Back-to-back PDX in San Diego

Casbah says Portland hip-hop heroes Lifesavas are playing June 13, and Menomena rides its blogger buzz into town the next night, the 14th.

June is filling up nicely.

Tracks from new Lifesavas album "Gutterfly" (Stream)
Menomena's "Friend or Foe" (Stream)

Menomena stream of consciousness

Looks like the next band from my hometown to blow up might be Menomena. I feel kind of bad for sleeping on them. I've known about them for what feels like three years, saw other bloggers pimping them up. But today Pitchfork gave them the "Best New Music" tag, which has been all the talk on the Internets.

Finally listening to more than 30 seconds of their music kind of sent me on a stream of consciousness. Enjoy.

Menomena — Wet and Rusting (MP3)

Which leads to this...

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Yep, I could probably watch Sesame Street clips all night. Yepyepyepyepyepyepyep