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.
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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) [...]

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 [...]

The holidays are just around the corner. No, really, I’m not messing with you. It’s Thanksgiving in just nine days! (please don’t try to email me on Black Friday, I’ll be passed out in a pile of gravy). So that also means it’s time to bust out all your favorite Xmas and Hanukkah sweaters and [...]

The signs that local indie-folk outfit Blind Pilot have officially made it are everywhere. The band has opened for the Decemberists and Counting Crows. It has toured stadiums. It finished tied for second place in our 2009 Best New Band poll. And single “Story I Heard” has been downloaded over 2 million times on iTunes—yeah, [...]

Of all the news stories we’ve ran on LocalCut in the past year, the one about Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips hitting up town to shoot a very NSFW video featuring naked bike riders, his trademark giant balloon ball, and a giant spherical vagina is probably the strangest. I mean, it’s not everyday that [...]

Finn Riggins ditched the big yellow bus, but it’s not about to ditch its home state of Idaho.

[SPAZZ POP] Finn Riggins loves life on the road. In fact, the Idaho spazz-pop trio is so committed to touring, it spent a staggering 245 days away from home last year. For many of the shows, it rolled [...]

Last summer, local electronic music connoisseur/party planner Manny Reyes threw what was then a first for Portland: an all-ages dance music festival. Dubbed Superfest!, the two-day festival featured some amazing performances (killer sets from Starfucker, Nice Nice, and Reyes’ band Atole) plus the first preview of YACHT’s trippy multimedia show. The kids danced, and it [...]