Hana Pestle added to Secondhand Serenade bill
Montana native Hana Pestle has been added to the Montana leg of Secondhand Serenade’s tour and will be opening…
Sera Cahoone lite
Sub Pop artist Sera Cahoone didn’t stay away from Billings long, returning to a room less occupied than it was during her…
2009 Tuney winners announced
Summer brought its last assault to Billings on Saturday, blasting 95 degree temperatures just in time for the ninth annual Billings Outpost Tuney awards. In what proved to be the most well-attended Tuneys yet, the event brought more than 300 people together to celebrate all things musical.
Tuney awards on Saturday
Tuney time has new meaning for me this year. Before, I was a casual spectator enjoying the show. Now, as a sponsor of the event and a coordinator of all things Tuney, I’ve got a behind-the-scenes look, which has included counting boatloads of ballots, coordinating the performers’ schedules and the awards presentation, and the last-minute kinks we’ve been ironing out. And that’s just the work that goes in before the first award is handed out.
Sera Cahoone returns to Billings
After wrapping a tour with Son Volt in Minneapolis, alt country musician Sera Cahoone is gigging her way home to Seattle and plans her only Montana stop in Billings on Sept. 30.
The mighty Modest Mouse
At times when Isaac Brock speaks, he’s unintelligible. But when he sings, it’s a different matter. At Modest Mouse’s Sept. 3 appearance in Billings, Brock mumbled a few statements between songs, but it was his musicianship that impressed the most.
Clintons ham it up; Noah Gundersen sets precedent
John McLellan, guitarist and vocalist of the Bozeman-based country/pop band The Clintons, and Josh Keehr, the band’s percussionist, have the Montana market on “cheese.”
Elephant Revival tiptoes into town
Elephant Revival was anything but elephantine in their performance in Billings last night. The an Americana folk music revivalist group’s delicate and graceful music reminded more of tiptoeing than of a large, lumbering pachyderm.
Railroad Earth lights up the Babcock Theater
Amongst the flying glowsticks and wafting pot smoke, the New Jersey jam band Railroad Earth took the stage at the Babcock Theater last night. It’s been a while since the Babcock, located on Second Avenue North in downtown Billings, has seen such action […]
Hana Pestle sells out Venture
Hana Pestle can make finding a dead girl in a lake sound delightful. Her original songs—themed around dark, imaginative worlds where lake swimmers entangle their fingers in the hair of the deceased or guests at the “Red Death Ball” perish—are disturbing on paper, but enchanting in song.