Talkdemonic Headlines This Year's Cumulus Festival

Jason Quigley

Talkdemonic

​Though the "post-rock" genre is decidedly a niche market, the folks who put together Cumulus Festival (one of whom, Levi Fuller, also plays in The Luna Moth) have done a great job of making the stormy, distorted stylings of bands who fall into this niche genre more accessible to the general public. One of the ways in which they've done this is by enlisting excellent, more widely-known headliners to offset some of the more bizarre, experimental artists on the docket. The highlight of last year's line-up was unquestionably Earth, a psychedelic local band that was once signed to Sub Pop Records. For its second go-round, Cumulus Festival's kept the bar high by recruiting Talkdemonic, a Portland-based act whose instrumental, strings-and-percussion compositions defy easy categorization; they use the descriptor "folktronica," which is as apt a description as any. But there are plenty of other great bands on the roster, too, and you can find links to all of those bands' MySpace pages on the festival's Web site. Shows run Thursday, February 11 through Saturday, February 13 at Mars Bar and the Funhouse.