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Archive for November, 2011

Upcoming in-store performances & events:
(All in-store performances are at Music Millennium -32nd & E Burnside, 503-231-8926)

PETER CARLIN
book signing
Author of Paul McCartney: A Life

Saturday, 11/28 – 3 PM
Built on years of research and fresh, revealing interviews with friends, bandmates, and collaborators spanning McCartney’s entire life, Carlin’s lively biography captures the many facets of Paul McCartney and paints a vivid portrait of one of our era’s living legends.

BRITTANY SHANE
Sunday, 11/29 – 5 PM
After eight years in San Francisco, Brittany Shane has become well-known on the west coast music scene. Perhaps it’s her down-to-earth Midwestern charm and the fine sense of humor conveyed in her songs that make you wish you could step through your speakers and into a bar, where she’ll be waiting with a beer. Sure, she makes pure pop for now people, but it’s Brittany’s every-girl that comes shining through in the end. That is why Shane has been able to share stages over the years with such a varied array of artists (the Breeders, Indigo Girls, Stevie Nicks, Aimee Mann, Heart, to name a few), without seeming like there’s been a mistake in the billing.

THE DIMES
Tuesday, 12/1 – 7 PM
Playfully titled The King Can Drink the Harbour Dry, it’s no exaggeration to say The Dimes’ new record is a musical Cliffs Notes for an early American History class. A sonic adventure with influences ranging from Simon and Garfunkel to The Beatles’ White Album, it’s the distinct lyrical musings that set it apart from other folk-pop albums this year. Singer-songwriter Johnny Clay delivers a dramatic history lesson with a baroque assortment of instruments, sixties pop harmonies, and delightfully simple arrangements as though he’s channeling the spirits of people, places and events from early day Boston, Massachusetts. Originally a four-piece, The Dimes have recently evolved to a seven-piece, adding a cello, pedal steel, and a revolving cast of artists and instruments, representing all the layers, pastoral elements, and lush harmonies found on the record..