The Hugs’ Danny Delegato is ready for a comeback—at age 24.
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
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Indie rock’s punk past, thawed out in the present.
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
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Willamette Week wants you—or someone you know—to help pick this year's Best New Band!
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
"There is a definite appeal to his campy, smart-aleck personality."
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...
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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
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The former Blazer holds forth on the Jersey sculptor.
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
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Typhoon’s in-house producer readies his masterpiece.
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
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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
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