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Joggers add twist
to garage rock
on innovative CD
The Portland-based band’s
latest album, ‘Solid Guild,’
features four-part harmonies
paired with staccato guitar
By Helen Schumacher
Pulse Columnist
The music of The Joggers holds an
awkward glee — the kind that inspires
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bows, even
as the songs sound ready to collapse
into themselves at any given moment.
Since signing to New York label
StarTime International Records
(home to like-minded bands like The
Walkmen and French Kicks), the Port
land-based group has been receiving
the national recognition it deserves.
The group's newest album, "Solid
Guild," starts with the pop-based,
garage rock sound of unpolished vo
cals and staccato guitar parts. But in
stead of working inside the suburban,
vinyl-sided box that similar bands
find themselves inside, The Joggers
shift and twist their songs, matching
the instrumentation to singer/gui
tarist Ben Whitesides' strident vocals.
At times, Whitesides' vocals sound
like they belong on a Strokes album,
but his aren't the only ones that shape
the music. In fact, all the members (the
band is rounded out with Darrell
Bourque, Murphy Kasiewicz and Jake
Morris) contribute vocals. The Joggers
may actually be indie rock's only
barbershop quartet. Songs like "Back to
the Future" and "Neon Undercarriage"
give way to the four-part harmonies
usually reserved for choirboys.
Halfway through "Back to the Fu
ture," the song breaks down into an
a cappella round with the band
singing "Back to the future falling
slow as snow on your shoulders / a
shadow from the spring sparks you
can't explain before you sleep /
waiting to kill the signals that the
garden wouldn't grow." With four
different voices singing, the song is
rich in texture, even during the mo
ments without instrumentation.
Also, the band seems to have an ex
cellent understanding of texture and
Courtesy
how to layer instruments to give their
music an emotional arc. Chords roll
and then hop between thumping
drums and basslines. The Joggers
know how to make the whole bigger
than the parts. "Solid Guild" is just
one more reason for the Portland mu
sic scene to be proud of itself.
Contact the Pulse columnist
at helenschumacher@dailyemetald.com.
DANCE
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before," Waddell said. "It brings to
gether all the dance troops in town to
support a really good cause."
Wongai West African Dance per
former Kristine DiPalma said she has
attended Dance for a Reason several
times and was excited to participate
this year.
"I feel great," she said after per
forming a fast-paced routine that had
the audience clapping along. "We do
rhythms that were taught to us by
teachers from Ghana."
The Downtown Athletic Club Noon
ers, a dance group open to everyone,
performed songs from several different
genres including hip-hop and hard
rock. Program narrator and former
DAC Nooners member Russ Pierson
said the group, which has done Dance
for a Reason for four years, began as a
basic aerobics class and now consists of
about 20 members.
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"Yes, we are feeling it all right,"
he said.
Performances included a tap piece by
Musical Feet dance school founding di
rector Jeanette Frame, a country
themed dance by the Eugene Youth
Ballet and a high-energy performance
to Outkast song "Speedballin'" by
about 30 sweatshirt-dad Zreliak Artis
tic Performing Productions dancers.
House Manager and LCC dance stu
dent Emily Joyce said the event draws a
variety of partidpants because Morrow
asks dancers to display what they are
working on.
"So many components of the com
munity are involved," she said.
Morrow described Dance for a Rea
son as a user-friendly fund-raiser that
she wishes she could do more often.
"There is not always a venue for dif
ferent styles of dance," Morrow said. "It
is a high-end variety show."
Contact the freelance editor
atjennifersudick@dailyemerald.com.
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