Modern Kin

Drew Grow & The Pastors Wives at 40 Watt Club, March 2012

In just a couple of weeks now, I will be heading off to Seattle to participate in my last-ever Bumbershoot Festival.   Among the bands I expect to see and hear there are Portland's Modern Kin.  According to the festival website, "Modern Kin evolved from the folk-rock ashes of Drew Grow & The Pastors’ Wives, emerging with a leaner and more urgent sound. Still centered around Grow’s ardent wail, this power trio celebrates the primitive thrill of being loud when you are expected to be quiet, exploding into heady and tilted harmonies that scrape around rowdy guitars and exploring the instinctual, essential connection music can make between us. The band’s first album is also the debut of Janet Weiss (Sleater-Kinney, Quasi, Wild Flag) as a producer."

We saw Drew Grow & The Pastor's Wives open for The Head & The Heart (another band performing at Bumbershoot this year) at the 40-Watt in Athens back in March of 2012.  Here's a video of the re-christened band recreating one of my favorite Godard scenes, even including the moment when the soundtrack drops out.