Music Yes, Loch Lomond has been home for a bit. Yeah, they played Portland this weekend. No, that does not mean we'll stop posting their European tour diaries! This one is by Jason Leonard. -Ed.Waking up early in the morning from a slumber in a 400 year-old building in the middle of the intimate cobblestone lined German village of Wetzlar, greeted with a giant breakfast from your hosts (the promo...   More

Music words by Dave Depper

Duisberg

Ah, Germany. My favorite country in Europe. A bustling, thoroughly modern, blindingly precise land full of beautiful landscape, friendly people, and great food. And of course, the Autobahn, where you can drive just as fast as your little heart desires.

Our first show here was at a club called Cafe Steinbruch, in Duisberg, a pleasant town in the mi...   More

Music In the malleable and ever-shifting enigma that is Loch Lomond, class of ’12 is poised to take over Europe on a 7-country, 19-date tour, and we want to take you with us. Meet Ritchie Young, Jason Leonard, Mike Young, Dave Depper, and myself (Brooke Parrott), who arrived in Brussels (Jade Brings Plenty will be joining in Hambur...   More

Music This is the final installment of the Loch Lomond tour diary (going up a bit late). We'd like to thank the band for the awesome entries these last few weeks! -Ed.

After our multi-caguama night in beautiful Visalia with the face-meltingly awesome Futurebirds, it was high time for us to wave goodbye to the stifling air of central C...   More

Music Almost everything is bigger in California.

We pulled into Santa Barbara to play the Mercury Lounge.  Think Regal Beagle of Three's Company fame. That's Orlando, I know, but this was it in shoebox form: a hamster coffin decorated like Jack Tripper's pickup bar.  KCSB, one of the best college radio stations ever, broadcasted the show live (first time in school history) using the fi...   More

Music Interstate 5. The Nickel. Roaming miles and miles of silver and grey speckled asphalt, like traversing the nooks and crannies of an aged 1922 Buffalo nickel. The best part of driving down I-5 from Portland to California is in the middle. Going over the mountain pass is like going down the rabbit's hole. Or maybe it's the other way around, popping out from the majestic green foggy lushness of O...   More

Music Two shows in, and it’s already clear how rocking this new lineup is. MusicfestNW was the perfect way to build up momentum for our two-week West Coast tour. Recording with Larry Crane at the Ace Hotel and playing our T.L.E. show at Rontoms sparked a good fire to light our way. Unfortunately, Jade couldn’t come out on our little jaunt, so we’re like a three-legged dog pulling some new tricks. ...   More