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.

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Music Stories [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 ...   More

Music Arriving less than a week after drummer Rachel Blumberg's former group, The Decemberists, sold out a cavernous hall north of the city, Blumberg's new vehicle, Norfolk & Western, attracted a respectable sampling of the indie faithful to Subterranean--a mid-sized, mis-named (rising three stories above street...   More

Music The Riviera Theatre has the look of an old movie house--one of those silent-era palaces designed to fantastical themes and lovingly restored. Specifically, the Riviera's glowing aqua-marine panels suggests an ornate, 19th-century submarine which seemed particularly appropriate last Saturday. Playing beneath C...   More

RIFF CITY After the glowing critical reception of debut album Collect Them All (among Greil Marcus' top 10 records of 1997) and the 1999 follow-up Inside the Horse's Head, the eclectic pop/roots/guitar rock of ...   More

Music Stories [PSYCH POP] As frontman for Portland's psych-pop outfit the Out Crowd, Matt Hollywood hasn't received much publicity, but his cherubic mug might be familiar to many. As a former member of the Brian Jo ...   More

Night Avenger BC's American Saloon Outlaws, Legends and Lovers, aug. 17"I like rocking with the boot-scooting boogie." That's Tabbitha-but call her Tabotage. Loose black tank top, hair whimsically shorn, she's the ...   More