Former high school music nerds, this show is for you. Portland Cello Project brings their collective strings to indie clubs and creates a sound unlike any other in your indie-music going experience.  PCP's pop-oriented repetoire includes ABBA's Dancing Queen,  Bon Jovi's Wanted Dead or Alive, Slayer's Raining Blood, and A Ha's Take on Me.  And your high school music teacher said pop music wasn't for orchestral instruments. Ha!

Tonight's Portland Cello Project performance at Chop Suey is with labelmate and headliner Thao and The Get Down Stay Down. Thao appears on PCP's first release on label Kill Rock Stars. The PCP Tallymarks track with Thao reminds me a bit of KT Tunstall: nice, well-crafted and good for a season, but perhaps not memorable in the long term. But those strings! Lush.  Free download of the Tallymark track here..

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at Bumbershoot 2008

Bumbershoot is a musical extravaganza, spanning the three-day Labor Day weekend with more bands, arts, and elephant ears than anyone can possibly capture. We had a posse of imaginary writers (ChrisB, Chris Estey, imaginary elle, imaginary dana, and Cory), and photographers (Chona, Kyle, Nathan, and Andrew) all over Seattle Center, trying to capture the frenzy and mayhem of Bumbershoot 2008. Below you can see and read about our adventures during the first day, which kicked off with local electronic duo Beehive and ended with superstar Beck, and covered over 20 other bands in-between.

Enjoy!

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