Posted on Wednesday, 25th January 2012 by admin
This Saturday, April 24th, Willamette University in Salem will host the free, 12th annual Wulapalooza Earth Art Music Festival. The completely student funded and run festival brings West Coast headliners to perform on Willamette’s campus alongside student artists of all media, entertaining thousands of students and community members. Portland headliners Portugal. The Man and Typhoon will join Vancouver B.C.’s Japandroids and San Francisco indie rockers The Dodos on the Brown Field main stage starting at 5:30 PM. The outdoor event is sponsored by several Willamette student groups and encourages a horde of local creatives to participate. With over 30 student artist groups performing, there will be Taiko drummers and fire dancers as well as an overabundance of appropriately christened collegiate bands like Rock The Quad and Boner Jams. Student acts will play across campus from 11 AM to 4:30 PM. See the full schedule here. “The festival is both a showcase of student talents and a chance to bring exciting musicians to campus,” says Willamette Music Committee Chair Cliff Batson. “We encourage different clubs on campus to run booths with different activities ranging from a flea market to a giant bubble pool. There is also a craft fair where students will be selling items that they made, which was a new addition last year.” This includes a variety of activities like games, student acts, booths, food, art, and more until the main stage show starts. OMN spoke with main stage openers Typhoon and closers Portugal. The Man before Saturday’s extravaganza. Young indie rockers Typhoon from Portland have seven core members but on their upcoming studio LP, Hunger And Thirst due out May 4th on Tender Loving Empire, a total of 17 total contributors gave their voices and hands to the album playing the expected fare as well as upright bass, toy and real piano, and a crumpled plastic bag. All friends since high school or before, the members are just 21.8 years on average, but their large size gives their music a unique sound that fans of baroque pop acts like Grizzly Bear and Arcade Fire will find pleasing. Oregon Music News caught up with singer Kyle Morton to discuss Typhoon’s upcoming album as they drove to a show in Santa Cruz… and which artists are good for car karaoke. Listen to Typhoon’s “Starting Over” off Hunger And Thirst.
You have a new album, Hunger And Thirst, coming out really soon, are you guys about to hit the road in support?
Typhoon We were in the middle of booking our spring tour when it fell into our laps to do a tour with Yann Tiersen, which is what we’re doing now. We kind of just canceled the May tour to embark on this last-minute tour with Yann Tiersen down to California, Arizona and Texas. So this is our spring tour. Have you guys been playing material from the new album at these shows? Almost exclusively material from the new album, we have one song that’s a kind of miscellaneous piece. We’ve basically been playing the album through in different orders. How did the title Hunger And Thirst come about? It came in a couple different ways. A lot of the material I wrote with this idea in mind of music as food, or something you’re hungry for. So many of the songs on the album are about desire, and in a way hungry and thirsty. And the album is broken into doubles. The first two songs go together, the third song has two distinct parts, the fourth and fifth go together, and so I wanted a name that would touch on the diptych theme of the album.
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