This series wouldn't be very "intimate" if we didn't talk with the band and bring to light their deepest and darkest, am I right? Well, here at The Deli Portland we don't really know what we're doing, and we sure as shit don't know how to keep things serious. That said, enjoy our interview with Grandparents and stay tuned for their second live music video next week! 

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 For the second installment of The Deli Portland's first Intimate Exposures audio/video series, we present to you: Grandparents - All The Way. 

Listen to / buy Grandparents albums here, and give them a 'like' on facebook here. 

For the first installment of The Deli Portland's brand spankin' new video series, 'Intimate Exposures,' we bring you Portland psych pop babes, Grandparents, playing live at the Aquarium house on a fun summer's afternoon. The party was a blast, chock-full of floral prints, short shorts, kiddie pools, spiked snow cones, smoothies, the best people in town, and of course the band... holy fuck, their performance outstanding.

With audio from the show recorded and mixed by Adam Harney and videography by Alexei Shishkin and Nick Gattman, we've captured some pure gold. We will be rolling out videos from the party over the next two weeks. For now, enjoy the sizzle reel!  

- Travis Leipzig

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Despite the arguably volatile conditions that have developed around the Portland music community as of late – hyper increased development in inner urban areas displacing low-income artist types and forcing venues to close; increased noise curfew enforcement; obtusely racist police interference with hip hop shows – there is still one beautiful, unalienable force that is overflowing throughout our tired and artistic collective: FRIENDSHIP.

PALS FEST 2014, taking place August 9th through 15th, is the perfect celebration of the friendship that ties together Portland’s musical community, and back for the festival's third year, the lineup couldn’t include any better best-bud-bands. This year, the celebration offers seven crazy nights of music, each at a different venue across town and curated by different local tastemakers, and all free or $5 entry. However, if you’re like most day-job slaving humanoids and don’t have the stamina to take in seven nights of live music in a row, here is our abridged list of shows you probably don’t want to miss:

The Deli Magazine would love to incite more rowdy into your summer.

To that end, on Saturday, July 26th at 2pm, we are kicking off the first installment of what will be an ongoing audio/video series that we've dubbed, Intimate Exposures, featuring interviews and live performances by Portland's best bands in varying intimate settings, and we invite you all to come be a part of it! Saturday's inaugural event will be a pot-luck style brunch house show at the Aquarium Garden House, awesomely located on the corner of Alberta and NE 6th, featuring one of our absolute favorite bands, GRANDPARENTS: a psych-pop band full of amazing musicians who, in collaboration, are known to invoke mindgasms over and over again. SS Curmudgeon will open the afternoon at 2pm with Grandparents to follow at 3pm.

Audio from Grandparents set will be recorded by Adam Harney, one of the sound engineer geniouses behind Banana Stand Media. Additionally, the party will be filmed by a team of five talented cameramen and women, with direction and editing by local videographers gurus Alexei Shishkin and Nick Gattman.

We invite you to bring some variation of food or drink to share with the party. Beer will be aplenty and FREE thanks to Salem sudster sweethearts, Gilgamesh Brewering, and local snow cone experts, Fancy Ice, will be there to help you cool down with handcrafted flavors and booze infused cones! Corn-hole will be setup in the yard, but please feel free to bring any other yard games you'll want to get down on.