Puttering Around: Glowing Greens

WW's quest to find Portland's best miniature golf course

Features Fore! With spring in the air—and with every other fun activity from a Normal American ChildhoodTM having been already co-opted for ironic enjoyment then played out—over the next week WW brings you reviews of Portland-area putt-putt courses. We're also pretty excited about    More

 

Monday, May 13, 2013 by MATTHEW SINGER

Win Tickets to Sun Angle's Record Release Show Tonight!

You read the review in this week's paper—you read it, right?—now, get your copy of one of the most anticipated local albums of the year at Mississippi Studios!

Music Despite what the current weather might indicate, a storm is coming, and its name is Sun Angle. Tonight, the Portland super-trio and Best New Band finalist celebrates the release of its first full-length album, Diamond Junk...   More

 

Friday, May 10, 2013 by MATTHEW SINGER

Out of Print

So much music. So little page space. Here are some shows we missed in this week's print edition.

Music Thursday, May 9 Laura Stevenson, Field Mouse, Dresses [INDIE-POP] It is easy to dig a band when they let their freak flag fly as though it is the most normal thing in the world. Laura Stevenson and the Cans combine upbeat tempos with silly and clever wordplay, all to the imperfectly polished range and cadence of Stevenson’s borderline euphoric vocals. But this is more t...   More

 

Wednesday, May 8, 2013 by MATTHEW SINGER

Blood Bros

Wampire crawls out of the basement.

Music Stories Six years ago, the last band anyone would’ve pegged to make it big outside of Portland might have been Wampire. First of all, there’s that name. An inside joke goofing on the German pronunciat   More

 

Wednesday, May 8, 2013 MATTHEW SINGER

Primer: Big Boi

Music Stories Born: In Savannah, Ga., in 1975. Sounds like: Listening to the coolest dude at the party shoot the shit as the DJ spins ’70s soul, ’80s boogie funk and the occasional modern electro-pop recor   More

 

Wednesday, May 8, 2013 MATTHEW SINGER

Album Review: Sun Angle

Diamond Junk (New Moss)

Album Reviews [PSYCH-PUNK] One does not simply record Sun Angle. Feeding psychedelic guitars and pan-global rhythms through punk tempos delivered with free-jazz abandon, the band—a collaboration between thr   More

 

Wednesday, May 8, 2013 MATTHEW SINGER

Top Five Mantras from The Dalai Lama and Anthony Kiedis

Top 5 ON FRIENDSHIP Dalai Lama: “Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives.” Anthony Kiedis: “And my friend’s named Bob. Like the de   More

 

Wednesday, May 8, 2013 MATTHEW SINGER

Win Tickets to Make It Pop!

The annual PDX Pop Now! fundraiser features Kelli Schaefer, Monarques, Grandparents and Ezza Rose...and that's just the bands.

Music They grow up so fast, don't they?  Of course I'm referring to free, all-ages, all-local summer music festivals. This July, PDX Pop Now!—not just Portland's best free, all-ages, all-local summer music festivals, but one of the city's best annual events, period—turns 10 years old. It seems like only yesterday when PPN was just ...   More

 

Tuesday, May 7, 2013 by MATTHEW SINGER

PDX Charts

Top selling albums and songs in Portland, April 29-May 4

Music Every week, we list the top selling albums from local record stores Music Millennium, Jackpot Records, Everyday Music and Beacon Sound, and the top streamed tracks in Portland on    More

 

Tuesday, May 7, 2013 by MATTHEW SINGER

The 2013 Best New Band Ballots

A peek at music-based democracy in action!

Music Every year, in the spirit of transparency—and to make it perfectly clear that Best New Band is a poll, not an arbitrary list—we publish the ballots of every Best New Band voter. What follows is that list of voters names, titles and the bands or artists that they casted votes for. We o...   More

 

Thursday, May 2, 2013 by MATTHEW SINGER