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PDX Gossip Roundup

I've still yet to finish my Klaxons+Fist Fite review I posted yesterday (now finished) and have yet to post a review of last night in Portland, but it's Gossip time!

➔ Fresh off opening for Klaxons for their first ever shows, Fist Fite will be joining Klaxons on their UK headline tour later this year!!!!!! Brooklyn's Shy Child are along for Klaxons' UK May ride.

➔ Got a message from Nathan aka Gossip's Brace Paine. Guess what they did in LA? Aside from Beth hanging out with Kate Moss, they had a meeting with RICK RUBIN! Speechless! He said it was surreal. I am in love with Rick Rubin! He slept with his parents in their bed until age 18 and what he did with Def Jam in his NYU dorm room is what made me want to go to NYU (though I eventually never even applied)

'Rick Rubin' Spank Rock MP3

➔ Men's Journal magazine contacted me last week about Portland music photography as their summer issue is a music issue and they're doing a feature on the Portland music scene! I sent mine over of Quasi, Hey Lover, the Shins, Viva Voce, Gossip, Y.A.C.H.T., Panther, and the Thermals (all linking is to my photos of each act on flickr). I think they're passing on my photos, but it's still pretty sick that Portland music is drawing this attention!

➔ Yacht has his CD release party next Saturday at OMSI on May 5th 2007. Doors at 8:30, show at 9pm. GO if you live in Portland and are in town! Adrian Orange who went to my middle school (and high school for a portion of freshman year) is playing as is E*Rock and of course the man of the evening is doing a set as well. A concert at OMSI! Too cool!
Tix are available at Jackpot Records, but haven't appeared yet online on Brown Paper Tickets

Here's a cool video Y.A.C.H.T. made of Portland bands at this year's SXSW:

I went to Spank Rock forever ago

Click to read my Pitchfork review

The mini-review pretty much sums up the events of the concert. There was some ugliness in regards the arrangement of me taking posed photos of them which didn't end up happening. I hate their tour manager to make it short.

Nathan aka The Gossip's Brace Paine was in attendance. I see him EVERYTIME I go out. Above is him requesting 'Lindsay Lohan'.
After the Pitchfork item got posted I forwarded him the link and he replied that Spank Rock will be playing a regular set at Dunes in the new year sometime in January or February (they just had their aftershow there this time around) and he's placing me on the guest list because I made a mention of him in my item! All the more reason to be in lust with him. I'm not even into SR, but I will be turning up.

All the ladies got onstage at the end-I got up and stayed for two songs and am still trying to track down someone who got a shot of me up there as there was about a million people taking photos. I've tracked down a few of the people, but alas no luck. Still, their shots are worth a peek-such as .damien and Todd Cooper. I appear in one of Todd's shots, but not on stage-I'm looking down at my camera from the audience deleting images.

'Lindsay Lohan' Pase Rock featuring Spank Rock MP3

Afterwards I basically wanted to become celebate for the rest of my life-even if Brace Paine were to magically fall in lust with me. If that's not a ringing endorsement for seeing them live, I don't know what is.