Special Section [ECLECTIC INDIE ROCK] Eric Bachmann has the kind of voice you wouldn’t want your father or grade-school principal or basketball coach to have: brooding, imposing, wise and sure to make you feel ...   More

Special Section [BOMBASTIC FUZZ-ROCK] It’s not a stretch to say that damn near every written story about Texan indie-rock group Centro-matic includes the word “gravel.” That’s because the voic ...   More

Music Four years ago, I sat, a fresh-faced prospective intern, across from WW’s notoriously cantankerous assistant Arts & Culture editor, Steffen Silvis, and told him I wanted to write about music. He said, “You and everyone else in this town.” So, you can imagine my su...   More

Here Comes Your Fan Four years ago, I sat, a fresh-faced prospective intern, across from WW’s notoriously cantankerous assistant Arts & Culture editor, Steffen Silvis, and told him I wanted to write about music. He ...   More

Bar Reviews THE VENUE’S VENUE: On the eve of my departure from Portland and WW (as its recent music editor, see Here Comes Your Fan), I’d like to salute my favorite local music venue: the Towne Lounge ...   More

Music I wasn't until I reached the final track on Your Anchor, the ninth release from Lackthereof, a.k.a. Menomena's Danny Seim, that I started to notice how much Seim's music reminds me of the National ("one of the few bands in the world that I like as human beings as much as I like as musicians" ...   More

Music Some people love to be the center of attention. Danny Seim, best known as drummer and co-songwriter for the awesome, experimental-pop triple-threat Menomena, is not one of those people. He’s been cranking out solo efforts under the name Lackthereof for over 10 years now; yet few besides Menomena fanatics and t...   More

Here Comes Your Fan Some people love to be the center of attention. Danny Seim, best known as drummer and co-songwriter for the awesome, experimental-pop triple-threat Menomena, is not one of those people. He’s bee ...   More

News Lots of you know by now (thanks to plenty of coverage in both WW and the Merc) that it's Hush Record...   More

Music Lots of you know by now (thanks to plenty of coverage in both WW and the Merc) that it's Hush Record...   More