Willamette Week's MusicfestNW is excited to announce the lineup for this year's festival (listed below)! Keep checking musicfestnw.com, or follow us on Facebook, Twitter or Myspace, for updates, additional bands, and the final schedule, which will be posted in the next few weeks. For more information, including audio and video of this year's bands, be sure to explore the various links on musicfestnw.com.
Wristbands for this year's MFNW, held September 16th through 19th, are now on sale for $60 and guarantee you no cover admission to all MFNW clubs during the annual 4-day festivity held in Portland, Oregon (age and capacity restrictions may apply). Be sure to check musicfestnw.com/tix for all the details about wristbands, individual tickets, and this year's special VIP pass. For more information about individual tickets to the shows at the Roseland Theater and Crystal Ballroom click here.
- Sunny Day Real Estate
- Explosions in the Sky
- Girl Talk
- Bad Brains
- The Get Up Kids
- Will Sheff (of Okkervil River)
- Dirty Three
- Monotonix
- Mudhoney
- Frightened Rabbit
- The Twilight Sad
- Dillinger Four
- Swollen Members
- Beach House
- John Vanderslice
- The Long Winters
- Viva Voce
- The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
- The Jealous Sound
- Pink Mountaintops
- OM
- Portugal. The Man
- The Builders & The Butchers
- Langhorne Slim
- Chairlift
- Loch Lomond
- Cymbals Eat Guitars
- Team Dresch
- Bobby Bare Jr.
- Erase Errata
- The Zeros
- JD Twitch (Optimo)
- Eluvium
- Youth Group
- Titus Andronicus
- Mount Eerie
- Trash Talk
- Despise You
- Crom
- Japanther
- Mayer Hawthorne & The County
- Despise You
- Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey
- Grouper
- Richard Swift
- Austin Lucas
- Brother Reade
- The Love Language
- Anders Parker
- The Morning Benders
- Miniature Tigers
- Damien Jurado
- Common Market
- Tigercity
- Riverboat Gamblers
- The Arrivals
- We Were Promised Jetpacks
- Rocky Votolato
- Cymbals Eat Guitars
- Copy
- Red Fang
- Saviours
- Norfolk & Western
- Nurses
- Explode Into Colors
- Portland Cello Project
- Guidance Counselor
- Fences
- Cotton Jones
- Weinland
- Panther
- Scout Niblett
- Amazing Baby
- The So So Glos
- The Soft Pack
- Port O'Brien
- Liv Warfield
- Edward Sharp & The Magnetic Zeros
- AND MANY MANY MORE!!!!!!
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Mudhoney will take the stage at MusicfestNW 2009! Mudhoney is a Seattle born band that formed in 1988. They named themselves after the Russ Meyer move Mudhoney. The current band members include Mark Arm on vocals and rhythm, Steve Turner on lead vocals, Guy Maddison playing bass and Dan Peters on the drums. Originally in 1980 Mark Arm formed a band with a couple of friends in high school called Mr. Epp and the Calculations which was more of a joke than anything. (They played air guitar since no one could play an instrument.) In the early 80s Steve Turner joined Mark and others to form Green River who released one full-length album, Dry As a Bone / Rehab Doll, which was highly respected and named one of the first true "grunge" albums. The band called it off in 1987 and soon thereafter Mudhoney came into play in 1988. Their first EP, Superfuzz Bigmuff, was released the same year and was a huge success. Following the EP their first full-length album, Mudhoney, was released in 1989. They continued to put albums out over the years, but now fast forwarding a bit to 2001: Guy Maddison joined the band replacing Matt Lukin and since then have released three albums, the latest being The Lucky Ones in 2008. They announced an extensive tour schedule in early 2009 including Portland's MusicfestNW. Do not miss one of the most influential NW bands of the 80s and 90s playing live for MusicfestNW.
The Get Up Kids are joining us for a special performance at MusicfestNW 2009! The Kansas City quintet includes Matt Pryor on lead vocals and guitar, Jim Suptic on lead guitar and backing vocals, Rob Pope on bass, James Dewees on keyboards and backing vocals and Ryan Pope on drums and percussion. Originally forming in 1995 as The Suburban Get Up Kids they soon changed their name because fewer bands had names beginning with the letter G, making their albums more recognizable in record stores. Their debut CD, Four Minute Mile, was released in 1997 followed by their first national tour two months later. Having made a name for themselves they released their second full-length album, Something to Write Home About. The album was a huge success! They toured for three years to promote Something to Write Home About, all tour dates were sold out and at many of the shows fans were spilling out the doors trying to catch a glimpse of their incredible live performances. They released two more albums, On a Wire in 2002 and Guilt Show in 2004, before calling it quits on March 8th, 2005. In November 2008 the band reunited with a surprise show at The Record Bar in Kansas City and is back on the road celebrating the tenth anniversary of the wildly popular Something to Write Home About. Be sure not to miss their first Portland show in nearly five years!
Frightened Rabbit will be playing MusicfestNW 2009! The Scottish band consists of four band mates, Scott Hutchinson on vocals and guitar, Grant Hutchinson on drums and vocals, Billy Kennedy on guitar, bass and keyboards and Andy Monaghan on keyboards, guitar and bass. The name Frightened Rabbits was first used as Scott Hutchinson's stage name for his solo shows in 2003, and then again in 2004 when he was joined by his brother. In 2006 Kennedy joined followed by Monaghan in 2008, which completed the current foursome. Frightened Rabbit's two full-length albums, the most recent being The Midnight Organ Flight, which came out in April 2008, have been hugely successful in Europe. Don't miss out on the chance to see one of Scotland's best rock bands. Keep checking back to see who else will be joining us for MusicfestNW.
Instrumental trio Dirty Three from Melbourne, Australia will be joining us for MusicfestNW 2009! Band members include Warren Ellis on violin, Mick Turner on electric guitar and Jim White on the drums. Forming in 1993, they got down to work and released their first album, Sad & Dangerous, in 1994. All three had played in bands through the 80's and early 90's prior to teaming up to form Dirty Three. And while all three are committed to Dirty Three, each of them has other points of focus in the creative world. Ellis currently lives in Paris and has been a member of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds since 1996. Turner living in Melbourne and White calling New York home have also teamed up outside of Dirty Three to release albums as the Tren Brothers. Turner is also known for his work as a painter and has done the entire collection of album artwork for Dirty Three except for Sad & Dangerous. Dirty Three has seven CD's released, the latest being Cinder, which is their first album to feature any vocals (Chan Marshall aka Cat Power sings on Great Waves and Sally Timms of The Mekons sings on
Dillinger Four is returning to Portland for the first time since their epic show in 2000 at Meow Meow, this time to play MusicfestNW! Formed in 1994 by guitarist Erik Funk and bassist Paul Costello, they soon set the bar high for energetic punk shows. Their first album Higher Aspirations: Tempered and Dismantled was released in early 1995. Soon thereafter they recruited ex-Scooby Don’t guitarist Bill Morrisette to complete the Minneapolis based punk rock quartet, which also includes Erik Funk on guitars and vocals, Patrick Costello on bass and Lane Pederson aka “monkey hustle” on the drums. Once the four were in sync, they had an album release in 1996 and have since released several compilations and four full-length CDs, the latest being C I V I L W A R. Keep checking MusicfestNW.com to see who will be joining Dillinger Four at this year’s MusicfestNW.
Will Sheff returns to the MusicfestNW stage for the first time since 2007, this time flying solo. The long time lead singer of Okkervil River, who while in college decided that working a day job was not for him, has contributed plenty to the music scene since beginning back in 1998. His solo shows, which include his engaging lyrics alongside some light strums of the guitar and a little harmonica thrown in, are sure to leave you feeling satisfied (not to mention a sense of humor that will leave the crowd in stitches). This is just one of the many shows you won’t want to miss at the 2009 MusicfestNW. Be sure to check back here often to find out who will be joining Will Sheff at this year’s MusicfestNW.
MusicfestNW is excited to be back for another year of great music and entertainment in Portland, OR. Be sure to join us at this year’s festival, scheduled to take place September 16th through September 19th.