Music [COUNTRY ROCK] Local twang-rock outfit Power of County has been kicking shit, so to speak, around Portland for a few years now. But thanks to a serendipitous tour with prodigal grandson Hank Williams III and alt-country writer Jim Goad, Power of County recently got the chance to showcase its matching, moniker...   More

Music Stories [COUNTRY ROCK] Local twang-rock outfit Power of County has been kicking shit, so to speak, around Portland for a few years now. But thanks to a serendipitous tour with prodigal grandson Hank Williams ...   More

Special Section [GARAGE-PSYCH LEGEND] It’s a heartbreaking story—half Syd Barrett with a bit of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest , the sort of thing that, even in Hollywood’s dearest imaginings ...   More

Music [We sent WW freelancer Jay Horton to Lollapalooza to write about Portland bands that were playing there. He blogged the whole weekend for us, as well. Part One.    More

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Fear, loathing, heat prostration at Lollapalooza Day Two (read Day One here)


I'm From Barcelona
Bud Light Stage
1:28 PM 8/4/07

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Music WW Freelancer Jay Horton braved this year's Lollapalooza in Chicago to check out some Portland bands playing there. We asked him to chronicle his entire festival experience for LocalCut (his print story on Spoon lives    More

Music It was Saturday evening after dark, midway through Lollapalooza, and Spoon had just started its set on the MySpace stage. I was milling about the sound booth—vainly hoping for a set list and considering the merits of the day's neverending drizzle versus Friday's sauna. It was then that I heard a fellow ...   More

Music Stories It was Saturday evening after dark, midway through Lollapalooza, and Spoon had just started its set on the MySpace stage. I was milling about the sound booth—vainly hoping for a set list and con ...   More

Music The gravestone currently dominating Supernaut's MySpace page (and this very post) marks the death of the four-year-old band. But the local rockers shall nevertheless play a final show/CD release for their second album Burning Through the Motions, this Saturday at Dante's. Frontman and founder Scott Chapin sat ...   More

Music [ECLECTIC POP] Pink Martini has become a genre unto itself. Considering the now-12-piece outfit subtly informs its jazz-lounge confections with the aural traditions of four continents, it's hard to describe the band's third album, Hey Eugene!, as anything but Pink Martini.

The enlightened cock...   More