Music Matt McCormick has proven over and over again just how impressive he is as a film landscaper, revealing an urban and industrial visual poetry few have bothered to define. Quick initial listens of his debut audio only release show he's got a way with soundscapes as well.

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Music Yep, this afternoon the folks at PDX Pop Now! released the tracklist for the fourth edition of their yearly two-disc comp of local Portland musics. Expect to see the discs on the checkout counters of record shops (and beyond) on June 19th for a mere seven bucks. The Pop Now! folks are also having a release sho...   More

Music I had no idea Alicia Rose--known to us primarily as the booker at the Doug Fir--doubled as an "avant-garde" accordianist. I guess that's actually "tripled": it's no secret that Rose also has a marvelous way with a camera. You've probably seen her Menomena photos on this website over a hundred times, and she's ...   More

Music The three-year span between Strategy's 2004 release, Drumsolo's Delight, and the recent follow-up, Future Rock, has been far from artistic “downtime.” Paul Dickow, the slight cat behind Strategy, has spent this more than hectic few years co-running one of Portland's most promising and diverse new l...   More

Music Stories The three-year span between Strategy's 2004 release, Drumsolo's Delight, and the recent follow-up, Future Rock, has been far from artistic "downtime." Paul Dickow, the slight cat behind Strategy, has ...   More

Music It looks like it's finally going to happen...and soon. We mentioned sometime pre-Local Cut that Kelly's Olympian was joining the Portland venue big leagues, completely renovating the ex-knive shop next door into a serious concert space. For various reasons (none of which we actually know) Kelly's dragged a bit...   More

Music Yes, the Hospitals are now a Portland band. Or, rather, the Rob n' Rod half of the band is here. Frankly, I don't know if the punk-garage-shreik band is even a band anymore. Rob n' Rod are in a new band called Eat Skull, which I hear is pretty rad, maybe more garage-y than noisy. In any case, that's hearsay: I...   More

Music Before going on hiatus last fall, Kulturszene raged for nearly a year at the (now) rapidly-going-downhill Dunes nightclub. Every week, the sounds of minimal techno, electro, and experimental music spilled out onto NE MLK, drawing in the stray musically curious passerby to add to an already building loyal follo...   More

Music I finally got the chance to see the Evolutionary Jass Band last Friday night at their monthly Valentine's residency. Much thanks to Tom Humphrey for reminding me. I'm told it was a pretty different bag than most of their shows, adding in a couple of free-variable horn players that may have affected things a bi...   More

Music If there was a word beyond "exclusive," this would pretty much be it: YACHT, a.k.a. Jona Bechtolt, fucking with me for nearly a dozen interview questions. What can I say? It's at least entertaining. And, given his considerable time spent being probed at the Canadian border yesterday traveling to Vancouver for ...   More