Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside Are Breaking Up

Final two shows are this weekend at Doug Fir Lounge.

By MATTHEW SINGER

Well, shoot. Three years after being voted Portland's Best New Band, the rough-and-tumble jazz-folk-punk grab-bag known as Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside is breaking up. Aside from its somewhat surprising BNB victory, the band's career highlights included two albums (the most recent, Untamed Beast, came out earlier this year) an appearance on David Letterman and making it big in France.

This means the band's upcoming back-to-back shows at Doug Fir this weekend will be its last. Here's the band's official statement, taken from its Facebook page. A silver lining is included within: Sallie Ford herself is already starting a new, as-yet-unnamed all-girl project. 

Dang. Probably shouldn't have made those jokes about the "Best New Band curse" back in February.

Here's that clip of the band's appearance on Letterman back in 2011.

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