RIFF CITY When Crackerbash reunited for MusicfestNW last fall, the result was as gloriously explosive as anything the Portland band wrought back in its early-'90s heyday. We wanted more—and we got it. On ... More
Crack Up
Crackerbash, one of Portland's greatest bands ever, breaks up. Again.
RIFF CITY When Crackerbash reunited for MusicfestNW last fall, the result was as gloriously explosive as anything the Portland band wrought back in its early-'90s heyday. We wanted more—and we got it. On ... More
Three Beautiful Kids, R.I.P.
A writer remembers the Exploding Hearts.
Music Stories News of the tragedy that befell the Exploding Hearts in the early hours of Sunday, July 20, left me shattered, like so many others in Portland's music scene. And I really only knew those boys on a ... More
Keeping It Pure and Simple
The old-fashioned country of Clampitt, Gaddis & Buck refreshes.
Music Stories Keeping It Pure and Simple The old-fashioned country of Clampitt, Gaddis & Buck refreshes.Like a deer bounding from a lonely stand of pine, the spare string arrangements and three-part harmonie ... More
Heroes for Zeroes
The Exploding Hearts blow up with yellow and pink bubblegum pop.
Music Stories Ask the Exploding Hearts how they met, and they'll tell you about a certain Beaverton alternative high school. A place, in their words, for "retards, pregnant chicks and fuck-ups." It was an educa ... More
GARAGELANDISTAN
An all-star jam reveals the Northwest as garage rock's ancestral homeland.
Music Stories What was mold is new again. Suddenly, mid-'60s rock and roll, played by teenagers desperate to cop a Jagger sneer and a Kinks riff, has commercial relevance.With the current success of the White Str ... More
Stand and Deliver
The Now Time Delegation, an underground soul supergroup based in Texas, plays its first live show--ever--in Portland.
Music Stories Watch for Today, the debut disc from a band called the Now Time Delegation, was released earlier this year on the California label In the Red Records. Despite its recent born-on date, however, the ... More
Rock 'n' Rasslin'
On America's birthday, Portland Organic Wrestling turns Satyricon into a grappler's paradise.
Music Stories The premise behind Portland Organic Wrestling is as basic as it is death-defying: Stage a monthly event modeled after pro wrestling in the bowels of one the West Coast's premier underground rock c ... More
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Keeping It Pure and Simple
The old-fashioned country of Clampitt, Gaddis & Buck refreshes. Crack Up
Crackerbash, one of Portland's greatest bands ever, breaks up. Again. Heroes for Zeroes
The Exploding Hearts blow up with yellow and pink bubblegum pop. GARAGELANDISTAN
An all-star jam reveals the Northwest as garage rock's ancestral homeland. Stand and Deliver
The Now Time Delegation, an underground soul supergroup based in Texas, plays its first live show--ever--in Portland. Three Beautiful Kids, R.I.P.
A writer remembers the Exploding Hearts. Rock 'n' Rasslin'
On America's birthday, Portland Organic Wrestling turns Satyricon into a grappler's paradise.
The old-fashioned country of Clampitt, Gaddis & Buck refreshes. Crack Up
Crackerbash, one of Portland's greatest bands ever, breaks up. Again. Heroes for Zeroes
The Exploding Hearts blow up with yellow and pink bubblegum pop. GARAGELANDISTAN
An all-star jam reveals the Northwest as garage rock's ancestral homeland. Stand and Deliver
The Now Time Delegation, an underground soul supergroup based in Texas, plays its first live show--ever--in Portland. Three Beautiful Kids, R.I.P.
A writer remembers the Exploding Hearts. Rock 'n' Rasslin'
On America's birthday, Portland Organic Wrestling turns Satyricon into a grappler's paradise.
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