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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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Check Out Videos From January’s Ear Candy!
For over two years Mississippi Studios and the Portland Mercury have cohosted Ear Candy, a free monthly showcase of some of Portland’s best up-and-coming local bands. Here are some videos of January’s Ear Candy performances, which featured area goth punks Drunken Palms, Alien Boy, and Little Star. Don’t miss tonight’s Ear Candy showcase, featuring Amani, […]
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Pizza Week Preview: Scottie’s Pizza Parlor’s “Stuffed Crust!”
Scottie’s Pizza Parlor Scottie’s Pizza Parlor’s slice is as good as it gets. Its foundation is a crunchy sourdough crust stuffed with aged mozzarella, slathered with just the right amount of red sauce, and topped with generous amounts of melty cheese. (The meat option is dotted with thin-cut medallions of salty, mouthwatering pepperoni.) Owner and […]
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St. Johns Bizarre Lineup Announced
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the St. Johns Bizarre, the annual street fair slash St. Johns Parade after party that celebrates the North Portland neighborhood with art, food, games, and entertainment. Saturday May 14, downtown St. Johns will be blocked off to accommodate the festivities, which’ll include live music from local bands. The […]
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Portland Super Punks Bitch’n Defy Your Expectations
BITCH’N Wonder band powers activate! KATIE SUMMER IMAGINE A COMIC where the latent powers of a group of badass superheroes are activated only when they all fortuitously meet. Subtract the capes and you’ve got Portland’s Bitch’n, five friends whose casual jam sessions organically turned into empowering gatherings for collective artistic expression. The funky punk band […]
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Boreen’s Latest Release, Cartoons, Is Syrupy Dream-Pop
Bandcamp Last month Portland’s Boreen released Cartoons, a sleepy invitation to fade out of your own reality and saturate in the disconnect. Boreen is the solo project of Morgan O’Sullivan, who also plays in Dog Thieves and Happy Dagger. Two summers ago he started recording music in his hometown of Oakland, California using only guitar, […]
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Pizza Week Preview: Pazzo Ristorante’s “Roman Style Square Cut”
Pazzo Ristorante Pazzo’s Pizza Week slice—er, cube—is so fancy I had to eat it with a knife and fork. It’s not that I couldn’t pick it up—eating it with my fingers just felt wrong. This is a classy cube of pizza. Cube pizza isn’t like ordinary pizza—a slice’s taper points straight to your pie-hole, making it […]
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They Will Have to Kill Us First: A Message from Mali’s Musicians to Their Oppressors
ANDY MORGAN “If you ban people’s music in Mali or in the whole world… it’s like cutting people’s oxygen off. Because music is like oxygen for human beings,” says musician Khaira Arby in They Will Have to Kill Us First. Extremists took control of Northern Mali in 2012, imposing sharia law and strictly prohibiting all […]
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Vevo Released Those Videos of Joe Jonas’ DNCE at Holocene
On a fateful night last month, many Portlanders watched Justin Bieber in a plexiglass case of emotion at the Moda Center. Instead I willingly subjected myself to the music of DNCE, Joe Jonas’ new band. DNCE played an intimate Vevo Lift-sponsored show at Holocene, meaning there was a chance that attendees could be featured in […]
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Bitch’n’s Empowering Collaboration
The Super Punks Defy Your Expectations
Portland super punks Bitch’n defy your expectations.
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Diarrhea Planet’s Triumphant Orbit Around the Rock ‘n’ Roll Galaxy
DIARRHEA PLANET Lettin’ it out. POONEH GHANA A LONG TIME AGO (2009) in a galaxy far, far away (Nashville), a star was born. But this was no ordinary star—it was Diarrhea Planet. This faint blip in space steadily grew brighter as time progressed. After releasing an unremarkable debut, 2011’s Loose Jewels, Diarrhea Planet began its […]
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Project Pabst Lineup Announced
This morning brought the announcement of 2016’s Project Pabst, which recently merged with the Willamette Week-sponsored MusicfestNW. The booze-fueled merger signifies a further reduction of Portland all-ages festivals, since MFNW will no longer exist as a separate entity. Tickets go on sale this Friday. Here are some highlights from the lineup: • Duran Duran (best […]