Oh Hey, It's the 2013 Sasquatch Lineup

Mumford & Sons, Postal Service, Macklemore, someone with the last name Knowles and more scheduled to appear.

Music Well, there's no Phoenix or reunited Britpop legends, but at least there's no Red Hot Chili Peppers, either. The 2013 Sasquatch lineup is out and it's, well, a music festival circa 2013. Headliners include the reunited Postal Service; Seattle-bred indie-rap uber-success story Macklemore and Ryan Lewis; "retarded Irish folk singers" (   More

 

Monday, February 4, 2013 by MATTHEW SINGER

The Lost Year

In 2011, Ruban Nielson created Unknown Mortal Orchestra. It almost killed him.

Music Stories Ruban Nielson thought he was going to die.  Not in the metaphorical sense, either: In his first year touring with Unknown Mortal Orchestra, his blog-approved psych-pop group, the 32-year-ol   More

 

Wednesday, January 30, 2013 MATTHEW SINGER

Cody Chesnutt: Friday, Feb. 1

A singer repents and returns.

Music Stories [REDEMPTION SONGS] “I used to smoke crack back in the day.”  That blunt admission is how Cody Chesnutt begins “Everybody’s Brother,” a song from last year’s Landing on a Hundred,    More

 

Wednesday, January 30, 2013 MATTHEW SINGER

Headout: News Ratings

Ranking the “Weekend Update” anchors.

Headout 1. Norm Macdonald (1994-97) He turned the Saturday Night Live news desk into his own absurdist playground, brilliantly mocking not so much the news as “Weekend Update” itself. Frank Stallone    More

 

Wednesday, January 30, 2013 MATTHEW SINGER

Hottest Toddies

Finding Portland’s best take on the classic winter drink.

Drink Baby, it’s goddamn freezing outside. OK, maybe we don’t have it as bad as most of the country. But Portlanders only complain about the weather to justify their other favorite pastime: staying    More

 

Wednesday, January 23, 2013 MATTHEW SINGER

The Basement Tapers

Banana Stand’s eternal house party.

Music Stories A lot of people know where Aaron Colter and Louie Herr live. It’s a nondescript white house in a Southeast Portland neighborhood they would rather not have publicized, even though, at this poi   More

 

Wednesday, January 23, 2013 MATTHEW SINGER

Headout: Unpopular Moments in White Hip-Hop

Headout America is more tolerant than it used to be. Case in point: Aesop Rock. These days, he packs clubs with his dense, cerebral rhymes—at least when he’s not canceling shows because of broken ribs   More

 

Wednesday, January 23, 2013 MATTHEW SINGER

Top Five Live Recordings Made in Portland

Top 5 Nirvana (2/09/1990, Pine Street Theatre)Appended to Sub Pop’s 20th anniversary edition of Bleach in 2009, this show captures an epochal band winding down the “regional upstarts” phase of its   More

 

Wednesday, January 23, 2013 MATTHEW SINGER

PDX Charts

Top selling albums and songs in Portland, Jan. 14-20

Music Every Tuesday, we list the top selling albums from local record stores Music Millennium, Jackpot Records and Everyday Music, and the top streamed tracks in Portland on Rhapsody, for the previous week. The week's in-store appearance guide in below. Musi...   More

 

Tuesday, January 22, 2013 by MATTHEW SINGER

Live Video: Denver at Mississippi Studios, 1/18

Music Looking at Portland's Denver—yes, that's an odd construction, I know—you get an idea of what they might sound like: large mustaches, pearl snap-up shirts, cowboy boots, an ever-present bottle of Jim Beam. If you say, "alt-country," well, you'd be wrong. Denver, in fact, plays straight-up country—boot-scootin' honky-tonk that doesn't loo...   More

 

Monday, January 21, 2013 by MATTHEW SINGER