Here Comes Your Fan In an interview earlier this year, local songwriter Morgan Grace had this to say about being a female musician: “The gender issue kinda pisses me off. It’s like, ‘Oh, you’re a ...   More

Here Comes Your Fan The four words in this year’s guide to MusicfestNW that bring me the greatest joy are “Aqueduct in the hizzy.” Granted, that’s because I’m a huge dork, but don’t le ...   More

Here Comes Your Fan There’s a scene in the movie Airheads where Brendan Fraser’s character asks a stuffed shirt (played by Harold Ramis), “Who’d win in a wrestling match, Lemmy or God?” When ...   More

Here Comes Your Fan Last Thursday, I found myself amid livestock, awarding-winning pies, carnival rides and more faded Open Up and Say...Ahh! T-shirts than you could throw an elephant ear at. And, because I traveled out ...   More

Here Comes Your Fan On a recent Monday night (after a long WW press day), all I really wanted was a burger. So I wandered blurry-eyed into the Blue Moon (432 NW 21st Ave., 223-3184), intent on scarfing down a Captain Neo ...   More

Here Comes Your Fan Everyone has a band that first "changed their lives," so to speak. Mine was the Smashing Pumpkins. My first guitar is covered in SP stickers; I'm donning an SP tee (and a flannel!) in my senior class ...   More

Here Comes Your Fan A few months ago, I received a copy of Debbie Gibson's Out of the Blue on vinyl as a gift—and it wasn't a joke. OK, it was kind of a joke, but Gibson was one of my absolute faves growing up, and ...   More

Here Comes Your Fan When it comes to the arts—and especially music—Portland holds its own near and dear. We're happy to claim folks like the Shins, Modest Mouse and the Decemberists, and for several years fol ...   More

Here Comes Your Fan For music critics—and probably some Beatles fans—Paul McCartney's latest solo effort, Memory Almost Full, is a big pink elephant in the room. It's the first proper release from Starbucks' ...   More

Here Comes Your Fan The first time a WW reader told me to "fuck off," it was in response to a comment I made about the Aladdin Theater's typical audience. In a fairly positive preview of OPB's live radio variety show, Li ...   More