Live Video: Floater at Crystal Ballroom, 1/11

Music Floater is Portland's most polarizing band. Beloved and hated in equal measure—though, as this 2010 Willamette Week cover story backs up, I'd argue the group is loved enough outside the city that it fully eclipses the hate—the band's been around f...   More

 

Tuesday, January 15, 2013 by MATTHEW SINGER

Gangster Squad

Firing wild and missing the mark.

Movie Reviews & Stories Talk about a misfire. Gangster Squad talks about it a few times. “Don’t aim for where it is,” one character, a quick shot with a Sam Elliott mustache, instructs another after he misses a m   More

 

Wednesday, January 9, 2013 MATTHEW SINGER

Diamond Minds

Dropping Gems gives electronic music a human pulse.

Music Stories When Aaron Meola moved to Portland in 2009, electronic music in America was still the province of chin-scratching Anglophiles and molly-whopped rave kids. Dubstep’s infernal wub had not yet in   More

 

Wednesday, January 9, 2013 MATTHEW SINGER

Top Five Dropping Gems Releases

Top 5 Various Artists, Gem Drops I-II Featuring tracks from crew members, affiliates and like-minded fellow travelers, either of these interchangeable compilations makes an ideal entry point for wading   More

 

Wednesday, January 9, 2013 MATTHEW SINGER

PDX Charts

PDX Charts: Top selling albums and songs in Portland, Dec. 31-Jan. 6

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. The week's in-store appearance guide in below.
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Tuesday, January 8, 2013 by MATTHEW SINGER

Top Five Local Albums to Get Excited About in Early 2013

Top 5 Unknown Mortal Orchestra, II (2/5, Jagjaguwar) The mystery is gone, but Ruban Nielson’s once-enigmatic post-Mint Chicks project is still one of Portland’s singular bands. Based on the new alb   More

 

Wednesday, January 2, 2013 MATTHEW SINGER

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