Movie Reviews & Stories I can’t imagine a more joyless theatergoing experience than a public screening of Ruggero Deodato’s Cannibal Holocaust. It’s enough of a bummer to watch alone; sitting in nauseated silence w   More

Music Stories Will David Byrne ever find a nice girl to settle down with? Ever since Talking Heads broke up in 1991, the restless 60-year-old musician-author-etc. has been playing the field—musically speaki   More

Music Stories Born: In Bayamón, Puerto Rico, in 1975. Sounds like: A prolific experimentalist now financially secure enough to operate without any semblance of a creative filter. For fans of: The Mars Volta, Joh   More

Music Is YACHT still considered a Portland band? Although the art-pop group relocated to Los Angeles a few years ago, it'll probably always be thought of as honorary Stumptownians, so it's still appropriate to report on the group's activities. In a typical move for L.A. transplants, the band is developing a TV show (or web series—same diff).    More

Movie Reviews & Stories In 2008, playwright-turned-filmmaker Martin McDonagh pulled off a nifty directorial trick: He made a crime comedy with soul. There aren’t too many of those around—not in the post-Pulp...   More

Music Stories Born: 1939 in Corsicana, Texas. Sounds like: Everything that’s grizzled and red-blooded—and, conversely, good and Christian—about country music, condensed into the body and voice of a man w   More

Music Stories [GARAGE SOUL] Soul doesn’t come naturally to the lily-white Northwest. In the case of Brownish Black’s M.D. Sharbatz, though, it wasn’t until he moved to Portland, oddly enough, that the s   More

Movie Reviews & Stories “Based on an original idea by Tim Burton,” it says in the credits. It’s hard to read that phrase and not snicker a little. In recent years, the popular knock on Burton is that he doesn’t h   More

Music Stories YEARS ACTIVE U-Krew: 1984-1993 Everclear: 1992-“present” SOUND U-Krew: An early hybrid of R&B and hip-hop...   More

Album Reviews [NEW CLASSIC ROCK] Utrillo Kushner is at his best when he’s hung-over. Loosen the Lead and Spoil the Dogs, the Comets on Fire drummer’s third more-or-less solo album under the name Colossal Ye   More