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Portlander, Judah Switzer is the person behind this video. Visit the JudeSays site for more including a video of Scout Niblett.

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

Pickathon 2008 - Day 1 from Dave Allen on Vimeo.

It’s the Pickathon Roots Music Festival’s 10th anniversary and things are just kicking off. The first band hit the stage at 4PM but I have no idea who as I’m backstage trying to upload this video. Anyway, we have an interview with Zale Schoenborn the festival’s founder followed by a chat with Mark, the site’s architect and engineer, who is responsible for the awesome canopies that help shade the audience from the sun. We wrap it up with the fabled and infamous Malibu Mike…….. Check back for live video footage of performances tonight by Jolie Holland and Langhorne Slim.

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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…

They hit up the right bands -
Eat Skull, White Fang, White Rainbow, Menomena, Panther, Honey Owens, Starfucker, Horse Feathers, Southern Belle, M Ward, Thermals, Fist Fite, Malkmus. And yet there is more than just white indie, folk, electronic, alt-rock in Portland. Where were the Lifesavas for instance?