The Vans Warped Tour hits the Portland area this Sunday.
Sunday, Aug 10 2008
Columbia Meadows
63701 Columbia River Hwy, St. Helens, OR
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Bands Playing
3oh!3, A Day to Remember, Aggrolites, Alesana, All That Remains, All Time Low, Anberlin, Angels and Airwaves, Between The Trees, Bring Me the Horizon, Charlotte Sometimes, Classic Crime, Cobra Starship, Confide, Dr. Manhattan, Evergreen Terrace, Everytime I Die, Four Year Strong, From First to Last, GBH, Gym Class Heroes, Hifi Handgrenades, Horrorpops, Katy Perry, Lordz, Ludo, MC Chris, Motion City Soundtrack, Natives of the New Dawn, Norma Jean, ORESKABAND, Panima, Protest The Hero, Reel Big Fish, Relient K, Rise Against, Say Anything, Set Your Goals, Shwayze, Sky Eats Airplane, Story of the Year, Street Dogs, The Academy Is…, The Audition, The Briggs, The Bronx, The Fabulous Rudies, The Human Abstract, The Vandals, We the Kings

Danny Barnes and Bad Livers Live at Pickathon from Dave Allen on Vimeo.

Hackensaw Boys in the Galaxy Barn

Last night saw the close of the Pickathon Roots Music Festival that takes place every year just outside Portland at Pendarvis Farm. Here’s a Pickathon 2008 photo page. Feel free to download any of the pictures but please credit me and Pampelmoose. There are instructions on the page. Enjoy! More coming soon along with more video.

As Pickathon celebrates its 10th Anniversary this years Festival is going to be a doozy. Jolie Holland, Langhorne Slim, Danny Barnes back with his Bad Livers, Kelly Joe Phelps, Melissa Ferrick and many, many more all ready to rock the main stage and, of course, long into the night in the more intimate barn. It all takes place over three days of festivities and camping just 20 minutes outside Portland at Pendarvis Farms. All the information you’ll ever need is here. And the full line-up list is here.

Chanteuse, Nicole Atkins along with her compatriots known as The Sea, play tonight at Portland’s Doug Fir and thanks to Justin and Briana Bononcini Lowe we will be gathering at their home to eat and make merry with Nicole before the show. We need to do more of this kind of thing - the last one was at my house for a Cut Copy pre-show dinner. So any of you touring bands out there need a pre-show dinner just holler and we’ll see what we can do. And any Portland folks who want to offer up their homes for a bash like this holler too. Let’s call it social networking in the “real” world…