" 2006 October" Archive
Nick Jaina: We are no longer children (Sacramento, CA)
5 CommentsPosted on Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
The best introduction to California is to come at it from Oregon. If you enter from Arizona or Nevada, you’re just going from bleak desert to more bleak desert, and you can’t understand immediately what makes California such a dream to so many sappy, sentimental people like myself. If you drive down I-5 […]
Buried Blood at Tube, Oct. 30, 2006
1 CommentPosted on Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
Last night there was power harnessing* in Tube. People were power harnessing in Tube. Now, I love going to the Tube. I associate it with good metal and noise shows, good DJs, and a generally good looking and well dressed clientele. And while that clientele dances and head nods on cue, I don’t really associate […]
LEAK: Cleveland Steamers, “The Decider,” Treasure Chest (Self-Released)
3 CommentsPosted on Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
While “The Decider” doesn’t carry the strongest beat on the Cleveland Steamers’ forthcoming debut album (the bass and drums come in cool and Premier-esque, but the horn sounds and synths are a little light), it’s a clever track through and through. There is nothing I like more than some old-fashioned Bush-bashing, and this track lets […]
Standard Podcast: Hustler White, “Long Pork” from 2005 Tour CDR (Self-Released)
0 CommentsPosted on Monday, October 30th, 2006
On “Long Pork,” like many other Hustler White songs, the voices of the ladies singing act like instruments, lilting and shouting melodically. There might be brilliant lyrics here but either that isn’t really the point, or they’re encoded messages about reptilian world leaders, or (most likely) I’m just too dense to understand them. Either way […]
Enhanced Podcast: TJO: A Philadelphia Self-Portrait
0 CommentsPosted on Monday, October 30th, 2006
After leaving the rust belt, I was feeling a bit
shaken.
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(ed: Tara Jane O’Neil cuts town again this week for the West Coast leg of her tour. First stop: Friday in San Francisco at Hotel Utah)
Alela Diane: Vermont Maple Syrup and Hospitible Folks (Burlington, VT)
3 CommentsPosted on Monday, October 30th, 2006
We had a show last night at a little coffee shop/bar in Burlington, Vermont and the show was pretty alright. A kid said we could stay at his house, so we took him up on his offer. On the way we stopeed at a party someone had invited us to. It was […]
Ghosting and Show Me the Pink at the Haunted House, Oct. 28, 2006
2 CommentsPosted on Monday, October 30th, 2006
The 5800 block of NE 9th Avenue is a very forgiving block. There were a couple of hundred people outside a place that’s dubbed itself the Haunted House last night, talking, yelling, and, in some cases, foam sword fighting and bottle rocket launching. Yet, the residents of that friendly block were patient enough to allow […]
Decemberists Q&A on Pitchfork
1 CommentPosted on Monday, October 30th, 2006
Hey, it isn’t former WW Music Editor Mark Baumgarten asking the questions this time, but this interview’s worth a gander. It’s a good little piece to get your indie-nerd blood pumping for the long week ahead. There’s talk of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth. Have a cup of coffee.
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Alela Diane: Accidentally went to Canada and Missed show (Albany, New York)
0 CommentsPosted on Saturday, October 28th, 2006
On tour with Tom Brosseau… We played a lovely show in Cambridge last night. I was staying with my old friend/neighbor Lindsay, and things were going really well! Today our show was set for Rochester, New York, a six hour drive from Boston. We left at about noon, and I was […]
The Golden Bears, “Wall to Wall,” Unreleased
1 CommentPosted on Friday, October 27th, 2006
The Golden Bears got me at last Summer’s Halleluwah Festival. I stepped into a nearly empty room, totally spent from three solid days hunched in front of a computer, to find this most adorable band on stage. I scurried around asking strangers who it was and got back a couple of “I don’t knows” and […]
Quirky Sweetness: Tara Jane O’Neil’s Road Sketchbook
0 CommentsPosted on Friday, October 27th, 2006
For the past month, Tara Jane O’Neil’s been touring up and down the East, from her native Kentucky to Brooklyn to Detroit and everywhere in the middle. While away, she was awesome enough to save her road sketches and thoughts for Local Cut. While we’d have loved to been able to cough up a scanner […]
Cool Nutz to Run for Office? See the Video!
3 CommentsPosted on Thursday, October 26th, 2006
Cool Nutz is asking for your vote, but questions abound! What office is he running for? What are his qualifications? Is he a member of a political party? Does Jus Family Records have a clear platform? Will he engage his opponent in rap battles? How long would his term be? Is he taking soft money? […]
Podcast Video: Stovokor “For the Glory of Qu’nos” from Metal of Honor (self-released)
2 CommentsPosted on Thursday, October 26th, 2006
Portland-stranded Klingon five-piece Stovokor draws more non-metal fans to their shows than any other death metal band I know. When they played at Lewis & Clark College last spring, Trekies started nerding up the campus a few hours before the show. For many, the highlight of a Stovokor show is the shit talking, which is […]
Kashani, Williams Call for Punk Diversification
7 CommentsPosted on Thursday, October 26th, 2006
In this caps lock-heavy Declaration of Independence-toned article, Wolfgang Williams of PRF and Ian “Johnny” Kashani of Clit Ripper (both are also in Self Abuse) sent to me, they begin the process of calling for change in the Portland DIY punk scene. I say begin the process because although it’s clear what they don’t like […]
Smegma, “What I Know” from Artix 2006 compilation
0 CommentsPosted on Wednesday, October 25th, 2006
This a creepy little song. The connection between the title, “What I Know,” and the actual song is, initially, obvious commentary: it’s an old television commercial. But, as the layers build it becomes something far more sinister and confounding. Incomprehensible voices enter the mix, broken saxophones and flutes, a random snare drum slap, and all […]
Amy McCullough Named WW Music Editor
2 CommentsPosted on Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
Many great moments have… shit, what’s the word. I can’t think of it. To tell you the truth, I can’t really think at all after the wonderful farewell party Willamette Week threw for me last night at Acme. If you were there, you know what I’m talking about. If not, well, you probably still do. […]
Leigh Marble, “Killed Instantly,” from Peep (Laughing Stock)
1 CommentPosted on Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
There is something about the simple “buh-da-dum” drum roll following the opening guitar strums of Leigh Marble’s “Killed Instantly” that feels like a promise. It’s like Marble is carefully drawing a curtain back to reveal an awesomely catchy pop song bit by bit. The bass drops a quick walk-down; Marble belts out a few brief, […]
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 […]
Mark B. Leaving Willamette Week and Portland
14 CommentsPosted on Monday, October 23rd, 2006
I’m generally not one for the third person business, but this post required me to be in the headline and I sure as hell wasn’t going to use the first person. That’s just the type of music editor I am. Or, well, that’s just the type of music editor I used to be, I guess. […]
Casey Neill, “The Holy Land,” from upcoming full-length
1 CommentPosted on Monday, October 23rd, 2006
If there’s one pastime the Irish love, it’s getting drunk and telling tales (you can go ahead and count Catholicism as part of this, too). Now, I’m not sure if Portland singer-songwriter Casey Neill is Irish himself, but he might as well be, ‘cause he’s sure got telling tales down pat. And, regardless of how […]
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