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DOWNLOAD: Alejandro Escovedo - Silver Cloud (MP3) Alejandro Escovedo just played two nights at City Winery with Bobby Bare Jr. opening. Special guests on the first night (6/29) included Mott the Hoople's Ian Hunter, who joined Alejandro for a verse-trading encore of Mott's "I Wish I Was Your Mother...

DOWNLOAD: Alejandro Escovedo - Street Songs (MP3) Starting tonight (6/29), Alejandro Escovedo & the Sensitive Boys play a string of album-release shows for new LP Street Songs of Love, out today on Fantasy Records...

Memorial Day Weekend officially opened the summer, and for those in the Pacific Northwest it also brought Sasquatch Music Festival (pictures from all three days are coming soon)...

Calexico have some shows scheduled this summer. Those include at Bonnaroo in June and other festivals like Newport Folk Fest and Ottawa Folk Fest...

Speaking of City Winery, musician Joseph Arthur (who currently has paintings on display at Sundance) is continuing his "An Evening With" series there with different guests...

A pair of reunions (Moonshine Willy, the Blacks), a local upstart (Scotland Yard Gospel Choir) and a staggering turn by the Texas-born Alejandro Escovedo highlighted Bloodshot Records' 15th anniversary celebration at a scaled-back Hideout Block Party on Saturday...

Willamette Week's Musicfest NW announces this year's festival line-up which will be held at various venues around the Portland, OR metropolitan area on September 16, 17, 18 & 19...

DOWNLOAD: The Decemberists - Perfect Crime (Junior Boys Remix) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Page France - The Ruby Ring Man (live at the Crocodile Cafe) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Nirvana - talk to me (crocodile cafe 1992) (MP3) "I think it's a blow to the scene," said David Meinert, a local promoter and publicist...