Music Stories INTERVIEW Dan Bern: American Badass? If the nation doesn't embrace this cult-fave folkie, the terrorists have already won. For the past half-decade, irascible Dan Bern has stirred up a sleepy fo ...   More

Music Stories PREVIEW The Perfect Storm Seattle's Pretty Girls Make Graves brews a hardcore tempest. As if to make it clear that Pretty Girls Make Graves is a collaborative project--no songwriter-guitarist-fasc ...   More

Music Stories PREVIEW Ladies & Gentlemen, We're Floating in Space Spiritualized = CosmicMost articles about Spiritualized focus on the band's gigantic sound. That's understandable. On record and, especial ...   More

Music Stories PREVIEW Deutsch Bags Your Guide to the Beer and Music of Oktoberfest 2001 (Portland Branch). Ah, Oktoberfest: plump frauleins, tuba bands, miles of sausage, seas of malty goodness. The real deal ...   More

Music Stories MUSIC & NIGHTLIFE Hiss & VinegarMAYHEM COPS, HIP-HOP FANS GRAPPLE AT ROSELAND In the early morning hours of Sunday, Aug. 19, the aftermath of a Roseland Theater hip-hop show headlined by Living Le ...   More

Music Stories REVIEW The Lost Sounds: A Doomed Broadcast from Deep SpaceThese days, scores of bands seem to be falling all over themselves in variously successful attempts to resurrect the twitchy skinny-tie vib ...   More

Music Stories THE DECEMBERISTS: Young Pioneers in a Folk/Pop Revolt. PREVIEW The song starts like this: "My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist in Paris prewar/ Smuggling bombs to the underground." And if that ...   More

Music Stories PREVIEW Lost Worlds Take Over Horning's HideoutEach year, subculturally adventurous Oregonians drive hundreds of miles into a wasteland to witness Burning Man's post-pagan art conflagration. Howeve ...   More

Music Stories SUNSET VALLEY: THE PRODIGALS RETURN PREVIEWWith its intensely singable melodies and oddball lyrics, along with frontman Herman Jolly's lovable binges of unearthly falsetto, Portland's Sunset Valley ...   More