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Their new album, Sinking Ships, is uplifting, sweet, and explosive.

The Astonishing is two hours and 10 minutes of sci-fi proggery.

After scrubbing their social media, then sending out vaguely threatening “Burn the Witch” mailers (claiming, “We know where you live”) and releasing frustratingly cryptic Instagram clues, this morning Radiohead finally dropped a claymation-like video for their track, “Burn the Witch.” It begins with birds chirping, eerie orchestral strings, low droning tones, and Thom Yorke’s hollow […]

Christopher Keith Garcia Christopher Keith Garcia Saturday night’s sold-out Bleached show at the Doug Fir brought sunburned, Southern Californian punk to the shadowy Portland basement. No Parents‘ opening set felt like a high school house party sans adults, the kind that always seemed constantly on the brink of getting shut down. Like the weird stepbrother […]

Christopher Keith Garcia During a particularly tumultuous period of my adolescence, there was a day when, after fracturing my sacrum rowing, I found out I have low bone density. The same day my backpack (which contained my glasses, textbooks, and homework) was stolen from my mom’s car and my typically shitty boyfriend broke up with […]

BLEACHED The evil Go-Go’s. Nicole Anne Robbins “I FEEL like LA can be like a vampire, if you let it,” says Jen Clavin, lead singer of Los Angeles’ Bleached. “I needed to leave to be able to focus. When I was in the desert I would have these moments of clarity, where I’d realize that […]

Gaelynn Lea NPR Monday May 9, NPR Music and opbmusic will bring the Tiny Desk experience to Portland’s Doug Fir Lounge with what’s billed as “an interactive storytelling event.” The night will center on music’s ability to be both intensely personal while also an incredibly relatable, unifying force. There’ll also be a live performance from […]

The Angelenos’ new record embraces the shadows.

DEJ LOAF Don’t confuse her confidence with cockiness. REGINALD MCKENZIE DEJ LOAF’S LYRICS are unapologetically blunt, skipping past the bullshit and cutting straight to the point. And her point, frankly, is not to fuck with her. The Detroit artist’s fluid raps ride melodies from hard, spoken verses into R&B-style singing, all over the beats of […]

Here’s the exclusive premiere of “Boiling the Ocean” by the Minders—the first song on the second disc of PDX Pop Now!’s 2016 compilation and the band’s debut track from their forthcoming album, Into the River. It’ll be the Minders’ first album in eight years, and is slated for a September release. The PDX Pop Now! […]