Oh, hello there Hometapes.

The Colorado label (home to Pattern is Movement, Slaraffenland, among others) has pulled up stakes and is now joining the mass indie exodus to our darling city. The label’s Sara Padgett Heathcott explains the move…

My husband Adam and I run Hometapes - and his day job (Wieden + Kennedy) has brought us to town. Well, that, and a city that we’ve basically been wooed by. :) The prospect appeared to us last Fall, and we’ve been doing everything we can to bring our frequently-moving operation (Georgia to Florida to Colorado since 2004) to Portland…somewhere we hope to stay for a while. Though we toured all over the US in our old band way back when, Portland was always a little too far for us to afford to make it up to. We had many friends from our Arkansas home come in and out of the city, had been told tales, and knew the bands and labels that made up the pile that’s put the city on our map. But, still, it’s very new to us; we’re like little kids, visiting a place with magic weather, storybook plants, nice people, good food, and so much music and art our heads will probably explode.

Welcome to Portland, and here’s hoping your heads do not explode.