The Reed Showcase will be an evening of music performed by students of Reed College. There will be sets by both bands and soloists playing whatever kind of music they’d most like to perform, and the tastes are diverse—there will be rock, indie, folk, and punk, to name a few. Reed’s music scene has experienced a bit of a downturn since the pandemic, but these students show that the scene is making a comeback. Come for an evening of great music and support these student bands!

Esmé

Esmé is a musician and writer with an interest in the social application of creative work. They are a senior studying English and creative writing at Reed College. Their musical style draws on rock, jazz, folk and country. One day they hope to write their own songs. For now, they play the work of artists across genres—favorites include Stevie Nicks, Amy Winehouse, Lucinda Williams, and Janis Joplin.

Glass Eyed Tiger

About: we’re stuck in the era of guitar music and regularly cover 90’s rock favorites. But we’re also writing originals that blend indie idiosyncrasy and punk spontaneity.  Drawing as much on Guided by Voices as on Neil Young, we aim to do something new with something that can’t get old.

Motorway South

Emerging out of a tiny grimy basement in Portland, Oregon, Motorway South is guitarist and singer Rachel Vogel and drummer Cleo Berryman. Drawing influence from giants such as Modest Mouse, Wilco, and Elliot Smith, their upcoming EP “Bottle Eve” is a sentimental collection of indie songs that are grainy, confessional, frustrated, recursive, hopelessly suburban, intimate in spite of/because of their equivocation, exact, disappointed,, half-remembered, and completely doomed (but in all the best ways).