Music Monday - 7/28/08

This weekend I went to PDX Pop Now and made plans to go to MusicFest NW.  I love Portland for so many reasons and the great music scene is one of the biggest.  But seeing how big it's getting is also worrisome.  Do you remember when MFNW was mostly local bands and a wristband cost about $12?  Well, now they are $50.  This spring, I went to SXSW in Austin.  I don't mean to say I didn't like it, but it is definitely an industry event with lots of private parties.  I guess this post is just to say I hope that doesn't happen in my adopted hometown.

So enjoy a few songs by some of the best that Portland and the Pacific NW has to offer.

Oviedo (mp3) - Blind Pilot - About to start a West Coast tour (on bicycles)

Ragged Wood (mp3) - Fleet Foxes

Those Bold City Girls (mp3) - The Shins

A Gilded Age (mp3) - Norfolk & Western

Dashboard (mp3) - Modest Mouse

Noel, Jonah, & Me (mp3) - The Spinanes - The first band I ever wrote a review of in the Student Review, an off-campus college paper.

Wild Mountain Nation (mp3) - Blitzen Trapper

Los Angeles, I'm Yours (mp3) - The Decemberists

Catch Me Jumping (mp3) - The Dimes

Fuel for Fire (mp3) - M. Ward

Evil Bee (mp3) - Menomena

Holland, 1945 (mp3) - Canoe

Between the Bars (mp3) - Elliott Smith