Ohakune is a strange town. Situated at the foot of Mt. Ruapaheu, this sleepy ski town has no business trowing MySpace and MTV sponsored secret shows. This became apparent this last saturday night when four kick ass bands from Aukland drove five hours out of their way to play at a crappy restaurant-by-day bar-by-night venue [...]
I know it’s so two weeks ago, ancient history in the blog world, but I’ve been hoarding off these photos from the free YACHT show that took place outside City Hall, in downtown Portland since I shot them. Originally, I was just gonna let it go but yesterday I was listening to See Mystery Lights [...]
Saturday night I had to say goodbye to one of my best friends in the whole world, Portland Oregon. I am opening a new chapter in the Book of Sloan with a valiant move around the world to New Zealand. I am thrilled to keep the adventure rolling but I just want to say, Portland, [...]
This last Saturday was host to one of the biggest weekend days in music in Portland so far this summer. The Mississippi Street Fair on N Mississippi had dozens of open doors with live music pouring out into the streets for pedestrians to discover. Pix Patisserie on N Williams and Failing hosted a Bastille Day [...]
Getting right along with the storm of new music about which I promised to preach, I give you, What’s Up? Calling Portland their home, What’s Up? is relatively new to the scene. Really, actually they came the fuck out of nowhere and are blowing up quick. I kept hearing their name around town and decided [...]
Guidance Counselor 7-4-09 from Andrew Sloan on Vimeo. A bit delayed on the recap of what was, without a doubt, the best 4th of July since 1776, but this story needs to be told. While attending a show mid afternoon at The Meat Factory, a local house venue, my fellow patriots and I witnessed the [...]
Well, once again, I’m back. My return to Portland this time was like standing under a waterfall of crystal clear new music. The weekend I returned was coincidentally also the same weekend as SuperFest; a clusterfuck of incredible local Portland bands that tend to lean towards the electronic persuasion. The stage at Rotture was graced [...]
Um, dance party anyone? Introducing Jeffery Jerusalem. Power-pop meets late-70s disco meets Justice. Mr. Jerusalem started working on Grimace as solely a recording project a while back but soon found that recordings only go so far. The people want to hear it live. With no reason to argue, JJ took to the stage playing house [...]
I woke up yesterday with a full song in my head. This is a ROUGH ROUGH ROUGH demo of the basic idea laid out. I need to find a way to make more substantial beats. Drumming on the back of my guitar wont cut it anymore. In other news, I just got a ukulele! My [...]
Ok, so I know I already wrote about Bitte Orca but as soon as I did I got a nasty email from Domino Records telling me to take down the links to the songs I had posted. I’ve gotten a couple requests to put the links up and I figure it’s close enough to the [...]