Music Before we head into this year's MusicfestNW, I thought it would be nice to look back on the fests of yesteryear. Since I started as music editor at Willamette Week three years ago, we have been publishing the Musicfest Diaries in the issue following the fest with my valiant writers weighing in on the fest's be...   More

Music Because we here at Local Cut are so damned nice and really have nothing else to do but troll about the internet looking for good deals on car insurance and music videos on YouTube, we decided that we would provide you with some sounds and visions of the bands playing tonight at MusicfestNW.

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Music Yes, it's that time of year again folks, where music fills every corner of this beautiful city and drunken music fans fill the streets and my voicemail inbox fills with messages that will not be answered until Monday. That's right, it's MusicfestNW and it starts tonight. Rejoice!

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Music Sometimes, when the world makes absolutely no sense, something happens and it makes sense again. With that sentiment in mind I offer you this news: Portland's own sunglassed masters of unpleasantly honest 1 minute pop songs, the Punk Group, will be opening for Devo at Seattle's Paramount Theatre Saturday, Sept...   More

Music Those of you who missed M. Ward's performance on the Late Show with David Letterman last Thursday night are in luck. Thank YouTube, here it is for your enjoyment. Ward is looking wonderfully spooky while he plays "Chinese Translation" with the help of those crazy kids in Norfolk & Western and our very own Mik...   More

RIFF CITY One afternoon late last month, Danny Seim, of local experimental pop group Menomena, waited eagerly in Northwest Portland's production shop SuperDigital. The minutes ticked away as engineer Jeff Saltz ...   More

Music This should be a story about a great event in local folk chanteuse Laura Gibson's musical career, but it's not. It's really a story about how lucky Hush Records is. The Portland label—which counts Norfolk & Western, Super XX Man and Kind of Like Spitting amongst its current roster, and boasts alum like t...   More

Music Yes, yes. M.Ward is no longer a Portlander and we should not be using this space on the recently transplanted New Hampshirian (Hampshirite?). But M. Ward's spirit is still here, and, if that isn't enough for you, then at least one of the two gents who created this video for the song "Chinese Translation" from ...   More

Music Saturday night at the Crystal Ballroom, Sleater-Kinney said goodbye to a sold-out crowd filled with fans from far and wide. The trio of Corin Tucker, Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss treated everyone at the epochal event to a two-plus hour, 24-song set filled with moments from throughout its 11 year, seven al...   More

Music You'd be forgiven if you forgot about Menomena. The trio of pop-experimentalists haven't played a show since MusicfestNW last September. And, as I learned during a chat with bandmembers Danny Seim and Justin Harris over some black bean garlic chicken this afternoon, the bandmembers haven't even played instrume...   More