Oh man, he’s got the exact same Five Finger Death Punch tat as you have. Bummer. Another week, another Mercury music section to line your birdcage with as you watch this video of an adorable little scamp asking death metal bands about babies. Hey kid, the answer to your question is Lemmy. Babies comes from […]
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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Emerald City Groove
From the Screen to the Stage with Wheedle’s Groove
From the big screen to the stage with Wheedle’s Groove.
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Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks – “Senator” (Live on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon)
Last night Stephen Malkmus and his merry band of Jicks visited the studios of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon to play Mirror Traffic‘s excellent lead single “Senator” (sans the line about the song’s protagonist craving a blowjob). Speaking of blowjobs, Jicks drummer Jake Morris crossed paths with the one and only MacGruber backstage and, uh, […]
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Janet Jackson, A Dirty House, and One Very Angry Dad
MARANDA, CLEAN UP YOUR DAD’S HOUSE! In case you were unaware, Janet Jackson is in town tonight. Miss Jackson (I am indeed nasty, thanks for asking) will be at the Keller Auditorium as part of her “Number Ones, Up Close & Personal” tour. One person who wanted to get up close & personal with Janet […]
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And the Winner of the Sunday Softball Championship is…
…us! Team Old Gold—the squad formerly known as Team Portland Mercury—took home the Sunday Softball championship this past weekend by defeating lovable dive bar The Matador 17-4, and then toppled artspace Disjecta 13-11 in the final game. More importantly, the trophy no longer belongs to last year’s winner, who were the envy of the senior […]
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Download Luck-One’s King Of The Northwest Mixtape. Now.
For Luck-One the past few years have been pretty hectic. Following some youthful missteps along the way (which you can read about in this 2009 article), Hanif Collins buckled down and over the course of the last two years he established himself as the premier voice in Portland hiphop. And then he broke our hearts […]
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Toxic Holocaust – “Judgment Awaits You” (Video)
Portland’s very own Toxic Holocaust has teamed with Portland’s very own Relapse Records who has teamed with Portland’s very own Blank TV (they just moved here from LA) for this video premiere of” Judgment Awaits You.” Wow, that’s a whole lotta Portland. “Judgment Awaits You” is from the recently released Conjure and Command, the latest […]
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Richmond Fontaine – “Lost in the Trees” (Video)
I’m not gonna lie, we were pretty damn excited to hear that Richmond Fontaine had returned with a new album. Due out September 20, The High Country is a conceptual recording—or, as they call it, a “song-novel concept album”—that takes full advantage of frontman Willy Vlautin’s gift for writing (sad) stories about fascinating (and sad) […]
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This Week’s Mercury Music Section
Johnnie Ray Another week, another Mercury music section to ignore while you read about Al Pacino thanking “the hip-hop people and the rappers” for the prolonged success of Scarface. Mountains of cocaine for everyone! The Oregon Rocks exhibit is a fun and educational (funucational, y’all!) look at Portland’s fascinating musical history. Jazz from the ’40s, […]
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Lust Never Sleeps
Going Cover to Cover with Library Voices
Going cover to cover with Canadian pop prodigies Library Voices.
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This MusicFest NW Commercial is Adorable
MusicFest NW has a history of innovative advertisements (here is 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010) and this year’s “market research” clip (starring eBay Power Seller Andrew Dickson) continues that fine tradition. If there are two things I know about suburban moms, they refuse to pronounce the name Butthole Surfers (Boot-hole Surfers!) and they love Blind […]
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My Apologies to the Willamette Week Softball Team
From this week’s issue of the Willamette Week, the official paper of record when it comes to getting their ass handed to them in softball: SOFTBALL, HARD LOSS: Oh, how the mighty have fallen. WW’s defending-champion bar league softball team lost in the second round of the playoffs to Old Gold, the team formerly known […]