Hi-Scores Recording Library announces White Rings’ limited edition Suffocation EP. Available online today, the digital version features remixes from Los Campesinos!, Unision, Guy Dallas and many more. To celebrate the release, Hi-Scores is making the Los Campesinos! remix available for free online. You can grab it here.

Limited to a pressing of 500 colored white vinyl records, the physical version features the original title track as well as the haunted by Unison b-side remix. Adding to the offering, Hi-Score will also be including a download card for all six remixes with purchase of the physical record. The pre-order is up and running here.

The Brooklyn-based duo White Ring have been gaining momentum in the press for their icy, dark, fantasy-inspired electronic indie sound. Earlier this year Bryan Kurkimilis and Kendra Malia released a split 7″ with San Fransisco drag artist oOoOO, and are currently planning an EP for a fall release.

[MELOY-ANCHOLY ROCK] Folk-rock heroes the Decemberists are playing only two Northwest shows this year, and one will be at MusicfestNW. After the band’s ambitious 2009 rock opera, The Hazards of Love, Colin Meloy and his gang of merry Decemberists have been hunkering down in a barn outside an undisclosed Portland location recording a follow-up record with the help of R.E.M.’s Peter Buck.

All Songs Considered featured the Decemberists before they debuted The Hazards of Love at the NPR SXSW Showcase. For a band that had humble beginnings in 2000, the Decemberists have quickly become one of Portland’s most successful and respected indie-rock exports.

Since its 2004 MusicfestNW performance at the Roseland Theater, the band has made a great impression on the Portland folk-rock scene and is now poised to take over the world. The only question is, are you coming along for the ride?

Don’t gamble. The only way to see this rare Northwest performance is by getting your hands on a MFNW wristband or ticket. The Decemberists play with Laura Veirs, Blue Giant and Weinland at the Levi’s Pioneer Stage at Pioneer Courthouse Square on Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010.

Watch and listen to the Decemberists here.
Purchase MFNW wristband or ticket to the Decemberist show here.
Get $10 off your MFNW wristband here. (Hurry up! Offer expires July 6!)

We are the Timbers Army. The classy classy Timbers Army.
And this is the Timbers Logo. The boring boring Timbers logo.

MusicfestNW’s kickoff show is in line with everything else we are doing this year, BIGGER AND BETTER. This rare appearance byPanda Bear (of Animal Collective Fame) on Wednesday, September 8, at the Crystal Ballroom is destined to be an epic event that can’t be missed and will launch what is going to be the biggest MusicfestNW in the 10 years we’ve been taking over Portland, OR.

Three years after his breakthrough album, Person Pitch, Panda Bear (Noah Lennox) returns with the album that everyone is talking about and can’t wait to hear, Tomboy. As part of the build up to this incredible album, Panda Bear will be dropping a series of limited-eidtion 7″ singles up to the release of the full album. The first of these, also titled Tomboy will be released on July 13 and features two songs, “Tomboy” and “Slow Motion”.

When not working on music for Animal Collective, Panda Bear is still constantly churning out tunes that music fans just can’t get enough of. Other then his solo music he can be found working with Scotty Mou (DJ Casio – Queens) in Jane or with any of the other members of Animal Collective.

Don’t miss Panda Bear w/ guests on Wednesday, September 8th at the Crystal Ballroom.

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Willamette Week is thrilled to announce the preliminary lineup for MusicfestNW, now in its 10th year of showcasing the finest in national and regional music in one of the most compelling urban areas anywhere.

In a break with the past, the festival is adding to its 15-club, five-night, 160-band festival two outdoor performances in Portland’s civic living room: historic Pioneer Courthouse Square, in the very belly of downtown Portland.

Two of America’s peerless rock bands, local folk-rock heroes The Decemberists and critically lauded art-rockers The National, headline the Levi’s Stage at Pioneer Courthouse square on Saturday, Sept. 11, and Sunday, Sept. 12.

Since MFNW’s beginning (as North by Northwest), it has aspired to put on a diverse event, one that honors one of this region’s best exports—theNorthwest music scene—while looking to the future beyond the horizon.

Other confirmed headliners include Austin folk-rock band Okkervil River, Animal Collective member Panda Bear, booty-bounce dance juggernaut Major Lazer, reunited metal outfit Sleep, Portland’s beloved indie rock trios The Thermals and Menomena, emerging hip-hop star Wiz Khalifa, and New York City’s effortlessly cool The Walkmen.

Seattle’s KEXP 90.3-FM—one of America’s finest public radio stations and a leading authority in indie rock—will broadcast MFNW live from Portland’sDoug Fir Lounge and feature in-studio performances from the festival.

MFNW is also partnering with Nike for a series of free, all-ages daytime performances at the Wonder Ballroom. Headliners and set times will be announced soon.

Festival wristbands go on sale June 5, 2010, at two price points:

• $90 for an all-inclusive wristband that gets you into both outdoor shows and the rest of the four-day festival.

$65 for one of the two outdoors shows (The Decemberists or The National) and the rest of the fest.

Individual tickets for shows at Pioneer Square, Crystal Ballroom, and The Roseland Theater will also be on sale June 5. All ticket information can be found at musicfestnw.com/tickets

Full preliminary lineup:

The Decemberists

The National

Okkervil River

Major Lazer

Sleep performing Holy Mountain

Menomena

The Thermals

Wiz Khalifa

Ra Ra Riot

The Walkmen

Ted Leo & The Pharmacists

The Helio Sequence

Justin Townes Earle

Baroness

David Bazan

The Tallest Man on Earth

The Gories

No Means No

Man Man

Laura Veirs

Bobby Bare Jr.

Titus Andronicus

Surfer Blood

Akron/Family

Crooked Fingers

Shonen Knife

Japandroids

People Under the Stairs

Cold Cave

Frank Turner

The Builders and the Butchers

Phantogram

Washed Out

Black Prairie

Thee Oh Sees

Abe Vigoda

Big Freedia

MEN

Laser Sword

>From Ashes Rise

Devin Phillips

The Suckers

Trash Talk

Scott Kelly

Rocky Votolato

Blue Giant

The Minus 5

Dan Mangan

Jeff the Brotherhood

Marc Olson

Red Fang

The Zeros

Let’s Wrestle

Pierced Arrows

The Bellrays

Weinland

Portland Cello Project

The Magic Kids

DJ Beyonda

Richmond Fontaine

Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside

Tu Fawning

Death by Stereo

Princeton

Kisses

White Hinterland

BOAT

Damion Suomi

Typhoon

Y La Bamba

The Glitch Mob is a four man musical collaboration with roots from San Francisco and Los Angeles. What initially started as a joke/loose affiliation soon stuck as edIT, Boreta, Kraddy and Ooah found themselves frequently playing the same shows and eventually tag teaming during back to back time slots. Thislaught of ferocious bass, head cracking drums and infinitely complex rhythms. A proverbial Voltron effect on stage. Taking influences from hip-hop, experimental, and dance genres, The Glitch Mob have crafted their own form of futuristic dance floor hip-hop that has been “slaying” audiences world wide. Their live sets reinvent the dj “tag-team” concept with four performers on stage at once, interacting like a jazz combo, each taking the lead at intuitive moments, interweaving their own sounds, and remixing everything on the fly. The result is a sound distinctly their own, blending the deep head nod of hip-hop with serious bass music, throwing genre distinctions out the window. The Glitch Mob has been one of the cornerstones of this new electronic hip hop movement that has emerged from Glasgow to Montreal and back to Los Angeles. Taking a nod from the resurgence in the instrumental hip-hop “beats” movement, the Glitch Mob has injected a great sense of dance floor sensibility into the scene and crafted their own niche as new school dance floor destroyers.

TheGlitchMob.com

The new CD Drink the Sea is available at Amazon, Itunes and all msuic outlets

Doors open at 8, Tickets are available at Ticketswest.com andGroovetickets.com

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PDX Pop Now! 2010 Compilation Release Party

Holocene (1001 SE Morrison)

Thursday, June 3

7pm

$10 (admission includes a free copy of the double-discs PPN!10 comp)

All-Ages

Performances by

Deelay Ceelay

Tope

the angry orts

The Great Mundane

+ a raffle (not a band, but the thing)

2010 Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival, July 2-5, Tom McCall Waterfront Park
Portland, Oregon World-class festival fights hunger

Taj Mahal * Little Feat * John Mayall * Booker T. * Bobby Rush Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen * Galactic with Cyril Neville JJ Grey & Mofro * * Chris Thomas King * Curtis Salgado Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue * Walter Trout * Michael Burks Band with Lucky Peterson * Baskery * Cedric Burnside & Lightnin’ Malcolm * Moreland & Arbuckle * Super Chikan & the Fighting Cocks * Mingo Fishtrap * PorterDavis Janiva Magness * Norton Buffalo’s Knockouts *Paul Cebar * Kara Grainger

Zydeco Swamp Romp with Curley Taylor & Zydeco Trouble, Donna Angelle & Zydeco Posse, Corey Ledet & his Zydeco Band, Andre Thierry & Zydeco Magic … and that’s just the beginning>

Now on sale: Festival passes, DME Blues Cruises and After-hours Blues Jam tickets.