Awmercy's Summer Short List

5. Summers in Portland feel like a celebration, whether I am running past the blues festival along the riverfront, cranking up summer jams on the stereo, or riding my bike home with a buzz from the show. With PDX Pop Now! and SMMR BMMR coming up, it’s only getting better.
   
   
4. Slabtown’s Bender – 3 nights of loud sloppy rock n’ roll fueled by massive amounts of cheap High Life.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
3. The Black Keys - Brothers rekindled my waning interest and sent me back to revisit their early albums that I apparently still love.
   

2. Free Energy @ Mississippi Studios – There’s nothing better than seeing the band you're digging the hardest when they got something to prove. I doubt I’ll ever see them at venue that small again.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
1. R.L. Burnside – When I was in a serious musical funk earlier this spring his Fat Possum albums, Mr. Wizard in particular, helped me creep out.