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April’s batch of the best country (and country -ish) music on Bandcamp runs the gamut, from home-recorded acoustic lullabies and indigenous roots-pop to queer country anthems and a tribute to bluegrass pioneers by a pair of virtuoso players. You’ll find all that and more below. Enjoy!
Happy birthday, Boneyard! Bend's most punk-presenting brewery — the skull and crossbones and general
By: Ben Salmon
Vacancy Floor has been one of Bend's busier rock bands over the past few years, playing a bunch of gigs both locally and regionally and building some buzz despite playing music that isn't — and this is meant as a compliment — for everyone.
By: Ben Salmon
Old reviews of “The Sophtware Slump” — the second album from Modesto, California, indie-rock band Grandaddy, released in May of 2000 — read like they could've been written this week.
If you listen to Tommy Guerrero's 1998 full-length “Loose Grooves & Bastard Blues” on the online music platform Bandcamp, you'll see a little note alongside it that that appears to have been written by the artist himself:
By: Ben Salmon
Last week in GO!, we told you all about the heavy psychedelic music happening at the recent Obsidian Music Festival, featuring mind-bending metal bands from across Oregon and Washington.
Summer in Central Oregon is a beautiful thing. There's the river-floating and the sunset-watching. The biking, the cycling, the hiking and the climbing. There's patio-drinking and pet-parading, fly-fishing and golf-ball-golfing, downtown-strolling and … well, yes, there's some traffic-navigating, but if that bothers you, it means you've been here long enough to forget that it's worse in other places.
I'm anti-Spotify for a variety of reasons we won't get into here. But it is by far the biggest and m
The Tower Theatre (835 NW Wall St., Bend) announced Act 1 of its 2026-27 season earlier this week. If you're a music nut, it's a doozy — the calendar is stuffed with acts from across the stylistic spectrum, from folk and rock to '80s music, flamenco-pop and beyond.
