The Five Best Things About PDX Pop Now! 2013

Lineup! Getcha free all-ages music festival lineup here!

Music At this stage in the game, it's not surprising when the lineup for PDX Pop Now—Portland's best all-local, all-ages, all-free music festival—turns out to be a wide-ranging snapshot of the Portland music scene circa right now. For the volunteer-run festival's 10th anniversary, though, the organizers have outdone themselves. It's not all-inclus...   More

 

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 by MATTHEW SINGER

PDX Charts

Top selling albums and songs in Portland, June 10-16

Music Every week, we list the top selling albums from local record stores Music Millennium, Jackpot Records, Everyday Music and Beacon Sound, and the top streamed tracks in Portland on    More

 

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 by MATTHEW SINGER

DINER 2013: City State

Not a guide to Portland’s best restaurants—just seven Portland diners.

Food & Drink Welcome to Diner 2013—not a guide to the Portland area’s best restaurants, or even to the best Oregonian-operated diners, but a seven-part series where we ate at seven Portland diners we hadn't been to in a while. Over the next week, we hit standbys where you can get eggs and coffee at a counter e...   More

 

Monday, June 17, 2013 by MATTHEW SINGER

PDX Charts

Top selling albums in Portland, June 3-9.

Music Every week, we list the top selling albums from local record stores Music Millennium, Jackpot Records, Everyday Music and Beacon Sound. This week's in-store performances are also listed below.



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Saturday, June 15, 2013 by MATTHEW SINGER

Win Tickets to See the Coup Tomorrow Night at Mississippi Studios!

Music Here's what Reed Jackson wrote about agit-hip-hop vets the Coup in this week's paper:[FUNK] It’s hard not to like the style of Oakland-based hip-hop group the Coup. The group consists of an Afro-adorned political activist named Boots Riley, who raps about social injustices in a smooth, pimped-out hush, and DJ Pam the Funkstress, whose s...   More

 

Friday, June 14, 2013 by MATTHEW SINGER

PDX Charts

Top selling albums and songs in Portland, May 27-June 2

Music Every week, we list the top selling albums from local record stores Music Millennium, Jackpot Records, Everyday Music and Beacon Sound, and the top streamed tracks in Portland on ...   More

 

Wednesday, June 5, 2013 by MATTHEW SINGER

Jeff Hylton Simmons, XRAY Fest

Music Stories Jeff Hylton Simmons can see the finish line. Seven years ago, the 37-year-old Midwest transplant, sound engineer and broadcaster hatched the idea for a free-form, Portland-inspired terrestrial r   More

 

Wednesday, June 5, 2013 MATTHEW SINGER

Conflict: Method Man vs. Cappadonna

Music Stories The conflict: Two members of hip-hop’s greatest dynasty, the Wu-Tang Clan, are coming to Portland, vying for your hard-earned dolla, dolla bills, y’all, on two successive nights. Times are t   More

 

Wednesday, June 5, 2013 MATTHEW SINGER

MusicfestNW Announces 2013 Lineup

Animal Collective, Shuggie Otis, Diplo, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Fred Armisen and more headline the city-wide, summer-ending blowout.

Music Welp, I'm already exhausted.This year's MusicfestNW lineup is out, and it's bigger than ever: Six days, 150 bands, 16 venues. As usual, Trevor Solomon has put together a stellar collection of talent (and I'm not just saying that because his office is in the same building, though this is where we remind you that WW puts on the festiv...   More

 

Wednesday, May 29, 2013 by MATTHEW SINGER

Seoul Power

The Korean pop machine is going global. But what exactly is it?

Music Stories When “Gangnam Style” seized the world in its cartoon-neon clutches via YouTube last year, it seemed like something uploaded from another planet. In fact, it originated from the South Korean po   More

 

Wednesday, May 29, 2013 MATTHEW SINGER