Acid Mothers Temple at Treefort 2016 Katie Summer Finally some good news: Treefort just announced the first wave of artists playing next year’s festival, which takes place in downtown Boise, Idaho March 22-26. Looks like indie music’s Dennis the Menace Mac Demarco will headline, along with Portland locals STRFKR and Southern California beach goths the […]
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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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As Vagabon, Lætitia Tamko Turns Her Insides Out
VAGABON Exploring infinite worlds. Ebru Yildiz LÆTITIA TAMKO’S musical origin story sounds familiar: Inspired by the sudden urge to channel herself into something external, she speedily wrote, recorded, and released her cathartic debut EP, Persian Garden, under the moniker Vagabon in 2014. But the result of this common exercise was something wholly new; in the […]
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Haste’s Annabelle Is Drowning in Distortion
Frontwoman Jasmine Wood Lets Her Guitar Do the Talking
On Annabelle, Haste’s Jasmine Wood lets her guitar do the talking.
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Vagabon’s Hardcore Intimacy
Lætitia Tamko Turns Her Insides Out
As Vagabon, Lætitia Tamko turns her insides out.
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Today’s Big Tour Announcements: Frank Ocean’s Playing Sasquatch 2017, Vince Staples Will Return to Portland on His Life Aquatic Tour, Plus the Full Sabertooth Micro Fest Lineup!
This morning the Sasquatch! Music Festival announced that Frank Ocean will perform at the Gorge in May. It’ll be one of Ocean’s first shows in three years, and follows the August release of his new record Blonde and visual album Endless. 2016 was a bad year for Sasquatch, which had less than half of its […]
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Floating Room’s Sunless Reflects a Distorted Reality
FLOATING ROOM The world is not everyone’s oyster. Hannah Cantrell “OH MY SAD GOD/Look at what we’ve become/I thought I believed/But was I the only one?” Sung by Floating Room’s Maya Stoner, these lyrics speak to the feeling of weaning yourself off someone else’s Kool-Aid—they’re the howl of someone who’s realizing they’d been conned into […]
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Floating Room’s Sunless Is Portland Gray Pop
The Band’s Debut Full-Length Reflects a Distorted Reality
Floating Room’s debut full-length, Sunless, reflects a distorted reality.
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Meet Me in Stars Hollow
My Mom, Gilmore Girls, and Me
My mom, Gilmore Girls, and me.
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The Seabound Troubadour
SEU JORGE See? Waterworld isn’t all bad! Touchstone Pictures THOUGH SEU JORGE has released several fantastic solo records and starred in a dozen movies, his role in Wes Anderson’s 2004 film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is probably his most iconic performance. Aboard the rickety Belafonte in search of the elusive “jaguar shark,” the […]
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Dicks and Feelings
COCKEYE The Olympic champs of stage-banter air hockey. Dean Stephens QUEERCORE PUNK DUO Cockeye is know for their riotous live shows, in which Blake Martinez and Joel Lopez hurl one-liners at each other between songs like they’re competing in the Olympics of stage-banter air hockey. “I feel like now people kind of know what our […]
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America Has Been Marinating in White Supremacy for Hundreds of Years
Trump’s Election Shouldn’t Come as a Surprise
Trump’s election shouldn’t come as a surprise.
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Seu Jorge’s Life Aquatic Tour Is a Sweet, Sad Tribute to Bowie
The Brazilian Musician Reprises His Role as Pelé dos Santos
Brazilian musician/actor Seu Jorge reprises his role as Pelé dos Santos from The Life Aquatic.