Album Reviews Allen Ginsberg's Wichita Vortex Sutra, though recorded 10 years ago and written almost three decades before that, might be the most timely of three recent, mostly spoken-word releases from the mouths ... More
Allen Ginsberg / Leonard Cohen / William Shatner
Old Jewish poets never go away, they simply say, "Oy vey." New testaments from Ginsberg, Cohen and Shatner
Album Reviews Allen Ginsberg's Wichita Vortex Sutra, though recorded 10 years ago and written almost three decades before that, might be the most timely of three recent, mostly spoken-word releases from the mouths ... More
The Long Run
Stumptown's six-string savant Lewi Longmire finally gets around to that solo album.
Music Stories Widely known to possess some of the hottest guitar chops--not to mention the sharpest trousers--in Portland's throbbing-with-talent roots-rock scene, New Mexico-born Lewi Longmire has graced local sta ... More
THE RAPTURE AND THE TORTURE
Already a developing star in Europe, Seattle's Laura Veirs plots an assault on her homeland.
Music Stories Laura Veirs might sing sad and lovely melodies over minor-chord changes, but not in a way you've heard before. Unlike some slow-folkies, her music is not filled with misery but, rather, full of myster ... More
500 Words with ... DAN BERN
The man who wrote Songs to Beat Bush By contemplates the worth of political music, the taxing effect of the election season and Springsteen.
Music Stories Songwriter Dan Bern is so prolific and topical that he's become a musical short-order cook of sorts, making juicy song-burgers out of sacred cows. His latest batch in the record racks is My Country II ... More
Brian Wilson / The Blue Nile
Album Reviews Brian WilsonSmileNonesuchThe shelf life on this long-unreleased Beach Boys album proves lengthy as Wilson re-records the songs of a younger man. Sure, it's kind of creepy. But go with it.As my editor ... More
ANOTHER MORNING
Mark Eitzel and his San Francisco band welcome the world back to the American Music Club.
Music Stories Christened by songwriter Mark Eitzel, who combined the three words he believed should never appear in a band name, San Francisco's American Music Club made a reputation around the turn of the last dec ... More
The Thorn Festival Hit Parade
Casual Sex! Drunken Debauchery! Dead Junkies! Lousy Weather! It's Portland on the Radio.
Featured Stories Dating back at least to 1909's "By the Banks of the Old Willamette," our stumpy little town has been memorialized in song numerous times--enough that you could soundtrack your entire Rose Festival exp ... More
Two Weeks of Freaks and Geeks
DVD & TV I'm regressing. Dreaming of high school again. It's all coming back: visions of humiliations private and public, of doing or saying or wearing the wrong thing, in the wrong place, at the wrongest poss ... More
Re-Modeling America
New Model Army return to the U.S. after a 10-year absence to preach to its small but devoted choir.
Music Stories Take the early Cure's dark, post-punk pop soundscape--minor keys, burbling basslines, strummed acoustic backdrops, slashing keys and guitars. Now add a drummer out for blood, kicking the whole thi ... More
the reckoning:
Verdicts on New Music
Album Reviews JEFF BUCKLEY Live at Sin-é (Legacy Edition)Jeff Buckley was a high-wire artist, balancing his impossibly supple voice and wicked guitar atop a line of transcendent influences made all his own ... More
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Casual Sex! Drunken Debauchery! Dead Junkies! Lousy Weather! It's Portland on the Radio. The Slow Drags, Saturday, July 23
The Slow Drags soldier on, even without their fallen frontman. Album Review: Richmond Fontaine
The High Country (El Cortez) Kinky Friedman
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Strike Up the Band
John Wesley Harding was a friend to the Portlanders. THE MASTERMINDS
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The King Can Drink the Harbor Dry (Pet Marmoset Records) Allen Ginsberg / Leonard Cohen / William Shatner
Old Jewish poets never go away, they simply say, "Oy vey." New testaments from Ginsberg, Cohen and Shatner
Holcombe Waller finds some dark pleasure in a painful business. The Thorn Festival Hit Parade
Casual Sex! Drunken Debauchery! Dead Junkies! Lousy Weather! It's Portland on the Radio. The Slow Drags, Saturday, July 23
The Slow Drags soldier on, even without their fallen frontman. Album Review: Richmond Fontaine
The High Country (El Cortez) Kinky Friedman
The songwriter, author and writer talks Callahan, politics and legendary fails. Primer: Judy Collins
Strike Up the Band
John Wesley Harding was a friend to the Portlanders. THE MASTERMINDS
Bachir and Mustapha Attar launch the ancient traditions of Morocco's mountains into the 21st century. CD Review: The Dimes
The King Can Drink the Harbor Dry (Pet Marmoset Records) Allen Ginsberg / Leonard Cohen / William Shatner
Old Jewish poets never go away, they simply say, "Oy vey." New testaments from Ginsberg, Cohen and Shatner
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