Music Unfortunately, I don't know jack-shit about television, so you're on your own in finding this, but Dark Yoga--a massive collab between Adam Forkner (White Rainbow), Honey Owens (Valet, Nudge), Brian Thackeray, Matt McDowell, Aria Benner and Dan Barone--is playing Portland Cable Access tonight. I tried parsing ...   More

Music Tonight at Towne Lounge, Local Cut welcomes to the stage three damn fine experimentalists for the whopping tenth edition of Portland Lounge Series. If you're new to this, PLS is where one of us Local Cut writers does a series of on-stage interviews of local music folks and then they play us a set. It's usually...   More

Music [POST-JAZZ] With even the most outgoing band, there's always a chance that things will change once the “record” button is pressed on an interviewer's machine. But at the cluttered warehouse office of Marriage Records, no one in the Watery Graves batted an eye. Drummer Adrian Orange—fighting t...   More

Music Stories [POST-JAZZ] With even the most outgoing band, there's always a chance that things will change once the "record" button is pressed on an interviewer's machine. But at the cluttered warehouse office of ...   More

Music OK, Chromeo's not from Portland. The Montreal/New York duo's hardly "local" (though, there's a few imitators running around town). So, maybe my little electronic music column's breaking the rules this week. Sorry.

The duo of Dave 1 and Pee Thugg just put out their second album (not including a ...   More

Music Oooooh, good goddamn, the awesome folks at PDX Pop Now! went straight for my heart with this one. Old Time Relijun and The Watery Graves? Fuck yes. For the second year in a row, Pop Now! will be kicking off their three day, all-ages all-local music fest (August 3-5 at AudioCinema) with a concert on the steps o...   More

Music Yep, this is Mattress, believe it or not. Rex Marshall pawned his bizarre old blues guy voice for some space effects and a new drum machine. Hopefully, whoever snags it next will be kind to it. Anyhow, this is enjoyable enough without it, basically a few elementary melodies--some crisp, some skronky--and beats...   More

Music The above quote popped up as a Myspace bulletin today posted by hipster speakeasy cum "hipster speakeasy" Dunes. I don't know what it means. I suppose it's an inside joke or a really oblique statement on Portland's club scene. Or, maybe they know something. I dunno. We just thought you should know...whatever i...   More

Music [HYPERACTIVE SYNTH-PUNK] A couple of weeks ago, Fist Fite frontwoman Jonnie Monroe excused away a drunken, feverish mess of a show by saying, “[It] was a funny, sweaty tribute to not being a shitty band anymore.” The show was, in fact, wonderful: The band delivered a screech-filled set of synth-dri...   More

Music Stories [HYPERACTIVE SYNTH-PUNK] A couple of weeks ago, Fist Fite frontwoman Jonnie Monroe excused away a drunken, feverish mess of a show by saying, "[It] was a funny, sweaty tribute to not being a shitty ba ...   More