Hello there! Rather beautiful weather for an afternoon in April, dontcha think? I found something on the internet today that I want to share with you. Something that I didn’t find from a press release, or an email from a friend or band member, or anything that’s gone viral. No, I found this fun and [...]

Back in early March, Thermals frontman Hutch Harris sat down with me in the band’s SE Portland practice space and we shot the shit for a while. Here’s most of that interview, minus some of the stuff that went into last week’s WW culture feature (which you can find here). The Thermals’ CD release for [...]

Part one of a five-part series on influential Portland producers.
Most treasured instrument: Pump organAdmired producers: Brian Eno, Daniel LanoisRequired listening: Laura Gibson’s epic “Shadows on Parade”; Laura Veirs’ Saltbreakers.
It’s hard not to trip walking into the entrance of Tucker Martine’s Northeast Portland home. Instead of a chair on the living room rug, there’s a drum [...]

I’m sitting on the smoking foyer at the beautiful Austin Convention Center. I’m not smoking, but I am steaming a bit while thinking about all the fun they’re having at the Hilton across the street. See, right now, M. Ward is giving a talk called “Fitting Big Ideas Into Simple Packages.” The concept of M. [...]

Guest contributor and Casey Jarman roommate Ben Hubbird attended the Phosphorescent show at Holocene last night. These are his thoughts:
Battle of Land and Sea
Not just a clever name. An acoustic guitar with a heavy patina — sounds like it grew from the ground — locked in a dogfight with a siren’s song.
Nurses
They are all 3 [...]

Blue Skies for Black Hearts hit the road yet again late last month, and yet again BSFBH’s Kelly Simmons was nice enough to chronicle the journey with us.
Wednesday Feb. 18th, 2009
4:45 AM - Wednesday starts just like any other day: I get up at the crack of dawn for my day job, make the [...]

Portland’s favorite import MC, Josh Martinez, has done it again. This time with a super dope video about his native land, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
According to the Halifax tourist board, “Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada is a modern port city teeming with culture and heritage and the perfect place for your next holiday vacation.” But that’s [...]

Last week, I interviewed The New Dawn’s Dan Bazzy for a music feature I wrote about the long lost psych-rock album There’s a New Dawn, which was finally getting proper reissue treatment after years spent in obscurity. Bazzy was one of the nicest, most engaging interviews I’ve ever conducted, and he was incredibly candid with [...]

Okay, so we understand the time peg is over on this one. But despite a few complications—mainly, shoddy video quality and something about a corrupted project file—we finally have a few very late clips of LocaCut correspondent Jay Horton and his friend Sarah Dylan of the Rick Emerson Show hitting up the red carpet at [...]

Valentine’s Day revolves around another special four letter word: S-E-L-F. But face it, you’re nothing without sweet, reliable, always-enchanting music. Music will laugh at all your jokes, and it’ll do so melodically. In the event you’re journeying solo tomorrow, don’t fret, because you’ve always got a dance with Apollo. Since long distance relationships sparingly work [...]