Wowzers! This Sunday night marks the eleventh (yup, eleventh!) edition of our monthly live music ‘n’ interview extravaganza, the Portland Lounge Series. Sunday, Sept. 30, I’ll be chatting up angel-voiced Ali Wesley (best known for crooning with Super XX Man’s Scott Garred, perhaps most notably on “Collecting Rocks”), as well as folk-popper Jared Mees and [...]

This is the first installment of brand new LocalCutter Nilina Mason-Campbell’s DJ interview series, Hang the DJ, which will run every Thursday on LocalCut.
More often than not, you can find DJ Linoleum aka Andrea behind the decks at many a Portland club. Playing a mix of electro and hip-hop, she comes with the unsaid [...]

I used to see depressed comedian country singer/songwriter Tom Heinl and his son at my old record/game store, picking up Nintendo 64 games. Now the kid’s building websites! Here’s Tom’s post:
son makes good…
Thanks for making my new website William!! (My 15 year old son)
tomheinl.net
He charges $10 an hour and it took him about an hour [...]

Just a few shots from the first night of Doug Martsch and gang’s two-night engagement at the Crystal Ballroom last Thursday/Friday, courtesy of WW contributor Justin Kent.

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when you’re watching the sunset over the great plains, it’s easy to forget about the frankenfoods you’re looking at and the pesticides that are keeping them healthy and growing. it’s a cinch chasing the vanishing point across I-80 without feeling the culpability of being an outrageous gas consumer. one of the nicer things about touring [...]

Is it so wrong for my life to revolve around Beth Ditto? Is it so wrong to shout out with glee a “Yippee!” that this video has finally cropped up on the internets? When Ms. Ditto is wearing a blue dress, blond wig and is commanding the audience to sing along with the chorus of [...]

Here at LocalCut, we listen to music constantly—so much so that we post especially fantastic songs to the site almost daily. But Krist Kreuger, songwriter for soft-spoken pop band Southerly must write music as much as we listen to it, because once a week he’s posting a brand new, never-before-released song to local label Greyday [...]

“If you leave, don’t leave now
Please don’t take my heart away
Promise me, just one more night”
Actually, the Black Black Black can promise more than one night – they can promise at least three nights in October at various venues and many nights thereafter. The Boy Gorilla-ers are back! Recently renewed by the return of [...]

WW freelancer Leah Nash went to catch Low at the Doug Fir on Saturday and came back with some very pretty pictures. Here they are for your viewing enjoyment, in gorgeous red and blue.

Links:
leahnash.com