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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Album Review: Aranya
Farabequah (Self-Released)
Album Reviews [METAL OF THE GODS] “Epic” is an overused adjective in the rock-crit lexicon, but applying any other word to the mountainous, prog-y, European folk-metal of Portland’s Aranya would be inaccu More
Hip-Hop Video Roundup: TxE! MY-G! Illmaculate! Al-One!
UPDATE: Now with new Luck-One and Dizz video!
Music It's been a busy month for local hip-hop, both in the studio and on the screen. Here's how some emcees have spent the Portland autumn.
TxE, "Swing Set"
In case you couldn't guess from the title of this new track from TxE—that's rappers Tope and Epp and producer More
PDX Charts
Top selling albums and songs in Portland, Nov. 26-Dec. 2
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 is below.
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Antibalas: Saturday, Dec. 8
America’s premier Afrobeat orchestra proves you can go home again.
Music Stories [AFROBEAT-AMERICAN] If Afrobeat has a mecca, it is, appropriately enough, the Shrine. Like New York’s CBGB for punk rockers or Hamburg’s Star-Club for Beatles fanatics, the nightclub, located More
Top Articles from MATTHEW SINGER
Live Not-So-Nude Girls
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.
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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