Music If you're going to match up your music to a set of lyrics that manage to be both creepy and nostalgic at the same time, there's no better way than to slip a sample of some horror movie soundtrack underneath your swaying psych-pop.

At least that's what The Harvey Girls do here on this track from their 2007 EP Declinate (re-released re...   More

Music Stories Born: In 1934 in Berlin. Sounds like: Depending on which point in his career you find him, or whom he’s collaborating with, it can be full-on electro-pop, luscious ambient, New Age music, or darin   More

Album Reviews [READY TO FLOW] Tony Ozier, the de facto leader of the musical collective known as the Doo Doo Funk All-Stars, has already proven his multi-instrumental and songwriting mettle in the group’s regu   More

Music The press release that came along with the new LP by Portland duo Chrome Wings is nothing more than a picture of the album artwork and a series of random phrases ("The underwater arcade," "High tones pulled upward and hit by the sun," etc.) that seem to have either been pulled right out of the lyrics on the disc ...   More

Music Today, dear friends and music lovers, we have four videos to help you wind down the rest of your day with. One of them features an old woman. Another features a glittery bathtub. Yet another, children playing Radiohead. Enjoy.


Holocombe Waller - "Qu'Appelle Valley, Sasketchewan"We are bookending this edition of the Video Roundup with cover songs. The first is this take on the Buffy Sai...   More

Music Keith Kenniff is better known to the world at large for his work as an ambient electronic artist that performs under the name Helios. Or as one half of the dreamy, dreamy pop duo called Mint Julep.

Kenniff, though, leads a triple musical life as Goldmund, a classically trained multi-instrumentalist who tackles expressionistic moder...   More

Music You can't really screw up a Prince cover, as long as you don't mess with the formula. Try to do it as a punk tune or some thrashing electro thing, and the whole thing falls apart. But stick to the core tune—as John Heart Jackie does here—and you're golden.

It's because up until around 1996, the guy knew his way around a pop song. He wrote dozens upon dozens, many of them stone-cold clas...   More

Music Stories [CUT CHEMISTS] The last time Battles played in Portland, the band had a lot to prove. That May show was part of the first tour the post-rock group had attempted following the departure of founding    More

Music The release of the new DJ Shadow record has been met with a lot of shrugs and head scratching. The music writers and geeks of the world have expended a lot of column inches and pixels wondering how one man can continue to produce music that simply builds on the same ideas he introduced with Endtroducing but not really evolve them in any appreciable manner.

In response, I want to point all ...   More

Music Hot on the heels of his noir-esque "Good Morning" clip comes a new video from rapper L Pro. This new clip, directed by local filmmaker Matt Knapp, strikes a cool and compelling balance between a quirky Wes Anderson-inspired story and the loose, sexy feel that we've come to expe...   More