Sunday night was a much different version of Portland Makes Music, the music-and-interview series we host every month. First: We had a guest host! And most importantly, it was loud. Really fucking loud.
For installment number three, Casey decided to ask Pure Country Gold—Portland’s most kickass garage/soul/blues duo—to play, which led, inevitably, to the show’s defining [...]

Where were you Sunday night? Pfff, lame. We were at Someday Lounge, enjoying the music of our new concert series’—Portland Makes Music—first two bands, the Alialujah Choir and Old Growth.
Sunday was the Alialujah Choir’s first show, though you would never have known it from the trio’s performance. The band’s three-part harmonies sounded slick, soulful [...]

Right before this past Sunday’s 20th Portland Lounge Series, I had a strange realization: Adam Shearer, frontman for local folk-rock outfit Weinland, played the first ever Portland Lounge Series, and he was about to play my last (more about that here). I wondered—since that first PLS was also ex-WW music editor Mark Baumgarten’s last—if Shearer’s [...]

For the April edition of Portland Lounge Series, we turned command over to WW contributor and LocalCutter Jay Horton. Not saying that was a mistake (as the lineup attests), but the fact that PLS landed on the same night as Horton’s birthday had a somewhat muddying effect on his interview skills. I’d better leave [...]

First off, a big thanks to everyone who made it out this past Sunday night for the sixteenth edition of LocalCut’s Portland Lounge Series, featuring Nick Jaina, Michael Apinyakul and Michael the Blind. As always, a fine night of music, chatting and boozin’ was had by all.
Even though it was Oscar night, we had one [...]

These Are The Days #16 is the second in a two part series covering my year in the life of Portland music. Oh, what a year it was. This show covers the second six months of my year, condensed into roughly one hour. Armed with my trusty wall calendar and a pretty good memory, [...]

The 14th episode of These Are The Days opens with the moody pop of Minmae and closes with the triumphant folk of Ohioan & Native Kin. In between, the podcast features two bands, 31 Knots and The Better To See You With, who are performing at the Artix Festival at the Someday Lounge on Saturday [...]

Episode 13 of These Are the Days features a chat with Colin Grigson and Sam Yeaman. Grigson has played with some of Portland’s best bands over the last few years, all the while maintaining his contagious enthusiasm. Yeaman’s group, Ethiopian Children, one of his first bands, recently broke up. Grigson and Yeaman were invited to [...]

If you missed the 13th installment of Portland Lounge Series, lemme tell ya, you missed some fun. Even with the absence of our scheduled third guest, Martha Mosqueda, we had a nice evening and heard some fantastic tunes via Greg Dalbey (aka Train to Nowhere) of Ferocious Eagle and Skyler Norwood of Point Juncture, [...]

The 10th episode of These Are The Days, being released on my 25th birthday, features selections by special guests also celebrating birthdays this weekend.
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