Indie rock showcase at McMenamins White Eagle July 16, 2008

Wednesday, July 16
UNFILTERED: INDIE-ROCK SHOWCASE!
Echo Helstrom
Beatbeat Whisper
A Cautionary Tale
8:30 p.m. | Free | 21 and over

Like rock-n-roll? Indie music? You're in good company. Every Third Wednesday of the month the White Eagle's Unfiltered Indie-Rock Showcase highlights the region's most promising "bands to watch" in the coming year. The White Eagle, with its newly expanded (and heated) deck is an ideal venue to experience some of the best music in town -- intimate, but with great acoustics. There's no cover on this evening, so mark your calendar for the third Wednesday of the month and treat yourself to something special.

ECHO HELSTROM
Echo Helstrom is an orchestral rock band … it's the violin and upright bass added to the usual rock array that makes them so. That, plus adventuresome arrangements and songs that run the gamut from chamber music to punk rock with plenty in between. Echo Helstrom is "a combination of raw emotional power with sophisticated melodic beauty (Joseph Gallivan, Portland Tribune)," it's "Kurt Cobain meets Leonard Bernstein (The Oregonian)".

Echo Helstrom isn't quite straight-ahead rock nor top 40 pop. It's unique, original, and word is spreading fast about the "dreamy yet observational songwriting [with] surprising flashes of rock aggression." (The Oregonian)

Visit echohelstrom.org for more information.