SoHiTek Records: Wednesday, May 8

Not every young person comes to Portland to retire. Some start record labels.

Music Stories The founder of SoHiTek Records, 30-year-old Erik Carlson, lives the quintessential Portland dream. Aside from owning and operating his own homegrown record label, he also curates the SoHiTek visua   More

 

Wednesday, May 8, 2013 EMILEE BOOHER

Exploding Hearts 4Ever

10 years ago, a car crash wiped out Portland’s biggest punk band. Finally, the sole survivor tells all.

Cover Story The Exploding Hearts are the biggest “what if” in the history of Portland music. Ten years ago next week, the band released its first and only album, Guitar Romantic, a record brimming with sh   More

 

Wednesday, March 27, 2013 EMILEE BOOHER

Battleme: Saturday, March 2

How losing his sight helped Matt Drenik find his voice.

Music Stories [BASEMENT MIXTAPE] In the fall of 2009, Matt Drenik, then the frontman for Austin-based band Lions, was about to head to the United Kingdom for the biggest tour of his career. Two weeks before l   More

 

Wednesday, February 27, 2013 EMILEE BOOHER

Theo Craig (Rontoms Sunday Sessions)

Meet the man who made a Burnside bar the epicenter for Portland music.

Music Stories Theo Craig is one of Portland’s biggest music fans. In January 2012, the chatty, affable 35-year-old became the sole talent buyer for the free Sunday Sessions at Rontoms, which have since tran   More

 

Wednesday, February 6, 2013 EMILEE BOOHER

Album Review: The Parson Red Heads, Yearling (Deluxe Version) (Second Motion Records)

Music The Parson Red Heads Yearling (Deluxe Version) Second Motion Records [HARMONIOUS COUNTRY-POP] Re-releasing an album less than two years after the original seems premature. But according to the Parson Red Heads—the gleeful and partially redheaded Portland-based quartet—its new 17-track deluxe ver...   More

 

Wednesday, January 23, 2013 by EMILEE BOOHER

Album Review: Tango Alpha Tango

Live From the Banana Stand (Banana Stand)

Album Reviews [BLUES ROCK] Portland’s Tango Alpha Tango is best experienced amid a crowded room of sweaty guitar junkies. Logically, then, a well-mixed live album is the next greatest thing. Captured last y   More

 

Wednesday, December 19, 2012 EMILEE BOOHER

Bonus Album Review: And And And, No Party EP (Thing Thing Thing)

Music In this week's print edition, we reviewed new albums from Brainstorm, the Ocean Floor and Federale<...   More

 

Thursday, November 29, 2012 by EMILEE BOOHER

Album Review: The Ocean Floor

Falling Star Castle (Single Girl Married Girl)

Album Reviews [EXPERIMENTAL POP] Lane Barrington’s last album was full of questions. Literally. It’s called Pop Quiz, and every track title ends in a question mark. The frontman of the Ocean Floor, which st   More

 

Wednesday, November 28, 2012 EMILEE BOOHER

Restaurant Guide 2012: Inside the Kitchen at Aviary and Smallwares

Food & Drink WW's 2012 Restaurant Guide is out today—as always, it is a beautiful full-color magazine full of food porn and excellent advice. And it's free. You really should pick up a copy. But we also wanted to offer a little something extra for our readers on the information superhighway, so we sent multimedia jou...   More

 

Wednesday, October 24, 2012 by EMILEE BOOHER

Album Review: Weinland

Los Processaur (Woodphone/Jealous Butcher)

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

 

Wednesday, October 24, 2012 EMILEE BOOHER