Coco Columbia Christopher Garcia Valle Neka & Kahlo Christopher Garcia Valle Blossom, host of Girl Fest 2017 Christopher Garcia Valle LAST SATURDAY, Girl Fest 2017 celebrated its third year at Lola’s Room in the Crystal Ballroom with performances by Karma Rivera, Coco Columbia, Haley Heynderickx, Neka & Kahlo, Courtney Noe, and My Voice Music. Madison […]
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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Celebrating the Third Annual Girl Fest
Haley Heynderickx Evan Atwood THERE ARE some extraordinary women running Portland music right now. Not to brag, but from the queer vampire goth-punk of Mira Glitterhound’s band Sweeping Exits to the Last Artful, Dodgr’s self-described “retroterrestrial” hip-hop to the Chicana folk-pop of Luz Elena Mendoza’s long-running project Y La Bamba, our city’s kind of overflowing […]
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Girl Fest 2017
Celebrating the Portland Festival’s Third Year
Celebrating Girl Fest’s third year.
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Top Six Music Videos of 2016
THOUGH most of this year was magnificently shitty, it was a great one for music videos. Not to mention visual albums—2016 brought us Beyoncé’s unparalleled Lemonade, as well as Frank Ocean’s Endless. Here are my top six favorite stand-alone music videos of the year: 6. Princess Nokia, “Kitana” Princess Nokia (AKA Destiny Frasqueri) has released […]
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Happy December 26th, the Day Irish Children Used to Kill Birds for Money
My dad’s from a coastal town in County Waterford, Ireland, and come Christmastime, he always whips out one album: The Bells of Dublin (1991), a compilation of carols by traditional Irish band the Chieftains. It’s got all the hits—”O the Holly She Bears a Berry” (oh, you don’t know that one? Weird), “The Rebel Jesus” […]
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Top Five Christmas Songs: Ciara Dolan’s List
There’s been a contentious debate at the Mercury about Christmas music. I’m here to deliver you the truth—these are the five best Christmas songs. 5. Johnny Cash – “Little Gray Donkey” Jesus and his birthday may be the reason for the season, but I usually tend to stick to secular Christmas tunes. One exception is […]
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Looking Back at the Late Greats of 2016, Song by Song
HAWK KRALL IS IT OVER YET? Among 2016’s many regrettable qualities, this year was a particularly unkind one for musicians. From the shocking January death of David Bowie to the December passing of prog bassist Greg Lake, hardly a week went by without one of our favorite artists getting called to join that great gig […]
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The Year the Music Died
Looking Back on Some of the Late Greats of 2016, Song by Song
Is it over yet? A song-by-song look back on some of the late greats of 2016.
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The Past Clashes with the Present in Aquarius
Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s gorgeous Aquarius centers on Clara (Sônia Braga), a 65-year-old retired music critic, breast cancer survivor, and wealthy widow who refuses to sell her seaside apartment in an otherwise empty two-story called the Aquarius. Whether she’s dozing in an opulent fringed hammock, flirting with the handsome young lifeguard at the beach […]
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Ages of Aquarius
Where the Past Clashes with the Present
In Kleber Mendonça Filho’s latest, the past clashes with the present.
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Photos from the Thesis’ Two-Year Anniversary at Kelly’s Olympian, Thurs Dec 1
The Last Artful, Dodgr Christopher Garcia Valle Christopher Garcia Valle Christopher Garcia Valle Last Thursday monthly hip-hop showcase the Thesis celebrated its second anniversary at Kelly’s Olympian with performances from the Last Artful, Dodgr, Blossom, Drae Steves, and more. Check out more photos by Christopher Garcia Valle after the jump! DJ Verbz Christopher Garcia Valle […]
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Haste’s Jasmine Wood Lets Her Guitar Do the Talking
HASTE Armed with a delay pedal and a guitar. SHANNON WOLF ON POLAROID FILM 2016 MANY RECORDS pay tribute to lost loves and departed friends, but Portland shoegaze three-piece Haste’s debut full-length, Annabelle, is named for someone frontwoman Jasmine Wood met in a book. “When I was 13, I read the diary of Anne Frank […]