Willamette Week

Willamette Weekend: Free Chocolate and Cheese, “Blade Runner: The Final Cut” and 10 Other Things To Do and See In Portland, Jan. 5-7

The Year in Portland Music, Ranked

The good, the bad and the weird of 2017, in 19 lists.

Fred Cole Lived and Created Entirely on His Own Terms, and Portland Followed His Lead

How friends, family and admirers will remember the Portland punk legend.

Portland Punk Icon Fred Cole, Frontman for Dead Moon and Pierced Arrows, Has Died

Cole had been admitted to the hospital last month and treated for bleeding in his liver.

Dead Moon’s Fred Cole Hospitalized, Said to Be “Very Ill”

A procedure to stop bleeding in his liver was successful, but the Portland punk legend faces “a lot of recovery time.”

Portland Punk Legends Dead Moon Will Be Honored With Their Own Official “Night” Tomorrow at City Hall

A new Dead Moon book and record set is also being released by Mississippi Records.

Dead Moon's Fred and Toody Cole Are Retiring From Rock'n'Roll—Including Pierced Arrows

“Fred cannot handle being up onstage for an hour and a half with a 25 pound guitar wrapped around his head.”

Dead Moon's Andrew Loomis RIP

Although the cause of death has not yet been confirmed, Loomis had been battling cancer.

Live! Tonight! Not Sold-Out!

Our top concert picks for Saturday, Dec. 5.

The Coles deny that reviving Dead Moon has anything to do with confronting their own mortality. But, for as indestructible as they seem, they ain’t getting any younger. Talking to them, there’s the sense that a window of opportunity is closing. If they don’t do it now, who knows if they’ll ever get another chance?

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