The Weather Machine will roll into Sisters

Slater Smith was one of the standouts of The Americana Project, the Sisters Folk Festival's educational outreach program. He's followed the path he started on then to success as a critically acclaimed, internationally touring musician with The Weather Machine.

The Weather Machine is playing a show at The Belfry in Sisters November 28.

"It's one of our last Oregon dates before opening for the Alabama Shakes at the Crystal Ballroom December 7 (sold out), and one of the few shows we're playing before we leave for our first-ever tour in Germany/Austria/Switzerland in February," Smith told The Nugget.

Willamette Week described The Weather Machine's music: "A little bit Josh Ritter, a little bit Modest Mouse, the Weather Machine forges a stable relationship between contemporary folk-pop and more traditional pop-rock sensibilities, and are one of the current flag-bearers of the sound in Portland."

The Weather Machine's sophomore full-length, "Peach," was recorded over the course of two years, and showcases the band's transition from folk-born storytelling into the realm of power-ballads and effects pedals. Common threads of levity and intrigue tie the album together as the project experiments with its musical identity, covering a breadth of sonic and lyrical ground. It's not quite "tongue-in-cheek," but Peach makes the listener wonder as it puts a not-quite-country anthem called "Wannabe Cowboys" right up against the electronic slow-jam title track, then moves deftly along into "Breakup Song" - a tune worthy of high-kicking chorus lines.

The band worked collaboratively with Oregon State Parks and Oregon Film to release their first music video, which debuted on acclaimed actor Rain Wilson's video blog SoulPancake and was later re-released online through GoPro Cameras.

For more information visit www.belfryevents.com/event/the-weather-machine.