Tonight in Music: Ozarks, Pegasus Dream, KZME Fest. and more!!!
Ozarks - Pyramids of Love from Robbie Augspurger on Vimeo.OZARKS, LEISURE, PONY VILLAGE(White Eagle, 836 N Russell) Read our article on Ozarks. In Absentia by Pegasus DreamPEGASUS DREAM, AAN, FOREST...
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Rabbits' Friday the 13th Digital Dump
Rabbits want to make sure your Friday the 13th is a good one, so they've released a bunch of material for digital download—or, in the bands' words, digital dump—on their Bandcamp site. It's stuff that...
View ArticleTonight in Music: Mississippi Street Fair, Woody Guthrie Porchlight Concert,...
MISSISSIPPI STREET FAIR(N Mississippi from Fremont to Skidmore) Eat, shop, watch, and gawk your way up and down Mississippi's annual street fair—with people- and dog-watching, live music (32 bands,...
View ArticleTonight in Music: Ray Davies, Ringo Starr, Centaurpalooza & More
RAY DAVIES(Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie) This city is really, really excited about Ray Davies' appearance. I mean, for chrissakes, Mayor Sam Adams has officially declared Sunday, July 15 to be...
View ArticleAfghan Whigs Announce Portland Show
This is the new Afghan Whigs cover of the super-of-the-moment Frank Ocean's "Lovecrimes," which is all fine and good in and of itself but here is the real news HOLY SHIT THE AFGHAN WHIGS ARE PLAYING...
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Eidolons Has Freaky Potential
FacebookAre they in China? Eidolons’ 10-song China is a guitar-fueled journey from math rock to alt-folk. The album, which at times channels OK Computer-era Radiohead and more modern Real Estate-esque...
View ArticleVideo: Blitzen Trapper - "Girl in a Coat"
On Friday, the new video from Portland's goldwing-iest band*, Blitzen Trapper, premiered on Rolling Stone, for their song "Girl in a Coat" from last year's American Goldwing. The song, bucking the...
View ArticleTonight in Music: SuckerForLights + WL, Sad Horse, Open Mike Eagle & The...
To Love, We Swore - Single by SuckerForLightsSUCKERFORLIGHTS, WL, MIRA LOMA, SPACE WAVES(Plan B, 1305 SE 8th) SuckerForLights is bringing back the old new-wave sound for us. Vocalist and synth player...
View ArticleMore Monday Music Videos
One thing there is no shortage of today? New local music videos! I've taken the liberty of lovingly copying and pasting the embed codes for a bunch of them, just for you. Let's turn your productive...
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You Can't Judge a Bob Dylan Album By Its Cover...
...except in this case, you probably can. Tempest comes out September 11, and will sound like a squeaky screen door being battered by the wind. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Tonight's Deep Time Show at Mississippi Studios
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View ArticleTonight in Music: Deep Time, Armed for Apocalypse and The Golden Bears
ANALOG HEAT, DEEP TIME, BOUQUET(Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi) Where once there was Yellow Fever, now there is Deep Time. The Austin duo of Jennifer Moore and Adam Jones have renamed—if not...
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New Menomena Song! "Heavy Is as Heavy Does"
Alicia J. Rose I told you some details about Moms, the new Menomena record, but now you don't have to read stupid words about what I think, because you can hear some of it for yourself! Menomena...
View ArticleGet Bubu with Janka Nabay Tonight
Have you ever heard of bubu music? Neither had I, until coming across Janka Nabay, a musician from Sierra Leone who's the globe's foremost practitioner of bubu. It started as traditional music with...
View ArticleTonight in Music: Melvins Lite, John Sutherland, and the Golden Bears
MELVINS LITE, RETOX(Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE 39th) Freakout grunge/punk/metal/drone band the Melvins had a massive impact on the music of the '90s—more importantly, though, they're a hell of a band...
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Sometimes a Great Notion Aims to Surprise and Confuse
Next weekend’s Sometimes a Great Notion festival at Disjecta is quite the undertaking. According to the festival’s website, it is designed to “surprise and confuse.” With the bold comparison to arts...
View ArticleTonight in Music: Sundown at Ecotrust, Kalya Scintilla, Aesop Rock & More
Into the Dark Unknown by Holcombe WallerSUNDOWN AT ECOTRUST: HOLCOMBE WALLER, SARA JACKSON-HOLMAN(Ecotrust, 721 NW 9th) This is the warm, beautiful night you'll fantasize about in rainy January: A...
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Listen to a Track from Brainstorm's Forthcoming Album
Jaclyn Campanaro Portland polyglot-popsters Brainstorm have announced their upcoming album, Heat Waves, which is due out on October 2 on the much-loved local label Tender Loving Empire. It's...
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Win Tickets to Dirty Projectors!
Shawn Brackbill The new Dirty Projectors album, Swing Lo Magellan, is remarkably, astonishingly good—no disappointing follow up to Bitte Orca here—and the New York group's live show is an exuberant...
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This Week's Mercury Music Section
Chrome Wings Another week, another Mercury music section that contains nothing about either Meat Loaf or his impersonator, who's being sued for "cyber-squatting." This year's PDX Pop Now! festival...
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