Music

[DOOM METAL] Growing up, my biggest beef with superhero comics was that they had to reintroduce things we comic fans already knew. Like when Wolverine pops his claws, it'd read: “Wolverine pops his adamantiam claws, adamantiam being the strongest alloy in the u...   More

Music Stories [DOOM METAL] Growing up, my biggest beef with superhero comics was that they had to reintroduce things we comic fans already knew. Like when Wolverine pops his claws, it’d read: “Wolverine ...   More

Music [AMBIENT PSYCH] Certain albums just seem to have a knack for dropping during the right season. Take the Sea and Cake’s records, for example: They’re always sure to come out just in time for mellow backyard barbecues. (I mean, where else does one hear the Sea and Cake?) This previous...   More

Music Stories [AMBIENT PSYCH] Certain albums just seem to have a knack for dropping during the right season. Take the Sea and Cake’s records, for example: They’re always sure to come out just in time fo ...   More

Music [QUASI-METAL] Despite the blatant headbanging and hesher styles, the long hair, cigarettes and cheap beer, metalheads are in fact extremely intelligent people—albeit weird intelligent people—who are capable of many things you are not. They can draw extremely intricate photorealist...   More

Music Stories [QUASI-METAL] Despite the blatant headbanging and hesher styles, the long hair, cigarettes and cheap beer, metalheads are in fact extremely intelligent people—albeit weird intelligent people&mda ...   More

Music [PSYCH FOLK] “Jackie-O Motherfucker?” an old-school Portland friend of mine recently remarked over the telephone. “Jesus Christ, I mean who’s even in that band anymore?” It’s a valid question, considering that even Wikipedia lists the local...   More

Music Stories [PSYCH FOLK] “Jackie-O Motherfucker?” an old-school Portland friend of mine recently remarked over the telephone. “Jesus Christ, I mean who’s even in that band anymore?” ...   More

Q & A In 1975, one of Marvel Comics’ strangest authors, Steve Gerber, scribe of such out-there books as Man-Thing and Howard the Duck , created Omega the Unknown . Weird was an understatement. Ostens ...   More

Music Bacon on their doughnuts, basketball on their volcanoes, Smiths in their (Modest) Mice—make no mistake, Portlanders love weird combinations. Take Backspace, a 4-year-old all-purpose cafe where, on any given night, one can sip a latte, swig down Jolt, print out a zine, eat vegan, shoot pool, hear a DJ, or pl...   More