Music The sons of Godzilla return to Portland, but will 49-year-old frontman David Yow still get naked?

[AMERICAN GLADIATORS] In the ’90s, Chicago’s the Jesus Lizard earned its reputation as “the best live band anywhere.” It also recorded half a dozen noise rock albums full of menace and wild creativity. The band combined the cacophony, sweat and swagger of Nick Ca...   More

Music Stories [AMERICAN GLADIATORS] In the ’90s, Chicago’s the Jesus Lizard earned its reputation as “the best live band anywhere.” It also recorded half a dozen noise rock albums full of me ...   More

Music Formed:
1981 in Oak Harbor, Wash. (but widely considered as being from Seattle).Latest release:
This year’s The Curse of Martha Splatterhead, featuring exactly one original member (guitarist Tom Niemeyer), but produced by Billy Anderson (Melvins, L7, Neurosis, Mr. Bungle, et al.) and issued on Southern Lord Records. Most of its 14 tracks clock in at under two minut...   More

Music Stories Formed:1981 in Oak Harbor, Wash. (but widely considered as being from Seattle).Latest release:This year’s The Curse of Martha Splatterhead, featuring exactly one original member (guitarist Tom N ...   More

Music [STONE-AGE ROCK] Don't let the name fool you: Portland quartet Mongoloid Village delivers a stunningly mature and well-played set of heavy rock tunes on its new eponymous EP. The sound instantly recalls a lot of great “Pigfuck” music from the '90s, particularly Chicago heavyweights Jesus Lizard, but MV fills out its sound with doses of epic stoner metal (frontman “Fester” h...   More

Music Stories [STONE-AGE ROCK] Don’t let the name fool you: Portland quartet Mongoloid Village delivers a stunningly mature and well-played set of heavy rock tunes on its new eponymous EP. The sound instantly ...   More

Music Lickity's electro-party-punk was kind of an accident. No one's complaining.

[JELL-O SHOT ROCK] Tom Potts likes to wrap electrical tape around his head onstage. Potts, who has gone by the stage name T$ (pronounced “T money”) in various bands for about 30 years, sings through two mics, plays bass and several analog synths as frontman for Portland's Lickity. But he says the...   More

Music Stories [JELL-O SHOT ROCK] Tom Potts likes to wrap electrical tape around his head onstage. Potts, who has gone by the stage name T$ (pronounced “T money”) in various bands for about 30 years, sin ...   More

Music “People have told me we were one of the first U.S. bands to add metal influences to our music,” says Dan Cunneen, the Seattle-based drummer for recently reunited Portland hardcore Final Warning. The group formed in 1982 and recorded an eponymous E.P. heavy on gang vocals, d-beats and chorus-effected guitar chords in 1984 (re-released on the Southern Lord Records’ collection PD...   More

Music Stories “People have told me we were one of the first U.S. bands to add metal influences to our music,” says Dan Cunneen, the Seattle-based drummer for recently reunited Portland hardcore Final Wa ...   More