Music Stories 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 ...   More

Bar Reviews Rumor has it that Old Town’s Crown Room (205 NW 4th Ave., 222-6655) features entertainment from old-school lounge singers (i.e., Elvis and Sinatra impersonators) on weeknights—which actual ...   More

Music As always, a big thanks to everyone who made it out this past Sunday night for the fourteenth edition of LocalCut's Portland Lounge Series, featuring Kele Goodwin, Andy Combs and Leigh Marble.

It was a cold one (the night, not the show), and the Towne Lounge was suffering some he...   More

Music Good god, this song is beautiful.

The ever-humble and shy-in-a-good-way Kele Goodwin offers up wise, softly sung words: "We love and we lie/ But you were right/ We will survive." Everyone's favorite local folkstress, Laura Gibson, adds aching, haunting backup vocals. And Bright...   More

Music Alan Singley is bummed. Or at least that’s what the local songwriter—one of my favorites—told me in a recent email. Naturally, I was concerned. But I was also excited to hear his sad new material, as I’ve always gravitated toward Singley’s more introspective s...   More

News That's right, beloved LocalCut readers. It's time, once again, for another Portland Lounge Series. Those of you who have attended a past Portland Lounge Series know that PLS is an always fun, always free night of onstage interviews and short, intimate sets from some of Portland's best artists. You may also know that P...   More

Music That's right, beloved LocalCut readers. It's time, once again, for another Portland Lounge Series. Those of you who have attended a past Portland Lounge Series know that PLS is an always fun, always free night of onstage interviews and short, intimate sets from some of Portland's best artists. You may also know that P...   More

Music Most people who know me well know that I'm a huge fan of monsters, goblins, ghouls and pretty much all things of that nature (hell, I was once a bonafide Critter on MySpace—until realizing that messaging bands as a monster with half-chewed food in my many-toothed mouth was a bit unprofess...   More

Music The I’m Not There soundtrack is the kind of thing that makes music nerds wet their shorts. Just as different actors portray Bobby D. in the flick (see Screen, page 63), some of modern rock and folk’s greatest voices—from X legend John Doe and Eddie Vedder to Wilco’s...   More

Music [UNDECIDED] You know those after-school specials that try to discourage kids from smoking weed? They usually depict a bunch of degenerates getting wasted in a party van (the kind with interior running lights and curtains), listening to the Doors and, later, being involved in s...   More