Skip to main contentPhew! We had some technical issues there, but here it is: The complete list of Best New Band voters' ballots. I've also included, at the end of this post, an alphabetical list of every band that received votes in this year's poll. While celebrating the Top 10 groups (and, at a free Missississippi Studios show this Friday, three of the top four) is great, that list is what this poll is really about. I guarantee you that, among the 350+ groups listed there, some of them have the potential to be your new favorites. Unless you just hate music. Then you're in trouble.---
The following is split into three parts: The Letter, which explains our point system and other rules; The Ballots, which are pretty self-explanatory and The List, which is all the vote-getters in alphabetical order (hopefully they're all spelled right, because no copy editor is doing that job...).
Two final notes:
1. If you believe you should be on this voting list, please email me at cjarman [at] wweek [dot] com and let me know why. If you fit our criteria, we'll make sure to get you a ballot next year.
2. I'd like to say a special thanks to Michael Mannheimer, who left WW for the big city last week. He was a stellar assistant editor and this annual pollâalong with the paper you see on newsstands every weekâcould not have come out without him these past few years. We're gonna miss him.
Without further ado, here's all the wonky details of the 2011 Best New Band poll. Thank you for caring.
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THE LETTER (with a complete list of past winners)
Dear Esteemed Member of the Portland Music Community,
Congratulations! You have been selected by our diligent team of local music scientists to take part in Willamette Week's Best New Band Poll 2011, where the Portland music community looks back over the last year and crowns one group, solo artist or DJ the greatest new talent in town.
As you may remember, Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside took last year's poll in a tight race with Typhoon and Deelay Ceelay. We had a rad show at Berbati's Pan and it totally ruled (this year's show will be at Mississippi Studios).
So, here's what we need from you (please read all this crap carefully):
Email us (bestnewband@wweek.com) a list of the top 5 Portland-based acts you've discovered this year. Again, you can vote for any music-making entity, be it a band, solo performer, DJ or an MC. You can rank them one through five, or give no rankings if you want to spread your points equally. If you can't think of five new acts that have made an impact on you in the last year, then just send us however many you like, whether it's four, three, two or just one. "New," obviously, is relative (just like "band" and even "best"). Don't stress out on the wording too much. But DO stress on getting us this email by Monday, April 4.
When all the ballots have been collected, we will assign points for each band you voted for based on how you ranked them (No. 1 = 5 pts., No. 2 = 4 pts., No. 3 = 3 pts., etc.). If you don't rank your votes by numbering each band, the points will be divided and distributed equally among your selections. We will then add up the points from all the ballots and come up with a top 10, which will be published in an upcoming issue of Willamette Week along with profiles and photos and other such fanfare. The number one band will appear on the cover of the paper and, if available, will headline WW's Best New Band showcase.
You can vote for any band you like, as long as it is not a band you play in (you can vote for bands you work with-as long as you're voting as a TRUE FAN and not just a profiteer).
DO NOT VOTE FOR THESE PAST WINNERS (as much as we like them all):
Aan
Ah Holly Fam'ly
Alan Singley and Pants Machine
Alela Diane
Atole
Au
Blind Pilot
Blitzen Trapper
The Builders & The Butchers
Climber
Clorox Girls
Copy
Dat'r
Deelay Ceelay
Derby
DJ Beyonda
Dolorean
Dragging An Ox Through Water
Explode Into Colors
Fist Fite
Grouper
Guidance Counselor
Hey Lover
Horse Feathers
Hosannas
Jared Mees
The Kingdom
Laura Gibson
Lifesavas
Lion Fever
LKN
Loch Lomond
Menomena
The Minds
Miracles Club
New Blood
The Nice Boys
Nick Jaina
Norfolk & Western
Nurses
Old Believers
Operative
Paint By Numbers
Please Step Out of the Vehicle
Point Juncture, WA
Pure Country Gold
The Ready
Red Fang
Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside
Sirenâs Echo
The Shaky Hands
The Snuggle Ups
Starfucker
Swan Island
Talkdemonic
The Thermals
Tractor Operator
Tu Fawning
Typhoon
Valet
Viva Voce
Wampire
Weinland
Wet Confetti
White Fang
White Rainbow
World's Greatest Ghosts
Y La Bamba
Ok, you have your instructions!
*Please email your top 5 list to bestnewband@wweek.com (or hit "reply" on this email!) by Monday, April 4, 2011. We also need your full name and your role in the music community. This is so important I'm going to use caps and bold it: IF YOU DO NOT INCLUDE YOUR NAME AND TITLE IN YOUR REPLY EMAIL, YOUR VOTES WILL NOT BE COUNTED. Your votes will be published online, but if you would like your votes to remain anonymous, we can do that. Just let us know in your email.
(Fine print: If you received this email at more than one email address, please only respond once, with one set of votes; If this ballot arrived at a general email address for a record store, recording studio, bar, etc., please do not respond with more than two ballots from two separate employees who identify themselves as such; artists that have placed in the BNB Poll in the past get one vote per band--in the event that more than one ballot is returned from an artist/group or more than two from an invited organization, we will count the earliest ballot(s) to arrive in our inbox and disqualify subsequent ballots from said group/organization (this is meant to avoid ballot-stuffing). If you have questions about this, you can email Casey at cjarman@wweek.com)
Thanks so much! We get really excited at the chance to put local music on the cover of our paper each year, and we discover a lot of new music thanks to your votes. Thanks for all you do, all year-round.
love and hugs,
Casey Jarman and Michael Mannheimer
Music Editors, Willamette Week
THE BALLOTS!
Casey Jarman, Music Editor, WW
1. Wild Ones
2. Lovers
3. Rose Bent
4. And And And
5. Mean Jeans
(with apologies to AgesandAges, Doo Doo Funk All-Stars, Tope, Luck-One, Cloudy October, Key Losers, St. Even, Radiation City, Devonwho and all my other recent faves)
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Time flies! If I can squeak this in, I would like to put my votes in for:
The Reservations
Blood Beach
Batmen
K-Tel '79
Holy Sons
Tony Prato
Booker, Mudai Lounge
World's Greatest Ghosts best new bands pick... hope this isnt too late!
BRAINSTORM
LOVERS
SKIP ROXY
THE WE SHARED MILK
HEARTBREAK BEAT
Jesse Laney
WORLD'S GREATEST GHOSTS mgmt
I play in bands such as: Nasalrod, Marmits, Lickity, Mr. Frederick, When the Broken Bow, Susurrus Station, M.A.R.C., Child PM, +CNCTD, Dead Cinema, the Man Dies, Muscle Beach n' Friends, and Dinosaur Heart.
I also book shows at Saratoga and book the Hump Palace wednesdays at Goodfoot.
Again, sorry about the delay...
Oh and just in case, my 5 choices were:
(in random order)
Tiny Knives
Stag Bitten
Wax Edison
Aranya
Swamp Buck
Take care,
Justin Stimson
Zale from Pickathon
Old Light
AgesandAges
Black Prairie
Truckstop Darlin
Water Tower Bucket Band
Old Light
AgesandAges
Black Prairie
Truckstop Darlin
Water Tower Bucket Band
Kelly Howsley
Managing Member The Union Records
1. No Go Know (the best local band of all time)
2. Ramona Falls
3. Royal Houser
4. I Can Lick Any SOB (triumphant return!)
5. The Quick and Easy Boys
Terry Currier, Music Millennium
AgesandAges
Truckstop Darlin'
Don't
Angry Orts
Needful Longings
Psychic Feline is my favorite Portland band right now. They get all my votes.
Claudia Meza
Musician [And past winner. -Ed.]
1- AgesandAges
2- Old Light
3- And And And
4- Pancake Breakfast
5- Brainstorm
That is all, thanks for asking!
JP [Jeremy Peterson, OPB Music]
1. Sustentacula
2. EET
3. Paint and Copter
4. Larry Yes and the Tangled Mess
5. Road Race
Shane de Leon
north pole records
Jack Lewis [Cartoonist, blogger, musician]
1. Shelley Short
2. Akron Family (perhaps cheating I know)
3. Raccoon (never play live, but the recordings I've heard are amazing, only one online I think:http://www.facebook.com/pages/Raccoon/141096932588912)
4. Tony Green-totally unknown, been around forever used to play The X-Ray back in the day. (http://www.myspace.com/146749064)
5. Shapes
Ranked 1-5
1. And And And
2. Rene Hell
3. Archers
4. Petoskey
5. Sun Mar
Chris Bigalke, Booking at Ella St. Social Club
chris lael larson
deelay ceelay
1. blue cranes
2. nice nice
3. petoskey
4. unknown mortal orchestra
5. jeffrey jerusalem
Randy Bemrose, owner of the green house, member of Radiation City, Skeletron.
unknown mortal orchestra
soap collectors
spesus christ
blouse
the tomorrow people
Here ya go:
Blue Skies For Black Hearts
Boy Eats Drum Machine
The Slants
The Contestants
Libretto
Boo yah!
Angelo
Pop Tomorrow!
DJ Wicked
DJ Deff Ro
DJ Ozroc
DJ Chill
STEVE SCHROEDER
STATES RIGHTS RECORDS
DJ HOT AIR BALLOON
1.Purple & Green
2.Jeffrey Jerusalem
3.Unkle Funkle
4.$kull$
5.BA Fractal
Emily Vidal
1--Future Historians
2--Blue Horns
3--Ezza Rose
4--Dirty Mittens
5-The Lower 48
Thanks!
REDO!
please use this one fo rme instead of march 30th ballot [Done! -Ed.]
1 Radiation City
2 The Golden Hours
3 Inside Voices
4 Morning Teleportation
5 Brainstorm
Jeff Hylton Simmons, Radio 23/CCR
Tyler Ferrin, Typhoon/Boy Gorilla Records
1 wild ones
2 brainstorm
3 and and and
4 youth
Laura Gibson - Music-Maker, Past Winner
1. Goodnight Billygoat
2. Neil Morgan
3. Ages and Ages
4. Pancake Breakfast
5. Ramona Falls
Scott McLean, Holocene/Holocene Music
Reporter
Soft Metals
Onuinu
Denver
GULLS
1) The Memories
2) $KULL$
3) DJ Zac Eno
4) Monopoly Child Star Searchers
5) Emotion 2 Emotion Productions
Adam Forkner: Marriage/YU Recording Studio, YU Music Advisor, White Rainbow
Hello,
Here are my top five picks for this year.
1. Wild Flag
2. Pocket Knife
2. O Horizon
3. Pony Village
5. Orca Team
Ro Tam
Music Photographer
hello!
this is hosannas again. [Original ballot replaced by this one. -Ed.]
we already sent in a ballot, but it only had three bands so we wanted to include a few more..
our apologies for the confusion.
we would like to split our votes equally between:
golden retriever
the ocean floor
neil morgan
rob walmart
why i must be careful
thank you and peace out!
hosannas
Petoskey
Pigeons
Deer or the Doe
ioa
Alameda
Yay!
Thanks,
Skyler [Norwood, Producer]
Thanks for asking me! Here's my picks for 2011:
1. Unknown Mortal Orchestra
2. Lovers
3. Sexx Life
4. the Angry Orts
5. Headphone Party
--
Scott Becker
PDX Pop Now! 2011
Tech Coordinator
1. Celilo
2. Lovers
I work over at Badman Recording Company. My title is Promotions and Sales/Marketing www.badmanrecordingco.com. I am also a music manager for Richmond Fontaine, Celilo and Chris Marshall here locally
Michele Mei
Anonymous
1. Kusikia
2. Marisa Anderson
3. Purple Rhinestone Eagle
4. Tombstalker
A revised top 5 from builders n butchers
1)lovers
2)Kelli schaefer
3)pancake breakfast
4)turbo perfecto
5)Federale
The official deal (in no particular order)
Ages and Ages
Litanic Mask
Neal Morgan
Lavender Mirror
Denver
Dang. This one is really hard this year. There were so many excellent bands started, and a lot that I feel will pick up more steam as they evolve this summer. I wish the list could be a little longer this year. Dangerous Boys Club, Psychic Feline, The Greys, ASSS, Love Always, The Crow, STLS, Astrology, and the list could go on and on. It's a good time to live here.
many thanks for all you guys do,
Jen Olesen
Valentine's Booking
Vivien Lyon
AgesandAges
Brothers Young
Sean Flinn and the Royal We
Greylag
Gnar Tapes/White Fang
Hey sup
Gonna have to go
BOOM!
Purple and green
The mean jeans
Rob walmart
The whines
Not sure if these are all considered "new", but here we go:
Morning Teleportation
Harlowe and the Great North Woods
Come Gather Round Us
What Hearts
Mike Midlow (Pancake Breakfast)
| emily.wilder |
Aladdin Theater
Field Hymns Records
in no particular order
MSG
Old Light
Mike Coykendall & the Golden Shag
Hammer of Hathor
Pigeons
Barbara Mitchell
not sure if i have five, and i think some of my faves are old-school (holcombe waller, fernando).
but i will throw my hat in the ring for the ravishers and kelli schaefer. kelli's album is STUNNING, and the ravishers are great.
Vivian Hua, Redefine Magazine
1 - Golden Retriever
2 - Brainstorm
3 - Morning Teleportation
4 - Psychic Feline
5 - Pete Swanson
Jason Levian (Floating World Comics, Etc.)
1. Ancient Heat
AP Kryza, WW music writer and all-around swell guy
Old Light
Agesandages
Strangled Darlings
Bad Assets
Future Historians
1. Roane Namuh
2. Tope
3. Cloudy October
4. Illmaculate
5. Dave Notti
Aaron Marquez (Owner of 360 Vinyl) aka DJ KEZ (The Fix, Rock Box)
Josh Martinez (Camobear Records)
Chicharones Eddie valient. Raise the bridges. Bias city
Douglas Jenkins: Portland Cello Project
1. AgesandAges
2. Monarques
3. Andandand
4. Ezza Rose
AHHH I'm so late for no good reason!
Thank you for the second chance. Please distribute my 'points' equally.
Best,
Ed [PDX Pop Now!]
On The Stairs
Ezza Rose
St. Even
Leonard Mynx
John Heart Jackie
Joshua Spacek
1. Quiet Life
2. YOURS
3. Rocky and the Proms
4. Brainstorm
5. And And And
Thanks!
1) Taco Neck
2) Roane Namuh
2) 5th Sequence
3) Living Proof
5) Cloudy October
mucho thanks,
PJ Portlock
Hey it's Ben Meyercord (of Crappy Indie Music: The Blog!, Meyercord and Y La Bamba)
These are bands that I am excited about right now:
The Sarchastic Dharma Society
Port St Willow
Kusikia
AgesandAges
Pegasus Dream
Frank Rinaldi - Board Member- PDX Pop Now!
Monarques
Wild Flag
Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons
I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House
And And And
Patrick Foss, man about town / tastemaker [And ex-BNB winner. -Ed.]
1. Therapists
2. Polaroids
3. Lamebrain
4. Welcome Home Walker
5. Guantanamo Baywatch
Conrad Loebl - Rotture/Branx/Tube/Yes + No Booking // DJ RAD! of Rude Dudes
1. Dangerous Boys Club
2. Vice Device
3. Ghost Mom
4. TxE
5. Serious Business
MY NAME: Brian Mumford
MY POSITION: Dragging an Ox through Water / Sun Foot Guitar & Clarinet / Jackie-O Motherfucker Guitar etc / Thicket Guitar / Jewelry Rash / Militant Free Bell Choir / Musical Impressions label baron.
Best New Bands:
The Cysts
The Polyps
Why I Must Be Careful
Glom
Rattle Dick
(Some of these are not very new, but they are not on the taboo list!)
(The Cysts are so fucking good. Realistically, if you haven't seen The Cysts.. what??)
(Sorry to name so many positions. I wasn't sure which one I was being selected because of. You can choose one or come up with an anagram from all of them or whatever you like.)
Emancipator
Natasha Kmeto
The Great Mundane
Phutureprimitive
devonwho
Keith LeWinter
Autonomous Music
Abstract Earth Project
1. The Kora Band
2. Commotion
3. Devin Phillips Black and Blues
4. Dan Duval Sextet
5. Sam Howard Band
--
Tom D'Antoni
Editor-In-Chief
Oregon Music News
Hoyt emerson, shotclock management
A both Biased and unbiased list
Ezza rose
Sean flinn and the royal we
Greylag
Monarques
Steve hefter
Alicia J. Rose
AGESANDAGES
QUIET LIFE
WHITE HINTERLAND
AND AND AND
MONARQUES
also - full disclosure conflict of interest vote: HOLCOMBE WALLER & THE
HEALERS
- I liked him so much I started managing him. [Vote not counted (not because of management, which is not against the rules, but because he was a sixth pick). -Ed.]
Mean Jeans
Therapists
The Estranged
Guantanamo Baywatch
Welcome Home Walker
Ken Cheppaikode
Dirtnap Records
Green Noise Records
Hello,
my vote for best new band is limited to one band.
Old Kingdom
My name is Eric Jensen and I'm a local musician. I play with Tractor
Operator and Pellet Gun.
Have a lovely day!
Matthew McLean, Doug Fir
1. Wild Flag
2. Quiet Life
3. Monarques
4. And And And
5. Ages and Ages
Anonymous
1. Welcome home walker
2. the chemicals
3. Mean jeans
4. Blue skies for black hearts
5. The fliptops
Sorry I missed the deadline but if you're still tallying votes I vote for: [We extended our deadline, hence the âIâm lateâ messages. -Ed.]
No Kind of Rider
Priory
Yeah Great Fine
Pigeons
Justin Power
Thanks,
Gus Elg
mastering engineer, Sky Onion Studio
Tyler Kohlhoff (Photographer)
and and and
umo
gbaywatch
blouse
fake drugs
Hey Guys,
Maybe this is too late to be counted but here goes anyways:
Lovers
The Angry Orts
And And And
Pigeons
Thanks!
Hannah Rosenau
Outreach Coordinator, PDX Pop Now!
1. Wizard Rifle
2. Atriarch
3. Transient
4. Lord Dying
5. Ro Sham Bo's
Nathan Carson - Witch Mountain / Two Ton Boa / Nanotear Booking / Dj
Nate C / Willamette Week
Michael Mannheimer, Asst. Music Ed, WW
1. And And And
2. Unknown Mortal Orchestra
3. Archers
4. Kelli Schaefer
5. Problems?
Iâm late, Iâm late. Sorry, hope itâs not too late to cast a vote for these fine bands.
Cheers!
Dave [Christensen, OPB Muisc]
John Vecchiarelli (Songwriter / Multi Instrumentalist, and drummer for Run On Sentence, Ezza Rose, Shoeshine Blue, Justin Power, Portland Cello Project, etc... )
In no particular order:
Duover
Sean Flynn & The Royal We
Barry Brusseau
Musee Mecanique
White Hinterland
Take care - jv
#1 Gulls
#2 Foxdye
#3 Finesse
#4 Vice Device
#5 Systemwide
Here are my votes!
David C
Jay Horton, freelance writer / WW
1 And And And
2 Monarques
3 From Words to Blows
Here are my top bands:
1. Duover
2. Wax Fingers
3. The Shivas
4. Sean Flinn and the Royal We
5. Brooke Parrott
Best Regards
Jason Felton
Designer | Web Developer | Librarian | Blogger
Here's my list:
1. Boy Eats Drum Machine
2. Wax Fingers
3. Sarah Jackson-Holman
4. And And And
5. Alan Charing
Adios,
--
Mark Stock
Freelance Writer / Willamette Week
Nilina Mason-Campbell - Photographer
1. Wild Ones
2. Purple & Green
3. Brainstorm
4. Soft Metals
5. Onuinu
Thanks for asking !!!!!
Sorry if these are two timers, i tried !!
Monarques
IOA
Paper/Upper/Cuts
Quiet Countries
Headphone Party
Larry Yes [In accordance with WW Best New Band policy, we disqualified everything after the first 5. -Ed.]
Wild Ones <
-hell yes
The Golden Hours
Rocky and the Proms
Blue Cranes
alan singley
Thanks for giving a spotlight to the local music scene. After serious debate here's the top 5 bands I tell people to go check out the most (excluding past winners).
1.) Kelli Schaefer
2.) Ninja
3.) Mark Twain Indians
4.) Marv Ellis
5.) Black Mercies
Thanks!
DJ Rachelle
Mondays 6-9pm
98.1 FM www.kpsu.org
syndicated on Cascadia.fm and OhZone Taiwan
Thank you for asking.
1. Lovers
2. Fake Drugs
3. Celilo
4. the alialujah choir
Cheers,
Dylan
Type Foundry Studio/Badman Recording Co.
All our (Operative's) points should be awarded equally, no particular order:
-Golden Retriever
-Get It Squad
-Finesse
-Rene Hell
-The Slaves
Unknown Mortal Orchestra 5pt
And And And 4pt
Archers 3pt
Radiation City 2pt
Blouse1pt
--
Theodora Karatzas
Promotion Assistant
Distiller Promotion
Ryan Feigh - Freelance Writer
#1 Luck-One
#2 TxE
#3 Hives Inquiry Squad
#4 Rose Bent
#5 Living Proof
Tom Oliver, Photographer/videographer
Morning Teleportation
Yours
The Reservations
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Blouse
Hope this helps!
-Tom
Dave Schonfeld
1) Baseball Project
2) Chicharones
3) Mike Coykendall
There's 3. Thanks!
Stephanie Ryan (Laura Veirsâ assistant/Miss. Studios Publicity Coordinator)
1. AgesandAges
2. 1939 Ensemble
3. Johnny Reno & The Vicemachine
4. Denver
5. Heavy Nova
Jeremiah Hayden
Amigo/Amiga Recordings
Owner/Manager/Yes-Man
1. (5pts) Wild Flag
2. (4pts) TxE
3. (3pts) No More Train Ghosts
Here you go!
1. Ravishers
2. The Angry Orts
3. Boy Eats Drum Machine
4. SexyWaterSpiders
5. Celilo
Dennise M. Kowalczyk of KZME Radio
See how rule-obeying I am this year? I didn't rank these guys, I'd like my votes spread evenly!
Anna Lockwood, Holocene/touring sound lady
Purple and Green
Forbidden Friends
Arohan
the Reservations
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Whitney Hawke - WW Freelancer
1. Wild Ones
2. Ages and Ages
3. Ocean Age
4. Forest Park
5. Radiation City
I can barely tolerate most bands these days, and I can not remember very much good stuff since my last vote... and I've been a lot more interested in dance, comedy, and visual works... but hey, bands are still cool, I guess. And I do appreciate being asked to vote.
EQUAL:
Lickity
Blue Cranes
Somniative Presents the Distant Future
Bison Bison
Trawler Bycatch
Thanks
Sean Ongley
Credentials for your credits online:
InterArts President
No.Fest Project Manager
Matthew Singer
Freelance Writer [often for WW. -Ed.]
In no order:
- Archers
- And And And
- Guantanamo Baywatch
- Welcome Home Walker
Name: John B. Jones
Role: Community Radio DJ (KBOO, KZME)
The Prids
Mimicking Birds
Duover
Angry Orts
The Harvey Girls
In no particular order
Wild Ones
Great Wilderness
Midnight Callers
Girlfriends
Love,
Ben [Hubbird, CD Baby]
Alrighty. First, we wanted to know if we can vote for artists on the label, as it stated you can't vote yourself, but a number of people affiliated with the label chose two that are.
If we can: [Yes you can! -Ed.]
1. Onuinu
2. Morning teleportation
3. Radiation city
4. Wild ones
5. The Ocean floor
If we can't:
1. Morning teleportation
2. Wild ones
3. The Ocean Floor
4. Brainstorm
5. &&&
Thanks for including us!
The apes. [Apes Tapes]
No specific ranking:
STLS
The Reservations
Brainstorm
Forbidden Friends
Unkle Funkle
Marisa Bravo
High Scores And Records
Hi Casey,
Here are my votes:
Number one: Stagbitten
Number two: Rabbits
Number three: Purple Rhinestone Eagle
Number four: BOOM!
Number five: Transient
Name: John Isaacson
Role in music community: Feedback Cartoonist
Anonymous
1) THE TAXPAYERS
2) RAISED BY TELEVISION
3) CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES
4) BEAR FEET
5) MUSTAPHAMOND
Ages and ages
Pancake breakfast
Radiation city
Light for fire
And and and
xoxo
-Joe
Joe Bowden
Owner / Bladen County Records
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Angry Orts
Onuinu
Ben Darwish
Ascetic Junkies
Ben Kubany
Grants Coordinator - PDX Pop Now!
Arya Imig-- Promotions Assistant at Backspace, OPBMusic DJ, etc. etc. etc.
Aaron Shepherd, Artistery
1 - Purple & Green
2 - Guantanamo Baywatch
3 - BOOM!
4 - Rob Walmart
5 - Future Legends
5 - Grails [disqualified -Ed.]
Hey dudes! Here's my top-5, thanks for being so neat.
1. The Reservations
2. Brainstorm
3. Youth
4. Wild Ones
5. Stag Bitten
Jackie Westfall
PDX Pop booking committee character
Caroline Borolla - Publicist - Terrorbird Media
Top 5 New Bands:
And And And
Archers
Boom!
Forbidden Friends
Wild Flag
Name: Cliff "DJ Klyph" Stanford
Title: Host of KZME's "Welcome to the Neighborhood" on 107.1FM Portland and "three7 RADIO" on Radio23's Cascade Community Radio
Hello.
Here are the BNB votes from Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside:
(in no particular order- equal points)
AgesAndAges
Pancake Breakfast
The Parson Redheads
Old Light
Hello Electric
Here's my list:
1) Kelli Schaefer
2) ioa
3) the angry orts
4) And And And
5) Death Songs
Please spread my vote points out evenly. Thanks...Jesse (PDX Pop Comp)
Nicholas Johnson
Board Coordinator - PDX Pop Now!
And And And
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Litanic Mask
Golden Retriever
Arohan
Thanks for having me participate again this year. Always fun.
Here are my very democratic five:
Raf Spielman
Eggy Records
The Whines
Psychic Feline
Rene Hell
Golden Retriever (again! still great!)
Sun Foot
Peace
Raf
Honey Owens
Hi, here ya go :)
1 finesse
2 soft metals
3 purple and green
4 litanic mask
5 the greys
hey WW,
My name is Ingrid Renan and my role in the music community is managing bands.
here are my top five choices for best new band
1. And And And
2. Denver
3. Wild Ones
Archers
Ages and Ages
oops, here's my name and stuff ryan barber, sound engineer, the knifeshop
karen
denver
memories
mean jeans
on the stairs
Anonymous
1. Faithless saints
2. Absent minds
3. Dark country
4. 48 thrills
5. Lost city
1. Priory
2. Dirty Mittens
3. Old Light
4. Agesandages
5. Ramona Falls
Jim Brunberg,
Owner mississippi studios
hi guys.
1. purple and green
2. the memories
3. boom
4. mean jeans
5. future legend
--
Curtis Knapp Marriage Records
Alex Lewis, Music Writer, OPB Music
1. Brainstorm
2. And And And
3. The Woolen Men
4. AgesandAges
5. Kelli Schaefer
Theo Craig, Agent & Talent Buyer with Smoke Signals & Rontoms
1. Monarques
1. Ohioan
2. Breezin'
3. The Ocean Floor
4. Pelican Ossman
5. Brainstorm
-Jeremy Lee Faulkner, Ah Holly Famâly
Liz Harris, Grouper
The Slaves (#1)
Concern
Golden Retriever
Pulse Emitter (#2)
others: no ranking, even point splitting
(Reporter) This is Mike and Alberta's votes:
#1Soft Metals
Onuinu
Etbonz
Finesse
Arohan
Thanks!
xo
Alberta
Chris Young
Managing Editor, Oregon Music News
Remix Artist Collective
AgesandAges
The Angry Orts
Goodnight Billygoat
Reporter
Anthony McNamer, Expunged Records
1) Priory
2) Radiation City
3) Jeremy Faulkner
4) What Hearts
5) And And And
Dave Depper, past winner/musician about town
1. Ramona Falls
2. AgesAndAges
3. Quiet Life
4. Brothers Young
5. Duover
Joan Hiller, Riot Act Media
1. Good Night Billygoat
2. . Arch Cape
3. Duover
4. Archeology
5. Bright Archer
THERE BE MY LIST! Thanks! xoxo
Hey guys,
So here goes:
Luke Wyland (AU)
1. Why I Must Be Careful
2. Golden Retriever
3. Trawler Bycatch
4. Like a Villain
5. Sustentacula
Old Light.
Shook Twins
Pancake Breakfast
Holcombe Waller and the Healers
Mackintosh Braun
Joe Cawley
The Alberta Rose Theatre
Carly Henry
Owner/Agent, Starbird Booking
Lord Dying
Norska
Burials
Wizard Rifle
Jr. Worship
#1 - Doo Doo Funk All-Stars
#2 - Urban Funk Outfit
#3 - Dirty Syncopators
#4 - Bootleg Woman
#5 - The Way Downs
Noel Richmond
~ General Manger
Jolly Roger
Evan Neuhausen, Music in the Schools
1. Brainstorm
2. And And And
3. The Reservations
4. SLOTHS
5. Blouse
From Al James of Dolorean -
1. Parson Red Heads
2. Old Light
3. The Quiet Life
4. Meridian
5. Ash Black Bufflo
Kenric L. Ashe, dBMonkey
There are lots o' bands I started to vote for but decided to be strict about their first non-party show being in 2010, as far as I know anyways.
In alphabetical order, points divided evenly:
Burning Yellows
Hogg Wild
Lasers For Eyes
P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S.
The Satin Chaps
Ian Anderson
1.Mattress
2.Gulls
3.Unknown Mortal Orchestra
4.Guantanamo Baywatch
5.Fake Drugs
Hey guys
Here's mine, thanks! These are all evenly distributed points....
the Monarques
Guantanamo Baywatch
Mean Jeans
Alameda
Parson Red Heads
Chris Hnat
230 Publicity
Benna Gottfried
Media Coordinator
PDX Pop Now!
1. And And And
2. Brainstorm
3. Kelli Schaefer
4. The Angry Orts
5. Onuinu
Brianne Mees
Co-owner of Tender Loving Empire
1. Wild Ones
2. Brainstorm
3. Radiation City
4. Yeah Great Fine
5. Pancake Breakfast
Jared Mees
Co-owner of Tender Loving Empire, former BNB bridesmaid
1 And And And
2 Wild Ones
3 Pancake Breakfast
4 Yeah Great Fine
5 Ages and Ages
Nathan Walker, publicist at Riot Act Media
1. Good Night Billygoat
2. Archeology
3. Reporter
4. Arch Cape
5. Duover
My vote is:
(very biased, but is based on good music and love of the musicians..)
1. DENVER
2. Alina Hardin
Thanks much for including me!
Gold,
Alela Diane
Hi!
1. Dirty Mittens
2. The Quick & Easy Boys
3. AgesandAges
4. Corin Tucker Band
5. Hillstomp
Anne Koch
Business & Entertainment Attorney
Mike Harper here from The Deli Portland and BBQCHICKENROBOT.
My delicious votes are as follows:
1. Radiation City
2. And And And
3. Wild Ones
4. Onuinu
5. Monarques
Tada! Thanks!I almost didn't want to number them. But Radiation City and &&& are seriously on the top of my playlist like nobody's business. I'll see you guys around!
Wow! I'm honored to be on the panel! Thanks for including me.
Full name: inger klekacz
Role: band photographer
These bands all impressed the crap out of me in the last year (in no particular order):
Kelli Schaefer
Paper/Upper/Cuts
Ramona Falls
Archers
Bryan Free
Hi Thanks for writing! Here's my top 5.
1. Lord Dying
2. Hungry Ghost
3. Sons of Huns
4. Psychic Feline
5. The Bugs
Thanks!
NAME: Aaron Beam
TITLE: President, Situation Awesome LLC / Bass and vocals for Red Fang
Bennett Yankey, Sound Engineer for Rotture, Branx, Fast Weapons, etc.
1. Dangerous Boys Club
2. Soft Kill
3. Litanic Mask
4. Vice Device
5. Wilderness
1. Stoneburner
2. Guardians
3. Lord Dying
4. Juicy Karkass
5. Spectral Tombs
-Plan B
here tis:
O RYNE WARNER (OHIOAN/CASTANETS/GHOST TO FALCO, co-operator of INFINITE FRONT)
(in no particular order)
--- BREEZIN
--- HOOKERS
--- POWER OF COUNTY
--- MANXES
--- JP JENKINS/JOHN KRAUSBAUER DUO
best of luck.
-R
1. The Caleb Klauder Country Band
Thanks, December Carson, Siren Nation and the Siren Music Company
1 nucular aminals
2 lovers
3 archers
4 and and and
5 the charts
matt brown
TODD FADEL : OWNER of long-defunct-but-sorely-missed all-ages venue MEOW MEOW, SINGER of glitch-soul vocal trio, THE BEAUTY (bit.ly/beautyPDX), and SINGER/SONGWRITER for gospel-punk collective, AGENTS OF FUTURE (bit.ly/allaboutAOF).
BEST NEW BANDS OF PORTLAND 2011:
1. UPSIDEDOWN CAT - library books, puppets and sparklers in snow! Oh, my!
2. KELLI SCHAEFER - grittier than your grandpa's wallet, purer than Horsetail
3. DREW GROW and the PASTOR'S WIVES - vocal and ensemble-matic bliss
4. DIRT CASTLE - kick-teethy and sword-sheathy
5. BRAINSTORM - gurgly whirls that govern new worlds
Lisa Lepine ProMotion Queen
Music Industry Consultant & Good Witch
Holcombe Waller â Supernaturally gifted in voice, vision and versatility, Waller is Portlandâs official Power Spirit Guide.
Chervona â I cast my vote AGAIN for this revolutionary Post Punk Peasant Party Troupe! These ultimate party starters number fans like GoGo Bordello, Manu Chao and sweaty hordes of ecstatic Portland dancers.
James Faretheewell â âThe Poet Laureate of BizzarroVilleâ finally emerges behind his self-titled album, to reveal the glorious gitchy genius of his Psychedelic-Americana-Gypsy-Rock.
Billy D â Mr D moved here a year ago and was soon booked on the big stage at the Safeway Blues Festival AND won âBest New Actâ from The Cascade Blues Society! Bluesy guitar slinging, rootsy song spinning, and seasoned well from living large in Chicago, LA and Santa Fe â now heâs ourâs to cherish!
Brownish Black â And finally AN ACTUAL newly formed ensembleâ¦.Think: Detroit Dap King meetsPortland Soul Sista â with an itchy new sound, this ensemble is soon to capture Portlandâs neo soul flag.
Erik Carlson, SoHiTek Records
Pocketknife, Pegasus Dream, Soft Metals, Jeffrey Jerusalem, Natasha Kmeto
1) Throwback Suburbia
2) New York Rifles
3) Blue Cranes
4) Redwood Son
5) Tyler Stenson
Craig Marquardo
Fathom Artist Management (I manage none of these acts)
Portland Music Awards
Colin Grigson
Uhhhhh
Arctic flowers
Nerve damage
Fnordgasm
Life harmer
Kurt's kids
Eternal Tapestry
Mercy Graves
Vanimal
Mnemonic Sounds
Tango Alpha Tango
Eclectic, good, spread my points out equally, Thanks Casey and Michael!
Abraham Ray
Production Manager
Someday Lounge and Backspace
Recording/Mixing/Mastering
The Loft Recordings
1st place - Federale
Please spread the rest evenly between:
Pony Village
Duover
The Lordy Lords
The Pink Snowflakes
Nalin Silva - Booker @ The Knife Shop
Or Revolver Studios
Or Mississippi Studios Sound Dude
Thx.
Anonymous
1) And And And
2) Unknown Mortal Orchestra
3) Golden Retriever
4) Luck-One
5) AgesAndAges
hey dudes!
my votes:
1. dangerous boys club
2. purple and green
3. vice device
4. wild ones
Marius Libman - Musician (COPY)
Please Step Out of the Vehicle
I moved away but i really dig :
1. K-tel 79
2. Palabra
3. Tony d & the flippers
4. Drunk dad
5. Wild ones
Anthony Anderson/Tope
1. Kelli Schaefer
2. Drew Grow & The Pastors Wives
3. Tony Ozier & The Doo Doo Funk All Stars
4. Priory
5. Chicharones
Robert Ham
Freelance Music Writer (Willamette Week/Oregonian/Spinner/Alternative Press)
My picks:
Brainstorm
Wizard Rifle
Pulse Emitter
Soap Collectors
Ghost Animal
Gina Altamura - Booking & Publicity @ HOLOCENE / Promotions @ Marriage Records
1. The Reservations
2. The Greys
3. Brainstorm
4. White Hinterland
5. Golden Retriever
Dear Casey / Michael:
Thanks again for allowing me to participate. Always a thrill.
Here's my picks, in order best to slighly less-best.
1. No Kind of Rider
2. And And And
3. Blue Cranes
4. Kelli Schaffer
5. Guantanamo Baywatch
Cheers,
Peter Vaughan Shaver, Esq.
SOUND ADVICE, LLC - Arts, Entertainment and Creative Business Law
Matt King
Talent Buyer - Mississippi Studios
And And And
Archers
Brainstorm
Old Light
Wild Ones
Jason Simms, freelance contributor The Oregonian's A&E
Radiation City
Rose Bent
Reed Turner
Wizard Rifle
The Tomorrow People
Leigh Feldman - LifeisaParty email list curator
in any order....
TxE, Philly's Phunkestra, Love Loungers, Commotion, Luck One
MusicfestNW director Trevor Solomon
Ema
Archers
Txe
And and and
Mbilly
THE FOLLOWING BALLOTS CAME IN TOO LATE TO COUNT (but weâre including them here for posterity, anyway):
oh man!
forgot!
1:Ages & Ages
2:Devon Who
3:Cloudy October
4:Esperanza Spaulding
5:DJ HYW 7
luv, Connie Wohn doer of events.
Michael here with Reverb Records and Cravedog. Dang, I'm probably a lil' too late with my list, but here you go anyway with my 5 favorites - #1 being most fave of the year.
1.) Porches
2.) Happy Prescriptions
3.) Hawkeye
4.) Pete International Airport
5.) Old Light
Thank you for including me in this. Very cool of ya'll!
Adam Shearer, Weinland
no order...
I know its late..
mbilly
The Quiet Life
Lovers
musee mechanique
celilo
my apologies for missing the best new band vote, didn't even realise I got one til now you went to spam!
as a loving joke, if you can put down SMEGMA for me since
it would obviously not mess with the votes thus far and would
probably make them and others happy, haha <3.
Love, manny reyes. [Past winner. -Ed.]
PS
I would have voted for:
Arohan, Ancient Heat, Swahili, Purple & Green, Jeffrey Jerusalem
AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF EVERY VOTE-GETTING BAND:
$kull$
1939 Ensemble
48 Thrills
5th Sequence
Absent Minds
AgesandAges
Akron Family
Alameda
Alan Charing
Alina Hardin
Ancient Heat
And And And
Animal Eyes
Aranya
Arch Cape
Archeology
Archers
Arctic Flowers
Arohan
Ascetic Junkies
Ash Black Bufflo
Atriarch
BA Fractal
Bad Assets
Barry Brusseau
Baseball Project
Batmen
Bear Feet
Ben Darwish
Billy D
Bison Bison
Black Mercies
Black Prairie
Blood Beach
Blouse
Blue Cranes
Blue Horns
Blue Skies For Black Hearts
Boom!
Bootleg
Boy Eats Drum Machine
Brainstorm
Breezin'
Bright Archer
Brook Parrott
Brothers Young
Brownish Black
Bryan Free
Burials
Burning Yellows
Caleb Klauder Country Band
Celilo
Chicharones
Cloudy October
Come Gather Round Us
Commotion
Concern
Confederacy of Dunces
Corin Tucker Band
Dan Duval Sextet
Dangerous Boys Club
Dark Country
Dave Notti
Death Songs
Denver
Devin Phillips Black and Blues
Devonwho
Dirt Castle
Dirty Mittens
Dirty Syncopators
DJ Chill
DJ Jeff Ro
DJ Ozroc
DJ Zac Eno
Don't
Drew Grow & the Pastor's Wives
Drunk Dad
Duover
Eddie Valient
EET
EMA
Emancipator
Emotion 2 Emotion Productions
Etbonz
Eternal Tapestry
Ezza Rose
Faithless Saints
Fake Drugs
Federale
Finesse
Fnordgasm
Forbidden Friends
Forest Park
Foxdye
From Words to Blows
Future Historians
Future Legends
Get It Squad
Ghost Animal
Ghost Mom
Girlfriends
Glom
Golden Retriever
Goodnight Billygoat
Great Wilderness
Greylag
Guantanamo Baywatch
Guardians
Gulls
Hammer of Hathor
Harlowe and the Great North Woods
Headphone Party
Heartbreak Beat
Heavy Nova
Hello Electric
Hillstomp
Hives Inquiry Squad
Hogg WIld
Holcombe Waller
Holy Sons
Hookers
Hungry Ghost
I Can Lick any SOB
Illmaculate
Inside Voices
IOA
James Faretheewell
Jeffrey Jerusalem
Jeremy Faulkner
Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons
John Heart Jackie
Johnny Reno & the Vicemachine
JP Jenkins/John Krausbauer Duo
Jr. Worship
Juicy Karkass
Justin Power
K-Tel 79
Karen
Kelli Schaefer
Kurt's Kids
Kusikia
Lamebrain
Larry Yes
Lasers for Eyes
Lavendar Mirror
Led to Sea
Leonard Mynx
Libretto
Lickity
Life Harmer
Light For Fire
Like a Villain
Litanic Mask
Living Proof
Lord Dying
Lost City
Love Loungers
Lovers
Luck-One
Mackintosh Braun
Manxes
Marisa Anderson
Mark Twain Indians
Marv Ellis
Mattress
MBilly
Mean Jeans
Mercy Graves
Meridian
Midnight Callers
Mike Coykendall & the Golden Shag
Mimicking Birds
Mnemonic Sounds
Monarques
Monopoly Child Star Searchers
Morning Teleportation
MSG
Musee Mechanique
Mustaphamond
Natasha Kmeto
Neal Morgan
Needful Longings
Nerve Damage
New York Rifles
Nice Nice
Ninja
No Go Know
No Kind of Rider
No More Train Ghosts
Norska
Nucular Aminals
O Horizon
Ocean Age
Ohioan
Old Kingdom
Old Light
On the Stairs
Onuinu
Orca Team
P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S.
Paint and Copter
Palabra
Pancake Breakfast
Paper/Upper/Cuts
Pegasus Dream
Pelican Ossman
Pete Swanson
Petoskey
Philly's Phunkestra
Phutureprimitive
Pigeons
Pocketknife
Polaroids
Pony Village
Port St. Willow
Power of County
Priory
Problems?
Profcal
Psychic Feline
Pulse Emitter
Purple & Green
Purple Rhinestone Eagle
Quiet Countries
Quiet Life
Rabbits
Raccoon
Radiation City
Raise the Bridges
Raised By Television
Ramona Falls
Rattle Dick
Redwood Son
Reed Turner
Remix Artist Collective
Rene Hell
Reporter
Ro Sham Bos
Road Race
Roane Namuh
Rob Walmart
Rocky and the Proms
Rose Bent
Royal Houser
Sam Howard Band
Sarah Jackson-Holman
Sean Flinn
Serge Severe
Serious Business
Sexx Life
SexyWaterSpiders
Shapes
Shelley Short
Shook Twins
Skip Roxy
Slimkid3
Sloths
Soap Collectors
Soft Kill
Soft Metals
Somniative Presents the Distant Future
Sons of Huns
Spectral Tombs
Spesus Christ
St. Even
Stag Bitten
Steve Hefter
STLS
Stoneburner
Strangled Darlings
Sun Foot
Sun Mar
Sustenacula
Swamp Buck
Systemwide
Taco Neck
Tango Alpha Tango
Team Evil
The Alialujah Choir
The Angry Orts
The Bugs
The Charts
The Chemicals
The Contestants
The Cysts
The Estranged
The Fliptops
The Golden Hours
The Great Mundane
The Greys
The Harvey Girls
The Kora Band
The Lordy Lords
The Lower 48
The Memories
The Ocean Floor
The Parson Redheads
The Pink Snowflakes
The Polyps
The Prids
The Quick and Easy Boys
The Ravishers
The Reservations
The Sarcastic Dharma Society
The Satin Chaps
The Shivas
The Slants
The Slaves
The Taxpayers
The Tomorrow People
The Way Downs
The We Shared Milk
The Welsh Bowmen
The Whines
The Woolen Men
Theory Hazit
Therapists
Throwback Suburbia
Tiny Knives
Tombstalker
Tony D & the Flippers
Tony Green
Tony Ozier & the Doo Doo Funk All Stars
Tope x Epp
Transient
Trawler Bycatch
Truckstop Darlin
Turbo Perfecto
Tyler Stenson
Unkle Funkle
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Upsidedown Cat
Urban Funk Outfit
Vanimal
Vice Device
Water Tower Bucket Boys
Wax Edison
Wax Fingers
Welcome Home Walker
What Hearts
White Hinterland
Why I Must Be Careful
Wild Flag
Wild Ones
Wilderness
Wizard Rifle
Yeah Great Fine
Yours
Youth
The following is split into three parts: The Letter, which explains our point system and other rules; The Ballots, which are pretty self-explanatory and The List, which is all the vote-getters in alphabetical order (hopefully they're all spelled right, because no copy editor is doing that job...).
Two final notes:
1. If you believe you should be on this voting list, please email me at cjarman [at] wweek [dot] com and let me know why. If you fit our criteria, we'll make sure to get you a ballot next year.
2. I'd like to say a special thanks to Michael Mannheimer, who left WW for the big city last week. He was a stellar assistant editor and this annual pollâalong with the paper you see on newsstands every weekâcould not have come out without him these past few years. We're gonna miss him.
Without further ado, here's all the wonky details of the 2011 Best New Band poll. Thank you for caring.
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THE LETTER (with a complete list of past winners)
Dear Esteemed Member of the Portland Music Community,
Congratulations! You have been selected by our diligent team of local music scientists to take part in Willamette Week's Best New Band Poll 2011, where the Portland music community looks back over the last year and crowns one group, solo artist or DJ the greatest new talent in town.
As you may remember, Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside took last year's poll in a tight race with Typhoon and Deelay Ceelay. We had a rad show at Berbati's Pan and it totally ruled (this year's show will be at Mississippi Studios).
So, here's what we need from you (please read all this crap carefully):
Email us (bestnewband@wweek.com) a list of the top 5 Portland-based acts you've discovered this year. Again, you can vote for any music-making entity, be it a band, solo performer, DJ or an MC. You can rank them one through five, or give no rankings if you want to spread your points equally. If you can't think of five new acts that have made an impact on you in the last year, then just send us however many you like, whether it's four, three, two or just one. "New," obviously, is relative (just like "band" and even "best"). Don't stress out on the wording too much. But DO stress on getting us this email by Monday, April 4.
When all the ballots have been collected, we will assign points for each band you voted for based on how you ranked them (No. 1 = 5 pts., No. 2 = 4 pts., No. 3 = 3 pts., etc.). If you don't rank your votes by numbering each band, the points will be divided and distributed equally among your selections. We will then add up the points from all the ballots and come up with a top 10, which will be published in an upcoming issue of Willamette Week along with profiles and photos and other such fanfare. The number one band will appear on the cover of the paper and, if available, will headline WW's Best New Band showcase.
You can vote for any band you like, as long as it is not a band you play in (you can vote for bands you work with-as long as you're voting as a TRUE FAN and not just a profiteer).
DO NOT VOTE FOR THESE PAST WINNERS (as much as we like them all):
Aan
Ah Holly Fam'ly
Alan Singley and Pants Machine
Alela Diane
Atole
Au
Blind Pilot
Blitzen Trapper
The Builders & The Butchers
Climber
Clorox Girls
Copy
Dat'r
Deelay Ceelay
Derby
DJ Beyonda
Dolorean
Dragging An Ox Through Water
Explode Into Colors
Fist Fite
Grouper
Guidance Counselor
Hey Lover
Horse Feathers
Hosannas
Jared Mees
The Kingdom
Laura Gibson
Lifesavas
Lion Fever
LKN
Loch Lomond
Menomena
The Minds
Miracles Club
New Blood
The Nice Boys
Nick Jaina
Norfolk & Western
Nurses
Old Believers
Operative
Paint By Numbers
Please Step Out of the Vehicle
Point Juncture, WA
Pure Country Gold
The Ready
Red Fang
Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside
Sirenâs Echo
The Shaky Hands
The Snuggle Ups
Starfucker
Swan Island
Talkdemonic
The Thermals
Tractor Operator
Tu Fawning
Typhoon
Valet
Viva Voce
Wampire
Weinland
Wet Confetti
White Fang
White Rainbow
World's Greatest Ghosts
Y La Bamba
Ok, you have your instructions!
*Please email your top 5 list to bestnewband@wweek.com (or hit "reply" on this email!) by Monday, April 4, 2011. We also need your full name and your role in the music community. This is so important I'm going to use caps and bold it: IF YOU DO NOT INCLUDE YOUR NAME AND TITLE IN YOUR REPLY EMAIL, YOUR VOTES WILL NOT BE COUNTED. Your votes will be published online, but if you would like your votes to remain anonymous, we can do that. Just let us know in your email.
(Fine print: If you received this email at more than one email address, please only respond once, with one set of votes; If this ballot arrived at a general email address for a record store, recording studio, bar, etc., please do not respond with more than two ballots from two separate employees who identify themselves as such; artists that have placed in the BNB Poll in the past get one vote per band--in the event that more than one ballot is returned from an artist/group or more than two from an invited organization, we will count the earliest ballot(s) to arrive in our inbox and disqualify subsequent ballots from said group/organization (this is meant to avoid ballot-stuffing). If you have questions about this, you can email Casey at cjarman@wweek.com)
Thanks so much! We get really excited at the chance to put local music on the cover of our paper each year, and we discover a lot of new music thanks to your votes. Thanks for all you do, all year-round.
love and hugs,
Casey Jarman and Michael Mannheimer
Music Editors, Willamette Week
THE BALLOTS!
Casey Jarman, Music Editor, WW
1. Wild Ones
2. Lovers
3. Rose Bent
4. And And And
5. Mean Jeans
(with apologies to AgesandAges, Doo Doo Funk All-Stars, Tope, Luck-One, Cloudy October, Key Losers, St. Even, Radiation City, Devonwho and all my other recent faves)
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Time flies! If I can squeak this in, I would like to put my votes in for:
The Reservations
Blood Beach
Batmen
K-Tel '79
Holy Sons
Tony Prato
Booker, Mudai Lounge
World's Greatest Ghosts best new bands pick... hope this isnt too late!
BRAINSTORM
LOVERS
SKIP ROXY
THE WE SHARED MILK
HEARTBREAK BEAT
Jesse Laney
WORLD'S GREATEST GHOSTS mgmt
I play in bands such as: Nasalrod, Marmits, Lickity, Mr. Frederick, When the Broken Bow, Susurrus Station, M.A.R.C., Child PM, +CNCTD, Dead Cinema, the Man Dies, Muscle Beach n' Friends, and Dinosaur Heart.
I also book shows at Saratoga and book the Hump Palace wednesdays at Goodfoot.
Again, sorry about the delay...
Oh and just in case, my 5 choices were:
(in random order)
Tiny Knives
Stag Bitten
Wax Edison
Aranya
Swamp Buck
Take care,
Justin Stimson
Zale from Pickathon
Old Light
AgesandAges
Black Prairie
Truckstop Darlin
Water Tower Bucket Band
Old Light
AgesandAges
Black Prairie
Truckstop Darlin
Water Tower Bucket Band
| hey dudes.... 1. Ioa 2. Pigeons 3. Team Evil 4. What Hearts xo kev [Talkdemonic member/past winner] |
Kelly Howsley
Managing Member The Union Records
1. No Go Know (the best local band of all time)
2. Ramona Falls
3. Royal Houser
4. I Can Lick Any SOB (triumphant return!)
5. The Quick and Easy Boys
Terry Currier, Music Millennium
AgesandAges
Truckstop Darlin'
Don't
Angry Orts
Needful Longings
Psychic Feline is my favorite Portland band right now. They get all my votes.
Claudia Meza
Musician [And past winner. -Ed.]
1- AgesandAges
2- Old Light
3- And And And
4- Pancake Breakfast
5- Brainstorm
That is all, thanks for asking!
JP [Jeremy Peterson, OPB Music]
1. Sustentacula
2. EET
3. Paint and Copter
4. Larry Yes and the Tangled Mess
5. Road Race
Shane de Leon
north pole records
Jack Lewis [Cartoonist, blogger, musician]
1. Shelley Short
2. Akron Family (perhaps cheating I know)
3. Raccoon (never play live, but the recordings I've heard are amazing, only one online I think:http://www.facebook.com/pages/Raccoon/141096932588912)
4. Tony Green-totally unknown, been around forever used to play The X-Ray back in the day. (http://www.myspace.com/146749064)
5. Shapes
Ranked 1-5
1. And And And
2. Rene Hell
3. Archers
4. Petoskey
5. Sun Mar
Chris Bigalke, Booking at Ella St. Social Club
chris lael larson
deelay ceelay
1. blue cranes
2. nice nice
3. petoskey
4. unknown mortal orchestra
5. jeffrey jerusalem
Randy Bemrose, owner of the green house, member of Radiation City, Skeletron.
unknown mortal orchestra
soap collectors
spesus christ
blouse
the tomorrow people
Here ya go:
Blue Skies For Black Hearts
Boy Eats Drum Machine
The Slants
The Contestants
Libretto
Boo yah!
Angelo
Pop Tomorrow!
DJ Wicked
DJ Deff Ro
DJ Ozroc
DJ Chill
STEVE SCHROEDER
STATES RIGHTS RECORDS
DJ HOT AIR BALLOON
1.Purple & Green
2.Jeffrey Jerusalem
3.Unkle Funkle
4.$kull$
5.BA Fractal
Emily Vidal
1--Future Historians
2--Blue Horns
3--Ezza Rose
4--Dirty Mittens
5-The Lower 48
Thanks!
REDO!
please use this one fo rme instead of march 30th ballot [Done! -Ed.]
1 Radiation City
2 The Golden Hours
3 Inside Voices
4 Morning Teleportation
5 Brainstorm
Jeff Hylton Simmons, Radio 23/CCR
Tyler Ferrin, Typhoon/Boy Gorilla Records
1 wild ones
2 brainstorm
3 and and and
4 youth
Laura Gibson - Music-Maker, Past Winner
1. Goodnight Billygoat
2. Neil Morgan
3. Ages and Ages
4. Pancake Breakfast
5. Ramona Falls
Scott McLean, Holocene/Holocene Music
Reporter
Soft Metals
Onuinu
Denver
GULLS
1) The Memories
2) $KULL$
3) DJ Zac Eno
4) Monopoly Child Star Searchers
5) Emotion 2 Emotion Productions
Adam Forkner: Marriage/YU Recording Studio, YU Music Advisor, White Rainbow
Hello,
Here are my top five picks for this year.
1. Wild Flag
2. Pocket Knife
2. O Horizon
3. Pony Village
5. Orca Team
Ro Tam
Music Photographer
hello!
this is hosannas again. [Original ballot replaced by this one. -Ed.]
we already sent in a ballot, but it only had three bands so we wanted to include a few more..
our apologies for the confusion.
we would like to split our votes equally between:
golden retriever
the ocean floor
neil morgan
rob walmart
why i must be careful
thank you and peace out!
hosannas
Petoskey
Pigeons
Deer or the Doe
ioa
Alameda
Yay!
Thanks,
Skyler [Norwood, Producer]
Thanks for asking me! Here's my picks for 2011:
1. Unknown Mortal Orchestra
2. Lovers
3. Sexx Life
4. the Angry Orts
5. Headphone Party
--
Scott Becker
PDX Pop Now! 2011
Tech Coordinator
1. Celilo
2. Lovers
I work over at Badman Recording Company. My title is Promotions and Sales/Marketing www.badmanrecordingco.com. I am also a music manager for Richmond Fontaine, Celilo and Chris Marshall here locally
Michele Mei
Anonymous
1. Kusikia
2. Marisa Anderson
3. Purple Rhinestone Eagle
4. Tombstalker
A revised top 5 from builders n butchers
1)lovers
2)Kelli schaefer
3)pancake breakfast
4)turbo perfecto
5)Federale
The official deal (in no particular order)
Ages and Ages
Litanic Mask
Neal Morgan
Lavender Mirror
Denver
Dang. This one is really hard this year. There were so many excellent bands started, and a lot that I feel will pick up more steam as they evolve this summer. I wish the list could be a little longer this year. Dangerous Boys Club, Psychic Feline, The Greys, ASSS, Love Always, The Crow, STLS, Astrology, and the list could go on and on. It's a good time to live here.
many thanks for all you guys do,
Jen Olesen
Valentine's Booking
Vivien Lyon
AgesandAges
Brothers Young
Sean Flinn and the Royal We
Greylag
Gnar Tapes/White Fang
Hey sup
Gonna have to go
BOOM!
Purple and green
The mean jeans
Rob walmart
The whines
Not sure if these are all considered "new", but here we go:
Morning Teleportation
Harlowe and the Great North Woods
Come Gather Round Us
What Hearts
Mike Midlow (Pancake Breakfast)
| emily.wilder |
Aladdin Theater
Field Hymns Records
in no particular order
MSG
Old Light
Mike Coykendall & the Golden Shag
Hammer of Hathor
Pigeons
Barbara Mitchell
not sure if i have five, and i think some of my faves are old-school (holcombe waller, fernando).
but i will throw my hat in the ring for the ravishers and kelli schaefer. kelli's album is STUNNING, and the ravishers are great.
Vivian Hua, Redefine Magazine
1 - Golden Retriever
2 - Brainstorm
3 - Morning Teleportation
4 - Psychic Feline
5 - Pete Swanson
Jason Levian (Floating World Comics, Etc.)
1. Ancient Heat
AP Kryza, WW music writer and all-around swell guy
Old Light
Agesandages
Strangled Darlings
Bad Assets
Future Historians
1. Roane Namuh
2. Tope
3. Cloudy October
4. Illmaculate
5. Dave Notti
Aaron Marquez (Owner of 360 Vinyl) aka DJ KEZ (The Fix, Rock Box)
Josh Martinez (Camobear Records)
Chicharones Eddie valient. Raise the bridges. Bias city
Douglas Jenkins: Portland Cello Project
1. AgesandAges
2. Monarques
3. Andandand
4. Ezza Rose
AHHH I'm so late for no good reason!
Thank you for the second chance. Please distribute my 'points' equally.
Best,
Ed [PDX Pop Now!]
On The Stairs
Ezza Rose
St. Even
Leonard Mynx
John Heart Jackie
Joshua Spacek
1. Quiet Life
2. YOURS
3. Rocky and the Proms
4. Brainstorm
5. And And And
Thanks!
1) Taco Neck
2) Roane Namuh
2) 5th Sequence
3) Living Proof
5) Cloudy October
mucho thanks,
PJ Portlock
Hey it's Ben Meyercord (of Crappy Indie Music: The Blog!, Meyercord and Y La Bamba)
These are bands that I am excited about right now:
The Sarchastic Dharma Society
Port St Willow
Kusikia
AgesandAges
Pegasus Dream
Frank Rinaldi - Board Member- PDX Pop Now!
Monarques
Wild Flag
Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons
I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House
And And And
Patrick Foss, man about town / tastemaker [And ex-BNB winner. -Ed.]
1. Therapists
2. Polaroids
3. Lamebrain
4. Welcome Home Walker
5. Guantanamo Baywatch
Conrad Loebl - Rotture/Branx/Tube/Yes + No Booking // DJ RAD! of Rude Dudes
1. Dangerous Boys Club
2. Vice Device
3. Ghost Mom
4. TxE
5. Serious Business
MY NAME: Brian Mumford
MY POSITION: Dragging an Ox through Water / Sun Foot Guitar & Clarinet / Jackie-O Motherfucker Guitar etc / Thicket Guitar / Jewelry Rash / Militant Free Bell Choir / Musical Impressions label baron.
Best New Bands:
The Cysts
The Polyps
Why I Must Be Careful
Glom
Rattle Dick
(Some of these are not very new, but they are not on the taboo list!)
(The Cysts are so fucking good. Realistically, if you haven't seen The Cysts.. what??)
(Sorry to name so many positions. I wasn't sure which one I was being selected because of. You can choose one or come up with an anagram from all of them or whatever you like.)
Emancipator
Natasha Kmeto
The Great Mundane
Phutureprimitive
devonwho
Keith LeWinter
Autonomous Music
Abstract Earth Project
1. The Kora Band
2. Commotion
3. Devin Phillips Black and Blues
4. Dan Duval Sextet
5. Sam Howard Band
--
Tom D'Antoni
Editor-In-Chief
Oregon Music News
Hoyt emerson, shotclock management
A both Biased and unbiased list
Ezza rose
Sean flinn and the royal we
Greylag
Monarques
Steve hefter
Alicia J. Rose
AGESANDAGES
QUIET LIFE
WHITE HINTERLAND
AND AND AND
MONARQUES
also - full disclosure conflict of interest vote: HOLCOMBE WALLER & THE
HEALERS
- I liked him so much I started managing him. [Vote not counted (not because of management, which is not against the rules, but because he was a sixth pick). -Ed.]
Mean Jeans
Therapists
The Estranged
Guantanamo Baywatch
Welcome Home Walker
Ken Cheppaikode
Dirtnap Records
Green Noise Records
Hello,
my vote for best new band is limited to one band.
Old Kingdom
My name is Eric Jensen and I'm a local musician. I play with Tractor
Operator and Pellet Gun.
Have a lovely day!
Matthew McLean, Doug Fir
1. Wild Flag
2. Quiet Life
3. Monarques
4. And And And
5. Ages and Ages
Anonymous
1. Welcome home walker
2. the chemicals
3. Mean jeans
4. Blue skies for black hearts
5. The fliptops
Sorry I missed the deadline but if you're still tallying votes I vote for: [We extended our deadline, hence the âIâm lateâ messages. -Ed.]
No Kind of Rider
Priory
Yeah Great Fine
Pigeons
Justin Power
Thanks,
Gus Elg
mastering engineer, Sky Onion Studio
Tyler Kohlhoff (Photographer)
and and and
umo
gbaywatch
blouse
fake drugs
Hey Guys,
Maybe this is too late to be counted but here goes anyways:
Lovers
The Angry Orts
And And And
Pigeons
Thanks!
Hannah Rosenau
Outreach Coordinator, PDX Pop Now!
1. Wizard Rifle
2. Atriarch
3. Transient
4. Lord Dying
5. Ro Sham Bo's
Nathan Carson - Witch Mountain / Two Ton Boa / Nanotear Booking / Dj
Nate C / Willamette Week
Michael Mannheimer, Asst. Music Ed, WW
1. And And And
2. Unknown Mortal Orchestra
3. Archers
4. Kelli Schaefer
5. Problems?
Iâm late, Iâm late. Sorry, hope itâs not too late to cast a vote for these fine bands.
- Morning Teleportation
- AgesandAges
- Kelli Shaefer
- And And And
- Luck One
Cheers!
Dave [Christensen, OPB Muisc]
John Vecchiarelli (Songwriter / Multi Instrumentalist, and drummer for Run On Sentence, Ezza Rose, Shoeshine Blue, Justin Power, Portland Cello Project, etc... )
In no particular order:
Duover
Sean Flynn & The Royal We
Barry Brusseau
Musee Mecanique
White Hinterland
Take care - jv
#1 Gulls
#2 Foxdye
#3 Finesse
#4 Vice Device
#5 Systemwide
Here are my votes!
David C
Jay Horton, freelance writer / WW
1 And And And
2 Monarques
3 From Words to Blows
Here are my top bands:
1. Duover
2. Wax Fingers
3. The Shivas
4. Sean Flinn and the Royal We
5. Brooke Parrott
Best Regards
Jason Felton
Designer | Web Developer | Librarian | Blogger
Here's my list:
1. Boy Eats Drum Machine
2. Wax Fingers
3. Sarah Jackson-Holman
4. And And And
5. Alan Charing
Adios,
--
Mark Stock
Freelance Writer / Willamette Week
Nilina Mason-Campbell - Photographer
1. Wild Ones
2. Purple & Green
3. Brainstorm
4. Soft Metals
5. Onuinu
Thanks for asking !!!!!
Sorry if these are two timers, i tried !!
Monarques
IOA
Paper/Upper/Cuts
Quiet Countries
Headphone Party
Larry Yes [In accordance with WW Best New Band policy, we disqualified everything after the first 5. -Ed.]
Wild Ones <
-hell yes
The Golden Hours
Rocky and the Proms
Blue Cranes
alan singley
Thanks for giving a spotlight to the local music scene. After serious debate here's the top 5 bands I tell people to go check out the most (excluding past winners).
1.) Kelli Schaefer
2.) Ninja
3.) Mark Twain Indians
4.) Marv Ellis
5.) Black Mercies
Thanks!
DJ Rachelle
Mondays 6-9pm
98.1 FM www.kpsu.org
syndicated on Cascadia.fm and OhZone Taiwan
| BEST NEW BANDZ And And And Soft Metals Mean Jeans STLS Kelli Schaefer Alley Frey Pdx Pop Now! |
Thank you for asking.
1. Lovers
2. Fake Drugs
3. Celilo
4. the alialujah choir
Cheers,
Dylan
Type Foundry Studio/Badman Recording Co.
All our (Operative's) points should be awarded equally, no particular order:
-Golden Retriever
-Get It Squad
-Finesse
-Rene Hell
-The Slaves
Unknown Mortal Orchestra 5pt
And And And 4pt
Archers 3pt
Radiation City 2pt
Blouse1pt
--
Theodora Karatzas
Promotion Assistant
Distiller Promotion
Ryan Feigh - Freelance Writer
#1 Luck-One
#2 TxE
#3 Hives Inquiry Squad
#4 Rose Bent
#5 Living Proof
Tom Oliver, Photographer/videographer
Morning Teleportation
Yours
The Reservations
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Blouse
Hope this helps!
-Tom
Dave Schonfeld
1) Baseball Project
2) Chicharones
3) Mike Coykendall
There's 3. Thanks!
Stephanie Ryan (Laura Veirsâ assistant/Miss. Studios Publicity Coordinator)
1. AgesandAges
2. 1939 Ensemble
3. Johnny Reno & The Vicemachine
4. Denver
5. Heavy Nova
Jeremiah Hayden
Amigo/Amiga Recordings
Owner/Manager/Yes-Man
1. (5pts) Wild Flag
2. (4pts) TxE
3. (3pts) No More Train Ghosts
Here you go!
1. Ravishers
2. The Angry Orts
3. Boy Eats Drum Machine
4. SexyWaterSpiders
5. Celilo
Dennise M. Kowalczyk of KZME Radio
See how rule-obeying I am this year? I didn't rank these guys, I'd like my votes spread evenly!
Anna Lockwood, Holocene/touring sound lady
Purple and Green
Forbidden Friends
Arohan
the Reservations
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Whitney Hawke - WW Freelancer
1. Wild Ones
2. Ages and Ages
3. Ocean Age
4. Forest Park
5. Radiation City
I can barely tolerate most bands these days, and I can not remember very much good stuff since my last vote... and I've been a lot more interested in dance, comedy, and visual works... but hey, bands are still cool, I guess. And I do appreciate being asked to vote.
EQUAL:
Lickity
Blue Cranes
Somniative Presents the Distant Future
Bison Bison
Trawler Bycatch
Thanks
Sean Ongley
Credentials for your credits online:
InterArts President
No.Fest Project Manager
Matthew Singer
Freelance Writer [often for WW. -Ed.]
In no order:
- Archers
- And And And
- Guantanamo Baywatch
- Welcome Home Walker
Name: John B. Jones
Role: Community Radio DJ (KBOO, KZME)
The Prids
Mimicking Birds
Duover
Angry Orts
The Harvey Girls
In no particular order
Wild Ones
Great Wilderness
Midnight Callers
Girlfriends
Love,
Ben [Hubbird, CD Baby]
Alrighty. First, we wanted to know if we can vote for artists on the label, as it stated you can't vote yourself, but a number of people affiliated with the label chose two that are.
If we can: [Yes you can! -Ed.]
1. Onuinu
2. Morning teleportation
3. Radiation city
4. Wild ones
5. The Ocean floor
If we can't:
1. Morning teleportation
2. Wild ones
3. The Ocean Floor
4. Brainstorm
5. &&&
Thanks for including us!
The apes. [Apes Tapes]
No specific ranking:
STLS
The Reservations
Brainstorm
Forbidden Friends
Unkle Funkle
Marisa Bravo
High Scores And Records
Hi Casey,
Here are my votes:
Number one: Stagbitten
Number two: Rabbits
Number three: Purple Rhinestone Eagle
Number four: BOOM!
Number five: Transient
Name: John Isaacson
Role in music community: Feedback Cartoonist
Anonymous
1) THE TAXPAYERS
2) RAISED BY TELEVISION
3) CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES
4) BEAR FEET
5) MUSTAPHAMOND
Ages and ages
Pancake breakfast
Radiation city
Light for fire
And and and
xoxo
-Joe
Joe Bowden
Owner / Bladen County Records
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Angry Orts
Onuinu
Ben Darwish
Ascetic Junkies
Ben Kubany
Grants Coordinator - PDX Pop Now!
Arya Imig-- Promotions Assistant at Backspace, OPBMusic DJ, etc. etc. etc.
1)And And And
2) The Reservations
3) Animal Eyes
4) The Welsh Bowmen
5) Profcal
Aaron Shepherd, Artistery
1 - Purple & Green
2 - Guantanamo Baywatch
3 - BOOM!
4 - Rob Walmart
5 - Future Legends
5 - Grails [disqualified -Ed.]
Hey dudes! Here's my top-5, thanks for being so neat.
1. The Reservations
2. Brainstorm
3. Youth
4. Wild Ones
5. Stag Bitten
Jackie Westfall
PDX Pop booking committee character
Caroline Borolla - Publicist - Terrorbird Media
Top 5 New Bands:
And And And
Archers
Boom!
Forbidden Friends
Wild Flag
Name: Cliff "DJ Klyph" Stanford
Title: Host of KZME's "Welcome to the Neighborhood" on 107.1FM Portland and "three7 RADIO" on Radio23's Cascade Community Radio
- Luck-One
- Theory Hazit
- Serge Severe
- Slimkid3
- Tony Ozier
Hello.
Here are the BNB votes from Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside:
(in no particular order- equal points)
AgesAndAges
Pancake Breakfast
The Parson Redheads
Old Light
Hello Electric
Here's my list:
1) Kelli Schaefer
2) ioa
3) the angry orts
4) And And And
5) Death Songs
Please spread my vote points out evenly. Thanks...Jesse (PDX Pop Comp)
Nicholas Johnson
Board Coordinator - PDX Pop Now!
And And And
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Litanic Mask
Golden Retriever
Arohan
Thanks for having me participate again this year. Always fun.
Here are my very democratic five:
Raf Spielman
Eggy Records
The Whines
Psychic Feline
Rene Hell
Golden Retriever (again! still great!)
Sun Foot
Peace
Raf
Honey Owens
Hi, here ya go :)
1 finesse
2 soft metals
3 purple and green
4 litanic mask
5 the greys
hey WW,
My name is Ingrid Renan and my role in the music community is managing bands.
here are my top five choices for best new band
1. And And And
2. Denver
3. Wild Ones
Archers
Ages and Ages
oops, here's my name and stuff ryan barber, sound engineer, the knifeshop
karen
denver
memories
mean jeans
on the stairs
Anonymous
1. Faithless saints
2. Absent minds
3. Dark country
4. 48 thrills
5. Lost city
1. Priory
2. Dirty Mittens
3. Old Light
4. Agesandages
5. Ramona Falls
Jim Brunberg,
Owner mississippi studios
hi guys.
1. purple and green
2. the memories
3. boom
4. mean jeans
5. future legend
--
Curtis Knapp Marriage Records
Alex Lewis, Music Writer, OPB Music
1. Brainstorm
2. And And And
3. The Woolen Men
4. AgesandAges
5. Kelli Schaefer
Theo Craig, Agent & Talent Buyer with Smoke Signals & Rontoms
1. Monarques
1. Ohioan
2. Breezin'
3. The Ocean Floor
4. Pelican Ossman
5. Brainstorm
-Jeremy Lee Faulkner, Ah Holly Famâly
Liz Harris, Grouper
The Slaves (#1)
Concern
Golden Retriever
Pulse Emitter (#2)
others: no ranking, even point splitting
(Reporter) This is Mike and Alberta's votes:
#1Soft Metals
Onuinu
Etbonz
Finesse
Arohan
Thanks!
xo
Alberta
Chris Young
Managing Editor, Oregon Music News
Remix Artist Collective
AgesandAges
The Angry Orts
Goodnight Billygoat
Reporter
Anthony McNamer, Expunged Records
1) Priory
2) Radiation City
3) Jeremy Faulkner
4) What Hearts
5) And And And
Dave Depper, past winner/musician about town
1. Ramona Falls
2. AgesAndAges
3. Quiet Life
4. Brothers Young
5. Duover
Joan Hiller, Riot Act Media
1. Good Night Billygoat
2. . Arch Cape
3. Duover
4. Archeology
5. Bright Archer
THERE BE MY LIST! Thanks! xoxo
Hey guys,
So here goes:
Luke Wyland (AU)
1. Why I Must Be Careful
2. Golden Retriever
3. Trawler Bycatch
4. Like a Villain
5. Sustentacula
Old Light.
Shook Twins
Pancake Breakfast
Holcombe Waller and the Healers
Mackintosh Braun
Joe Cawley
The Alberta Rose Theatre
Carly Henry
Owner/Agent, Starbird Booking
Lord Dying
Norska
Burials
Wizard Rifle
Jr. Worship
#1 - Doo Doo Funk All-Stars
#2 - Urban Funk Outfit
#3 - Dirty Syncopators
#4 - Bootleg Woman
#5 - The Way Downs
Noel Richmond
~ General Manger
Jolly Roger
Evan Neuhausen, Music in the Schools
1. Brainstorm
2. And And And
3. The Reservations
4. SLOTHS
5. Blouse
From Al James of Dolorean -
1. Parson Red Heads
2. Old Light
3. The Quiet Life
4. Meridian
5. Ash Black Bufflo
Kenric L. Ashe, dBMonkey
There are lots o' bands I started to vote for but decided to be strict about their first non-party show being in 2010, as far as I know anyways.
In alphabetical order, points divided evenly:
Burning Yellows
Hogg Wild
Lasers For Eyes
P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S.
The Satin Chaps
Ian Anderson
1.Mattress
2.Gulls
3.Unknown Mortal Orchestra
4.Guantanamo Baywatch
5.Fake Drugs
Hey guys
Here's mine, thanks! These are all evenly distributed points....
the Monarques
Guantanamo Baywatch
Mean Jeans
Alameda
Parson Red Heads
Chris Hnat
230 Publicity
Benna Gottfried
Media Coordinator
PDX Pop Now!
1. And And And
2. Brainstorm
3. Kelli Schaefer
4. The Angry Orts
5. Onuinu
Brianne Mees
Co-owner of Tender Loving Empire
1. Wild Ones
2. Brainstorm
3. Radiation City
4. Yeah Great Fine
5. Pancake Breakfast
Jared Mees
Co-owner of Tender Loving Empire, former BNB bridesmaid
1 And And And
2 Wild Ones
3 Pancake Breakfast
4 Yeah Great Fine
5 Ages and Ages
Nathan Walker, publicist at Riot Act Media
1. Good Night Billygoat
2. Archeology
3. Reporter
4. Arch Cape
5. Duover
My vote is:
(very biased, but is based on good music and love of the musicians..)
1. DENVER
2. Alina Hardin
Thanks much for including me!
Gold,
Alela Diane
Hi!
1. Dirty Mittens
2. The Quick & Easy Boys
3. AgesandAges
4. Corin Tucker Band
5. Hillstomp
Anne Koch
Business & Entertainment Attorney
Mike Harper here from The Deli Portland and BBQCHICKENROBOT.
My delicious votes are as follows:
1. Radiation City
2. And And And
3. Wild Ones
4. Onuinu
5. Monarques
Tada! Thanks!I almost didn't want to number them. But Radiation City and &&& are seriously on the top of my playlist like nobody's business. I'll see you guys around!
Wow! I'm honored to be on the panel! Thanks for including me.
Full name: inger klekacz
Role: band photographer
These bands all impressed the crap out of me in the last year (in no particular order):
Kelli Schaefer
Paper/Upper/Cuts
Ramona Falls
Archers
Bryan Free
Hi Thanks for writing! Here's my top 5.
1. Lord Dying
2. Hungry Ghost
3. Sons of Huns
4. Psychic Feline
5. The Bugs
Thanks!
NAME: Aaron Beam
TITLE: President, Situation Awesome LLC / Bass and vocals for Red Fang
Bennett Yankey, Sound Engineer for Rotture, Branx, Fast Weapons, etc.
1. Dangerous Boys Club
2. Soft Kill
3. Litanic Mask
4. Vice Device
5. Wilderness
1. Stoneburner
2. Guardians
3. Lord Dying
4. Juicy Karkass
5. Spectral Tombs
-Plan B
here tis:
O RYNE WARNER (OHIOAN/CASTANETS/GHOST TO FALCO, co-operator of INFINITE FRONT)
(in no particular order)
--- BREEZIN
--- HOOKERS
--- POWER OF COUNTY
--- MANXES
--- JP JENKINS/JOHN KRAUSBAUER DUO
best of luck.
-R
1. The Caleb Klauder Country Band
- The Watertower Bucket Boys
- Old Light
- Led To Sea
- Sara Jackson Holman
Thanks, December Carson, Siren Nation and the Siren Music Company
1 nucular aminals
2 lovers
3 archers
4 and and and
5 the charts
matt brown
TODD FADEL : OWNER of long-defunct-but-sorely-missed all-ages venue MEOW MEOW, SINGER of glitch-soul vocal trio, THE BEAUTY (bit.ly/beautyPDX), and SINGER/SONGWRITER for gospel-punk collective, AGENTS OF FUTURE (bit.ly/allaboutAOF).
BEST NEW BANDS OF PORTLAND 2011:
1. UPSIDEDOWN CAT - library books, puppets and sparklers in snow! Oh, my!
2. KELLI SCHAEFER - grittier than your grandpa's wallet, purer than Horsetail
3. DREW GROW and the PASTOR'S WIVES - vocal and ensemble-matic bliss
4. DIRT CASTLE - kick-teethy and sword-sheathy
5. BRAINSTORM - gurgly whirls that govern new worlds
Lisa Lepine ProMotion Queen
Music Industry Consultant & Good Witch
Holcombe Waller â Supernaturally gifted in voice, vision and versatility, Waller is Portlandâs official Power Spirit Guide.
Chervona â I cast my vote AGAIN for this revolutionary Post Punk Peasant Party Troupe! These ultimate party starters number fans like GoGo Bordello, Manu Chao and sweaty hordes of ecstatic Portland dancers.
James Faretheewell â âThe Poet Laureate of BizzarroVilleâ finally emerges behind his self-titled album, to reveal the glorious gitchy genius of his Psychedelic-Americana-Gypsy-Rock.
Billy D â Mr D moved here a year ago and was soon booked on the big stage at the Safeway Blues Festival AND won âBest New Actâ from The Cascade Blues Society! Bluesy guitar slinging, rootsy song spinning, and seasoned well from living large in Chicago, LA and Santa Fe â now heâs ourâs to cherish!
Brownish Black â And finally AN ACTUAL newly formed ensembleâ¦.Think: Detroit Dap King meetsPortland Soul Sista â with an itchy new sound, this ensemble is soon to capture Portlandâs neo soul flag.
Erik Carlson, SoHiTek Records
Pocketknife, Pegasus Dream, Soft Metals, Jeffrey Jerusalem, Natasha Kmeto
1) Throwback Suburbia
2) New York Rifles
3) Blue Cranes
4) Redwood Son
5) Tyler Stenson
Craig Marquardo
Fathom Artist Management (I manage none of these acts)
Portland Music Awards
Colin Grigson
Uhhhhh
Arctic flowers
Nerve damage
Fnordgasm
Life harmer
Kurt's kids
Eternal Tapestry
Mercy Graves
Vanimal
Mnemonic Sounds
Tango Alpha Tango
Eclectic, good, spread my points out equally, Thanks Casey and Michael!
Abraham Ray
Production Manager
Someday Lounge and Backspace
Recording/Mixing/Mastering
The Loft Recordings
1st place - Federale
Please spread the rest evenly between:
Pony Village
Duover
The Lordy Lords
The Pink Snowflakes
Nalin Silva - Booker @ The Knife Shop
Or Revolver Studios
Or Mississippi Studios Sound Dude
Thx.
Anonymous
1) And And And
2) Unknown Mortal Orchestra
3) Golden Retriever
4) Luck-One
5) AgesAndAges
hey dudes!
my votes:
1. dangerous boys club
2. purple and green
3. vice device
4. wild ones
Marius Libman - Musician (COPY)
Please Step Out of the Vehicle
I moved away but i really dig :
1. K-tel 79
2. Palabra
3. Tony d & the flippers
4. Drunk dad
5. Wild ones
Anthony Anderson/Tope
1. Kelli Schaefer
2. Drew Grow & The Pastors Wives
3. Tony Ozier & The Doo Doo Funk All Stars
4. Priory
5. Chicharones
Robert Ham
Freelance Music Writer (Willamette Week/Oregonian/Spinner/Alternative Press)
My picks:
Brainstorm
Wizard Rifle
Pulse Emitter
Soap Collectors
Ghost Animal
Gina Altamura - Booking & Publicity @ HOLOCENE / Promotions @ Marriage Records
1. The Reservations
2. The Greys
3. Brainstorm
4. White Hinterland
5. Golden Retriever
Dear Casey / Michael:
Thanks again for allowing me to participate. Always a thrill.
Here's my picks, in order best to slighly less-best.
1. No Kind of Rider
2. And And And
3. Blue Cranes
4. Kelli Schaffer
5. Guantanamo Baywatch
Cheers,
Peter Vaughan Shaver, Esq.
SOUND ADVICE, LLC - Arts, Entertainment and Creative Business Law
Matt King
Talent Buyer - Mississippi Studios
And And And
Archers
Brainstorm
Old Light
Wild Ones
Jason Simms, freelance contributor The Oregonian's A&E
Radiation City
Rose Bent
Reed Turner
Wizard Rifle
The Tomorrow People
Leigh Feldman - LifeisaParty email list curator
in any order....
TxE, Philly's Phunkestra, Love Loungers, Commotion, Luck One
MusicfestNW director Trevor Solomon
Ema
Archers
Txe
And and and
Mbilly
THE FOLLOWING BALLOTS CAME IN TOO LATE TO COUNT (but weâre including them here for posterity, anyway):
oh man!
forgot!
1:Ages & Ages
2:Devon Who
3:Cloudy October
4:Esperanza Spaulding
5:DJ HYW 7
luv, Connie Wohn doer of events.
Michael here with Reverb Records and Cravedog. Dang, I'm probably a lil' too late with my list, but here you go anyway with my 5 favorites - #1 being most fave of the year.
1.) Porches
2.) Happy Prescriptions
3.) Hawkeye
4.) Pete International Airport
5.) Old Light
Thank you for including me in this. Very cool of ya'll!
Adam Shearer, Weinland
no order...
I know its late..
mbilly
The Quiet Life
Lovers
musee mechanique
celilo
my apologies for missing the best new band vote, didn't even realise I got one til now you went to spam!
as a loving joke, if you can put down SMEGMA for me since
it would obviously not mess with the votes thus far and would
probably make them and others happy, haha <3.
Love, manny reyes. [Past winner. -Ed.]
PS
I would have voted for:
Arohan, Ancient Heat, Swahili, Purple & Green, Jeffrey Jerusalem
AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF EVERY VOTE-GETTING BAND:
$kull$
1939 Ensemble
48 Thrills
5th Sequence
Absent Minds
AgesandAges
Akron Family
Alameda
Alan Charing
Alina Hardin
Ancient Heat
And And And
Animal Eyes
Aranya
Arch Cape
Archeology
Archers
Arctic Flowers
Arohan
Ascetic Junkies
Ash Black Bufflo
Atriarch
BA Fractal
Bad Assets
Barry Brusseau
Baseball Project
Batmen
Bear Feet
Ben Darwish
Billy D
Bison Bison
Black Mercies
Black Prairie
Blood Beach
Blouse
Blue Cranes
Blue Horns
Blue Skies For Black Hearts
Boom!
Bootleg
Boy Eats Drum Machine
Brainstorm
Breezin'
Bright Archer
Brook Parrott
Brothers Young
Brownish Black
Bryan Free
Burials
Burning Yellows
Caleb Klauder Country Band
Celilo
Chicharones
Cloudy October
Come Gather Round Us
Commotion
Concern
Confederacy of Dunces
Corin Tucker Band
Dan Duval Sextet
Dangerous Boys Club
Dark Country
Dave Notti
Death Songs
Denver
Devin Phillips Black and Blues
Devonwho
Dirt Castle
Dirty Mittens
Dirty Syncopators
DJ Chill
DJ Jeff Ro
DJ Ozroc
DJ Zac Eno
Don't
Drew Grow & the Pastor's Wives
Drunk Dad
Duover
Eddie Valient
EET
EMA
Emancipator
Emotion 2 Emotion Productions
Etbonz
Eternal Tapestry
Ezza Rose
Faithless Saints
Fake Drugs
Federale
Finesse
Fnordgasm
Forbidden Friends
Forest Park
Foxdye
From Words to Blows
Future Historians
Future Legends
Get It Squad
Ghost Animal
Ghost Mom
Girlfriends
Glom
Golden Retriever
Goodnight Billygoat
Great Wilderness
Greylag
Guantanamo Baywatch
Guardians
Gulls
Hammer of Hathor
Harlowe and the Great North Woods
Headphone Party
Heartbreak Beat
Heavy Nova
Hello Electric
Hillstomp
Hives Inquiry Squad
Hogg WIld
Holcombe Waller
Holy Sons
Hookers
Hungry Ghost
I Can Lick any SOB
Illmaculate
Inside Voices
IOA
James Faretheewell
Jeffrey Jerusalem
Jeremy Faulkner
Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons
John Heart Jackie
Johnny Reno & the Vicemachine
JP Jenkins/John Krausbauer Duo
Jr. Worship
Juicy Karkass
Justin Power
K-Tel 79
Karen
Kelli Schaefer
Kurt's Kids
Kusikia
Lamebrain
Larry Yes
Lasers for Eyes
Lavendar Mirror
Led to Sea
Leonard Mynx
Libretto
Lickity
Life Harmer
Light For Fire
Like a Villain
Litanic Mask
Living Proof
Lord Dying
Lost City
Love Loungers
Lovers
Luck-One
Mackintosh Braun
Manxes
Marisa Anderson
Mark Twain Indians
Marv Ellis
Mattress
MBilly
Mean Jeans
Mercy Graves
Meridian
Midnight Callers
Mike Coykendall & the Golden Shag
Mimicking Birds
Mnemonic Sounds
Monarques
Monopoly Child Star Searchers
Morning Teleportation
MSG
Musee Mechanique
Mustaphamond
Natasha Kmeto
Neal Morgan
Needful Longings
Nerve Damage
New York Rifles
Nice Nice
Ninja
No Go Know
No Kind of Rider
No More Train Ghosts
Norska
Nucular Aminals
O Horizon
Ocean Age
Ohioan
Old Kingdom
Old Light
On the Stairs
Onuinu
Orca Team
P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S.
Paint and Copter
Palabra
Pancake Breakfast
Paper/Upper/Cuts
Pegasus Dream
Pelican Ossman
Pete Swanson
Petoskey
Philly's Phunkestra
Phutureprimitive
Pigeons
Pocketknife
Polaroids
Pony Village
Port St. Willow
Power of County
Priory
Problems?
Profcal
Psychic Feline
Pulse Emitter
Purple & Green
Purple Rhinestone Eagle
Quiet Countries
Quiet Life
Rabbits
Raccoon
Radiation City
Raise the Bridges
Raised By Television
Ramona Falls
Rattle Dick
Redwood Son
Reed Turner
Remix Artist Collective
Rene Hell
Reporter
Ro Sham Bos
Road Race
Roane Namuh
Rob Walmart
Rocky and the Proms
Rose Bent
Royal Houser
Sam Howard Band
Sarah Jackson-Holman
Sean Flinn
Serge Severe
Serious Business
Sexx Life
SexyWaterSpiders
Shapes
Shelley Short
Shook Twins
Skip Roxy
Slimkid3
Sloths
Soap Collectors
Soft Kill
Soft Metals
Somniative Presents the Distant Future
Sons of Huns
Spectral Tombs
Spesus Christ
St. Even
Stag Bitten
Steve Hefter
STLS
Stoneburner
Strangled Darlings
Sun Foot
Sun Mar
Sustenacula
Swamp Buck
Systemwide
Taco Neck
Tango Alpha Tango
Team Evil
The Alialujah Choir
The Angry Orts
The Bugs
The Charts
The Chemicals
The Contestants
The Cysts
The Estranged
The Fliptops
The Golden Hours
The Great Mundane
The Greys
The Harvey Girls
The Kora Band
The Lordy Lords
The Lower 48
The Memories
The Ocean Floor
The Parson Redheads
The Pink Snowflakes
The Polyps
The Prids
The Quick and Easy Boys
The Ravishers
The Reservations
The Sarcastic Dharma Society
The Satin Chaps
The Shivas
The Slants
The Slaves
The Taxpayers
The Tomorrow People
The Way Downs
The We Shared Milk
The Welsh Bowmen
The Whines
The Woolen Men
Theory Hazit
Therapists
Throwback Suburbia
Tiny Knives
Tombstalker
Tony D & the Flippers
Tony Green
Tony Ozier & the Doo Doo Funk All Stars
Tope x Epp
Transient
Trawler Bycatch
Truckstop Darlin
Turbo Perfecto
Tyler Stenson
Unkle Funkle
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Upsidedown Cat
Urban Funk Outfit
Vanimal
Vice Device
Water Tower Bucket Boys
Wax Edison
Wax Fingers
Welcome Home Walker
What Hearts
White Hinterland
Why I Must Be Careful
Wild Flag
Wild Ones
Wilderness
Wizard Rifle
Yeah Great Fine
Yours
Youth
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