Music Stories Portland was different when Janet Weiss and Sam Coomes arrived in 1989. People were arriving in pre-Nevermind clusters, looking for a small-town music scene. The city offered cheap housing, a grit ... More
The Coomes Factor
Quasi reaches new heights as its lead man hits his stride.
Music Stories Portland was different when Janet Weiss and Sam Coomes arrived in 1989. People were arriving in pre-Nevermind clusters, looking for a small-town music scene. The city offered cheap housing, a grit ... More
Price of FREEDOM
The Long Winters take liberties with their music. Can they take the reaction?
Music Stories Freedom makes Long Winters frontman John Roderick giddy. Freedom also makes his bands' records schizophrenic."I've always wanted to make records, and there was always something standing in my way, ... More
Off the Grid
Iceland ether-popsters Mœm take electronic music and ground it with tradition.
Music Stories Mœm's …rvar Th-reyjarson Sm‡rason is on a Brooklyn rooftop riding a power-grid high. The Big Blackout may have knocked out NYC, but the Icelander sounds gleeful--in a subdued sort of way. "I lik ... More
The Blackened Heiress
Nina Nastasia builds a dark legacy of unclassifiable songs.
Music Stories "The problem with talking about Nina," says Steve Albini, the legendary Chicago recording engineer, "is when you describe her, it sounds like you're describing terrible music. It sounds like you'r ... More
Between Indie Rock and a Hard Place
Lesbofolk? Hipster darlings? Tegan & Sara are trapped between irreconcilable worlds.
Music Stories Tegan and Sara Quin can't buy a fair shake.The smart power-pop tracks from the Canadian sisters' second record, If It Was You, want to be hits. They deserve to be hits. In a just and righteous world, ... More
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The Coomes Factor
Quasi reaches new heights as its lead man hits his stride. Between Indie Rock and a Hard Place
Lesbofolk? Hipster darlings? Tegan & Sara are trapped between irreconcilable worlds. Off the Grid
Iceland ether-popsters Mœm take electronic music and ground it with tradition. The Blackened Heiress
Nina Nastasia builds a dark legacy of unclassifiable songs. Price of FREEDOM
The Long Winters take liberties with their music. Can they take the reaction?
Quasi reaches new heights as its lead man hits his stride. Between Indie Rock and a Hard Place
Lesbofolk? Hipster darlings? Tegan & Sara are trapped between irreconcilable worlds. Off the Grid
Iceland ether-popsters Mœm take electronic music and ground it with tradition. The Blackened Heiress
Nina Nastasia builds a dark legacy of unclassifiable songs. Price of FREEDOM
The Long Winters take liberties with their music. Can they take the reaction?
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