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the friendly skies

Summer Tour: June 14th - 28th

About Me

Use Paypal to order our new EP! $5.00 + $2.00 for shipping and handling. Cd cases are handmade and each one comes with a sticker and a prize!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/6/2005
Band Members:jason drost-drumsdavid breese-guitar, keyboards
Influences: Tortoise, Mogwai, Dianogah, Stars of the Lid, Godspeed! You Black Emperor, Brian Eno, FourTet, Tarentel, Death in Vegas, Codeine, Joy Division, The Jesus Lizard, Black Heart Procession, Storm and Stress, A Minor Forest, Blonde Redhead, John Fahey, Jim O'Rourke, Brokeback, Polvo, Labradford, & Boards of Canada
Sounds Like: loops without laptops
Record Label: Polar Recordings
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Get a free copy of our new 7" record...

We just sent out the order for our new 7" to Pirates Press Records. We'll be receiving the test pressings in a few weeks. We'll be giving them away to 10 lucky winners. All you have to do is send us a...
Posted by the friendly skies on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:48:00 PST

Polar Recordings

We've been signed to Polar Recordings. We're thrilled about the release of our new 7" on this indie label from Pittsburgh. It should be available mid-May.David
Posted by the friendly skies on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 07:14:00 PST

Portland Music Scene - Stereo Subversion (www.stereosubversion.com)

We got interviewed for an article with Stereo Subversion about the Portland music scene. Portland has become the nucleus for indie music despite the stereotype of stinky, dirty hippies listening to Ph...
Posted by the friendly skies on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:55:00 PST

KPSU Podcast

Check out the podcast of Post Harbor on KPSU’s Short Memory. They’re down in Portland this weekend for a show with us and The Angry Orts at Kelly’s Olympian. They played some live so...
Posted by the friendly skies on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:16:00 PST

Thanks to Ezra & The Portland Mercury

THE FRIENDLY SKIES, THE ANGRY ORTS, & POST HARBOR(Kelly’s Olympian, 426 SW Washington) When not avoiding calls from United Airlines’ legal counsel, local instrumental duo the Friendly Skie...
Posted by the friendly skies on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:36:00 PST

from Crappy Indie Music (crappyindiemusic.blogspot.com)

Saturday, Jan. 19th: The second show at Mississippi Pizza will feature Loch Berlin, The Friendly Skies, and Wooden Indian Burial Ground. An interesting line up for sure. I saw The Friendly Skies play ...
Posted by the friendly skies on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:43:00 PST

+1

we posted some more songs here:
Posted by the friendly skies on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:26:00 PST

New EP

We just finished recording our first EP at Soundhouse in Seattle. We had a great weekend playing with Snowman Plan, Passenger Pigeon, & The Ever Changing Sky. Thanks to all those bands for bringing a ...
Posted by the friendly skies on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 06:21:00 PST

The Know

This review was posted in The Portland Mercury about The Know..."They takes cards too. I saw a band there called Friendly Skies, does anyone know anything about them? Really good."Posted by sarssy on ...
Posted by the friendly skies on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 11:53:00 PST

Thanks to Willamette Week and Millions of Birds

A trio of guitar, piano and drums, Millions of Birds plays contemplative rock with enough ambience to remind one of post-rock's heyday-when Kranky records was the Def Jam of instrumental rock. Singer...
Posted by the friendly skies on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 06:26:00 PST