New York Minute dir. Gordon Opens Fri May 7 Various Theaters As frat-boy websites internet-wide will tell you, Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen–middle America’s fave twin franchise, worth $150 million each–are one month shy of their eighteenth birthday. Their latest film, New York Minute, is another pitstop in the stacks of Olsen home videos, full […]
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Rapper with a Thousand Faces
Sci-Fi Emcee’s Succinct, Iconic Disses
Vast Aire Sat May 1 Lola’s Room 1332 W Burnside You’ve got gravity shoes. Vast Aire’s got a cloud suit. These are words from Look Mom… No Hands (Chocolate Industries), the first solo album by Cannibal Ox’s Vast Aire, and this is the sort of battle he wages. Neither minced nor tethered to humanoid cut-downs […]
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Make Art, Not Bombs
Tracy + The Plastics: Possibility with Three Heads
Tracy + The Plastics Sat April 17 Disjecta 116 NE Russell Five years ago, Wynne Greenwood started talking to herself. Newly relocated to Olympia, she’d dropped out of Evergreen and, in her newfound free time, began making video art featuring an imagined, alternate ego–two of them, actually. Nikki and Cola. It was Wynne transformed, acting […]
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Mallrat
Avril Lavigne; At a Mall Near You
Avril Lavigne Top Secret Mall tour Thurs April 8 Clackamas Town Center 12000 SE 82nd According to the folks at avrillavigne.net, (who, if you signed up, should have already left a message on your mobile) Avril Lavigne will appear at the Clackamas Town Center today at 5pm. Avril’s not the first person to tour the […]
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Foundation Breaks
Cold Crush Brothers and Quannum Crew: Two Supernovas, One Night Only
To paraphrase Lifesavas, there are 503 reasons it’s a tragedy that two monumental shows are occurring in Portland on April 4, 2004–not the least of which being either one could be the greatest night of hiphop you’ll ever see. Cold Crush Brothers and Quannum Crew may be from separate coasts, and their origins entrenched in […]
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One Love
KPSU’s Giant Hiphop Showcase
KPSU Hiphop Springfest Showcase Wed March 17 PSU Smith Center, 3-9 pm, 1825 SW Broadway, Berbati’s Pan, 10 pm, 231 SW Ankeny This Wednesday, One Love Records (8714 N. Lombard St.) and New York’s Fat Tone Records host a 12-hour benefit for KPSU. Starting at 3 pm at the Smith Center Ballroom with an open […]
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Punk’d
Mahjongg on the Gutter Funk Agenda
Mahjongg Wed March 10 Meow Meow 320 SE 2nd One of the things going on with Mahjongg: they are a rhythm-based punk band in the loosest terms possible, that sounds as though they actually listen to music outside the ’70s Anglo dancepunk proles. This is not to say they don’t hurl nasty disco-guitars like A […]
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The Hot Rock
Giant B-Boy Battle Lands PDX on National Map
Photos by chris hornbecker Ashes to Ashes 5 vs. 5 b-boy/b-girl battle Sat Feb 28 PSU Smith Center Ballroom 724 SW Harrison West Coast b-boys are on some serious world domination shit. Is the above statement an exercise in hiphop hyperbole? Hell, no. Two weeks ago, at the 2004 World B-Boy Championships held at Wembley […]
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Lovely and Amazing
Scream Club’s Got Flow
Scream Club Thurs Feb 26 Grand Central Bowl 808 SE Morrison Even in this era of corporate magazines devoted to DIY, the once-revered burg of Olympia, Wash. still gets a bad rap for worshipping at the shrine of lo-fi around these parts. One can’t help but wonder if the haters are hating because it’s still […]
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Grimy on the Uptake
Local Producers Make Drizzly Beats
Pure Tone Audiotomy Sat Feb 21 Tiger Bar 317 NW Broadway No one disputes the fact that Pacific Northwest producers are at least moderately influenced by our Vitamin D-annihilating rain, and its accompanying depression. Hints of this crabapple-gloomy weather are tangible in everything from the dank beats of Oldominion all the way to Strategy’s rainy […]
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Cauldron Music
Witches Summon Rhythm, or Vice Versa
Einstürzende Neubauten Perpetuum Mobile (Mute) Liars There’s Always Room on the Broom EP (Mute) The creepiest part on Einstürzende Neubauten’s new concept album, Perpetuum Mobile, arrives at three minutes and 33 seconds into track three. Coincidence? Vocalist Blixa Bargeld has just collapsed his own weighty voice into a whisper, miked close enough that you can […]
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That’s the Anthem
West and Banner Rule This Tour
Kanye West, David Banner Mon Feb 16 Oregon Convention Center 777 NE MLK Kanye West Wed Feb 18 Berbati’s 231 SW Ankeny Forget what you heard: late-additions-to-the-bill Kanye West and David Banner are the hot shit at this week’s quasi-epic Luda/ Chingy show. West, as you’ve probably surmised, has produced a full library of classic […]