Music Last week, we hipped you to a fantastic video of Kelli Schaefer singing an a cappella number, filmed during the Doe Bay Festival that takes place up on Orcas Island. Well, the good people behind those videos - the Seattle-based music blog Sound on the Sound - have another clip they want to share. This time, it's The Builders & The B...   More

Music As you are likely already aware, the Wonder Ballroom is hosting a fantastic bill of modern indie pop with co-headlining sets from our local heroes Starfucker and Brooklyn-based twee-dreamsters The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart.

To celebrate what is likely to be one of the best concerts of 2011, we have teamed up with Polyvinyl Recor...   More

Music The departure of artistic director Bill Royston left some jazz aficionados wondering what the fate of the Portland Jazz Festival would be. Yesterday's announcement of the headliners for the 2012 edition of the fest by new festival curator Don Lucoff should put their worries to rest. The 11-day event boasts a startlingly good lineup, and making the ...   More

Music We are excited to introduce a new feature here on Local Cut: In what will hopefully be a regular feature here on the WW music blog, we have connected with For The Ears (my weekly podcast featuring conversations with music makers and music obsessives) to bring you a full interview with local post-rock ins...   More

Music Stories [INSTRUMENTAL MOODS] I thought Talkdemonic was too big for day jobs.  This is, after all, the same drums/electronics and viola duo that WW named Best New Band in 2005, that has toured the count   More

Music Marcus Fischer's art, be it audio, visual, or some combination of the two, has such an engaging delicacy to it. Like the Japanese paintings that Bill Evans talks about on the back cover of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue album - those that need a special brush and technique to do lest the parchment break - Fischer exhibits a discipline and care tha...   More

Music In an interview some years back, Libretto told then Portland Mercury music editor Julianne Shepherd that the "only thing I haven't done yet is make some booty-shaking music...which is part of me I can't do." Compare this bouncy, horn-driven track to its slinkier original, and Libretto solidifies that point: maybe he can't make t...   More

Music I fully expect the heads of Flaming Lips fans and inveterate music collectors to explode at the news that came down the e-pipeline from Jackpot Records last night.
Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne will be at the downtown Jackpot Records location (203 SW 9th Ave) at 5 p.m. today to help introduce and sell the Strobo Trip Light & Au...   More

Music If you've lived in the U.S. for the past 20 years, the music of Cake is an unavoidable entity. Their songs are staples of alternative rock radio and AOR, a laudable achievement for any band, especially one that hasn't noticeably messed with the formula in all that time. Each one of their most beloved songs features frontman John McCrea's speak...   More

Music Stories [HEAVINESS] For most bands, the rehearsal space that White Orange uses would be more square footage than they could ever need. The huge room, tucked into the back of a nondescript building in North    More