Video: Mattress, "Eldorado" [May 8th 4:08pm] For a song that either swipes its title from a centuries old myth concerning a gold city or an Alaskan gold mine, I definitely expected some odes to gold in Mattress' video for "Eldorado." That expectation has held true, but director Grace Carter didn't go the obvious conceptual choice of dipping solo...
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Best New Band Ballots '08 [May 7th 6:05am] BALLOT BREAKDOWN: How Portland’s Top 10 Best New Bands were chosen. Below is the Best New Band Poll Ballot letter for 2008. This letter was sent out to close...AMY MCCULLOUGH | 15 COMMENTS Gang of...Two? Dave Allen and Hugo Burnham Depart Gang of Four [May 6th 8:21pm] Doesn't look like a Portland-related story on first look, does it? But longtime Portland resident Dave Allen, of Pampelmoose.com fame (pictured at left with Burnham...CASEY JARMAN | 7 COMMENTS Illmaculate and The Saurus vs. Sub Zero and Scorpion [May 6th 6:10pm] LocalCut has done plenty of writing about Jumpoff TV's World Rap Championships. But somehow we missed this, which Portland uber rap champ Illmaculate had the good...CASEY JARMAN | 0 COMMENTS Recently by the Local Cutters- 5/6 Best New Band Issue. Tomorrow....- 5/6 LC PODCASTS: Portland Lounge S... - 5/5 Earth to the Dandy Warhols - 5/5 Miss Massive Snowflake: I Went... - 5/5 Weinland: Tonight We Rock Chic... - 5/2 Hang the DJ: DJ Moisti   Best New Band 2008[May 7th 6:00am] Spitfire pseudo-preachers, sexy-spastic frontwomen, ghosts and dream weavers—they’re all here in Willamette Week’s fifth annual Best New Bands issue. But first...Also this week... LC PODCASTS: Portland Lounge Series XVIII with Amelia, Lael Alderman, Power of County [May 6th 12:45pm] For the April edition of Portland Lounge Series, we turned command over to WW contributor and LocalCutter Jay Horton. Not saying that was a mistake (as the lineup...CASEY JARMAN | 0 COMMENTS Recently in LC Radio...  PACIFIC UV, Longplay 2 (Warm Records) [April 23rd 6:00am] [HYPNOTIC POST-ROCK] Expectations can go a long way in determining how we perceive a record. Just the cover and track list of Pacific UV’s sophomore full-length,...MICHAEL MANNHEIMER | 2 COMMENTS Recently in Album Reviews... |
Fleshtone, "Silver Flash," 2008 Tour Demo CD [May 8th 6:25pm] Did you catch Fleshtone supporting Yo Majesty on Monday at Rotture? Well, whether you did or you didn't, take a listen to "Silver Flash," one of the group's newest...NILINA MASON-CAMPBELL | 0 COMMENTS Recently in Cut of the Day- 5/7 BNB Twofer: Loch Lomond, "The ... - 5/5 Deadeye, "Disorder (Joy Divisi... - 5/2 Mishka Shubaly, "The Only One ...  Photo Review: Loch Lomond and Holcombe Waller at Mississippi Studios, April 26, 2008 [May 1st 4:43pm] We sent Brian Lee down to Mississippi Studios and, as usual, he brought back a bushel of great shots from the April 26 Loch Lomond and Holcombe Waller show (have...Recently in Live Cuts- 4/30 Photo Review: BARR at Backspac... - 4/25 Photo Review: Hot Chip and Fre... - 4/25 Guidance Counselor and the Dea...  Nick Jaina: He Strummed His Way Into Trouble (West Texas) [April 28th 5:37pm] Olivia Pepper gave me a haircut on a bench in a small park in Austin, Texas. The park was filled with strange birdfeeders that looked like Scandanavian condominiums....NICK JAINA | 1 COMMENT Recently in Nick Jaina Tour Diary- 4/23 Nick Jaina: Repair Is The Drea... - 4/21 Nick Jaina: All My Favorite Si... - 4/17 Nick Jaina: I Need To Play Mus...  Miss Massive Snowflake: I Went to Sleep and Now, Here We Are (Malnate, Italy) [May 5th 1:42pm] Miss Massive Snowflake Queen’s Headache European Tour April 12, 2008 Malnate, Italy I have just arose from bed and coffee is being made in the Bialetti Moka...MISS MASSIVE SNOWFLAKE | 0 COMMENTS Recently in Miss Massive Snowflake Tour Diary- 4/28 Miss Massive Snowflake: Austri... - 4/23 Miss Massive Snowflake: Carniv... - 4/21 Miss Massive Snowflake: This B...  The Punk Group: Floor Covering is More Interesting Than Scott Weiland (Australia!) [March 31st 8:59pm] 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...PUNK GROUP | 2 COMMENTS Recently in Punk Group Tour Diary- 3/25 The Punk Group: Whatever the A... - 3/24 The Punk Group: Aussie Slang (... - 3/20 The Punk Group: The ONLY Chris...  Animal Farm: Welcome to Reality (Lake Tahoe, San Fran and back to Portland) [March 31st 8:53pm] After traveling over 2000 miles with six guys in an SUV, pretty much everything uttered has become an inside joke. We were all pretty delirious as we rolled into...ANIMAL FARM | 0 COMMENTS Recently in Animal Farm Tour Diary- 3/25 Animal Farm: Got GILF? (Eureka...
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View Calendar for information about all tonight's events (all 81 of 'em). Marty Willson-Piper & The Electric Mood Maidens [GUITAR MAN] One approaches solo releases from the guitarists of long-past-relevant bands with a certain trepidation—the Church, Martin Willson-Piper's redoubtable Australian troupe, always threatened prog excesses in the best of times—but, ill-fated poetry track aside, Willson-Piper seems reborn by new freedoms. Neatly disguising vocal limitations, his fifth solo album, Nightjar, offers a poppier take upon the late-New Wave mannered songcraft that, weirdly, seems far less dependent upon signature riffage. Much of the Church resembled one extended, enigmatic Rickenbacker line (Willson-Piper opened the company's 75th anniversary concert), but I'm no longer sure that was the guitarist's fault. JAY HORTON. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 233-1994.Whiskey Puppy (6:30 pm) [OLD-TIMEY] Watching someone get lost in the music they are playing has to be one of the best things about going to see live shows, and, in this regard, Whiskey Puppy's Rachel Gold does not disappoint. Whether she's picking her way through a guitar solo or singing an old-time melody, Gold's face is a study in elation, caught up in the swirl of her trio's high-energy bluegrass. This makes for an occasionally uneven performance on the band's part, but I'll take brash enthusiasm and a few imperfections over the stoic purists that compose far too many old-time revivalist acts any day of the week. ROBERT HAM. Alberta Street Public House, 1036 NE Alberta St., 284-7665. IPRC 10-Year Anniversary: Hutch and Kathy, Iretsu, Ghost to FalcoKT Tunstall, Paddy Casey [CRAZY-LADY TWEENER POP] KT Tunstall seems to be in a bit of denial. She feuds with Dido about inarguable similarities, changes her first name because "Katie" is not properly rawk, ridicules the excesses of American Idol after a contestant's cover of "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" (from Tunstall’s first album) blows up...and then records a follow-up destined for tweener sing-alongs. Whatever the Lilithian vocal tics/tricks and shambling authenticities of her live performances, the equivocation-free confessionals of her soaring choruses demand overstated production and arena dynamics. JAY HORTON. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047.Subtle, Efterklang, SlaraffenlandSho Time! Sho Dozono Fundraiser: Curtis Salgado, Tom Grant, Devin Phillips [BLUES/"JAZZ"/JAZZ] What can we deduce about Citizen Sho from the entertainers assembled for tonight's fundraiser? Will Dozono prove as resilient a candidate as headlining blues hero Salgado, who recently fought his way back to health from a bout with liver cancer? Or is he as tiresome a local institution as lite-jazz piano mainstay Tom Grant? As for celebrated saxophonist Devin Phillips, the classic spiritual that titles his latest album, Wade In the Water, may have been chosen with Katrina-drenched New Orleans in mind, but it's a sentiment any Portlander can get behind. JEFF ROSENBERG. Jimmy Mak's, 221 NW 10th Ave., 295-6542.IPRC 10-Year Anniversary: Brandon Summers, Jeremy Wilson, Nann Allemann, Sam Coomes, Sarah Dougher, Jennifer Lynn, Leigh Marble, Carson McWhirter, Tara Jane O'Neil |
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