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MusicfestNW 2012 Festival Preview & Picks

What some of us might call the Pacific Northwest’s best music festival — and maybe the next and more relaxed SXSW — is Musicfest NW, a multi-day spread across Portland’s best venues. Featuring diverse and exceptional booking, this year’s picks have been written by three writers, each with unique tastes, to do the festival justice....Read...

Aug 29

by Vivian Hua

Mystical & Spiritual Ideas in Modern Music: REDEFINE magazine’s SXSW 2013 Panel Pitch

John Coltrane once said: “My goal is to live the truly religious life, and express it in my music. If you live it, when you play there’s no problem because the music is part of the whole thing. To be a musician is really something. It goes very, very deep. My music is the spiritual...Read...

Aug 17

by Vivian Hua

BODY||MIND 2012: An Unofficial SXSW House Party Recap

This post is long overdue, but it is a recap of our SXSW 2012 party, which you can read more about HERE. REDEFINE’s second annual SXSW party was once again thrown with Gina Altamura of Portland nightclub Holocene and Marjorie Owens of Dallas blog Clumsy N Shy, who collaborated on an evening of acts that...Read...

Jul 5

by Admin

Spectral Hypnosis: Swahili, Co La, Mister Lies MP3 Downloads & Streams

SPECTRAL HYPNOSIS A recurring series, featuring mesmerizing songs for one to lose sense of time and space, mind and body. Three acts today, including tracks from solo electronic musicians Co La and Mister Lies, as well as a bootlegged live session from Portland’s Swahili. Co La By regurgitating a whole slew of influences past...Read...

Jun 16

by Vivian Hua

Top Pops! Beat Connection, Gardens & Villa + Here We Go Magic MP3 Downloads & Streams

“Pop music shouldn’t always get a bad rap,” says Top Pops!, a recurring selection of pop music highlights across a selection of styles. Gardens & Villa We’ve covered these Santa Barbara groovesters quite a bit, but their trajectory this year is upwards-bound at an intense and exponentially-terrifying rate! If you haven’t seen them yet,...Read...

Apr 11

by Vivian Hua

Pour Le Corps||MIND Mixtape (#18) Stream & Download

A 23-track mixtape to celebrate two unofficial SXSW showcases taking place the same evening in 2012, designed to facilitate inner and outer harmony through dance rhythms and psyche-altering compositions.

Mar 13

by Marjorie Owens

BODY||MIND 2012: An Unofficial SXSW House Party

“The only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets — is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.” — Alan Watts Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/events/317699598279306/ Download a mixtape of BODY||MIND artists HERE (206 MB)....Read...

Mar 11

by Admin

Translinguistic Other Interview: Forever Sounds (w/ Midday Veil’s Emily Pothast)

"Charting the development of themes in linear time... is, in fact, a very idiosyncratic and Western way of looking at music. But if you take a longer, wider look at the history of humans making music, you find strong traditions all over the world of music that unfolds around a central point and illuminates the...

Nov 27

by Thad McKraken

Intuitive Navigation: Portland Event Recap

INTUITIVE NAVIGATION : An Evening Of Psychedelic Music, Movement, Wearable Sculpture Art & Film Thursday, August 25th, 2011 @ Holocene, Portland SEE ALSO: Initial Press Release & Event Announcement or FACEBOOK EVENT Billions And Billions Photography by Vivian Hua (1-3), missclarita (4) Swahili Photography by Kerosene Rose; Performance & Visuals by Kaitlin Bryson Midday Veil...Read...

Aug 25

by Vivian Hua

Intuitive Navigation: An Evening Of Psychedelic Music, Movement, Wearable Sculpture Art & Film

Thursday, August 25th, 2011 Doors 8:30pm, Show 9:00pm @ Holocene, Portland $5.00 21+ FACEBOOK EVENT: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=221291931247972 After last winter’s successful MMMicrofestival, REDEFINE magazine returns to Holocene to bring you another evening of bounds-pushing cross-disciplinary performances. INTUITIVE NAVIGATION invites like-minded performers from Portland and Seattle to transform the atmosphere of Holocene into a hypnotic, self-reflective zone....Read...

Aug 20

by Rachel Hays