Portland band A Weather came by the Nemo Design studio to talk about their new album, ‘Cove’, which will be released next week on March 4th. It’s coming out on Conor Oberst’s record label, Team Love. A Weather members Aaron, Sarah, Lou, Aaron (2) and Zach talk to me about recording, the hook up with Team Love, how free MP3s can help sell records, their appearances at SXSW next month and how their album is released the day of the Democratic primaries…. You’ll also hear ‘Oh My Stars’ and ‘Spiders, Snakes’ from the new album.

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John and a dog.

John Askew is a busy man. His resumé is as long as my arm; recording producer and engineer, label owner (Film Guerrero), multi-instrumentalist, solo artist (sort of, Tracker is the outfit) and now sidekick to me and Menomena’s Danny Seim in our new outfit Faux Hoax. In this interview John talks about the trials and travails of running a label whilst juggling most of the above on a daily basis. You’ll hear music from FilmG bands Mount Analog, Buellton, Manta Ray and Tracker.
UPDATE: Since talking to me John has a few new things under his belt - not least the specially-priced Menomena package from Film G that includes all three release from Menomena on FilmG. He’s also releasing Nonesuch recording artist Laura Veirs’ new album “Saltbreakers” deluxe edition 180 gram vinyl. As well as Menomena’s - Friend and Foe Deluxe Edition vinyl 180 gram due Summer 2007. And somewhere in this tight schedule will be the new Faux Hoax album. And he tells me he just got confirmation that he’s going to score and do the music supervision for the new Steve Zahn movie (co-star Chris Marquette) called “Calvin Marshall”. Last but not least he’s been in the studio recording Wow and Flutter ’s new album. Yikes!!

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What we have here is a slew of cool tracks from local bands. The podcast is part of a weekly series posted by Pampelmoose.com. In this podcast you will hear Menomena, Dj Tan’t, The Shaky Hands, Solo Dos En Tijuana, Stars of Track and Field and The Joggers. As always, support your local artists by clicking the links and buying their music.

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Menomena’s Justin (l) trains the “choir.”.

Menomena, Portland’s indie stars, will unleash their new CD Friend and Foe for Portland’s music fans at their CD release party on January 28th at the Crystal Ballroom. There are two pluses to attending this one - they will be joined by a 25 piece choir, and the show is free!! For the uninitiated you can hear Menomena in their Pampelmoose podcast.