Fogatron Gets Mouthy at Acme Donuts

Fogatron Gets Mouthy at Acme Donuts

Episode 27 of our Portland music video series “the Penny Jam” features Fogotron beatboxing one Sunday last Fall at Acme Donuts on Powell.

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Alela Diane Records 2 Songs for AON Sessions in Washington DC

Alela Diane Records 2 Songs for AON Sessions in Washington DC

Alela Diane just finished up a tour with Marissa Nadler and we are lucky enough to have some documentation of it from the web series in All Our Noise. The Washington D.C. crew is on the case, filming the band and beaming it back to base here in Portland. Seems like just about every city [...]

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Tender Forever Cover’s Justin Timberlake’s “My Love” in Ladd’s Addition

Tender Forever Cover’s Justin Timberlake’s “My Love” in Ladd’s Addition

Recorded in August 2009 in Southeast Portland, comes a summery Justin Timberlake cover from Portland’s Tender Forever. Filmed as part of the Sydney-based music video series Shoot the Player, “My Love” is one of three songs recorded. Check out the other two videos in the original post here.

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Blind Pilot Records Three Tunes for LaundroMatinee

Blind Pilot Records Three Tunes for LaundroMatinee

Portland’s Blind Pilot has had a whirlwind of a year. It seems like just yesterday that their album sneaked it’s way out, was quickly featured on iTunes and they’ve been riding a wave of much-deserved attention ever since. Despite the tremendous amount of traveling, performing and living on the road, they handle it with a [...]

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Two Blitzen Trapper Cuts from the Sound of Young America at the Bridgetown Comedy Fest

Two Blitzen Trapper Cuts from the Sound of Young America at the Bridgetown Comedy Fest

Two months back I posted a video from the Bridgetown Comedy Festival featuring a live recording of the podcast Jordan Jesse Go. Well today I was poking around on Jesse Thorn’s Vimeo account and found another fantastic clip of Blitzen Trapper playing a couple of songs at the Bagdad Theater. Thorn is an overachieving American [...]

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The Dimes and the Penny Jam visit St. Cupcake

The Dimes and the Penny Jam visit St. Cupcake

Episode 25 of our Portland music video series The Penny Jam with the Dimes is out now! The gentleman from the band don’t normally wear British military uniforms but in a stroke of good luck we caught them on the same day they had done some promotional photography and they already had the costumes. The [...]

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Explode into Colors Explodes in the Portland Art Museum

Explode into Colors Explodes in the Portland Art Museum

As we started to polish up the next episode of the Penny Jam (our ongoing video series), it occurred to me that we hadn’t posted the most recent episode, number 24 featuring Explode into Colors. It’s been getting some loving on the internet, and for good reason. Explode into Colors brings the energy like a [...]

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Panther, Live from a bookstore display window in downtown Portland

Panther, Live from a bookstore display window in downtown Portland

Behold, the long awaited episode 23 the Penny Jam! It’s featuring Panther playing in a window display at Cameron’s Books in downtown Portland. We caught Panther before they took off on an international expedition including some coverage on Russian television and from the looks of their Myspace page they are playing at the Strawberry Music [...]

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Celilo at Ken’s Workshop

Celilo at Ken’s Workshop

Check out episode 21 of The Penny Jam, filmed in a woodshop near 17th and Powell in Portland Oregon. Our friend Ken Tomita hosted, allowing a band and crew to set up in his place. Ken is a woodworker who works mostly with bamboo, and has some really great peices. His blog is also a [...]

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