Vice Records Presents: SCION GARAGE FEST

September 3, 2009 • By Chip Norman

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On my ‘places-to-go-list,’ Portland ranks a few dozen spots below time traveling to ‘86 Chernobyl. It’s like a fake Canada with a population comprised solely of the Decemberists and hippies. Breathing that kind of air will kill you so hard your ghost will get aids. But I’m gonna risk it. And you wanna know why?

Because that’s where SCION GARAGE FEST is about to set fire to – and then piss on – every festival in America. How do I know?

GINO WASHINGTON:

I can’t commit to words how stoked I am about the opportunity to see Gino Washington live. And that’s just the beginning. Our buddies at Vice Records have put together an amazing lineup. (And SCION, we’re like the only dudes you’re not sponsoring! Give us money and drive us to Portland!) The SCION GARAGE FEST (yes…I have to keep typing it like that) is set to be a mecca built out of denim, retarded little buttons, and French Girls. And best of all, it’s FREE with an RSVP. Here are some highlights:

THE DEADLY SNAKES REUNITE: Yeah. That’s right. The Deadly Snakes are reuniting for SCION Garage Fest. If you don’t know how rad this is, please step out of class. Cuz you’re a nerd. But if you want to be rad, get your ass to Portland and GO TO THIS SHOW. FOR FREE. The Deadly Snakes put out some of the best albums of the past ten years that you haven’t heard of. And this is a one-time deal folks. Immediately after their set, The Deadly Snakes will be paddling away on a boat made out of cash, and will never be playing again. EVER. FACT.

ROKY ERIKSON: Yes. This is the dude from 13th Floor Elevators. What you are likely not aware of is the massive number of times this dude has busted out of a looney bin. Homeboy took so much LCD that he developed paranoid schizophrenia. He spent the next couple decades under shock-therapy, telling everyone who would listen that he was an alien. Roky gets weirder than Sky Saxon did, and he’s off of his meds. Gonna rule.

JACK OBLIVIAN: Check out the mint babies hanging from Jack-O’s arms! Tell him Buddyhead knows what kinda houses Jack be cleaning! And Jack, make one of your hot, twenty-something ladies stay at the house (or mail her here) so Greg can come along. Ya’ll need to do the Compulsive Gamblers thing here, too. Greg O. produced albums for about half of the bill, so no excuses. Which reminds me:

THE DIRTBOMBS: Gories-alumni. Rad.

BLACK LIPS + KING KHAN + BBQ + ALMIGHTY DEFENDERS: Wear a poncho.

If all that ain’t good enough, you have Gris Gris (awesome), Pierced Arrows, The Spits, The Intelligence, Davila 666, our buddies the Jacuzzi Boys, and I’m sick of typing.

Bottom line: if you care about seeing/supporting rock & roll you will sign up for a FREE RSVP right HERE.

Listen again: you go HERE and tell them you’re coming to the SCION GARAGE FEST by Sept. 29th, and Vice will let you in for FREE like the hipster nudez in their mags!

For the newest Buddyhead promotion, we will be giving away rock & roll sainthood to the first person to cut Jay Reatard’s hair and hide his neon high-tops. Convincing him that Twinkies and Yoohoo have been discontinued might get you a high-five.

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28 Responses to “ Vice Records Presents: SCION GARAGE FEST ”


  • drunk with power -- Sep 3rd, 2009 at 6:37 am

    Sweet, 10 hours of music that sounds exactly the same

  • Chip Norman -- Sep 3rd, 2009 at 10:25 am

    Yeah, dude. Rock & roll is such a bummer.

  • ryan -- Sep 3rd, 2009 at 10:44 am

    Exploiting a bunch of garage rock bands (great ones at that) with the hopes that you can sell some foreign-made wigger hoopties to greasy rock dudes? Great idea. I mean, so what if they can’t even afford cab fare? People that won’t listen to anything that sounds like it was made after 1970 will totally fork out their wadded-up beer money for a fancy new shoebox with wheels!
    Methinks someone in marketing screwed the pooch on this one.

  • Brian -- Sep 3rd, 2009 at 11:44 am

    How do I get or win some wristbands? This show is going to be amazing! Stop Hating unless you actually play rock n roll that people actually want to here f-in’ bloggers.

  • Guy -- Sep 3rd, 2009 at 1:08 pm

    “Sweet, 10 hours of music that sounds exactly the same.”

    Right on. Garage is great and all but seriously how is this any better than being at Warped Tour? Punk Rock is cool, but hearing shitty retro versions of bands not as good as the originals? Lame. I know I know, there are some originals playing at this garage fest. But seriously do we need to hear more bullshit pentatonic riffs combined with the same fucking stooges chord progressions over and over again? I think not.

    The Dirtbombs were probably one of the worst bands I had ever seen live. Thank GOD Spiritualized ripped it up later that night. See, this is why Spiritualized rule and shitty retro garage bands blow. They take something old, and try to do something new with it. Get it? It’s called ART.

    I love buddyhead, and I thought the Pitchfork thing was great. But you guys look no better by constantly pumping up the garage crap.

  • Tyler -- Sep 3rd, 2009 at 1:29 pm

    Hmmmm……Wow Chip, your ignorance is astounding….Portland just happens to be the current residence for Johnny Marr, Stephan Malkmus, All of Sleater-Kinney members (I guess Carrie just moved, but still considers PDX home), James Mercer, (fuck off shin’s haters), the thermals, Eat Skull…… just to name a few. But yet you choose to single out the Decemberists as the cities most notable musical inhabitant.

    Fire this retard and get someone who actual know shit about music to post……what a moron.

  • Tyler -- Sep 3rd, 2009 at 1:31 pm

    Also Portland was the place Elliott Smith considered home……eat a dick Chip and know you’re shit before you city bash.

    Oh and I live in Seattle, so save the homer shit…….

  • felonius dump -- Sep 3rd, 2009 at 1:51 pm

    The worst thing to come out of Portland was Elliott Smith.
    The best thing to come into Elliott Smith was a knife.

    Rokky Erickson rules.
    Watch “You’re Gonna Miss Me” (streaming on NetFlix like the gnarly voices in homeboy’s head.)

  • Tyler -- Sep 3rd, 2009 at 2:22 pm

    @felonius dump

    Oh you mean the DVD that came out in ‘05……not only are you funny, but punctual too!

    Ruling RULES!……meathead

  • ryan r. -- Sep 3rd, 2009 at 5:08 pm

    guy up there has the right idea.

  • betterliving -- Sep 3rd, 2009 at 9:05 pm

    How is this radder than Fun Fun Fun Fest?

  • Dirt McGirt -- Sep 4th, 2009 at 8:57 am

    How can Roky Erikson take so much “LCD”? Must have be listening to too much James Murphy…

    Pull your head out of your ass and give some respect to Portland. Ditch that smogged out shithole known as LA. When you get sick of vacant lots, horrendous traffic, and crap music scene head up north to get your mind blown by a town with a legit scene.

  • mike -- Sep 4th, 2009 at 9:24 am

    The Spits are a fun show. Dont miss em

  • bearface -- Sep 4th, 2009 at 10:04 am

    portland – where everybody, and everything, looks exactly the same. the decemberists are boring and the thermals are the worst live band i have ever seen in my entire life. it was like watching the “rebellious” band on a full house episode.

  • Travis M. -- Sep 4th, 2009 at 10:28 am

    Yeah, Guy, Roky Erickson is such a “shitty retro garage band”. He should totally be on the Warped Tour. I think J. Spaceman hates him too he hasn’t been able to take off the Roky t-shirt all year. Yeah and Fred Cole he sucks too you know the Weeds, Lollipop Shoppe, The Rats and Dead Moon they’re all “shitty retro garage bands”. Kid Congo? What the fuck man The Cramps and Gun Club total Warped Tour shit. Gino Washington = Shitty Warped Tour material, Simply Saucer, Shit. Jack –O really sucks that dude is just a step shy of rocking a backwards Volcom hat and an Atticus shirt. I could go on and on about all of these “shitty retro garage bands”.

  • Chip Norman -- Sep 4th, 2009 at 12:56 pm

    Word, Travis.

    Tyler nuked me pretty hard. I’m embarrassed about having not included Stephen Malkmus and Sleater Kinney. I guess if you drop those names, Gino Washington references finally become relevant. I’m ignorant.

  • eugene -- Sep 4th, 2009 at 1:20 pm

    everybody and their grandma is a ‘musician’ here in portland. if you live here you know that below the surface their is enough great music to satisfy any music snob. but yeah, there’s a lot of generic hipsters too.

  • robness -- Sep 4th, 2009 at 11:53 pm

    Funny comments. My favorite:

    “Exploiting a bunch of garage rock bands (great ones at that) with the hopes that you can sell some foreign-made wigger hoopties to greasy rock dudes? Great idea.”

    Baseless derogatory ramblings about Portland = lots of comments! Buddyhead wins.

    Use some CSS to put some ads by the bottom so the commenters can see them dudes. I’d tell you how but I’m too jealous of your site to help you any more than that.

    FunFunFun fest is definitely more exciting than this festival. All hail Graham.

  • ryan -- Sep 5th, 2009 at 10:36 am

    Don’t really understand the Portland hating. Yeah, the weather’s miserable most of the time and there’s a shit ton of homeless people, but it’s still a rad place. I lived there for a couple months about 9 years ago and I’ve been trying to figure out how to get back ever since. I’ve only visited LA once, for about a day and a half, and based on the experience I had, we’ll just say I’m not losing any sleep over the fact that the city is on fire.
    As far as the comments about all garage rock bands sounding the same, there’s some truth to that, but you know what? I’ll take enthusiasm and sincerity over pretentious ingenuity any day. To that end, I think it’s interesting to see how a band can reinterpret old styles and concepts, and a lot of those groups do it really well.
    Then again, fuck it, call me a hesher but I still just can’t get enough of some big, nasty, dumbass guitars. Never gets old.

  • portlandreallyisntsobad -- Sep 5th, 2009 at 12:33 pm

    Yeah it’s boring here and the weather sucks for 10 1/2 months of the year, but shows here are relatively cheap and so is the beer. Lets see you get a pint of beer for 2 bucks in LA during regular hours.

    FYI, I hear from the opening bands that they’re trying to get the Mummies on the bill??? And possibly an oblivians reunion though thats less likely

  • ryan -- Sep 5th, 2009 at 8:25 pm

    Whatchy’all know ’bout some Creteens? I know Yussef Jerusalem is on the bill, but I swear I’m buying a plane ticket if they get those fuckin’ frogs to play.

  • timmmmm -- Sep 6th, 2009 at 12:08 pm

    What?! Why would you possibly be down on this bill? What the fuck is going on? All of a sudden, rock music ain’t cool? IT IS ALWAYS THE COOLEST.

  • rodoris -- Sep 7th, 2009 at 1:49 pm

    five dollar pbr tall boys mother fucker, hell yes!

  • Jeff -- Sep 10th, 2009 at 5:13 pm

    I’m not sure what Simply Saucer sounds like today, but everyone should own a copy of the album “Cyborgs Revisited”, a collection of their singles from the 70’s and live stuff. Shit will melt your face off! I would but a ticket just to see them.

  • Tyler -- Sep 12th, 2009 at 10:31 pm

    Gino Washington?……….yeah he’s playing the fest and he’s better then Chuck Berry in many-a-people’s opinion, but what’s your point ………..relevance nerd!

    Fire this dork…..his reviews blow and his music intelligence is sub-par. If you want to keep up the level in to which Buddyhead has been raised to (or lowed) give this bitch a curbing.

    I hear the WeHo news is looking for high school level ball jugglers……..move on rookie.

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  • Chris -- Sep 17th, 2009 at 2:18 pm

    Hear Garage Fest bands: http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-22591-Portland-Local-Music-Examiner~y2009m9d17-Sign-up-for-free-tickets-to-Scions-Garage-Fest

  • yay -- Sep 21st, 2009 at 6:28 pm

    berbati’s venue website also lists the sonics, kingsmen, marked men and gories(!?) playing that day: http://www.berbati.com/

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