Music I'm taking this opportunity to feature one of my favorite songs ever, from one of my favorite bands ever, whose presence in Portland was one of the few things I knew previously about the city, and thus was one of the main reasons I felt confident moving here.

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Bar Reviews If pressed, I would insist that a youth spent floundering in southwest England (where clubbing really is the sole option for evening entertainment) makes me a credible candidate for gauging the qualit ...   More

Music Last we week we reported that Dirtnap Records is set to bolster its impeccable back catalog with the forthcoming release of local youth-punx Autistic Youth's sophomore full-length album. This week marks the kickoff of the band's West Coast tour alongside relative grandparents Defect Defe...   More

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Over the last week, the proposed Rogue Ales buy-out of the Green Dragon Pub and Bistro was widely reported as a done deal, with majority-owner Ed Schwartz    More

Music Apparently this was revealed at the tail end of last month but, for those of us playing catch-up, local punk institution Dirtnap Records has announced a couple of exciting developments. First, PDX's favorite pre-teen (OK, they might actually be closing in on drinking age now—either w...   More

Music In a recent Drunken Boat Cut of the Day, I blabbered on about the recent renaissance of pop-punk that takes it cues from the downbeat melancholia of bands like Brit legends Leatherface rather than the chirpy, hyper-syrupy sounds more closely associated with the genre for much of the ‘90...   More

Music During a single verse of “Take Em Out,” Suckapunch, Line of Fire, and Hungry Mob member Mic Crenshaw manages to touch upon themes of prison overpopulation, economic recession, erosion of civil liberties, institutional racial abuse, and corporate exploitation—in the process ...   More

Music Before confusion with the the seminal local punk band Tragedy prompted a name change to the current Tragedy 503, PDX's Insane Clown Posse-inspired horror-core MC released debut album Acid Rain under the [sic] moniker Tradgedy. Apparently recorded on a Playstation—and surely deserving of...   More

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A post-punk life fits these ex-crust rockers just fine.

[POST-CRUNK] It’s rare that the same group of musicians begins in one genre only to make a U-turn into another, but that’s exactly what happened to Portland trio the Estranged. In morphing from violin-embellished &ldqu...   More

Music Stories [POST-CRUNK] It’s rare that the same group of musicians begins in one genre only to make a U-turn into another, but that’s exactly what happened to Portland trio the Estranged. In morphing ...   More