Tickets for Sleater-Kinney’s final Aug. 11 show will go on sale at 10 am on Saturday, July 8 at the Crystal Ballroom box office (where you should buy them) and at all Ticketmaster outlets (where you should not buy them).
Crystal Ballroom marketing director, Mike Walker, is expecting a run on tickets, needlessly saying, “Needless […]

Consumption was a pretty promising vegan hardcore band from Portland that broke up after only a short six months earlier this year. I liked them a lot (especially the dual frontmen who literally leaped over each other at a show I saw at Food Hole), but they occasionally fell into a cliché hardcore chug for […]

M. Ward, he of the sweet gravelly voice and the bent-melodic guitar, has announced a fall tour. This list of dates is in conjunction with his upcoming release, Post War (Merge). Rumor has it that fellow Portland band Norfolk & Western will be playing before Ward at all these shows. They are not stalking him. […]

Portland’s wildest guitar goddess, Lauren K Newman, busted her skull open after falling down a flight of stairs a couple weeks back. She has no health insurance, so her friends are putting together some benefits to pay for her mounting medical bills. Tiffany Lee Brown, a WW contributor who also runs 2 Gyrlz Quarterly, sent […]

Pitchforkmedia snagged an exclusive interview with Colin Meloy of the Decemberists. The article, published this morning, features Meloy talking about the new album he and his band are currently working on at Fung Fu Bakery Studios in Southeast. Apparently the follow-up to last year’s Picaresque will be called The Crane Wife, and will have a […]

The polls have closed at the PDX Pop Now! web site. Each year, the festival allows the public to vote for (or, actually request) which bands will play the free, all-local, all-ages music festival that will take place at Loveland, July 28-30. Despite some glitches with the website, the festival received 8000 votes from 3000 […]