LOCATION: Rontoms

ADDRESS: 600 E Burnside St.

"[NOSTALGIC POP] Reminiscent of moody, early 2000s Northwest pop and stuff that would appear on the soundtrack for The O.C., Portland’s Pony Village is nothing if not sentimental—see everything from the band’s name (taken from a dilapidated mall in Bend, where frontman Ryan Barber grew up) to its lyrical content to Barber's wispy, Ben Gibbard-esque croon. Although the group is sonically wistful, its blending of country twang with dreamy riffs differentiates it from the ghosts of alt-pop past."