Music [SINGERS-SONGWRITERS] I arrive at McKinley's bungalow, staggering distance from the Space Room and other upper-Hawthorne watering holes, to find the three ladies of Dirty Martini perched on countertops, sipping cocktails, awaiting homemade pizza from the oven and giggling up a storm. As I'm handed a drink, the... More
PROFILE: Dirty Martini
Music [SINGERS-SONGWRITERS] I arrive at McKinley's bungalow, staggering distance from the Space Room and other upper-Hawthorne watering holes, to find the three ladies of Dirty Martini perched on countertops, sipping cocktails, awaiting homemade pizza from the oven and giggling up a storm. As I'm handed a drink, the... More
Catch A Wave
Peter Ames Carlin captures the Beach Boys' Smile and pain.
Books Every literate rocker knows that the Beach Boys' sunny veneer masked a melanoma of family dysfunction metastasizing beneath the skin, dooming the boy genius behind it all. Most writing on them falls i ... More
Passing Through: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, July 29 at the Amphitheater at Clark County
Music Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers barnstormed into Vancouver on this Saturday night, halfway into what he claims might be his final tour (surely, before the inevitable "comeback" tour, the "reunion" tour, the "sponsored by Depends" tour...). But for a 60-year-old, the eternally youthful Petty seemed plenty spry... More
Writin' The Storm Out
Local bassist goes to New Orleans a sideman, returns a songwriter.
RIFF CITY Matt Voth's chance phone call to an old college buddy last September found his friend down in Louisiana, working for a firm involved with disaster relief there. "Man, you'd be perfect for this job," w ... More
Yahoo For Dahoo
The secular singers of the Dahoo Chorus preach the classic-rock catechism.
Featured Stories I'm watching about 20 young people huddled in the round inside a warehouse studio in Southeast Portland. The group repeatedly clusters off into smaller sections, then reassembles back into the larger ... More
THE ORIGINAL UNORIGINALS
Foghorn Stringband makes it to the top of the old-time pile by sticking to tradition.
Music Stories The title of Foghorn Stringband's new release, Weiser Sunrise, celebrates the band's origin at the 2001 National Fiddle Championships in Weiser (pronounced like the nerd-rock group), Idaho, and shares ... More
From Ragtag to Riches
An unlikely team, Heroes & Villains offer their services as Portland's newest cutest band.
Music Stories Right now there are grinning glances passing between five musicians onstage, the look of folks discovering the fun of playing together, finding new magic in the music they're making. Each of them will ... More
500 Words with ... Alejandro Escovedo
Music Stories The last time WW spoke to semi-legendary Texas songwriter-singer-guitarist Alejandro Escovedo was in 2002, while he was touring in support of By the Hand of the Father, a moving work about Mexican-Ame ... More
Movin' Outside
Busy singer-songwriter Lara Michell has found herself. Now she wants to share it with you.
Music Stories The third track on Lara Michell's newly released Ruby Red starts out predictably enough. The song, "Outside the Inside," begins with a delicately fingerpicked, symmetrical pattern akin to the material ... More
BEHOLD THE LOST COSMIC COWBOY CLASSIC
Album Reviews Terry Allen's debut, Juarez, originally released in 1976, was thankfully reissued in 2004 to claim its place as one of the greatest albums ever recorded in any genre. And if that's not enough of a pre ... More
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