Daniel Bromfield

How to Get Into Dub Techno

It sounds like a fake name your mom might make up to describe something kids would be dancing to, but dub techno is the bees’ knees: miles-wide chords that feel like sinking your head into a nebula, stoned beats that drag you along with them for as long as you let them.

Holocene Gave Local Electronic Artists a Pack of Samples and 48 Hours to Make Songs for a Fundraising Compilation

Going In isn’t just a fundraising effort—it’s an elegy for live music in Portland. The songs are structured in a loose arc that simulates the trajectory of a night at the club.

Mo Troper’s New Album Trades Biting Commentary for Songs About Falling in Love and Eating Burritos

The first thing you notice about Mo Troper’s music is how catchy it is. The second is its vitriol.

Hawthorne Game Exchange Opens Monday with an Acoustic Rock Show

The new business now has an official opening date: Monday, December 9. And to celebrate, it’s throwing a show with several local artists.

Ben Harkins’ Deadpan Comedy Belies His Self-Described “Mystic Streak”

It might seem counterintuitive to get into comedy to get away from drunken people. But that’s exactly what Ben Harkins did.

CD Game Exchange, Portland’s Long-Running Music and Video Game Chain, Has Gone Out of Business

The Portland-based used music and video game franchise shut down its final two locations this week, including its original location on Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard and one in Gresham, with little warning.

A New Advocacy Group Will Advise the Portland City Council On Issues Related to the Local Music Scene

Local music-industry trade association MusicPortland yesterday announced the formation of the MusicPortland Policy Council, a group composed of seven local musicians and music industry figures, who will advocate for “policies to save, support, and strengthen Portland’s music scene,” according to a press release.

Snow Plow Operators Are the Unsung Heroes of Portland’s Worst Winters. We Spoke to a Veteran Driver About the Hazards and Rewards of a Job Few People Fully Understand.

Ted Harvey knows operating a snow plow in Portland seems a little absurd.

Bar Dune Would Be a Fairly Standard Cocktail Lounge, Were It Not for the Grasshoppers

Bar Dune, the new venture from Sizzle Pie’s Matthew Jacobson doesn’t commit to a theme. Instead, it seems content to settle into standard fancy-bar territory—dimly lit, nice-smelling, urbane but not uninviting.

Two Portland Bars Are Being Sued by Performing Rights Organization ASCAP for Alleged Copyright Infringement

On Tuesday, October 29, Cider Mill Lounge and Rialto Poolroom, both in Southwest Portland, were hit with copyright infringement suits stemming from the unauthorized performance of copyrighted compositions by ASCAP members.

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