Live Show Reviews
Welcome to the showblog. We will post a couple live show reviews a week. You’ll see all kinds of shows from all kinds of genres. We might end up at your show at any moment with a camera and an objective opinion.
Electropolis – Tight Tights, Tight Beats, Loose Definitions of Gender
If you like beautiful, androgynous women and men in bright leotards, sporting gravity-resistant cubist hair cuts, and laying down funky, retro dance beats then you’d have lost your shit over Electropolis. Local musician and new man at Someday Lounge, Tim John O’Brien, organized the event in an effort to showcase the beating heart of electronic music in Portland, without necessarily calling on any big-hype bands.READ MORE
Rozendal – Roadside Attraction
Brian Rozendal is one of those singer-songwriters I’ve had the pleasure of watching grow, expand and flourish during his time on the Portland folk scene. A regular at local open-mics, I remember clearly my first impression of the slightly bookish, amicable guy who would take the stage and start howling over his guitar about pain, loss and epiphany. Since that time, he’s recorded an impressively lush full-length record, and now fronts a large band of musicians, including pedal steel, upright bass and more. READ MORE
