Top 5 Our favorite Pacific Northwest "music media" site Into the Woods:Feels LIke Home #40, Guidance Counselor The sadly defunct dance-punk group’s Ian Anderson belts the Bushwick-hipster-skewering “   More

Top 5 5. Texas On the merit of some very good friends that live there, Texas comes in at No. 5 for me…and what’s not to like about Austin? Texas has many flaws. Its state flag sums it up: the American   More

Top 5 Teddy Pendergrass, “Turn off the Lights” “Would you rub me down in some burnin’ hot oils, baby, yeah?” Probably the best slow-dance song ever by the (reportedly tranny-chasing) King of the   More

Top 5 Tommy Boy I was wrong to dismiss this movie as a throwaway when I first saw it. I know this because it’s 16 years later and I’m still reflexively quoting it like an annoying Monty Python fan.Zab   More

Top 5 Kyle Morton (Typhoon): “What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?” “I listened to my parents’ copy of Monster when I was a little kid and concluded that this song is what ‘rock and roll’ sounds lik   More

Top 5 On Sept. 24, 1991, the rock world changed forever. That’s the day Red Hot Chili Peppers released Blood Sugar Sex Magik. And, less notably, some Seattle hair band called Nirvana made its major-labe   More

Top 5 Lynn CohenI met Lynn on a film (The Romance of Loneliness) and fell in love with her craft and philosophy regarding acting and life in general.Dory PrevinDory Previn made seriously personal honest mus   More

Top 5 The Thermals, “Power Doesn’t Run on Nothing” I wish Hutch Harris had been my American history teacher. “Our power doesn’t run on nothing,” he sings. “It runs on blood/ And blood is eas   More

Top 5 Every show will feature an album performed in its entirety.Something that has never been done before.  We will perform with one of each other’s socks on our left foot each night as a good-luck    More

Top 5 Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Mirror Traffic (out 8/23) Yeah, the Jicks still count as a Portland band even with Malkmus moving to Germany. And this disc has been a long time coming   More