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Top Selling Albums and Songs in Portland, May 28-June 3

Music Every Tuesday (except last Tuesday—the long weekend messed everything up; sorry about that), we li... More

Jun 5, 2012 04:45 pm by Ruth Brown | Comments 0

Live Review: JD McPherson at Bunk Bar, Saturday, June 2

Music He’s been all over the radio dial lately, fitting because that’s the format his early '60s-era s... More

Jun 4, 2012 05:00 pm by MARK STOCK | Comments 0

Q&A;: Dan Bejar of Destroyer

Music In the 15 years since Dan Bejar started releasing music under the name Destroyer, his profile ... More

Jun 4, 2012 02:50 pm by ROBERT HAM | Comments 0

Upper Extremities #41: Five Summer Songs

Music Screw the solstice. Summer has begun. My teacher friends are putting the finishing touches on anothe... More

May 31, 2012 05:25 pm by CHRIS STAMM | Comments 0

TOUR DIARY

Loch Lomond Tour Diary: Killer Prosts (or) That's a Bingo! (Wetzlar, Germany)

Music Yes, Loch Lomond has been home for a bit. Yeah, they played Portland this weekend. No, that does not... More

Mar 26, 2012 04:18 pm by Loch Lomond | Comments 0

Loch Lomond Tour Diary: Hot Sauce and Laundry in Germany

Music words by Dave DepperDuisbergAh, Germany. My favorite country in Europe. A bustling, thoroughly moder... More

Mar 16, 2012 11:28 am by Loch Lomond | Comments 0

Megan Holmes on Tour: Chicago

Music Megan Holmes is a Portland photographer currently on tour with Talk Normal and Zola Jesus. She's sen... More

Mar 12, 2012 03:03 pm by Local Cut | Comments 0

Loch Lomond Tour Diary: Carnival of Candy and Beer (Nijmegen, Netherlands)

Music In the malleable and ever-shifting enigma that is Loch Lomond, class of ’12 is poised to take over... More

Mar 6, 2012 02:10 pm by Loch Lomond | Comments 0

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Album Review: Tu Fawning

A Monument (City Slang)

Album Reviews [SULTRY POST-POP] Tu Fawning doesn’t really work on paper. The band is fronted by a guy best known for his work with the carnivalesque, heavy Portland rock act 31Knots (Joe Haege) and a singer More

Wednesday, June 6, 2012 CASEY JARMAN

Album Review: Michael the Blind

Are’s & Els (Alder Street Records)

Album Reviews [GONE ELECTRIC] Few musicians have carved as distinctive a niche in Portland’s singer-songwriter-scape as Michael Levasseur, aka Michael the Blind. In addition to making pat reference to his ext More

Wednesday, May 30, 2012 SHANE DANAHER

Album Review: Deer or the Doe

Tonight We Love You (Self-Released)

Album Reviews [SINEWY ROCK] Deer or the Doe should probably receive some sort of cultural grant for keeping ’90s underground rock alive and well in Portland well over a decade past its heyday. Then again, i More

Wednesday, May 30, 2012 CASEY JARMAN

Album Review: Tragedy

Darker Days Ahead (Self-Released)

Album Reviews [CRUST PUNK] Tragedy is justly revered the world over for its dense and crepuscular take on crust punk, but an album-length masterpiece has eluded this staunchly DIY Portland quartet since its 2 More

Wednesday, May 23, 2012 CHRIS STAMM

Album Review: Arjay

Love Strong (Self-Released)

Album Reviews [HOMETOWN R&B] Arjay lives, like many urban singers of his generation, at the intersection of hip-hop and R&B. If you know his name, it’s probably from the former: The Portland staple ha More

Wednesday, May 23, 2012 CASEY JARMAN

The Good, the Bad and the Odd

We review new local albums to see who’s keeping Portland the weirdest.

Album Reviews Plankton Wat, Spirits (Thrill Jockey) Weirdness scale: 5/10 What kind of weird: Watching the slow-motion moments in a David Lynch film on repeat weird. It would appear that the men of Eternal Tap More

Wednesday, May 16, 2012 WW Staff

Album Review: Order Of The Gash

Configuraton (Self-Released)

Album Reviews [DEATH METAL] Hearing Configuration makes me realize how many times I’ve seen Order of the Gash in DIY settings with inadequate sound systems. These three good folks operate without ego, alway More

Wednesday, May 9, 2012 NATHAN CARSON

Album Review: Palo Verde

Zero Hour (Phratry)

Album Reviews [FREE HARDCORE] The striking white stallion that adorns the cover of Zero Hour probably wasn’t meant as a sight gag, but it works as one: Palo Verde, you see, is no one-trick pony. Drummer Lauren More

Wednesday, May 9, 2012 CASEY JARMAN

Album Review: Pellet Gun

Great Divide (Jealous Butcher)

Album Reviews [MINIMAL ROCK] A lot has changed since 2002. New president. Oklahoma City has a pro basketball team. Osama bin Laden? Totes dead. Another thing that’s changed in the 10 years since Pellet Gun More

Wednesday, May 2, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Album Review: Iame

Lame$tream (Self-Released)

Album Reviews [HEAVY HIP-HOP] Sandpeople’s Iame has gone through some fascinating changes in the past two years. Physically, he’s almost unrecognizable, having lost considerable weight after cutting alcoh More

Wednesday, May 2, 2012 CASEY JARMAN