Music Stories [FAMILY PARTY] For some of the residents of Southeast’s Washington Towers, the drab apartment complex down the street from Lone Fir Pioneer Cemetery has another name: Futro Towers. That’s beca   More

Top 5 Iron and Wine (April 2004) This was such a joyous and encouraging night in our early days. A capacity crowd poured in, packed themselves politely into the room, and fell into a perfect hush for t   More

Headout After years of rumors and speculation, once-dead Fox sitcom Arrested Development returns via Netflix later this month. To mark the occasion, Holocene is...   More

Brew Views In the JJ-fied Star Trek of today, it’s easy to look upon the pitifully low-budgeted original series and giggle. The episode “Spectre of the Gun,” Gene Roddenberry’s 1968 nod to the cowboy W   More

Music Stories [SIMWAVE] “I bump fades when I fuck. So what?” says the muscular, shirtless man, digitally rendered as part of the virtual-world game Second Life, as he cocks his head to the side and spreads    More

Music Stories Sitting down for coffee in the Ace Hotel lobby, Pete Swanson is quite a sight. He flew back to Portland the day before, returning home from New York, where the prolific experimental musician att   More

Cheap Eats 2012 So you’re really, really broke. We get it—we’re journalists. The cheap eats within these pages are inexpensive, sure, but not on a living-the-dream budget. I decided to see if I could eat    More

Music On Monday night, Nosaj Thing—one of L.A.'s most promising young beat makers—brought his hyper beats and even crazier visuals to Holocene. The show was almost a visual overload, with all three bands on the bill augmented by synchronized lights and videos courtesy of L.A. design studio Fair Enough. While Nosaj was just a one man show, Toro Y Moi's set was aided by live bass and drums, which ...   More

Music Chain & The Gang is great. Oratory punk rock with politics on sleeve, tongue in cheek and a beat you can dance to. And did I mention Shangra-La style vocal interjections? Yeah. That's right. What else do you need? Really? I got a chance to talk with frontman Ian Svenonius (a.k.a. Name Names) the other day. You may remember him from such bands as Make-Up, Scene Creamers, Weird War and Nation ...   More