Music Stories Born: 1978 in Beverly Hills, Calif.Sounds like: R. Stevie Moore, Animal Collective, Hall & Oates hits sung in a karaoke booth underwater.For fans of: Anything that’s been dubbed “chillwave ...   More

Music At a party in early April, I was cornered by a friend and asked a question that's pretty typical when people realize that I write about music for a living. “Do vinyl records really sound better than CDs?” she asked. My response? “I'd rather listen to something on...   More

Music Just where will the king land? That's the question at the tip of every sports fans' tongue today, as tomorrow the bidding war officially starts for NBA superstar LeBron James. To coincide with LeBron's free agency, local songwriter (and former WW writer) Jason Simms wrote a folk-rock epic call...   More

Music It's hard to keep up with everything Into the Woods does. After a two month hiatus spent working on the 28 Days in May project, the local video collective has been insanely active the last week, posting five videos of content presumably shot during the last few months. Still, out of everyth...   More

Music From the department of sad news: this morning I got an email from Brandon Laws of local avant-pop quartet Hosannas announcing that the band's show this Friday, July 2 at the Artistery will be its last as a group. According to Laws, two members of the group—keyboardist Cristof Hendrickson a...   More

Music When listening to local raucous Americana group the Builders and the Butchers, I can imagine doing lots of things. Yelling. Stomping. Spazzing out. Taking whiskey shots. But never in my wildest dreams would I conceive an entire choreographed belly dance to a song called "When...   More

Music Stories Illustrations by Jonathan HillOf all Portland’s districts, St. Johns feels the most like an actual neighborhood: From the minute you pass the ornate, Gothic arches of the St. Johns Bridge and wa ...   More

Bar Reviews With over 40 brews on tap, it’s easy for the non-beer-snob to get intimidated when ordering at Apex (1216 SE Division St., apexbar.com). But if you look closely at the beer list—presented ...   More

Music It's been a minute since the Into The Woods guys gave us a new video. It's not like they haven't been busy, working on the 28 Days in May project and probably editing endless hours of clips for both the inevitable documentary and and future Into the Woods features. However, this mo...   More

Music One of Portland’s best young pop groups gets kicked out of a club and lives to talk about it.

[CHAOTIC POP] Toward the end of basement-pop outfit And And And’s November ’09 live debut at Northeast Portland dive Red Room, keyboardist Berg Radin picked up a snare drum and dove straight into the crowd. After rolling on the ground and knocking over various instruments...   More