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Friday, December 18, 2009
KNW YR PDX Gift Idea: The Art of Musical Maintenance
Posted by Andrew R Tonry on Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 1:31 AM
Tonight marked the opening of the sixth annual The Art of Musical Maintenance show at the Goodfoot. The amount of work on display is staggering (281 in all), and the majority is great. All are screen printed by hand. A number of local bands (Modest Mouse, Decemberists, M. Ward, etc) and even local shows are available. Each poster is for sale, framed and unframed. The unframed posters average from $20-30, while the framed versions start around $100. Pretty good Christmas gift ideas for the music lover in your life (although, damn—no bands my girlfriend really digs to be found... what the fuck am I going to get her?!).
You'll need to be quick. At most there are five or so copies of each poster and a number of them have already sold out. I'd get there this weekend if you're seriously considering purchase. That said, it's a great exhibit. A beer and a wander through them all is totally worthwhile. A few of the posters are really special—hand printed on wood, and even some with a kind of metallic process I'm not sure what to call. Go see for yourself.
An idea of the amount of work we're talking about:
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
KNW YR PDX / Tonight! Know Your Yachts.
Posted by Ned Lannamann on Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:15 PM
The Portland music scene is so overstuffed with bands that it can be hard to keep track of them all. (Even when it's your job.) So, to keep things from being too confusing, we're taking a look at two similarly named Portland bands—YACHT and Incredible Yacht Control—and giving you the rundown on their differences. Confusion, be gone!
YACHT: Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans (pictured above)
Incredible Yacht Control: Bret Vogel of Crosstide (pictured below) is the mastermind behind Incredible Yacht Control, with help from Matt Henderson and Rian Lewis, also from Crosstide. Kody and Ruban Nielson of the Mint Chicks (who are tonight's opening band) are also involved.
Notable performances
YACHT: Once performed on an actual yacht.
Incredible Yacht Control: Played their first gig in November of last year. Tonight's gig at Rotture is still among the first Incredible Yacht Control shows.
Where to get their music
YACHT: Lots of free YACHT mp3s are for the taking at their website, on the Souvenirs page. Their latest full-length, See Mystery Lights, is available wherever fine music sold.
Incredible Yacht Control: An unmastered version of their record is available for free on their website, after you click on the "Music" tab.
Upcoming shows
YACHT: A Portland release show for See Mystery Lights will happen sometime in September, but a date and venue have not been pinned down. At their PDX Pop Now! City Hall show last month, they joked about possibly doing it on a plane. So... maybe it will be on a plane? We don't know.
Incredible Yacht Control: Hey, funny you asked! Incredible Yacht Control are playing tonight at Rotture! The show starts at 9 pm and costs $6. The Mint Chicks, Deer and the Doe, and Housefire are also on the bill.
N.B. Yachts were a Stiff Records band from Liverpool in the late '70s. They have nothing to do with any of this.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
KNW YR PDX / Video / I'm Drunk! Minhternet Video: Nightvision
Posted by Marjorie Skinner on Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:54 AM
Frequent Mercury contributing photographer Minh Tran just sent me his video project, "Nightvision." Part documentation of what the kids are doing and wearing while you're home asleep, part lovenote to PDX's DJ and club scene, it is perhaps overlong, but filled with flattering images of tipsy young things. In other words, you can probably take it.
Friday, May 29, 2009
They Live Here / KNW YR PDX THEY LIVE HERE: Hockey - A Few Questions with Bands that Live in PDX, but Play All Over the World
Posted by Matt Caldwell on Fri, May 29, 2009 at 9:54 AM
In a town with a lot of buzz bands, Hockey has to be near the top right now. The Mercury's own Music Chief, Ezra Caraeff, said it best: "Wait, the band that was playing Portland basement shows a few months ago just played a television show with Cat Stevens? My head just exploded."
Hockey is huge—in the UK. "Later with Jools Holland" airs every Friday on BBC and has up to 12 million viewers in 17 countries. So you can understand Ezra's head symptoms when, on April 21, we watched them literally rocking Jools Holland. And yes, Cat Stevens (aka Yusuf Islam) came on after them.
Hockey has been stationed in the UK, playing gig after gig, ever since. They co-headlined with Friendly Fires and Passion Pit (talk about buzzzz). Not bad for a group of friends fresh out of college (Gonzaga & University of the Redlands) who recently relocated to Portland from Spokanistan.
I met them at the Radio Room on Alberta. Recently back from the UK, they were genuinely glad to be back in Portland. Three out of four of them rolled up on their bikes. They were fun, friendly and clearly good friends, we sat down to chat on the rooftop deck.
LISTEN:
Hockey - "Too Fake"
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
KNW YR PDX / Tonight! The Local Lounge: A Sign of the Times
Posted by Maranda Bish on Wed, May 13, 2009 at 4:03 PM
At first thought, doesn't it seem strange that despite the hordes of musicians and artists that have migrated to North and Northeast Portland in recent years, there are still so few venues for the up-and-coming music circuit? Beyond the big-name Wonder Ballroom, Northeast Portland has smaller stages at the Know, Dunes, the Kenton Club, and the Coop, not to mention endless house show locales. Yet it seems to me that the majority of established venues—for example, Holocene, Doug Fir, Slabtown, Valentine's, Satyricon—are located either in Southeast or Downtown.
It makes more sense when considered as a phenomenon of the larger shifts going on in Portland's neighborhoods. After all, it's only in the last 10 to 15 years that Northeast has become a destination for the young and artsy, and a walk down the street demonstrates that the area is still visibly and tangibly in transition. Which makes both the name and the presence of Local Lounge of special interest. The Local is the latest incarnation of a building at NE MLK and Fremont that has served as a test tube of sorts for the dynamics of the area over the last couple of years. Let's assume we're all well-versed on the gentrification thang; for a brush-up on the details and some really awesome photos of Northeast neighborhoods throughout the last century, check out this article.
In the last five years, the building now housing the Local has changed hands and monikers several times, going from the friendly dive Chances to a place I knew well as the Kiknbaque Lounge—the spelling and implied activity of which gives a good idea of the relaxed, urban-chic atmosphere the place was going for. The bar's management at the time expressed strong commitment to providing a multicultural locale for the various populations that converge on the area, and in my experience, there was some success: Weekly karaoke nights drew in legions of white hipsters, myself included, alongside natives of the traditionally black neighborhoods, and other minority populations.
Yet the "diverse" nature of the location could also cause strife (see the "Incident Log" they posted on their online for a taste), and for reasons not entirely known, the Kiknbaque went under late last year. The Local has emerged in its place as a seemingly generic watering hole, but with a new element that will undoubtedly contribute to the transition of the bar and the area: whereas only the occasional DJ night or random performance took place at the Kiknbaque (and predecessor Chances) the Local is actively booking live rock shows.
The Local doesn't have a website yet, but show listings have been trickling in and will likely increase once it becomes more known, establishing another destination for the young and undeniably homogeneous music crowd. Perhaps the turbulent history of the building will extend to the Local Lounge as well, leaving the new venue with no opportunity to have lasting effects on the neighborhood. But the fact that it even exists is sure a sign of the times. As in our city at large, it's all in motion, and where things are headed remains to be seen. For tonight, there's a show: Inside Voices and The Whines. I'm gonna go check it out.
Inside Voices, the Whines; Local Lounge, 3536 NE MLK, 10 pm, FREE
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
KNW YR PDX THEY LIVE HERE: Gavin Castleton - 5 Questions with Bands that Live in PDX but Play All Over the World
Posted by Matt Caldwell on Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:39 AM
[We now have a new Q&A column focusing on local musicians and how they live, courtesy of the very kind Matt Caldwell. You are excited by this news. -Ed.]
Another April shower in May had just doused Mississippi street. Now a big, bright ball called "the sun" had broken through and lit up the place with glorious color. Singer and keyboardist Gavin Castleton, wearing a green military-style cap and black hoodie strolled up with his dog, Loomis.
If you aren't familiar with Castleton, you probably will be soon. He's yet another local artist who's stepping up to the world stage thanks to his latest album Home. Credit his rise to taste-making and musical-trendsetting internet radio station KCRW. KCRW likes Gavin. A lot. They especially like his melodic love song "Coffeelocks"—it's been one of the highest played singles of the month—which is why they invited him and his band to play the coveted "in-studio performance" on Morning Becomes Eclectic.
LISTEN:
Gavin Castleton - "Coffeelocks"
We sat down with Gavin Castleton and his friendly pooch, Loomis, at Amnesia Brewing, just a few block from his apartment on Mississippi.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
KNW YR PDX Carrie Brownstein Hearts Sports, Music
Posted by Maranda Bish on Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 5:07 PM
As some of us prepare to watch the Blazers make history in one way or another tonight (I haven't been paying attention since 1995 and "Bust a Bucket"), I wanted to point out this post on Monitor Mix, the music blog kept by Carrie Brownstein (of Sleater-Kinney) for NPR.
Carrie shouts out to the Blazers and their playoff position, then explores the link between the seemingly opposite worlds of sports fandom and music obsession, making a case that it's specifically Pacific-Northwestern to be a fan of both. The comments have some interesting responses, and in general I think I agree with her. Although in my case, "Bust a Bucket" is my only personal example of shared loved for music and sports.
I can't believe this hasn't been re-posted recently. Maybe everybody else is sick of it? Without further ado:
Friday, April 24, 2009
KNW YR PDX / Video Nostalgia for a Time I've Never Lived
Posted by Maranda Bish on Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 2:26 PM
Picture it: Astoria, Oregon, 1994. I was chilling out at elementary school, jamming to classic rock radio and making my Barbies dance around to Ace of Base. The distant metropolis of Portland was a place I visited only for the occasional shopping sprees (the Lloyd Center seemed like paradise on earth) or the thrilling yearly field trip to OMSI.
I had no idea that an underground culture was brewing in P-town, and I wish I could say that I became hip to it as it was happening, or even a bit later by the time I reached high school. Alas, no— I went through dreaded years as a teenybopper (first concert: Blink 182), then veered into the pseudo-sophisticated rock canon of Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, etc. It wasn't until I landed in the young Oregonian holding-ground of Eugene at age eighteen that someone put a CD-R of Either/Or into my hand, and I've been making my way back through Portland past ever since.
This three-part video chronicling the X-Ray Cafe— an all-ages restaurant/venue/infoshop on West Burnside— is a very enjoyable insight into the pre-Pearl District Rose City, full of commentary from some of its regulars as well as its proprietors (including Tres Shannon, who more recent Portlanders know as the king of Voodoo Donuts and the tambourine-shaker in Karaoke from Hell), and footage of the decor and from live performances that helps to recreate the distinct atmosphere of the place.
My love for this era stems not just from a longing to have been around for it. It also comes from a desire to play anthropologist, searching for the origins of the Northwest sensibility to more clearly understand the landscape that we've inherited. It's clear that today's culture has its roots in this earlier era— and further, we're in a stage of influx that is completely influenced by the stream of people that came/are coming from all around the country to be part of what's going on here. In the process, Portland has become a different place, and founding institutions like the X-Ray have either morphed into new forms, or have gone extinct.
Could a place like the X-Ray exist in our present city? Events like the recent Hush closure suggest maybe not. Don't get me wrong—I'm not trying to lament for the days of yore, or say "Go back to California, maaaaan". I'm just thinking about the evolution of people and places, and marveling at how I could have been so close to Portland in the 90's, never a part of it and yet completely shaped by it.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
KNW YR PDX / News Live Portland Music Comp In The Works
Posted by Maranda Bish on Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:11 PM
Doesn't an album of live tracks from a plethora of local bands playing shows in various local venues sound like a good idea? 
Good thing our friends from the excellent group Nucular Aminals came up with it. In a delightful innovation in the eternally challenging endeavor of spreading the word and getting heard, the Aminals are launching an effort to assemble live recordings from shows about town in a compilation album that showcases the music being made in Portland, straight from the source.
Here's Robert from the band in his own words:
So we want to record the bands we love via Minidisc and so far I have about 30 on my list. Once we are done recording all of the shows I will put them into Protools and try to make them sound as good as they can. After that I am going to give a few copies to each band so that they can duplicate them themselves with whatever artwork they choose for the CD. I will include an insert that shares the contact info of each band, song title, label that they are on, the venue that they performed in, and the band name. We are planning on recording the CDs on cassettes as well, but only about 30 for now. These will be for sale or to give away (whatever the band wants to do) to promote other bands in the Northwest so that it will be easier for bands to set up tours and help develop a larger fan base.I love this idea as a tribute to this particular time and place on the musical landscape, as well as a project that combines the joys of a comp release with added resources for both bands and fans. Yet it will also surely require a lot of work, which Robert and crew seem willing to take on with no desire for compensation other than a rad finished project. That's what I call a labor of love.
Nevertheless, I'm sure that coordination and enthusiasm for the project would help out tremendously. Hit up Nucular Aminals on their Myspace for info or ideas. Thanks for making this happen, guys. I can't wait to listen.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
KNW YR PDX Wait Just a Damn Minute...
Posted by Andrew R Tonry on Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 5:26 PM
This morning (or afternoon, for all you normal sleepers) I was flipping through the Arts section of the NY Times and as always, trying and failing to get some tangible coffee buzz (it is impossible without four straight shots, which dries out my insides unbearably). I saw a picture of the singer/guitarist Kip Berman, frontman for blog-band-of-the-moment and insufferably-long-emo-named The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart.
I said to myself, "self, where do you know that name/face? Is that dude from Portland... did he play in a bunch of bands here (was Jackie one of 'em)? Did he write for the Mercury?
Sure as hell did. Check out an an archive of Berman's stories here. Or, if reading's not your thing, you can listen to the Pains of Being Pure here, which to me is like the musical equivalent of those dusty little candy hearts with inscriptions like "I LUV U" that show up on Valentines day.
If you like, you can check out someone else's writing on Berman in the NY Times review.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Live Review / KNW YR PDX The Whines and Eat Skull at the Know, Fri. Feb 27
Posted by Maranda Bish on Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 4:01 PM
In the PNW tradition as I have known it, this has been a long, cold, and shitty winter. And yet, from its very depths—a damp, dreary February night on Alberta Street—a couple of hometown bands showed some of what's been fermenting in bodies and basements through these dark days. From the sound of it, there is some good stuff just about nearing explosion.
Friday had the makings of your standard night at the Know, where on any given evening one can saunter in to see a brand-new band play its debut show or a local favorite get the kids out for a revival. This night, however, proved to be rather extraordinary, thanks to a dependably rousing show by Portland's beloved Eat Skull and a really stellar performance by a band just starting to make its mark, the Whines.
The Whines have been working the Portland circuit armed with a repertoire of slightly gritty, sorta psychedelic, and often melodic punk rock songs. In recent months they seem to be hitting their stride: playing slots at both East End's DMMR BMMR and Slabtown's Bender festivals, which featured many of the city and country's most exciting bands; debuting a 7-inch that's making the underground rounds to favorable review; and getting ready to embark on their first tour down the West Coast (with Eat Skull). Along with these developments, there seems to have come a coalescence of the Whines' energy and sound in a way that almost tangibly unfolded on the stage Friday night.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
News / KNW YR PDX Portland's Sexiest Indie Musician Guy Calendar!
Posted by Ned Lannamann on Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:33 AM
Is your Ziggy Inspiration-A-Day calendar just not cutting the mustard? Couldn't find a good replacement for 2008's Amputees-In-Waders wall calendar?
FEAR NOT! Even though the new year has already started, the darlings over at Crappy Indie Music have come out with their Portland's Sexiest Indie Musician Guy Calendar! It runs March '09 to February '10, so you won't miss a single dreamy month. It includes hot 'n' steamy pix of your favorite local indie musicians, and is super limited edition, so it'll be a collector's item before you even flip to the second page. I can't think of a better Valentine's day gift.
Check out the full deets at Crappy Indie Music.
Friday, November 7, 2008
KNW YR PDX Vote for the Fix: America's Best Party!
Posted by Marjorie Skinner on Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 1:18 PM
Remember that one time when we all voted and then our guy won and then everyone drank until they threw up and it was really fun? Let's do it again!
This time, you need to cast your vote on Papermag's douchebag Diesel-sponsored Nightlife Awards for Portland's best weekly hiphop party, the Fix, in the "America's Best Party" category! They're up against some serious competition from high profile parties across the country, so they need all voters on deck.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
KNW YR PDX Blue Horns Is a Name Worth Knowing
Posted by Ned Lannamann on Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:29 PM
In last week's Up and Coming section, I mentioned the Evangelicals/Parenthetical Girls show at Backspace last night (which was totally great), but I have to say I blew it. I got the name of the opening band wrong. Somewhere between my handwritten notes and the printed page, the name of the band transformed from Blue Horns to Blue Herons.
They are not called Blue Herons.
Entirely my fault. And I'm particularly sorry, not just to readers but the band as well, because if their set last night is any indication, Blue Horns is totally great. Playing jangly, shuffly tunes that are equal parts pop and rock, Blue Horns make music that is catchy, boisterous, and just a little bit bratty. "Shotgun Wedding" has the kind of hook that doesn't leave your head for days. Formerly known as Oh! Captain (but dropping that moniker because of another Portland band called Oh Captain, My Captain), Blue Horns are releasing their self-titled debut album in November, and will be playing a CD release show at Backspace on Saturday, November 15. In the meantime, they're playing a free show at Rontoms on Sunday, November 2.
Give a listen at Blue Horns' MySpace page.
(In the meantime, this band notwithstanding, the Blue Herons is still totally available as a band name. Eh, Portland? It's our official city bird. Whattaya think? I'm picturing a bunch of middle-aged white guys, some with ponytails, playing blues covers at weddings and corner saloons. Come on!)
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Live Review / KNW YR PDX Noah and the Whale Hearts Adrian Orange
Posted by Ned Lannamann on Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 3:33 PM
Noah and the Whale's outdoor patio show at the Doug Fir last night was good, cozy fun. (Dear DF and other Portland venues: More outdoor shows at sundown please, especially while the weather's still good.) Midway through the set, gregarious frontman Charlie Fink said, "Being as you're all from Portland, has anyone heard of a songwriter who goes by the name Thanksgiving?"
A couple people moo'ed, but most of the audience stayed quiet.
"He's this chap named Adrian Orange," continued Fink, "And he's probably my favorite songwriter ever." He went on to say how much he loved our own Adrian Orange. "He's the best of the best."
Fink went on to say he was having a very pleasurable experience on the Doug Fir patio, and that that evening's show was "seminal," then admitted he says that about one in every five shows. He also said he was enjoying the several mojitos he had gotten from the bar, and that after the show, the band was going down the street to see their friend (and former bandmate) Laura Marling at Lola's. Noah and the Whale's own set was casual and at times beautiful; with violin, harmonium, and sing-along choruses, they straddle twee territory without coming off as precious, as few others can manage. In fact, the band, despite being English, feels very Portland.
Perhaps this is because Fink's very favorite songwriter comes from here.
LISTEN:
Adrian Orange: "While You Live"
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
KNW YR PDX Portland Artists in WFMU's Free Music Archive
Posted by Ned Lannamann on Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 12:30 PM
Have you heard about WFMU's Free Music Archive project? The NY/NJ-based free form community radio station is compiling a sprawling archive of free music available on the web--totally legal, totally legit, totally free. The launch is a couple months away, but their pre-launch blog already has plenty of free music for the taking, including a whole bunch of Portland musicians collected in a nice, neat blog post. Artists include Ilyas Ahmed, Sean Brooks, Celesteville, and more. Get listening right here.
Friday, August 15, 2008
KNW YR PDX KNW YR PDX: Light Rail Coyote
Posted by Ezra Caraeff on Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:39 AM
First of all, that photo caption should read: "Chillaxin' On The Max." Anyway, in the winter of 2002 a coyote wondered onto a Red Line Max train at PDX airport, thus leading to the adorable photo above and one hell of a song, "Light Rail Coyote," from the ladies of Sleater-Kinney.
LISTEN:
Sleater-Kinney - "Light Rail Coyote"
The song is a wonderful portrait of Portland as both an urban and rural landscape that houses punks, strippers, bookstores, and even the occasional public transport riding coyote.
Out at the edge of town
Where airfield runs water down
Coyote crosses old tracks
And hops on the Light-Rail Max
This is also the moment where SK really seemed to embrace Portland as their own. Their roots, and even their band name, lies in the Olympia area, but by '02's One Beat they were a local band through and through. This continued with '05's The Woods and lasted until the band's breakup the following year. No word on the status of the Coyote and his/her opinion of local music.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
KNW YR PDX Best of 1988: Marc Baker of Crazy 8s
Posted by Ned Lannamann on Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 2:48 PM
The Crazy 8s at the Erb Memorial Ballroom, University of Oregon, Eugene, February 1988
For our Best of 1988 issue, Mark Wanaka of Crazy 8s shared his memories of August 8, 1988, they day Crazy 8s released their live album. To promote its release, Crazy 8s played eight shows that day, at various record stores around Portland and a final show at Starry Night.
The 8s' manager, Marc Baker, also had plenty to say about that day and of memories of '88 in general. We weren't able to fit Marc's comments in the paper, but we've got plenty of room on the blog--so let's take a look back with Marc Baker.
On why the Crazy 8s self-released their albums and never went with a label, even after selling close to 50,000 copies of their records:
BAKER: The biggest downfall with the 8s and the major label music industry at that time were twofold. First, Sire and Chrysalis (in particular) had just taken a bath financially on the ska movement for the most part. While groups such as the Specials, English Beat, Selector, and Madness were cool, only Madness had some success in terms of sales and draw in the states. The last thing a label wanted to sign was an American ska band (which we weren't) which we had been labeled due to our two tone appearance, horn section and choice of some covers as well as an appearance with the English Beat.On recording the Big Live Nut Pack album:
[It was recorded live] in front of the largest crowd ever in the Erb Memorial Ballroom at the University of Oregon. At that time the guys, being from Oregon State, had been banned from Oregon State for being to wild, so why not play at the rival college? They loved us.
The show was so crowded that the doors and windows had to be opened up, as folks were so jammed in, kids were sitting on the front of the stage and some speakers. Sweat box squared! Stage dives, crowd surfing, totally nuts...a Big Live Nut Pack!
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
KNW YR PDX John Roderick Hearts Portland, Hates Jugglers
Posted by Ned Lannamann on Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 2:09 PM
If you don't make fun of our jugglers, sir, we won't make fun of your mustache. What's that? No deal?
Every week, John Roderick of the Long Winters writes a blog for Seattle Weekly, the lesser of Seattle's alt-weeklies. But don't hold that against him. In this week's blog, he talked about what Seattle can learn from its smaller, rosier sister in the south:
Before I start, let me just say that no one hates reading “What Seattle can learn from Portland” lectures more than me. Portland, despite its charm, has one thousand percent more mimes, jugglers, and crusty potters than any city outside of Germany, and this fact permanently disqualifies Portland from teaching any civics lessons or from standing as an example of responsible growth. Until they fumigate their city of all its jugglers it will only be possible to appreciate their example by piecemeal.Read the full thing here.Still, it is an undeniably nice, small town, and all the more impressive for having formerly and in recent memory been a totally scary left-coast wreck. It was only a few years ago that you practically had to wade through junkie prostitutes just to get your chainmail fitted at the Renaissance smithery, and the only interesting thing about the city was the curious abundance of punk rock/hippy chicks who dressed like a cross between Minnie Pearl and Tank Girl that you could find nowhere else in the world. Except for Germany. Fast forward to now and it feels like an EPCOT center futureland, where people are home-brewing biodiesel from bat guano and kiwi fruit, plucking banjos made from old PC circuit boards, and eating nuclear waste and shitting out diamonds.
The Long Winters play at the Wonder Ballroom on Thursday, July 3. Also appearing are Portland's own Builders and the Butchers. We don't know at this time if the mustache will also be making an appearance.
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