[There are only so many music columns one man can write in a week, so while Ezra Ace Caraeff is covering for a vacationing Cary Clarke’s Our Town Could Be Your Life (pg. 29), Mr. Tonry will be filling in here on Once More with Feeling.] Nobody saw this one coming: the Black Keys and […]
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Punk as Folk
Jeffrey Lewis Goes His Way
The troubadour is a rare bird in this day and age, and Jeffrey Lewis is certainly that. He’s a throwback of sorts. A keeper of folk tradition, accessibility, and transcendent punk-rock values. And if he weren’t such a geek, you might call him a renaissance man. At his core, Lewis is an acoustic guitar-toting New […]
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Once More With Feeling
What Is (and Isn’t) Music?
[There are only so many music columns one man can write in a week, so while Ezra Ace Caraeff is covering for a vacationing Cary Clarke’s Our Town Could Be Your Life (pg. 33), Mr. Tonry will be filling in here on Once More with Feeling.] Finally I had my answer. I found it on […]
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Notes from the Rope Line
Barack Obama Visits Portland
IT’S EARLY Friday morning, March 21. Long before presidential candidate Barack Obama appears on stage, the jammed Memorial Coliseum where he’s slated to speak is totally electric—buzzing on a high stronger than all the coffee in Portland could possibly provide. And thank god for it. I’ve had about two hours of sleep but the energy […]
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Israeli Ambassadors
Monotonix Shred Time and Space
The singer is perched atop the bar. His hair is shoulder-length, fuzzy, and brown. A mustache the size of a small banana dominates his face. He is shirtless and his chest hair is thick like shag carpet. He is squeezing limes into his white briefs, which are already full of ice, cherries, and a drink […]