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Daily Genre: DJ/Electronic Friday, March 12, 2010
Q/A: DJ Prashant brings India’s biggest Bollywood DJ to PDX

DJ and promoter Prashant Kakad talks about the connection between Bollywood and DJs and how India’s number one Bollywood DJ Suketu comes to the Roseland this Friday.



A fantastic night of fun with the Red Elvises in Bend

The Red Elvises deliver a fun-filled show in Bend before bringing the party to Portland and Eugene next week.


“True Father of Bossa Nova” Johnny Alf dead at 80

He was the Brazilian musicians’ musician.


Lukas Nelson comes to Mississippi Studios with a promise

A Promise of the Real that is. This exciting 60’s jam, blues-rock crossover kept it real and rocked the house.


The Cool Kids’ proved their hip-hop will be heard

The lyrical tag team The Cool Kids arrived with SoCal natives Pac Div to show the Roseland their unique rap styles influenced by the golden era of hip-hop.


Part Two: Mississippi Studios turned one with a bash

The second half of the night featured stunning performances from Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside, Dirty Mittens, Tahoe Jackson, Yeltsin, and Matt Sheehy & The Menders.


Part One: Mississippi Studios packed the house for their birthday

The first half of Mississippi Studio’s one year anniversary featured Sean Flinn & The Royal We, Run On Sentence, Holcombe Waller, Adam Shearer, Justin Power, and Laura Gibson.


Music Millennium 41st Anniversary events and In-Store shows

Shae Fiol, One Eskimo, Temper Trap all playing In-store concerts.


Works by Northwest composers featured in upcoming concert by the Portland Vocal Consort

Portland Vocal Consort to give concert of music by Northwest composers


Pink Floyd wins long battle to halt single-song download sales

Sorry folks, you gotta get the whole album.


Memorial Coliseum presentation to City Council delayed

Negotiations with the three developers continue, PDC’s Rose Quarter Development Project SAC report on hold.


Failed Limbs & Shallow Effects – A Q&A with Miles Kurosky

The former Beulah front man (and current Portland resident) has recovered from harrowing medical problems to finally record his first solo album.


The Big Pink makes big noise at the Doug Fir

The Big Pink returns to Portland for a second time sharing the stage with A Place To Bury Strangers and IO Echo.


EOTO brings improvised electronic arrangements to Eugene and Portland

EOTO’s indie-electronic act hits the stage at Eugene’s WOW Hall (March 11) before touring to Portland’s Berbati’s Pan (March 12).


The Doug Fir is set on fire

Seattle invaded Portland on Sunday night with rocking indie and acoustic folk from The Cave Singers, The Dutchess and the Duke, and The Moondoggies.


Brazilian Carnaval at the Bossa Nova on Friday

7 bands including the Lions of Batucada and the Brazillionaires bring Brazil to Burnside.


Cascadia Composers to offer workshops and concerts in new music

Cascadia Composers present a festival of contemporary music in Portland.


MixBox brings free jazz

Sometimes Jazz is a challenge – sometimes it’s supposed to be.


Mimicking Birds soared Saturday at the Mission Theater

Mimicking Birds celebrate their self-titled debut, playing along to video from BBC’s “Planet Earth: Jungles.”


Folk rock with Noah Gundersen and the Courage plus Adam Sweeney

Two Northwest singer-songwriters able to calm and jostle play a free gig at the White Eagle Saloon on Wednesday night.


Paul Chasman returns to rare guitar form, after laying his six-string down

A perfect storm of increasingly unappreciative fans looking for more flash and a worrisome Bush administration made guitar virtuoso Paul Chasman walked away from music. Find out what brought him back.