Cause we're recording some shit. See the new issue in the meantime!

I snapped this pic during Witch Gardens' recording session yesterday. They laid down three new tracks with Aaron Schroeder (Thunder Buffalo, Battle Stations). All were sounding aces.

In just a few weeks, the Lonely Forest will release their very anticipated new album Arrows. It will be their first full-length release for Trans, the major label imprint that Chris Walla (of Death Cab for Cutie) basically created just so he could work with the band. (Read more about that here.)

Now the world is watching as a small but very talented Anancortes-based band takes a huge step into brand new major label waters. It's a lot of pressure! Surely they don't want to let anyone (including themselves!) down. Surely, while recording, they used every second of studio time going over every single track, making sure every guitar strum, every harmony, every drumbeat, was absofuckinglutely perfect.

In fact, here's a quick video of the band, hard at work in the studio with Mr. Walla:

Clearly this was recorded after the boys had already snapped.

Maybe bring some fresh gum for Tony when the Lonely Forest play the Vera Project this Thursday night. The Oregon Donor and the Violins are also on the bill. It starts at 7:30 pm and costs $10. Buy tickets here.

Up and coming Portland band Hausu have been in town this week, recording material at state-of-the-art studio/venue space the Ballard Mine. I asked them if they wouldn't mind filming a little something for the Line Out crowd, just a glimpse behind the scenes of their recording process. This super-brief clip ain't much, but considering I dropped this request on them out of nowhere, it's pretty understandable.

In the video, they're laying down a guitar overdub for a track, and you can hear band founder Ben Funkhouser (ex Herr Jazz) tossing out suggestions for mixing the drums. Also, this gives you a moment to ogle the Mine's mouth-watering setup.

Thanks to Hausu's Alex Maguire for filming + editing this.

You know you want to catch a glimpse of Brian Eno jamming in his studio with guitarist Leo Abrahams and keyboardist Jon Hopkins (here and here). Why? Because you're an obsessive fanboy/girl/hermaphrodite. And who can blame you, even in 2010? Small Craft on a Milk Sea is a solid, non-laurel-resting album from a man in his 60s—a pretty rare achievement. Eno still strives to create music not derivative of his past work, in new methods, with new people. Respect.

More such sessions—dubbed Seven Sessions on a Milk Sea—will be uploaded here in the near future.

Here's my short review of Small Craft on a Milk Sea.

Portlandart.net has a teenie-tiny piece on Portland's YU Building (the "YU" is for "Yale Union Laundry"), which is on its way to becoming a gigantic, dope-ass art space. I guess the building is still owned by an LLC, but the plan is to turn over ownership of the massive, multi-story warehouse to the YU pro-arts non-prof. Last night they held their first public event.

• Portland's YU Building. Across from Sassy's and the Holocene, on 10th Ave

I recently had the opportunity to tour the whole building and get the spiel on plans for renovations (concert spaces, gallery spaces, etc.) from the man Adam Forkner/White Rainbow himself. That building is on a Wayne Manor/batcave level, for real. All kinds of crazy rooms and weird surprises—like a couple of enormous vintage printing presses, an upstairs ballet studio (where Parenthetical Girls were hanging, or rehearsing, or something), the Marriage Records warehouse and offices, and of course the tricked-out Marriage recording studio in the basement.

All of the plans for the building sounded fly, so here's to that. Cheers. Hopefully there's more good news on that front soon.

As for White Rainbow, keep your eyes peeled to Line Out for an interview in the next few days with him and like-minded jammer Stag Hare, about their just-released collabo record White Stag.

Watch Tim Exile—who plays at Decibel Festival Sun. Sept. 27, 10 pm, at Neumos—demonstrate the many amazing uses for Native Instruments' The Finger.

ht: Andrew Luck

The ex-Stone Roses guitarist paints.