Music Stories Years active: 1990-95, 1997-99, 2012-present Sounds like: Hardcore at the dawn of the alternative era, when the production got bigger, the riffs beefier and the melodies hookier. Original members: A More
Primer: Quicksand
Reunion
Music Stories Years active: 1990-95, 1997-99, 2012-present Sounds like: Hardcore at the dawn of the alternative era, when the production got bigger, the riffs beefier and the melodies hookier. Original members: A More
Top Five Papi Fimbres Projects
Top 5 Sun Angle Initially sounding like “a sped-up Can,” Fimbres describes the material on the band’s upcoming debut—recorded in a cabin in Zigzag, Ore., under certain, um, mycological influenc More
Live Video: Floater at Crystal Ballroom, 1/11
Music Floater is Portland's most polarizing band. Beloved and hated in equal measure—though, as this 2010 Willamette Week cover story backs up, I'd argue the group is loved enough outside the city that it fully eclipses the hate—the band's been around f... More
Gangster Squad
Firing wild and missing the mark.
Movie Reviews & Stories Talk about a misfire. Gangster Squad talks about it a few times. “Don’t aim for where it is,” one character, a quick shot with a Sam Elliott mustache, instructs another after he misses a m More
Diamond Minds
Dropping Gems gives electronic music a human pulse.
Music Stories When Aaron Meola moved to Portland in 2009, electronic music in America was still the province of chin-scratching Anglophiles and molly-whopped rave kids. Dubstep’s infernal wub had not yet in More
Top Five Dropping Gems Releases
Top 5 Various Artists, Gem Drops I-II Featuring tracks from crew members, affiliates and like-minded fellow travelers, either of these interchangeable compilations makes an ideal entry point for wading More
PDX Charts
PDX Charts: Top selling albums and songs in Portland, Dec. 31-Jan. 6
Music Every Tuesday, we list the top selling albums from local record stores Music Millennium, Jackpot Records and Everyday Music, and the top streamed tracks in Portland on Rhapsody, for the previous week. The week's in-store appearance guide in below.
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Top Five Local Albums to Get Excited About in Early 2013
Top 5 Unknown Mortal Orchestra, II (2/5, Jagjaguwar) The mystery is gone, but Ruban Nielson’s once-enigmatic post-Mint Chicks project is still one of Portland’s singular bands. Based on the new alb More
Headout: Pick Your Poison
Choose your beverage and an event to match.
Headout Let’s be honest: You’re not going to remember New Year’s Eve. Any money you spend to get into a show that night will be flushed out of your consciousness and down the toilet on a wave of tha More
Unchained and Unrestrained
Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained is certainly cool. But is that enough?
Movie Reviews & Stories Give Quentin Tarantino this much: He’s got balls. Imagine entering a meeting with a major studio, as a successful white director
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Top Articles from MATTHEW SINGER
Live Not-So-Nude Girls
In the Land of a Thousand strippers, burlesque revivalists have been second-class citizens. Until now. One Small Dubstep
What is the dance music subgenre dubstep, exactly? Depends on who’s dancing. Just A Hobby
Fernando Viciconte tried to quit music. His friends wouldn’t let him. Caught Up in the Net
Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden stands up to an anti-piracy bill he says threatens internet freedom. Dirty Songbirds
On the eve of Peaches’ visit, we revisit filthy sex songs for the ages. Marc Maron
A veteran comic turns to podcasting for shock therapy and biting laughs. Midnight In Paris
Woody and Owen’s excellent adventure. Kenton Station: Naked and Famous
Buried Alive
Portland film pioneer Don Gronquist was banned, panned and forgotten. He deserved better. Jared Mees & the Grown Children Saturday, May 14
If life imitates art, Jared Mees’ life must be pretty hectic about now.
In the Land of a Thousand strippers, burlesque revivalists have been second-class citizens. Until now. One Small Dubstep
What is the dance music subgenre dubstep, exactly? Depends on who’s dancing. Just A Hobby
Fernando Viciconte tried to quit music. His friends wouldn’t let him. Caught Up in the Net
Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden stands up to an anti-piracy bill he says threatens internet freedom. Dirty Songbirds
On the eve of Peaches’ visit, we revisit filthy sex songs for the ages. Marc Maron
A veteran comic turns to podcasting for shock therapy and biting laughs. Midnight In Paris
Woody and Owen’s excellent adventure. Kenton Station: Naked and Famous
Buried Alive
Portland film pioneer Don Gronquist was banned, panned and forgotten. He deserved better. Jared Mees & the Grown Children Saturday, May 14
If life imitates art, Jared Mees’ life must be pretty hectic about now.
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