I’ve probably said this here before, but no album has more excited for 2010 than Laura Gibson’s collaboration with sound sculptor Ethan Rose. Though we still don’t have too much concrete information on the release, we do know this: the record is called Bridge Carols, and it’s out on February 9 via Holocene Music.
A [...]

Raúl Pastor Medall didn’t grow up in Oregon. In fact, until recently, the Spanish singer—who records under the name Rauelsson—lived full-time in his native homeland. But the sounds of the Pacific Northwest, and Hush Records in particular, are all over Rauelsson’s latest, the gorgeous and very winter-y “Debutantes.”
Rauelsson recorded the core of his new record—everything [...]

Formed: 2007 in San Francisco
Members: Christopher Owens and Chet “JR” White.
Latest release: Girls’ debut, Album, came out this fall on True Panther records.
Why you care: Girls’ back story is almost too good to be true: Frontman and songwriter Christopher Owens grew up as a member of the Children of God cult in Florida (no, really) [...]

MarchFourth Marching Band Rise Up
(Self- Released)

[BRASS ’N’ BALLS] Some great live bands just can’t seem to capture their in-person energy on disc. “You have to see ’em live,” we tell friends, apologetically, when the CD doesn’t bring it. I was afraid that would happen with MarchFourth, whose joyous performances owe so much to the visual—and [...]

The rise and fall of Everclear and The Cherry Poppin’ Daddies.
by Michael Mannheimer and Casey Jarman
This week, as if by some strange cosmic alignment, two large-looming ghosts from Oregon music history return to Portland for encore performances. And it turns out, Everclear and the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies have more in common than their disparate music [...]

Making the best of this bummer called life.
[RAINY DAY] If the tone of Portland noise-folk trio Meth Teeth’s debut full-length, Everything Went Wrong, seems a tad pessimistic, there are good reasons for that. For starters, the album’s recording process nearly destroyed the band. It took three full tries to get it done, after the first [...]

UPDATE: No video for you! See comments section. You know what feature I’ve missed most on LocalCut the last, oh, six weeks since things haven’t been working properly? Random Video Tuesday. In honor of my favorite neglected weekly online column—and the fact that most of the LC kinks have been fixed—I’d like to share a [...]

Remember a few months ago when we mentioned that an Australian version of the Take Away Show was in town for two days? Back in July, I was lucky enough to randomly end up at Cartopia just as whimsical-pop trio Nurses were filming their take in front of Potato Champion. I later met producer Amelia [...]

I’ve learned writing this tour blog that I’m unfairly prejudiced against Juggalos.
(And I’ll admit it when I’m wrong. Juggalos are awesome people and they mean us no harm, right?)
Writing this blog has been like a journey of humbling, personal awakening.
Because now I’ve learned that I was also unfairly predisposed to think that our four shows [...]