The Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best

Whining the night away.

Movie Reviews & Stories Guys like Ryan O’Nan give struggling artists a bad name. In The Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best, O’Nan plays Alex, a going-nowhere musician and miserable piece of shit. A scruffily bearded whi   More

 

Wednesday, September 26, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

W XYZ: Carry On

Bar Reviews No self-respecting Portlander should step foot inside W XYZ (9920 NE Cascades Parkway, 200-5678, wxyzportland.com). Located adjacent to the airport in the lobby of the tacky Aloft Hotel, it’s a    More

 

Wednesday, September 26, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Brew Views: Killer Joe

Decadent and depraved:.

Brew Views At age 77, William Friedkin has ceased giving any semblance of a fuck. Killer Joe is maybe the most skin-crawlingly nasty picture to come from a major American director since David Lynch’s Blue Velv   More

 

Wednesday, September 26, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Get in the Van with Light in the Attic!

The Seattle reissue label needs a road trip companion—and they'll buy you records!

Music Hey, Portland music nerds! The great Seattle-based reissue label Light in the Attic needs you! Like, right fucking now!

Here's the skinny: To celebrate its 10th anniversary, the label is taking a road trip to Los Angeles and hitting 50-plus record stores on ...   More

 

Thursday, September 20, 2012 by MATTHEW SINGER

Cultish Personalities

Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master is more than just Scientology bait.

Movie Reviews & Stories As you might have heard, The Master is the film Scientology maybe, sort of doesn’t want you to see. But based on some of Joaquin Phoenix’s acting choices, director Paul Thomas Anderson must’   More

 

Wednesday, September 19, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

The We Shared Milk: Saturday, Sept. 22

It took a village to make the psych-pop trio’s new album.

Music Stories [BASEMENT PSYCH-POP] Prodding a band for the story behind its name is typically a major faux pas, but the guys in the We Shared Milk were asking for it.  “We were basically just making    More

 

Wednesday, September 19, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Brew Views: Jackpot Records Film and Music Festival

Touch me I’m deaf.

Brew Views The ninth annual Jackpot Records Film and Music Festival kicks off with two blasts of deafening noise from opposite ends of the West Coast. In Circle...   More

 

Wednesday, September 19, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Obo Addy Has Passed Away

Music Award-winning Ghanaian percussionist Obo Addy, a longtime member of the Portland music community, has died. He was 76 years old.
As Willamette Week reported this week, Addy, who moved to Portland in 1976 and established the no...   More

 

Thursday, September 13, 2012 by MATTHEW SINGER

From Stage To Screen

Director Sam Green goes live with The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller.

Movie Reviews & Stories In The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller, Sam Green builds a movie from scratch. Instead of presenting the life of the titular 20th-century...   More

 

Wednesday, September 12, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER

Album Review: Gaytheist

Stealth Beats (Good To Die)

Album Reviews [PUNK METAL] A name like Gaytheist is meant to antagonize, and on Stealth Beats, the new full-length from this pulverizing trio, that is precisely what the band does. Armed with a rumbling low end   More

 

Wednesday, September 12, 2012 MATTHEW SINGER