Album Reviews [NIGHTPLAY] Litanic Mask certainly knows how to create and sustain a mood throughout an album. I put the duo’s self-titled record on repeat for a few hours and was surprised at how often it move   More

Album Reviews [FOLK ROCK] Forget the quiet, rainy-day Weinland of yesteryear. Within the first few measures of opening track “Bones Cracking In,” the Portland band’s fourth album, Los Processaur, deviat   More

Album Reviews [ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC] Even if the press materials for We Are All Fire didn’t explicitly talk about how the album centers on the theme of family, and even if Tom Filepp, the man behind Cars & Tr   More

Album Reviews [SOUL FOR REAL] The Shaky Hands were never known for dynamism. The band’s four albums had a strangely flat quality that Nick Delffs and company only ever surmounted when playing live. But hear   More

Album Reviews [BEDROOM FOLK] There’s a sense of quiet Western solitude in Cait Olds’ work. The Portland-via-California songwriter recorded full-length debut Prison City at Materials to Outlet, Jake Kelly’s    More

Album Reviews [PARENTAL PUNK] Collaboration cures what ails you. Corin Tucker took this for granted in the immediate wake of Sleater-Kinney’s breakup, evidenced by the Portlander’s introverted approach on   More

Album Reviews [PSYCH FOLK] At its best, Sidereal Time, the fourth album from Portland duo the Harvey Girls, recalls Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot in its disheveled folk experimentalism. “Picher, Nowata” and    More

Album Reviews [JAZZ] “Cool jazz” once meant exuding a marked restraint and letting delicate, simple melodies unfold naturally. Nowadays, most young players equate “cool” with “hip” and work tirele   More

Album Reviews [NEW CLASSIC ROCK] Utrillo Kushner is at his best when he’s hung-over. Loosen the Lead and Spoil the Dogs, the Comets on Fire drummer’s third more-or-less solo album under the name Colossal Ye   More

Album Reviews [WORLDLY ACOUSTIC] For the five members of Black Prairie—all of whom come from well-established acts such as the Decemberists and Dolorean—the band is an experimental melting pot. Letting lo   More