Music Stories In 2007, 18-year-old Danny Delegato sat across from the head of the U.K. branch of Columbia Records and listened to him explain how he was going to make Delegato and his band, the Hugs, into sta   More

Music Stories [INDIE RAUCOUS] Charles Waring doesn’t appreciate the suggestion that his band, Milk Music, is living in the past. He’ll admit the group is big on honoring its heroes—which, from the sound o   More

Music Every Tuesday, 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 that time of year again. Well, almost.  Willamette Week is a month and a half away from announcing the winner of its annual Best New Band poll. As longtime readers know, each year we ask a who's...   More

Music (Go here for this week's interview with a beta-version of Moz.)As far as I can tell, the Smiths never played Portland, despite the fact that its second most important member has called our city home for the last few years. Morrissey, on the other hand (he'd be the first most important), has...   More

Music Stories Morrissey is dead. Not literally, of course. In terms of media exposure, the great and powerful Moz is more alive right now than he’s been in years, what with the recent stunts he’s pulled   More

Headout Art fans, this is truly a magnanimous moment in the history of modern civilization. Not since Gutenberg first threw down the word of the Big Man upstairs has the printed letter held quite such e   More

Music Every Tuesday, 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 Stories The past year of Paul Laxer’s life is coming down to four plinking piano notes.  It’s a chilly Thursday afternoon, and the 28-year-old producer is in his Northeast Portland mixing studi   More

Brew Views Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master is the film Scientology maybe doesn’t want you to see. But while it makes deliberate allusions to L. Ron Hubbard’s sci-fi pseudo-religion, that’s not wh   More