Music Stories [BRINGING HEAVY BACK] Metal and other forms of heavy rock haven’t had this good a year since the 1991 heyday of Metallica’s black album and Guns N’ Roses’ Use Your Illusion I and II. More
Black Cobra: Tuesday, Dec. 27
A rising tide lifts all snakes.
Music Stories [BRINGING HEAVY BACK] Metal and other forms of heavy rock haven’t had this good a year since the 1991 heyday of Metallica’s black album and Guns N’ Roses’ Use Your Illusion I and II. More
Primer: The Blind Boys of Alabama
Music Stories Formed: In 1939 in Talladega, Ala. Sounds like: The wind on a warm summer’s night in the rural deep South, circa 1940-something. For fans of: Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, Blind Willie Johnson, Mahalia More
Q&A: Dinosaur Jr.’s Lou Barlow
The underground icon talks band fights, blood and Henry Rollins.
Music Stories When a band chooses to reproduce one of its albums live in its entirety, usually it selects either the universally regarded masterpiece or a record representing a significant milestone in the gr More
Primer: Reel Big Fish
Music Stories Formed: 1992 in Huntington Beach, Calif. Sounds like: The soundtrack to a GoGurt commercial. For fans of: Less Than Jake, Save Ferris, Buck-O-Nine, Goldfinger. Latest release: 2010 greatest-h More
Q&A: Chris Walla
The Death Cabbie talks Bowie, Twitter and mushy music.
Music Stories It’s kind of amazing what Death Cab for Cutie—a band often dismissed as kids’ stuff or the mushy embodiment of all things “emo”—gets away with. This year’s Codes and Keys is an ambit More
The Dandy Warhols: Dec. 9-11
The Dandy Warhols are for the children.
Music Stories [HOLIDAY PSYCH ROCK] In the 17 years since the Dandy Warhols first recorded their weirdly definitive rendition of “Little Drummer Boy,” the Portland icons—our most continuously successful More
I’ve Got A Hole In My Soul: Thursday, Dec. 8
Portland’s premier soul night hits the five-year mark. Its star DJ hits us with some singles.
Music Stories [SOUL ON WAX] Growing up in a predominantly black area of Memphis, Tenn., Casey Minatrea was born with soul music practically coded into her DNA. Needless to say, moving to Portland in 2003 was a More
Primer: The Clorox Girls
Music Stories Formed: 2003 in Oakland, Calif. Sounds like: Simple, timeless, tuneful punk, with a mischievous undercurrent. For fans of: The Buzzcocks, the Boys, the Nerves, Exploding Hearts. L More
Little China Whirl
Jeffrey Lewis toured the Far East this past summer. His brother Jack took notes.
Music Stories This summer, acclaimed New York City singer-songwriter/comic artist Jeffrey Lewis toured China for 10 days. Portland’s own Lewis, Jack—a singer-songwriter in his own right who often doubles More
AU: Thursday, Dec. 1
AU comes back from the land of the lost lighter but not lite-r.
Music Stories [ART-ROCK REVIVAL] Buttoned up in a wool-lined jacket and working his way through a massive pork chop at Podnah’s Pit on Northeast Killingsworth Street, Luke Wyland exudes a mixture of relief an More
Top Articles from Music Stories
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Why doesn’t Portland’s best band get along? You’re The Best—Around!
The WW music staff picks their best albums of 2011. Rhythm And Booze
Drinking with Destroyer’s Dan Bejar. The Rise and Fall and Rise of Starfucker
State Of The Artistery
An important Portland all-ages venue says goodbye (and good luck). One Small Dubstep
What is the dance music subgenre dubstep, exactly? Depends on who’s dancing. Samurai Jazz
Swiss pianist Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin gives experimental jazz its groove back. Just A Hobby
Fernando Viciconte tried to quit music. His friends wouldn’t let him. The Sound And The Fury
Kelli Schaefer takes a leap of faith. Ween: An Abbreviated History
Tracing the ascent of music’s most gleefully unclassifiable psychopaths.
Why doesn’t Portland’s best band get along? You’re The Best—Around!
The WW music staff picks their best albums of 2011. Rhythm And Booze
Drinking with Destroyer’s Dan Bejar. The Rise and Fall and Rise of Starfucker
State Of The Artistery
An important Portland all-ages venue says goodbye (and good luck). One Small Dubstep
What is the dance music subgenre dubstep, exactly? Depends on who’s dancing. Samurai Jazz
Swiss pianist Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin gives experimental jazz its groove back. Just A Hobby
Fernando Viciconte tried to quit music. His friends wouldn’t let him. The Sound And The Fury
Kelli Schaefer takes a leap of faith. Ween: An Abbreviated History
Tracing the ascent of music’s most gleefully unclassifiable psychopaths.
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