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Get Ready Portland: It's MusicFestNW!

Music post by Kelsey Wallace on September 6, 2012 - 1:24pm; tagged bands, music, Musicfest Northwest.
If you can hear a band tuning up outside your office window right now, you know what time it is: MusicFestNW Time!
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BitchTapes: Fictional Bands

Music post by Ann-Derrick Gaillot on August 13, 2012 - 10:26am; tagged bands, coen, fiction, folk music, music, pop music, tom hanks.

Fictional Band Fun! from BitchTapes on 8tracks Radio

This week on BitchTapes I would like to honor those fictional bands that never get any recognition. This mix features Josie and the Pussycats, the Soggy Bottom Boys, and more!

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B-Sides: Jump-start Queer Record Label Punk Start My Heart!

Music post by Kjerstin Johnson on August 9, 2011 - 11:50am; tagged bands, kickstarter, punk, Punk Start My Heart, queer musicians.
Punk Start My Heart began as a punk booking agency run by Sheana Corbridge and Marlena Chavez dedicated to promoting musicians of color and queer artists for shows around Portland, Oregon. Inundated with requests from superb bands on the Internet, they came up with a DIY innovation: Not Enough!, a festival designed for queer artists to get together, collaborate, and come up with new art and music projects. Now they're taking things a step further and starting a record label for some of the acts they've booked and worked with in Not Enough!—some bands you've even heard on Bitchtapes and B-Sides past. To get their record label off the ground they've made a Kickstarter video (Flash video below, download video description in .doc form here):

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