Music This one's a bit of a monster, sort of a dump of scattered musical ideas that just happens to work. Jesse Johnson's (a.k.a. Gulls) trumpet here is the track's bloodline, a recurring, kinda corny (read: detective movie score) theme that pokes through heavy, echoing beats, while a xylophone twinkles around its e...   More

Music [AMBIENT BLISS] Listening to Matt McCormick's Very Stereo not long ago, a friend remarked that “Elevator Muzac” sounded like an old desktop computer's last, drawn-out bleep before crashing. That increasingly modulated tone is then joined by what sounds like the mashing of a telephone touchpad. It's...   More

Music Stories [AMBIENT BLISS] Listening to Matt McCormick's Very Stereo not long ago, a friend remarked that "Elevator Muzac" sounded like an old desktop computer's last, drawn-out bleep before crashing. That incre ...   More

Featured Stories As long as musicians make interesting music, filmmakers are going to make interesting music videos. Sure, it's a quick argument otherwise. The medium's progenitor, MTV, has withered into a corporate s ...   More

Music As far as breakout techno musicians go around these parts, Gouseion's (Cassidy DeMarco) a more than worthy successor to the Copy throne. The cuts off this debut have both a melodic immediacy and seriously interesting, complex layering. It makes for something bound to lure scene outsiders and electronic heads a...   More

Music What the hell is a rodcast, you ask? Are you so far behind the tech times you don't yet have an i-Rod? You poor poor thing. No, I jest. A rodcast is, um, a podcast. But, back in the day (February), when State's Rights put out the first one, they didn't "know how to make it subscribable or anything." There's be...   More

Music [BEATS 'N' AMBIENCE] If you're familiar with Jesse Johnson, the man behind Gulls, it's probably not because of Gulls. The Portland native is better known for playing trumpet with the purely organic yet far from conventional free-jazz combo Evolutionary Jass Band or lending guitar and trumpet to Sam Human's loo...   More

Music Stories [BEATS 'N' AMBIENCE] If you're familiar with Jesse Johnson, the man behind Gulls, it's probably not because of Gulls. The Portland native is better known for playing trumpet with the purely organic ye ...   More

Music The infamous Craig R. Marquardo has resurfaced in Portland with a new magazine, Music Spectator. He claims it to be "The Magazine for the Portland Music Scene," a media source to bring our music community together. More on that later. First, lets talk about Craig.

Perhaps you've already forg...   More

Music Last winter, Paul Lynch, known also as downtempo producer/performer DJ Tan't and indie-rock looper (((in mono))), noticed his balls were hurting something fierce. It turned out to be a cyst and it cost a small fortune to get it removed. Last night, three bands--Gouseion, Dat'r, and Copy--got together for Paul'...   More