Music In this week's Whatever Happened To... cover story, WW got in touch with plenty of Portlanders who haven't been heard from in quite awhile. While Marv Ross, once-guitarist/primary songwriter for local sax-rock heroes Quarterf...   More

Music Wayward songwriter Matt Hopper doesn't really have a homebase: "For me, it's touring and couch surfing," he says, adding that he hasn't "had an apartment or anything since 2004." That said, Hopper, a native Alaskan, rubs elbows with some notable Alaskan transplants—he's currently touring...   More

Music Holidays are for list-making. That’s why this edition of HCYF is a little ramshackle. See, my brain’s been scrambled lately because I made the harrowing decision to listen to a full day of Christmas music—on soft-rock station 103.3 FM of all things—two Saturdays ago, and...   More

Bar Reviews No, not those Phish-heads—though the Hawthorne Fish House (4343 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 548-4434) is within spitting distance of head shops like the Third Eye—actual fish heads. See, owners ...   More

News As Huey Lewis used to say, "This is it!" Now PDX Pop Now!/At Dusk/Portland Mercury's Cary Clarke—who also happens to be a major crusader in the fight for under-21 music fans' rights—is saying it, too.

Why? Because OLCC commissioners are finally casting votes that could ...   More

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As Huey Lewis used to say, "This is it!" Now PDX Pop Now!/At Dusk/Portland Mercury's Cary Clarke—who also happens to be a major crusader in the fight for under-21 music fans' rights—is saying it, too.

Why? Because OLCC commissioners are finally casting vo...   More

Music Just listening, it's awfully hard to believe that the Old Believers are actually really darn young (like, under 21 young). But Nelson Kempf and Keeley Boyle seem to truly believe in their own old souls, and the couple/duo's music is all the better for it.

Part of the Alaska-t...   More

Music In this week's music feature, WW chatted up ubiquitous multi-instrumentalist Peter Broderick (via email). As is usually the case when catching up with interesting...   More

Music Peter Broderick is the embodiment of “gifted.” A true multi-instrumentalist, he can be heard playing everything from piano and violin to saw and theremin on records by everyone from Laura Gibson, Loch Lomond and Dolorean to Norfolk & Western and his own chamber-folk outfit (wit...   More

Music About a month ago, I received an email that made me think ’90s punk-grunge outfit the Treepeople (featuring Built to Spill’s Doug Martsch) was reuniting. And, based solely on that band’s dirtied-up, angsty cover of the Smiths’ “Bigmouth Strikes Again”—...   More