Ezra Ace Caraeff

With tax time right around the corner, all those who try to make a living off of indie culture are once again left scrambling for our paperwork and wishing a hand stamp from the Doug Fir came with a receipt. To help minimize the panic, professional bookkeeper Leilani Rosa, CEO of the bookkeeping/professional services firm […]

First things first, Hawthorne Heights is a terrible band. That’s the easy part, and not the point of this column. Yet still, the very generic Ohio band, which seems to steal lyrics from the most clichéd of high school diary entries, has somehow managed to sell over 700,000 copies of their debut album The Silence […]

In the early days of the internet the concept of watching a video online was an exercise in extreme patience, mainly due to large file sizes and slow dial-up connections. But now thanks to DSL and sites like YouTube.com, one can explore the vast world of video clips from the comfort of one’s office as […]

Whether or not it’s the demise of music as we know it, or just really convenient and sort of neat, it’s safe to say the iPod is not going anywhere. That being said, how the hell do you keep your overpriced music player safe at all times? At the Once More With Feeling consumer labs, […]

Tim Westergren is a freaking genius. The founder of Pandora (pandora.com), he is the man responsible for the single greatest thing to happen to music on the internet. In a nutshell, Pandora is the fabulous collision of music nerds and technology geeks, thus creating a website where you, the listener, can stream radio based on […]

I’m not going to lie to you. My fanaticism for Will Sheff (lead singer of Okkervil River and member of Shearwater) is borderline obsessive. As one of the best living songwriters of our generation—yeah, you heard me—Sheff’s talent for writing music that is both beautiful and intelligent ranks him alongside the likes of the best […]

The Extraordinaires There are no two ways about it, Ribbons of War by Philadelphia’s the Extraordinaires is the single most impressive-looking CD I have ever seen. Not to discount the music, a complete start-to-finish tale that owes as much influence to sea shanties as it does to similar sounding bands like the Decemberists, but the […]

Yeah, okay, Portugal. The Man loves punctuation, we get it. With former members of one of the few listenable screamo bands, Anatomy of a Ghost, this Portland-via-Alaska band goes to great lengths to shed their former skin and be a real band with their debut album Waiter: You Vultures! And they succeed, Waiter is an […]

The best way to describe Giant Panda is that this LA trio makes hiphop for hiphop’s sake. Flying under my radar for some time now, along with their terribly underrated (and local) labelmates Lightheaded, Giant Panda are the type of hiphop group that so fervently sweats for the genre it’s remarkable that they can even […]

Despite my best efforts, there are times when this humble column just goes horribly awry, and this week was one of those times. Utterly thrilled that the watermelon-smashing comedic hijinks of Gallagher were rolling through our fair city this week, I set out for an interview with the famed comedian. No luck. The rejection sent […]

Heroes and Villains The charm of Heroes and Villains lies in this city itself. Portland is quite possibly the only city that could house a band that is both as vaudevillian and surprisingly modern as Heroes and Villains. Adam Raitano (singer/guitarist/glockenspiel) takes some time to talk about the band, Smile, and blatantly namedrop both Lowrey’s […]

While the world of sports and music have crossed on more than a few occasions, (John Fogerty’s “Centerfield” anyone?), the finest moments of athletic–themed songs come from the sport of football. Since the NFL season is currently winding down and the playoffs are almost upon us, here is a roundup of the best football songs […]