Yeah, my high school did suck, but at least I went back in the day when arts education in public schools WAS ACTUALLY FUNDED. Music programs around these parts basically live off peanuts, so as you may have heard, Cleveland Lincoln High School’s student government is putting on a benefit show to get some […]

[UPDATE: As of noon on Monday, we have two submissions to this contest. The good news, though, is that pretty much anyone who sends us an entry has a good to outstanding chance to win and see YACHT, for free, on a real yacht. Even if you are a computertard, you can throw something […]

Huge! As an insanely last minute thing, YACHT’s been asked to join LCD Soundsystem–the hot shit of hot shit crossover dance music (believe the hype)–on tour…starting this Monday in San Francisco. There’s really not much to say about that: big time. Congrats to Jona Bechtolt (YACHT) on scoring the gig, and scoring it without having […]

This one I just thought was interesting. Rarely am I sent an mp3 for use as a cut of the day (though you are all welcome to do so), and this one came under particularly strange/tragic circumstances, as the song being presented is a tribute to the victims of the shootings at Virginia Tech. I […]

It was about a six hour drive down the mountains, over the woods and through the desert to Las Vegas. I could pretty much feel my wallet shrinking the closer we got to town. It was an early show and everyone was about two hours late due to hip hop savings time. Doors opened at […]

Once again, Plants have written a song that makes me feel like I’m in church, or should be–whatever denomination holds their services around fire circles, more specifically. Josh Blanchard and Molly Griffith-Blanchard’s voices together have never been so perfect. Molly’s voice is just otherworldly. It feels as though it’s running along a undulating mountain footpath, […]

In yet another pro-active move for getting music back into Portland-area schools (in a time of declining budgets for music-related education), organizers of PDX POP NOW! plan to invade Portland’s Parkrose Middle School on Friday, May 4. With them will be this year’s Best New Band winners (and jangly pop heartthrobs) the Shaky Hands, folky […]

The way Matt Sheehy–whose band is known as Gravity & Henry–starts this track with sparse, cold and slightly distorted drum beats under his sweet, straightforward vocals reminds me an awful lot of something John Vanderslice would do. And I love me some John Vanderslice. But the way “Lunatics” (presented here as a rough version from […]

Jake Welliver and Patrick Foss arrived early at Billy Ray’s Dive. As we sat at a table, the waitress teased them for coming in as often anymore. They’ve been spending more time at B Side’s when they’re not playing shows (“We hardly ever practice,” Welliver says) as Pure Country Gold, a garage rock duo, profiled […]

“I think there was a time when it was necessary for people to point out that it was going to be a queer show or a queer band,” says New Bloods bassist Cassia Gammill. “Now it’s a band, and queerness is coincidental.” Gammill and her bandmates Osa Atoe and Adee Roberson—all of whom are queer, […]