Watch Dead Moon's Toody Cole & her band live in Melbourne, Australia

Here's Toody Cole rockin' out with her Portland pals from The Spurs at PBS FM's studio in Melbourne, Australia recently. 

Here's the scoop...

Toody Cole, co-founder and mainstay of iconic Oregon group Dead Moon and the godmother of raw DIY rock 'n' roll, dropped by the Collingwood Yards studio of PBS 106.7 FM in Melbourne while in Australia for the first time fronting her own band, following three decades of appearances here with Dead Moon, Pierced Arrows and as a duo with her late great husband Fred Cole. In Toody Cole & Her Band, she is joined by Kelly Haliburton and Christopher March (on drums and guitar respectively) of fellow Oregon outfit Jenny Don't & The Spurs. 

The performance originally aired on Fang It! on Thursday November 20, 2025 - you can listen back to the audio archived here: pbsfm.org.au/program/fang-it/2025-11-20/17-00-00

Western World

Psychedelic Nightmare

Dagger Moon

Walking On My Grave

Caroline

Johnny

54-40 Or Fight

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Paul Maybury. 

Video by Patrick Turnbull / Two Way Media (instagram.com/twowaymedia1).

PBS FM is a member-funded community radio station based in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. We have a dedicated team of volunteers broadcasting specialist music programming 24/7 via 106.7FM & PBS Digital in Naarm, and worldwide via www.pbsfm.org.au and the PBS app.

Portland's Jenny Don't & The Spurs share "Pain In My Heart" and play Toronto in June!

Jenny Don't & The Spurs' new album Broken Hearted Blue is out June 14th. They hit The Bovine on June 10th! 

Writes Jenny...

Yeehaw! Our new video for "Pain in My Heart" is out now, featuring footage from our sold-out show earlier this month! Thanks for being there everyone!

This track is a highlight from our upcoming album,  and we're thrilled to finally be able to share it with you! Special shoutout to Rusty Blake, who's featured on the recording playing pedal steel, and Colin Hegna for producing/recording.  It was a blast working together!

A huge thank you to @xmattmayhemx for capturing the magic of the night and bringing this song to life on screen. ⭐️

Head over to our website (https://www.jennydontandthespurs.com) to pre-save our album,  Broken Hearted Blue - coming out June 14th on Fluff & Gravy Records. 

Check out "Pain In My Heart" and "You're What I Need" followed by a list of upcoming tour dates which includes a Toronto show at The Bovine with Gregory Childs & Heart Lung and Sleepy Jean on June 10th! 

You can also get Jenny Don't & The Spurs' Broken Hearted Blue LP from Fluff & Gravy right here. 

 

Jenny Don't and the Spurs on tour

5/16  WILD BUFFALO - BELLINGHAM, WA  w/ @wearelipstitch

5/17  GREEN AUTO - VANCOUVER, BC - w/ @viciouscyclesmc @thegunghos

5/18  FISHERMAN'S VILLAGE FEST - EVERETT, WA  w/ @drivebytruckers

5/19  OPEN SPACE - VASHON ISLAND, WA w/ @kimmibitter @millercampbellmusic

5/23  CRAVIN' GRAVY SOCIAL CLUB - PORTLAND, OR

5/24  NYNE - SPOKANE, WA w/ @silvertreason

5/25  PUB STATION - BILLINGS, MT

5/26  MATTHEWS OPERA HOUSE - SPEARFISH, ND  

5/28  UPTOWN VFW - MINNEAPOLIS, MN  w/ @colediamondmusic

5/29  RACOON MOTEL - DAVENPORT, IA w/ @iris.marlow

5/30  FITZGERALD'S SIDEBAR - BERWYN, IL 

5/31  LAMPLIGHT SESSIONS - MOSINEE, WI  

6/1  ROCK N' ROLL LAND - GREEN BAY WI

6/3  HIGH NOON SALOON - MADISON, WI

6/4  LAW OFFICE PUB -YORKVILLE, IL

6/5  PYRAMID SCHEME - GRAND RAPIDS, MI w/ @thebootstrapboys

6/6  LAGER HOUSE - DETROIT, MI

6/7  FRANKIE'S - TOLEDO, OH

6/8  BEACHLAND BALLROOM - CLEVELAND, OH

6/9  BUG JAR - ROCHESTER, NY

6/10  THE BOVINE - TORONTO, ON w/ Gregory Childs & Heart Lung, Sleepy Jean

6/11  CABARET FOUF - MONTREAL, QC w/ @bloodshotbill

6/12  JIMMY'S JAZZ & BLUES CLUB - PORTSMOUTH, NH

6/13  HAWKS AND REED - GREENFIELD, MA

6/14  FUZE BOX 12 - ALBANY, NY

6/15  GALACTIC THEATRE - WARREN, RI w/ @kingsickabilly 

6/16  CAFE NINE - NEW HAVEN, CT

6/17  THE MERCURY LOUNGE - NEW YORK, NY

6/19  COBRA CABANA - RICHMOND, VA

6/20  CLUB CAFE - PITTSBURG, PA w/ @odaveshepherd

6/21  RUMBA CAFE - COLUMBUS, OH

6/23  MOTOBLOT - CHICAGO, IL w/ @reverendhortonheat @ichi_bons @messer_chups

6/24  REVERB LOUNGE - OMAHA, NE  

6/25  HI-DIVE - DENVER, CO w/ @missjackiestraw

6/26 ACES HIGH SALOON - SALT LAKE CITY, UT

6/27  NEUROLUX - BOISE, ID

6/28  GENERAL STORE - SPRAY, OR

🦋 EUROPE 🦋

7/5 HUERCASA FESTIVAL - RAIZA, ESP w/ @kaitlinbutts @thewarandtreaty

7/6 SJOCK FESTIVAL - GIERLE, BE w/ @cosmicpsychos @tysegall @thechatslovebeer

7/7 KUSEL, DE  

7/8 KULT 41 -BONN, DE  

7/9 MERLEYN- NIJMEGEN, NL

7/10 VERA - GRONINGEN, NL  

7/11 EDP - KOLN, DE  

7/12 STATIC ROOTS FESTIVAL - OBERHAUSEN, DE  

7/13 ROOTS RIBS AND BREWS FESTIVAL - EMMEN, NL  

7/14 ROCKSTAR HQ - AACHEN, DE

Portland's No. 2 previews third album with "Too Much Is Not Enough"

No.2's Neil Gust (formerly of Heatmiser) is releasing the long overdue First Love album on September 9th via Jealous Butcher.  

Here's the scoop...

No. 2 was formed in 1997 in Portland, OR by singer/guitarist Neil Gust (Heatmiser), singer/bassist Gilly Ann Hanner (Calamity Jane, Desir) and drummer Paul Pulvirenti (Eyelids). Their music chased the fuzzy hooks of T-Rex, the heart-cracking harmonies of X, and the pole vaulting riffs and queer subtext of The B-52’s. Neil developed his songwriting style along side Elliott Smith who he met in college. The pair moved to Portland, OR together in 1991 to launch their indie rock band Heatmiser.

 

After three albums, including 1995’s major label beautiful disaster Mic City Sons, Heatmiser broke up and Neil took a handful of new songs to Gilly and Paul to start a new band. Gilly had founded the legendary proto riot grrrl band Calamity Jane, and her natural punk-sweet charisma paired beautifully with Paul’s propulsive beats and Neil’s guitar-chop tunes. In 1999, the band released their first single "Allistair Chestnut" b/w "Little Face" for Wicked Witch Records (available here) and their debut album No Memory on Donna Dresch’s influential Chainsaw Records. 

After tours and supporting spots for Pacific Northwest luminaries Quasi, Elliott Smith, Sleater-Kinney, and Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, and a follow up album What Does Good Luck Bring? (In Music We Trust 2002 available here), the band dispersed to pursue other interests. But after selling out vinyl reissues of both albums, the band reformed in 2019, recorded a new 7” single for Jealous Butcher Records (2020's "You Might Be Right" b/w "French Exit" available here), and began developing a new album with producer Joanna Bolme (The Minders, Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks) with keyboard input from Rebecca Cole (The Minders, Wild Flag).

No.2's First Love album is being released by Jealous Butcher on September 9th which you can pre-order right here: https://www.jealousbutcher.com/products/first-love. Check out Hal Wolverton's video for "Too Much Is Not Enough" below. 

No. 2 – First Love

I'm On A Mission

Ravers In The Sky

Model of the Universe

A.O.R.

Time's Up

Get In Line

Night After Night

You Might Be Right

Too Much Is Not Enough

First Love

No One Needs To Know

 

 

Portland's Eyelids w/ Beams @ The Horseshoe, Monday

Don't count on Peter Buck showing up for the Eyelids' set at the 'Shoe tonight but Beams will be there to get things started. 

That time Television played Portland in 1978

Check out performances of "Marquee Moon" and "Glory" from Television's show at The Earth in Portland on July 2, 1978.  

Portland krautrockers MØTRIK share video for "Streamline"

"Streamline" is off MØTRIK's forthcoming album MØØN: The Cosmic Electrics of MØTRIK now out November 12th. 

Happy Birthday Darrell Grant!

Celebrating the birthday of jazz pianist Darrell Grant with "Rivers" & "New Land" from The Territory followed by The Cool Spot.

One For The Weekend: Redd Kross

"Crazy World" by Redd Kross seems like the right song for the moment. Here's a live version from Portland's Doug Fir Lounge. 

Lovesores release the Bats From Planet Skull

Scott "Deluxe" Drake and his Lovesores crew just made available their whumpin' Bats From Planet Skull album on Bandcamp as a PWYC download. Check it. 

Watch The Wipers live in Portland back in 1983

Here's Greg Sage and crew tearing up Portland's 13th Precinct with their classic "Over The Edge"

Portland's "bubblegum doom" duo Fox Medicine preview new Procédures Mystiques album

Guitarist Neezy Dynamite says the video for their song Comfort Pony is about "magic and returning to nature"

Fox Medicine on tour

9/22 Portland, OR - No Fun Bar
9/27 Eureka, CA - Siren's Song Tavern
10/4 San Diego, CA -Black Cat Bar
10/5 Yucca Valley, CA -Gadi's Bar and Grill
10/6 Los Angeles, CA -The Lexington (Fuzzdaze -Matinee show)
10/31 Portland, OR -Misdemeanor Meadows
11/1 Astoria, OR -Charlie's Chop House
11/8 Seattle, WA - Lucky Liquor
11/9 Portland, OR- Kelly's Olympian ALBUM RELEASE PARTY)
11/15 Oakland, CA -The Golden Bull
11/17 Reno, NV -Jub Jubs
12/6 San Diego, CA - Til Two Club

Multi-artist tribute to Dead Moon due May 10th

The Hellacopters, Nomads, La Secta, Monomen, Sator and others salute Portland's finest on the 2x10 set. 

Here's the scoop...
Chaputa! Records in conjunction with Ghost Highway is proud to announce the release of TRIBUTE TO DEAD MOON on May 10th.  The gatefold double 10" package features 19 bands – including The Nomads, Monomen, The Hellacopters, Lovesores, La Secta, The Sewergrooves, Sonic Beat Explosion, Sator, "Demons", Boatsmen, etc – paying tribute to the amazing musical legacy of Fred Cole, Kathleen "Toody" Cole and Andrew Loomis aka Portland's Dead Moon.

TRIBUTE TO DEAD MOON will be issued in a limited edition of 1000 copies with 500 on black and 500 on white (available only on Chaputa! and Ghost Highway mail order). The Dead Moon inspired sleeve art was created by Mik Baro and there's also a poster (21x60cm) designed by Rui Ricardo which accompanies pre-order copies while supplies last, available right here.

Check out the complete tracklist following The Nomads' blast through Dead Moon's "Graveyard," The Hellacopters' update of "Rescue" and the Monomen's rippin' version of "54/40 or Fight."

Various Artists – Tribute To Dead Moon (Chaputa!/Ghost Highway)

A1: The HELLACOPTERS: Rescue
A2: The SEWERGROOVES: Clouds of Dawn
A3: SATOR: Dead Moon Night
A4: The CHUCK NORRIS EXPERIMENT: Walking on my Grave
B1: The NOMADS: Graveyard
B2: “DEMONS”: Out on a Wire
B3: LOVESORES: My Escape
B4: BOATSMEN: Kicked Out Kicked In
B5: MONOMEN: 54/40 or Fight
C1: SONIC BEAT EXPLOSION: 40 Miles of Bad Road
C2: MUNLET: Sabotage
C3: DIRTY COAL TRAIN: The 99’s
C4: LA SECTA: Ricochet
C5: BUFFALO: Dead in The Saddle
D1: MARY’S KIDS: Ill of the Dead
D2: The BROOMS: Don’t Burn the Fires
D3: HOLY SHEEP: Psychodelic Nightmare
D4: SUICIDE NOTES: Johnny’s Got a Gun
D5: KING MASTINO: War is Blind

Liner Notes by Jay Martin
Sleeve artwork by Kik Baro
Poster artwork by Rui Ricardo

Happy Birthday Scott "Deluxe" Drake!

Raising a glass to Lovesores frontman Scott "Deluxe" Drake on his day. 

You can can check out the Lovesores' whumpin' Gods Of Ancient Grease album – produced by Thee Slayer Hippy – right here. 

One For The Weekend: Pushy

"Salem Man" is off Pushy's split album with Ragged Barracudas out now on Who Can You Trust? Records.

Whaddya mean you don't know Ural Thomas

Portland soul great Ural Thomas revised his '67 gem "Pain Is The Name of Your Game" with Nick Waterhouse. 

Making Ital Stew with Sazi aka Rasta Tony

It's much easier to follow Sazi's recipe if you happen to live near Port Antonio on Jamaica's northeast coast.