News [This report comes via LocalCut contributor Anika Sabin. It's not her fault it's late. -Ed.] October is upon us! For Portlanders this means bundling up, caravaning out to Sauvie Island and taking refuge in bookstores and coffee shops across our rain-weathered city. For New Yorkers however, mid-October means the ascen...   More

News [WW's 2005 Best New Band, Talkdemonic, is recording a new album, and Jason Quigley got a sneak peak. He sent these amazing photos and a brief explanation.]

I was there on a Saturday last month, I think it was the 29th. Lisa [Molinaro] was laying down viola and cello tracks at a house in Lake Oswego. ...   More

News So we're driving on the wrong side of the road again. Above and behind me is Justin, sleeping in a queen-sized loft. Directly in the seat in front of me is Jared, wearing oversized headphones. He lifts them off his ears temporarily to readjust, giving me just enough time to register the beat of "Smooth Criminal" by M...   More

News Guitar legend/Smiths founder/Modest Mouse member/Portland resident Johnny Marr can add another title to his long resume: professor. The AP is reporting that Salford University hired Marr as a visiting professor of popular music and recording.

Dreamiest. Professor. Ever.

It's gotta be...   More

News Looks like last week's recipient of the Band Name of the Week title, San Fran jam/funk/rock outfit Hippie Grenade, has proven me un-hip in the land of pot-smoker lingo. See for yourself in the following (and, I might add, quite diplomatic in the ways of fan-winning) ...   More

News The boys from the Shaky Hands are headed out on their biggest tour ever (alongside the Shins), and bassist Mayhaw Hoons is capturing the magic of a breakthrough tour via his new audio recorder. In this episode, Hoons interviews the Shaky Hands and friends to see how they prepare for performing in front of a hundre...   More

News The 10th episode of These Are The Days, being released on my 25th birthday, features selections by special guests also celebrating birthdays this weekend.

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Arya on KPSU...   More

News So, I made some mention in the last edition of Band Name of the Week--which congratulated Abracadaver on its magically morbid name--that the band in question sounds a lot like Cursive. Apparently, that kinda pissed Abracadaver off. In fact, it seems like much of ...   More

News Wowzers! This Sunday night marks the eleventh (yup, eleventh!) edition of our monthly live music 'n' interview extravaganza, the Portland Lounge Series. Sunday, Sept. 30, I'll be chatting up angel-voiced Ali Wesley (best known for crooning with Super XX Man's Scott Garred, perhaps most notably on    More

News Well, well, well, Band Name of the Week went ahead and found itself a little Cursive ripoff band in Turner, Oregon, of all places. And it's got a noteworthy (if not horrible) band name: Abracadaver! I'm not sure if that cat's gonna pull a deceased human body out ...   More