How I love this Hurah Hurah track, let me count the ways. Literally:
First, the whole thing’s laden with bright, chiming glockenspiel (or, as the band’s MySpace lists it, glockenshpocken).
Second, Ezra Sandberg-Lewis’s loosey-goosey, melodramatic vocals remind me of Ricky Nelson (awesome!).
Third, his voice is accompanied at choice points throughout the song by sweet [...]

You couldn’t buy your way into Taking Back Sunday’s Crystal Ballroom show last Thursday, no matter how hard you tried. With Crystal’s ticket booth closed, and Ticketmaster not taking calls, only fans with tickets given a month in advance got the chance to see an act that regularly sells out stadiums play in a mid-sized [...]

So, remember back in forever ago, when I haphazardly announced, in a moment of sleep-deprived giddiness, that LocalCut’s first annual Band Draft was on the clock? I gotta admit, I didn’t see the thing getting a lot of attention. But you, LC faithful, you overlooked the fact that this draft was poorly organized and [...]

Recently playing the Kenton Club stage with Plants and soon to be inhabiting the Towne Lounge next week with Rollerball, Ah Holly Fam’ly is quickly shedding their “new kids on the block status” (as the Merc lovingly put it less than a year ago). Joining the ranks of regular rotation here in PDX, the [...]

Tonight at Towne Lounge, Local Cut welcomes to the stage three damn fine experimentalists for the whopping tenth edition of Portland Lounge Series. If you’re new to this, PLS is where one of us Local Cut writers does a series of on-stage interviews of local music folks and then they play us a set. It’s [...]

Episode 5 of These Are The Days features artists performing at this year’s PDX Pop Now! festival which takes places August third through fifth at Audiocinema in SE Portland. From its humble origins on an e-mail listserv, PDX Pop Now! has become one of the most beloved music events in town. This episode also features [...]

In honor of the influential (and now well past-its-prime) rap group’s latest journey into Portland, LC presents a cut from Copy’s notorious Bone Thugs remix cd, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony-N-Copy. The original version of this song is enough to jerk some tears from sentimental types (as in “Ohhh, that’s the song I threw up to at prom!!!”), [...]

[EDITOR'S NOTE: Paul is a WW news intern, whom we sent downtown to check out PDX POP NOW!'s second annual city hall show.] City Hall’s front porch turned into a mini-happening Wednesday, with three bands, a stage, and some fans going about their business pretty much ignored by rush-hour downtown Portland streaming past. No matter [...]

This week our special Portland DJ/Producer guest is Cos from Raging Family! He brings a pretty fresh party mix for our listening pleasure. Also the world premier of Robot and I’s new “Stand By Me Remix”. Plus little known facts to make you wonder!!!!

Links:
Discositdown.com
Raging Family