Mclusky Sat June 5 Dante’s 1 SW 3rd Although it’s self-defeating (and honestly, rather annoying) to argue about what makes a band “authentically punk rock,” most fans have one element of the genre they gravitate towards and use as a yardstick of quality. Lately I’ve found myself obscenely nostalgic for the Regan-era punks that first […]
Hannah Levin
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Power to the NW People
Sasquatch! Corrals the Indie Scene
Sasquatch! Music Festival Sat May 29 the Gorge One welcome change on the live-music landscape I never would have predicted has been this year’s dramatic improvement in programming on the U.S. festival circuit. We’re currently experiencing a revival of quality that I figured had ended around the time Pavement released Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain. Coachella […]
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Ladies’ Night
Life After Team Dresch
The Butchies w/Davies vs. Dresch Sun May 16 Meow Meow 320 SE 2nd In 1994, a Portland-based band named Team Dresch self-released its debut and permanently altered the landscape of the Northwest punk scene. Personal Best was a 24-minute onslaught of self-proclaimed “lesbionic punk rock,” recorded in a breathtaking five days at producer John Goodmanson’s […]
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Kings of Rock
Queens of the Stone Age Return to Their Thrones
Queens of the Stone Age Fri June 14 Berbati’s Pan “I just got my head out of a box of dirt, that’s how much fun I’m having,” a dryly sarcastic Mark Lanegan tells me via phone from New York. His complaint is legit–burying one’s skull in pile of potting soil for a photo shoot must […]
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The Call
God Says “Kill!”
Frailty dir. Bill Paxton Opens Fri April 12 Various Few phone calls would be more distressing than one from God assigning one to jury duty on Judgment Day. Frailty star and director Bill Paxton uses this metaphysical paranoia as a premise to scare horror aficionados everywhere. Because he has an excellent script and cinematographer on […]