Willamette Week

Lose Yr Mind Is One of the Best Places to Find Your Favorite New Local and National Bands. Here’s What to See This Weekend.

Bands like Shannon and the Clams and Twin Peaks have all played LYM on their way to bigger stages. The 2019 incarnation of LYM is similarly stacked.

Iron Maiden’s First Portland Show in 30 Years Included a Choreographed Sword Fight, a Spitfire Replica and Real Christian Protesters

Outside Moda Center on Sept. 6—the band’s first Portland show in more than 30 years—attendees were welcomed by a few picketers for Christ, whose messages ranged from offering redemption to condemning concertgoers to hell for their devotion to the ’70s iconoclasts.

The National Were in Full Dad-Rock Dionysus Mode at Their Edgefield Show

Portland Trio Butter Makes Easy-Listening Music About Dark Subjects

The only thing as smooth as butter is, well, Butter.

Where to See Local Jazz Every Night of the Week

It often feels like the fate of Portland jazz hangs in the balance.