Ezra Ace Caraeff

I know all those squares with their fancy philosophy books and their Greenpeace stickers want you to believe that even-handed, well-informed discourse is at the heart of all true critical understanding–but let me tell ya: all that shit is vastly overrated. And as anyone who’s ever read this paper can attest, we here at the […]

Much more than a gimmick to justify the most startling and disgusting album artwork around, Cattle Decapitation is a unique metal band with a bone to pick with meat eaters the world over. The group’s vegetarian agenda goes beyond dietary recommendations, instead taking a hard-lined pro-animal/anti-man stance, all set to a backdrop of death metal […]

In it’s two-years of existence, Nocturnal has provided a very unique venue/bar/artspace, one that will be dearly missed as they undergo a change in format over the coming months. In addition to being one of the nicest, and cleanest, all-age venues in the country, the club hosted any number of events–from yoga, swing dancing, and […]

Paul Westerberg Sat Feb 19 Roseland 8 NW 6th Fans of the Replacements and Paul Westerberg have been a long suffering drunken lot of devotees, worshipping a band whose main accomplishment was never really living up to their potential. A band with more legacy than singles, the wake of The Replacements’ demise has launched a […]

Formed by then 12-year-old drummer Wade Youman, San Diego’s Unwritten Law have run the gamut from traditional SoCal melodic punk to TRL Top-40 pop. In that time, Youman’s band has seen a dizzying array of members come and go, and a different major label for each of their three releases. In working on the band’s […]

Menomena An anomaly in pretty much any music scene, Menomena are a rare treat of wildly creative musicality combined with charismatic pop sensibilities. Their flipbook packaged CD I Am The Fun Blame Monster, recently re-released by local label Film Guerrero, has garnered praise from critics the world over, plus earned the band a job penning […]

It’s ironic that these days Southern California pysch-pop band dios malos (note the lowercase) is better known in gloomy England than they are in the sunny state they call home. Now with a steady parade of glorious hype from the UK press, dios malos are starting to gain some footing here in the States with […]

Few bands will ever achieve the sort of press frenzy that NY’s Hatebeak has; but then again, few bands will ever have a parrot as their singer. Waldo (parrot/vocals) holds his own in a genre where singers hardly sing; instead he relies on abrasive yelps and chirps, all of which come off oddly “human”. In […]

The right-hand-man to local concert promoter Mike Thrasher, Trevor Soloman is a longtime fixture in Portland’s local music scene, working as a promoter, artist, manager and the frontman of Monkey Trick, the world’s best (and only) Jesus Lizard cover band. Say hello to him at just about any decent local show; he’s the guy at […]

Shayla Hason When not leading the league in arrests, The Trailblazers are the loveable basketball thugs that call Portland home. When not spinning under the moniker DJ Safi or playing in Riddenpaa, Shayla Hason works at the Joint, the post-production house responsible for the new Trailblazers “Block Party” commercials. The ads feature the loose-knit Blazers […]