Music Stories Polysics: It's not a band, it's an infection!From Japan it comes, a mad macrovirus born of science run amok! Deadly destructive and more contagious than a cybernetic superflu…but cute, too! Yeah, sort ... More
i heart Polysics!
Six reasons to go crazy over Japan's No. 1 giddy synth-o-punk psychobots.
Music Stories Polysics: It's not a band, it's an infection!From Japan it comes, a mad macrovirus born of science run amok! Deadly destructive and more contagious than a cybernetic superflu…but cute, too! Yeah, sort ... More
Who's Laughing Now?
The world's premier industrial horror show has risen from the dead. But is Skinny Puppy ready for the 21st century?
Music Stories Considering Skinny Puppy's history of gory stage exorcisms, endless internecine conflict, rampant drug abuse and, finally, death and disbandment, the last thing anyone expected from the band was a reu ... More
Keepin' It Steel
An Amon Tobin cheatsheet for fakers, hacks and new jacks.
Music Stories Just as his birthplace (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is the meteorological opposite of his adopted home (Brighton, England), so has the music of Amon Tobin moved from light and loose ambient jazz to dark a ... More
THE SEMINAL TEST
Rocket from the Tombs meets the strict requirements. Do you?
Music Stories "Seminal."The word gets thrown around like fists between inmates. And you're bound to hear it this week, when Cleveland protopunks Rocket from the Tombs--among the first originators of classic Mid ... More
Passion Play
Two elemental artists--vocal daemon Jarboe and Italian art-rockers Larsen--fuse to start A Screaming Fire.
Music Stories CASTJarboe: Wicked singer, rider of savage emotional storms, corrupted Southern belle. Spent 14 years exploring thunderous, unmatched levels of melancholy and melodrama with Swans, her seminal NYC ... More
WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE
Movie Reviews & Stories Films shot in Portland have a special, regionally romantic appeal independent of their actual cinematic worth. Hell, I've sat through celluloid suckathons like the Teri Hatcher-Andrew "Dice" Clay ... More
CALL KUPL TO REQUEST DIXIE CHICKS SONGS: (503) 733-5000.
Music Stories SCHOLARLY OVERVIEW Author! Author! Bands + books = a match made in heaven.With both Gogol Bordello and Shai Halud hitting Portland stages this week, it's time to survey bands named with literature ... More
Excessive Force
The real Star Wars myth is that the films were ever respectable cinema.
Movie Reviews & Stories So there's this Star Wars review, y'see. The key actors, it complains, "are practically the only practicing humans in a sea of robots and alien life forms, but even the humans seem to be made of P ... More
AND WE'RE ROLLING
home recording: five easy ways for you to achieve fame, stardom and rave reviews in your friend's zine
Special Section INDEX INTERNATIONAL DJ SUPERSTARDOM: A Buyer's Guide PORTLAND GEAR SHOPS: A Directory START ANNOYING BOOKING AGENTS TODAY: How to Get Shows THE CLUBS: Where They Are, Who They Are RECORDI ... More
Manic Panic
Look out below: The Icarus Line's fiery racket is about to crash down all around you.
Music Stories It was all over but the bleeding in less than 20 minutes. Dead microphones lay scattered across the stage, snapped strings curled like razor wire off dented and discarded guitars, and a small crow ... More
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DRINK
Pride? Integrity? Who needs 'em? FROM THE MUSIC DESK
What's Lucre Got to Do With It?
Believe it or not, soul can't be bought at Sam Goody for $16.99. i heart Polysics!
Six reasons to go crazy over Japan's No. 1 giddy synth-o-punk psychobots. Manic Panic
Look out below: The Icarus Line's fiery racket is about to crash down all around you. POLIS ENVY
The pilot for a new singer-songwriter TV show fails to give Portland the props we so obviously deserve. Sickly Suite
Cracked glass and melted metal: A tour through the surreal soundspaces of British electro-architects Autechre. Keepin' It Steel
An Amon Tobin cheatsheet for fakers, hacks and new jacks. Excessive Force
The real Star Wars myth is that the films were ever respectable cinema. CALL KUPL TO REQUEST DIXIE CHICKS SONGS: (503) 733-5000.
Who's Laughing Now?
The world's premier industrial horror show has risen from the dead. But is Skinny Puppy ready for the 21st century?
Pride? Integrity? Who needs 'em? FROM THE MUSIC DESK
What's Lucre Got to Do With It?
Believe it or not, soul can't be bought at Sam Goody for $16.99. i heart Polysics!
Six reasons to go crazy over Japan's No. 1 giddy synth-o-punk psychobots. Manic Panic
Look out below: The Icarus Line's fiery racket is about to crash down all around you. POLIS ENVY
The pilot for a new singer-songwriter TV show fails to give Portland the props we so obviously deserve. Sickly Suite
Cracked glass and melted metal: A tour through the surreal soundspaces of British electro-architects Autechre. Keepin' It Steel
An Amon Tobin cheatsheet for fakers, hacks and new jacks. Excessive Force
The real Star Wars myth is that the films were ever respectable cinema. CALL KUPL TO REQUEST DIXIE CHICKS SONGS: (503) 733-5000.
Who's Laughing Now?
The world's premier industrial horror show has risen from the dead. But is Skinny Puppy ready for the 21st century?
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