One of my all-time favorite entries into the annals of PLS—featuring Meyercord, Per Se and Laura Gibson—our 17th episode went off with only one minor hitch last Sunday. Our usual recording technician from Portland Radio Authority missed the boat, due to some sloppy communication (whaaa? noooo!) on my part. So we missed the interview with […]

New levels of noise! New levels of awkward!
How awesome was last night? You know, how Night Wounds tore up the stage and how Nathan Howdeshell a.k.a. Brace Paine used a chain-saw to cut a sleeping bag in half in some sort of symbolic reference to his former noise project to announce Feather Figure was the […]

These Are The Days #15 is the first in a two part series covering my year in the life of Portland music. Oh, what a year it was. From interviewing John Callahan on New Year’s Day to seeing The Shaky Hands in another basement on June 30, these are the first six months of […]

As always, a big thanks to everyone who made it out this past Sunday night for the fourteenth edition of LocalCut’s Portland Lounge Series, featuring Kele Goodwin, Andy Combs and Leigh Marble.
It was a cold one (the night, not the show), and the Towne Lounge was suffering some heating problems, to boot. But those […]

Things start out normal enough on These Are The Days 12, with the anthemic blaze of Red Dons and the primal stomp of the Wires. Recent Portland transplants Purple Rhinestone Eagle, from Philadelphia, carry the torch of normalcy too, but it all goes a bit Pete Tong from there with Fist Fite and Mattress throwing […]

You do something the same often enough, you’re bound to do a few things often. In this podcast, I make the second Kevin Bacon joke I’ve made on these podcasts, and overuse the word “legendary” on a couple of occasions. These Are The Days #11 opens with the gypsy street punk of Chervona before […]

It’s time for fall. You can tell by the ways the leaves have already fallen, and the way the clouds are moving in. Yes, you can tell by the tone of this podcast that it’s time to curl up in a corner with a pot of tea. With tracks by bands with names like […]

Episode lucky #7 of These Are The Days features some tracks from a few artists performing at this year’s Halleluwah Festival, taking place August 31-September 2 at Holocene. Halleluwah is the second or maybe third or fourth of many festivals taking place over the last and next few months showcasing what can be an overwhelming […]

This sixth episode of These Are The Days spends some time recapping the PDX Pop Now! festival which took place the first weekend in August. The podcast features interviews with volunteers and fans, and some music by artists who performed at the festival, as well as some new projects from established artists who performed. […]

We are gonna take a little break from the norm and feature a special mix from a local Portland DJ named Dave W. This mix will go nonstop throughout the whole show, providing a super sweet mid-summer soundtrack for you all. You can catch Dave at parties all over the northwest playing electro house […]