Album Reviews [THE LONESOME CROWDED NORTHWEST] Ever since moving to Portland in 2008, Morning Teleportation has been tagged the Next Big Thing.   More

Album Reviews [SACRAMENTAL VISIONS] It must be devastating for other bands to hear albums like Beyond the 4th Door. They rehearse their songs into the ground, stressing over every note and beat. Then here comes E   More

Album Reviews [WEIRDO OPERA] In the eyes of those haggard, cynical souls who haven’t been out to a local show in the past decade or so, Portland’s music scene has    More

Album Reviews [POST-WHATEVER] Moody, trip-hop-inspired indie pop. That’s what I’d call the music on Radiation City’s new full-length, The Hands That Take You. The local trio, which   More

Album Reviews [PDX SLUDGE] Scan the liner notes of local metal outfit Rabbits’ new record, Lower Forms, and you’ll find a surprising note: Lower Forms was recorded at Type Foundry studios. For the uninitiated, this is somewhat of    More

Album Reviews [ALT-ROCK WILL NEVER DIE] Now that the Decemberists have hit No. 1 on the Billboard charts, the idea that a local group can go from a practice space on East Burnside to    More

Album Reviews [FOREFATHERS OF TWEE] Upon the release of the Decemberists’ The King Is Dead, we ran 10 writers’ takes on the album’s 10 songs. The idea was to see the full range of responses, from hatred to fawning adulation, that   More

Album Reviews [WESTERN EXPERIMENTAL RAP] I give a lot of credit for ambition, and Portland MC Rafael Vigilantics is an ambitious dude. He tries to reinvent hip-hop outright on The Orgasm of a Ghost (yup, that’s the title),
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Album Reviews [MUSIC FROM BIG GREEN] Brothers Sean and Ryan Spellman grew up in the swamps of New Jersey, just outside of Asbury Park. The story in their byline—and in the songs by their   More

Album Reviews [SOUNDSCAPES] Is the “sophomore slump” an American concept? Because Pikara godhead Sara Johanne isn’t from our country—she’s from Sweden, though she has spent the past three years in Port   More