Your final chance to win My Morning Jacket tickets is happening right this very second over at End Hits. Hurry, hurry!
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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No!! Esben and the Witch Cancels Tonight’s Performance
Goddamnit! My new favorite band, Esben and the Witch, have canceled their debut Portland performance tonight due to being “stuck in the snow.” Someone better dig them out. Unless “snow” is code for drugs. In that case, awesome. Anyway, here is what I wrote about the band in this week’s paper. ESBEN AND THE WITCH, […]
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Win Tickets to My Morning Jacket! (Day Three)
Yes, even more My Morning Jacket tickets are waiting for you at End Hits. Get out your pipe cleaners, googly eyes, and gluesticks, because today’s contest is arts and crafts.
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This Week’s Mercury Music Section
Monarques Another week, another Mercury music section to ignore while you try and pry off the tracking device that comes on every Coachella wristband. I hope the device doesn’t notice when I fall asleep to Mumford & Sons. Over the years I’ve written many a rambling SXSW journal about bands (and tacos), so this year […]
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Deep in the Heart of Texas
One Band’s Descent into the World’s Largest Music Festival
We follow Portland’s finest pop act, Monarques, on their descent into the world’s largest music festival.
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Win Tickets to My Morning Jacket! (Day Two)
How well do you know the music of My Morning Jacket? We are giving away a pair of tickets to see the band to the first person who can identify four of their songs. Visit End Hits for the details.
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Blitzen Trapper and Dwight Schrute Make a Video
It’s no secret that Rainn Wilson is a H-U-G-E fan of Portland’s Blitzen Trapper, and now the two have come together for this wacky little video. It’s not a music video per se (although if you listen close you can hear some new material in the background), just a cute little clip where Wilson attempts […]
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The New YACHT Single is Not Influenced by the Bloodhound Gang
Pitchfork posted this DFA “White Out Sessions” video (So many stamps!) that premiers the latest single from the pyramid-obsessed YACHT. Yet no matter your take on “Dystopia (The Earth Is on Fire)”, the song’s hook is most definitely NOT a take on Bloodhound Gang’s “Fire Water Burn.” Sorry, dudes. “The Roof Is on Fire” dates […]
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Win Tickets to My Morning Jacket!
All this week we are giving away tickets to see the only Oregon performance from My Morning Jacket. Details on the concert, and the contest, are over at End Hits.
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Day Three – SXSW 2010
Day three of my SXSW roundup is posted at End Hits. There is illicit gambling, scary crowds, and tons of good music.
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Day Two – SXSW 2010
Another SXSW roundup is at End Hits. Sadly, there is no mention of the fabled Enchilacho.
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Day One – SXSW 2010
Day one of my SXSW roundup is over on End Hits. Lots of music, an inedible monstrosity called an “Enchilacho,” and plenty more.