Laura Gibson/Ethan Rose Collaboration Due in February [November 20th 10:33am] I've probably said this here before, but no album has more excited for 2010 than Laura Gibson's collaboration with sound sculptor Ethan Rose. Though we still don't have too much concrete information on the release, we do know this: the record is called Bridge Carols, and it's out on February 9 via Holocene...
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Tash of the Likwit Crew (and Friends) in Portland Tonight and Tomorrow [November 18th 1:13pm] We didn't have time to squeeze this into the paper, but there are two hip-hop shows of note tonight and tomorrow, both featuring Tash of the Alkaholiks and Prince...CASEY JARMAN | 0 COMMENTS May Ling, Lion Tamer [November 17th 5:01pm] UPDATE: No video for you! See comments section. You know what feature I've missed most on LocalCut the last, oh, six weeks since things haven't been working properly?...MICHAEL MANNHEIMER | 5 COMMENTS Tender Forever Cover "My Love" For Shoot the Player [November 17th 4:33pm] Remember a few months ago when we mentioned that an Australian version of the Take Away Show was in town for two days? Back in July, I was lucky enough to randomly...MICHAEL MANNHEIMER | 0 COMMENTS Recently by the Local Cutters- 11/17 Portland Cello Project: Texas ...- 11/17 The Robinsons Want You to Feel... - 11/16 Blind Pilot Plays on CNN - 11/12 Live Review: The Mountain Goat... - 11/12 Win Two Tickets to see Saul Wi... - 11/11 New Ghost To Falco Vinyl Out T...  Primer: Girls[November 18th 6:07am] Formed: 2007 in San FranciscoMembers: Christopher Owens and Chet “JR” White.Latest release: Girls’ debut, Album, came out this fall on True Panther... MICHAEL MANNHEIMER | 0 COMMENTS Also this week... These Are The Days: Here to Fall [October 28th 4:39pm] On this Autumnal edition of These Are The Days we have conversations with Devin Gallagher about his label High Scores and Records and other projects, and with Jesse...Recently in LC Radio...  CD Reviews: Junkface, Hornet Leg[September 2nd 6:03am] Junkface Bigalia(Self-Released) [HIDDEN GEMS] The last song on local power-pop quartet Junkface’s new full-length, Bigalila, is a tender, sweet, piano-’n’-acoustic... MICHAEL MANNHEIMER | 0 COMMENTS Recently in Album Reviews... |
Rauelsson, "Debutantes," La Siembra, la Espera y la Cosecha (Hush) [November 18th 12:17pm] Raúl Pastor Medall didn't grow up in Oregon. In fact, until recently, the Spanish singer—who records under the name Rauelsson—lived full-time in his native...MICHAEL MANNHEIMER | 0 COMMENTS Swim Swam Swum, "Belly Aches," Circumpolar Westerlies (Self-Released) [November 3rd 4:19pm] Yeah, our Cut of the Day tab still isn't working. That doesn't mean we can't post some new tracks we love. Like most great pop songs, Swim Swam Swum's "Belly Aches"...MICHAEL MANNHEIMER | 2 COMMENTS Recently in Cut of the Day- 10/22 Neal Morgan, "Birch Bark Boat ... - 10/15 The Mean Jeans, "Born on a Sat... - 10/9 Federale, "Starvation Creek Tr...  Live Review: The Mountain Goats, Wednesday, Nov. 11 @ the Wonder Ballroom [November 12th 5:25pm] Review by WW's food and theater critic, Ben Waterhouse. John Darnielle was in a good mood last night. Maybe it was the vegetarian platter he ate for dinner at...Live Review: Glass Candy in Rome (with Photos) [November 4th 5:30pm] Damn, localcut has gone international! First our ex-intern Jenny reported on the Swn Festival in Cardiff, Wales, and now our intrepid globe-trotting reporter Mark...MARK STOCK | 1 COMMENT Recently in Live Cuts- 11/3 Live Review: Regina Spektor, S... - 10/26 Live Review: MC Chris, Friday,... - 10/26 Live Review: Islands, Wednesda...  Portland Cello Project: Texas Love (Lubbock, Austin, & Houston) [November 17th 4:04pm] I’ve learned writing this tour blog that I’m unfairly prejudiced against Juggalos. (And I’ll admit it when I’m wrong. Juggalos are awesome people and they...Portland Cello Project: The Truth about Cats (Toronto and Montreal) [November 9th 3:34pm] Toronto: The caveat to Toronto’s wonderfulness is that there was a cat in the venue who freaked out during Thao’s set crying “MEOW!!!” really loudly over...Recently in Tour Diary- 11/6 Portland Cello Project: Night ...
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View Calendar for information about all tonight's events (all 79 of 'em).  King Khan & BBQ Show, Those DarlinsAmadan, Sassparilla, The Beautiful Train Wrecks [COUNTRY-ROCK COMFORT FOOD] Portland's Beautiful Train Wrecks don't reinvent the roots-rock wheel, they just put a fresh spin on it. While the band provides a credible country backdrop, Joe Root's keys open the door to classic rock, and leader Lucas Alberg's adenoidal voice suggests some improbable fusion like Tom Verlaine singing Tompall Glaser. The band’s debut, Rainy Day Parade (released tonight), finds both singer-songwriter and band still in the process of finding their voices. Alberg certainly sounds more comfortable singing about a "Country Boy" than—apparently chasing his honky-tonk with a shot of Deep Purple—his "cocaine woman from Tokyo." JEFF ROSENBERG. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663.An Albatross, Magick Daggers, Daughters of Bristol, DJ City Rocker [FREAKS ROCK] More a collage, really, or scrapbook with pages melted together, The Family Album—third full-length from Pennsylvanian noise circus An Albatross—brings together the entire clan (14 past musicians from a fitful decade's imaginings) to add its own contributions atop an impossibly dense psychedelic metal fantasia. The album's ostensibly a concept song cycle concerning the intergalactic search for peace; every tune's a thrilling, baffling, multi-layered maelstrom of kiddie synths, anguished shrieks, punk riffs and stop-start structures that only a mother could fully understand. JAY HORTON. East End, 203 SE Grand Ave., 232-0056.Glass Candy, Desire, Boy Joy, Mike Simonetti [FROM PDX TO ETERNITY] Portland hasn't heard much this year from its favorite Italo-disco aficionados, Glass Candy. The duo dropped a rarities and B-sides collection, Deep Gems, in late 2008, and has been mostly M.I.A.—in the Pacific Northwest, at least—ever since. A perusal of the Internet doesn't reveal anything in the way of a new studio album in the immediate future, but it doesn't matter: The band is mostly a dance-floor phenomenon, anyway. Its icy, thumping grooves and singer Ida No's detached sultriness are the cornerstones of the Italians Do It Better label, and it goes really good with strobe lights and fog machines. MATTHEW SINGER. Rotture, 315 SE 3rd Ave., 234-5683.The Soft Tags, Mr. Gnome [LO-FI SHOEGAZE] Portland band the Soft Tags have promised to debut a number of songs off their upcoming double-LP, Mathematical Monsters, at this homecoming show. If the first single, “Pine Barrens,” is any indication, then you’re in for a treat. Droning guitar lines and ghostly vocals are used like a scalpel to produce some of the most engaging tracks of the year. Though it shares many similarities with Olivia Tremor Control, the Soft Tags’ sound is more despondent than dreamy, holding onto single ideas for minutes and fleshing out a bleak landscape of fuzz that is cleverly accentuated by haunting harmonies and slow buildups. IAN RASMUSSEN. The Knife Shop, 426 SW Washington St., 228-3669.Bark Hide and Horn, Winterhaven, Shoeshine BlueCherry Poppin' Daddies See music feature, coming soon. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. |
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