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Cut of the Day: "Blue Babe," Woodwinds

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In this week's print edition, Jonathan Frochtzwajg reviewed the debut EP from Portland indie pop group Genders, who are celebrating the record's release Sunday at Rontoms. Well, there's another artist playing that night who's also enjoying an album release. Kismet is the first full-length effo...   More
 
Friday, November 9, 2012 by MATTHEW SINGER

PDX Charts

Top selling albums and songs in Portland, Oct. 29-Nov.4

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Every Tuesday, we list the top selling albums from local record stores Music MillenniumJackpot Records and Everyday Music, and the top streamed tracks in Portland on Rhapsody, for the previous week. The week's in-st...   More
 
Wednesday, November 7, 2012 by MATTHEW SINGER

Portland Street Performer "Working" Kirk Reeves Has Died

UPDATE: Oregon State Medical Examiner confirms musician died of self-inflicted gunshot wound.

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"Working" Kirk Reeves, the longtime Portland street musician known for serenading motorists with his trumpet at the eastbound onramp of the Hawthorne Bridge, has died. He was 56 years old. A former computer analyst, Reeves became a fixture along Hawthorne Boulevard after moving to Portland from Boston in 1991, performing renditions of classic standards (including the Loone...   More
 
Wednesday, November 7, 2012 by MATTHEW SINGER

Extended Q&A with Thrill Jockey Founder Bettina Richards

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In this week's print edition of Willamette Week, we spoke with Bettina Richards, the founder of venerable Chicago-based independent record label Thrill Jockey, about the label's 20th anniversary. Here is an extended version of that conversation.Willamette Week: What was the impulse to start the label in the first place? ...   More
 
Wednesday, November 7, 2012 by MATTHEW SINGER

The Thrill of it All

Thrill Jockey Records founder Bettina Richards talks 20 years of music without borders.


Music Stories
Twenty years ago, Bettina Richards lived in a cramped fourth-floor walk-up in a particularly heroin-infested section of pre-Giuliani Manhattan. Out of that apartment, Richards, a self-professed    More
 
Wednesday, November 7, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Cut of the Day: "Wreck My Life," Slim Fortune

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Here's what we know about new Portland band Slim Fortune: It's a group featuring Rex Marshall and Max Avalon of electro-R&B trio Mattress and Jay Winebrenner of 31Knots. It's making its debut performance this We...   More
 
Tuesday, November 6, 2012 by MATTHEW SINGER

Flight

Fly the shit-faced skies.


Movie Reviews & Stories
Flight is about as subtle as a plane crash. And the plane crash at the beginning of Flight ain’t too subtle, either. At 30,000 feet, a commercial airliner carrying more than 100 passengers desce   More
 
Wednesday, October 31, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

La Mariachi

Edna Vazquez declares her independence.


Music Stories
Edna Vazquez’s life in music began with a crush. When she was 13 years old, a boy in her tiny hometown of Tonila, in central Mexico, attempted to win her affections by giving her a guitar. Growi   More
 
Wednesday, October 31, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Brew Views: Beasts of the Southern Wild

That other hurricane.


Brew Views
In the Bathtub—the fictional Louisiana bayou settlement that forms the backdrop for the enchanting Beasts of the Southern Wild—the price of existing off the grid is living in waterlogged squalor   More
 
Wednesday, October 31, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Christopher Kirkley's Top Five Tracks from West Africa

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In the current issue of Willamette Week, we profiled Portland blogger Christopher Kirkley, who lived for over a year in West Africa, making field recordings and trading regional pop songs with locals via MP3s stored on cellphones, which he eventually compiled and released through his label, Sahelsounds. We asked Kirkley for his top five favorite t...   More
 
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 by MATTHEW SINGER
 

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