Music Stories Stephen Malkmus has done a lot of interviews in his 20-odd years fronting Pavement and the Jicks.
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Bar Reviews Club 21 (2035 NE Glisan St., 235-5690) still looks like a little fish tank castle on the outside and feels like a ski lodge on the inside. But the former dive bar, which took only a slight hit in p   More

Music Radiation City's recent record release party at Doug Fir was one of the better local rock shows I've seen in a long time. The quartet plays with plenty of loose passion while keeping both the delicate and complex aspects of its songwriting wholly intact. They seem to me to be a band destined for some very big things. I'm not always right about these things, but my track record isn't horrible, eith...   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Cab Calloway: Sketches 60 Few musicians whom I grew up worshipping stand taller and prouder in my memory than Cab Calloway. With his big band swing-blues, his unconventional dance moves and his ree   More

Music Stories There is no Oregon Music Hall of Fame. No building with vaulted archways and gold records lining the halls. But for its board of directors and 87 past inductees—punk guitarists, jazz drummers and    More

Music Stories [PUNK HIP-HOP] Minneapolis may be the only city in America where Andy Bothwell’s music doesn’t make him a weirdo. After three years in Seattle, Bothwell—better known as the MC/songwriter Astr   More

Music My God. Where did this man come from? What does he want from us? Who did he sell his soul to for this sick beat?

Though he is shrouded in mystery, Cloudy October also lives across the street from me. We've chatted a few times—he's got a good sense of humor (as this song illustrates) and I like his style. But when I hear Cloudy's music, I feel like I don't know the guy at all. In this worl...   More

Music Stories Born: 1972 in Nashville, Tenn.  Sounds like: Somebody spiked a honky-tonk jukebox with well whiskey and plenty of prescription pills.  For fans of: Hank Williams, Hank Williams Jr., Webb Pie   More

Album Reviews [ACOUSTIC WORLD-POP] The disconnect between the band name “Death Songs” and the sunny, celebratory music made under the moniker is something not lost on Nick Delffs. The instantly recognizable D   More

Headout Detroit’s Insane Clown Posse and Los Angeles’ Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All—both of whom visit the Roseland Theater this week—have more in common...
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