My favorite new band who delivered my favorite new album of 09, O+S [O plus S] were in the OPB studios last month. Check out the video here.

O+S - New Life

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White Fang

More new music on the second hour of this week’s Pampelmoose edition of the New Music Hour on Portland’s 94.7FM. This show is devoted in its entirety to Portland bands. Just a handful of the hundreds of amazing bands in this city. Portland take a bow. I’m on 94.7FM with resident DJ Squid every Tuesday and Thursday at 8PM. This is the show from Thursday November 6th. For more local and Northwest music you can also tune in to 94.7 Too either on your HD radio or on the web. 94.7 Too only plays local and Northwest music, nothing else.

Super XX Man - Medication [Podington Bear Remix]
Bark, Hide & Horn - Change It
Twenty Slivers
The Wherewithals - The Point
Boy Eats Drum Machine - Planets + Stars
Hockey - Curse This City
Dolorean - Sleeperhold
Climber - Snakes
Blow - Babay [Eat a Critter, Feel Its Wrath]
Siren’s Echo - All My
White Fang - Tall Shadow
Red Fang - Bird On Fire

Stream or download all the previous Pampelmoose 94.7FM shows here.

Wonder Ballroom bar during MusicFestNW..

The New Music Hour on Portland’s 94.7FM is dedicated to bringing listeners music, both local and national, that they may not normally hear on the station. I’m on air with resident DJ Squid every Tuesday and Thursday at 8PM. This is the show from Tuesday September 16th and it includes an interview and live in-studio performance from James of Does It Offend You, Yeah?

Fujiya & Miyagi - Uh
The Happy Hollows - Tambourine
Love Is All - Big Bangs, Black Holes, Meteorites
The Standard - The Swimmer
Graeme K - Aw Turkish Baby
School Of Seven Bells - Connjur
Girls [NYC] - And If You Go
The May Fire - No Clone

Stream the show from 09-16-08. The download is 45mb.

Archive of previous Pampelmoose 94.7FM shows.

And here’s the show from 9-11-08.

New Music Hour from 94.7 and a locals-only HD channel

I was chatting with 94.7FM Program Director, Mark Hamilton, the other day about FM radio and how it used to be the place for everyone to discover new music. It’s no exaggeration to say that today music fans have many ways to hear the latest and greatest and not necessarily via radio. The internet and satellite radio are just two new mediums that have carved out slices of the traditional radio listening audience, and Hamilton is one of many station PD’s who have learned that in recent polls the numbers of young people who say they listen to terrestrial radio stations to discover new music has dropped to about 50%.

Hamilton is passionate about music and radio and it’s not in his nature to sit back and watch things slide. He recently had the station begin broadcasting in HD, a radio technology that enables AM and FM radio stations to broadcast their programs digitally. 94/7 Too is KNRK’s digital HD channel that plays music from Northwest bands only which is a pretty bold move and given how many indie bands there are in the NW there should be plenty of choice for any indie music lover.

And now, as of Monday this week, Hamilton has set aside a whole hour each evening that is hosted by 94.7 DJ, Squid, and has given him the freedom to play any new music that comes across his desk or drops in his email box. It’s simply called The New Music Hour. A quick look at one evening’s playlist shows tracks from Santogold, M83, Tokyo Police Club, MGMT, Shiny Toy Guns, Ulrich Schnauss, Ra Ra Riot and Brazilian Girls to name a few which is not a bad start.