Music Somebody sign Nick Jaina right now. More people need to hear songs like this, a welcome addition to the Cocaine Canon placing Jaina right alongside such luminaries as the Grateful Dead and Bobby Bare Jr. "Maybe Cocaine" is also one of about six verifiable gems found on the sad bastard songwriter's latest, T...   More

Music Apparently Decemberists fans are so thirsty for information from their favorite pop band that a mere MySpace blog post sends them into fits of spastic keyboard stroking and mouse clicking. Just two hours ago a post appeared on the site called "My Five Favorite Things. By Colin." The list that follows is quite ...   More

Music In the last year Ben Barnett has been incredibly prolific. After a three year hiatus from record store shelves, the man behind Kind of Like Spitting returned with three new releases. Of all of these, Learn: The Songs of Phil Ochs, Barnett's take on the music of the infamous protest songwriter, was by fa...   More

Music This just in from the folks down at PDX Pop Now! headquarters:

We've just had a few recent scheduling changes for PDX Pop Now! 2006. Heroes and Villains and Cicada Omega have dropped out of the festival and The Whips and Whales and Sleepyhead have joined the lineup. The Dime are now playing 3:2...   More

Music Way back on Wednesday, the sweet sound of rock 'n' roll filled the streets of Portland, its beckoning call drawing more than 500 people to City Hall for a free concert. The concert, put on by City Hall and the organizers of the PDX Pop Now! festival, featured Pseudosix, the Minders, Quasi and a strange shirtle...   More

Music Thanks in large part to global warming, Holocene's monthly Cupcake dance party will be cancelled this weekend. After seeing the forecast for Sunday (105-freakin' degrees) organizers decided that the "Fat Folks and Allies" that usually pack the Holocene the fourth Sunday of every month would most likely be busy...   More

Music So what if Keith Brown was in kindergarten when Elliott Smith gave the world Roman Candle? The former Lincoln High School student didn't need to be the same age as Smith to be affected by his words. On the contrary, Brown, who just graduate this last spring, lived in a world that was colored with Smith'...   More

Music No one thought that Lauren K. Newman would let something like a sever head injury stop her from rocking in her general ludicrous fashion for long. Still, it's a relief to hear from Greyday Productions boss Todd Berry that the the multi-instrumentalist will be thrashing about the stage on with her bandle, LKN, ...   More

Music The full schedule for the three day PDX Pop Now! festival has just been released to the public, and, as usual, those Pop kids have mixed it up pretty well. The most intriguing spots in the lineup are Saturday's clumping of Alela Diane, Thanksgiving and Parenthetical Girls and pretty much everything on Sunday p...   More

Music The Portland Radio Authority got bucked by the Federal Communication Commission for illegally broadcasting on Portland airwaves last March. But the scrappy radio station is back, with a new logo (pretty ain't it) and a new plan. New station manager Jeff Simmons says that the former pirate station is going to f...   More