BY BRAD NELSON—Featuring incredibly talented Reno musicians performing as Sam Cooke, The Clash, the Mountain Goats, The Bangles, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Lady Gaga, Violent Femmes and Blondie
VIDEO: (Near) complete Praying For Greater Portland Set @ Fil Fest 5/2/09
BY BRAD NELSON AND JESSICA PACHECO—Reno Noise covers Fil Fest at the West Street Market, including Cool Hands, the Touques and Praying for Greater Portland.
Man the Clap’s recording studio is in an undisclosed location–a storage shed of sorts, hidden away in the mysterious concrete jungle of Sparks. I found myself drinking Miller High Life, the champagne of beers, for an entire afternoon that Saturday, observing the band from afar like a pseudo Jane Goodall.
It was DJ Akasha’s rhythmic reggae beats that attracted me to the park Sunday afternoon. His sound paired perfectly with the hula-hooping women of Velocity Movement, a dance group that performs and teaches hula-hoop with an accompanying DJ to the wandering public in Wingfield Park every Sunday from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
George Rollins, a.k.a [...]
How to describe a Buster Blue show? Chains are frequently involved. Cowbells are present. A megaphone stirs the crowd and singing often turns into dramatic outbursts. All blues break loose.