Update 6/1: A letter from Easter Egg:
Dear city of Portland,
Let me first start by saying that Portland is a great city. We are lucky enough to live in a town with so many great people, so many great scenes, and something fun to do every single day and night. I am very proud to say [...]

So far this is the best Gossip remix I have heard. And I guess the fact that it’s not even by MEN, the post-Le Tigre project of members JD Samson and Johanna Fateman, but Le Tigre itself, is also worthy of acclaim. Still, something tells me frontwoman Kathleen Hanna wasn’t actually involved (so maybe let’s [...]

Seattle definitely had a bigger handle on the local bands element at this year’s Sasquatch than Portland did. Fleet Foxes, J Tillman, Throw Me the Statue, the Blakes and (all too many) more instantly outweighed Portland’s showing of the Shaky Hands and Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks. There were backstage rumors swirling that the Builders [...]

The title track of her new album (and, any sane world, the summer’s single of choice for self-medicating romantics), “Valentine” very much reflects the new Morgan Grace—solo; self-produced; bereft of rawk stagings—but there’s no preciousness or experimentation. It’s just a perfect bit of jaded pop fantasia. Guitar strum and hand-claps burst through the haze before [...]

As this clever li’l blog by OPBmusic’s Jeremy Petersen pointed out, Sasquatch! is not for the shallow of pocket (read Jay Horton’s somewhat, ah, looser accounting here).
That’s when being something like a music editor (or photographer, for that matter) comes in handy. Not because we make a lot of money, mind you, but because [...]

Spiritualized is one of my favorite bands and Mississippi Records is one of my favorite record stores. The Mississippi Records label, however, I know very little about. But now I want to. So thank you, Jay Spaceman, for blowing my mind AGAIN over at Vice Magazine:

It’s a label with offices in Portland and Montreal, run [...]

Newly solo Portland artist Morgan Grace releases her third album, Valentine, this Sunday—intimate and darkly-beautiful indie ballads that indulge formerly restrained songwriting talents. WW sat down with the local chanteuse to discuss American Idol (Underground), recovering rockerdom and the benefits of bedroom recordings.
WW: Where did you record the album?
Morgan Grace: In my living room. [...]

For music fans of a certain age, the first recording owned wasn’t a CD, or even that sacred entity in the tangible music pantheon, the vinyl LP. Trumpeter about town Victor Nash, for instance, fondly remembers receiving Run DMC’s Tougher Than Leather as a gift on cassette tape—and surely he’s not alone. These days, the [...]

At the end of the South Park episode where the Cure’s Robert Smith defeats a giant, monstrous Barbra Streisand—she plays “Mecha-Streisand” to his “Smithra” in a battle of Godzillian proportions—Kyle yells, “Disintegration is the best album ever!” as Smith walks off into the sunset. It’s an unabashed declaration of love for the Cure’s 1989 gloom-pop [...]