Album Reviews THE HOSPITALS The Hospitals (In the Red Records)Remember George Orwell's 1984 and those wicked cage masks strapped to the heads of political unfortunates? A sliding gate would hold back a frantic ...   More

Music Stories YESTERDAY'S HARDCORE = TODAY'S HOOCHIE HEAVEN/HELLOpening night at Icon, the venue formerly known as Satyricon, saw the legendary punk dive wearing new clothes: brushed-metal panels on the walls, ...   More

Music Stories In accordance with new Willamette Week hiring policy, current music editor Zach Dundas will be challenged to a drinking contest with a qualified music journalist. The prize: the music editorship of Wi ...   More

Album Reviews SIGHTINGS Absolutes (Load Records)With its hyperviolent ur-guitar butchery and relentless dissonance, Sightings' self-titled debut had all the delicacy of a ball-peen hammer being repeatedly bea ...   More

Music Stories J.D.O. TO GO T.U. Jazzheads started getting nervous when the venerable Old Town venue Jazz de Opus added video-poker machines some weeks back. Now, it proves the soul-sucking bling of the televis ...   More

Album Reviews SWORDS PROJECT Entertainment Is Over If You Want It (Arena Rock)The Portland band's music is deep, textured, dark and luscious. Entertainment Is Over If You Want It is an aptly named album: comple ...   More

Music Stories HIT-AND-RUN DRIVER RAMS SYSTEMWIDE SKINMANWeeks after Portland rocker Orion Satushek was killed by an allegedly drunken driver on Southeast Belmont Street and just days before three members of t ...   More

Music Stories The (Untrustworthy) Narrator (Smog) tells it like it is. Maybe. PREVIEW Bill Callahan, the prolific singer-songwriter known parenthetically--literally--as (Smog), is an untrustworthy narrator.He's bee ...   More

Special Section In addition to an endless supply of PORNOGRAPHY, the Internet offers a wealth of resources for the DIY musician. Here are a few sites of the many that can help. www.indiecentre.com ...   More

Music Stories MUSIC NEWS & OPINION HISS and VINEGARMEOW MEOW HATCHES SCHEME TO DISTRIBUTE TO MINORSMeow Meow, the li'l romper room upstairs at 527 SE Pine St., long ago surpassed the newtlike average life expe ...   More