Willamette Week - http://www.wweek.com/portland/articles.sec-65-1-.html Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT+7 en hourly 1 I Think I Was There - An oral history of Satyricon. http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-12560-i_think_i_was_there_an_oral_history_of_satyricon.html

In 1983, Portland’s Chinatown was, by all accounts, a real shithole. Peppered with empty lots, boarded-up storefronts and dealers pushing cocaine and heroin as casually as a grocery store clerk might ask “paper or plastic?”—it was a part of town best avoided altogether. It was in the heart of this dubious neighborhood that George Touhouliotis, a 36-year-old Greek immigrant and former cab driver with a fondness for poetry and rebellious youth culture, opened an equally dirty bar called Satyricon...

]]> <i>One Night With Janis Joplin</i> (PCS) - Miles and miles and miles of heart. http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17563-one_night_with_janis_joplin_%28pcs%29_miles_and_miles_and_miles_of_heart.html Portland Center Stage, inexplicably determined that its final show of the season pay tribute to a long-deceased blues belter of dimming celebrity, decided mid-season to shelve the originally schedul]]> <i>Trek</i> in the Park (Atomic Arts) - Summer Spock theater. http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17750-trek_in_the_park_%28atomic_arts%29_summer_spock_theater.html Seating space: the final frontier. Rapidly growing and ever more eclectic (though, shall we say, far from diverse) crowds have overwhelmed the smallish amphitheater within Northeast Portland’s Wo]]> Portland Rock Trivia - Twelve absolutely random things you didn’t know about the Portland music scene. http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19623-portland_rock_trivia_twelve_absolutely_random_things_you_didn%E2%80%99t_know_about_the_portland_musi.html 1.MusicfestNW began as the bastard child of SXSW...]]> <i>Hot Gun</i> (Wonderdiamond Productions) - The Iceman cometh. http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-12079-hot_gun_%28wonderdiamond_productions%29_the_iceman_cometh.html Live 365 - Local musicophile goes to concerts every single day for a year and manages to keep his sanity. http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-4155-live_365_local_musicophile_goes_to_concerts_every_single_day_for_a_year_and_manages_to_keep_his_sani.html The Beautiful and the Damned - <i>American Idol</i> is coming to Portland. Here are some things you should know. http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17657-the_beautiful_and_the_damned_american_idol_is_coming_to_portland_here_are_some_things_you_should_kno.html Whether because so few of our residents profess to own a television set or so many of our well-pitched homegrown larynxes manage to attract fans ]]> Flayed Alive - A Food Network loudmouth hits town, and a Portland band rediscovers the term "starving artists." http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-943-flayed_alive_a_food_network_loudmouth_hits_town_and_a_portland_band_rediscovers_the_term_starving_ar.html Primer: Smoochknob - http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-18120-primer_smoochknob_.html Formed: Around the turn of the millennium, when frontman-to-be Donnie Rife abandoned the Midwest for the promise of Portland. 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Sounds like: Avril Lavigne’s smarter, soulful, slightly southern gal pal For fans of: Radio Disney Emo Hour Latest release: 2010’s Speak Now, her third album, which ]]> The Young Immortals When History Meets Fiction (self-released) - The Young Immortals belie their age with an almost too mature debut. http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-7616-the_young_immortals_when_history_meets_fiction_%28self_released%29_the_young_immortals_belie_their_a.html The Dandy Warhols: Dec. 9-11 - The Dandy Warhols are for the children. http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-18286-the_dandy_warhols_dec_9_11_the_dandy_warhols_are_for_the_children.html [HOLIDAY PSYCH ROCK] In the 17 years since the Dandy Warhols first recorded their weirdly definitive rendition of “Little Drummer Boy,” the Portland icons—our most continuously successful ]]> P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S.: Saturday, Nov. 26 - Portland rock supergroup blitzes Europe behind its vinyl debut. http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-18227-problems_saturday_nov_26_portland_rock_supergroup_blitzes_europe_behind_its_vinyl_debut.html [ROCK] It’s not, to answer the most obvious question, an acronym. When Kelly Halliburton (Pierced Arrows) first asked Bradly (Weaklings, Lucky 13s) in the spring of 1999 to step in as vocalist as hi]]> Rave On - Portland’s Monarques (finally) spread their wings. http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19406-rave_on_portland%E2%80%99s_monarques_%28finally%29_spread_their_wings.html Even for a town rife with butterfly collectors eager to net especially rarefied species, Monarques’ fitful approach toward maintaining band loyalty would ordinarily test the patience of even the]]> <i>The Tooth Of Crime (Second Dance)</i> (Contagious Theatre) - Sam Shepard’s rock-’n’-roll homicides. http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17784-the_tooth_of_crime_%28second_dance%29_%28contagious_theatre%29_sam_shepard%E2%80%99s_rock_%E2%80%99n.html Rock ’n’ roll and stage drama haven’t always made the best of pairings, but, despite a snarling blues-bar-of-the-damned T Bone Burnett score ably wrangled by live band Outland Prey, The Tooth ]]> Family Tree - Lewi Longmire, “The Session Player's Session Player,” branches out. http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-8873-family_tree_lewi_longmire_ldthe_session_players_session_playerrd_branches_out.html Album Review: Leigh Marble - <i>Where the Knives Meet Between the Rows</i> (Laughing Stock) http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-18975-album_review_leigh_marble_where_the_knives_meet_between_the_rows_%28laughing_stock%29.html [SINGER-SONGWRITER] It has been more than four years since Leigh Marble recorded critically acclaimed sophomore album Red Tornado, and during the elongated gestation of latest offering Where the Knive]]> The Last Pogo - Portland's old New-Wave champions Theatre of Sheep tend the flock. http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-8174-the_last_pogo_portlands_old_new_wave_champions_theatre_of_sheep_tend_the_flock.html Headout: An Adult Guide to Justin Bieber - http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19719-headout_an_adult_guide_to_justin_bieber_.html Q: What is a “Bieber”?A: The latest iteration of a peculiar American rite of generational passage that serves up one relatively palatable teen idol to grab the hearts of our adolescents withou]]> Primer: KMRIA - http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-18927-primer_kmria_.html Formed: Around Christmas Eve 2005, when Portland musicians Ezra Holbrook and Jenny Conlee-Drizos first shared an admiration for the Pogues’ “Fairytale of New York.” KMRIA (Kiss My Royal Ir]]> Slanted & Enchanted - Asian dance-pop band rocks anime convention, melts stereotypes. http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-7614-slanted_enchanted_asian_dance_pop_band_rocks_anime_convention_melts_stereotypes.html Kaia Wilson. 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For fans of: The ’90s; the Beavers; a wildly talented troupe o]]> Mic Check: The Pogues - http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-11123-mic_check_the_pogues_.html Primer: Kreayshawn - http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19999-primer_kreayshawn_.html Born: In San Francisco in 1989 as Natassia Gail Zolot.  Sounds like: An undergrad exercise in hip-hop compiled by a fitfully charming lass of compelling backstory and rather more friends tha]]> BC's American Saloon Outlaws, Legends and Lovers, aug. 17 - Club sheds sci-fi veneer, goes where no hipster joint has gone before. http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-4743-bcs_american_saloon_outlaws_legends_and_lovers_aug_17_club_sheds_sci_fi_veneer_goes_where_no_hipster.html <i>Kinfolk</i> - <i>Better Homes and Grey Gardens.</i> http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20311-kinfolk_better_homes_and_grey_gardens.html For all the tears shed over the withering magazine industry, certain niche periodicals have actually thrived. Design-oriented mags require the printed page for best effect, foodies aren’t yet ]]>