New Releases on
RARadio:
"Darkness" by
Leonard Cohen; "Sweetbread"
by Simian
Mobile Disco and "Keep You"
from Actress
off the Chronicle movie
soundtrack;"Goodbye to Love" from
October Dawn; Trouble in Mind 2011
label sampler;
Black Box Revelation Live on
Minnesota Public Radio;
Apteka "Striking Violet";
Mikal Cronin's "Apathy" and "Get
Along"; Dana deChaby's
progressive rock
From Season 1, in which Fred Armisen
takes a bike ride through the streets of Portland, Oregon.
Besides being a funny parody of the bicycle culture, it is a
nice slice of Portland street life.
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The Parson Red Heads
The Parson Red Heads
seem to have a nice idea and the musical integrity to express
it, witness this charming travel video from their
recently released LP, Yearling, on Arena Rock Recording
Company. A vinyl version is available on Parson Farm / Timber
Carnival Records. The Portland-based group began touring the northwest
after the LP release and is now branching into a
national run, which began September 16 with a show at the
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Watch for them in your home town. Or, cheat and
visit their Websites -
The Parson
Red Heads Facebook,
The Parson Red Heads
Site, or The
Parson Red Heads MySpace - where they probably post things
like tour schedules.
Elke
Robitaille
is another young Canadian born singer/songwriter who has come south to
establish a major following built on regular appearances on the L.A. folk
club scene. She produces a rhythmic acoustic sound that features strong
pop hooks and matches the quality of plaintive honesty one hears in her
voice. She is tough, challenging, profane and confident.
Elke
released her first LP, Doors, in 2002 and then followed up with
last year’s Naïve. A graduate of
the Musicians Institute of Hollywood, California, Elke is trained in
recording engineering and music business management and runs her own Indie-Folk
label, Rag Veda records.
She
was did well in the 2006 Rock City
News Awards, with nominations in the Outstanding
Solo Artistcategory.
BOTTOM
RIGHT: I love this photograph of Elke from her MySpace site, with the
caption - "This was my
faithful Tour Van. We spent a lot of great miles together!" Elke has
been something of an itinerant musician in her young career, fitting for a
folkie.
