Twenty-two years later, Final Warning returns.
Ezra Ace Caraeff
Ezra Ace Caraeff is the former Music Editor for the Mercury, and spent nearly a third of his life working at the paper. More importantly, he is the owner of Olive, the Mercury’s unofficial office dog. His writing has appeared in The Fader, The Stranger, The Onion's A.V. Club, ESPN's TrueHoop network, and countless fanzines that are thankfully long out of print. He makes a mean tofu scramble and yes, Ace is really his middle name.
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Win Tickets to Okkervil River!!!
Okay, now this is getting ridiculous. First Starfucker, then CSS, and now a chance to win tickets to see Okkervil River this Friday at the Crystal Ballroom? Our crazy all-tickets-must-go giveaway continues over at End Hits, enter here for your chance to see the mighty Okkervil River.
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Win Tickets to CSS!!!
Looks like a certain rambunctious music blog got its grubby ‘lil paws into the ticket jar once again, and now End Hits is giving away a pair of passes to see CSS (from Brazil) and Tilly and the Wall (from Omaha: the Brazil of the Midwest) this Friday at the Roseland. Click on over for […]
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Win a Starfucker Prize Package!
Hey you. Want to win a fantastic Starfucker prize package (which includes their LP, CD, poster, and a spot on the list for their CD release show this Thursday)? Of course you do. Click on over to the End Hits right now!
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The Blazers Want to Hear You Sing
Want to sing about the rocket’s red glare while surrounded by a sold out Rose Garden crowd? Well, Enrico Palazzo, now is your chance. Just remember, Mo Cheeks won’t be there to bail you out. But then again, you couldn’t do any worse than Oden. TRAIL BLAZERS TO HOLD OPEN ANTHEM AUDITIONSEvent is open to […]
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This Week’s Mercury Music Section
Another week, another Mercury music section just in time for football season. I’ll get that Miami Dolphins skull tattoo, but only when they bring back Cleo Lemon. Now that Jason Pierce of Spiritualized no longer takes his breakfast off a mirror (get a plate, dude), he’s free to focus on his health and making fantastic […]
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The Worried and the Well
31Knots Live the Cult Life
31Knots Come to Terms with Being a Cult Band
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Once More with Feeling
Rotture’s Second Anniversary
Local club Rotture turns two years old.
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Brian Wilson – Live at Roseland, 09/07/08
In addition to being a skilled photographer, our very own Minh Tran is a pretty funny guy as well. Here is how he described Sunday’s Brian Wilson concert: Dude got up off his chair like twice, so these aren’t too exciting, but the music was good. Well, there you go. While he’s not as young, […]
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Greg Oden Makes You Forget About MusicFest NW
The most popular Blazer to never play a single minute in the NBA, Greg Oden spent this Saturday at the Rose Garden hosting an event for “Team Oden” mentors. There were games, autographs for the kids, a clown making balloon animals shaped like Brandon Roy’s arthroscopic repaired knee, and the ultimate party treat: Karaoke. Never […]
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Want to Buy ‘Sheed’s House?
Who cares about the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bail out? Rasheed Wallace does. Or maybe he doesn’t. But the former Blazers star is cutting the price of his Portland residence (if you were traded to Detroit, you’d still want to live here too) from $5.2 to $4.9 million. What a deal! But that’s still […]
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Mountain Goats Write a Song for Toad
You might know Toad as that annoying little fucker who greets you at the end of every fourth level (except the last one) of Super Mario Bros. and breaks your heart with the news that–despite you risking your very life to make it this far–the princess is in another castle. Upon hearing that fateful line […]