Music Stories [HIP-HOP HERESY] Early on Soopah Eype’s most recent mixtape, El Planeta de los Simios (that’s “Planet of the Apes” for those without access to Google Translate), the Portland rapper drops    More

Food & Drink Here are the details on this week's new liquor license applications:Downtown Irish-themed bar chain Kells has applied to open Kells Brew Pub in the currently empty building at 210 NW 21st Ave.Also jumping into the brewing game is Old Town Pizza, with an application to turn its existing branch at Vanport Center into a brew pub.Chie Horibuchi, who somehow manages to have only nine hits on Google for ...   More

Music East End's third annual Smashed Block Party, which goes down this Saturday and Sunday, features a daunting line-up of Portland's finest punk and metal bands, in addition to Big Deal headlining sets by wizened luminary Redd Kross (Saturday) and Cleveland's scummy Midnight (Sunday). A thorough rundown of the impending intensity would require thousands of purple words, and this here website would probably ...   More

Music In the mid-aughts, the Clorox Girls were Portland’s great punk hope. One year after a van accident tragically snuffed the promise of the dearly missed Exploding Hearts in 2003, the band—made up of three transplants from Northern California, all decidedly male—released its self-titled full-length and instantly renewed the city’s faith in hooky, three-chord, smash-and-grab punk rock. After three ...   More

Music Tecate and cigarettes and fire escapes, oh my! The latest Into the Woods video—in partnership with Willamette Week's own MusicfestNW—captures the epic Fourth of July block party hosted outside of East End. And Red Fang's performance of the vicious "Prehistoric Dog" is as awesome as you could ask for, with lots of dirty beards, guitar feedback, and a special announcement from frontman Brian ...   More

Music The first time I saw Eddy Current Suppression Ring was with about 600 sweaty rock fans crammed into Melbourne's AC/DC Lane (yes, we named a street after AC/DC. Yes, it's both a little bit lame and a little bit awesome). I paid about $50, was stuck behind a fetid dumpster and could barely see. It was great. On Tuesday night, I paid $8 to see the same band with about 100 sweaty rock fans crammed into ...   More

Music I can't say I am intimately familiar with Trumans Water. The 19-year-old schizo-guitar-pop outfit, often billed as more Pavement than Pavement—wilder, less sensical, more angular—has spent most of its lifespan in relative obscurity, where it was safe from latte-sipping, Hummer-driving douchebags like me. But now that I've heard the Portland-based quartet's new album, O Zeta Zunis (it's ...   More