Pete Swanson was one half of the Portland, Oregon, noise duo Yellow Swans, which ran from 2001 – 2008.
Mouthus is a duo of Brian Sullivan and Nate Nelson of Brooklyn and they absolutely destroy, fuzzing minds wherever they blow. Super psyche-snarled feedback guitar and overload drum squall w/ hep sick-wave edge. A brain-gouged cross of Manowar head implosion and New York dustbomb detonation.
Golden Retriever was formed in Portland, Or. in 2008 by multi-instrumentalists Jonathan Sielaff and Matt Carlson, both long time participants in the city's potent music scene. Focusing on the relationship of two primarily monophonic instruments (Carlson on modular synthesizer and Sielaff on bass clarinet), and utilizing layering with a deft balance of improvisation & composition, the duo has created an infinitely varied approach to their sound world: dense, spacious, overwhelming, soothing and completely alien in equal measure.