NPR is streaming the forthcoming Cut Copy album in their First Listen segment.
Stream Cut Copy’s “Free Your Mind”
15 Year Anniversary at Doug Fir this Friday
Come join us this Friday to celebrate 15 years of Area54 being on the radio. We’ll be spinning outside on the deck from 5-10pm and it looks like we’ll have a break in the weather so no excuse not to come by after work to enjoy a drink and some music with us.
Thievery Corp new release and Portland show
Thievery Corporation’s brand new release “Culture of Fear” will be out June 28th and we just received word that they have confirmed a Portland show date for September 14th at the Shnitzer. Tickets go on sale this Saturday!
Naked Winery Halloween this Saturday
We’re spinning music for this year’s Halloween party at Naked Winery in Hood River on Saturday October 30th. Advance tickets are $10 (wine club members free with advanced reservation) at the tasting room (541) 386-3700. $25 day of show (if available/last year’s event sold out). Get creative with your best outfit for the costume contest and be ready for some serious dancing. Naked winery is located at 2nd & Cascade downtown Hood River.
Massive Attack “Atlas Air”
Area54 at Masu PDX tomorrow night
Join us for some great music, drinks and food at Masu tomorrow night. We’ve got some great new releases that we’ll be previewing and we have a bunch of swag from the record labels including iTunes gift cards. We’ll also have the remaining 2010 area54 Tees on hand for only $20. So if you’re not sporting one of our great Tees yet, this is a great opportunity to pick one up. See you there!
Mobile & Naked
After lots of requests from you guys you can now listen to us on your iPhone and Android phone. In your browser go to www.mobile.area54.fm Click on the + at the bottom of the screen and then “Save to Homescreen” It’ll place an nice icon on your homescreen for quick access!
Oh, yeah, we’ll be spinning at Naked Winery in Hood River starting at 8pm tonight. For you PDX folks, we’ll be at Masu downtown on Friday Oct 15th.
Big Chill with Area54 at Naked Winery in Hood River
We’ll be spinning Chill Show tunes at Naked Winery in downtown Hood River on Friday August 27th starting at 8pm. Come out and enjoy some great music and wine with us. If you’re coming from Portland there are some great hotels within walking distance. Hood River Hotel, Hood River Inn, Oak Street Hotel, and if you want to go deeelux The Columbia Gorge Hotel. It’s been warm and windy the last couple of weeks so it’s a perfect time to try some windsurfing or kiteboarding. If you’re not into wind sports, there’s also kayaking and rafting down the White Salmon river or bring your bike for some great rides around the Gorge. Plenty to do after listening to some Chill tunes Friday night. See you there!
Big Chill this Friday at Naked Winery in Hood River
We’ll be spinning Chill Show tunes at Naked Winery in downtown Hood River on Friday July 30th starting at 8pm. Come out and enjoy some great music and wine with us. If you’re coming from Portland there are some great hotels within walking distance. Hood River Hotel, Hood River Inn, Oak Street Hotel, and if you want to go deeelux The Columbia Gorge Hotel. It’s been warm and windy the last couple of weeks so it’s a perfect time to try some windsurfing or kiteboarding. If you’re not into wind sports, there’s also kayaking and rafting down the White Salmon river or bring your bike for some great rides around the Gorge. Plenty to do after listening to some Chill tunes Friday night. See you there!
Area54 Listener Party at Masu April 16th
We’ll be hosting our first 2010 listener party at Masu on Friday April 16th. Music starts at 8pm and we’ll start off with Chill Show tunes early and pick it up as the night progresses. We’ll have tons of swag from the record labels and for the first time ever you’ll be able to get your very own Area54 logo Tee which we’ll be introducing to you guys (and gals) that night. Show your support and wear it proud! See you at Masu. 406 SW 13th right off Burnside above American Apparel.
Tees will be available at Masu for $20 each or online starting April 19th for $24+s&h.
Massive Attack at Sasquatch just Announced!
Sasquatch! Music Festival 2010, May 29-31, at the Gorge:
TICKET INFORMATION
- Beginning February 20: Single tickets, per day / $70.00
- Discount 3 day pass / $170 (available on sale weekend only)
- February 20—May 23: Single tickets, per day / $70.00
- May 24—May 28: Single tickets, per day / $80.00
- Day of show: Single tickets, per day / $86.00
Here’s the lineup for now:
- My Morning Jacket
- Massive Attack
- Pavement
- Ween
- Vampire Weekend
- MGMT
- Band of Horses
- The National
- LCD Soundsystem
- Tegan & Sara
- Broken Social Scene
- Passion Pit
- Deadmau5
- She & Him
- Public Enemy
- Nada Surf
- The New Pornographers
- The Hold Steady
- The xx
- Dirty Projectors
- OK Go
- Drive By Truckers
- Kid Cudi
- The Long Winters
- Minus the Bear
- The Mountain Goats
- Quasi
- Camera Obscura
- Fruit Bats
- Brother Ali
- Midlake
- Dr. Dog
- Caribou
- Simian Mobile Disco
- City & Colour
- No Age
- The Temper Trap
- Vetiver
- Miike Snow
- Portugal. The Man
- Telekinesis
- Mayer Hawthorne
- Why?
- Girls
- Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
- Wale
- The Lonely Forest
- Japandroids
- Boys Noize
- Yacht
- Freelance Whales
- Laura Marling
- Patrick Watson
- Past Lives
- Cymbals Eat Guitars
- The Low Anthem
- The Very Best
- Phantogram
- Neon Indian
- Nurses
- The Tallest Man on Earth
- Fresh Espresso
- Mumford & Sons
- Jets Overhead
- tUnE-YarDs
- Shabazz Palaces
- Fool’s Gold
- Morning Teleportation
- Z-Trip
- Dam-Funk
- Hudson Mohawke
- The Middle East
- Local Natives
- Avi Buffalo
- Booka Shade
- A-Trak
- Yes Giantess
- Craig Robinson
- Rob Riggle
- Garfunkel & Oates
- Luke Burbank
…and more to come!
Friday Evening Chill at Naked Winery – Friday Jan 28th.
We’ll be spinning Chill Show tunes at Naked Winery in downtown Hood River on Friday January 29th starting around 7pm. Come out and enjoy some great music and wine with us. If you’re coming from Portland there are some great hotels within walking distance. Hood River Hotel, Hood River Inn, Oak Street Hotel, and if you want to go deeelux The Columbia Gorge Hotel. Remember that Hood River is only 30 minutes from the Meadows parking lot so bring your ski gear!
5 year anniversary at the Gilt Club Saturday
Celebrate 5 years on 94/7fm with us this Saturday at the Gilt Club in Portland. It’s an Open Deck night with our listeners spinning music. Party starts at 7 pm and goes way late. The Gilt Club is located at 306 NW Broadway. We’ll have some swag and music to give away as well. See you there!
The Presets “If I Know You” Download
We’ve been getting tons of requests for the Tania and Jori Hulkkonen version of The Presets track “If I know You”. We’ve mentioned that XLR8R magazine has a free download of the track on their site. You have to do a bit of digging in the site so here’s a link right to the article and download. The remix/remake is available on the collectors’ edition of the single “If I Know You” (off 2008’s Apocalypso).
Thievery Corporation After Party
We’re hosting a Thievery Corp. after party at the Gilt Club on Monday night. It’s easy walking distance from the Roseland Theater and we’ll be there spinning the area54 tunes immediately after the show. Come party with AREA54 and the band! The Gilt Club is at 306 NW Broadway.
Sebastien Tellier “Kilometer” Video
Sebastien Tellier is coming to Doug Fir on April 15th. This is the video for the newest track from his latest album “Sexuality” He kind of looks like he came right out of the movie, Jesus Christ Superstar and from the setting and lighting in this video I think he still thinks it’s 1973. Entertaining video though and I hope his show will be the same. Maybe he’ll bring all the extra’s up on stage?
The Presets “If I Know You” Video
The Presets will be playing at the Hawthorne Theater on April 15th and later on that month at Coachella. Their second album’s been out for a while now and this is the final single. “If I Know You” is a sublimely beautiful track with a somber chord progression. If you like 80’s New Wave you’ll love this track. The song’s video clip follows a boy as he discards his shirt and dances his way through Los Angeles.
Royksopp “Happy Up Here” video
Check out the latest video for Royksopp’s new track “Happy up Here”. The new release is going to be called “Junior” and will be available in the US on March 24th.
Happy Up Here from Röyksopp on Vimeo.
Free Download
Nacional Records and Area54 are offering you guys a free track off the new RH+ release “Quintana Roo”. They let us decide which track to give away and Tim and I had a hard time narrowing down which one to post but we settled on El Elela. It’s one of the mellower, chill tracks on the album which ranges from electro rock to dub and ambient. Enjoy the free mp3 and check out the rest of the release. It’s one of our favorites so far this year!
Preview
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Area 54 New Year’s Eve Party
We’re throwing a big New Year’s Eve party in Hood River this year.
We’ll be playing some great music at Celilo Restaurant & bar starting at 10pm. Tickets are $15 and we have limited tickets available so call 541-386-5710 to reserve yours.
If you come all the way out to Hood River you can just stumble across the street and stay at the Hood River Hotel. Special Area54 NY’s room deal for the night is only $89. Call the hotel to get a room and tickets for NY’s 541-386-1900
