Headout: Pick Your Poison

Choose your beverage and an event to match.

Headout Let’s be honest: You’re not going to remember New Year’s Eve. Any money you spend to get into a show that night will be flushed out of your consciousness and down the toilet on a wave of tha   More

 

Wednesday, December 26, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Unchained and Unrestrained

Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained is certainly cool. But is that enough?

Movie Reviews & Stories Give Quentin Tarantino this much: He’s got balls. Imagine entering a meeting with a major studio, as a successful white director
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Con Bro Chill: Saturday, Dec. 22

Are these guys serious? Very serious. Sort of.

Music Stories [GOOF POP] You know Con Bro Chill is readying for a video shoot when it looks like a rainbow exploded in the band’s garage. Neon-colored duct tape—a motif running through the five YouTube hits   More

 

Wednesday, December 19, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Album Review: Cool Nutz

Portland Ni%#a (Suburban Noize)

Album Reviews HIP-HOP] Terrance “Cool Nutz” Scott has been called “the ambassador of Portland hip-hop” for so long it’s easy to forget he’s not a self-appointed diplomat    More

 

Wednesday, December 19, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

PDX Charts

Top selling albums and songs in Portland, Dec. 10-16

Music Every Tuesday, we list the top selling albums from local record stores Music Millennium, Jackpot Records and Everyday Music, and the top streamed tracks in Portland on Rhapsody, for the previous week. 
Jackpot Records  1. Tame Impala...   More

 

Tuesday, December 18, 2012 by MATTHEW SINGER

Kickstart My Heart: Get Backspace's Back

Or should that be Gogo Gadget Fundraiser? Anyway: Help save Portland's all-ages institution!

Music It sounds like the plot to a Step It Up sequel: Backspace—the last remaining Portland all-ages music venue that, after nine-plus years in business, could conceivably be called a local institution—must raise $10,000 by early January or face eviction. According to club owner Eric Robison, the investment company that...   More

 

Tuesday, December 18, 2012 by MATTHEW SINGER

Cut of the Day: "Champagne Clouds," Michele Wylen

Music Portland needs more artists like Michele Wylen. She's not an earnest folky or a quirk-riddled indie rocker. Welcome to Human Nature, her debut full-length—which she celebrates the release of this Saturday at Someday Lounge—is an unapologetic, honest-to-goodness, radio-ready pop album. ...   More

 

Thursday, December 13, 2012 by MATTHEW SINGER

PDX Charts

Top selling albums and songs in Portland, Dec. 3-9

Music Every Tuesday, we list the top selling albums from local record stores Music Millennium, Jackpot Records and Everyday Music, and the top streamed tracks in Portland on Rhapsody, for the previous week. 
Music Millennium 1. Mumford & Sons—   More

 

Wednesday, December 12, 2012 by MATTHEW SINGER

Cut of the Day: "Nobody Talks," Pinehurst Kids

Music For 15 years, Pinehurst Kids have been Portland's answer to Superchunk, churning out clenched-fist, full-throated power-punk with sticky melodies, dirt-simple arrangements and not a single frill to be found. And if it ain't broke, yadda yadda yadda.  "Nobody Talks," the title track fro...   More

 

Wednesday, December 12, 2012 by MATTHEW SINGER

Guitar Shorty: Thursday, Dec. 13

Fifty-plus years on, a tireless bluesman is still searching for the crossroads.

Music Stories [BLUES] Guitar Shorty gets no respect. Actually, that’s not entirely true. Among hardcore disciples of the blues, the 73-year-old singer and guitarist—did you think he played flugelhorn?—i   More

 

Wednesday, December 12, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER