Superfest. PDX Pop Now!. Manor of Art. SMMR BMMR. It’s no wonder every weekend in Portland feels like a festival. This edition of These Are The Days features a few artists performing at festivals taking place in the waning days of summer, including White Hinterland (Mikrofest on September 5), and Quasi (TBA festival on September [...]

Word has been slowly trickling out over the past month, but now we have a final confirmation of the full schedule of free Nike shows at this year’s MusicFest NW—and, to no surprise, the lineup is pretty great. All sets take place at the Wonder Ballroom, and you can gain entry by either purchasing a [...]

After a very long hiatus, Hang the DJ is back! To usher in the return of the weekly column, Jay Martin aka DJ HWY 7 has submitted himself to the usual battery of questions. A designer by day, Martin got his start DJing vinyl at Dunes and has continued to spin ever since at [...]

Words by Matt Singer, Photos* by Vivian Johnson.
One good thing about a show where a band plays an album front-to-back in its entirety: you can accurately time your bathroom breaks.
At a regular gig, leaving to take a piss is always a bit of a—ahem—crapshoot. Hit the toilets during a meandering space jam and risk [...]

The Portland psych-rock trio (plus a computer bassist) Wax Fingers play with time signatures like a cat toys with twine. One minute accessible, the other playing with haste in some distant realm, the band challenges its listeners, who fight to find a rhythm they can consistently bob their heads to. For much of the crowd, [...]

Menomenaut Brent Knopf just put out a very solid side-project as Ramona Falls, and the live band—featuring Menomena’s Danny Seim, Matt Sheehy and Datr’s Paul Alcott—sounds just as promising as the record itself. So if you want two tickets, we got ‘em.
There’s just one thing. Knopf is a connoisseur of chocolate, and we want to [...]

Pay attention to a particular songwriter long enough and you will count yourself fortunate to watch them mature over time and then succeed. I have known Lawton Browning—one third of lo-fi rock band the Woolen Men—since we attended Lincoln High School together in the early part of this decade, along with Browning’s bandmate/Eggy Records founder [...]

Whoa, you guys, I’m totally in love with this new Panther song. “Love Is Sold” is the first single from the band’s new EP, Entropy, and it’s got a serious Steely Dan vibe going on. That piano? The driving guitar solo at the end? It’s like Charlie Salas-Humara and Joe Kelly decided to make their [...]

It’s fitting that on the cover of his Matador Records debut, Watch Me Fall, Jay Lindsey—better known by his stage name Jay Reatard—looks like a mage. Peering through a night mist, Reatard seems to be daring you to cross him. At Jackpot Records on Tuesday evening, Jay Reatard and his band worked their magic, with [...]