Gita Castallian, Castallian Photography Earlier this month, a GoFundMe page set up by Jonny Harbin’s partner Tina Lucchesi announced that the Jonnycat Records founder had contracted cancer. Though Harbin has Oregon Medicaid, he still faces growing medical bills and missed earnings from his job as a Radio Cab driver while he’s undergoing treatment. So far […]
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Turtlenecked’s Pure Plush Bone Cage Is Clean and Chaotic
TURTLENECKED Current overdue fines: $77.60. Morgan O’Sullivan HARRISON SMITH sits with his thin arms and legs folded neatly under the table, one eye squinting in the shifting sunlight. We’ve finally met up after a series of missed connections—the latest being that 20-year-old Smith had to return home to Washington for wisdom teeth surgery—to talk about […]
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Turtlenecked Puts Paranoia in Context
The Portland Band’s Pure Plush Bone Cage Is Clean and Chaotic
The Portland band’s Pure Plush Bone Cage is clean and chaotic.
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Below Ground, Above Water: S1’s Subterranean Space
Gallery and Project Space Hosts Portland’s Experimental Community
Hollywood project space hosts Portland’s experimental community.
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Kowloon Walled City’s Stunning New Vocabulary
Kowloon Walled City performs tonight—Friday, November 6—at Black Water Bar (835 NE Broadway) with Sloths, Fight Amp, and Hang the Old Year. All ages. In the space of three albums and a handful of splits and singles, Kowloon Walled City have grown from a twisted Amphetamine Reptile-indebted noise-rock group into a sparse, sludgy behemoth all […]
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Kowloon Walled City Is More Than a Hobby
Getting Nerdy with the Sludgy Behemoth
Getting nerdy with the sludgy behemoth.
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Thou’s Own Reward
Hard Work Pays Off for Blackened Sludge Metal Band
Hard work pays off for the blackened sludge metal band.
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Born Through Death
The Mummies Give Few Shits
Back from the dead, the Mummies still give few shits.
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Good Cheer Records’ First Compilation Collects an Undocumented All-Ages Music Scene
“I never really expected to be a ‘label guy,’” says Morgan Troper over late-night doughnuts and coffee. “I thought it was something I would be kind of bad at.” I’m seated across from him and Blake Hickman, his partner in Good Cheer Records, a new label dedicated to the local all-ages music community. We’re talking […]
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Spreading Good Cheer
An Undocumented All-Ages Scene
Good Cheer Records collects music from an undocumented scene.
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Elvis Depressedly’s Constant State of Flux
Elvis Depressedly, TONIGHT Sun June 28, Analog Café, 720 SE Hawthorne MAT COTHRAN is in a conversation with himself. Sure, he and I are talking to each other during a phone interview, me in a cool basement on a warm June day in Portland, him walking in a park in Grand Rapids, Michigan. But I […]
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Past, Present, and Future
Elvis Depressedly’s Constant State of Flux
Elvis Depressedly’s Mat Cothran speaks to his past and future selves.