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Every year, in the spirit of transparency—and to make it perfectly clear that Best New Band is a poll, not an arbitrary list—we publish the ballots of every Best New Band voter. What follows is that list of voters names, titles and the bands or artists that they casted votes for. We offer voters the opportunity to conceal their identity, which is the reason some ballots are listed as "anonymous."
As my predecessor often pointed out, there may be imperfections in this list, as copying and pasting around 150 entries is, frankly, a bit mind-numbing. But then, the entire Best New Band process isn't an exact science. Every year, our voting pool grows—of course, not everyone returns a ballot, which is why the total number of votes fluctuates—but does it ever represent the true breadth of the Portland music scene? Probably not. It's a big, wonderfully eclectic community, after all. But it's something we aim to improve each year. This year, we asked readers to nominate new voters, which added about two dozen names to the list. Hopefully, next year we'll have an even bigger and more diverse list of contributors, to make this as accurate a litmus test as possible.
In an effort for even fuller disclosure, I have included the full text of the instructions sent to each voter, to give you an idea of how the poll is tabulated. If you are a voter and notices any mistakes pertaining to your particular ballot, please let me know by emailing bestnewband [at] wweek.com.
Thanks for reading and, if you're name is on the list below, for your participation!
The Letter
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 2013, 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.
This is my first year doing this as music editor, and we're doing things a bit differently. Here's what we need from you (please read all this carefully):
Go to the following and follow the directions carefully: [POLL REMOVED] As always, 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 REPLYING BY THE DEADLINE: TUESDAY, MARCH 26 at 11:59 PM.
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).
We also need your full name and your role in the music community. This is so important I'm going to use caps: IF YOU DO NOT INCLUDE YOUR NAME AND TITLE IN YOUR FORM, 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 by responding to this email.
DO NOT VOTE FOR THESE PAST WINNERS (as much as we like them all):
Aan
AgesAndAges
Ah Holly Fam'ly
Alan Singley and Pants Machine
Alela Diane
And And And
Atole
Au
Blind Pilot
Blitzen Trapper
Blouse
Brainstorm
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
Grandparents
Grouper
Guidance Counselor
Hey Lover
Horse Feathers
Hosannas
Jared Mees
The Kingdom
Laura Gibson
Lifesavas
Lion Fever
LKN
Loch Lomond
Lost Lander
Lovers
Menomena
The Minds
Miracles Club
Monarques
New Blood
The Nice Boys
Nick Jaina
Norfolk & Western
Nurses
Old Believers
Old Light
Onuinu
Operative
Paint By Numbers
Please Step Out of the Vehicle
Point Juncture, WA
Pure Country Gold
Pure Bathing Culture
Purple and Green
Radiation City
The Ready
Red Fang
Reva Devito
Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside
Kelli Schaefer
Siren's Echo
The Shaky Hands
The Snuggle Ups
Sons of Huns
Starfucker
Swan Island
Talkdemonic
The Thermals
Tope
Tractor Operator
Tu Fawning
Typhoon
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Valet
Viva Voce
Wampire
Weinland
Wet Confetti
White Fang
White Rainbow
Wild Ones
World's Greatest Ghosts
Y La Bamba
Youth
Ok, you have your instructions! Let's introduce this city to a bunch of new music!
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 Matt at msinger at 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, to strengthen this wonderful music community.
Sincerely,
Matthew Singer
Music Editor, Willamette Week
The Ballots
Aaron Chapman, Nurses
Settlers
Aaron Colter, Cofounder of Banana Stand Media
Magic Mouth
Fanno Creek
Gaytheist
Minden
Genders
Aaron Meola, Dropping Gems
1. Natasha Kmeto
2. Philip Grass
3. Montgomery Word
4. Northern Draw
5. Rap Class
Al James, Dolorean
1. Denver
2. Industrial Parks
3. Lilacs & Champagne
4. The Memories
5. 1939 Ensemble
Alex Steiniger, In Music We Trust
1. Water Tower
2. Foreign Talks
3. Hook & Anchor
4. A Happy Death
5. Mbrascatu
Alex Wideman, Talent Buyer for McMenamins
1. World's Finest
2. Shadows on Stars
3. Parson Red Heads
4. The Shook Twins
5. Josh and Mer
Alley Frey, Girl About Town
1. Magic Mouth
2. Pictorials
3. Unkle Funkle
4. Shy Girls
5. Jeau Breedlove
Alley Hector, qPDX
1. La Pump
2. Magic Mouth
3. Tender Forever
4. Stay Calm
5. Reynosa
Amy Theberge, Tixie.com
1. Porches
2. Sean Flinn & The Royal We
3. Shook Twins
4. Hip Hatchet
5. Battleme
Andrew Neerman, Beacon Sound
1. Apartment Fox
2. 1939 Ensemble
3. Haste
4. Woolen Men
5. Purse Candy
Andrew Sloan, Monstrous Media
Woolen Men
Wooden Indian Burial Ground
Genders
Pegasus Dream
The We Shared Milk
Andy Kryza, WW Contributor
Future Historians
Hungry Ghost
Satin Chaps
Thee Headliners
Shy Girls
Angelo de Ieso, Pop Tomorrow
1. Bone Voyagists
2. Pixie Dustpans
3. Donald Trumpettes
4. Œæø
5. Squirrel Jam
Anna Andersen, Monqui/Suicide Notes
The Pynnacles
Anna Jensen, Director of Underground Ops, Doug Fir
Divers
The Lonesome Billies
Anonymous
1. GAZZOOOKABAZOOOKAZ
2. The Morals
3. THANKS
4. Guantanamo Baywatch
5. Youthbitch
Anonymous
The Satin Chaps
Wendy and the Lost Boys
Betrayed by Weakness
Blue Iris
Suicide Notes
Anthony McNamer, Music Lawyer/Expunged Records
1. Sara Jackson Holman
2. Chicharones
3. Sleep
4. Shy Girls
5. Wild Ones
Arya Imig, Backspace, OPBMusic
1. Shy Girls
2. Magic Mouth
3. Teenspot
4. Pictorials
5. The Lovesores
Ashley Jocz, Writer/Editor at Rip City Review
1. A Volcano
2. Fanno Creek
3. And And And
4. Talkative
5. Amenta Abioto
Ben Darwish, Morning Ritual
Shook Twins
Luck One
Shy Girls
Ruby Pines
De La Warr
Ben Hubbird, CD Baby
Death Songs
Hustle and Drone
Animal Eyes
The We Shared Milk
Thanks
Benna Gottfried, PDX Pop Now! Board Member Emeritus
Shy Girls
Edna Vasquez
Cloudy October
Neal Morgan
MC Rose
Bim Ditson, And And And
1. The Woolen Men
2. The We Shared Milk
3.Minden
4. Sama Dams
5. Unkle Funkle
BRAINSTORM
1. Sun Angle
2. Houndstooth
3. Hustle & Drone
4. Genders
5. WL
Bud Wilson, Aan
1. Sun angle
2. Wooden Indian Burial Ground
3. Grapefruit
4. Like A Villain
5. Talkative
Carolyn Berk, Lovers
Magic Mouth
Tiny Hearts
Cary Clarke, Former PDX Pop Now! Board Member, Office of Mayor Adams, Portland Mercury
1. Edna Vasquez
2. Sun Angle
3. Like A Villian
4. Orquestra Pacifico Tropical
5. Litanic Mask
Casey Jarman, WW Contributor
Vinnie Dewayne
Your Rival
Girlfriends
Chris Cantino, Intothewoods.tv, PDX Pop Now!
Magic Fades
ROMCOM
Woolen Men
Hausu
Shy Girls
Chris Hnat, 230 Publicity
Gaytheist
Battleme
Guantanamo Baywatch
Youthbitch
Edna Vazquez
Chris Stamm, WW Contributor
1. Mean Jeans
2. Youthbitch
3. Divers
4. Anne
5. Your Rival
Chris Young, Oregon Music News
1. Chromatics
2. Shadows On Stars
3. Black Pussy
4. No Kind of Rider
5. Ed & The Red Reds
Clayton Knapp, Wild Ones
Genders
Paper Brain
Shy Girls
Your Rival
Cliff Stanford, DJ for 107.1FM KZME
Luck-One
Serge Severe
Tony Ozier
Roane Namuh
Theory Hazit
Coco Madrid, SNAP!/Booty Bassment/Sanctuary Sunday
DBC
Rap Class
Sick Whips
Chrome Wolves
Bruxa
Colin Sanders, Nasty Punk From Streets
1. Life Form
2. Flight 19
3. Frenzy
4. Sick Rats
5. Pale Horse
Connie Wohn, Event Producer
1. Black Prairie
2. Rev. Shines
3. Shy Girls
4. DJ Anjali & The Incredible Kid
5. Laura Veirs
Cool Nutz, MC/Man of The Town/Visionary
1. Vinnie Dewayne
2. Yung Mil
3. Aaron O'Bryan Smith
4. Doo Doo Funk All Stars
5. Mikey Vegaz
Cory Xander, smellslikepop.com
1. The Lower 48
2. Fanno Creek
3. Wooden Indian Burial Ground
4. Sean Flinn and the Royal We
5. Friends of Jodie Foster
Curt Kentner, Magic Marker Records
The Woolen Men
Daniel Eichler, Booker, Mississippi Pizza Pub
1. Swansea
2. Brownish Black
3. Robin Jackson
4. Karyn Ann Patridge
5. Three for Silver
Dave Depper, Menomena/Fruit Bats/Corin Tucker Band/Laura Gibson/Nick Jaina, etc.
1. Houndstooth
2. Denver
3. Shy Girls
4. PWRHAUS
5. Sun Angle
David Christensen, opbmusic
1. Shy Girls
2. Black Prairie
3. Death Songs
4. Genders
5. The We Shared Milk
David Rose, The Know
1. Sick Rats
2. Pleasure Cross
3. Long Knife
4. Silent Numbers
5. Rat Party
Deena Barnwel, KBOO
Luck One
Cassow
The Emeralds
Mountain Sounds
Nastasha Kmeto
Dennise M. Kowalczyk, 1071 FM KZME Radio
1. Mbrascatu
2. Blue Skies for Black Hearts
3. The Cry
4. The Druthers
5. The Sale
DJ Wicked
DJ Ozroc
DJ Wels
DJ Budget Money
DJ Mafia
DJ Sun
Doug Rogers, Slabtown
1. Piss Test
2. A Volcano
3. Lunch
4. Wormbag
5. Machine
Dylan McConnell, Field Hymns
Wooden Indian Burial Ground
Slim Fortune
Sun Angle
Mike Coykendall
Grapefruit
Eggy Records
1. Sun Foot
2. Campfires
3. Spookies
4. Eat Skull
5. Still Caves
Eirean Bradley, Big Ass Boombox
1. A Happy Death
2. Desert Days
3. Wooden Indian Burial Ground
4. Fanno Creek
5. The Ecstatics
Emilee Booher, WW Contributor
Minden
Edna Vasquez
Death Songs
Battleme
1939 Ensemble
Emily Overstreet, Ticketing Manager, True West/Aladdin Theater
Orquestra Pacifico Tropical
Houndstooth
Bubble Cats
Burner Courage
What Hearts
Erik Carlson, SoHitek
1. Fanno Creek
2. Pocketknife
3. Pegasus Dream
4. Summer Cannibals
5. Magic Fades
Failing Records
1. Nasalrod
2. Charts
3. Rabbits
4. Rainstick Cowbell
5. Red Fang
Farnell Newton, Professor of Jazz PSU/Musician
1. Life Savas
2. Tope
3. Siren's Echo
4. Reva Devito
5. Y La Bamba
Garth Klippert, Old Light
Lord Dying
Au Dunes
Wooden Indian Burial Ground
Deep Fried Boogie Band
Eight Bells
Genders (formerly Youth)
1. Paper Brain
2. Wooden Indian Burial Ground
3. Minden
4. Still Caves
5. IBQT
Gina Altamura, Holocene
1. Shy Girls
2. Magic Fades
3. PWRHAUS
4. WL
5. Swahili
Gnar Tapes
1. Unkle Funkle
2. The Woolen Men
3. Therapists
4. Love Cop
5. Jerry Rogers
Goldini Bagwell, Sandpeople Music
Sapient
Natasha Kmeto
Luck-One
The Sale
Cloudy October
Gus Elg, Sky Onion Mastering
Rare Monk
The We Shared Milk
Orquestra Pacifico Tropical
Blue Cranes
Ninja Turtle Ninja Tiger
Hannah Rosenau, Former PDX Pop Now! board member, PRA DJ
Shy Girls
Fault Lines
Ian Heath, Aladdin Theater
Great Wilderness
Bubble Cats
Burner Courage
Jared Mees, Label Manager, Tender Loving Empire
Wooden Indian Burial Ground
Shy Girls
De La Warr
Genders
Shook Twins
Jason Leivian, Floating World Comics
1. Lavender Mirror
2. Palo Verde
3. Regular Music
4. Larry Yes & The Tangled Mess
5. Muscle Beach
Jason Quigley, Music Photographer
Sun Angle
paper/upper/cuts
Guantanamo Baywatch
MC Rose
Edna Vasquez
Jay Horton, WW Contributor
1. The Woolen Men
2. Gaythiest
3. The No Tomorrow Boys
4. DON'T
5. The My Oh Mys
Jeff Simmons, XRAY.FM/Radio23/IntotheWoods
1. Like A Villain
2. Grapefruit
3. Minden
4. Sun Angle
5. 1939 Ensemble
Jeremy Petersen, opbmusic
1. Shy Girls
2. Genders
3. Electric iLL
4. Sun Angle
5. Queued Up
Jeremy Wilson, The Jeremy Wilson Foundation
De La Warr
Vulva Underground
Wooden Indian Burial Ground
The Needful Longings
Bosa Nosa
Jesse Studenberg, PDX Pop Now!
Tiananmen Bear
Sun Angle
Like a Villain
Cloudy October
Charts
Jim Templeton, Owner, Ivories Jazz Lounge
1. Gary Hobbs Sextet
2. Two Tenors & Dave Frishberg
3. Universal Expanding Quartet
4. Cheryl Hodge Trio with John Stowell
5. Kevin Deitz Sextet
Joey Scruggs, Duff's Garage
1. tell mama: etta james tribute
2. rae gordon band
3. hank shreve band
4. chap rupp band
5. ben rice band
John B. Jones, KZME & KBOO
1939 Ensemble
Michael The Blind
The Woolen Men
The Shook Twins
Anna and the Underbelly
John Chandler, Portland Monthly
The Pynnacles
Paradise
Magnetic Health Factory
The Sellwoods
Wooden Indian Burial Ground
John Sherman, Red Fang
Danava
Lord Dying
Gaythiest
Humours
Hungry Ghost
John Vecchiarelli, Portland Musician Anna Tivol & the Underbelly
Huck Notari
Laura Veirs
Death Songs
Barry Brusseau
Jonathan Frochtzwajg, WW Contributor/PDX Pop Now! development coordinator
Vice Device
Shy Girls
Sun Angle
Litanic Mask
Like a Villain
Jose De Lara, Drunk Dad Prizehog
TOIM
Concrete Floor
Tiny Knives
Diesto
Josh Spacek, Monarques
The Cry!
Justin Cate, heyLOW Entertainment
1. Minden
2. Shy Girls
3. Sun Angle
4. Ninja Turtle Ninja Tiger
5. Thanks
Justin Koleszar, Director of music videos
Sun Angle
Jarad Miles
Justin Stimson (Mustin Douch), Live Music Booker@The Foggy Notion/Local Rawker
Gallons
Young Dad
Honduran
Zouaves
Duty
Kaytea Moreno elst, xo publicity
white orange
the greater midwest
the hague
dark country
genders
Kenny Fresh, Fresh Selects
1. Cassow
2. Natasha Kmeto
3.Vinnie DeWayne
4. Stewart Villain
5. Mic Capes
Kenric Ashe, dBMonkey
Gaytheist
Sexy Water Spiders
Old Hand
Lauren K. Newman, LKN
Gone to Croatan
Sei Hexe
Hot Victory
Labryse
Fist Fite
Leigh Feldman, LifeisaParty
Natasha Kmeto
Shy Girls
Luck One
Serge Severe
Sapient
Lex Chase, Pampelmoose blogger, promoter
1. Shy Girls
2. Natasha Kmeto
3. Minden
4. Thanks
5. Adventure Galley
Lisa Lepine ProMotion Queen, Creative Industry
1. Brownish Black
2. Worth
3. Medicine for the People
4. Chervona
5. Anna Tivel
Malia Slusarenko, Jackpot Records
Deep Fried Boogie Band
Witch Mountain
Federale
Ainu
Satin Chaps 3
Manny Reyes, Atole / Brain Crush / Superfest / Time Arts Club
ETBONZ
LAVENDER MIRROR
PHONE CALL
MSHR
STEPKID
Marius Libman, Copy / Sun Angle
Paper/Upper/cuts
Grapefruit
Like A Villain
Stepkid
2ØXX
Mark Phillips, Event Coordinator @ White Owl Social Club Drunk Dad
Eat Skull 2.0
DBC
Litanic Mask
Rabbits as grown ups
Mark Stock, WW Contributor
1. The Woolen Men
2. Dana Buoy
3. Parenthetical Girls
4. Pony Village
5. The We Shared Milk
Matt Brown, Bunk
pwrhaus
the ecstatics
charts
battleme
thunderpussy
Matt Dabrowiak, Dat'r, GALLONS, Binary Dolls, Menomena, Parenthetical Girls
1. PWRHAUS
2. Golden Retriever
3. Experimental Dental School
4. Shy Girls
5. Slim Fortune
Matt Johnson, The Secret Society
1. Pete Krebs and his Portland Playboys
2. Tezeta Band
3. Satin Chaps
4. Midnight Serenaders
5. Brownish Black
Matt King, Mississippi Studios
1. Genders
2. Vinnie Dewayne
3. Federale
4. Shy Girls
5. Bruxa
Matt Manza, MusicfestNW
Lord Dying
Nucular Animals
The We Shared Milk
Norska
Bear & Moose
Matt Slessler, PBR
Divers
Matthew McLean, Monqui Presents Shy Girls
The Ecstatics
The Suicide Notes
Divers
Alialujah Choir
Matthew Ross, Filmmaker/Music Video Director
1. A Volcano
2. The We Shared Milk
3. Sapient
4. The Lower 48
5. Dirty Looks
Matthew Singer, WW Music Editor
1. The We Shared Milk
2. Wooden Indian Burial Ground
3. Natasha Kmeto
4. Shy Girls
5. Sun Angle
Mayhaw Hoons, The Shaky Hands
the woolen men
paper brain
your rival
death songs
Megan Welling, Buffalo Gap Booking
Mbrascatu
Lost and Found
Frame By Frame
Tim Snider
Urban Subs
Michael Fitzgerlad, Reverb Records
Pynnacles
The Hugs
Satin Chaps
We Miss the Earth
The Woolen Men
Michele V Motta, Club 21 - Booking & Promotion
The Pynnacles
Dangerous Boys Club
Don't
P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S.
Black Pussy
Mitch Lillie, WW Contributor
Philip Grass
Magic Fades
Natasha Kmeto
Vektroid
DJ Shinhwa
Nalin Silva, Kelly's Olympian
Fanno Creek
Denver
Federale
The We Shared Milk
Souvenir Driver
Nathan Baumgartner, And And And
the we shared milk
minden
sun angle
woolen men
log across the washer
Nathan Carson, Nanotear Booking/WItch Mountain/WW Contributor
1. Usnea
2. Eight Bells
3. Burials
4. Ephemeros
5. Holy Grove
Nathan Walker, Riot Act Media
1. Raymond Byron & the White Freighter
2. WL
3. 1939 Ensemble
4. Goodnight Billygoat
5. Houndstooth
Nicholas Johnson, Willamette Week/Former PDX Pop Now! Board Member
Shy Girls
Magic Fades
Phone Call
The Shivas
The Woolen Men
Nilina Mason-Campbell, Freelance writer, photographer and hostess
1. Magic Mouth
2. IBQT
3. Unkle Funkle
4. Goodwin
5. The Ecstatics
Noah Porter, Music Video Director
1. TXE
2. Vinnie Dewayne
3. Cassow
4. Shy Girls
5. Luck-One
Papi Fimbres, Musician/Producer
electric ill
death songs
1939 ensemble
grapefruit
fake fireplace
Patrick Foss, Übertastemaker
Bi-Marks
Youthbitch
No Tomorrow Boys
Pynnacles
Sex Crime
Peter Sampson, KPSU On-Air Personality
Unkle Funkle
Tiger House
Adventure Galley
Peter Vaughan Shaver, Sound Advice Legal Services
1. The Lovesores
2. The Pynnacles
3. Black Pussy
4. Gaytheist
5. Brownish Black
PJ Portlock, Producer kknd Vinyl Enthusiast
Natasha Kmeto
Cloudshine
Ben Tactic
Drivepilot
Beyoung
Pure Bathing Culture
1. Shy Girls
Rachel Milbauer, Rip City Review
Death Songs
Minden
Fanno Creek
Animal Eyes
Shy Girls
Rachelle Schmid, KPSU "That Live Show"
Mbrascatu
Acoustic Minds
The Lower 48
Eluvium
No More Parachutes
Robert Ham, WW Contributor
Eight Bells
Natasha Kmeto
The Tenses
ALTO!
Brumes
Ryan Krellwitz, Manager, Booker, Promoter at Stantonova
1. Like A Villian
2. Father Figure
3. Amenta Abioto
4. HeadShapes
5. World Radiant
Ryan Dornfeld, CEO/Editor-in-Chief, ELEVEN PDX Magazine
1. Wooden Indian Burial Ground
2. The We Shared Milk
3. WL
4. Minden
5. Tiger House/Hustle and Drone/Sun Angle
Ryan Feigh, Freelance Writer
Luck-One
Vinnie Dewayne
Mic Capes
TxE
Orquestra Pacifico Tropical
Ryan Messick, Tour Manager - Blind Pilot // TM Asst - Edward Sharpe
1. Black Prairie
2. The Alialujah Choir
3. Houndstooth
4. Tango Alpha Tango
5. Lesser Bangs
Ryan Northrop, Sons of Huns
Gaytheist
Turbo Perfecto
Old Kingdom
Genders
Wooden Indian Burial Ground
Ryan Sollee, Builders & the Butchers
1. Federale
2. Boors
3. Midlo
4. Great Wilderness
5. Wooden Indian Burial Ground
Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside
H∞kers
The We Shared Milk
Electric Ill
Transient
Moon By You
Sam Densmore, Musician/Firkin Tavern booker
1. Bubblecats
2. Bison Bison
3. Child Children
4. Headshapes
5. Harvey Girls
Scott McLean, Holocene
1. Shy Girls
2. Magic Fades
3. PWRHAUS
4. GULLS
5. Minden
Shay Davis, KPSU
1. The Sorry Devils
2. Guantanamo Baywatch
3. Jacob Miller and the Bridge City Crooners
4. Haley Heynderickx
5. PDX Funkaholics
Shelley Bowers, Bartender at Someday Lounge, independent booker
1. Tiny Lady
2. 1939 Ensemble
3. Sun Angle
4. Hustle and Drone
5. Holy Grove
Skyler Norwood, Producer
Rare Monk
Bubble Cats
Great Wilderness
Sara Jackson Holman
Huck Notari
SP Clarke, Buko Magazine
Wilkinson Blades
Don't
Boo Frog
Sara Jackson-Holman
Stephanie Ryan, Mississippi Studios
Hot Victory
Daniel Hunt
1939 Ensemble
Denver
Terah Beth, Hey Lover
Pataha Hiss
Surfs Drugs
Terry Currier, Music Millennium
1. Ramona Falls
2. Wilkinson Blades
3. Satin Chaps
4. Brooks Robertson
5. Denver
Theo Craig, Smoke Signals, Rontoms Sunday Sessions, There Ain't Nothing Going On Here (Podcast)
Sun Angle
Minden
Gaytheist
The Woolen Men
Death Songs
Tim Janchar, Hovercraft Records
nucular aminals
youth bitch
the shivas
surfs drugs
Mythological Horses
Todd Berry, Grey Day Productions
Heligoats
Southerly
Paper/Upper/Cuts
Orchestra Pacifico
Sam Humans
Todd Fadel, Ex-Meow Meow Booker
1. Magic Mouth
2. Slang
3. Hannah Glavor
4. Sleepheart
5. Albatross
Tom D'Antoni, Oregon Music News
Roseland Hunters
George Colligan
Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble Vulva Underground
Gunga Galunga
Tony Mengis, East End
1. LONG KNIFE
2. FRENZY
3. PYNNACLES
4. BLUTRITUAL
5. LAST 45's
Tony Prato, Independent Booker
The Woolen Men
Sad Horse
Like a Villain
Thanks
Rat Party
Trevor Solomon, MFNW Director
Pynnacles
Wooden Indian Burial Ground
Shivas
Magic Fades
Minden
Whitey McConnaughy, Music Video Director
1. Gaytheist
2. Lord Dying
3. Youth Bitch
4. Young Turks
5. The Ax
Wild Ones
Genders
Paper Brain
Shy Girls
Your Rival
Zaph Mann, Radio23, 39th July Records, In Memory Of John Peel Show
Paper/Upper/Cuts
Leviticus Appleton
Heligoats
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The Harvey Girls
WWeek 2015