Portland
Various Artists
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- The Basics
A city where D.I.Y. extends to everything from music to microbrews, the idyllic Oregonian metropolis of Portland has long been fertile ground for those looking to express their individual artistry, whether it’s the art-rock power-trio Thao and the splashy groove of “When We Swam,” the sweetly ambling sounds of M. Ward and “Never Had Nobody Like You (feat. Zooey Deschanel),” or the haunted-coffeehouse kick of Tara Jane O’Neil and “A City In the North.”
If the never-die party rock of the Kingsmen’s “Louie Louie,” and the mid-’60s pop of “Kicks” from Paul Revere & The Raiders seem miles away from the feathery alt shimmer of the Shins and “Caring Is Creepy,” well, just keep listening to the Portland sound, in Next Steps.$26.55 The Basics
Name Artist Time Price 1 Rose Parade Elliott Smith 3:28 $0.99 View In iTunes 2 Louie Louie The Kingsmen 2:45 $1.29 View In iTunes 3 Light Rail Coyote Sleater-Kinney 3:08 $0.99 View In iTunes 4 Caring Is Creepy The Shins 3:20 $0.99 View In iTunes 5 Not If You Were the Last Junkie On Earth The Dandy Warhols 3:11 $1.29 View In iTunes 6 The Rake's Song The Decemberists 3:15 $1.29 View In iTunes 7 Never Had Nobody Like You (feat. Zooey Deschanel) M. Ward 2:26 $0.99 View In iTunes 8 Let's Never Stop Falling In Love Pink Martini 3:02 $0.99 View In iTunes 9 Octavio Viva Voce 4:31 $0.99 View In iTunes 10 Nothing Left to Lose The Wipers 4:50 $0.99 View In iTunes 11 Gardenia Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks 2:53 $0.99 View In iTunes 12 Santa Monica Everclear 3:11 $1.29 View In iTunes 13 Kicks Paul Revere & The Raiders 2:21 $0.99 View In iTunes 14 Now We Can See The Thermals 3:30 $0.99 View In iTunes 15 One Red Thread Blind Pilot 4:31 $0.99 View In iTunes 16 Hail'stone. Pond 2:47 $0.99 View In iTunes 17 A City In the North Tara Jane O'Neil 3:47 $0.99 View In iTunes 18 The Garden Mirah 2:21 $1.29 View In iTunes 19 Racing Lights Stars of Track and Field 3:18 $0.99 View In iTunes 20 Bye Bye Blackbird Quasi 6:35 $0.99 View In iTunes 21 When We Swam Thao 2:58 $0.99 View In iTunes 22 Destroyer of the Void Blitzen Trapper 6:17 $0.99 View In iTunes 23 E. Is Stable Menomena 5:17 $0.99 View In iTunes 24 Feel the Darkness Poison Idea 5:50 $1.29 View In iTunes 25 In Culmination Eluvium 2:56 $0.99 View In iTunes Total: 25 Songs - Next Steps
Hop on the bus — and by that we mean listen up! — we’re taking a tour, hitting the high points of Portland’s teeming music scene. First stop is the garage, where Team Dresch is getting down and dirty with the post-punk fisticuffs of “Fake Fight.” Next up, it’s down to the organic-atmosphere lab, where Lovers are formulating synthesized balladry for the frosty treat “Igloo for Ojos,” while boy eats drum machine twirl the knobs and set the sequencers to the jazzy skip of “Syncopated.” And up onstage, it’s girl-power indie duo the Softies, presenting their live rendition of “It’s Love.”
Hold tight — we’re diving deep into the Portland scene, in Deep Cuts.$23.07 Next Steps
Name Artist Time Price 1 Candy Castle Glass Candy 5:27 $0.99 View In iTunes 2 Beneath the Silver Moon Curtis Salgado 3:24 $0.99 View In iTunes 3 Igloo for Ojos Lovers 3:00 $0.99 View In iTunes 4 Fake Fight Team Dresch 3:07 $0.99 View In iTunes 5 Resist Lifesavas 3:12 $0.99 View In iTunes 6 Everyone Knows Everyone The Helio Sequence 3:36 $0.99 View In iTunes 7 Hawaiian Baby The Spinanes 5:45 $0.99 View In iTunes 8 King Twist Hazel 2:45 $0.99 View In iTunes 9 I Wait for You Yume Bitsu 7:50 $0.99 View In iTunes 10 Psychic City (Voodoo City) YACHT 5:07 $0.99 View In iTunes 11 Jenny The Minders 2:24 $0.99 View In iTunes 12 Syncopated boy eats drum machine 3:38 $0.99 View In iTunes 13 Let It Die The Shaky Hands 3:08 $0.99 View In iTunes 14 The Almond Gorilla Wolf Colonel 2:35 $0.99 View In iTunes 15 Theme Song All Girl Summer Fun Band 1:08 $0.99 View In iTunes 16 Landlord Sprinkler 2:48 $0.99 View In iTunes 17 It's Love (Live) The Softies 1:58 $0.99 View In iTunes 18 True Affection The Blow 3:23 $1.29 View In iTunes 19 Tides In Their Grave Talkdemonic 3:24 $0.99 View In iTunes 20 Cold Sweat, Pt. 16 Nice Nice 2:31 $0.99 View In iTunes 21 Bike Freaks Digital Knife 3:00 $0.99 View In iTunes 22 Kokoro (I Fall to Pieces) The Slants 4:27 $0.99 View In iTunes 23 Ooh Love James Angell 4:11 $0.99 View In iTunes Total: 23 Songs - Deep Cuts
In a place where doing your own thing is a way of life, fame is a relative concept. For every Portland son who’s made it big — think trumpeter Chris Botti and the smooth contemporary jazz of “Drive Time” — there’s a group for whom success means the ability to, say, gather an “indie cello orchestra” and collaborate with local heroes for your own brand of wistful alterna-pop, à la the Portland Cello Project and “Tallymarks (feat. Thao).” So, where Quarterflash found chart success in the early ’80s with the Top 10 smash “Harden My Heart,” here in the 21st century Ohmega Watts is crafting super-tight, homegrown hip-hop on “That Sound (featuring Lightheaded, The Procussions & Noelle)”
$25.05 Deep Cuts
Name Artist Time Price 1 Living, Breathing, Etc E-Rock 5:52 $0.99 View In iTunes 2 Afro Oven Copy 4:18 $0.99 View In iTunes 3 Growing Up Thanksgiving 2:56 $0.99 View In iTunes 4 Gone for Good (feat. Corin Tucker) Blue Giant 2:56 $0.99 View In iTunes 5 Le Project Citron Eux Autres 4:01 $0.99 View In iTunes 6 Idyll Benoit Pioulard 1:55 $0.99 View In iTunes 7 The Mountain Loch Lomond 4:55 $0.99 View In iTunes 8 Even Numbers The Standard 7:11 $0.99 View In iTunes 9 Begin Again White Hinterland 3:43 $0.99 View In iTunes 10 Hornes Climber 2:52 $0.99 View In iTunes 11 That Sound (Featuring Lightheaded, The Procussions & Noelle) Ohmega Watts 4:59 $0.99 View In iTunes 12 Mystic Prism White Rainbow 5:14 $0.99 View In iTunes 13 Standing On Hot Sidewalk Nudge 3:33 $0.99 View In iTunes 14 There'll Be Diamonds Super XX Man 4:26 $0.99 View In iTunes 15 Harden My Heart Quarterflash 3:52 $1.29 View In iTunes 16 Russia Ramona Falls 3:13 $0.99 View In iTunes 17 Smile Like Gwynplaine The Harvey Girls 3:46 $0.99 View In iTunes 18 Tallymarks (Feat. Thao) Portland Cello Project 3:43 $0.99 View In iTunes 19 Moving Sarah Dougher 4:04 $0.99 View In iTunes 20 A Song for Ellie Greenwich Parenthetical Girls 2:55 $0.99 View In iTunes 21 Water Quiet, Water Dark The Badger King 2:33 $0.99 View In iTunes 22 Lying In a Seaway The Watery Graves 2:08 $0.99 View In iTunes 23 Technicolor Nurses 3:39 $0.99 View In iTunes 24 Drive Time Chris Botti 5:31 $0.99 View In iTunes 25 Fake Empire Lackthereof 2:34 $0.99 View In iTunes Total: 25 Songs - Complete Set
With warm, dry summers and rainy winters, Portland, OR, boasts an ideal climate for growing roses. And with its thriving urban culture nestled in the majestic Pacific Northwest, this City of Roses is also perfect for nurturing musical talent. Witness Heatmiser (“Sleeping Pill”) — epic on their own, they’re the trunk of a Portland family tree that branches out to the alt-rock splendor of Quasi (“Bye Bye Blackbird”), the production skills of drummer Tony Lash, who manned the boards for Portland garage-pop trail blazers the Dandy Warhols (“Not If You Were the Last Junkie On Earth”), and the solo work of Elliott Smith (“Rose Parade”). And that’s just one band — with everything from the emo-inflected alt-rock of Stars of Track and Field (“Racing Lights”), to the ambient piano strokes of Eluvium and “In Culmination,” our Portland Essentials proves that great music may reach out to the far corners, but it all starts at home.
$74.67 Complete Set
Name Artist Time Price 1 Rose Parade Elliott Smith 3:28 $0.99 View In iTunes 2 Louie Louie The Kingsmen 2:45 $1.29 View In iTunes 3 Light Rail Coyote Sleater-Kinney 3:08 $0.99 View In iTunes 4 Caring Is Creepy The Shins 3:20 $0.99 View In iTunes 5 Not If You Were the Last Junkie On Earth The Dandy Warhols 3:11 $1.29 View In iTunes 6 The Rake's Song The Decemberists 3:15 $1.29 View In iTunes 7 Never Had Nobody Like You (feat. Zooey Deschanel) M. Ward 2:26 $0.99 View In iTunes 8 Let's Never Stop Falling In Love Pink Martini 3:02 $0.99 View In iTunes 9 Octavio Viva Voce 4:31 $0.99 View In iTunes 10 Nothing Left to Lose The Wipers 4:50 $0.99 View In iTunes 11 Gardenia Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks 2:53 $0.99 View In iTunes 12 Santa Monica Everclear 3:11 $1.29 View In iTunes 13 Kicks Paul Revere & The Raiders 2:21 $0.99 View In iTunes 14 Now We Can See The Thermals 3:30 $0.99 View In iTunes 15 One Red Thread Blind Pilot 4:31 $0.99 View In iTunes 16 Hail'stone. Pond 2:47 $0.99 View In iTunes 17 A City In the North Tara Jane O'Neil 3:47 $0.99 View In iTunes 18 The Garden Mirah 2:21 $1.29 View In iTunes 19 Racing Lights Stars of Track and Field 3:18 $0.99 View In iTunes 20 Bye Bye Blackbird Quasi 6:35 $0.99 View In iTunes 21 When We Swam Thao 2:58 $0.99 View In iTunes 22 Destroyer of the Void Blitzen Trapper 6:17 $0.99 View In iTunes 23 E. Is Stable Menomena 5:17 $0.99 View In iTunes 24 Feel the Darkness Poison Idea 5:50 $1.29 View In iTunes 25 In Culmination Eluvium 2:56 $0.99 View In iTunes 26 Candy Castle Glass Candy 5:27 $0.99 View In iTunes 27 Beneath the Silver Moon Curtis Salgado 3:24 $0.99 View In iTunes 28 Igloo for Ojos Lovers 3:00 $0.99 View In iTunes 29 Fake Fight Team Dresch 3:07 $0.99 View In iTunes 30 Resist Lifesavas 3:12 $0.99 View In iTunes 31 Everyone Knows Everyone The Helio Sequence 3:36 $0.99 View In iTunes 32 Hawaiian Baby The Spinanes 5:45 $0.99 View In iTunes 33 King Twist Hazel 2:45 $0.99 View In iTunes 34 I Wait for You Yume Bitsu 7:50 $0.99 View In iTunes 35 Psychic City (Voodoo City) YACHT 5:07 $0.99 View In iTunes 36 Jenny The Minders 2:24 $0.99 View In iTunes 37 Syncopated boy eats drum machine 3:38 $0.99 View In iTunes 38 Let It Die The Shaky Hands 3:08 $0.99 View In iTunes 39 The Almond Gorilla Wolf Colonel 2:35 $0.99 View In iTunes 40 Theme Song All Girl Summer Fun Band 1:08 $0.99 View In iTunes 41 Landlord Sprinkler 2:48 $0.99 View In iTunes 42 It's Love (Live) The Softies 1:58 $0.99 View In iTunes 43 True Affection The Blow 3:23 $1.29 View In iTunes 44 Tides In Their Grave Talkdemonic 3:24 $0.99 View In iTunes 45 Cold Sweat, Pt. 16 Nice Nice 2:31 $0.99 View In iTunes 46 Bike Freaks Digital Knife 3:00 $0.99 View In iTunes 47 Kokoro (I Fall to Pieces) The Slants 4:27 $0.99 View In iTunes 48 Ooh Love James Angell 4:11 $0.99 View In iTunes 49 Living, Breathing, Etc E-Rock 5:52 $0.99 View In iTunes 50 Afro Oven Copy 4:18 $0.99 View In iTunes 51 Growing Up Thanksgiving 2:56 $0.99 View In iTunes 52 Gone for Good (feat. Corin Tucker) Blue Giant 2:56 $0.99 View In iTunes 53 Le Project Citron Eux Autres 4:01 $0.99 View In iTunes 54 Idyll Benoit Pioulard 1:55 $0.99 View In iTunes 55 The Mountain Loch Lomond 4:55 $0.99 View In iTunes 56 Even Numbers The Standard 7:11 $0.99 View In iTunes 57 Begin Again White Hinterland 3:43 $0.99 View In iTunes 58 Hornes Climber 2:52 $0.99 View In iTunes 59 That Sound (Featuring Lightheaded, The Procussions & Noelle) Ohmega Watts 4:59 $0.99 View In iTunes 60 Mystic Prism White Rainbow 5:14 $0.99 View In iTunes 61 Standing On Hot Sidewalk Nudge 3:33 $0.99 View In iTunes 62 There'll Be Diamonds Super XX Man 4:26 $0.99 View In iTunes 63 Harden My Heart Quarterflash 3:52 $1.29 View In iTunes 64 Russia Ramona Falls 3:13 $0.99 View In iTunes 65 Smile Like Gwynplaine The Harvey Girls 3:46 $0.99 View In iTunes 66 Tallymarks (Feat. Thao) Portland Cello Project 3:43 $0.99 View In iTunes 67 Moving Sarah Dougher 4:04 $0.99 View In iTunes 68 A Song for Ellie Greenwich Parenthetical Girls 2:55 $0.99 View In iTunes 69 Water Quiet, Water Dark The Badger King 2:33 $0.99 View In iTunes 70 Lying In a Seaway The Watery Graves 2:08 $0.99 View In iTunes 71 Technicolor Nurses 3:39 $0.99 View In iTunes 72 Drive Time Chris Botti 5:31 $0.99 View In iTunes 73 Fake Empire Lackthereof 2:34 $0.99 View In iTunes Total: 73 Songs
Customer Reviews
Are you even from Portland? Seriously?
This is ridiculous. I mean, you've got like, the top five or so from Portland, but you've just missed way too many obvious Portland based bands/artists...
Congratulations on making a mix for someone who isn't from Portland and isn't likely to go there anytime soon.
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where the hell is Heatmiser?
Portland, itunes essential
Wow 25 songs and you missed anything by Paul deLay, Lloyd jones or Curtis Salgado. Too bad. I haven't lived in Portland for a long time but Portland without some blues isn't Portland.
