, the band from San Diego we are so excited about that we're sending them through the entire Rumble Tour in November of the west coast dates and are releasing their new single, "Deathtrain" on Itunes tomorrow on Future Sounds Records.

Special guest DJ JARED WHITE will be keeping things moving between bands all evening.

Did we mention it's a FREE party?

THE RUMBLE: PORTLAND TONIGHT @ HOLOCENE

The October edition of THE RUMBLE: PORTLAND @ Holocene is one for the ages, and all ages, spanning genres and era's.

Headlining the Rumble will be BLUE SKIES FOR BLACK HEARTS, the Portland band that sounds like they broke out of Nuggets-era British Invasion rock. Jangly, jingly, great pop rock and roll.

Coming up from Los Angeles is the mighty FITZ & THE TANTRUMS, a band you've been hearing on WOXY, KEXP, and KCRW often recently with their white boy soul-Hall & Oates meets Robert Palmer meets Motown party sound.

You know it's a stellar bill when your opener is a star about to happen - SALLIE FORD & THE SOUND OUTSIDE. This is throwback fantasy mixed with intelligent lyrics and shouts out to Sunny Day Real Estate. Embrace Sallie, she'll be the world's soon enough.

The party is FREE and all your friends like Pampelmoose, Cravedog and Music Millennium will be there, as well as WOXY.COM and Future Sounds.

MEET SALLIE FORD & THE SOUND OUTSIDE

The best thing about the Future Sounds community is that everyone involved has the same lust for finding new acts and sharing. This time we found out about Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside from FS artist, Fitz & The Tantrums, who saw Sallie open up for The Avett Brothers in Los Angeles. Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside play at tonight's RUMBLE: PORTLAND @ Holocene.

FS: How was it touring with the incredible Avett Brothers?

SF: It was great touring with the Avett Brothers! they are allot of fun and so are the folks that work for them. They have really supportive fans who made an awesome audience.

FS: You're originally from Asheville, North Carolina, what brought you to Portland and how did you meet your band? Can you also introduce your bandmates and what they play?

SF: I moved to Portland on a whim. I heard allot of great things and thought it would be a great place to live, and it is. When I first moved to Portland, I lived in a house with 5 other girls and one of those girls introduced me to a bunch of people from Alaska. I become friends with allot of the Alaskans and one of them eventually introduced me to Ford Tennis and Tyler Tornfelt, who were from Anchorage, Alaska and play in a band called "Syran".
I then met Jeff Munger a year later, while he was playing music on the street. Jeff was born in Portand.
Ford Tennis plays drums. Tyler Tornfelt plays upright bass and Jeff Munger plays lead guitar. I (Sallie Ford) play rhythm guitar and sing as well as write the songs.

FS: You obviously have a "throwback sound", and I'm sure everyone compares you with everyone from Patsy Cline to Billy Holiday. Who are the ladies and fellas that you draw your inspiration from?

SF: Those two names are big influences, as well as Etta James, Aretha Franklin and The Squirrel Nut Zippers (who are from North Carolina as well)


FS: What I like about the few songs I've heard from you is that although you are obviously well versed in the past, you make it fresh and contemporary by dropping in lyrics and references that are clearly our era, like shouts out to Sunny Day Real Estate and Jets To Brazil. Who are your contemporary favorites? Who would you like to tour with next?

SF: Regina Spektor and Tom Waits are probably my top favorite contemporary musician heroes. I also like M. Ward, Langhorne Slim, Thao & The Get Down Stay Down and Nurses.
We also have plans to tour with our Irish buddies, "The Lost Brothers".

FS: The "Not An Animal" EP has been your bread and butter for your most recent bunch of live performances, what's next for Sallie Ford and The Sound Outside? Are there new songs in the studio being polished?

SF: We have many more songs that are unrecorded, but we have plans to record a full length in the near future.

FS: At Future Sounds we're always looking for the next Sallie Ford, are there any up and coming bands that you want to recommend or shouts out to some friend's bands?

SF: Some of our local favorites are:
Hats, The Woolwines, Y la bamba, Hello Electric, Syran, Grey Anne, Ah Holly Family and The Ocean Floor.

FS: Thanks for taking the time to answer our questions and for playing The Rumble: Portland this week.

TONIGHT IN PORTLAND: THE RUMBLE @ HOLOCENE

The September RUMBLE TOUR kicks off tonight in Portland at Holocene as UNITED STATE OF ELECTRONICA make a run through all the west coast dates in support of their forthcoming 'L O V E W O R L D' album. Joining U.S.E tonight are two PDX buzz bands, HELLO ELECTRIC and DR HELICOPTER. The party is free, thanks to all of our partners - Pampelmoose, Cravedog, Music Millennium and WOXY.

As a teaser and to get you mentally and physically ready for what U.S.E will do to you, download "We The People" (mp3)

TONIGHT IN PORTLAND - THE RUMBLE: PORTLAND @ CRAVEDOG/SPECTRE

A quick turnaround from our Rumble PDX party launch just a few weeks back, but from here on out the party will always be on the FIRST TUESDAY of each month.

This month THE RUMBLE: PORTLAND moves to the CRAVEDOG/SPECTRE warehouse space on 412 NW Couch Street, near Chinatown and Burnside on August 4th.

The event has FREE beer provided by Mactarnahan's and Thomas Kemper!

Headlining the party will be NO KIND OF RIDER. They are coming off a set at FIRST FEST the past weekend and will be as sharp as knives for their Rumble set.

We're very eager to see the new songs played live by THE UPSIDEDOWN, as we've been listening to the forthcoming World's Fair cd release, 'Human Destination' and get ready for a spacey ride. Everything you love about this band only got better.

Opening up is a band from San Francisco with a huge buzz - A B & THE SEA. They've just finished a batch of demos that we're produced by Chris from THE MORNING BENDERS, and songs like "Suzie" will be everyone's favorites.

Because of the beer you must be 21+ to attend and YOU MUST RSVP - RSVP at rumblersvp@cravedog.com

TONIGHT IN PORTLAND - THE RUMBLE: PORTLAND @ MISSISSIPPI STUDIOS

Tonight we open the doors to the first ever, RUMBLE: PORTLAND @ Mississippi Studios with a 21+ FREE show featuring THE BLAKES from Seattle + 2 great Portland acts, THE MINT CHICKS and GREENLADIES.

Going forward past this inagural party, THE RUMBLE: PORTLAND will always fall on the first Tuesday of every month, whatever date that falls on, and links The Rumble: Seattle to The Rumble: San Francisco and the rest of the Rumble WC Tour.

We were fortunate to add partners like PAMPELMOOSE, CRAVEDOG, MUSIC MILLENNIUM and WOXY.COM to this monthly party that will always look to showcase great talent as well as artists on their way up that you should know about from not just Portland, but from everywhere. Plans to bring UK acts, Irish acts, Norweigen acts and from places unknown are in the pipeline so watch this space for more info...

If you haven't seen this venue yet, it looks gorgeous, check this out...