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July 6th, 2025

New Fernando Record!

June 6, 2025
Big News!
Get ready for the return of Fernando Viciconte! After 6 long years, the talented artist is back with a brand new album, tentatively titled “The Lucky House”!
Working with the incredible Luther Russell, who not only produced the record but also provided a cozy home studio setting for most of the live tracking, Fernando has crafted an album that’s sure to captivate fans. Special guest appearances by Paul Brainard on lap steel and trumpet add an extra layer of magic to two standout tracks.
Recorded in just 7 sessions, this album promises to be a raw and authentic reflection of Fernando’s artistry. With Luther Russell at the helm, the sound is sure to be rich and full of character. Jason Hiller will be putting the finishing touches on the mastering, and we can’t wait to hear the final result!
Tracklist sneak peek:
  • If Tomorrow Comes
  • No White Light
  • What Used to Be
  • Do You Remember
  • Never Let Me Go
  • Down in the City
  • You’re All Alone
  • Time Travelin’ Man
  • Regrets Mean Nothing
  • Echoes of a Life
Stay tuned for release details – no label or date has been set just yet, but trust us, it’s worth the wait! #FernandoViciconte #TheLuckyHouse #NewAlbum #ComingSoon #Music #LutherRussell #PaulBrainard

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December 27th, 2024

Fernando named one of Portland’s 50 most iconic musicians of the last 50 years by The Willamette Week!

https://www.wweek.com/culture/2024/11/19/iconic-portland-bands-of-the-last-50-years/

Iconic Portland Bands of the Last 50 Years
These voices helped form the city’s music scene.

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Amine (Henry Cromett)
By WW Staff
November 19, 2024 at 4:12 pm PST
As we look back on 50 years of Willamette Week, we pay tribute to 50 iconic bands from throughout the years who put Portland’s vibrant music scene on the national map.

Aminé
Ashleigh Flynn
Billy Rancher and the Unreal Gods
Cool Nutz
Crackerbash
Crazy 8s
Curtis Salgado
Dan Reed Network
Dandy Warhols
Dead Moon
Dharma Bums
Dub Squad
Elliott Smith and Heatmiser
Esperanza Spalding
Everclear
Fernando Viciconte
Hazel
King Black Acid
Leroy Vinnegar
Lifesavas
Linda Hornbuckle
Little Sue
Marilyn Keller
Mel Brown
Michael Allen Harrison
Napalm Beach
Nu Shooz
Obo Addy
Paul deLay
Pete Krebs
Pete Miser and Five Fingers of Funk
Pink Martini
Poison Idea
Pond
Portland Taiko
Portugal. The Man
Quarterflash
Quasi
Rebecca Gates/ The Spinanes
Richmond Fontaine
Ron Steen
Ruby Friedman
Satan’s Pilgrims
Storm Large
Team Dresch
The Decemberists
The Shins
The Thermals
Ural Thomas
Wipers

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September 7th, 2024

Friends & Familia: An Evening of the Movie and Music of Fernando Viciconte

 

SOLD OUT


PORTLAND’S OWN FERNANDO VICICONTE PERFORMS HIS FIRST SHOW IN SIX YEARS TO CELEBRATE THE RELEASE OF FRIENDS & FAMILIA, A DOCUMENTARY LOOKING BACK AT HIS SEMINAL PACOIMA ALBUM, OCTOBER 6TH AT THE MISSION THEATER, INCLUDING A SCREENING OF THE DOCUMENTARY AND A Q&A SESSION

on October 6th at The Mission Theater. The event celebrates the release of the compelling new documentary, Friends & Familia: Looking Back at Fernando Viciconte’s Pacoima Album, and features an intimate performance by Fernando Viciconte, his first show in six years.

The event is October 6th at The Mission Theater. Doors are at 6pm and the show starts at 7pm. Tickets are $15 advance and $20 at the door. The show is all-ages. It also doubles as a benefit for the Oregon Music Hall of Fame’s scholarship fund.

The evening will commence with the screening of the 49-minute documentary, which delves into the origins and impact of Fernando Viciconte’s 1998 album Pacoima, and features footage from the 1998 20th Anniversary performance at the Star Theater. Following the film, attendees will enjoy a Q&A session with Fernando Viciconte, director Loren Leed, and Luther Russell, a key contributor to the Pacoima album. The night will conclude with a live performance by Fernando Viciconte, accompanied by Luther Russell, Dan Eccles and Paul Brainard.

Ticket Link: Tickets are available via The Mission Theater website.

https://www.mcmenamins.com/events/258481-friends-familia?fbclid=IwY2xjawFJaT1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHdUD32iFMnotmYcbI1YXqyd-V4Ct1JDH5fGj3aS5ZLIbF81Y9bRealUQjw_aem_Jg-040WyxOOgLhTMEyVpFQ

 

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NEW ALBUM OUT NOW!

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Justicia (2020)

The new Fernando Viciconte record is not so new…it comes to the world fully realized for the first time: his second full-length album entirely in Spanish, the intended follow-up to the groundbreaking Pacoima. Once again, like Pacoima, it is the brainchild of Viciconte and long-time co-conspirator Luther Russell and a love-letter to the Argentine rock of the early Seventies—or rock nacional—that influenced them then and ever since. The greatest export of rock nacional was the late genius Luis Spinetta or El Flaco, as his people lovingly nicknamed him. After a long, colorful trip together to visit Fernando’s family in Argentina for Dos Mil, or “Y2K” to us ugly Americans, the pair sat on Viciconte’s porch on Belmont & 48th and dreamed it up: songs shaped out of Spinetta-like chords and stories told from la tierra abajo: The Pigman of Cañuelas–a poor, slow, deformed soul who was endlessly picked on by gauchos on the dark trails of the farm town where Fernando’s father and grandfather were raised. Songs about the savage human cost of the unholy alliance between fascism and greed (glad that’s not a thing anymore!). Songs about feeling like a rat in a cage and the existential screams of one simple statement: ‘¡Solamente la vida me da!’ or ‘It’s only my life you’re giving me!’ The record would encompass two sides: earthy and acoustic like the campesino folk-rock of vintage León Gieco, then molten and electric like the blistering rock psicodélico of Spinetta and his ilk. The conduit would be their most ambitious piece of music: “Cielo Sin Color”, the nearly 9-minute tale of a woman slowly going insane and her denial of the encroaching storm in her mind’s skies. The record would be called Justicia, and they knocked the “soft” side out in Fern’s basement and the “loud” side at the old Jackpot! Studios with a hand-picked cadre of favorite musicians: Fred Trujillo on bass, Sean Oldham on drums and Paul Brianard on guitar. Now that the pieces have finally been assembled it resembles nothing less than what was imagined nigh on 20 years ago: a fever dream split in two, looking back on the age trapped in amber that was hearty, proud Argentina…and what become the modern world: a funhouse ride on a slippery slide to hell, full of hypocrisy, callousness and corruption. But what remained, as ever with Fernando, was hope. And a little high-powered marijuana butter.

Released on Domingo Records.

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