Album Reviews [PDX SLUDGE] Scan the liner notes of local metal outfit Rabbits’ new record, Lower Forms, and you’ll find a surprising note: Lower Forms was recorded at Type Foundry studios. For the uninitiated, this is somewhat of    More

Album Reviews [ALT-ROCK WILL NEVER DIE] Now that the Decemberists have hit No. 1 on the Billboard charts, the idea that a local group can go from a practice space on East Burnside to    More

Album Reviews [FOREFATHERS OF TWEE] Upon the release of the Decemberists’ The King Is Dead, we ran 10 writers’ takes on the album’s 10 songs. The idea was to see the full range of responses, from hatred to fawning adulation, that   More

Album Reviews [WESTERN EXPERIMENTAL RAP] I give a lot of credit for ambition, and Portland MC Rafael Vigilantics is an ambitious dude. He tries to reinvent hip-hop outright on The Orgasm of a Ghost (yup, that’s the title),
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Album Reviews [MUSIC FROM BIG GREEN] Brothers Sean and Ryan Spellman grew up in the swamps of New Jersey, just outside of Asbury Park. The story in their byline—and in the songs by their   More

Album Reviews [SOUNDSCAPES] Is the “sophomore slump” an American concept? Because Pikara godhead Sara Johanne isn’t from our country—she’s from Sweden, though she has spent the past three years in Port   More

Album Reviews [SALEM ROCK CITY] When people speak about Portland’s vibrant music scene, they talk about community and friendship, house shows and DIY record labels, James Mercer and No. 1 records (congrats, Co   More

Album Reviews Wow & Flutter Equilibrio!(Mount Fuji Records) [REJUVENATED POST-PUNK] Local post-rock trio Wow & Flutter is hardly a new band. In fact, this isn’t even its first incarnation; starting back in ...   More

Album Reviews Boom! Boom!(Hovercraft Records) [PUNK ROCK, FUCK YEAH!] The Portland music scene, despite its virtues, often takes itself too seriously. In 2010, it seems like every new band has a fancy MySpace pa ...   More

Album Reviews The Rockabilly Bash Jan 28The smell of pomade pervades at BC's.[ROCKABILLY] As I walk into BC's American Saloon Saturday night for the "Rockabilly Bash," the Juke Joint Gamblers are wrapping up the la ...   More