Typhoon JEREMY HERNANDEZ FRI FEB 23 Typhoon w/Wild Ones, Amenta Abioto; Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside After a five-year hibernation, Typhoon finally released their fourth record Offerings last month, and now the 11-piece indie rock band is rolling back into Portland for a hometown show at the Crystal Ballroom. Across 14 tracks, frontman Kyle Morton […]
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Formerly a senior editor and the music editor at the Mercury, CK Dolan writes about music, movies, TV, the death industry, and pickles.
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Primal Rage: Bigfoot Reborn Review: Not Cool, Bigfoot. Not Cool
For Real. Not Cool
For real. Not cool
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Live Review: Sabertooth Micro Fest at the Crystal Ballroom, Fri Feb 16-Sun Feb 18
Coven Katie Summer The annual Sabertooth Micro Fest descended on the Crystal Ballroom last weekend for three nights of psychedelic stoner rock—a genre I’m pretty sure includes any band with guitars loud enough to rattle your teeth and warp your mindset. Friday’s lineup was the heaviest, starting with local black metal band Pillorian (who I […]
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Johanna Warren’s Gemini II Examines the Darker Side of Love
In an interview with the Mercury about her 2016 album Gemini I, Portland singer/songwriter Johanna Warren explained her love of tarot: “For me it’s just a really beautiful and effective tool, like a library of visual, symbolic archetypes, breaking down the human experience into these building blocks that everyone can understand. It raises so many […]
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10 Songs for Nursing Your Valentine’s Day Heartache
This guy gets it Wavebreakmedia / Getty Images Heartbreak is a universal condition—almost everybody’s been brutally dumped or cheated on or humiliated when love goes unrequited. There are so many different ways to hurt! And so many different ways to soundtrack that hurt. Valentine’s Day is traditionally a holiday when lovestruck jerks get to rub […]
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Record Review: Johanna Warren, Gemini II
The Portland Singer/Songwriter Examines the Darker Side of Love
On Gemini II, Johanna Warren examines the darker side of love.
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Everything Is Terrible Comes to Portland with The Great Satan
Over the past decade, Everything Is Terrible has amassed a cult following for mish-mashing together found-footage clips from old VHS tapes to create garbled, writhing audiovisual beasts. The result is chaotic, campy, surreal, disorienting, and a little hopeless—it’s a grim reflection of humanity that will likely convince you that everything really is terrible. Thankfully, there’s […]
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Planet Damn’s Debut Tape Pays Homage to Wipers and Dead Moon
SAM GEHRKE Okay, Planet Damn isn’t exactly a new band—they had an earlier incarnation called Hex Vision, and released three songs recorded live at Mississippi Studios early last year. But they’ve since found a new bassist, changed their name, and refined the raw power present on those early Hex Vision tracks. This week, they’re finally […]
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New Band Alert: Planet Damn
The Portland Trio’s Debut Tape Pays Homage to Wipers and Dead Moon
Planet Damn’s debut tape pays homage to Wipers and Dead Moon.
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All Hail The Great Satan!
Everything Is Terrible Returns!
Everything Is Terrible returns!
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Live Review: Jessica Lea Mayfield, Thurs Feb 1 at Doug Fir
Natalie Behring Singer/songwriter Jessica Lea Mayfield played the Doug Fir last Thursday with fellow Nashvillians Sun Seeker, who opened the show and later joined her backing band. I hadn’t heard of them before that night, but they warmed up the crowd with easygoing psych-rock that sounded inspired by warmer, brighter times and places. Apparently they […]