This week comes DJ JAK, a man who honestly has no affinity for Rihanna’s “Umbrella.” Deeming the track “evil,” DJ JAK navigates his way from that admission (in relation to a ill-fated request) to talking about the DJ collective Subsensory Recordings which he oversees. We also hear about his time in Chile DJing alongside [...]

Happy Halloween! Just in time for trick or treating, Pitchfork.tv (how do they get all these PDX video premieres? Oh yeah, they own our indie rock souls) has the debut of the cute, animated video for Starfucker’s perma-jam “Rawnald Gregory Erickson the Second.” Directed and animated by Monstrous Media, the clip is almost like Candyland [...]

Question: When is the Penny Jam going to run out of locations? For the 17th edition of the local video podcast, we see sax-rock quartet Narwhal vs. Narwhal playing “Don’t Take” to a lively assortment of fruits and veggies at North Portland produce haven Cherry Sprout. Here “Don’t Take” gets amped a bit from the [...]

Spend a little bit of time with the ethereal presence of “Can You” and you’ll be hard pressed to forget it. Long Hair is the year-old solo project of Kelsey Marie McCurdy, and though “Can You” gently breezes by it all too easily stays in your mind after its three minutes have finished. Whether [...]

Through thick clouds of weed smoke and a high-pitched, nasally voice that is both Southern smooth and West Coast California crass, Devin The Dude is back with Landing Gear, his fifth solo project to date. The LP was backed by Razor & Tie, a recent label move by Devin following a long life with Rap-A-Lot [...]

It’s officially East Coast week here on LocalCut. Well, maybe not, but after last Friday—when 30 PDX bands descended on the Big Apple for a whole day of Knitting Factory love—it’s hard to downplay the affect our (comparatively) little city has on the mecca of all things Hype. And while Boy Eats Drum Machine, Starfucker, [...]

Here is the last part of Super XX Man’s CMJ photo diary, with Scott’s shots from the massive “PDX @ CMJ” show last Friday at the Knitting Factory. And be sure to read Casey Jarman’s big culture feature on the event, which featured 30 (!!!) local bands over seven-hours at one venue. That’s like a [...]

A post-punk life fits these ex-crust rockers just fine.
[POST-CRUNK] It’s rare that the same group of musicians begins in one genre only to make a U-turn into another, but that’s exactly what happened to Portland trio the Estranged. In morphing from violin-embellished “crust” hardcore band Remains of the Day to their current Wipers-informed post-punk [...]

Soundtracking change this election day.

Let’s face it: Desperate times call for desperate measures. Or just a really good soundtrack. As the world awaits the results of the most important presidential election in, oh, 40 years, we’ve put together a playlist with song selections from some of PDX’s finest musicians of tracks to listen to on [...]