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Jenni Moore
Jenni Moore is a former music editor and hip-hop columnist and current freelancer at The Portland Mercury. She also writes about comedy, cannabis, movies, TV, and her hatred of taxidermy.
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Issa Rae Will Cure Your Broken Pussy
There Isn’t Another Show Like Insecure
There isn’t another show like Insecure.
Posted inMusic
Two Free Events to Turn-Up At This Sunday
While going out “clubbing” or whatever you kids do on Fridays and Saturdays is fine and well, I myself like to turn up on nights when there are less, you know, people out. Why would the homies and I want to wait in line outside, pay a cover charge to get into the bar (okay, […]
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Portland Hip-Hop Day Moved to Skype Live! Studio Due to Protests and Weather
MIC CRENSHAW PHOTO VIA WWW.MICCRENSHAW.COM.= After Portland police clashed with Don’t Shoot PDX protestors yesterday—which resulted in 10 arrests and countless protestors being pepper-sprayed—StarChile, the organizer of the second annual Portland Hip-Hop Day, has decided to move the event to the Skype Live! Studio. “I just don’t feel like it’s the right place to be […]
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Record Review: Mic Capes, Concrete Dreams
ALEXANDER WRIGHT LAST MONTH Portland hip-hop’s most relevant players packed the Yanagida shop on Mississippi to finally hear Mic Capes’ Concrete Dreams. During the listening party, Capes was “serious as an eagle” as he shared his long-awaited follow-up to 2012’s Rise & Grind. The new 20-track project opens with some wise words from LA emcee […]
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Record Review: Mic Capes, Concrete Dreams
LAST MONTH Portland hip-hop’s most relevant players packed the Yanagida shop on Mississippi to finally hear Mic Capes’ Concrete Dreams. During the listening party, Capes was “serious as an eagle” as he shared his long-awaited follow-up to 2012’s Rise & Grind. The new 20-track project opens with some wise words from LA emcee Alia Zin […]
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Born to Sing
XENIA RUBINOS She does a mean “Vision of Love.” CAMILO FUENTEALBA XENIA RUBINOS started singing basically when she started talking. “I guess it was a life dream to be a singer,” she tells me over the phone from her New York residence. “I idolized Mariah Carey when I was seven. I had, like, her poster […]
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Xenia Rubinos Was Born to Sing
Jamming at the Intersection of Jazz, Funk, Electronica, Punk, and Indie Rock
The New York performer jams at the intersection of jazz, funk, electronica, punk, and indie rock.
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Meet Your POC Communities
Your People Are Here, and Here’s Where to Find Them
People of color are here, and here’s where to find them.
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Double Record Review: Frank Ocean, Blonde and Endless
My reasons for hating critiquing Frank Ocean’s visual album Endless are the same reasons I love and respect it. I was just beginning to sink my teeth into Endless and all its mellow splendor when Ocean dropped Blonde (the highly anticipated album previously titled Boys Don’t Cry) a day later. I probably don’t have to […]