Music Stories Simon Reynolds, the music and culture critic, put it best in his book Retromania: “When a band has been around long enough, there is always going to be more demand from the fan base for a career   More

Music  Another gloomy rainy day. Another perfect excuse to stay indoors and watch video clips on your computer. Start with this track from the post-Dirty Mittens disco pop project Artifice, performed live by the band at Holocene. Artifice "Ritual Dance" from Aubree Bernier-Clarke on Vim...   More

Music  Life sometimes drops the most unusual opportunities in your lap. Just last week, an e-mail popped up in my inbox offering me the chance to sit down with Claire Evans and Jona Bechtolt, the creative forces behind the group YACHT, before their show at Mississippi Studios last week. The catch was, I had to be prepared to be caught on camera doing th...   More

Music  The project: The Improvisation Summit of Portland, a festival of music, dance, and film. Who's behind the project: Creative Music GuildWhy do they want your money? To fund a pretty incredible sounding two-day festiva...   More

Music UPDATED 4:38 pm: Correct track inserted! Sorry! -Ed.Record Store Day is a spot on the calendar that every vinyl collector worth his/her salt plans and budgets for. The five-year-old event is when labels and bands cook up exclusive releases to be dropped in record stores on the third Saturday in April. This year, RSD 2012 lands on April 21st, and all the folks that I know are buzzing ...   More

Music You cannot stop the members of Eternal Tapestry, you can only hope to contain them. Our favorite freeform psych/skronk rock outfit keep themselves busy enough with a schedule of local shows that has them playing at least once a week. But then they go and venture out into doing other projects like Jed Bindeman's new record shop    More

Music  Surprising to hear that Portland's favorite double-drummer dance band Deelay Ceelay has never, until now, put together a stand alone video for one of its songs. The group's work seems custom built to be matched up with spacey, iTunes visualizer-style blowouts of cornea straining light and color. Don't let's concentrate on that. Instead, simply drink in the maple syrup thick weirdness an...   More

Music Stories [SINGER-SONGWRITER-BLEEDER] Watching footage of Michael Gira fronting the earliest incarnation of his band Swans, you almost expect him to either self-immolate onstage or spontaneously combust.    More

Music  About five years ago, Anne Adams (the singer that performs under the name Grey Anne) and Paul Alcott (current member of Menomena, Ramona Falls, and Dat'r)—a couple at the time—joined musical forces to record an album of homespun electronic pop under the name Mockingbirds. But as their romantic relationship came to an end, so too did this...   More

Music The project: Cancer, a "rock project" or "a science fiction concept album with an elaborately detailed universe fleshed out with music, lyrics, visual art and a movie." Who's behind the project? Christian punkers Showbread Why d...   More