Music [FOLK-POP] Gena Gastaldi’s songs speak—or rather sing—to Portlanders. Like many of this city’s residents, Gastaldi is a transplant. The creative force behind Day of Lions, she moved from Alaska in 2004, and the folkstress has been crafting lovely, subdued folk son...   More

Music Stories [FOLK-POP] Gena Gastaldi’s songs speak—or rather sing—to Portlanders. Like many of this city’s residents, Gastaldi is a transplant. The creative force behind Day of Lions, she ...   More

Q & A When the global oil supply dries up, Donna Maebori, 56, and Peter Lunsford, 49, will be ready. Or, at least they’ll be well-read. This pair of suburbanites are the founders of the Washington Co ...   More

Music A week or so back, Portland, I went to the Doug Fir to check out local band the Builders and the Butchers open for New York indie-rockers the Walkmen. I have to admit, I'd never the seen the Builders before that night, but I'd heard rumors about the band's live shows. Apparently, Po...   More

Books Let’s be clear about one thing: VoiceCatcher (Lulu Press, $17.25, 244 pages) deserves to be read. This anthology is a labor of love—the 10-woman editorial board sifted through 300 submiss ...   More

Music Not long after moving into my now two-year-old apartment, I was unpleasantly awoken by my upstairs neighbor's daily 10 am band practice. She would start each session with the same Depeche Mode-inspired keyboard solo, followed by wailing attempts to hit notes far too low for her nasally register. Then one or two off-...   More

Music You tell me, Portland: Is earning $33 for selling 60 CDs a fair deal?

It's a question I can't really answer myself, because I have to admit that, until yesterday, I'd never sold CDs in this town. In the past five years, I've only accumulated more and more CDs without getting rid o...   More

Music [DUO ROCK] Male-female duos are an indie-rock novelty. Think Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss of Portland’s own Quasi (although it added a permanent bassist last year, see feature) and—perhaps most notoriously—Jack a...   More

Music Stories [DUO ROCK] Male-female duos are an indie-rock novelty. Think Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss of Portland’s own Quasi (although it added a permanent bassist last year, see feature) and—perhaps m ...   More

Music Sometimes, all it takes is one song to fall in love with a band. When listening to Dan deVriend's And His Fabulous Playboys, the track "Anthems" stands out as that one song. All the elements that make up my favorite kind of music are there: A slow but even tempo, a softly strummed guitar and em...   More