Sure, you can spend dozens of dollars on national acts. The imported stuff might be worth it, but there is arguably just as much quality in the home-grown right now. And with so many local Portland bands playing for cheap (or even free), what’s your excuse for not going out to catch a show? What, [...]
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Mogwai Rebellion
Mogwai | Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will Sub Pop Records | February 2011 “Art is the activity that exalts and denies simultaneously… Artisitic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world. But it rejects the world on account of what it lacks and in the name of what it [...]
Read entire post...How to Hear the Shaggs
With the recent announcement of preproduction plans for a Shaggs biopic starring the Fanning sisters, it is high time to start relistening, or, for most, listening, to their milestone LP Philosophy of the World. Released in 1969, this record stands alone in the world of pop music. There is nothing, seriously, nothing, quite like it. [...]
Read entire post...A Sampling of New Music on the Internets
Here are some sneak peaks of new songs by your favorite Pop artists from the many portals and outposts of the interwebs. Check these out now (before they’re taken down). TV On the Radio – “Will Do” the first Single from new album is streaming at Rolling Stone. Meanwhile, over at SPIN you can download [...]
Read entire post...Vic Chesnutt: In Memory
Just over a year ago, I learned about Vic Chesnutt’s suicide on the radio: “Those of us who work on Fresh Air were upset and shocked…” The usually unflappable Terry Gross sounded shaken by the news, having interviewed the enigmatic singer just a month prior. He had told her the story of his southern childhood [...]
Read entire post...Portland Music Scene on Fuse TV
Fuse, Fuse Music TV, or Fusic TV as I like to call it, has a quick 4+ minute overview of the Portland music scene. Yes, they only talk to some of the bigger names in town like The Thermals, Menomena, and Colin Meloy of the Decemberists, but it’s not as cringe-worthy as the first episode [...]
Read entire post...Live Death and Zolar X
Death With Zolar X, Slim’s, San Francisco, February 25 2011 Sometimes rock is better when it’s weird. Death was a 1970′s Detroit rock trio (the three Hackney brothers) who wrote and performed punk rock songs before it became fashionable, and remunerative, to do so. They didn’t make it big. As lead singer Bobby explained to [...]
Read entire post...Isotope of Me – Geometry
Admit it. Just fess up and admit it. You love the synth. No matter how cool you are, how folky, no matter how much of a noise geek, no matter how deep and obscure the IDM that runs through your blood – you, yes, you. You Love The Synth. There is something about techno and [...]
Read entire post...Best Coast Show Brings Together Girl Groups and Surf Rock, Girl and Pop
Do you remember your first live show? I could maintain a modicum of respect if I said it was Prince, for his Purple Rain tour. I was in high school, waited in line overnight with friends to see his purpleness in all his speedo-and-trenchcoat glory. But that wouldn’t be accurate. My first concert, when I [...]
Read entire post...Lets England Shake its Booty. Or its Fist.
PJ Harvey – Let England Shake Vagrant Records | February 2011 Polly Jean Harvey has never been an artist cautious in her approach, or particularly concerned of what her listeners might think of her sound. She’s been making her own path in the music world since her debut album, Dry for which Rolling Stone called [...]
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