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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Tonight! Tonight in Music: Music on Main St., Memory Tapes and the Hague!

Posted by Arian Jalali on Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 3:21 PM


MUSIC ON MAIN ST: MIKE COYKENDALL, MICHAEL JODELL
(SW Main between Broadway & Park) Portland Center for the Performing Arts presents its fourth installment of this summer's Music on Main Street, your go-to for free, outdoor tunes. On deck this week is Mike Coykendall, whose folksy wailing is known throughout Portland, and has worked with artists like M. Ward and Bright Eyes. JENNA LECHNER


MEMORY TAPES, SLEEP OVER
(Doug Fir, 830 E Burnside) Quickly evolving far beyond the constraints of chillwave, New Jersey's Memory Tapes—the project masterminded by one Dayve Hawk—has revealed itself to be a wide-ranging pop smorgasbord, packed with forlorn synths, late-night melodies, and the hazy gauze of nostalgia. NED LANNAMANN


THE HAGUE, SYSTEM AND STATION, LAND OF PINES
(Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi) It is time to put And I Was Like, What? behind us. That unwieldy (but somehow loveable) moniker is no more, as the band has newly reinvented themselves with a slightly more comprehensible but slightly less Google-able name: the Hague. It's a rebirth of sorts after what sounds like a tough year; following a hardscrabble tour last summer, singer/guitarist Shawn Steven had to be hospitalized with a near-fatal illness, and violinist/keyboardist Travis Chapman suffered a very serious bike accident on New Years Eve. But the good news is that the quintet has bounced back fully intact, all members recovered and healthy, and have a great new EP to share with the world. The Hague's Stark House EP isn't a million miles from what they were doing as And I Was Like, What? before, but its good-natured, limber Northwest rock is imbued with heartfelt, uplifting emotions that may be the by-product of their coming out of the fire, damaged but not beaten. NL

 

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