Singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers recently opened for Noah Gundersen at the Neptune Theatre. Accompanied by Harrison Whitford (guitar), she’s touring in support of her just released debut album, Stranger in the Alps. Gundersen joined Bridgers onstage for the last song of her set.
Phoebe Bridgers
Show Preview: Petit Biscuit @ the Neptune, Wed. 12/6
~Dagmar
French electronic artist Mehdi Benjelloun, known to us as Petit Biscuit, plays one of only a few North American shows this fall at the Neptune tonight. Coincidentally, or probably not, Benjelloun released his debut LP, Presence, on his eighteenth birthday this year. While he worked on graduating from high school, he made the entire album himself. As in he did all the writing. All the mixing. All the producing. Amazing. Now that he’s out of school, I look forward to Benjelloun being totally unleashed onto the world. His press release tells me he plays numerous instruments, and I hear that in his fantasy world tunes. He’s got some great collaborators on Presence as well: Bipolar Sunshine and Møme are just a couple. A cool connection for tonight’s show – and the tour – is the choice of Portland’s Electric Mantis, for opener. His remix of Petit Biscuit’s “Waterfall” will appear on that song’s remix EP in December.
Petit Biscuit – photo by Charles Lopez
Slipknot & Marilyn Manson @ White River Ampitheatre, 8/11/16
Photos by Josh Daniels
Slipknot
Marilyn Manson
Memory Lane Series, part 19, brings us to another fantastic billing of Slipknot and Marilyn Manson. While Slipknot headlined the tour, Marilyn Manson has some bragging rights of 2016 & 17 for having a part in the TV series, Salem. His character was Thomas Dinley, a barber who’s also a surgeon. Although the beginning of his 2017 Heaven Upside Down Tour had an unforeseen scary beginning with part of the stage falling on him in New York, he’s just starting a European tour. Manson: stay well for all those who love you!! And if you’re also here for Slipknot (you probably are). . . following 2 2016 tours, the band’s main page warns the following: “Be Prepared for Hell, We’ll Be Back Soon.” Until then, you can listen to the live Slipknot album, Day of the Gusano: Live in Mexico.
Slipknot
Marilyn Manson
Norwegian singer-songwriter Susanne Sundfør made a stop at the Triple Door near the end of her recent North American tour. She was on the road in support of her fifth studio album, Music for People in Trouble, and was accompanied by the versatile Jesse Chandler on piano, keys, flute, clarinet and vocals. Los Angeles-based Shey Baba opened.
Wild Child, Vaudeville Etiquette & Walker Lukens @ Neumos, 12/7/16
Photos by Tino Tran
Wild Child
Part 18 of our Memory Lane Series is the cool combining of Wild Child and Walker Lukens (Texans), and one local band, Vaudeville Etiquette. With a new album, Expectations, coming out in February, there should most likely be another Wild Child tour involved. . . already the band’s violinist and lead singer, Kelsey Wilson, is on tour with Matthew Logan Vasquez; one of the dates is at the Fremont Abbey on December 5th. Vaudeville Etiquette has 2 shows set up in December on the 9th and 23rd. Merry Christmas to all their fans!
Wild Child
Vaudeville Etiquette
Walker Lukens