http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/rotture/Location?oid=69155 Comments On: Rotture en-us Copyright 2013 Portland Mercury. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Portland Mercury readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Portland Mercury. webmaster@portlandmercury.com (Portland Mercury Webmaster) Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sat, 25 May 2013 03:15:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by yeahyeahyeahyeahyeahyeah]]> Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:37:57 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by radbaddude]]> Sun, 24 Oct 2010 17:18:10 -0700 Portland Mercury
Rotture
Rating: 5 Stars
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Portland Mercury 10 Year Birthday Party
Rating: 1 Star
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The Jet Age, System & Station and New York Rifles
Rating: 5 Stars
Posted by DaveO_2000]]> Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:45:09 -0800 Portland Mercury
The staff are not dismissive and rude. (Show of hands: Who thinks it's sad that is a distinguishing characteristic?) And frankly, they're pretty damned efficient. It makes me snarggle every time an order for a PBR is met with shrugged shoulders/shaken head/pointing at beer list. Cheap beer is cheap beer people. I know that the Hamms logo doesn't match your Chrome messenger bag, but it's pretty dark in here and clashing is the new coordination.

The few gripes I have probably aren't even their fault.

- On more than one occasion I've been charged substantially more than the advertised price of the show. One time they were collecting covers for a show that was advertised as free. So so so so lame.

- It's really hard to dance on a floor that has had about 30% of every drink sold that night spilled on it. I know that you kids really only buy drinks to have something to hold on to while you stand there and bobb awkwardly to music that your friends like, but get a sippy cup or something.

- Headliners that don't start playing until after Tri-Met stops running. So in addition to getting overcharged for the cover, I have to buy a cab home. Good damn you people make it hard for my broke ass to dance.

- The last time I went there I ran into my middle school boyfriend. He's a hipster and coke dealer now. I don't know whether to laugh or cry.


Rotture
Rating: 3 Stars
Posted by themme]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:21:30 -0700 Portland Mercury

Pierced Arrows, Burning Leather and Thee Headliners
Rating: 4 Stars
Posted by Vaulk]]> Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:24:45 -0700 Portland Mercury write or link to a review of Sophe Lux
Rock Opera Terrorists
18 hours ago by jasper
The last time I saw Sophe Lux was at Holocene on 1/29. The lead singer performed an exorcism for America as part of the song from their new EP of the same name "Hungry Ghost." The band dresses in shiny early Roxy Music/ Velvet Underground-inspired costumes that makes me feel like I having an acid flash back to the days of Andy Warhol's factory. Then there is the band. Talented powerful song-writer and lead vocalist Gwynneth Haynes belts out potent operatic rock like a female Freddie Mercury. The sexy Briana performance and visual artist Ratterman is a classically trained pianist turned rock goddess. Like Eno's early Roxy music she wears many hats in the band managing synth, accordion and piano duties with effortless grace. Ken Yeates plays a flying V Gibson and packs in some bad ass e-bow parts and some beautifully cheesy 70's guitar riffs. Drummer Kent Sisson leays down some ass-giggling grooves keeping the band rocking with focus and drive. Jeff Grazer plays bass and wears outrageous costumes. AT one show he showed up dressed wearing a wedding cake on his back. Ask him where it came from and the dreamy eyed literary chap will tell you that it came to him 'in a dream'. "There must be something in the water out in Portland, Ore., that turns perfectly normal musicians and bands into fancy-dressed, concept-loving, rock-opera terrorists. That would explain why the smallish city that produced the Decemberists has now also birthed Sophe Lux. This Weimar-infused, accordion-loving experimental cabaret is led by the blond and beautiful Gwynneth Haynes, whose octave-jumping soprano could easily turn from indie rock to Brecht-Weill torch songs. A multitalented sextet slips unexpected elements like glockenspiel, sax and gong into the piano-heavy mix, embellishing their strange songs about a Marie Antoinette robot and the perils of consumerism.” - PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY

Sophe Lux, Rachel Taylor Brown and Kaitlyn ni Donovan
Rating: 5 Stars
Posted by Panda]]> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:04:03 -0800 Portland Mercury only found out when i arrived, nice one mercury!

Lake, Desolation Wilderness and Ah Holly Fam'ly
Rating: 5 Stars
Posted by fooled]]> Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:08:01 -0800 Portland Mercury
Rotture
Rating: 4 Stars
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