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Domino Room brings J. Roddy Walston to Bend - The Bulletin (opens the original)
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Published 8:00 pm Monday, September 28, 2026 J. Roddy Walston has been around for a while, and he’s done some shapeshifting along the way. If you Google him, you’ll find a website bearing just his name and another touting his old band J. Roddy Walston and The Business, which by all accounts broke up sometime in the late 2010s. (The solo site links to another project called Palm Palm, no less.) And on Saturday, Oct. 3, the Domino Room in Bend will host J. Roddy Walston and The Automatic Band, whi
High Desert Metal Festival debuts Saturday at Silver Moon Brewing - The Bulletin (opens the original)
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Published 10:58 am Wednesday, September 23, 2026 Give it up for Gravewitch, man. The Bend-based thrash metal band has been grinding locally and beyond for more than a decade, playing dive bars, throwing DIY shows and recording and releasing a couple albums of well-crafted death metal and blackened thrash. “Speed and savagery are Gravewitch’s calling cards,” wrote The Metal Crypt in a review of the band’s excellent self-titled 2025 release. “They have heavy and evil nailed.” In other words, Grave
SpeedFest returns for a second year of hard, fast, extreme punk and metal - The Bulletin (opens the original)
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Published 7:00 am Thursday, September 17, 2026 One of the underrated rules of arts-and-culture journalism, in my opinion, is that you should never describe any event as “first annual,” because it’s not possible for something in its first year to have happened annually. It’s an oxymoron. But that doesn’t mean we can’t hope for events to return. Last year, after local musician and underground show-thrower Jasper Lacoste put on the inaugural Bend Oregon SpeedFest, I was hopeful that there would be
African guitarist Vieux Farka Touré returns to Bend - The Bulletin (opens the original)
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Published 8:00 am Thursday, September 10, 2026 During interviews, I regularly ask musicians about their childhood home — whether their parents were musicians, if there were instruments around and jams abounding, or perhaps just recorded music playing over some speakers. It’s a valid question for anyone, or at least that’s what I tell myself after reading renowned Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Touré’s answer. “Music,” he begins, “was an important part of my life.” That’s both a magnanimous reply a
Zach Top brings real-deal country music to Bend - The Bulletin (opens the original)
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Published 4:53 pm Monday, September 7, 2026 Country music can come from anywhere, of course, but there are some places that are better known as twangy hotspots than others. Nashville. Austin, Texas. Bakersfield, California. The birthplace of the genre, Bristol, Tennessee. Zach Top isn’t from any of those towns. In fact, Top grew up not too far from Central Oregon in Sunnyside, Washington, a farming community between Yakima and the Tri Cities. That’s where he listened to classic country music as
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