News Though there is still no statement from the band, WW confirmed this morning with the legendary and beloved local garage punk trio's booking agent that the band is calling it quits. Read the full story here on localCut.com.... More
Dead Moon Breakup Confirmed by Agent
News Though there is still no statement from the band, WW confirmed this morning with the legendary and beloved local garage punk trio's booking agent that the band is calling it quits. Read the full story here on localCut.com.... More
IS DEAD MOON BREAKING UP? [Updated: All Shows Cancelled!]
News You might want to sit down for this.
There is a rumor that after nearly 20 years as a band, Dead Moon—arguably the greatest underground rock band in Portland history—is breaking up. Of course, at this point, it is utter hearsay: I've been unable to reach the band for comment, ... More
Closing Arguments Postponed in Muralist/City/Clear Channel Battle Royale
News Standing outside the Multnomah County Courthouse this morning was Joe Cotter—a local muralist who is sticking up for public art in the on-going sign-code dispute Clear Channel has lodged against the City. Apparently, one of the attorneys for Clear Ch... More
Sprockettes Invitational
Spandex joins two nations at Portland's first international bike danceoff.
Featured Stories In the two and a half years since the Portland Sprockettes donned their pink spandex and began hoisting mini-bikes over their heads, doing semi-acrobatic two-wheeled tricks and performing booty dance ... More
Tragic Inspiration
The inimitable sound and admirable ideals of the local hardcore legends you've never heard of.
Featured Stories It's earlier this year and I'm wading across a muddy, boot-pummeled North Portland backyard, eager to get out of the cold rain. But as I descend into the basement where local hardcore band Tragedy has ... More
A Fresh Sign
A local artist hopes his role in the latest fight over Portland's sign code can finally mean more murals.
News Portland's sign code, which restricts both signs and murals to 200 square feet, is catching hell—again.But what's new in this go-round is that professional mural artist Joe Cotter has gotten to ... More
A Real Fake
It took a poser like Borat to bring the real America into focus.
Movie Reviews & Stories I'm dorky enough to have made "friends" with the title character of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for to Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan on MySpace. I placed Borat (played by the hil ... More
Down On The Corner, Out In The Street
How street performing earned one local man spare change—and an unwanted part in Rent.
Featured Stories "You got a dollar?" If this ubiquitous question were more often replaced with beautiful music, I'd have a lot fewer dollars. The Portland Police Department estimates that at least four street musician ... More
Pillow Talk
Eight hundred warriors, countless feathers, zero answers—until now. The secrets of the Pioneer Square pillow fights revealed.
Featured Stories Most objects rain: cats and dogs, blood, men. But pillow-stuffing snows. Like many others in Pioneer Courthouse Square on Friday, March 3, 2006, I was surrounded by feathers—in the air, on the g ... More
It's Their Prerogative
As Sleater-Kinney moves on, two older, wiser fans weigh in.
RIFF CITY Last month Sleater-Kinney declared that, after its summmer tour, the band dubbed the best in the world by rock über-critic Greil Marcus in Esquire is not likely to record or perform together agai ... More
Top Articles from Jason Simms
Tragic Inspiration
The inimitable sound and admirable ideals of the local hardcore legends you've never heard of. Down On The Corner, Out In The Street
How street performing earned one local man spare change—and an unwanted part in Rent. Broken Record
Riot Cop finds itself in bad company on a new punk comp Clit Ripper, In Front Of The Kids (Torn to Pieces)
Clit Ripper's latest is right on—except for those poorly chosen names. Grey Metal
Agalloch, Portland's greatest metal band, lurks in the shadows of the Pacific Northwest. Dried Out
Drunken Boat sobers up in the name of fans and goodwill. Shifting Gears
Jammin' 95.5 radio host PK gets outta the PlayHouse and into the bike lane. Goregon Massacre Festival, Friday & Saturday, June 22 & 23
PDX's second annual blood summit marks it capital of the undead nation. Clorox Girls, J'aime Les Filles (BYO Records)
Clorox Girls' latest release uses covers to get you under theirs. Music Art Resource Collective Body Art Benefit
A music benefit celebrates bare vampire breasts—and painted human ones.
The inimitable sound and admirable ideals of the local hardcore legends you've never heard of. Down On The Corner, Out In The Street
How street performing earned one local man spare change—and an unwanted part in Rent. Broken Record
Riot Cop finds itself in bad company on a new punk comp Clit Ripper, In Front Of The Kids (Torn to Pieces)
Clit Ripper's latest is right on—except for those poorly chosen names. Grey Metal
Agalloch, Portland's greatest metal band, lurks in the shadows of the Pacific Northwest. Dried Out
Drunken Boat sobers up in the name of fans and goodwill. Shifting Gears
Jammin' 95.5 radio host PK gets outta the PlayHouse and into the bike lane. Goregon Massacre Festival, Friday & Saturday, June 22 & 23
PDX's second annual blood summit marks it capital of the undead nation. Clorox Girls, J'aime Les Filles (BYO Records)
Clorox Girls' latest release uses covers to get you under theirs. Music Art Resource Collective Body Art Benefit
A music benefit celebrates bare vampire breasts—and painted human ones.
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