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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Wednesday, December 5, 2012 by MATTHEW SINGER

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

 

Wednesday, December 5, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Your New Friends

Five Vancouverites who are way cooler than you are.

Featured Stories Go ahead and laugh. Coolest Vancouverites? Isn’t that an oxymoron? Of course, being the smug elitists we are, the assumption is that anyone in Vancouver who is remotely hip would’ve moved to   More

 

Wednesday, December 5, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

’Couve Crawl

A night out in Portland’s northern neighbor.

Featured Stories Vancouver’s nightlife is not bountiful, but it is comprehensive. Along downtown’s Main Street corridor, you’ll find an Irish bar, a sports bar, a martini bar, a wine bar, a discoteca, a br   More

 

Wednesday, December 5, 2012 RUTH BROWN, MARTIN CIZMAR, REBECCA JACOBSON, MATTHEW SINGER

Album Review: Hello Damascus

Finale of Seem (Self-Released)

Album Reviews [DOWNCAST FOLK] “I hate it when it rains this long,” declares singer-guitarist Matt Lounsbury at the start of Hello Damascus’ second album. Maybe he’s telling the truth, but as much as h   More

 

Wednesday, December 5, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

The Five Most Awesome Things That Happened at Last Night’s Bruce Springsteen Show

Music Last night, I saw Bruce Springsteen live for the first time. In the culture of music journalists, I basically just had my bar mitzvah. Seeing the Boss perform in person is an unofficial rite of passage for anyone who writes about rock’n’roll—and, as I wrote in the introduction for our preview pi...   More

 

Thursday, November 29, 2012 by MATTHEW SINGER

Meeting the Old Boss

The many legends of Springsteen.

Music Stories Every American—anyone “born in the U.S.A.,” if you will—has a connection to Bruce Springsteen. It doesn’t matter if you treasure his rusty-throated, denim-collared rock-’n’-roll anth   More

 

Wednesday, November 28, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Nasalrod: Saturday, Dec. 1

One big, happy punk-rock family.

Music Stories [OFF-KILTER PUNK] Looks can be deceiving, and the members of Nasalrod are some deceptive motherfuckers. Gathered together in the fastidiously beige North Portland living room of bassist Kat Know   More

 

Wednesday, November 28, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Gift Guide 2012: The Hoarder

Featured Stories There are those for whom practicality is mere distraction, aesthetics all. Their houses are the 3-D equivalent of graphic-design geek Tumblrs that fill endlessly, bottomlessly with “inspiratio   More

 

Wednesday, November 28, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Album Review: Brainstorm

Heat Waves (Tender Loving Empire)

Album Reviews [WORLD PARTY] Well, you don’t say: A rock band mixing pop melodies with worldly rhythms and West African guitars? How au courant! While the novelty of that particular formula wore off the moment   More

 

Wednesday, November 28, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER