Q&A with Shoot The Player's Amelia Tovey [July 2nd 5:37pm] Last Saturday, on my way from Superfest to a friends' party, I stopped at the food carts on 12th and Hawthorne. Everything was pretty typical for a weekend night there—lots of bikes and dogs and people waiting in line for poutine—until James Mitchell from Nurses informed me that maybe I shouldn't...
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Jared Mees: Either A or B (San Francisco, CA) [July 2nd 2:02pm] You know its gonna be one of those nights when you approach the bar to find your bandmates trading in both of their drink tickets at once for a Long Island iced...JARED MEES | 2 COMMENTS Southerly Versus Morrissey (Bremen, Germany) [July 1st 12:24pm] PDX am, sleep-eyed on two hours sleep and unprepared for 16 hours without a nicotine fix even after the pack and a half smoked through the early morning; the taste...Live Review: Operation Jonas Brothers (June 27th, 2009 at the Rose Garden) [June 30th 5:01pm] Editor's Note: The thoughts and opinions expressed by Nilina in this post are not necessarily—in fact, are not at all—reflected by WW. She's pretty much a rogue...NILINA MASON-CAMPBELL | 6 COMMENTS Recently by the Local Cutters- 6/30 Live Review: Sunset Rubdown, F...- 6/30 Jared Mees: I'm at the Combina... - 6/29 The Builders and the Butchers ... - 6/29 Y La Bamba: Eric Hates the Cof... - 6/29 Live Review: The Woods (Pre) O... - 6/29 The Thermals Go Daytripping (A...  Primer: Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings[July 1st 6:07am] LATEST RELEASE2007’s 100 Days, 100 Nights is a smooth, rhythmic beast that takes the band’s incredible live show and raw energy and slows things down... MICHAEL MANNHEIMER | 0 COMMENTS Also this week... LC RADIO: Portland Makes Music, Episode 6 [June 22nd 6:54pm] June 7, 2009: Lovers / Reclinerland Oh my, this should have gone up weeks ago! The June 7 installment of Portland Makes Music featured Portland pop trio Lovers...CASEY JARMAN | 0 COMMENTS Recently in LC Radio...  CD Reviews: M64 and Gossip[June 24th 6:05am] M64 Rhythm of the Drum(Record Breakin’) [A DIFFERENT DRUMMER] It’s a no-brainer Portland hip-hop Renaissance man Ohmega Watts and local soulstress Ragen... CASEY JARMAN | 0 COMMENTS Recently in Album Reviews... |
Adam Gnade, "Summer Suite Part 1," The Wild Homesick (Punch Drunk Records) [July 2nd 11:00am] The great thing about writing about Adam Gnade is that he does most of the talking for you. Here he talks about Texas in the middle of summer—which sounds miserable,...CASEY JARMAN | 3 COMMENTS Recently in Cut of the Day- 7/1 Jacklewis & Twigs, "Kids i... - 6/30 Deelay Ceelay, "No Vex," Thank... - 6/26 Sleep, "Talk About It," Hesita...  Live Review: Operation Jonas Brothers (June 27th, 2009 at the Rose Garden)[June 30th 5:01pm] Editor's Note: The thoughts and opinions expressed by Nilina in this post are not necessarily—in fact, are not at all—reflected by WW. She's pretty much a rogue...NILINA MASON-CAMPBELL | 6 COMMENTS Recently in Live Cuts- 6/30 Live Review: Sunset Rubdown, F... - 6/29 Live Review: The Woods (Pre) O... - 6/25 Live Review: David Byrne, Tues...  Nick Jaina: Where A Royal Flush Can Never Beat A Pair (Bismarck, ND) [June 12th 2:53pm] The other night I was out with Nathan here in Portland and he bought me a few drinks. (By the way, I've given up on my campaign to legitimize the drink I call the...NICK JAINA | 2 COMMENTS Recently in Nick Jaina Tour Diary- 6/4 Nick Jaina: Even Damnation Is ... - 5/6 Nick Jaina: You Shouldn't Wake... - 1/19 Nick Jaina: Snow is Still Fall...  Floater: There's Crazy and Then There's Utah Laws Crazy (Chico all the way to SLC) [May 19th 4:36pm] The Senator Theater, Chico, CA, 5/9/09 Well, the racking cough from yesterday gestated in my chest and throat through the night and grew into a full-blown lung...Recently in Floater Tour Diary- 5/13 Floater: Models of Preparednes... - 12/1 Floater: Floater + King Black ... - 10/24 Floater: Our Hangovers Are App...  A Weather: Bros, Boners, and Returning Home (West Coast Tour) [October 2nd 3:21pm] Hi everyone. We've been back in Portland for a couple days now and I finally have the time and energy to write about the rest of the tour. The last time I wrote...Recently in A Weather Tour Diary- 9/29 A Weather: Anonymous Angus Jal... - 9/25 A Weather: Tortilla Chips Shap... - 9/24 A Weather: Hip Haircuts, PJWA ...  Cafeteria Dance Fever and Hey Lover Do Europe: It Tastes Like a Dutch Torture Device For the Taste Buds (Amsterdam) [October 3rd 2:15pm] Amsterdam 10/03/08 Greetings from the nether regions. Cafeteria Dance Fever just rocked the OCCII club. For our wooden shoe wearing fans, we played the Dutch national...
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View Calendar for information about all tonight's events (all 66 of 'em). MarchFourth Marching Band, Wanderlust Circus [BEDLAM] Since 2006, the Wanderlust Circus has used its resilient oddity as a magnet to pull all manners of strangeness into its semiannual circuses. In truth, the collection of acrobats, musicians, stilt-walkers and top-hat aficionados involved with Wanderlust creates something that straddles the gap between “circus” and “performance art,” but the festivities are generally carried out with enough bombast to lump the event into the former category. Regular participants MarchFourth Marching Band are so perfectly suited for this bedlam that it’s almost frightening. SHANE DANAHER. Bossanova Ballroom, 722 E Burnside St., (503) 206-7630.Berlin, The Prids, Kleveland, Pitchfork Motorway [WEIMART] Orange County bands best known for soundtracking archetypal '80s Tom Cruise romantic montages don’t ordinarily garner much more than the wages of nostalgia. Pop act Berlin wasn’t actually European, mind, and chanteuse Terri Nunn begrudgingly popularized a proto electroclash only after a proper acting career floundered (Princess Leia screen test be damned), and it took VH1 to remind the seemingly ageless Nunn of her fanbase more than a decade after the band’s implosion. She’s embraced the Dietrich role, nonetheless, employing a backing retinue of cutesy acolytes and exploiting pansexual lyrical nudges from early singles to the applause of a new generation that avoids fairgrounds. Suppose the Top Gun ballad rather helps, these days. JAY HORTON. Dante's, 1 SW 3rd Ave., 226-6630.Albino, Lafa Taylor [AMERICAN AFRO-BEAT] The great Nigerian world-beat pioneer Fela Kuti's offspring, Femi and Seun, have continued their dad's Afropop legacy, but Fela's punchy, horn-driven sound has also spread to American bands like Bay Area dance/music dectet Albino, whose politically charged, percussion- and horn-boosted polyrhythms and choreographed stage show make every concert a dance party. BRETT CAMPBELL. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663.Diesto, Prize Hog, Party Killer It was a weird, fucked-up world the Butthole Surfers lived in. If you grew up on alt-rock radio like I did, your first (and hopefully not last) impression of the band was the meandering 1996 hit "Pepper." But just eight years earlier, the Surfers were one of the most creative experimental-rock bands around—an outfit equally known for creating adventurous music as for taking expansive drugs. San Francisco's Prize Hog surely noted this, as the band takes the abandon of the Surfers and combines it with the heaviness and rumbling low-end of the Melvins to make some of the most interesting and sludgy pysch rock around. MICHAEL MANNHEIMER. East End, 203 SE Grand Ave., 232-0056.Dudes of Chaos, Swim Swam Swum, Deer or the Doe [THE CRUNKEST] Every band ought to involve conjugations of a single word. But aside from having the best name in town, Swim Swam Swum reminds me of growing up under an older brother with exceptional taste in music. Never allowed to listen to anything else, I was fed a steady diet of Pond, Faith No More and Pavement—three early-’90s bands. The band is destructive, animalistic and commanding, the kind of qualities that make for an incredibly eventful live show, especially within the close-and-personal confines of Kelly’s. MARK STOCK. Kelly's Olympian, 426 SW Washington St., 228-3669.Musee Mecanique, Nick Jaina Band, Brittain Ashford [TIME OF THE SEASON] I like listening to music when it's out of season. For local electronic folk outfit Musee Mecanique, the best time to hear 2008's gorgeous Hold This Ghost has to be the fall, when the leaves start to change and the autumn breeze requires you bring a jacket with you at all times. Still, it's a record that also sounds great in the summer, as a comedown to the summer jams and barbecues that inevitably soundtrack all those lazy weekends when you just don't want to leave your front porch. MICHAEL MANNHEIMER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895.Robin Trower, Woodbrain [BLUES] British bloozer Robin Trower gets props for being the guitarist in the original Procol Harum, perhaps the greatest band ever falsely labeled a one-hit wonder. But Procol was never meant to be a guitar band, and Trower's eventual emergence as its focal point coincided with the beginning of the group's artistic decline. His subsequent solo career as a poor man's Hendrix was the stuff classic-rock playlists are made of, which ensures him perpetual life on the touring circuit. JEFF ROSENBERG. Roseland, 8 NW 6th Ave., 219-9929 (Grill), 224-2038 (Theater). |
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