I tell two fibs during the spoken introduction of this podcast. One is that the artists are all from Portland. That’s a lie, since Salem’s Massive Moth are on here. The other lie is that the artists are all performing in the next month. Bullshit. Unfortunately the next 30 odd days feature no (as of [...]

When it comes time to name its records, you know local indie rock trio Quasi must be smiling. Hot Shit!? When the Going Gets Dark? And my favorite, Featuring “Birds”? All kind of funny and punny. But nothing the band has done in its past comes close to conquering the name of its new record [...]

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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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 [...]

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 [...]