• It was confirmed this morning that internet radio provider Pandora is buying Ticketfly, a national ticketing service based in San Francisco, for $450 million. Ticketfly currently services a badonk-load of Portland venues, including Roseland, Mississippi Studios, the Doug Fir, the Wonder Ballroom, the Aladdin Theater, and on and on. How Pandora's purchase will affect the ticketing service is yet to be determined, but via its users listening habits, Pandora supposedly can track and predict demographic data down to excruciating detail. According to the New York Times:

"The combination of Ticketfly and Pandora will be a marketing and event discovery powerhouse," said Andrew Dreskin, Ticketfly’s chief executive and co-founder, “giving venues and promoters unprecedented access to a massive and targeted audience of nearly 80 million music fans.”

The conglomeration is expected to rank just behind Peet's/Stumptown on the list of this year's most terrifying Halloween costumes.

• Baltimore anesthesia-poppers Beach House are releasing a new album next week. The new album is called Thank Your Lucky Stars and it comes hot on the heels of Depression Cherry, which came out less than six weeks ago. Beach House is currently on a world tour that doesn't include Portland, and while details have yet to emerge on the new album, its speedy release likely means that Depression Cherry—which came in a red velvet cover in the style of Bee Gees' Odessa—will soon be relegated to shelves of Beach House fans, attracting copious amounts of cat hair.

• The Great Big Fais Do Do—pronounced "fay doh-doh"—kicks off tomorrow night at the Spare Room (4830 NE 42nd). It's the second installment of the mini-festival, which got started last year as a celebration of honky-tonk, Cajun, Western swing, and danceable country music. This year's performers include: the Earnest Lovers with the Dalharts on Thursday, October 8; perennial Mercury favorites the Caleb Klauder Country Band with the Waysiders on Friday, October 9; and Cahalen Morrison and Country Hammer with the Jack Dwyer Band on Saturday, October 10. Tickets for all three nights are available via Brown Paper Tickets, which means that Pandora won't get a penny of your boot-scootin' dollars.

• Speaking of second installments of small-scale music festivals, the Sabertooth Micro Fest is shaping up nicely. Scheduled for February 5-7 at the Crystal Ballroom, McMenamins has confirmed that Super Furry Animals will be headline the fest's first night. Other performers of the psychedelically oriented weekend include Built to Spill, Red Fang, Yob, Earth, King Black Acid, Mikal Cronin, the Fresh and Onlys, Eternal Tapestry, Witch Mountain, and more. The festival will also include the Blasphemous Brew Fest, centered around the Crystal's brewing facility. The Mercury is a happy sponsor of the event.

• El Vy released a third song off their hotly anticipated debut album, Return to the Moon, which comes out October 30. "Paul Is Alive" showcases a mellower side of the band, a touted teamup of the National's Matt Berninger and Ramona Falls' Brent Knopf, the Portlander who also produced Lost Lander's two excellent albums and is a former member of Menomena. El Vy's debut shows, which take place at the Doug Fir on November 2 and 3, are already sold out, as is much of their US tour to follow.