Music The Posies are pure pop incarnate. Ever since emerging from the Seattle music world with the 1988 album Failure, the two mainstays of the band—singer/guitarists Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow have moved in and around the pop universe, adding in the influences of '70s power rock, psychedelia, and punk into the mix. And during the almost...   More

Music Maybe it's the two fingers of Jameson I just finished, but I've searched my memory and can't think of a recent band/label marriage that makes more sense to me than the news that one of Portland's best art rock duos AU signing with local label Hometapes. 
Sarah Padgett Heathcott, one of t...   More

Album Reviews [BLUES PUNK] For a blues musician, Poor Boy’s Soul—the one-man-band project of Portlander Trevor Jones—has a story that’s a PR person’s dream. The young artist learned how to play slide    More

Music Bands of the universe, take note: a little honesty and directness will get you very far with the folks here at Local Cut HQ. Case in point: this e-mail we received from one of our favorite local folk-pop acts, St. Frankie Lee. It read, in total: I understand that our news-worthiness-score is lowered by our lack of live shows but that's...   More

Music If you're one of the many followers of the band YACHT, you are likely already aware that vocalist Claire L. Evans has a huge advocate on the role of science in our world. She has spent a number of years blogging about the subject - showing an especial interest in those projects and with those people that connect science and technology and art....   More

Music If you read Jeff Rosenberg's fine profile on John Wesley Harding in this week's print edition, you already know that the singer-songwriter has a huge connection to the Portland music scene having recorded his most recent album The Sound of His Own Voice here with a bevy of local talent. And if ...   More

Music Zac Nelson has already proven his music to be a compellingly creepy, weird, and absolutely wonderful thing through his previous project Hexlove. But with his new solo cassette—Towards Your Own Worlds, released November 1 on Field Hymns—he ups that ante, goes all in, doubles down, or whatever other gambling metaphor you can come up wi...   More

Music For the past little while, Run On Sentence leader Dustin Hamman has been on the road with his lady friend, Kyle Durrie, as she offers up seminars and services with her rolling letterpress truck (learn more about that here). As part of this trip, Hamman found himself spending a week and...   More

Music When Casey charged me with writing a little something about the new Ross Beach disc, my immediate question was, "Where the hell has that guy been?" Thankfully, Beach has answered the question for me in a blog post entitled: "Where the hell have I been?" It reads: 
My shows-per-year has dropped off almost as precipitously as my upda...   More

Music One of the coolest parts of the cassette resurgence of recent years is the return of the compilation. Alright, to be fair, the compilation never really went anywhere. But for a writer who grew up in a small town pre-Internet days, hitting the local Fred Meyer to track down cheap compilations that could provide some insight into what was going on in the music world, seeing a compilation like this n...   More