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Random Video Tuesday: Brent Knopf Shows You How to Make a Ramona Falls Song
5 CommentsPosted on Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
Have you ever listened to a song and wondered how the artist wrote it? What comes first, the lyrics or the chords? For a lot of songwriters it’s a chicken or the egg type of thing; it’s hard to distill the essence of a piece of art down to scenario in which it was created. [...]
Random Video Tuesday: This Kid From Beaverton Might Be the New Smashing Pumpkins Drummer
7 CommentsPosted on Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Sometimes you read something on the Internet and think it’s obviously a hoax. But when it comes to Smashing Pumpkins dictator/whiny aging rock star Billy Corgan, there’s really nothing at this point that I wouldn’t believe. So, as you’ve probably heard at some point today, it appears that Corgan’s worldwide search for a new drummer [...]
Not-So-Random Video Tuesday: Iame and the Decemberists
2 CommentsPosted on Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Random video Tuesday seemed like a great conceit: We can post weird shit that’s only marginally related to the Portland music scene in a matter of minutes. That way you get fresh shiny content and we get a break to work on Willamette Week instead of this gigantic time-suck of a black hole of a [...]
Random Video Tuesday: Musee Mecanique Score a Max Fleischer Cartoon!
2 CommentsPosted on Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
Wow, this totally works! Set to the Max Fleischer’s “Somewhere in Dreamland,” color animated short film, Musee Mecanique’s “Our Changing Skins” almost perfectly captures the grainy, magical beauty of the cartoon classic. I was a bit dubious before I clicked on the link, but this is actually one of the better unofficial videos floating [...]
Random Video Tuesday: The Old Believers Cover T.I.!
8 CommentsPosted on Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Yeah, I know. This is a day late. One week after I vowed to post my favorite local music clip of the day every Tuesday because, well, I can. But, I do have a pretty good excuse: I left Oregon for the first time in over a year (that’s commitment to my job, folks) to [...]
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