Music  It's the middle of the week, which means that your full on workaday malaise has to be kicking in hard at this point. So, let's see what we can do to snap you right out of that, hmmm? Consider this: you don't have it as bad as the folks in this weird and wonderful little video from Wax Fingers (directed by local photog Inger Klekacz). Just see it through to the end and you'll see ...   More

Music By now, I hope you've had a chance to read our short profile on the incredible experimental duo Golden Retriever in this week's edition of the paper. And I hope you've already made plans to go see the band's performance tonight at Holocene. Should you still need convincing about the beauty and...   More

Music Stories [EXPERIMENTAL DUO] The announcement of a new album by Golden Retriever was big news within the experimental music community, where the modular synth and bass clarinet duo is one of Portland’s mo   More

Music  Ben Mason, a fine singer-songwriter from Australia, spent a while here last month hanging out with some friends and falling in love with the local music scene. So much so, that when he got back to his home in Melbourne, he decided to pay tribute to some of his favorite acts from Stumptown by recording a six-song EP Acapulco Volume 2&nb...   More

Music Stories Ed Kuepper has had one of the most admirable careers to come out of the ’70s punk scene, keeping one foot in the...   More

Music Stories [A/V CLUB] Having some sort of visual accompaniment—usually films playing behind the musicians or an elaborate light show—is the norm for electronic musicians. Deadmau5 has the colorful mous   More

Bar Reviews “Did anyone talk to you yet?” asks the chestnut-haired bartender after I finally get her attention. No, no one did. Nor would any of the waitstaff address me for almost the entirety of my Sa   More

Music  In spite of what the song title will have you believe, there's little that is serene about this track. Taken from the latest album by synth/bass clarinet duo Golden Retriever Occupies with the Unspoken (out this month on Thrill Jockey), the song is a honking, wobbly piece that revels in the interplay between Matt Carlson's siren-like tones and fluttering bits of melody and Jonathan Si...   More

Music We haven't done a video roundup in a little while, but when we saw this first video here...well, we couldn't pass up the chance to share it (and some other choice local clips) with the world at large. What we have here is a video put together by the Oregon Dental Association as a part of a public service campaign to get kids brushing their teeth. I'd still like to know how exactly they landed on t...   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Director Jonathan Demme has always been fascinated by how music affects a person. Think of the members of Talking Heads beaming with pure joy as they performed in the 1984 concert film Stop Making   More