MINMAE HAS BEEN dormant a while. After parting ways with their drummer, singer/guitarist Sean Brooks did a bunch of solo shows, posted some drummer-wanted ads, and it wasn’t until this week that the band decided it was time for its debutante ball. New lineup. New songs. Relatively new album. It’s a refreshed, stronger, better Minmae, […]
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The Scene Report
Local Music News
Come Monday, August 28, all-ages club Satyricon (125 NW 6th) will be opening its doors again. There’s more in the works (a full bar, food, etc.), but for now it’s just shows. We got the story from co-owner Jeff Urquhart. MERCURY: What’s Satyricon’s status? URQUHART: Well, when we got in there the place was a mess, but […]
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Local Music News
First order of business: Menomena has signed to Barsuk Records (Death Cab for Cutie, Rilo Kiley). Says drummer Danny Seim, “We’ve always been skeptical about the stereotypical ‘label guy’ throughout our career as a band, and Josh Rosenfeld of Barsuk was no exception at first. Since our meeting two years ago, Josh has proven himself […]
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Be Surprised
Jason Webley is Magic
I’VE SEEN PACKED ROOMS of stuffy, white hipsters dancing like drunken wedding guests while Jason Webley shreds on accordion and sings about the end of the world. I’ve seen him jump up on tables and shriek murderous ballads. I’ve seen him joke and flirt with the crowd, and have them in his pocket within five […]
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Jacuzzi-Hot Drone
Honey Owens’ Valet Drops Blood is Clean
FITTING SOMEWHERE BETWEEN Jackie-O Motherfucker’s great mantric Flags of the Sacred Harp and pure jacuzzi-hot drone, Valet’s new record comes in puddles of liquid sound. The Yarnlazer-released Blood is Clean is all long building, spacious jams that span out over five or six (or sometimes eight) minutes and just sigh away. It’s mellow taken a […]
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Smart and Scorched
Ludicra’s No BS Mayhem
IT’S AMAZING THAT IN 2006, people are still sexist enough to call girls playing metal a “novelty act.” Ludicra is a five-piece black metal band from the Bay Area that just happens to have a girl lead singer and guitarist/backup vocalist. This is not a gimmick or novelty or anything that makes them sound all […]
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The Scene Report
Local Music News
Local Music News Whip out your “shows to see” list and pencil this one in: Eternal Tapestry this Saturday, August 12, at the Food Hole. Besides being amazing and trippy and smart, the band recently bulked shit up, becoming a six-piece. Says ET’s Dewey Mahood, “[New member] Jed Bindeman just moved to Portland from Brooklyn […]
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New Wild Magic
Inca Ore’s Stormy Cabin Jams
THIS’S ALL BACKSTORY: Eva Saelens was in Alarmist, singing rowdy punk rock with James Squeaky (Argumentix), Nick Bindeman (Eternal Tapestry), and Eric Crespo (Ghost to Falco). She toured with Gang Wizard, did some quiet nature walkin’ with Malibu Falcon, and collaborated with Yellow Swans and Jackie-O Motherfucker. Inca Ore, then, is Eva solo. It started […]
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The Scene Report
Local Music News
With Yellow Swans, Inca Ore, Japanther, Ghosting, Mattress, Bird Costumes, Kevin Shields, and Valet all weighing in with titanic local shows, this week looks to be one that’ll burn in our memories like a hot stick of incense. So many bands to see. So many vital, creative, left-of-center music-makers all converging on this very spot. […]
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Portland Explodes Now
This Year’s PDX Pop Now! Festival
I WANT TO SAY something about how this year’s PDX Pop Now! festival is so much better than last year’s, but I can’t. Problem is, the committee behind the fest has always put on a good party. They’ve kept it free, kept the incest nil, and picked crowd pleasers over naked emperors. This year, like […]
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Miami NICE!
Erik & Adam vs. Crockett & Tubbs
ERIK: Sweet! We just got back from Miami Vice, the big screen update of our favorite TV show ever, and the movie we’ve been most excited for all summer. No—for all of our lives. ADAM: Yeah, we’ve seen it! Before you! Which makes us… which makes us gods. ERIK: Indeed. So Adam—did it live up […]