Beulah Land

This post is dedicated to Alex, my French friend in Portland who has single handedly saved this tour from the brink of disaster. We're officially touring France and the U.K. Spain is still being a bit of a pain, but we're soldiering on. The French shows I think will be fantastic. The first place we're playing in is at a place called El Inca in Bordeaux. Here's a Youtube video of local post rock heroes Properr playing there





This guy Alex is ridiculously cool. He's dashing and dresses well and has a thick accent, but a better handle on English than you or I. He also plays in a Portland band called Yeti Love.






























The New Pornographers-Challengers


Canadian super-group, The New Pornographers are vaguely reminiscent of Fleetwood Mac to me at times. I have a hard time describing exactly why, except that, especially on the Dan Bejar fronted songs, both bands share these shit-eating cheesy moments, occasionally stretching out into whole songs which become almost hypnotic upon repeated listens (see: Mutiny, I Promise You).
Challengers is the upcoming release from the veteran indie band, and it's pretty predictable in the sense that with so many strong pop songwriters in the same band you're bound to either get some fantastic musical moments and/or some harrowing drama. And seeing as the core of this band is made up of musicians with decidedly less extreme personalities than that of Fleetwood Mac, chances are good the latter of the choices is less likely than the first.