We can’t promise you Beth Ditto on a moving bus, or that Alanis Morrisette will be there (but she miii-iiighhht!!!), but we can promise some of Portland’s finest musicians rocking karaoke like there’s no tomorrow. Tonight at Towne Lounge (714 SW 20th Place, across from Mazatlan at the weird intersection), we are getting jiggy with [...]

The British accent you hear in this track isn’t a put on—it is indeed the natural voice of Sportsday Megaphone’s Hugh Frost, who hails from London. He goes it alone when it comes to his high energy and dancey music, but obviously not when it comes to remixes. For “LA” Frost reigned in local [...]

…and warm regards to you Miss Avette, our wonderful trusty steed that holds the form of a compact Chevy Aveo with a Bigfoot (thanks Waffle House of Bloomington for the monster truck trivia in your menu) spirit.
Every time I look at the wheels it makes me think of the line in Dazed And [...]

DJ Gregarious And The Socio-politics of Dancing.

[PSYCH FOLK] If you close your eyes and listen to the Parson Red Heads (only two of whom are actual gingers), you’ll probably envision hippies gyrating in tie-dyed dresses and flower children twirling in circles. But when you open your eyes at a Red Heads live show, you’re more likely to encounter scenesters with their [...]

For some people, Labor Day weekend means tailgates, the start of football season and the unofficial end of summer. But for Portland punks, this long weekend is all about the second Summerfector—a cheap, off-the-cuff DIY music festival for those of us who couldn’t give a shit about college football. Originally spawned out of a zine [...]

HOT VICTORY, Self-Titled (Megathon/One Legged Pup)

[DRUM & DRUM] On side A (the “HOT” side) of its new single, Hot Victory stakes its entry into the burgeoning drum & drum genre. Live, it’s Portlanders Caitlin Love and Ben Stoller on mirror-image drum kits with a squall of cassette tape noise and broken toy accoutrements. On [...]

[MOSS PUNK] I have 15,826 songs on my iPod. In the past two weeks, I’ve really only listened to 12 of them. I’m smitten with Old Growth’s second full-length, Under the Sun. So when I mention this trio in the same breath as two well-loved PDX acts normally beyond compare—Dead Moon and the Exploding Hearts—I [...]

Sometimes you just got to steal from the best. Word from a MySpace bulletin (Nilina, where were you on this one?) from last Friday reports that our favorite newly hi-fi rockers the Thermals have finished tracking their BRAND NEW RECORD—though they still have no label and a potential release date of spring ‘09. With a [...]