Music

[SOUL-PUNK] Somewhere's between NME anointing her Coolest Person of 2006 and a “What Would Beth Ditto Do?” advice column appearing in The Guardian, the Gossip's larger-than-life vocalist (and her band) conquered England. Award-show duets with Pulp's Jarvis Cocker, a headlining set at Glast...   More

Music Stories [SOUL-PUNK] Somewhere’s between NME anointing her Coolest Person of 2006 and a “What Would Beth Ditto Do?” advice column appearing in The Guardian, the Gossip’s larger-than-lif ...   More

Music For kids wondering over Jeremy Wilson after today's post, this is as good a place as any to start studying. The title track from Dharma Bums 1989 debut, "Haywire" was the first ...   More

Music A titan of local music, Jeremy Wilson should need on LocalCut's pages (but, y'know, it's a blog; this is what we do). Twenty years ago, as singer/guitarist of The Dharma Bums, he released a string of seminal records, and the Bums became Portland's great college-rock hope, only to watch punk...   More

Music The venerable community-supported progressive radio station, KBOO, has always seemed somewhat mysterious. Who exactly is this community of which they speak? I've never known anyone to listen to KBOO unless they themselves or immediate family were going to be on the air, but somehow the station still...   More

Music Ending our multimedia coverage of Caleb Klauder's trip to Sweden—would, dear readers, that technology allow you to smell the herring—here's a track from his country project's debut album, DANGER...   More

Music (AS TOLD TO JAY HORTON)


Just back from Scandinavian tour supporting new old-Nashville album DANGEROUS MEs & POISONOUS YOUs with ragtag crew of acoustic all-stars, Caleb Klauder (Colobo, Foghorn Stringband, self-titled – and Bobby Flay approved – bluegrass project) sat down ...   More

Music (AS TOLD TO JAY HøRTøN)

Just back from Scandinavian tour supporting new old-Nashville album, DANGEROUS MEs & POISONOUS YOUs with a ragtag crew of acoustic all-stars, Caleb Klauder (Colobo, Foghorn Stringband, self-titled—and Bobby Flay approved—bluegrass project) sat down wit...   More

Music Blogging about festivals is like dancing about architecture—Jay Horton examines local artists' digitized memoirs of SXSW '08.

Anyone who's known a reasonably ambitious musician—anyone to spend time in the Northwest, then—has grown accustomed to South By Southwest...   More

Music Some seventeen years ago, the first time I saw Cherry Poppin' Daddies (the first time I ever saw any band), it was an opening slot for Sweaty Nipples. Close-in southeast Portland was a bit different those days—sallow proto-hipsters withering on the vine, SHARP/skinhead dialect...   More