SWEEPING EXITS THOMAS ALBANESE NIGHT AFTER NIGHT, she watches the watchers. She intoxicates them with the flickering glow of film reels, gazing down from her booth at the backs of their heads and the napes of their necks. If male patrons can’t keep their hands to themselves, she shows no mercy. She’s the Projectionist—the vampiric […]
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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Sweeping Exits Take Back the Night
The Portland Glam-Punk Band Turns Horror into Empowerment
Sweeping Exits turns horror into empowerment.
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Separating Fact from Fiction
TACOCAT Best slumber party hosts ever. Michael Lavine IN THE CULT TV series The X-Files, the nearby presence of UFOs causes an odd phenomenon. Symptoms include blinding white light, dead car engines, failed electricity, and the complete blackout of human memories—a disorienting time loss that’s reflected in frozen-handed clocks. This extraterrestrial bending of space and […]
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Tacocat Separates Fact from Fiction
The Seattle Band Takes Back Lost Time
On their newest record, Tacocat reclaims Lost Time.
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Photos from Lose Yr Mind Fest, October 7-8 at AudioCinema
Christopher Garcia Valle Christopher Garcia Valle Shannon and the Clams Christopher Garcia Valle Last weekend AudioCinema hosted the third annual Lose Yr Mind Fest, two nights of the best surf, psych, and punk around. More photos after the jump! FRIDAY The Woolen Men Christopher Garcia Valle The Shivas Christopher Garcia Valle Christopher Garcia Valle Beach […]
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UPDATED: Parent Voices Concern Over Accused Nonconsensual Groping of Underage Attendees at Portland All-Ages Concert
The Roseland Theater Another Believer via Wiki Commons UPDATE: The Mercury has received another letter, this one from a teenage girl who also attended the aforementioned Danny Brown show earlier this week: I’m a 17-year-old girl who was also nonconsensually groped by two different men at the Danny Brown show the other night. I felt […]
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Shots Fired Last Night at the Roseland Theater
The Roseland Theater Another Believer via Wiki Commons Shots rang out last night around 10:30 pm at the Roseland Theater during a show featuring LA rapper the Game. According to the Portland Police, there were no apparent victims, and the downtown venue was immediately evacuated. One Twitter user reported a bullet hole in the stage, […]
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Kathleen Hanna’s Still Queen of the Neighborhood
THE JULIE RUIN Cleaning the slate. Shervin Lainez “I DON’T THINK you’re sorry at all/Hit reset,” sings Kathleen Hanna on the title track of the Julie Ruin’s glitchy punk sophomore album. It’s an immediate whiteout, cutting through years of lazy qualifiers about Hanna’s role as a leader of the ’90s riot grrrl movement to something […]
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Well, We Tried to Go to Luke’s Diner
Luke Danes would not be into this. He hates crowds. We really tried to get into “Luke’s Diner,” Netflix’s living advertisement for Gilmore Girls that opened at Oblique Coffee Roasters on SE Stark at 7 this morning and closed up shop at noon. Alas, it was not to be. BECAUSE THEY RAN OUT OF FREE […]
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The Familiar Fire of the Julie Ruin’s Hit Reset
Kathleen Hanna’s Still Queen of the Neighborhood
On the Julie Ruin’s sophomore album, Hit Reset, Kathleen Hanna’s still queen of the neighborhood.
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The Thermals’ Hutch Harris Hates Touring and Really Has to Pee
Jason Quigley Earlier today, Hutch Harris of the Thermals posted an essay on Watt explaining “Why I Won’t Tour Anymore.” Last March the Portland band released its seventh album, We Disappear, and is apparently taking its title to heart—though, luckily, Harris makes no indication that they’ll stop releasing records or playing hometown shows, and even […]
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“His Word Against Mine”: Stories of Sexual Assault from the Portland Music Community
MICHELA BUTTIGNOL [Editor’s Note: The following article includes descriptions of sexual assault and may be disturbing to certain readers.] Sexual assault in the local music community has been a topic of much discussion recently, with Portland’s Joel Magid being a central focus of the conversation and headlines. Earlier this month the local musician took to […]