If you live in Portland, you’re probably familiar with the ridiculously cheap (like, $3 if you RSVP) monthly shows Red Bull Sound Select has hosted since 2013. Now they’re presenting the 3 Days in Portland concerts, which will take place Thursday May 18 and Friday May 19 at the Wonder Ballroom and Saturday May 20 […]
CK Dolan
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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What Was Sound Announces Lineup for One-Day Music Festival May 27 at Tom McCall Waterfront Park
This coming Memorial Day weekend, local start-up Sub Rosa Curation is teaming up with Portland’s Rose Festival (along with Do503 and yours truly at the Mercury) to present What Was Sound, a one-day, all-ages music festival marketed as an alternative to Sasquatch!, which takes place the same weekend in the Columbia Gorge. It’ll feature indie […]
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Don’t Miss the Mercury‘s FREE Sound + Vision Concert Next Week at Mississippi Studios
Sound + Vision is the Mercury‘s FREE monthly concert series at Mississippi Studios showcasing some of the city’s best up-and-coming musicians. April’s installment features the lovely Portland songwriting duo Jessica Dennison + Jones, who released their self-titled debut last month on Party Damage Records. It’s sweet, minimalist folk-pop, the kind that centers on subtly beautiful […]
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C’Mon, Punch a Nazi Already!
The true story behind The Zookeeper’s Wife should be told: During Germany’s occupation of Poland from 1939 to 1945, the husband and wife who owned the Warsaw Zoo used their caged basement to shelter over 300 fleeing Jews. It’s a remarkable piece of history, which is what makes Niki Caro’s clumsy adaptation of Diane Ackerman’s […]
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The Zookeeper’s Wife Is Fine, I Guess
But Not One Nazi Gets Punched
But not one Nazi gets punched.
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UPDATE: Fleet Foxes Announce Show at Portland’s Crystal Ballroom
Shawn Brackbill UPDATE 3/28: Our first post said that Fleet Foxes’ Portland show would be the band’s first US date in six years, but this morning they announced two earlier shows, one in Missoula, Montana, May 15 and another in Spokane, Washington, May 16. Tickets go on sale this Friday, March 31 at 10 am. […]
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Mega Bog and Hand Habits Released Fantastic Albums Last Month—Tonight They Play Portland
MEGA BOG Mon 3/27 High Water Mark ADAM GUNDERSHEIMER Last month, two magnificent records were unleashed to the world: Hand Habits’ Wildly Idle (Humble Before the Void) and Mega Bog’s Happy Together. Both hit hard for different reasons—the first captures the collisions of the natural world and our lives in dreamy guitar landscapes, while the […]
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Put Down the Green Beer and Enjoy a Quiet Pint with Clannad
CLANNAD Family band. SUZANNE CROMPTON For many Americans, March 17 is the day to cut loose and LARP Flogging Molly’s sloppy anthem “Drunken Lullabies” while chugging green beer and pretending to jig. If you’d rather protect your liver and dignity from the wrath of St. Patrick, I’d like to suggest pouring yourself a quiet pint […]
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Beauty and the Beast…iality
It’s the most shocking rose ceremony yet. Will the Beast successfully woo Belle, the small-town girl living in his castle’s lonely turret? Or will he instead succumb to his roguish tendencies and spend the rest of eternity alone as a bison? The fate of countless not-so-inanimate objects hangs in the balance! NO PRESSURE, BELLE! Theirs […]
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Put Down the Green Beer and Enjoy a Quiet Pint with Clannad
The Traditional Folk Band’s Early Records Forged the River Separating Old Ireland from Popular Culture
Clannad’s early records forged the river separating old Ireland from popular culture.
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Beauty and the Beast Is Like The Bachelor, But There’s Only One Rose and It’s Dying
It’s the Most Shocking Rose Ceremony Yet!
It’s the most shocking rose ceremony yet!
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As Layperson, Julian Morris Gives Us His Voice
HANNAH CANTRELL “Honestly, well, the ticket is worth the price,” Portland musician Julian Morris sings in the first breath of Layperson’s new folk-pop EP, Tidings. This opening track, “The Big Borrow,” comes across like an exhausted sigh of relief at the end of a long journey. For Morris, it’s the sound of resuming his place […]