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Music Perhapst, John Moen's newly-released solo debut, reflects the current Decemberist and former Elliot Smith/Stephen Malkmus drummer's changing influences from British folk to New Wave, but back in 2002, the Moen-fronted Maroons immersed themselves in pop. Second Maroons' album You're Gonna Ruin Eve...   More

Music It's tempting to regard John Moen as purely an emblem of Northwest indie rock’s transcendence. The neighborly, well-rhythmed gent co-founded eternally name-checked alt-rock heroes the Dharma Bums. He played with Elliott Smith at his landmark SNL appearance. He persuaded Stephen Malkmus to start the Jick...   More

Music Stories It's tempting to regard John Moen as purely an emblem of Northwest indie rock’s transcendence. The neighborly, well-rhythmed gent co-founded eternally name-checked alt-rock heroes the Dharma Bum ...   More

Music Much as white folks have earned their place upon the hip-hop stage the past decade, there's still a stigma attached to, shall we say, collegiate practitioners—the idiom craves aggression and too many MCs come across fakey or feckless. Though their act began upon a school radio show, the lyrica...   More

Music The title track of her new album (and, any sane world, the summer's single of choice for self-medicating romantics), "Valentine" very much reflects the new Morgan Grace—solo; self-produced; bereft of rawk stagings—but there's no preciousness or experimentation. It's just a perfec...   More

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