Music When Into the Woods launched in January, I wrote that they raised the bar for the medium of online music videos. Nearly one year and 85 (!) videos later, it's safe to say that there is still no one in Portland—or across the Internet, really—that is doing things quite like these guys. But the collective's original idea of taking a band outside of its natural environment and creating a document ...   More

Music Two years ago, before all the hype and hoopla and name change, Richard and Brandon Laws—the brothers and principle songwriters of experimental-pop quartet Hosannas—dropped two self-released EPs. Sparse and tense, filled with just as much open, silent space as analog synth noise, 2008's Gold was one of my favorite releases on the year despite featuring just four songs. The one problem? Those ...   More

Music From the department of sad news: this morning I got an email from Brandon Laws of local avant-pop quartet Hosannas announcing that the band's show this Friday, July 2 at the Artistery will be its last as a group. According to Laws, two members of the group—keyboardist Cristof Hendrickson and drummer Lane Barrington—are leaving Hosannas "quite amicably to pursue other things." Well, shit. ...   More