Life on the road while married isn’t always easy – Fred and Toody Cole of Dead Moon and Pierced Arrows know this, and so do Anita and Kevin Robinson (front) of Viva Voce.
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Life on the road while married isn’t always easy – Fred and Toody Cole of Dead Moon and Pierced Arrows know this, and so do Anita and Kevin Robinson (front) of Viva Voce.
As Richmond Fontaine and Fred Cole have learned, sometimes it’s easier to find success in Europe than it is to find it at home.
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As Richmond Fontaine and Fred Cole have learned, sometimes it’s easier to find success in Europe than it is to find it at home.
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Just as Fred and Toody rebelled against the conventional, Red Fang cuts through the sea of Portland acoustic indie rock with its proto-thrash.
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Just as Fred and Toody rebelled against the conventional, Red Fang cuts through the sea of Portland acoustic indie rock with its proto-thrash.
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The Prids have a DIY streak a mile long, just like Fred and Toody.
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The Prids have a DIY streak a mile long, just like Fred and Toody.
Outside of beer, coffee, and the occasional naked bicyclist, nothing embodies Portland’s self-reliant creative streak like its ever-burgeoning rock scene. Always at a steady simmer of boundary-bending, on-the-verge bands, but never likely to boil over into a major-label chum pool, indie rock in the Rose City is a world in which “success” is something you achieve on your own terms. This through-line of self-sustainability has had many manifestations, but almost all of them can be tra…
