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Last Updated: 11/24/2009

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Status: Swinger
Age: 29
Sign: Cancer

City: PORTLAND
State: OREGON
Country: US
Signup Date: 8/19/2006

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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 

Finn Riggins
new album Vs. Wilderness is being praised all over the country as the band is on tour till Christmas. Check out what the papers are saying, and for goodness sake, go see a show!

"Knotty, quirky, and wildly confident." - San Francisco Weekly 
"recovering hippies...experimentation and energy" - Seattle Weekly
"Joyful melodies, funky grooves, soaring harmonies" - Amplifier Magazine
"Exudes a confidence borne from experience."  -Idaho Statesman
"Soaring and incredibly catchy" - Willamette Week
"could generate enough energy to power a small Greek island." - Portland Mercury
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 
The new Finn Riggins album Vs. Wilderness is now available in the Tunes section. The band will be on tour till Christmas, including a stint of NW dates with Built to Spill in November.



Buy it from TLE (it glows in the dark!)
Buy it from iTunes (comes with an awesome digi-book)

For all the biz go to:
www.finnriggins.com
www.tenderlovingempire.com
Tuesday, September 08, 2009 

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= $14.00 postage paid!

From now until October 10th, if you pre-order the new Finn Riggins album Vs. Wilderness from Tender Loving Empire, you'll get a FREE copy of the 2 disc, 43 band, Friends and Friends of Friends Vol. 2 Compilation featuring tracks from Nurses, Starfucker, Tune-Yards, Kickball, Typhoon, Jared Mees & The Grown Children, Y La Bamba and tons of others. Its too good to refuse right? The new Glow in the Dark Finn Riggins album, AND a rad hand silkscreened 2 disc comp, all for $14 postage paid!

Finn Riggins Vs. Wilderness is available on iTunes exclusively on September 29th and then Worldwide digitally and physically on October 13th.

go to www.myspace.com/finnriggins for tourdates.

<3
TLE
Thursday, September 03, 2009 
Tour Dates: Finn Riggins + Church


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So Finn Riggins and Church will both be touring heavily this fall in support of new albums. A lucky few of you will be able to catch them together, as they begin fall tours in tandem in Oregon and Idaho. Also, check out the Built to Spill/Finn Riggins dates- they're all there and updated!

FINN RIGGINS FALL 2009 TOUR DATES:

9/19 PORTLAND, OR -- MFNW @ East End
9/24 BEND, OR @ Silver Moon Brewery w/ Church
9/25 LA GRANDE , OR @ The Crawlspace w/ Church + Yeah Great Fine
9/26 GARDEN CITY (boise), ID @ Visual Arts Collective w/ Talkdemonic + Church
9/30 MISSOULA, MT @ The Badlander w/ Drunken Prayer + Broken Valley Roadshow
10/1 SPOKANE, WA @ The Empyrean w/ Little Teeth
10/2 CLARKSTON, WA @ Hogan's w/ The Murrs
10/3 MOSCOW, ID @ 1912 Community Center w/ The Holiday Friends + Rhythmmemory
10/6 BOISE, ID @ Record Exchange
10/7 PENDLETON, OR @ Pendleton Center for the Arts
10/8 MCCALL, ID @ Forester's w/ Jared Mees & The Grown Children
10/9 GARDEN CITY (boise), ID @ Visual Arts Collective CD RELEASE PARTY w/ Le Fleur + Boy Eats Drum Machine + Jared Mees & The Grown Children + A Seasonal Disguise + Vagerfly
10/10 PORTLAND, OR @ Berbati's Pan PDX CD RELEASE PARTY w/ Jared Mees & The Grown Children + World's Greatest Ghosts + Typhoon
10/12 SALEM, OR @ The Space w/ Phantom!
10/13 OLYMPIA, WA @ Kitty X House
10/14 BREMERTON, WA @ The Hi-Fidelity Lounge
10/15 BELLINGHAM, WA @ Whaam All Ages @ The Old Foundry w/ Go Slowpoke + Keaton Collective
10/16 SEATTLE, WA @ Blue Moon w/ Doctor Doctor
10/17 EUGENE, OR @ house show w/ The Daveys
10/18 ASHLAND, OR @ Alex's Restaurant w/ Kites & Crows
10/19 MT SHASTA, CA @ The Stage Door w/ The Lottery
10/20 CHICO, CA @ Chico State University --noontime--
10/22 SAN FRANCISCO, CA @ Hemlock Tavern w/ The Dont's + Total Hound
10/23 SANTA CRUZ, CA @ The Crepe Place
10/24 SANTA BARBARA, CA @ Muddy Waters Cafe w/ Verna Beware
10/28 LOS ANGELES, CA @ Silverlake Lounge
10/29 SAN DIEGO, CA @ tba
10/30 TUCSON, AZ @ The Hut
10/31 LAS CRUCES, NM @ halloween house show
11/1 PHOENIX, AZ @ The Ruby Room
11/3 PROVO, UT @ house show w/ Shark Speed
11/4 SALT LAKE CITY, UT @ The Woodshed w/ Shark Speed
11/5 LOGAN, UT @ Why Sound
11/6 POCATELLO, ID @ Benton Street w/ Spondee
11/7 REXBURG, ID @ Hogi Yogi's Attic w/ Spondee
11/11 BOISE, ID @ Neurolux
11/12 MOSCOW, ID @ John's Alley
11/13 PORTLAND, OR @ Wonder Ballroom w/ Built To Spill + Disco Doom
11/14 PORTLAND, OR @ Wonder Ballroom w/ Built To Spill + Disco Doom
11/15 EUGENE, OR @ Wow Hall w/ Built To Spill + Disco Doom
11/17 BELLINGHAM, WA @ The Nightlight w/ Built To Spill + Disco Doom
11/18 VANCOUVER, BC @ Commodore Ballroom w/ Built To Spill + Disco Doom
11/19 SEATTLE, WA @ The Showbox w/ Built To Spill + Disco Doom
11/20 SEATTLE, WA @ The Showbox w/ Built To Spill + Disco Doom
11/21 SPOKANE, WA @ Knitting Factory w/ Built To Spill + Disco Doom
12/2 SALT LAKE CITY, UT @ Kilby Court
12/3 VAIL, CO @ Agave
12/4 DENVER, CO @ Hi-Dive w/ The Pseudo Dates + Vitamins
12/5 NEDERLAND, CO @ First Street Pub

CHURCH FALL 2009 TOUR DATES
9/24 Bend, OR @ The Silver Moon w/ Finn Riggins
9/25 La Grande, OR @ The Crawlspace w/ Finn Riggins + Yeah Great Fine
9/26 Boise, ID @ Visual Arts Collective w/ Talkdemonic and Finn Riggins
9/27 Bellevue, ID -- Backyard Show w/ Finn Riggins --4pm
9/28 Pocatello, ID @ Idaho State --12pm
9/28 Salt Lake City, UT @ SHO --8pm
9/29 Boulder, CO @ Flying Goat
9/30 Denver, CO @ Rhinoceropolis
10/1 Fort Collins, CO @ Everyday Joe's
10/2 Provo, UT @ Velour
10/3 Las Vegas, NV @ The Beauty Bar
10/4 Los Angeles, CA @ The Smell
10/5 San Diego, CA @ Che Cafe
10/6 San Luis Obispo, CA @ Downtown Brewery
10/7 San Barbara, CA @ Muddy Waters
10/8 San Luis Obispo, CA @ Boo Boo's Record Store
10/9 Santa Cruz, CA @ The Crepe Place
10/10 San Francisco, CA @ Amnesia
10/12 Santa Rosa, CA @ North Bay Art and Music Collective
10/13 Davis, CA @ UC Davis -- Lunchtime show
10/13 Sacramento, CA @ Luigi's Slice Midtown w/ Alak & Neal Morgan
10/14 Redding, CA @ Downtown Eatery
10/15 Eureka, CA @ Lil' Red Lion
10/16 Arcata, CA @ Jambalaya
10/17 Eugene, OR @ Sam Bond's Garage
10/18 Salem, OR @ The Space
10/27 Portland, OR @ Portland State University --Lunchtime Show
10/30 Portland, OR @ The Doug Fir w/ Jared Mees + Run On Sentence
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 

Category: Fashion, Style, Shopping

Check out the new T-Shirts from Andrew Sloan and Lloyd Winter!

Castle of Kindness Tee- Mens and Womens S-XL
Art by Andrew Sloan


Bearded Squid AttackTee - Mens and Womens S-XL
Art by Lloyd Winter


Tender Loving Panthers Tee- Mens and Womens S-XL
Art by Lloyd Winter
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 

Category: Music
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We are super pumped that Finn Riggins will be headlining our MusicFest NW showcase on 9-19 @ the East End in Portland. Church, Gratitillium, Blue Horns, and Yeah Great Fine will be rounding out the bill. The show will go from 9pm-1am and will be free with a MFNW wristband or $5 without. See ya there!

You can pre-order the new Finn Riggins album - Vs. Wilderness- here. It's available on iTunes on September 29th and everywhere else on October 13th
Thursday, August 13, 2009 


FMLY 
thinks Church Rawks
You Sound Like A Robot -Song Force Crystal giveaway
Impose Magazine is pumped on the subtlety
The Clock Crew gets envious of their gear
Amplifier Magazine Interview
This Guy is Obsessed
Willamette Week Review
What to Wear During an Orange Alert Interview with Lane


Buy the CD from TLE
Buy the Vinyl from Sohitek
Buy the Downlad from iTunes


Church

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Gratitillium, Geographer, Patterns
8-16 @ Doug Fir


The Hugs, Low Red Land, Appomattox, Yeah Great Fine
8-26 @ Doug Fir 


MILEPOST 5 Closing Ceremonies!
3pm-9pm - 8-22-09, Hosted by Mayor Sam Adams

Tuesday, August 04, 2009 

Current mood:  excited
Category: Music
THE HAPS AROUND HERE READ LIKE THIS:
1. The debut full length from Portland's Church, Song Force Crystal, is officially out! 
2.Other good news:  Finn Riggins is going on tour with Built to Spill! Everybody's favorite Idaho bands have finally joined forces! Scroll down to find dates!
First Thursday is this week!  We're showcasing the art of Santiago Uceda and Edward Juan. With musical performances by Come Gather Round us at 7:30 and Gratitillium at 9
3. First Thursday!  This week!  Santiago Uceda! Edward Juan! Gratitillium! Come Gather Round Us!  Free!
4. Jared Mees and the Grown Children Tour Blog!
4. As always, stop by and see us if you're in Portland!  Our retail store features the work of over 200 independent artists as well as all our albums, comics and tshirts. We're located on NW 18th & Lovejoy. 
Read about all the above, below. :)
 

“The best, most unfuckwithable, avant-pop I’ve heard…my default jam of the month.”
“One of Portland’s finest indie outfits.”
-Portland Mercury
Church: Song Force Crystal
Buy it from TLE now!
Buy it from itunes starting Aug. 4th
Buy vinyl from Sohitek now!
About Church
Despite their un-Google-able name, Portland, Oregon's Church have managed to amass a sizable following along the West Coast over the last 3 years with their intense tour ethic and consistent presence in the Portland house show scene. Brothers Brandon and Richard laws grew up listening to Kraftwerk and The Beach Boys. These disprate influences are at the core of the duo's haunting vocal harmonies, rich verbal imagery and unpredictable guitar. Add to this combination Christof Hendrickson's Rhodes, Moog and Omnikorg and Lane Barrington's tasteful, dynamic percussion and the result is simply Church. The band's influences are as dieverse as their instrumentation and they are as comfortable mixing Bollywood samples with tin-foil piano as they are in hushed a capella harmonies or full tilt power shred mode.
About Song Force Crystal
Church utilizes this unique analog instrumentation to unite factions of noise rock with psychedelic folk and experimental pop. Song Force Crystal, the debut long play from Church, is a honing of musical themes heralded in two prior EP's. Picking up where previous titles Gold and With All Our Love for Francisco the Man left off, Song Force Crystal was recorded in a living room to an 8-track tape machine. The album reverberates with a warmth and rawness more familiar to 70's era basement productions than to modern day digitalia. The songs revel in dense slabs of tabe saturation, perfect for showcasing cavernous four-part harmonies, or trebly tube amplifiers. Song Force Crystal is a contradiction fo sounds, at once expansive, and cohesive, experimental yet familiar, brooding one moment and soothing the next.
 Limited First Edition Hand-Silkscreened CD in Tree Frog Green, White and Black
Art by Richard Laws Awesome colored vinyl available from Sohitek.com 

Come hang out at Tender Loving Empire for First Thursday!

We'll be featuring the work of TLE celebs, Santiago Uceda and Edward Juan.  Definitely make a point of stopping by sometime this month to check it out.  I have a good feeling about this one.
Also, enjoy FREE outdoor performances by Gratitillium and Come Gather Round Us at 7:30pm and 9pm.
 
Finn Riggins Announces Tour Dates with Built to Spill!
 
The past few months have been a busy affair for Finn Riggins.  They've been writing, recording, and finalizing their new album (Vs. Wilderness, out 10-13 on TLE), adjusting to a recent move to Boise, booking a Fall Tour, and, of course, playing a ton of shows, like they know how. 
But the latest Finn Riggins news that we're super excited about is a mini-tour with Built to Spill!  There are currently 6 confirmed northwest dates in November and 2 more in other, uh towns (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) we can't announce yet.
Nov 15 Eugene, OR.@ Wow Hall 8pm  
Nov 17 Bellingham, WA @ The Nightlight 9pm
Nov 18 Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom 8pm
Nov 19 & Nov 20 Seattle, WA @ The Showbox 8pm         
Nov 21 Spokane, WA @ Knitting Factory 8pm
If you don't live in the NW, or can't make those shows, don't fret.  Finn Riggins is planning a massive tour schedule that will most likely include a trip to your town sometime soon.  
Keep up with all of Finn Riggins's Fall Tour Dates
 
Read more about Finn Riggins Here
"Truly amazing, like a locomotve storming into a barn... in years to come this could be the band you wish you were on the front wave of." -- Zaph Mann / OPB
 
 
Jared Mees and the Grown Children Tour Blog

The Grown Children are freshly home from a summer time west coast tour!  Hopefully you were able to catch a show!  If not (or if you just want all the juicy behind the scenes details), you can read all about it at Local Cut!
 
 
Live bravely and be good to each other!
Love,
The T.L.E. Family
Currently listening:
Song Force Crystal
By Church
Release date: 2009-08-18
Tuesday, August 04, 2009 
Get a screenprinted cd from Tender Loving Empire
Get the colored vinyl from Sohitek
Get the download from iTunes


also, here's some photos from the amazing Song Force Crystal release party in Portland last Sunday!



 
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Friday, April 24, 2009 



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hey all, our new compilation- Friends and Friends and Friends Vol. 2 is done and we're so excited about it! It features 43 bands from PDX and the rest of the world. Only $8 You can pre-order it at www.tenderlovingempire.com. Here's a sneak peak of 4 of the new tracks on it from Worlds Greatest Ghosts, Starfucker, Tune-Yards and Finn Riggi