Benjamin Curtis left his band Secret Machines in 2007 to form School of Seven Bells with the twin sisters Alejandra and Claudia Deheza, formerly of On! Air! Library! Named after a legendary pickpocket training academy, the band first released a single, My Cabal, in May 2007 on the UK label Sonic Cathedral. They have an album out on Ghostly International called ‘Alpinism.’

I’m laying all of this out so you have plenty of background should you decide to leave the last of the Thanksgiving dinner leftovers behind and head out to see them at Doug Fir this Thursday. Headliners, M83, are awesome too..

School of Seven Bells - Connjur

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…

Tea For Julie are set to release their new CD, ‘the Sense In Tying Knots’ on June 25th the day they play the Doug Fir. Have a listen to a track from the new CD below.

Tea For Julie - Take The Helm