Music [THE NEW OLD] A female vocalist starting an album with the words, “Cried all night till there was nothin’ more” probably sounds a bit offputting. It does to me—but not when that girl is Zooey Deschanel. And not when her album’s ageless production and simple, s...   More

Music Stories [THE NEW OLD] A female vocalist starting an album with the words, “Cried all night till there was nothin’ more” probably sounds a bit offputting. It does to me—but not when tha ...   More

Here Comes Your Fan It’s Saturday night at Mt. Scott Community Center. Elliott, a spindly blonde eighth grader at Hosford Middle School, steps into an arts and crafts classroom and prepares to sing—a cappella ...   More

Music Country music, meet your saviors. The new project of Minders keyboardist and sometime-drummer Rebecca Cole, Hungry Holler is keeping the sadly eroded genre real by playing actual country—you know, the kind rooted more in blues, folk and gospel than blonde hair dye, truck commercials an...   More

Movie Reviews & Stories It takes some gumption to watch a movie that could easily amount to 91 minutes of young girls screaming. Which is why Girls Rock! seems so daunting at first. The film documents Portland’s Rock & ...   More

Music First off, a big thanks to everyone who made it out this past Sunday night for the sixteenth edition of LocalCut's Portland Lounge Series, featuring Nick Jaina, Michael Apinyakul and Michael the Blind. As always, a fine night of music, chatting and boozin' was had by all.

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Dylan Magierek has figured out how to fit in here: Realize there's more to Oregon than McMenamins, sign a local band. The 40-year-old brought his life—and his label, Badman Recording Co.—to Portland a year and half ago from San Francisco, and he's deduced t...   More

Music [AMERICANA] To rock or not to rock? That has long been the question facing Weinland frontman Adam Shearer. But the real issue at hand for this solo songwriting project-cum-three piece-cum-folk ensemble is how big a sound to have. La Lamentor has an answer.

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Music Stories [AMERICANA] To rock or not to rock? That has long been the question facing Weinland frontman Adam Shearer. But the real issue at hand for this solo songwriting project-cum-three piece-cum-folk ensembl ...   More

Music That's right, LocalCut readers: It's time, once again, for our (free!) live interview-and-intimate set event, the Portland Lounge Series. Tonight, Sunday, Feb. 24, at the Towne Lounge (714 SW 20th Place), yours truly will be chatting with macabre folkster Nick Jaina, acoustic bluesman Michael Apinyakul and “very...   More