Music Newly solo Portland artist Morgan Grace releases her third album, Valentine, this Sunday—intimate and darkly-beautiful indie ballads that indulge formerly restrained songwriting talents. WW sat down with the local chanteuse to discuss American Idol (Underground), recovering rockerdom a...   More

Music As the boys from Prize Country ready their second full length—and prepare to bum-rush another odd sampling of states, ending with Fest in Gainesville, Florida—let's take a listen back to their debut. "Time In Reno," the biggest little single that never was, restrains the band's ...   More

Music Yesterday's OPB blog post discovered, shockingly, that the northwest's premier indie festival wasn't meant for the poor. Sasquatch—our response to Coachella; response being wind and distance—char...   More

Music As we breathlessly await the arrival of True Instigator (Fernando Viciconte's upcoming Americana release with '90s band members Joe Chiusano and Daniel Eccles), let's travel back to 2006's Enter To Exit. A critically-lauded collection of Beatlesy pop and countrified melancholy, today's selection...   More

Music Been a while since we'd heard from Fernando Viciconte. Portland's premier roots rock singer/songwriter of the past decade disassembled his band shortly after the critically lauded release of 2006's Enter To Exit—he was named one of Magnet's Ten Artists To Watch that year—after contin...   More

Music [ROCKABILLY PUNK] “You gotta keep busy,” explains Paul Becker, guitarist for the Dry County Crooks. “You can’t play Portland every week, that’s for fucking sure—so you hit all these towns, half of them I’ve never even heard of before we play.” “McMinnville, of c...   More

Music Stories [ROCKABILLY PUNK] “You gotta keep busy,” explains Paul Becker, guitarist for the Dry County Crooks. “You can’t play Portland every week, that’s for fucking sure—so ...   More

Music After seven years touring the forgotten towns of the northwest, the Dry County Crooks found a proper label and enlisted the production talents of living legend Jeremy (Dharma Bums) Wilson for third album When Hearts Break. Not exactly a new direction, but their indiefied country-rock's...   More

Special Section WHO: Joe Haege, Corrina Repp, Liza Rietz and Toussaint Perrault.WHAT: Indie-goth tribal cabaret.SOUNDS LIKE: The Raveonettes trading pills amid a West Texas drum circle.YEAR FORMED: 2007MOST LIKELY TO ...   More

Music Our newest alt-country label, Stumptown Records, continues to expand their roster—recently bringing damaged Brooklyn troubadour Mishka Shubaly into the fold. His debut full-length, produced by Jay Braun (Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Fiery Furnaces), arrives stocked with fitfully self-depr...   More