Music Stories Commotion Self-Titled(Self Released) [GROOVY JAZZ] Pianist Ben Darwish is best known as one of Portland’s brightest straight-ahead jazz players, but his band Commotion’s debut album is ...   More

Music Stories A Day to Remember, “Colder Than My Heart If You Can Imagine”The band name is almost worse than the song title, but they complement one another.A Skylit Drive, “Thank God It’s C ...   More

Music Stories Satan’s Pilgrims Psychsploitation(Self Released) [SURFADELIC] One would expect a 10-year hiatus to take a band off its game a little. But Satan’s Pilgrims—renowned surf-rockers f ...   More

Music Stories Yacht See Mystery Lights(DFA) [MYSTERY BEATS] YACHT has always played with contrasts. Jona Bechtolt was accessible long before his music was, smiling and chatting with fans before, after and somet ...   More

Music Stories Troublemakers, 3 pm ThursdayYou know things are going to get a little randy when you start off a festival with a roots-rock band of self-declared “full-grown men” named the Troublemakers.J ...   More

Music Stories 5. Chrissie HyndeBecause she is one badass motherfucker. Listen to all that oozing attitude on the early Pretenders albums, telling us all to fuck off. And her melodies are some of the best out there, ...   More

Music Stories 1. Chain bookstores have the cleanest men’s restrooms.2. Extended checkout don’t mean shit.3. TV is awful.4. Always, always use your own mic!5. Never kill a fifth before the show. SEE I ...   More

Music Stories If the raw, spontaneous sound of White Rabbits’ new album, It’s Frightening, sounds just a touch familiar, perhaps it’s because Portlander and Spoon frontman Britt Daniel produced th ...   More

Music Stories Ilyas Ahmed Goner(Root Strata) [EXPERIMENTAL] The blurry bio of Pakistan-born outsider musician Ilyas Ahmed—who bounced around the country before landing in Portland—is as perplexing a ...   More

Music Stories SCTVThe fictional television station where John Candy, Eugene Levy, Martin Short, Harold Ramis, Catherine O’Hara and Rick Moranis got their start. Best sketch: “Great White North&rdquo ...   More