Tonight in Music: PDX POP NOW!, Portland Cello Projects Extreme Dance Party,...
PDX Pop Now! Festival 2012 Lineup Announcement from pdxpopnow! on Vimeo.PDX POP NOW!(Refuge, 116 SE Yamhill) It's time for the funnest, rootin'-tootin'est all-ages music fest in town. PDX Pop Now!...
View ArticleThe Intelligence Are Playing at Plan B Tonight
Last week, Seattle band the Intelligence—the wide ranging art-garage-rock project masterminded by Lars Finberg—was on the cover of our sister paper, The Stranger, and you can read that piece over...
View ArticleTonight in Music: PDX POP NOW!, SpaceGhostPurrp, Dam-Funk and more!
PDX POP NOW!(Refuge, 116 SE Yamhill) It's time for the funnest, rootin'-tootin'est all-ages music fest in town. PDX Pop Now! makes its annual sunny appearance with more than 40 Portland bands, like...
View ArticleTonight in Music: PDX Pop Now!, Youth Lagoon, Portland Queer Music Festival &...
PDX POP NOW!(Refuge, 116 SE Yamhill) It's time for the funnest, rootin'-tootin'est all-ages music fest in town. PDX Pop Now! makes its annual sunny appearance with more than 40 Portland bands, like...
View ArticleSearching for the Sugar Man
"Searching for the Sugar Man" has got all the makings of a great music documentary. In short: Rodriguez writes some great folk songs, is passed over in America, but in apartheid ridden South Africa he...
View ArticleTonight in Music: Fiona Apple, Foxygen, Emmylou Harris & Steve Martin and more!
FIONA APPLE, BLAKE MILLS(Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway) Read our article on Fiona Apple. LA SERA, MAGIC TRICK, FOXYGEN(Doug Fir, 830 E Burnside) The echoes of rock 'n' roll's past...
View ArticleThe Shins Cover the Magnetic Fields
This has been making the internet rounds this morning, so we're gonna jump on the bandwagon and post it, too! It's a stripped-down version of the Shins (James Mercer, Richard Swift, and Joe Plummer)...
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Live Review: Fiona Apple at the Schnitz
Fiona Apple was in my dreams last night. Her music and her face—it was a colorful, beautiful-sounding blur. Not surprising, considering how spellbinding her show at the Schnitzer was last night. She...
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Superfest 4 Announces Lineup, Includes Chromatics, Looks Amazing
Superfest—the annual festival put on by the good folks who throw the all-ages Supernature DIY dance music parties—just announced the lineup for this year, and boy it looks good. As in the past, it's a...
View ArticleTonight in Music: Sometimes a Great Notion, SNAP! Five-Year Anniversary,...
SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION: FELICE BROTHERS, DENNIS COFFEY, NATASHA KMETO, HOLCOMBE WALLER, MATTRESS(Disjecta, 8371 N Interstate) The Sometimes a Great Notion Festival hopes to surprise and confuse. And...
View ArticleTonight in Music: Dig a Pony's One-Year Anniversary, Clinton Street Fair &...
DIG A PONY'S ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY: MIRACLES CLUB, THANKS, REV SHINES, DJ COOKY PARKER(Dig a Pony, 736 SE Grand) Hard to believe it's only been a year since Dig a Pony wormed into the hearts of...
View ArticleTonight in Music: Mikey Going Down, On the Stairs, Sometimes a Great Notion &...
Antarctica Party Hit from Mikey Kampmann on Vimeo.Flat Earth EP by BRAINSTORMMIKEY GOING DOWN: BRAINSTORM, INTERIORS(Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi) Local comedian Mikey Kampmann is upping...
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PDX Pop Now! 2012 Photo Reel
Katie SwezeyLike a Villain's Holland Andrews performing with AUWe've got a bunch of photos from PDX Pop Now! weekend ready for you to look at. Those three days (July 20-22) saw 45 Portland bands...
View ArticleLanghorne Slim: Pickathon's MVP
If Pickathon had an MVP, Langhorne Slim would be in the running. He's appeared at the annual indie-roots music festival three times in the past, and he'll be there again this weekend. Here's a video...
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Take A Shower, Hippie: Pickathon and The Oasis
I'm not a huge camper (I'm very fond of human advances in hygiene), but I like to let my hair down and hippie it up at Pickathon once a year, "sleeping" with my neck cricked on a slant to the...
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Another New Song from the Great New Corin Tucker Band Album
John Clark The Corin Tucker Band were busy this weekend shooting a video for "Neskowin," the second single from their upcoming album Kill My Blues. (Which is awesome, by the way.) The video, shot by...
View ArticleTonight in Music: Squarepusher and Orca Team
SQUAREPUSHER, NATASHA KMETO(Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell) Bitcrushing acid techno pioneer Squarepusher is playing a very rare live show in Portland tonight (and he's giving Seattle a miss on this...
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Phantogram at the Wonder Ballroom, July 24, 2012
Katie SwezeyCatching up on the busy week of shows last week (Fiona Apple! Dirty Projectors! King Tuff!), here are shots from last Tuesday's Phantogram show at the Wonder Ballroom. The intrepid and...
View ArticleTonight in Music: Golden Retriever and This and That Fest
Golden Retriever - Canopy from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo.GOLDEN RETRIEVER, REGULAR MUSIC, ILYAS AHMED, PULSE EMITTER(Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison) You might not imagine that a 10-minute-long song...
View ArticleSonny and the Sunsets Get Back to the Country in Time for Pickathon
San Fran pop adventurers Sonny and the Sunsets recently released Longtime Companion, their "country" record, and it's a beaut. Rather than playing cornpone dress-up, Sonny Smith and crew add lilt and...
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