“Some call me crazy/That might be true/Cuz if you take my Hamburger Helper/I don’t know what I might do.” That’s a line off Watch the Stove, the brand-new mixtape Hamburger Helper just dropped (presumably to coincide with April Fools’ Day). With titles like “Food For Your Soul” and “In Love With the Glove,” the five […]
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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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Premiere: Laura Palmer’s Death Parade’s “Salty Arms” Video for Banana Stand’s Unpeeled Series
Unpeeled: Laura Palmer’s DEATH Parade – “Salty Arms” from Banana Stand Media on Vimeo. Here’s the exclusive premiere of Laura Palmer’s Death Parade’s “Salty Arms” video, the first installment of Portland production company Banana Stand’s new “Unpeeled” video series. If you’re not familiar with Banana Stand’s work, check out their website—for nearly a decade the […]
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Former Portland Musician Adam Forkner Won’t Face Criminal Charges
Yesterday the LA Weekly reported that White Rainbow musician and former Portland resident Adam Forkner will not face criminal charges for his alleged domestic assault of ex-girlfriend Christine Messersmith. Here’s what we know: • According to the LA Weekly, who obtained a copy of the police report, after the couple attended a 2 Wet Crew […]
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Music Is Resistance in They Will Have to Kill Us First
In Mali, Musicians Bring Joy and Culture to an Oppressed People
In Mali, musicians bring joy and culture to an oppressed people.
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Don’t Tell Diarrhea Planet a Poop Joke
The Nashville Band’s Triumphant Orbit
The Nashville band’s making a triumphant orbit around the rock ‘n’ roll galaxy.
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Joanna Newsom Sings Fairytales About Reality
Kelsey Wroten It’s become disturbingly common to read characterizations of Joanna Newsom as mystical or fairylike. This is a lazy generalization, one that minimizes the profound talents of the singer, harpist, pianist, composer, and producer. And the frequent comparing of her voice to that of a child or a woodland nymph is decidedly belittling and […]
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Boise’s Treefort Music Fest: Day 4 Recap
Treefort’s Band Dialogue After three days of press room pizza and bottomless coffee, yesterday was my final day at Boise’s 2016 Treefort Festival. First I went to check out Sarah Bethe Nelson at the Gritty Birds Showcase. While I’m infatuated with Nelson’s subdued Americana-folk, her live band drowned out her voice with a tsunami of […]
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Boise’s Treefort Music Fest: Day 3 Recap
La Luz Katie Summer Yesterday was Day 3 [see our coverage of Day 1 and Day 2] of Boise’s Treefort Music Fest. First I headed downtown to talk to killer Portland band Bitch’n, who’ll play the Gritty Birds Showcase tonight at 5:30 pm (at Saint Lawrence Gridiron) and the Linen Building at 9:30 pm. Then […]
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Boise’s Treefort Music Fest: Day 2 Recap
Seen outside the Knitting Factory after Chelsea Wolfe. Yesterday was Day 2 [see our coverage of Day 1 here!] of Boise’s Treefort Music Fest, which feels a lot like Portland’s MusicfestNW used to before it consolidated to two days at the waterfront. A handful of venues host shows concurrently, so there’s a lot of running […]
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Premiere: Golden Hour’s “Goth Easter” Video
Here’s the exclusive premiere of Portland devotional-punk trio Golden Hour‘s video for their track “Goth Easter” off last year’s release, Don’t Be Cute. It plays like a punk orchestra, with Marissa Seiler and Alex Hebler singing different verses simultaneously amidst terse, steady guitar and Katie Krussel’s rolling, wave-like percussion. The orchestra reaches a crescendo when […]
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Boise’s Treefort Music Fest: Day 1 Recap
All photos by Cameron Crowell. Yesterday I began my backwards Oregon Trail to Boise’s 2016 Treefort Fest by putting my car in reverse when the engine wasn’t even running. Seven hours later in the City of Trees (this is apparently Boise’s nickname, hence Treefort), I caught Great Grandpa at the Linen Factory. Lead singer Alex […]
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Joanna Newsom Says Stand Brave, Life-Liver
The Harpist and Singer Tells Fairytales About Reality
The harpist and singer tells fairytales about reality.