Music With the amount of testosterone pulsing alongside the rugged guitar chords in "The Bear King," it's easy to slide local trio Hello Electric right next to Aussie group Wolfmother on the record shelf. However, Hello Electric are Pacific Northwesteners all the way, not just in terms of its ph...   More

Music When I made my way into the Crystal Ballroom Monday night for the Katy Perry show, I arrived in time to see a woman in her late 30s/early 40s getting kicked out for drunken behavior. She pleaded with security not to turn her out onto the streets since she was from Corvallis, so they humored her...   More

Music At first my initial impression of "Make a Wish" by local quintet the Caps! seemed to differ with lead vocalist Chris Worth's take on the track. According to Worth, "It sounds like a song that could be played by one of those mechanical robot animal bands at Chuck E. Cheese. Only the robots are falli...   More

Music The doctor is in. No, not Dougie Howser or George Clooney circa his starring role on ER, but Doctor Adam. Could this be our first DJ inquisition with a bonafide doctor? While previously we've featured Lady Adie who was pursuing...   More

Music Fresh off Guidance Counselor's Flaspar-featurin' first tour diary entry, we've got this slice of 8-bit tomfoolery meets dance punk from the trio Flaspar. I asked the group's Cody...   More

Music Isn't it special to witness the birth of a new genre tag? In this edition of Hang the DJ, former Boston resident DJ Lifepartner ushers in such a moment by describing his DJ genre style as "Tropical Electro-disco." That could kinda apply to Spanish artist El Guincho too, couldn't it? Barely? ...   More

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Music Flip on the television and what do you hear? Well, if you're not using your TiVo to skip past commercial breaks it's very likely you're going to come across IBM's new green ad campaign—featuring a snazzy edit of Starfucker's "Holly." Oh the path that the track has taken: What started out as a ...   More

Music After freelancer Robert Ham wrote about the French pop cover band Les Étrangers for this week's paper, our photographer Nilina Mason-Campbell (who also shot the picture that accompanies the story) decided to see wh...   More

Music We're late in posting this (damn server!), but these photos and Nilina's recap are too bright and hyper not to share. LocalCut is officially calling a bit of an end to the reign of Starfucker on this site unless Josh Hodges and Co. put out a new record. Definitely our most blogged-about artist o...   More