Music Stories [SINGER-SONGWRITER] Solo female vocalists usually fall into two categories: The unconventional variety, like Icelandic musician Björk or proto-punker Patti Smith, and the folky singer-songwriter ...   More

Music Sure, you can find a brand new track from Southerly posted once a week to Greyday Records' website, but the band's already-completed albums are worth a listen, too. Started as a singer-songwriter project by Krist Kreuger (who still writes and arranges all the band's music), Southerly became a full-fledged symphon...   More

Music This is the first installment of brand new LocalCutter Paige Richmond's open-letter column Dear You, which will run every Monday on LocalCut.

Wikipedia, you know nothing about Portland's music scene. I mean, I understand you are not the expert source on pop culture that I like to believe you ...   More

Music Apparently, there's more than just black metal in Sweden's musical repertoire, and Portland is tapping into the Scandavian country's dance-pop supply. New local label Skywriting Records is putting out the first album from Swedish dance-pop artist Cloetta Paris, who has been called an "italo princess" by Seat...   More

Music Here at LocalCut, we listen to music constantly—so much so that we post especially fantastic songs to the site almost daily. But Krist Kreuger, songwriter for soft-spoken pop band Southerly must write music as much as we listen to it, because once a week he's posting a brand new, never-before-released s...   More

Music [NO WAVE] It takes 90 seconds to dismiss Old Time Relijun's new album, Catharsis in Crisis, as completely unlistenable. Opening track “Indestructible Life!” begins with the intermittent strumming of what sounds like a broken sitar, slowly speeding up and taking rhythmic shape until someone cries o...   More

Headout [NO WAVE] It takes 90 seconds to dismiss Old Time Relijun’s new album, Catharsis in Crisis , as completely unlistenable. Opening track “Indestructible Life!” begins with the intermit ...   More

Music Maybe this is just an intuitive thing, but a low-pitched saxophone over a steady drumbeat makes for sexy music. The sax's muffled tone and the drum's pulse vibrate the same way two sweaty people in a dark room might rhythmically move.

Old Time Reljiun sax player Ben Hartman is ever-present on ...   More

Music Anyone who knows Adrian Orange as “Thanksgiving” will be slightly confused by his newest musical incarnation. The first obvious difference between the songs on Adrian Orange and Her Band's self-titled debut and Orange's earlier solo stuff as ...   More

Music Despite all the musicians he has played with live or the albums he has collaborated on in a studio, Adrian Orange (best known for his work as Thanksgiving) remains deep down, a solo artist. Thanksgiving songs—no matter if other musicians are playin...   More