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Empty Space Orchestra: El Viento

“Empty Space Orchestra certainly knows how to fill a room. The Bend, OR quintet of impeccable musicians crafts a symphonic, melodic sound that seamlessly weaves together elements of space rock, prog-metal, noir jazz, post-rock and afro-punk all in one massive…

Mnemonic Sounds: Keeping It Quiet

Portland’s Mnemonic Sounds released their debut album, Muscle Memories in July 2010. Since then, the band, founded by Peter Suk and Megan Ouchida, has achieved a significant degree of success in a short period of time. This past December the…

Hello Morning: The Fear

We first featured Hello Morning on the Daily Dose in March last year, when they released their first EP. Since then they have recorded a full length album called A Fiction which has just been released, and was launched in…

Y La Bamba: Juniper

With Y LA BAMBA, Luzelena Mendoza draws from both her strict Catholic upbringing as an only daughter of a Mexican immigrant and a debilitating illness that led her to fall away from her faith, to create what LA Weekly calls…