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Since 1998, the Pickathon has brought together an intimate audience and some incredible performers to a farm outside of Portland, Oregon. 2020&#8217;s festival will take place July 30 through August 2.

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Pickathon Presents: Lambchop

Low Tide is the recording project of Eli Oberman and Courtney Robbins. Robbins and Oberman are current members of NY feminist punk band The Shondes (Rolling Stone, SPIN, BUST). The Alchemist, entirely self-produced, will be Oberman&#8217;s first solo record as a nonbinary artist, carefully constructed to relate the “holy balance” necessary to facilitate a meaningful and contented reality.
Low Tide take the arduous expanse of existence and condense it into a series of lovingly orchestrated and tenderly sung compositions. The Alchemist conspires to embrace the complexities of life, the fractious nature of existence, the elemental way humanity seems to simultaneously be disassembling and recreating, in an effort to simplify how we all manage them — an ostensibly herculean task. Oberman was met with the visage of The Alchemist, a genderless symbol of life’s precarious balancing act that — if balanced appropriately — can engender happiness and joy. Existing in the pastoral crevices that have birthed such mossy-hilled folk-classics as Van Morrison’s Veedon Fleece and, more recently, the trauma-folk of Big Thief and the haunting warmth of Antony and the Johnsons and PJ Harvey, the band’s first release is lucky enough to not only carry this oft-under recognized style, but to insinuate such a unique perspective as to make something anachronistic sound fresh again.
The Alchemist, implicitly baked in the ambiguity of gender, the detritus of our internal and external lives, and a sweeping milieu of gothic romanticism, is a stunning document of not only a band in full bloom, but also an encapsulation of the world we all live in, offering not just a document of life in America in 2019, but also the world’s introduction to what is sure to be an electrifying future for the band.
(Photo Credit: Jeanette Sears)

Eli Oberman

Kate Bornstein is an author and actor who has for over thirty years been writing groundbreaking books on the subject of nonbinary gender, including Gender Outlaw and My New Gender Workbook. Additionally, Kate has maintained a career in theater, making her Broadway debut in the summer of 2018, co-starring in the Second Stage Theater’s production of Young Jean Lee’s Straight White Men.

Kate Bornstein

For the Fun of It: A Conversation with Kate Bornstein and Eli Oberman

Pickathon Presents: Damien Jurado and Cedric Burnside

Nika Danilova records under the name Zola Jesus. You can follow her on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/ZOLAJESUS">here</a>.

Nika Danilova

Devon Welsh (ex-Majical Cloudz) and Nika Danilova (Zola Jesus) on Their Musical Origins

<div>Robin Edwards is Seattle-based musician who performs as <a href="https://lisaprank.bandcamp.com/">Lisa Prank</a>  and in the supergroup <a href="http://whoisshe.bandcamp.com/">Who is She?</a> You can follow her on <a href="https://twitter.com/lisaprank">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lisa_prank">Instagram,</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lisaprankmusic/">Facebook</a>.</div>

Robin Edwards

Guitar God Lisa Prank in Conversation with Big City Producer Rose Melberg

Carl Newman is the frontman of the New Pornographers. The band is set to release a special 7” record for Record Store Day Black Friday on November 29. The band’s highly anticipated new full length albumIn The Morse Code Of Brake Lights is out now via Collected Works Records

Carl Newman

New Pornographers’ Carl Newman Can’t Define Power-Pop

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Yoni Wolf has spent the last two decades traveling the remote sonic terrain where hip-hop, rock, and electronic music meet. In that time he’s cultivated a unique sound, and a unique position as one of contemporary music’s most distinctive voices. Some of Yoni’s most compelling and critically-praised musical experiments have been issued under the moniker WHY? and his latest entry is no exception. On AOKOHIO Yoni condenses the essential elements of WHY? into a yostunningly potent musical vision.
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Yoni Wolf

Yoni Wolf and Miles Joris-Peyrafitte Talk Mental Health and Their Creative Processes

When Remember Sports recorded Sunchokes in 2014 while Carmen Perry (vocals, guitar), Catherine Dwyer (guitar), Benji Dossetter (drums) and James Karlin (bass) attended Kenyon College in Gambier, OH, they had no intention of pursuing music seriously. It was recorded with the wide-eyed optimism of making a record for the sake of it. To create something they could share with their friends. To make something they could simply look back on.
The band – then called Sports – started in 2012, coming up through the pocket of their folk and DIY punk scene. Quietly released on Bandcamp, Sunchokes gained traction through word of mouth and social media. Now, five years later, following the departure of Dossetter and Karlin and addition of Jack Washburn (guitar) and Connor Perry (drums), Sunchokes has been remastered – by band friend Lucas Knapp – for a special anniversary release, on vinyl and CD for the first time ever. The remastered album also includes eight bonus songs including a few original demos and Addie Pray (Carmen&#8217;s solo project) versions of the songs. A twenty page memory book, featuring playlists, photos and more, will also accompany the release.
(Photo Credit: Margaret McCarthy)

Remember Sports

An Excerpt From Remember Sports’ Sunchokes: A Photo Book

<div>Jesca Hoop is a California-born, UK-based songwriter who released her fifth studio album, Stonechild, in July. She has written songs with Sam Beam (Iron and Wine), collaborated with Lucius and This is the Kit on her latest release, and worked with luminaries including Peter Gabriel, Stewart Copeland, and Tom Waits. With her roots in folk and Americana, Hoop continually pushes at the boundaries of what is possible within those traditions, creating songs that twist and turn, constantly surprising, and delightful and disturbing in equal measures.</div>
<div>(Photo Credit: Aga Mortlock)</div>
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Jesca Hoop

“Can You Lie In a Song?” A Conversation with Jesca Hoop and Kate Stables (This Is the Kit)

Based in Austin, Texas, Hovvdy (pronounced “howdy”) is the writing and recording project of Charlie Martin and Will Taylor.
(Photo Credit: Taylor Clark)

Hovvdy

Hovvdy and Dijon Talk the New Frontier of the “Self-Centered DIY Bedroom Musician”

<div dir="ltr">Jlin, one of the most prominent electronic producers of the current generation, first appeared on Planet Mu’s second Bangs &amp; Works compilation, which had a huge impact on electronic/club music. Though she is known for bringing footwork to a wider audience, Jlin doesn’t consider herself a footwork artist. Hailing from Gary, Indiana, a place close yet distant enough from Chicago to allow her to develop a different perspective on the genre, she has morphed its sounds into something entirely new. Released in 2015, her debut album Dark Energy&#8216;s innovative sound propelled it to the top of many of the year’s Best Of lists. Jlin’s sophomore album Black Origami was recently released to even greater critical acclaim and attention. In 2017, Jlin also composed the music for a major new dance work by Wayne McGregor, one of the UK’s best known choreographers.</div>
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Jlin

IDM and Classical Worlds Collide

Obituary is a death metal band from Tampa, Florida. Their most recent album, Obituary, was released in 2017.
(Photo Credit: Ester Segarra)

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