--- - |- Photo by Isaac Slusarenko/Jackpot RecordsPortland, Oregon sons Menomena haven't toured much since their Record Store Day foosball smackdown, but they'll finally take some victory laps starting tomorrow (August 9) in Myslowice, Poland. That show kicks off a round of European dates before the band returns to the U.S. for some West Coast shows in late August and September.Among those Sep...
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Our friends over at http://www.blogotheque.net/takeawayshows/keep out doing themselves...this latest take away show is instantly one of my favorites#62.3 - Menomena - Wet and RustingUploaded by lablogotheque
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Well I hear thats what happens most of the year when you live in Portland Oregon...lol..Saw these guys live the other month and it took me a little while to get into them, but once I did well, there was no turning back...I like this video, filmed on the streets of Paris mini people joyously groovin' along... to me this captured a wonderful and random moment ...Merci for taking the time to watch.
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Hey gang... I'm currently working on a poster for one of my favorite bands, Menomena. They're simply brilliant. (if you don't have their latest, "Friend And Foe", why not? It's worth it just for the album cover... the music makes it spectacular. ...and they're playing The Independent in San Francisco this Saturday......so... I'm trying to decide between posters... I've finished one, but I'm ...
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I think I'm falling for you Menomena. You make beautiful music. And, you took your name from one of the greatest Muppet Show sketches of all time
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I discovered Menomena from Jenny Tatone in a post she wrote last week. These guys are just INCREDIBLE! They are from Portland, OR(my hometown) where so much cool rock is being made these days from the like of bands like The Gossip, The Decemberists, The Dandy Warhols, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks(of Pavement fame), Everclear & now Menomena. This is their 2nd cd release & it is just an amazing pa...
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Last night I went into San Francisco to see the incredible Portland, OR band Menomena who I fell in love with when I heard their new 2nd cd at the end of January. They played at this really cool venue called Cafe Du Nord which has two stages, one dowstairs & one on the main level. Lots of gorgeous wood in the downstairs space & a great intimate venue. There were two other bands that played befo...
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Early this year I posted my "Top Eleven" list of what I considered the best of 2007. A couple of months later I ran into two CDs that escaped my attention... both would have found themselves firmly lodged among the best five albums of the year had I heard them a bit earlier... such is the flimsy nature of the "Best of" list...The first of the magical two (I'll post about the other one within t...
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As some of you know I'm from (near) Portland and in my younger days I'd see many a show downtown and had about a B- in Hipster Studies based on the amount of time I spent in record stores and how many one inch buttons I had on my messenger bag. I wasn't totally suburban but yet I also didn't weigh 81lbs and have a fashionable alternative hairstyle and fashionable punk-inspired thrift-store clot...
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I'm not the first to post about Menomena's new album Friend & Foe (I have "Jameson":http://mog.com/Jameson to thank for getting me on board with them), but thought I'd share a new video that I came across this morning at "Gorilla vs. Bear":http://gorillavsbear.blogspot.com/" --Per G vs B:Friday, March 09, 2007wet and rusting"MTV's Subterranean Blog premiered the hilarious new Lance Bangs-direct...
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Here's my belated opinion of Menomena's excellent new album Friend and Foe, out since January on Barsuk."Friend and Foe sounds like pop songs put through a blender for a few seconds, great slippery chunks of melody whacked to varying sized bits and discontinuously abutting outsized drum beats, brash piano chords and ska-town squawks of saxophone. There are moments of achingly pure pop that floa...
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Check out Jenny's post here (hint, she digs the new album):http://mog.com/Jenny_Tatone/blog_post/29046
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Something felt off from the beginning last night—or early morning I should say, it was 1 a.m.—at Buffalo Billiards. There was a thickness in the air that warns when something might go wrong.Poor Menomena—my favorite Portland group—they didn’t look happy. They were plagued from the start by a sound check gone awry, which consequently turned the hungry audience into a starving one. One mem
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Does anybody know anything about this venue??? Menomena are playing there in a couple of weeks and I think it'll be one of those shows that I'll NEED to go to. But I've never heard of the place. Sounds like a bar. Any input??? Any Bostonians been there?http://www.jambase.com/search.asp?eventID=506619&ak=3http://www.greatscottboston.com/
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MENOMENA – FRIEND AND FOE (2007)Portland Oregon is the rainy home for a thriving group of Indie Rock bands who are critically making their mark Stateside, and three piece Prog. Popsters Menomena have been widely touted as the next thing. They’ve signed to a bigger label (Barsuk) for this, their third original LP, which will ensure greater exposure to their experimental music, challenging rhyth
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