Portland-rooted producer finds a big audience on the internet, plays two rare hometown shows in support of Bae 5.
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Record Review: Blackwater Holylight, Veils of Winter
Blackwater Holylight lurched onto the local music scene last year with a promising self-titled debut album that found the band traversing several avenues of heavy music: hard rock, doom metal, shoegaze, psych, and beyond. As a performance and recording, Blackwater Holylight is expertly put together and pristinely captured. Its main fault is that some of […]
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Record Review: Blackwater Holylight, Veils of Winter
Across eight tracks, Blackwater Holylight shows patience, growth, and a commitment to musical exploration.
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Interview: Hood River Band Flor Talks Success, Move to LA, and DIY Roots
Flor Travis Shoots The story of Flor sounds ready-made for a feature film: Four old friends start a rock band, realize they have a snappy sound, and decide to leave their small hometown to pursue their dreams in the nearest unforgiving metropolis. They find success, sign to a tastemaking record label (Fueled by Ramen), record […]
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Hood River Band Flor Talks Success, Move to LA, and DIY Roots
The future is looking bright for our wide-eyed heroes.
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Portland Folk-Pop Trio Joseph Discuss Their Journey, Evolution, and New Record
Joseph Louis Brown The sibling trio known as Joseph didn’t become one of Portland’s biggest bands by writing songs that were dull and unambitious. Indeed, when the Closner sisters were starting out—playing house shows and small clubs around the region in the mid-2010s—they were cognizant of the transformative role that dynamics can play in a […]
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Portland Folk-Pop Trio Joseph Discuss Their Journey, Evolution, and New Record
On their new album Good Luck, Kid, Portland trio Joseph turns their folk-pop to full-blast.
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Pickathon Dips Its Dusty Toes Into the World of Heavy Metal with the Booking of West Coast Thrash Band YOB
YOB James Rexroad After nearly a decade of bringing blisteringly loud garage rock acts like Ty Segall, Thee Oh Sees, and Meatbodies to Pickathon, organizers of the renowned music festival truly dipped their dusty toes into the world of heavy metal with the booking of West Coast thrash band Vhöl in 2016. This year’s Pickathon […]
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Heavy Hitters: Pickathon Jumps Into the Deep End with World-Renowned Metal Entity YOB
After years of baby steps, Pickathon 2019 jumps into the deep end with world-renowned metal entity YOB.
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Erin Jane Laroue’s New Album Chalant Is More than Two Decades in the Making
Erin Jane Laroue Nathan Carson One of Erin Jane Laroue’s favorite things to do is watch people play music. It always has been. It’s a love that might’ve started back when she was a kid in Massachusetts and her parents regularly took her to see what we now think of as classic rock bands. Or […]
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Late Bloomer: Erin Jane Laroue’s New Album Chalant Is More than Two Decades in the Making
On the multi-instrumentalist’s debut project Chalant, Laroue’s haunting melodies and emotionally raw lyrics are finally on display.
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Portland’s Team Dresch Is Reclaiming Their Role As a Kickass Beacon of Hope for the LGBTQ+ Community
Tammy Rae Carland Team Dresch is back. Really. Not “sort of back” or “sometimes back,” which are fair ways to describe the Portland-based queercore band’s off-and-on status over the past 15 years. No, Team Dresch is all the way back, just as they were in the ’90s: writing and recording songs, playing blistering shows, speaking […]