On the 9:30 Club stage last night, the Portland, Ore. indie-folk outfit Blind Pilot showcased many generations of instruments, from banjo, to stand-up bass, to squeeze-box. Luckily for the close-to-capacity crowd, the songs were pretty timeless, too.
It was a good year to be young and bearded. A good decade, really. The aughts kicked off with the release of O Brother, Where Art Thou?, whose soundtrack opened the eyes of at least one generation to the pleasures of underproduced plucking and simple melodies; and ended with three harbingers of the so-called "indie [...]
When Blind Pilot frontman Israel Nebeker and drummer Ryan Dobrowski were looking for an isolated place to finish writing the band's debut album, 3 Rounds and a Sound, they settled on a defunct cannery on the Oregon coast they called “Big Red”—not to be confused with “Big Pink,” the house in upstate New York where Bob [...]
