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Carl Sundberg

Carl Sundberg is an award-winning writer, musician, producer, and the founder of Stonemonk Media. He is also the bassist of Portland-based post-rock trio Glassbeard. Follow him on Instagram and Substack. You can find him digging through vinyl around town, in the back of various late night dive bars, or hiking Forest Park with his golden retriever, Odin. 
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Concert Review: Chalk—From Belfast with Love

The Northern Ireland post-punk duo mesmerized a packed Holocene on their US debut tour. 
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Following a massive headlining sold-out tour across the UK and Europe—including debut festival slots at Glastonbury and Bilbao BBK—Belfast electro post-punk duo, Chalk, made their US debut over the weekend in the Pacific Northwest.  Chalk’s second stop on their selective five-date US tour landed them at Holocene on Sunday, November 9, just weeks after the […]

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Album Review: Portland Band Obedient Refuses Complicity on Rastafarsi

No edits, no clicktracks, just 22 minutes of raw feminist punk.
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As punk rock emerged in the 1970s, it was an act of defiance, rebellion, and disobedience. A middle finger to the status quo, scaring the normies. Eventually, like everything else, it got co-opted by capitalism—becoming a lifestyle brand, packaged, and sold to the masses for safe consumption.  But every now and then, a band comes […]

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