Music Whether you are new to the Portland scene, or a golden oldie holding on for dear life, these are the websites you need to know.

Record Labels
Aesthetics: aesthetics-usa.com
Audio Dregs: audiodregs.com
Battleship: battleshiprecords.com
Beta-Lactam: blrrecords.com
Collective Jyrk: jyrk.com
Community Library: community-library.net
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Music Hello band, emcee or solo artist. You have been deemed worthy to keep a Tour Diary on the Local Cut website, or maybe it's more like, we have been deemed worthy to receive your words and beam them out to our readership. Whichever it is, this is your guide for posting your wonderful prose on the site. Please read on, and pardon the redundancy of the first few directions. You are obviously al...   More

Music The Kingdom, led by one of Portland's most delightfully spastic citizens of the night, Charles Westmoreland, is known for its unhinged performances that generally involve a lot of synth, sweat, booze and unintelligible lyricism. On the band's upcoming release K1, though, the Kingdom reveals a more matur...   More

Music This will come as no surprise to the folks who turned out for the release of the Village Green's debut album, Feeling the Fall, but the Portland psych rock band, which suffered heavy casualties early in the summer with the departure of bandmembers Dave Depper and Nathan Anderson due to that dastardly ba...   More

Music Yesterday Local Cut reported that Talkdemonic's Lisa Molinaro will be joining the Decemberists on the fall tour in support of that band's major label debut The Crane Wife. At the time, the status of a Talkdemonic fall tour, which would have been a second outing in support of the duo's tremendousl...   More

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Music So, last night, as the first night of MusicfestNW got underway with Adam Shearer of John Weinland stepping to the mic at Town Lounge and timidly announcing "Well, this is probably the first song of Musicfest," a full moon was beginning to cut its arc across the night sky. This might explain some of the intense...   More