Keeping it short, but this was a beautiful night. If ever you needed proof that groups from wholly disparate genres could live in sweet, sweet harmony on the same bill, listen no further. Blind Pilot played a beautiful set that even a couple of wild MCs (Sleep and Josh Martinez’s set had it’s own [...]

Seattle definitely had a bigger handle on the local bands element at this year’s Sasquatch than Portland did. Fleet Foxes, J Tillman, Throw Me the Statue, the Blakes and (all too many) more instantly outweighed Portland’s showing of the Shaky Hands and Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks. There were backstage rumors swirling that the Builders [...]

As this clever li’l blog by OPBmusic’s Jeremy Petersen pointed out, Sasquatch! is not for the shallow of pocket (read Jay Horton’s somewhat, ah, looser accounting here).
That’s when being something like a music editor (or photographer, for that matter) comes in handy. Not because we make a lot of money, mind you, but because [...]

Newly solo Portland artist Morgan Grace releases her third album, Valentine, this Sunday—intimate and darkly-beautiful indie ballads that indulge formerly restrained songwriting talents. WW sat down with the local chanteuse to discuss American Idol (Underground), recovering rockerdom and the benefits of bedroom recordings.
WW: Where did you record the album?
Morgan Grace: In my living room. [...]

At the end of the South Park episode where the Cure’s Robert Smith defeats a giant, monstrous Barbra Streisand—she plays “Mecha-Streisand” to his “Smithra” in a battle of Godzillian proportions—Kyle yells, “Disintegration is the best album ever!” as Smith walks off into the sunset. It’s an unabashed declaration of love for the Cure’s 1989 gloom-pop [...]

[ECLECTIC BENEFIT] Galia Slayen is a very busy girl. The 17-year-old Lincoln High senior has spent most of her waking hours lately planning, replanning and generally fretting over the second annual Music in the Schools Benefit show, featuring Blue Scholars, members of Sandpeople, Yacht and the Shaky Hands, among others (Friday at the Crystal Ballroom). [...]

I don’t want to piss on anyone’s parade, but seeing as how German label Tomlab already had a release by a band called the Phenomenological Boys, did they really have any choice but to sign Portland’s Parenthetical Girls? Can the Plentiful Babies be far away?
We wish former Mercury Music Editor (you just can’t shake that [...]

Cleveland – Monday 19 May – Pat’s in the Flats
Prizzy Prizzy Please from Bloomington, IN rock the pants off of Eli and Pamela, even if the rest of the crew has to enjoy the action from the back patio; Pat’s in the Flats proves to be a bastion for band-bonding, as all enjoy many, [...]

Miss Massive Snowflake
Queen’s Headache European Tour
April 19, 2008
Malnate, Italy
I am sitting at Alan and Eleanora’s kitchen table with my laptop in front of me and there is a white rose that was a present from Eleanora peaking over the top of my screen. My last show for this European tour was last night in [...]

My first exposure to DJ Kenoy came by way of a stroll down Hawthorne one winter night earlier this year. As I walked past Metro, the store’s speakers called to my electro-loving ears. Not knowing who exactly was sounding from those speakers, I stepped in to find out. While the woman working inside didn’t know [...]