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MJ Tribute Progress
1 CommentPosted on Monday, June 29th, 2009
Grey Anne “Leave Me Alone”
The Rainy States “I Want You Back (?)”
Tyler and Typhoon folks “Will You Be There”
Congratulations “Man in the Mirror”
Leonard Mynx “The Way You Make Me Feel”
Michael Dean Damron “I’ll Be There”
Soft Tags “P.Y.T.”
Gabe Hascall “Ben”
Dirty Mittens “Rock With You”
Alan Singley “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You”
Jack Lewis, Laura Gibson are at [...]
The Punk Group: Floor Covering is More Interesting Than Scott Weiland (Australia!)
2 CommentsPosted on Monday, March 31st, 2008
3/15/08, The Annandale Hotel in Sydney.
Ahhh, a light at the end of our proverbial tunnel. After the amazing show in New-Asshole, we were all ready for a final blowout in the Drugs hometown of Sydney. This was going to be HUGE. The venue itself was very spacious with a great sound system and Thai restaurant [...]
Photo Essay: On the Road with Point Juncture, WA
2 CommentsPosted on Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
“These Nomads better hurry up or they’re gonna get Baptized”, says Paul Nash in a mock-threatening tone. He’s driving on a Dramamine-worthy mountain road in Arizona’s central highlands outside Prescott.
Our ride is a big old 15-seat Club Wagon van, with “UNIVERSITY PARK BAPTIST CHURCH” painted on the side in faded lettering. The car [...]
Jello Biafra Q and A with Questions from Local Punks
22 CommentsPosted on Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
To some people, Jello Biafra is a boring, annoying loudmouth. To others, the former Dead Kennedys frontman and current spoken-word artist and environmental and humanitarian activist is something of a socially-minded punk rock guru. His opinions may be blunt and his delivery somewhat brash, but to many, myself included, he’s a place to look for [...]
Trojan Meltdown Remembered: Live Tracks from Local Faves Finally See the Light of Day, Jake Rose Launches Webzine
3 CommentsPosted on Tuesday, October 17th, 2006
Unlike most college radio stations, you don’t have to be a student at Portland State University to become a DJ on it’s radio station, KPSU. This is the story of one of the most ill fated and entertaining shows in the recent history of that station, Trojan Meltdown, hosted by DJ Glower and Doctor Madness, [...]
ASCAP Ninjas Strike Imbibe
54 CommentsPosted on Monday, October 9th, 2006
Fuck filesharing. The new way to piss off the music industry? Cover songs. Yep. According to the Oregonian (shame on us), Hawthorne restaurant-bar-venue Imbibe got backhanded with fines ranging from less than a grand to, ahem, thirty thousand dollars for three songs that local cover band Black Notes preformed last year at a free show. [...]
A Call to Arms for Portland Radio
9 CommentsPosted on Sunday, August 20th, 2006
Next year, the FCC will be releasing one coveted space on Portland’s FM dial.
It’s entirely possible that after this, another frequency will never again become available here (that is, of course, until the revolution/corporate media implosion…whatever). It’s also entirely possible that you think FM radio is obsolete, what with music being fed into Sirius [...]
Local Cut Exclusive: Q&A with Solenoid … Uncut
2 CommentsPosted on Wednesday, July 19th, 2006
David Chandler, a.k.a. Solenoid, has been making electronic music in Portland for over a decade, beginning at a time when the genre was edgier and often dismissed by the mainstream clubs and music press of what was then a very rock town. The shift—marked by the success of clubs like Holocene and Dunes, and by [...]
Shopping with Brooklyn
4 CommentsPosted on Thursday, July 13th, 2006
“You like unnaground hip-hop?” Brooklyn Walker is asking a kid in front of us on the Lloyd Center escalator if he would like one of the emcees CDs. The homespun emcee, familiar to anyone who spends time on Hawthorne Boulevard, constantly hustles his burned CDs to anyone who might possibly shell out $10 or maybe [...]
DJ Tan’T, “On the Gallows” from Notes of Abrasion (Dismal City)
9 CommentsPosted on Thursday, July 13th, 2006
Last winter, the Lucky Madison record label got a national distribution deal and had to cut some of the acts from its roster. DJ Tan’T, a.k.a. Paul Lynch, was one of ‘em. That’s a damn shame: dude is seriously one of the best rising talents of electronic music in Portland. It’s one of the first [...]









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