Music Stories [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 straig ...   More

Music Set your calendars, folks: The 2010 PDX Pop Now! festival is coming in a short seven weeks. Today the free, all-local, all-ages festival announced the lineup for this year's fest—set to take place July 30-August 1—and it's predictably great. Au! Parenthetical Girls! Clo...   More

Music A few months ago, Copy's Marius Libman decided to do something he'd never done before under his current moniker: Jam with another musician. For a Winter is the New Summer warehouse party, Libman—and his trusty keytar—was joined by drummer Andy Parker of Guidance Counselor and Dirty Mitte...   More

Music I assume that by now everyone has heard the new Blitzen Trapper album, Destroyer of the Void, right? While the band's past efforts ripped through genres like Jeremiah Masoli looking for a new laptop (sorry, it's just    More

Music Iretsu Fang
(Hidden Shoal Recordings)

[FORGOTTEN AVANT-POP] Local experimental-rock quartet Iretsu is hardly a new band. The group has roots that stretch all the way back to 2002, when singer Ryan Cross and Kate O’Brien Clarke (now a member of AgesandAges) began working on songs in an old house in Sellwood—before Modest Mouse or the Decemberists broke ou...   More

Music Stories Iretsu Fang(Hidden Shoal Recordings) [FORGOTTEN AVANT-POP] Local experimental-rock quartet Iretsu is hardly a new band. The group has roots that stretch all the way back to 2002, when singer Ryan C ...   More

Special Section It rains a lot in Portland. This spring was especially bad, with a late-May stretch that featured more hailstorms than sun showers. But I know the real reason we all live here: the summer months, when ...   More

Music Memo to local radio heads: It looks like big changes are coming up at 94.7 KNRK. The alternative rock station announced a few things this morning, most interestingly the start of a new AM radio station devoted to playing nothing but music from the Northwest. 94/7too NorthWest Bands Only—w...   More

Music This weekend I spent three days in George, Washington for the Sasquatch! festival. Even though I've been back a few days, I'm still exhausted. I know this is a bit late, but finding the right words to say about Pavement—unquestionably my favorite band—was a little rough as I tri...   More

Music Hutch, Kathy and Westin are back—and this time things are getting personal. As reported this morning on Pitchfork (and    More