Music Stories The Harvey Girls I’ve Been Watching A Lot Of Horror Movies Lately(Circle Into Square) [EVASIVE POP] The lyrical imagery that kicks off I’ve Been Watching a Lot of Horror Movies Lately m ...   More

Music Stories Kurt Hagardorn Leaves(Self-Released) [SOFT POP] When we last checked in with Kurt Hagardorn, the North Carolina transplant had just released Ten Singles, a severely overlooked collection of smooth ...   More

Music Stories I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch In The House The Sounds Of Dying(Suburban Home Records) [COUNTRY ROCK] When I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House broke up in 2006, frontman Michael Dean Damron had alr ...   More

Music Stories Blitzen Trapper Destroyer Of The Void(Sub Pop) [OUTLAW FOLK-ROCK] There are risks to opening your album with a six-minute epic. Especially when the song in question is a sonic departure wherein you ...   More

Music Stories Brown Caesar 4 Tha Crown(Broken Homes) [HIP-HOP] The greatest gift an MC can have is a recognizable voice, and Portland’s Brown Caesar (formerly Santotzin) certainly fits that bill. While his ...   More

Top 5 5. Flat topography encourages hippies to build ridiculous bicycles.4. Application to become fourth member of Menomena rejected on the grounds that I was “too fat/not bicurious enough.”3. P ...   More

Top 5 When I was asked to write down five things I hate about Portland, my initial reaction was “only five?” I did six.The BlazersThey’ve only won one championship in 40 years and that was ...   More

Music Stories Hosannas Then & Now & Then(Hush Records) [JENGA POP] There will come a time, in the not-too-distant future, when the recording quality of Hosannas’ new compilation, Then & Now & Then, will so ...   More

Top 5 Guantanamo BaywatchEverything you want in a name. You can almost picture David Hasselhoff in a bright orange hazmat suit, right? The ManimalhouseSometimes, genius is as simple as sticking one letter i ...   More

Music Stories Adam Hurst Elegy(Ash Records) [MELLOW CELLO] You’ve probably seen him at the Portland Farmers Market, various outdoor festivals, and other gatherings around town: straw hat, perched on a stoo ...   More