Portland via Lawrence, Kansas electropop outfit the Harvey Girls have a new album out today, though you won’t find it at your neighborhood record shop. The Girls have been offering internet-only releases since the early Aughties, and the duo’s latest, Nutate, gets the same treatment over at Portland-based online label Circle Into Square records.
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When the all-girl trio of Explode Into Colors took the Dekum Manor floor late last Friday for Summer of Luv’s inaugural night, the growing crowd knew they were about to see something bordering on brilliant. Claudia Meza, former member of Hornet Leg and Japanther has always brought a vital frenetic energy to shows and tonight was no [...]

Pure Country Gold is a band for the dudes. If its previous material didn’t make this clear enough, then “You Got to Bro Up to Bro Down,” one of four songs on the band’s brand new 7′-inch, grabs you by the neck and practically shouts PANSY in your face. This is not a song to [...]

You read correctly. It is indeed time, once again, for our (free!) live interview-and-intimate set event, the Portland Lounge Series. This Sunday, June 29, at the Towne Lounge (714 SW 20th Place), yours truly will be chatting with Adam Shearer, the ever-charismatic frontman of dark Americana outfit Weinland, charming/cute country crooner Shelley Short and ubiquitous [...]

White Fang is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you’re going to get. They proved it again last Friday at the Clatter House. Have you ever attended a house show that started at 7 pm? Me either. Well, maybe an all-day fest, but an evening house show on a Friday night of [...]

Is this the most melodic Fist Fite has ever been? I do believe so. It sounds like a slap in the face of the trio’s typical spazz-core sound and in an entirely good way. Who can this achievement be credited to? Why, none other than Lips and Ribs, aka Jay Winebrenner. His remix catalog includes [...]

I gotta say, I thought I remembered not enjoying the music of Portland’s Tea for Julie (playing tonight at Doug Fir, see below). Dunno if they got better or I got soft or what, but the Portland pop/shoegaze outfit sounds an awful lot better on Dave Kusick’s podcast, That Sound, than they do in my [...]

Kicked out of the hotel lounge, Willamette Week’s roving music correspondent Jay Horton follows adult superstar, reality TV icon, best-selling author and (weirdly, unstoppably) instrumental virtuoso Ron Jeremy to his suite to talk third-wave feminism and Manhattans.

Video shot and edited by Erich Demerath.
 
Friday: Ron Jeremy discusses Susan Faludi, accepts a guest’s uterus, and dithers over [...]

I’ve said it before, and I’m saying it again: Jared Mees is one of the best songwriters in Portland. And this track from his upcoming release, Caffeine, Alcohol, Sunshine, Money (which is set to drop October 7 on his own Tender Loving Empire), does nothing to dissuade me from this stance. Which is saying a [...]