Day1:
My Blog Babies,
So here we set out on our annual California How’s It Gonna Go Down This Time Make Us Happy Summer Tour, and it gets good before we even get on the road. Fast Computers’ drummer and all around smiley person, Jennifer Fox, is on hiatus for this one. Replaced by the comic and […]

When the all-girl trio of Explode Into Colors took the Dekum Manor floor late last Friday for Summer of Luv’s inaugural night, the growing crowd knew they were about to see something bordering on brilliant. Claudia Meza, former member of Hornet Leg and Japanther has always brought a vital frenetic energy to shows and tonight was no […]

You read correctly. It is indeed time, once again, for our (free!) live interview-and-intimate set event, the Portland Lounge Series. This Sunday, June 29, at the Towne Lounge (714 SW 20th Place), yours truly will be chatting with Adam Shearer, the ever-charismatic frontman of dark Americana outfit Weinland, charming/cute country crooner Shelley Short and ubiquitous […]

Is this the most melodic Fist Fite has ever been? I do believe so. It sounds like a slap in the face of the trio’s typical spazz-core sound and in an entirely good way. Who can this achievement be credited to? Why, none other than Lips and Ribs, aka Jay Winebrenner. His remix catalog includes […]

Kicked out of the hotel lounge, Willamette Week’s roving music correspondent Jay Horton follows adult superstar, reality TV icon, best-selling author and (weirdly, unstoppably) instrumental virtuoso Ron Jeremy to his suite to talk third-wave feminism and Manhattans.

Video shot and edited by Erich Demerath.
 
Friday: Ron Jeremy discusses Susan Faludi, accepts a guest’s uterus, and dithers over […]

Any local head worth his or her weight in vinyl—not to mention anyone with an ounce of taste and/or a desire to get down—probably knows about the Fix by now. What you may not know is that, this week, Deidra “Spinderella” Jones (yes, of Salt-n-Pepa) will be dropping in to join the weekly’s usual, excellent […]

[DJ EXTRAVAGANZA] The classic, East Coast accent and honey-dipped voice coming through the phone is just as sweet, sincere and sassy as it is every week on Deidra “Spinderella” Jones’ nationally syndicated radio show, The BackSpin. Jones—the L.A.-based, Brooklyn-bred Salt-n-Pepa DJ who’s been at the decks since 1985—took a moment in between hectic travel-prep errands […]

[WINSOME POP] Even the most casual listener could tell there were some pretty solid pop songs resting under all the hopped-up energy and New Wave influences on Tea for Julie’s ’04 debut, Division. It was, and still is, good stuff, but hobbled by that unshakable feeling that if the young quartet would just rein itself […]

So Portland’s Metal Shakespeare Company, formerly Dagger of the Mind, has come a long way from its first gigs at Lewis & Clark College keggers. Tonight and tomorrow, June 24 and 25 (at 7:15 both nights) the band plays the Green Show at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland.
If you aren’t familiar with the Metal […]

I’m curious about this whole Baseball Project thing. Now, I know nothing about baseball (though I did once posses a Ken Griffey Jr. rookie card), but there’s certainly something special about attending a game. And the band is Peter Buck from R.E.M., Steve Wynn from Dream Syndicate and Portland’s own Scott McCaughey from the Minus […]