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Posted by Kimberly Gehl

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We cover a lot of music shows on PDX Pipeline and post over 40 Portland music events every Thursday afternoon. We like a lot of venues, but wanted to know what our twitter followers liked, so we posed this question yesterday:

Reminder: Also, we give out free tickets every Thursday to our Portland Facebook Group including to many of the venues below like Wonder Ballroom, Holocene, Someday Lounge, Roseland, Berbati's, Hawthorne Theater and more. Join it if you like free stuff.

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Posted by Andy Popp

A Road Win Away From Round 2?

Just when you thought they were dead, the Blazers might be who we thought they were.

Aside from a few lapses in the 3rd and 4th quarters, the Blazers finally played their game Tuesday. They out rebounded the Rockets, forced turnovers, had four players in double digits, attacked the basket and Blazers not named Brandon Roy got to the freethrow line. It looked like the Blazers had finally shed their playoff nerves and reverted back to playing the basketball that got them a home court advantage.

And the referees let them slug it out. The veteran crew of Dan Crawford, Bill Spooner and Leon Wood decided it would be best of they just let the teams play. In a series that's been plagued by touch fouls and seemingly endless quarters because the Blazers are in the penalty the 10 minute mark, we finally got to see them play playoff basketball.

Over the series, many fans have been vocal about Rudy Fernandez's lack of minutes. Last night we saw him takeover Nicolas Batum's. Fernandez was not only the first player off the bench for Nate McMillan, but started over Batum at the beginning of the 3rd quarter. Fernandez didn't do anything spectacular on the offensive side of the ball (7 points), the real difference he made came defensively with 3 steals and 2 blocks over 35 minutes.

It's unfortunate they didn't regain their confidence earlier, but the Blazers are far from dead.

The focus now shifts to tomorrow's game 6.

*Photo by Seschloss, full set from game here.

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Posted by Stephanie El-Hajj

Stanton Warriors: Bring the Beat Back!

Check out this freaking amazing lineup (seriously, Portland is spoiled): Stanton Warriors (headliners), Jaden, DJ Three, Zita, Nicky Mason & Chase Manhattan, J Renegade, Lets Go Outside, George Holland, DJ Wiggles, and Blue Submarine.

Stanton Warriors, a delicious duo that hails from Britain, and a force seriously into mixing and producing breaks that make you want to dance your pants off. At the last Breakspoll awards, Stanton Warriors were recently voted the #1 breaks DJs in the world and their latest album, Stanton Sessions 3 was voted best Compilation CD of the year.

With their signature sound and the confidence borne from playing for crowds in the thousands, these guys are definitely not new to the game, and …well they're kind of a big deal.  I talked to Jaden, Read the rest of this entry »