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Music-y articles not in GO! Magazine

Monday, December 7th, 2009

In the past few days, The Bulletin has published a few articles outside GO! Magazine that are focused on music. Check ‘em out:

-Young local rockers The Tree Dwellers have advanced to the semi-finals of a nation-wide, online battle of the bands. Around 100 bands entered, the field was narrowed to 24, and now it’s down to eight. My colleague Hillary Borrud met up with the guys yesterday and wrote all about them here, and you can go vote for them in the contest here. Voting is open for a week.

-Did you know there have been two local bands called Jones Road? One played around Bend in the mid-1970s and the other is up and running right now. They both got started within a few hundred feet of each other, but 30+ years apart. And the new Jones Road picked its name with no knowledge of its predecessor. Old-timers should definitely give this article a read, if nothing else for the recollections of places like The Family Tree, The Palace and the Hollinshead ranch.

-Thanks to the popularity of games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero, Bend’s Breedlove Guitar Co. is planning to expand. Editorial note: I played Rock Band for the second time ever last night and it is the most fun ever.

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Local music news: vote for The Tree Dwellers, new songs from We Are Brontosaurus, Chicks with Picks, and El Dante is no more

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

Odds and ends from your local music scene:

-Man, I blew it on this one. For the past several days, Bend’s The Tree Dwellers have been competing for votes in a national battle of the bands happening at something called garagebandplayoff.com. Their voting window closes tomorrow. So go here and vote for them. Vote for them a bunch; it’s not against the rules.

More than 100 bands entered this thing, according to Dwellers keyboardist Forrest Grenfell, and The Tree Dwellers were selected as one of the top 24. If you go vote for them enough, they’ll move on to the top 8. The champ will be crowned on Dec. 18.

-Youthful indie rockers We Are Brontosaurus has posted three new live recordings on its MySpace profile. You should go check out “Nausea,” “Post Modern Post” and “Mr. Man,” because these guys are getting better fast.

-In the non-teenagers category of this post, I’m sad to report that local funk-rock-jam band El Dante has split up. I asked guitarist Gabe Johnson for a reason and got the long version, which I tremendously appreciate, but I’m not going to go into here. Instead, the short version: Different band members wanted to play different styles of music, and that caused a rift in the group. Some other stuff went down, too, but yeah, that’s pretty much the main thing. It happens. A lot.

Word on the street is a couple bands may be rising from El Dante’s ashes, but mum’s the word on that for now. I’ll let you know what’s up as soon as I hear something official.

-Silver Moon Brewing & Taproom will host a benefit for the local women’s shelter Saving Grace on Nov. 27, and the lineup will feature four local, lady-led bands. Very cool, right? I think so. Anyway, here’s the flyer: