UPDATED: Beth Ditto Arrested in Portland Friday Night

Gossip singer booked for disorderly conduct.

Music Beth Ditto, singer for dance-punk band the Gossip and Portland resident, was arrested Friday night and charged with disorderly conduct, according to the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office. She was booked at 1:42 am and released on her own re...   More

 

Saturday, March 16, 2013 by MATTHEW SINGER

SXSW In Fragments: Friday

Music [Singer's account of Wednesday and Thursday at SXSW can be found here.]
Friday, March 15 4:29 pm, Burnet/Penny Bus Stop A chatty local named Todd and his girlfriend offer to slide over and give me a spot next to them on the bench, provided I don't mi...   More

 

Saturday, March 16, 2013 by MATTHEW SINGER

Big Youth

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   More

 

Wednesday, March 13, 2013 MATTHEW SINGER

Milk Music: Monday, March 18

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   More

 

Wednesday, March 13, 2013 MATTHEW SINGER

PDX Charts

Top selling albums and songs in Portland, March 4-10

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

 

Tuesday, March 12, 2013 by MATTHEW SINGER

Calling All Music Insiders!

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

 

Sunday, March 10, 2013 by MATTHEW SINGER

From The Vault: 21 Years of Morrissey in Willamette Week

"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...   More

 

Friday, March 8, 2013 by MATTHEW SINGER

Louder Than Moz

A conversation with Morrissey...or close enough.

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

 

Wednesday, March 6, 2013 MATTHEW SINGER

Headout: Walton on Walton

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   More

 

Wednesday, March 6, 2013 MATTHEW SINGER

PDX Charts

Top selling albums and songs in Portland, Feb. 25-March 3

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

 

Tuesday, March 5, 2013 by MATTHEW SINGER