Music [CEREBRAL DANCE] A dance party is perhaps the most basic and pure collective musical experience that exists. It's physical and sonic harmony: ass to ass, hip to hip, ear to ear. (Inanimate Portland indie rockers, don't knock it till you've joined in the shake.) And, after a year of cerebral throb, Holocene's semi-regular dance night, Boombox Friday, has proven itself to be the finest eve in Portla...   More

Music [LAPTOP SYMPHONY] There's an infinite set of visual accompaniments—made and unmade—just waiting for Copia's hand in A/V marriage. In the immediate sense, Eluvium's new release (the eligible bachelor, if you will) is totally without that certain something, that narrative progression that makes an album wholly self-contained.

But when you do discover something embedded in ...   More

Music [MINIMAL FOLK] Spend enough time listening to abstract, left-field music, and stumbling upon a project like Privacy feels like a moment of wonderful clarity. It's as naked as anything any subsection of Portland music has produced in a very, very long time. It is stripped entirely of technical trickery or finery—just simple acoustic strumming and the lovely, smoke-filled, lazy vocals of Laure...   More

Music [STYLE DRIFT] It's wonderfully apt that the first release to completely fit with local label Community Library's sensibilities—which are stylistically ungrounded, per dogma—is a rediscovered recording that completely flies in the face of sense: Project Perfect's PM+. In the span of 11 releases, Community Library has yet to redouble a genre, yet to touch anything remotely conventional. ...   More

Music This one got past us. Tragically. So, we apologize for the late notice. Perhaps it's already too late to get your work shift covered tonight, but you should do your damnedest for tonight's (at turns) anguished, angry, (always) loud, (perhaps) violently psychedelic, and more four band lineup at Roturre.
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It's a bit rare around these parts for DJs to get their due. But, the odds are, if you're on this website, you find yourself in the presence of a DJ--whether it be a club or bar or house party--on a weekly basis. How many times have you looked up from your drink, and wondered aloud "who IS this...   More

Music Oh, if only you could win "Best New Band" twice... Yep, first listens of Copy's upcoming release, Hair Guitar, indeed confirm that Mobius Beard was hardly a fluke, and Marius Libman's one hell of a producer. This track's coming out of a laptop computer speaker the size of my thumb right now and it's still maki...   More

Music [experimental-pop perfection...in the flesh] During Menomena's 2004 I Am the Fun Blame Monster! brilliance spree, I was lucky enough to see the experimental pop trio perform four, maybe five times. The crux of these performances happened during mid-summer in a sweltering Lola's Room: The song was "Strongest Man in the World"—a slow-burning pop number of heavy, looping atmospheric synth cut w...   More

Music I'm not going to say a thing about this video--created by Alec Cohen and Uli Beutter--except that it's for a remix Copy did of Fleshtone's "GFM" and it won top honors in last year's PISS (Portland International Short Short) festival.

Oh yeah, and Copy resurrects a buck from the dead with his ke...   More

Music [post-everything] For reasons unknown, Grails has slid into the elusive (and, fortunately, shrinking) group of local musicians known informally as the "Portland Export Club": These artists enjoy massive renown outside PDX and embark on far-reaching tours, but they live and practice here in relative obscurity—which is precisely why you're reading this some six months after Black Tar Prophecie...   More