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Christopher Polk / Getty Earlier this week, the Portland State Vanguard reported that the red building in one of Lady Gaga’s recent Instagram posts is a recording studio located in Southeast Portland. Last week the Grammy-winning singer/songwriter (whose real name is Stefani Germanotta) also posted photos of herself in front of a Sellwood bicycle shop, […]

DAN DAN Sound + Vision is the FREE monthly concert series the Mercury hosts with Banana Stand Media and Mississippi Studios, with eclectic lineups spotlighting some of the city’s best up-and-coming talent. Banana Stand’s got a video from last month’s show, which featured the rhythmic grooves of Dan Dan, an analog synth and drum outfit […]

TORRES Wed 10/11 Doug Fir ASHLEY CONNOR Torres (AKA Mackenzie Scott) says her new album, Three Futures, “is entirely about using the body that each of us has been given as a mechanism of joy.” Its 10 tracks of deconstructed electro-pop don’t sound very joyous, though—they swing wildly between all-consuming despair, rage, euphoria, and numbness. […]

Sabertooth Micro Fest will return to the Crystal Ballroom February 16-18, and it’s got one hell of a lineup. The “psychedelic stoner rock” music festival kicks off Friday night with Coven, the occult luminaries who pioneered the psychedelic genre in the 1960s. They’ll be joined by some doom metal opening acts: Eugene’s Yob, the UK’s […]

Portland’s Reptaliens| caught the attention of Captured Tracks before they’d even dropped an official release, and now the Brooklyn record label’s putting out their debut LP, FM-2030. The album’s named after transhumanist author and philosopher FM-2030, though it’s not quite as unconventional as his teachings. Led by husband-wife duo Cole and Bambi Browning, Reptaliens’ live […]

L.A. WITCH Yeah, they look like they’re in The Craft. Marco Hernandez Last month L.A. Witch released their self-titled debut via Suicide Squeeze, an album steeped in the influence of Los Angeles—a city that’s been mythologized for decades. The record opens with the murder ballad “Kill My Baby Tonight.” It’s the perfect introduction to the […]

L.A. Witch’s debut is smoky and panoramic punk.

Today organizers announced that What the Festival will not return to eastern Oregon next year, though they plan to host the boutique, Burning Man-inspired EDM festival again in 2019. Here’s the full statement: To our beloved wolf pack: The team at What the Festival has worked tirelessly the past six years to bring you the […]

Celebrate Halloween with Morrissey Ian Gavan / Stringer / Getty Images This morning Morrissey announced that he’s touring North America this fall in support of his forthcoming album, Low in High School, and the first date is at Portland’s Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall on Halloween (very spooky). I wouldn’t get too excited—he’s somewhat notorious for […]

THE SPACE LADY Fri 9/22 Hollywood Theatre TERRI LOEWENTHAL There’s no one quite like the Space Lady. Susan Dietrich Schneider left her small Colorado hometown in the ’60s for San Francisco, where she met her first husband Joel. When he was drafted in the Vietnam War, they retreated into the wilderness of Northern California, making […]