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
PDX Charts
Top selling albums and songs in Portland, May 6-12
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
Happy 90th Birthday, Harry Smith!
Interviews with Rani Singh, director of the Harry Smith Archives, and musician Joe McMurrian, organizer of Harry Smith's One Kind Favor: A Tribute Concert to the Anthology of American Folk Music.
Music This month, proto-hippie shaman and Portland-born polymath Harry Smith turns 90, and his hometown is throwing him a party. Several, in fact. Never mind that he died in 1991: Considering the man’s resume, the milestone deserves a celebration, regardless of where his spirit resides. Along with being an accomplished experimental fi... More
Out of Print
So much music. So little page space. Here are some shows we missed in this week's print edition.
Music Wednesday, May 15 White Fang, Colleen Green, Heavy Hawaii, Comaserfs [PUNK] Spazzy Portland punks White Fang headline this showcase of West Coast basement-party upstarts. Make sure to get there early for San Diego surf-wavers Heavy Hawaii and, especially, L.A.'s Colleen Green, whose dreamy bedroom pop-punk plays like a stonier version of Best Coast. Star Theater, 1... More
Cut of the Day: "Zombies (G_Force Remix)," Radiation City featuring TxE
Also, watch a short film about how this collision of Portland indie-pop and indie hip-hop came about.
Music Radiation City's anticipated second album, Animals in the Median, comes out next Tuesday on Tender Loving Empire (currently streaming here), but the i... More
Puttering Around: Glowing Greens
WW's quest to find Portland's best miniature golf course
Features Fore! With spring in the air—and with every other fun activity from a Normal American ChildhoodTM having been already co-opted for ironic enjoyment then played out—over the next week WW brings you reviews of Portland-area putt-putt courses. We're also pretty excited about More
Win Tickets to Sun Angle's Record Release Show Tonight!
You read the review in this week's paper—you read it, right?—now, get your copy of one of the most anticipated local albums of the year at Mississippi Studios!
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Music Despite what the current weather might indicate, a storm is coming, and its name is Sun Angle. Tonight, the Portland super-trio and Best New Band finalist celebrates the release of its first full-length album, Diamond Junk... More
Out of Print
So much music. So little page space. Here are some shows we missed in this week's print edition.
Music Thursday, May 9 Laura Stevenson, Field Mouse, Dresses [INDIE-POP] It is easy to dig a band when they let their freak flag fly as though it is the most normal thing in the world. Laura Stevenson and the Cans combine upbeat tempos with silly and clever wordplay, all to the imperfectly polished range and cadence of Stevenson’s borderline euphoric vocals. But this is more t... More
Blood Bros
Wampire crawls out of the basement.
Music Stories Six years ago, the last band anyone would’ve pegged to make it big outside of Portland might have been Wampire. First of all, there’s that name. An inside joke goofing on the German pronunciat More
Primer: Big Boi
Music Stories Born: In Savannah, Ga., in 1975. Sounds like: Listening to the coolest dude at the party shoot the shit as the DJ spins ’70s soul, ’80s boogie funk and the occasional modern electro-pop recor More
Album Review: Sun Angle
Diamond Junk (New Moss)
Album Reviews [PSYCH-PUNK] One does not simply record Sun Angle. Feeding psychedelic guitars and pan-global rhythms through punk tempos delivered with free-jazz abandon, the band—a collaboration between thr More
Top Articles from MATTHEW SINGER
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In the Land of a Thousand strippers, burlesque revivalists have been second-class citizens. Until now. One Small Dubstep
What is the dance music subgenre dubstep, exactly? Depends on who’s dancing. Just A Hobby
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Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden stands up to an anti-piracy bill he says threatens internet freedom. Dirty Songbirds
On the eve of Peaches’ visit, we revisit filthy sex songs for the ages. Marc Maron
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Woody and Owen’s excellent adventure. Kenton Station: Naked and Famous
Buried Alive
Portland film pioneer Don Gronquist was banned, panned and forgotten. He deserved better. Jared Mees & the Grown Children Saturday, May 14
If life imitates art, Jared Mees’ life must be pretty hectic about now.
In the Land of a Thousand strippers, burlesque revivalists have been second-class citizens. Until now. One Small Dubstep
What is the dance music subgenre dubstep, exactly? Depends on who’s dancing. Just A Hobby
Fernando Viciconte tried to quit music. His friends wouldn’t let him. Caught Up in the Net
Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden stands up to an anti-piracy bill he says threatens internet freedom. Dirty Songbirds
On the eve of Peaches’ visit, we revisit filthy sex songs for the ages. Marc Maron
A veteran comic turns to podcasting for shock therapy and biting laughs. Midnight In Paris
Woody and Owen’s excellent adventure. Kenton Station: Naked and Famous
Buried Alive
Portland film pioneer Don Gronquist was banned, panned and forgotten. He deserved better. Jared Mees & the Grown Children Saturday, May 14
If life imitates art, Jared Mees’ life must be pretty hectic about now.
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