Music Now that the dust has settled and my dehydration-based hallucinations have passed, it's time for a somewhat rational rant.

Frown Face:

Coachella is one of our nation's prominent music festivals, there's simply do dodging that. Proof outside of the lineup lies in th...   More

Music In which WW's Mark Stock waxes ecstatic over his favorite Coachella bands...

#1 Thom Yorke (Atoms For Peace)

Radiohead's captain has a way of achieving perfection and then somehow one-upping it. His means this time came in the form of Atoms For Peace, his newest pr...   More

Music It is no coincidence that Coachella's finest lineup to date included five notable bands with strong Pacific Northwest ties. Simply put, these bands made the three-day festival set in California's scalding Mojave Desert quite a bit cooler.

One of the nation's grandest music gath...   More

Music Charlie Faye is a Texan on assignment. She's touring the country by way of month-long residencies in ten U..S cities. First came Phoenix, where she recorded a track with Calexico in sunny Tucson. Then there was Los Angeles, a metropolis she admits was not terribly hard to leave.

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Music When you toy with time signature changes as much as Wax Fingers do, it's hard for a fan to keep up. Three head bobs is all you get before your downward nod has switched from the accent to the offbeat. Realizing this and eager to keep up, the Wax Fingers faithful have invented a dance I'd like ...   More

Music While Midlake's newest record hasn't received the acclaim the Texas outfit is used to, 2006's near perfect The Trials Of Van Occupanther is a tough act to follow. In fact, had that been the only release of the band's decade-long career, its existence still would have been more than worth it.   More

Music East End is the kind of place graying music junkies refer to when describing where they saw their favorite band for the first time, “before they went big and sold out.” Its tiny basement of brick feels more like the bottom level of a friend's house than a bar. And, despite obstructi...   More

Music Damn, localcut has gone international! First our ex-intern Jenny reported on the Swn Festival in Cardiff, Wales, and now our intrepid globe-trotting reporter Mark Stock reports live from a Glass Candy show in Rome. It's so real!

Club Akab—Rome, Italy 11.03.09

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Music We sent Mark Stock to Austin City Limits because—well, because he wanted to go to Austin City Limits, and because we wanted to hear about it. It's going up a bit late due to unforeseen circumstances at the home office. -Ed.

Friday

Local legend and troubled grunge bo...   More

Music Local songwriter decides to test out his Portland résumé in Music City.

[WESTERN WORDWORM] “Music is now the focus and the purpose of my days,” announces Tyler Stenson, who recently quit his day job selling wallets for DB Clay. But eking a living out of song isn’t always easy: It can translate into gigs at the Buffalo Gap or in private living rooms; p...   More