Cockeye’s debut EP, Gold Star, is about dicks and feelings.
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Cockeye’s Music Features Dicks and Feelings
The Portland Queercore Duo Released A Debut EP, Gold Star, Last February
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.
Posted inElection 2016
Stop Telling People of Color to Calm Down
Here’s what people of color are already dealing with: Day 1 In Trump’s America
Posted inElection 2016
America Has Been Marinating in White Supremacy for Hundreds of Years
If you marinate something in white supremacy, it will probably taste like white supremacy. iStock.com/Aunt_Spray Trump won, and it really fucking sucks. You’re probably pretty upset right now, and you should be—his plan for his first 100 days in office provides a sneak peek at some of the concrete actions he’ll take to make his […]
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The Los Angeles Mural from Elliott Smith’s Figure 8 Album Art Will Be Partially Cut Away for a New Bar
CC BY SA Daniel Wabyick Since Elliott Smith’s death in 2003, the Los Angeles mural that served as the backdrop for his 2000 record Figure 8 has acted as a memorial where fans leave flowers, notes, and other mementos in remembrance of the late Portland musician. Figure 8 was the last album released while Smith […]
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Saying Goodbye to the Old Know
THE KNOW The Shivas. 2016. Christopher Garcia Valle DON’T PANIC—the future is bright for the Know. News had broken over the summer that the Northeast Portland punk venue would be closing its doors in November, priced out after a 150 percent rent increase. Hearts broke across town, and many began wistfully reminiscing about the unpretentious […]
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Songs to Soundtrack Hillary Clinton’s Historic Win
ALLISON KEREK IT’S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN. By this time next week, we’ll know whether our country is going to be led by Hillary Clinton or turned into a tire-fire by a racist, homophobic, woman-hating babyman who doesn’t even seem to know when Election Day is happening—someone so immature his theme song should be Metallica’s “Master […]
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Songs to Soundtrack Hillary Clinton’s Historic Win
(Because We Aren’t Acknowledging the Alternative)
Here’s a playlist of songs to soundtrack HRC’s historic win, because we aren’t acknowledging the alternative.
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Celebrate Know-vember
It’s the Northeast Portland Venue’s Final Month at Its Current Location
It’s the Know’s final month at its current location.
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Awakening Portland’s Ghosts on the Lone Fir Cemetery’s Tour of Untimely Departures
THE TOUR OF UNTIMELY DEPARTURES MTV Crypts. Courtesy of Portland Metro Without context, Saturday evening’s festivities outside of the Lone Fir Cemetery probably looked like some kind of morbid carnival—a churro cart stood by the graveyard’s entrance as costumed volunteers offered candy to hundreds of visitors of all ages. Lone Fir is open to the […]
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Pussy Riot Shares Harrowing “Make America Great Again” Music Video Months After Warning Portland About Trump
This morning Pussy Riot released a new music video for “Make America Great Again”—a deeply unsettling depiction of what a Trump presidency could look like. This follows two other videos the Russian feminist collective has released this week, “Straight Outta Vagina” and “Organs.” “Straight Outta Vagina” humorously rails against men’s disassociation from vaginas: “Don’t play […]
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Record Review: WL, Light Years
MICHAEL YUN SELF-DESCRIBED “exploratory rock” band WL originally composed their latest release to soundtrack René Laloux’s bizarre 1988 animated film Gandahar, a surrealist sci-fi fable about a utopia in perfect harmony with nature that’s suddenly under siege. Its French tag line translates to “The Light Years”—presumably the inspiration for the Portland three-piece’s new album’s title, […]
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Record Review: WL, Light Years
WL’s new visual album Light Years fleshes out the best moments of the Portland band’s earlier work.