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News It's always a good day when new content is updated on Daytrotter, the music blog where all your favorite bands stop by for a quick set at a studio in the middle of nowhere (aka the Midwest). Checking out the site this afternoon I stumbled upon today's post, and guess what: Fuckin A!
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News What does a hunter do when the deer season is over? What if this "deer hunter" isn't so much an individual, but a band from Atlanta? And what if that season isn't so much "relegated to three specific months," but dozens of them?

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News New levels of noise! New levels of awkward!

How awesome was last night? You know, how Night Wounds tore up the stage and how Nathan Howdeshell aka Brace Paine used a chain-saw to cut a sleeping bag in half in some sort of symbolic reference to his former noise project to announce ...   More

News We're only hours away from the inaugural Portland Music Awards, and oh the town's in a frenzy. Storm Large or Modest Mouse for Best Live Performance? Shaky Hands or Shins for Album Of The Year? And whomever shall win the Legend Award? A host of local luminaries including football icon Jerry Glanville...   More

News After a two month absence from the docket, LocalCut's Portland Lounge Series is back in action! What's going down at Towne Lounge (714 SW 20th Pl.) this Sunday? A night of noise! And as always, it's free! So are you up for getting down to some of Portland's best experimental music?

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News As you may know by now, next weekend (aaaallll weekend from Friday, Feb. 1 to Sunday, Feb. 3) is Slabtown's second annual Bender festival. Shit-tons of garage bands, punks and metalheads will take the stage in a virtually endless stream of rawk. Interested parties can show up tonight and get th...   More

News PDX Pop Now! season is almost as long as baseball season. There's Spring training, where bands contribute tracks for the annual compilation (going on now—see pdxpopnow.org for more info), the regular season part where the comp gets put together and the festival gets booked, and of co...   More

News Tu Fawning's Joe Haege took the time to send a manifesto-leaning press release ("written in the lovely industry-tinged 3rd person") about he and Corrina Repp's debut EP as Tu Fawning. According to Haege, the album will be called Secession, and it's on track for a mid-March release via longtime punk-le...   More

News Swan Island, to the best of our knowledge Portland's only all-female dance-metal queercore outfit, is throwing in the towel, Holocene Records' Scott McLean notified us via email yesterday. While we've yet to see a press-release or hear an official comment from the band, McLean's email said that the band is going on ...   More