Featured Stories When the first car zoomed by only about a foot to our left as we pedaled uphill from Rose City Radio on Southwest Bancroft Street to the Willamette Greenway bike path, Jammin' 95.5 on-air personality ...   More

Featured Stories For the past decade or so of their friendship, John Haughm and Don Anderson have indulged in the same activities many of us do: Taking in art films at independent theaters, or coffee and beers on Sout ...   More

RIFF CITY In the cutthroat-fight-for-shade, four-dollar-Gatorade world of Warped Tour, I have long had two dreams: The musician in me has wanted to play a small Warped stage, gaining hundreds of new fans, while ...   More

RIFF CITY "The Portland scene is so huge and there's so much different stuff that's well-supported, that you can totally miss out on really awesome stuff and never know it," says bassist DJ Invisible Touch abou ...   More

RIFF CITY The calendar date 6/6/6 has occurred once a century for the past 2,000 years, and on none of those days did Satan emerge from the underworld. In fact, there was a whole beastly year, 666 AD, in which ...   More

RIFF CITY At a recent house show, Lauren K. Newman—who by the end of her performance was wearing nothing but flesh-colored panties—momentarily ceased swirly-banging to throw her guitar at a fan who ...   More

Featured Stories For most punk bands, a show that inspires the pogo, slam dancing, and maybe even a chicken fight or two will do. But not for Plan R. Over the past couple of years, the Portland punk band and its fans ...   More

Food Reviews & Stories With Iron City in either bottle or tall can ($1 at happy hour), this is a blue-collar bar with style. Rub elbows with local punk musicians and 12-foot-bike-riding clowns from across the street at tiled tables, or take in a show in the adjacent room with removable theater seating for rocking out or a   More