Cambridge is lovely place. I have spent many a night here. On this night, we prepared to play at TT The Bear’s Place. It is a cool little club in the heart of town. Torrential rains greeted us. Audie and I got there early and wandered around under umbrellas. [...]

Yeah, I know. This is a day late. One week after I vowed to post my favorite local music clip of the day every Tuesday because, well, I can. But, I do have a pretty good excuse: I left Oregon for the first time in over a year (that’s commitment to my job, folks) to [...]

My Bloody Valentine ends every show in the same way. Since the reclusive Irish shoegazers reunited last year to play live for the first time in 13 years, every show its played concludes like the previous one: With the screeching mindfuck that is “You Made Me Realise.” At just 3:45 in its recorded version, the [...]

Starfucker Jupiter
(Badman)
[CELESTIAL POP] Since Josh Hodges decided to ditch his bedroom-pop outfit Sexton Blake and hit the dance floor full time, Starfucker has been steadily on the rise. And just six months after the band released its sunny, jubilant self-titled debut, it’s back with a companion mini-EP titled, appropriately, Jupiter. Starfucker isn’t merely reaching for [...]

The final installment of WW’s meet-the-producer series.

Most cherished studio item: A gorgeous 1961 Neumann M49 microphone.
Admired producers: George Martin, Mark Wirtz, Chris Thomas, Steve Lillywhite, Mike Chapman, Nigel Godrich, Ethan Johns.
Required listening: Dolorean’s Violence in Snowy Fields, The Minders’ It’s a Bright Guilty World, Rachel Taylor Brown’s Susan Storm’s Ugly Sisters…
The first things you notice [...]

If Cool Nutz is the Godfather of Portland hip-hop (and c’mon, are you going to debate that? I’m not), then My-G is, like, Shadow Boss #2. He’s the big Final Fantasy monster where you’re like “Jesus Christ, this is impossible!” and then after a half hour of that intense boss music and what you think [...]

Because I’m obsessed with the Thermals/Shaky Hands/Point Juncture, WA tour (which is tonight somewhere between Minneapolis and Madison), I’ve bugged members of all three bands to deliver as little or as much as they want in the way of tour diaries, pictures and rambling voicemails. Thus far responses have been sparse, with this mysterious photo [...]

Yes! I’ve needed a new catch phrase for quite some time, and Dupre Bushnell a.k.a. CoNMaN (pictured at left), a recent Seattle import to Portland and hip-hop producer, just sent it my way. His collaborator, the MC known as Gillitine, has to the best of my knowledge coined the phrase “put my brim down on [...]

[Dear readers: We were all drunk and when we wrote, edited and "fact checked" this piece, hence the mistakes listed in the comments section (which was having technical problems as of the time of this apology note). The bunk photo (now removed) was my fault, not Andy's. I'm going to leave the other mistakes intact [...]