Saturday, May 26

Video Roundup: Michael The Blind, Vinnie Dewayne, Serge Severe, Plankton Wat and More

Music Videos! Some are real new, some we just missed the first time around. Either way, they are something... More

May 25, 2012 04:31 pm by CASEY JARMAN | Comments 0

Upper Extremities #40: Memorial Week at the Know

Music Today marks the beginning of the Know’s stacked Memorial Week series, which will find Portland’s... More

May 24, 2012 10:30 am by CHRIS STAMM | Comments 0

Cut of the Day: Vinnie Dewayne, "Can't Lie," Castaway Mixtape

Music If there's one thing I get all blustery about on a regular basis when it comes to the Portland music... More

May 23, 2012 03:35 pm by CASEY JARMAN | Comments 0

Kickstarted: The Chicharones Bring It Back To Warped Tour

Music The project: The Chicharones Bring It Back To Warped TourWho's behind the project? Longtime WW... More

May 23, 2012 02:11 pm by ROBERT HAM | Comments 0

TOUR DIARY

Loch Lomond Tour Diary: Killer Prosts (or) That's a Bingo! (Wetzlar, Germany)

Music Yes, Loch Lomond has been home for a bit. Yeah, they played Portland this weekend. No, that does not... More

Mar 26, 2012 04:18 pm by Loch Lomond | Comments 0

Loch Lomond Tour Diary: Hot Sauce and Laundry in Germany

Music words by Dave DepperDuisbergAh, Germany. My favorite country in Europe. A bustling, thoroughly moder... More

Mar 16, 2012 11:28 am by Loch Lomond | Comments 0

Megan Holmes on Tour: Chicago

Music Megan Holmes is a Portland photographer currently on tour with Talk Normal and Zola Jesus. She's sen... More

Mar 12, 2012 03:03 pm by Local Cut | Comments 0

Loch Lomond Tour Diary: Carnival of Candy and Beer (Nijmegen, Netherlands)

Music In the malleable and ever-shifting enigma that is Loch Lomond, class of ’12 is poised to take over... More

Mar 6, 2012 02:10 pm by Loch Lomond | Comments 0

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Mbilly: Saturday, May 26

William Helfrich tries to untangle his past and makes his best album in the process.

Music Stories [SINGER-SONGWRITER] William Helfrich woke up one morning a few years ago and realized he was a grown-up. It was something none of his previous life experiences—not going to college, not holding More

Wednesday, May 23, 2012 CASEY JARMAN

Killer Kitsch

Guantanamo Baywatch mines the dirty intersection of surf rock and punk.

Music Stories Chevelle Wiseman had never played bass when she agreed to be the bassist for Guantanamo Baywatch, a handicap she overcame by... More

Wednesday, May 23, 2012 SHANE DANAHER

Primer: Tycho

Music Stories Formed: 2002 in San Francisco. Sounds like: A Saturday Night Fever-style dance floor made of melting chocolate. For fans of: Boards of Canada’s Geogaddi, anything on the Ghost Box label, Luk More

Wednesday, May 23, 2012 ROBERT HAM

What Hearts: Sunday, May 20

A journey from old-timey Americana to pop that would rather not be called cute.

Music Stories [HOMEMADE POP] Julie Vitells grew up in what she calls “a pop-culture vacuum.” With hippie parents and a natural proclivity toward “old-timey stuff,” the young musician—who spent her ear More

Wednesday, May 16, 2012 CASEY JARMAN

Primer: Schoolboy Q

Music Stories Born: Oct. 26, 1986, on an Army base in West Germany. Sounds like: A thugged-out West Coast version of Kid Cudi who wants to go clubbin’ with 50 Cent but ends up taking a bunch of ’shrooms an More

Wednesday, May 16, 2012 MARTIN CIZMAR

Beyond Amélie

Yann Tiersen tones down the accordion and turns up the drums.

Music Stories For most of those who know his music, French songwriter Yann Tiersen will forever be associated with whimsical tunes played with a jaunty joie de vivre on an accordion. But ask Devin Gallagher, More

Wednesday, May 9, 2012 ROBERT HAM

Q&A: Ian Youngstrom of St. Johns Bizarre

Music Stories When the St. Johns Bizarre began six years ago, it was a low-profile street fair with crafts, beer and bands. Today it’s a slightly higher-profile street fair with more crafts, more beer and rea More

Wednesday, May 9, 2012 CASEY JARMAN

Primer: Imperial Teen

Music Stories Formed: 1994 in San Francisco. Sounds like: A series of intense couple fights that always end in cuddling. For fans of: Sonic Youth, Electric Light Orchestra, the Dandy Warhols, Letters to Cle More

Wednesday, May 9, 2012 CASEY JARMAN

Blowback

How Colin Stetson helped save the sax from cheesy ’80s purgatory.

Music Stories Last year was a good one for the sax. From the commercial airwaves (Lady Gaga’s “Edge of Glory,” Katy Perry’s “Last Friday Night”) to the indie blogosphere (Destroyer’s Kaputt, Tune- More

Wednesday, May 2, 2012 JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG

Lotus Plaza: Monday, May 7

Dreamboat/Deerhunter Lockett Pundt takes his newly epic show on the road.

Music Stories [UNCHAINED MELODIES] The idolization of handsome young male musicians is not the sole province of Beatlemania, Tiger Beat magazine or the Jonas family. Lockett Pundt, Lotus Plaza’s frontman and a More

Wednesday, May 2, 2012 CASEY JARMAN