Movie Reviews & Stories How does someone in my position discuss The Cabin in the Woods? It’s a movie whose deliberately veiled marketing campaign insists critics tiptoe...   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Hell is other children, as anyone who came of age in the public school system is well aware. For the average kid, absorbing cruelty from one’s peers is just an accepted part of growing up. In    More

News As someone once said, there are only two guarantees in life: death and screwing up your taxes. At least, that’s what I’ve been told. I’m a 29-year-old man who still sends his 1099 to his dad and   More

Music Stories Formed: 1986 in San Pedro, Calif.  Sounds like: A streamlined, corn-fed offshoot of the Minutemen’s working-class punk funk.  For fans of: Minutemen (duh), Camper Van Beethoven, Violent    More

Music Calling all bands with self-recording experience: The We Shared Milk humbly request your assistance! The hazy Portland pop trio spent the cold, dark winter writing and demoing tracks for a full-length release. With things starting to warm-up (well, fingers crossed), the band is crawling out of hibernation and looking for some he...   More

Movie Reviews & Stories We need to talk about Cyril. He is the kid in The Kid With a Bike, and he’s got some issues. A pale, sinewy 11-year-old, he’s been discarded by his parents at a Belgian boys’ home. He’s al   More

Music Stories [FOLK POP] Leaving New York is never easy, or so latter-day R.E.M. would have us believe. Ask Jeremiah Fraites of the Lumineers, though, and he’ll tell you it’s really not that difficult. He    More

Music Stories Howler’s Jordan Gatesmith is the first to admit he and his bandmates are adept at what the Brits call “taking the piss.” If you’ve ever read anything about the band—and it’s more likel   More

Music So the week is pretty much done. Before leaving the office... oh, who am I kidding? This is Portland. You're not in a damn office. Nevertheless, take a break from obsessively checking March Madness scores and enjoy a few of the new video clips that came across our inboxes in the past few days.
Alialujah Choir, "A House, a Home"A gorgeously rustic clip for the song that launched a Portland folk-...   More

Music Stories Although he usually performed barefoot (and covered in little more than sweat and face paint), when Fela Kuti died in 1997, he left behind massive shoes to fill. For 30 years, the Nigerian bandl   More