With High Scores of the Heart, Turtlenecked goes full emo-disco.
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EP Review: Turtlenecked, High Scores of the Heart
The Portland Band Goes Full Emo-Disco
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Obama White House Photographer Pete Souza Visits Portland Tomorrow
COURTESY OF THE WHITE HOUSE PHOTO OFFICE Like a pro ball player or a touring musician, Pete Souza spent eight years at one of those jobs that doesn’t really seem like work from the outside. As the Chief Official White House Photographer for President Barack Obama, Souza had a front-row seat to a historic presidency. […]
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Pete Souza Reminisces About “What We Had”
The Presidential Photographer on the Visual and Political Legacy of the Obama Administration
The presidential photographer on the visual and political legacy of the Obama Administration.
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BlackWater HolyLight’s Debut Is a Sprawling Exploration of Heavy Music
When Allison Faris moved to Portland from Colorado in 2008, she wasted no time establishing a new identity in her new town. That identity was tied closely to her psych-pop band Grandparents. “I basically met all the dudes [in the band] really quickly, and then we lived together and made the band together,” Faris says. […]
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BlackWater HolyLight Gets Rough ’n’ Riffy
The Portland Group’s Debut Is a Sprawling Exploration of Heavy Music
The Portland group’s debut is a sprawling exploration of heavy music.
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Drowse’s New Album Is Strange, Unsettling, and Endlessly Beautiful
DROWSE You are getting sleepy… MATT VRVILO Cold Air, the new album from Portland’s Drowse, is a gently noisy rumination on fear, sadness, dreams, and death helmed by singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Kyle Bates. It’s a far cry from the runny noses, untied shoes, and playground giggles that fill his days as a preschool teacher. […]
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Drowse’s New Record Confronts the White Noise of Fear
Cold Air Is Strange, Unsettling, and Endlessly Beautiful
Drowse’s Cold Air is strange, unsettling, and endlessly beautiful.
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Shadowlands Emerges with a New EP, 002
SHADOWLANDS Building confidence through karaoke. Bryon Philips Amy Sabin has played in a bunch of different Portland bands over the years, but only recently did she begin to feel comfortable fronting her own outfit, the dark-pop quartet Shadowlands. Much of that has to do with her thicker-than-water bandmates: Her husband, Casey Logan, plays drums, his […]
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The Odd-Pop Gold of Cornelius
CORNELIUS Wed 3/14 Revolution Hall MOTORMOUTH MEDIA By 1997, Japanese musician Keigo Oyamada was already well known in his home country, having hit it big with Flipper’s Guitar, one of the leading bands in the Shibuya-kei orchestral pop scene. But that year, Oyamada released his third solo album, Fantasma, under the name Cornelius, and its […]
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Shadowlands Steps Out of the Darkness
The Portland Dark-Pop Band Emerges with a New EP, 002
Shadowlands emerges with a new EP, 002.
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Palm’s Rock Island Is One of the Best and Strangest Pop-Rock Records of the Year
PALM Fri 3/2 Bunk Bar Billions What’s in the water in Philadelphia? The tributary along which Palm resides must be teeming with radioactive fuzz and psychedelic clock-guts, radiant melodies and broken metronomes, crooked Beach Boys LPs and neon Tetris pieces. How else do you explain the four-piece’s positively weird-but-maybe-not-that-weird new album Rock Island? Palm’s bio […]
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Bedouine’s Self-Titled Debut Was One of 2017’s Hidden Gems
BEDOUINE Calm by her lonesome. POLLY ANTONIA BARROWMAN Azniv Korkejian has been writing songs for a couple of decades, but for many years, they never felt like they added up to much more than a hobby—the natural yield of a creative person with access to a piano or guitar and free time. But somewhere along […]