Music  I like the fact that when I was listening to this track for the first time, my wife - sitting in the other room, sewing - asked if this was David Bazan. No, my dear, it is not a new Bazan song, but I can hear why you would think so. Tom Filepp, the man behind cars & trains, has a similarly laconic yet heartbreaking approach to singing as the former Pedro The Lion leader does. It's f...   More

Music Stories The charter for KBOO, Portland’s left-of-the-dial community radio station, vows to use its frequency to fill needs that other media doesn’t, bringing content to underserved groups. Tune in to    More

Music  In the 15 years since Dan Bejar started releasing music under the name Destroyer, his profile and success has grown exponentially. He has been aided along the path by his work with Canadian supergroups The New Pornographers and Swan Lake, but it is via Destroyer that Bejar has really proven his mettle as one of the great songwriters of the '00s. The last half-dozen Destroyer albums have been...   More

Music Alert your friends and family! Start calling the folks in your phone tree! Send out smoke signals! Tweet! Facebook! The word is out on the street now—the initial lineup for this year's MusicfestNW is here!!!!Please accept our excitement as genuine because, even though we have a bit of an inside track on this event—WW puts the thing on every ye...   More

Music To repeat what is in the listing in this week's print edition: Two decades ago, Gail O'Hara and Pam Berry joined forces to create Chickfactor, a small press magazine devoted to their musical loves. This often meant featuring interviews with cult folk artist Bridget St. John and ’60s star Colin Blunstone of the Zombies, or maybe featuring Belle and Sebastian (who wrote a tribute song to t...   More

Music Stories Dan Bejar’s longtime musical project, Destroyer, has gone through many permutations, from edgy, drip-dry pop to motorik showtunes written on MIDI synths. For 2011’s Kaputt, Bejar and company   More

Music  The project: The Chicharones Bring It Back To Warped TourWho's behind the project? Longtime WW favorites and the best damn pig-based hip-hop group around, The Chicharones. Why do they want your money? The kids have been asked to headline the "Bring I...   More

Music Stories Formed: 2002 in San Francisco. Sounds like: A Saturday Night Fever-style dance floor made of melting chocolate.  For fans of: Boards of Canada’s Geogaddi, anything on the Ghost Box label, Luk   More

Music Stories For most of those who know his music, French songwriter Yann Tiersen will forever be associated with whimsical tunes played with a jaunty joie de vivre on an accordion. But ask Devin Gallagher,    More

Music Many music fans who have affixed their sights on a particular genre eventually feels that their lifelong love is getting marginalized in the popular consciousness. This has especially been the case for folks who grew up in love with the sound of hard rock and metal from the '70s through the '90s. Hell, fans here in Portland had to grit their teeth through the disappearance of KUFO, the sole radio ...   More