Music Stories Like many teens weaned on the MTV culture of the early ’90s, Cole Brown developed a love for hip-hop.
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Album Reviews [HEAVY METAL] Witch Mountain’s past two albums have traced a stylistic devolution—not a regrettable situation, seeing as the Portland-based sludge-metal quartet (which features WW contributo   More

Album Reviews [GONE ELECTRIC] Few musicians have carved as distinctive a niche in Portland’s singer-songwriter-scape as Michael Levasseur, aka Michael the Blind. In addition to making pat reference to his ext   More

Music Stories Chevelle Wiseman had never played bass when she agreed to be the bassist for Guantanamo Baywatch, a handicap she overcame by...    More

Album Reviews [SCRAP METAL] Sam Ford and Max Dameron, better known to Northwest metalheads as Wizard Rifle, create more noise than two human beings have any conceivable right to make. Composed of merely guitar,   More

Music Last month, Tender Loving Empire sounded the proverbial trumpets in order to announce its plans for an ambitious, “pay-what-you-want” pricing system for its digital catalog. The label showed such excitement for what it dubbed the “Priceless Music Project” that label co-founders Jared and Brianna Mees even went so far as to offer middle-naming rights for their firstborn child to anyone will...   More

Music Stories Formed: 1999 in Montreal.  Sounds like: Orchestral punk epics drawn from sorrow, desolation and unease.  For fans of: Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky, Mount Eeri   More

Music Interesting news this morning from the Tender Loving Empire camp. The local label/retailer/general-force–for-good is setting the gears in motion to begin selling its music according to a “pay-what-you-like” retail model. TLE describes what it is dubbing “The Priceless Music Project” in a document no less epic than a strai...   More

Album Reviews [ELECTRO HIP-HOP BANGERS] Kool, the debut album from Portland duo Serious Business, opens by comparing the group’s music to candy. That metaphor isn’t too far off base. Producer/MC Jason Mam   More

Music Stories [HILLBILLY PUNK] It’s not uncommon for a band to refine its sound with age, but when considering the discography of Bend’s Larry and His Flask, you’d be forgiven for thinking two separate    More