Deschutes County Fair’s concert lineup unveiled

Pepper plays the Domino Room

May 17, 2013 4:00 am

Hawaii-bred and SoCal-based Pepper — popular with people purported to prize pedestrian pop-reggae — is gearing up for the release of its self-titled new album, which comes out in July on the band’s own LAW Records label. Step....MORE

Keb’ Mo’ show in Sisters is sold out

May 17, 2013 4:00 am

After a year off, the Sisters Starry Nights concert series returns Saturday with a show by blues musician Keb’ Mo’. Tickets are already sold out. Starry Nights was founded in 1997 by Jeri Fouts and Susan Arends in the face of budget....MORE

Deschutes County Fair’s concert lineup unveiled

May 17, 2013 4:00 am

Here’s a fun fact that you may not know: Last summer, on Aug. 4, the pop band Hot Chelle Rae played for what I believe to be the biggest concert crowd in Central Oregon’s history at the Deschutes County Fair. The group drew an estimated ....MORE

Music releases

May 17, 2013 4:00 am

Michael Buble“To Be Loved"Reprise RecordsTo have Michael Buble singing Frank Sinatra's latter-day finest — and on the label Old Blue Eyes started — would either bring a smile to the Chairman's lips or cause him to turn in his grave.....MORE

Tartufi returns to the scene of the crime

May 17, 2013 4:00 am

Let's get this out of the way: Tartufi is the band that was playing when local police cited The Horned Hand for excessive noise last summer. That's one of those things that was a bummer when it happened, but with the passage of time — and the....MORE

The Staxx Brothers

• Funk, rock and soul will be in the spotlight when the Seattle band visits Bend's Silver Moon

May 17, 2013 4:00 am

If The Staxx Brothers frontman Davin Stedman is anywhere near as fast-talking and energetic and smart on stage as he comes across off of it, you should be in for a good time Saturday, when the Seattle group plays its “hard-ass soul" — a....MORE

Google to launch music service

May 15, 2013 4:00 am

Google is set to introduce a subscription music feature to compete against fast-growing streaming services like Spotify, according to several people briefed on its plans. Google is planning to introduce the new service as early as Wednesday at Google ....MORE

TV spotlight

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has Heart

May 11, 2013 4:00 am

It’s rare that relatives get to experience receiving one of music’s highest honors together. But sooner or later — and their devotees believe it should have been sooner — it was bound to happen for Ann and Nancy Wilson, aka....MORE

Hitchin' a ride ...

• Local faves Broken Down Guitars unveil their debut album Saturday at Silver Moon

May 10, 2013 4:00 am

When it came time for the Bend rock 'n' roll band Broken Down Guitars to put their new album “Passports" up for sale online, they got in touch with CD Baby, a Portland-based distributor of independent music. CD Baby wasted no time in stumping....MORE

Upcoming Concerts

May 10, 2013 4:00 am

May 17 — The Freeway Revival (rock), The Horned Hand, Bend, www. facebook. com/thehornedhand. May 18 — Keb’ Mo’ (blues), Sisters High School, www. sistersstarrynights. org. May 18 — The Staxx Brothers (hard soul), Silver ....MORE

See Super Water Sympathy in Sisters

May 10, 2013 4:00 am

Super Water Sympathy just sounds like a band that should (and maybe will) be huge. They call their music “Water Pop" and describe it thusly: “a synthesis of classic symphonic ambience with modern rock’n’roll anthems.....MORE

Sara Watkins visits the Tower Theatre

May 10, 2013 4:00 am

Singer, songwriter and fiddler Sara Watkins has been onstage for two of the best shows I’ve seen at Les Schwab Amphitheater over the past seven years: Nickel Creek’s stunning showcase of progressive bluegrass in 2006, and The....MORE

Get to know ... Tyler, the Creator

• Rabble-rousing rapper hits Bend’s Midtown Ballroom

May 10, 2013 4:00 am

Here’s a show that highlights a generational gap like few others. Mention the name Tyler, the Creator to a Gen Xer and you’re likely to get a blank stare. But do the same to a Millennial (or younger) and watch their eyes light up.....MORE

Going out

Looking for something to do? Check out our listing of live music, DJs, karaoke, open mics and more happening at local nightspots. Find lots more at www.bendbulletin.com/events.

May 10, 2013 4:00 am

TODAYLIVE WIRE: Classic rock; 5:30 p. m.; The Blacksmith Restaurant, 211 N. W. Greenwood Ave., Bend; 541-318-0588. TEXAS HOLD’EM: $40; 6 p. m.; Rivals Sports Bar, Grill & Poker, 2650 N. E. Division St., Bend; 541-550-7771. DEREK MICHAEL MARC:....MORE

Music releases

May 10, 2013 4:00 am

Fall Out Boy“Save Rock and Roll"Island RecordsFall Out Boy really might just save rock and roll with this. For “Save Rock and Roll," the band's first album since 2008's underappreciated “Folie a Deux," the rejuvenated Fall Out Boy....MORE

The Quick & Easy Boys + Eric Tollefson Band

May 10, 2013 4:00 am

The Quick & Easy Boys have been to Bend so many times they seem like they're locals. But they're not. They're from Portland. Still, we're hospitable people here in Central Oregon, so we treat regulars like our own. Which means we're proud of this ....MORE

Latyrx + MartyParty

May 10, 2013 4:00 am

Oh, to be a fly on the wall of KDVS, the student-run radio station at the University of California's Davis campus. That's where a love of left-of-center beats and sounds brought together five dudes who would go on to help define West Coast hip-hop,....MORE