Anyone who’s seen the video where a meteor falls during a Modest Mouse show while they’re playing “Dark Center of the Universe” knows that it was a perfect synchronization of life and music coincidental or not.
Last Saturday evening's Oregon Zoo concert by newly minted hometown heroes (well, two out of three, anyway) Case/Lang/Veirs, kicked off—if that's the word—with a tedious opening half-hour from wan Canadian songwriter Andy Shauf that recalled none but laid-back Seventies smoothies Bread, and failed to stir muc