The commonalities are all the more understandable when you get the two groups in a room together and see they also have the same sense of humor and favorite bands. Well before Menomena and the Helio ...

The flood that severely damaged The Helio Sequence's studio and equipment a few years ago also afforded the Portland, Oregon duo the chance to start anew with a clean slate. The setback was a push ...

The Helio Sequence, no strangers to the Seattle area, recorded their last two albums under Seattle label Subpop and cite Seattle as one of the first frontiers in their move out of the Portland music ...

I always appreciate it when a publicist goes out of his or her way to mention the Portland angle on a national story. So when ol' Frank Nieto pointed out Portland-based artists playing Seattle's City ...

After two critically acclaimed albums on the small Northwestern label Cavity Search, The Helio Sequence–the Portland duo of Brandon Summers and Benjamin Weikel, best friends and bandmates since high ...

The Oregon duo's self-titled sixth album contains some of its most refined pop music yet. The Helio Sequence On World Cafe The Helio Sequence On World Cafe The Helio Sequence On World Cafe The Helio ...

The Helio Sequence like us. They really like us. The tour for their most recent album, Keep Your Eyes Ahead (Sub Pop), wrapped two months back, and they’ve been holed up writing and recording in ...

Helio Sequence’s third, ambitiously self-produced release is beautiful music for an ugly world. The Portland space-rock duo has created orchestrally textured, instrumentally happy little songs about ...

The beginning of “Broken Afternoon,” off of The Helio Sequence’s Keep Your Eyes Ahead, is sort of a microcosm of the rest of the album. The song opens with atmospheric hums and drones familiar to ...

Sometimes it takes almost losing your signing voice permanently for songwriter and singer, Brandon Summers to sing a folk/rock album where the focus is on the lyrics. However, it takes the other half ...

Better Than: Being in the registration line at SMU, which is the only other place I've seen this many undergrads. The best concerts aren't always the ones that you've been excited about for ...

Hear the duo play songs from its new album and discuss the natural disaster that changed its sound. The Helio Sequence On World Cafe The Helio Sequence On World Cafe Hailing from Beavertown, Ore., ...