A coupla quick things for you on this beautiful/ugly Tuesday afternoon.
1. We here at Willamette Week run on the LeVar Burton system: We think exposing you to as many viewpoints as possible is a good thing. Which is why we thought we’d direct you to two album reviews over on one of our favorite blogs, [...]

Hello there! Rather beautiful weather for an afternoon in April, dontcha think? I found something on the internet today that I want to share with you. Something that I didn’t find from a press release, or an email from a friend or band member, or anything that’s gone viral. No, I found this fun and [...]

Back in early March, Thermals frontman Hutch Harris sat down with me in the band’s SE Portland practice space and we shot the shit for a while. Here’s most of that interview, minus some of the stuff that went into last week’s WW culture feature (which you can find here). The Thermals’ CD release for [...]

Part one of a five-part series on influential Portland producers.
Most treasured instrument: Pump organAdmired producers: Brian Eno, Daniel LanoisRequired listening: Laura Gibson’s epic “Shadows on Parade”; Laura Veirs’ Saltbreakers.
It’s hard not to trip walking into the entrance of Tucker Martine’s Northeast Portland home. Instead of a chair on the living room rug, there’s a drum [...]

I’m sitting on the smoking foyer at the beautiful Austin Convention Center. I’m not smoking, but I am steaming a bit while thinking about all the fun they’re having at the Hilton across the street. See, right now, M. Ward is giving a talk called “Fitting Big Ideas Into Simple Packages.” The concept of M. [...]