When you think of a summer jam, a skittering instrumental number is hardly the first thing that pops into your mind. Still, we’re pretty deep into the summer season (which starts, by my count, on memorial day) by now, and nothing has really come close to establishing itself as the song that blasts out of [...]

He’s the busiest man in show business and he still leaves it all on the stage. His name is Spencer Krug, and he’s indie rock’s version of Ashanti—always busy with a collabo or side project. The tireless Canadian poet graced the Doug Fir’s stage Friday evening.
One ought to be weary of a man [...]

“I’m at the pizza hut, I’m at the taco bell. I’m at the combination pizza hut and taco bell.”
So I am a severe allergy sufferer. Most of my last 4 tours (as well as the majority of the intervening time in PDX) have been spent sneezing and sniffling and gargling saltwater in a vain attempt [...]

The folks over at NPR gave the Builders & the Butchers their coveted Cut of the Day equivalent this morning. “Devil Town,” from the band’s brand-spanking-new Salvation is a Deep Dark Well, is playing over on the site. NPR’s Andy Young says “They may live thousands of miles away, but more and more bands from [...]

Saturday, June 27th
Monday we left Ace Hotel, off to our journey away from the wind mills. Our next destination was Fresno! We didn’t know where we were going to be sleeping that night so Eric searched on couchsurfing.com and we found an awesome place to stay with a beautiful and sweet girl named Brenda.
She was [...]

The Deep, Bright Woods
Photos by Leah Verwey
A new beacon of culture in the sleepy land I like to call “SoPo” (South of Powell) turned on its filaments for the first time Friday night, at the “Prelude” party for new nightclub The Woods, located on main drag Milwaukee Ave in the Sellwood/Moreland neighborhood. It’s not [...]

Grey Anne “Leave Me Alone”
The Rainy States “I Want You Back (?)”
Tyler and Typhoon folks “Will You Be There”
Congratulations “Man in the Mirror”
Leonard Mynx “The Way You Make Me Feel”
Michael Dean Damron “I’ll Be There”
Soft Tags “P.Y.T.”
Gabe Hascall “Ben”
Dirty Mittens “Rock With You”
Alan Singley “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You”
Jack Lewis, Laura Gibson are at [...]

What did you do on your last tour? Most likely you didn’t visit the New York Stock Exchange while with a Pitchfork camera crew tagging along. In part 1 of their appearance on the Daytripping series, Hutch, Kathy and Westin (we’re on a first name basis) scramble around New York shopping for new duds to [...]

Welp, it’s just past 5 pm, and you know what that means—it’s time for the weekend! And with beautiful, sunny skies in our future (my computer is predicting a cloudless 81 degree day tomorrow, and it’s never wrong) it’s the perfect time for an afternoon of music in Pioneer Square. Only this time, it’s not [...]