Music Stories Walter Salas-Humara and Charlie Salas-Humara have nothing in common.  Well, except for the last name, of course. And Charlie’s dad, who happens to be Walter’s brother. In musical terms,   More

Top 5 Gazooka Bazooka Apparently, someone or something by that name played the Foggy Notion in March. That’s all we know, but c’mon: You’re just happy to live in a city where something called “   More

Music While it'd be a bit of a stretch to call them a supergroup, the whole of London-based dance outfit the New Build is the sum of some pretty impressive parts. Centered around LCD Soundsystem guitarist Al Doyle and Hot Chip bassist Felix Martin, th...   More

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

Music A sign in the crowd read, “I SOLD MY GUITARS SO I COULD TAKE MY MOTHER TO SEE PRINCE.” It was, like much of the reaction leading up to Prince’s show at the Roseland Theater Sunday night, a bit of a mixed message. Last month, when Soul’d Out Productions announced that the Purple One himself would indeed perform at the 1,400-capacity venue, the response online was a simultaneous eruption of ...   More

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

Music It's officially festival season. If you're anything like me, though, the thought of standing shoulder-to-shoulder with shirtless bros and barely post-embryonic kids on molly under a blazing hot sun watching ant-sized humans dance on a stage a few miles in the distance probably fills you with dread. And you're not really that big into EDM and Mumford and Sons, anyway.Luckily, Stumpfest is an...   More

Top 5 “Cinnamon Girl,” Musicology, 2004 Only Prince has the balls to steal the title of one of Neil Young’s signature songs. Other than the name, the standout track from his “comeback” album    More

Headout Hey, Blazers fans: Stop trying to hold back your excitement. You and I both know the game on April 10 is the biggest for your franchise since June 5, 1977, the day Bill Walton brought the NBA Ch   More

Top 5 Cheater Slicks (April 12)Running on, in their words, “100 percent negative energy” since 1996, the three-man Ohio noise machine makes howling, despondent rock ’n’ roll that, for all its co   More