Music Pearl parents threaten to unleash their offspring's creativity; also their offspring.

To be clear, though the editors' assignment presumed a certain malice toward easy targets, we only hope the best for the newly proposed Pearl Marching Band—a marching band solely comprise...   More

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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