The best places to take your ears out on a date.
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A Newcomer’s Guide to Portland’s Best Music Venues
Or, Where to Take Your Ears Out for a Date!
Mercury Music Staff
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Things To Do Film: Sept 8-14
This Week: Beach Rats, Blow-Up, and Shaolin vs. Wu Tang.
This week: Beach Rats, Blow-Up, and Shaolin vs. Wu Tang.
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Live Review: Project Pabst at Tom McCall Waterfront Park, Aug 26 & 27
Natalie Behring Natalie Behring Project Pabst: the hottest, dustiest music festival where it’s impossible to actually get drunk. I’ve always managed to have a blast, and this year was no different. Highlights from Saturday included the incomparable Lizzo wearing a satin robe and no pants while singing the loop from “Let ‘Em Say” a cappella, […]
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The Best Moments of Pickathon 2017
Charles Bradley Katie Summer Priests Natalie Behring Ty Segall Katie Summer This year’s Pickathon could’ve been hellish, with smoky skies and 100-degree temperatures. Despite the heat, the weekend unfolded like a strange, beautiful dream. Israeli popstars A-Wa’s Yemenite grooves made for the ultimate forest dance party. Ty Segall inspired men in fedoras to try moshing, […]
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Wanna See a Show?
Here Are Portland’s Best Music Venues
Here are Portland’s best music venues.
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Our Guide to the Artists You Shouldn’t Miss at This Year’s Soul’d Out Festival
LEE FIELDS Holding down the soul revival table. SESSE LIND For the past eight years, the Soul’d Out Festival has taken over Portland at the height of spring, when the city’s streets are coated with the cotton-candy pink aftermath of cherry blossom explosions and cloud breaks reminding us that yes, the sky really is blue. […]
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The Best of Soul’d Out
Our Guide to the Artists You Shouldn’t Miss
Our guide to the artists you shouldn’t miss.
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Five Songs That Define Radiohead’s Artistic Power
RADIOHEAD A musical elephant, waiting to be groped. Alex Lake Radiohead is the most artistically significant band of the past 20 years, maybe 30 years, and maybe ever. And no band since their old tour mates in R.E.M. has the capacity to divide its fans on the crucial question: What is their best record? You […]
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The Majesty of Radiohead
Here Are Five Songs That Define the English Group’s Artistic Power
Here are the five songs that define the English group’s artistic power to us.
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The Best of 2016
I RECENTLY DECIDED to spend a quiet Sunday re-watching Dolly Parton’s underappreciated 1982 classic The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas while cleaning my house. I love Dolly, so I may be biased, but it’s truly fantastic from start to finish. Parton stars as Ms. Mona Stangley, the rhinestone-bedazzled madam of a small-town institution whose secret […]
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The Best Records of 2016
1. Mal Devisa, Kiid2. Frankie Cosmos, Next Thing3. Sister Grotto, You Don’t Have to Be a House to Be Haunted4. Mutual Benefit, Skip a Sinking Stone5. The Fools, Self-Titled—JOSHUA JAMES AMBERSON 1. Jenny Hval, Blood Bitch2. Darkswoon, Silhouettes3. True Widow, Avvolgere4. The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Third World Pyramid5. Fiona Soe Paing, Alien Lullabies—CHRISTINA BROUSSARD 1. […]
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The Best Records of 2016
As Selected by Portland Mercury Music Writers
Here are the best records of 2016, as selected by the Mercury’s music staff.