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Annual Bend Roots Revival returns to celebrate local music

In 2008, I attended the third annual Bend Roots Revival, a grassroots celebration of local music then held…

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Blues guitarist Carvin Jones returns to Redmond’s High Desert Music Hall

If you’re supposed to fight fire with fire, then it only makes sense that you should battle the…

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Bigstock brings big names to Hoodoo Ski Area for OAS benefit

Longtime lovers of music in Central Oregon may remember the early days of Bigstock, which featured local bands…

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Midtown Ballroom hosts the hijinks of Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

There is a moment — several of them, actually — on Me First and the Gimme Gimmes’ new…

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Ledger, Pinnell bring acoustic tour to Silver Moon Brewing

One of my favorite songs in recent years is “There Goes My Mind” by Logan Ledger, a sun-dappled…

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Full week at Hayden Homes Amphitheater in Bend

Bend’s Hayden Homes Amphitheater (344 SW Shevlin Hixon Drive) will host six shows over seven nights, with a…

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The outlaw way ‘won’t be easy’ for Colorado’s Drunken Hearts

The Colorado band Drunken Hearts feel like a cosmic match for a whole bunch of music lovers in…

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Pirámides’ psychedelic journey from Mexico to Bend

Often, when you see a rock band described using the prefix “psych-” that just means they have some…

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Dropping In: The truth and beauty of a cat named Virtute

Since 2003, I’ve been singing the merits of a cat named Virtute. I met Virtute while driving to…

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Thantifaxath highlights a brutal metal bill Saturday in Bend

The biggest band on Saturday night’s metal bill at Volcanic Theatre Pub is the brutal blackened thrash band…

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