If you picked up a copy of the Source this week, hopefully you had a chance to read our initial installment on Oregon Record Stores. We picked Music Millennium as our first stop in part because it is Oregon's oldest, but also because owner Terry Currier is perhaps the biggest music lover around. 

Watch this video below to learn a bit about what makes this audiophile tic as well as learn why he thinks the vinyl format is making a comeback. 

Music Millennium from All Cats Are Grey on Vimeo.

Half a dozen people shared their concerns about a new noise ordinance at a Bend City Council work session Wednesday.  

But ultimately the council did not make any changes to the law passed earlier this summer. 

The main concern of citizen speakers such as Wesley Ladd, owner of The Horned Hand, and other people in the local music and live events community was not so much the parameters of the law, but its enforcement. 

"How it's written I don’t think it’s a problem," said Ladd, whose business has received the only citation for noise since the new law was passed in June. "It's more about the enforcement of it. It leaves a lot of officer discretion."

If you haven't been paying attention, music venues have come under increased pressure after a new noise ordinance was passed this summer.

HOWEVER, at the last city council meeting on Oct. 19, councilors agreed to revisit the ordinance after receiving negative feedback from artists.

Tonight, Bend Residents for a Sensible Noise Ordinance are meeting at 6pm at the Horned Hand to brainstorm and discuss what should/shouldn't be included in a revised sound ordinance, which, as it is currently worded, requires a permit for "noise" between  10pm and 7am. The next city council meeting is Wed., Oct 3.

Tonight's meeting will also be the first gathering of the newly-formed Central Oregon Music and Arts Coalition.

All are welcome.

If you weren’t at The White Buffalo show last night, you screwed up.

It was great. He played fast and hard and the Horned Hand was packed with enthusiastic (and very courteous) fans. I’ve wanted to see him for the better part of the year and am damn glad that I finally did. If When he comes back to Bend, go see him. Seriously. The White Buffalo is one of the truest voices of this whole “Americana” genre.

He also proved to be sensitive to the Hand's new "done by 10pm" music policy.

The Blanco Buffalo started playing a little after 8pm and promptly wrapped up his final song, a medley of Johnny Cash covers, at 10pm. For my aged bones, this is a totally reasonable timetable for a concert. Though I understand that the youth may want their shows to start a little later and stretch on till midnight.

Random Presents just announced M. Ward will be playing The Domino Room on September 21. If you are unfamiliar with M. Ward he is the “Him” of She and Him (the “She” being Zooey Deschanel) and also a “who” in the band Monsters of Folk.

Ward’s most recent solo release A Wasteland Companion was recorded in eight different studios across the states and in the UK and featured a cross section of musicians ranging from Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley to Dr. Dog's Tobey Leaman. Check out the single The First Time I Ran Away  off the new album for a sampling of whats headed our way.

Tickets are $25 at Bendticket.com.

Bend Singer Chris Beland is soon to make the move back to California. But before he goes, he's got one last album to bestow upon Central Oregon. Here is an exclusive preview of that album with an unmastered recording of his new song "Danger of Love." (Take notice of the Bon Iver type buildup toward the end.)

Beland will be releasing this album on September 29th. 

Chris Beland- Danger Of Love by Ethan Maffey

With music by Tano Jauregui, DJ Encounter and Luke Redfield, art exhibits by Scott Kelley, Mark Goheem and Gurney Miller and a screening of the documentary film Fresh: New Thinking About What We're Eating the Last Saturday at The Old Iron Works event aims to please. The event is free and runs from 6-10pm. The Old Iron Works, 50 Scott St.

David Stuart Bowers, Kevin Williams and Julie Southwell together form the indie-folk band the David Bowers Colony. The show is $5 and starts at 9:30. Silver Moon Brewery, 24 Northwest Greenwood Ave.

Up and coming country music artist Carrie Cunningham plays a free show tonight at 9pm. Cunningham is touring in support of her first release entitled Honey Sweet. Maverick’s Country Bar and Grill, 20565 Brinson Blvd.

Get fired up for the Nashville Pussy show tonight at the Les Schwab Amphitheater. This raunchy, rock-n-roll band features Ruyter Suys (pronounced Ryder Sighs) a hard-core, in your face female guitarist who ELLE Magazine named as one of the 12 greatest female guitarists of all time. Front man and guitarist Blaine Cartwright (Suys husband FYI), Karen Cuda on bass and drummer Jeremy Thompson round out the band and together they crank out a psycho-billy sound like no other. Nashville Pussy snarls their way through sets laden with gritty songs like Hate and Whiskey, Dead Men Can’t Get Drunk and Late Great USA that are engineered to whet your appetite for whiskey, rebellion and reckless abandon. Oh, and ZZ Top are playing too. Tickets are $42-79 at monqui.ticketfly.com

Man, I don't usually get into this kind of shit.

Lots of wasted kids flopping around, loads of bands I may or may not have heard of and may or may not like. And festivals are expensive. 

But WTF is going to be different. I know it. It's got broad appeal with everything from DJs to button pushers, to world fusion indie rockers.

And no, it's not just another beats-based wannabe Burning Man. Why not? A) Because it's in Oregon's high desert which is decidedly better than northern Nevada. B) They have a hookah lounge, splash pool, spa, art and even showers! Clean hippies! Everybody wins!

The VIP shit is already sold out but you can join the rest of us plebeians in GA for $180, good for the whole weekend (July 27-29).

Afro-Cuban, funk, jazz, and rock as their influences and are well versed in the musical styling of Fela Kuti, the Nigerian musician, composer and godfather of the Afrobeat movement. Silver Moon Brewery 9pm. $7.

Perhaps you’re feeling a little down under? Tommy Emmanuel has you covered. This Two-time Grammy nominee is an accomplished guitarist and one of Australia’s most respected musicians. Known for his complex fingerstyle technique Emmanuel uses all ten fingers to coax acoustic and percussive effects from his guitar. Tower Theater 8pm. $35-46.