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Ringo Starr is basically my surrogate uncle, and ragging on him does not make you look cool or smart.
JOYCE MANOR All grown up. Sort of. Ellen Rumel AT THE BEGINNING of the decade, “mid-tempo” was still a faux pas by pop-punk standards; people still considered early Weezer a guilty pleasure, and the term “’90s revival” wouldn’t become a fixture of lazy blogosphere parlance for at least another year. That all seemed to change, […]
On Cody, Joyce Manor breaks free from punk’s adolescent trappings.
A look at Portland’s underground pro wrestling scene.
The Harry Potter books have a unique resonance with millennials whose growth mirrored Harry’s own. Everyone loves Harry Potter. The series’ generation- and globe-spanning appeal is rivaled only by that of Star Wars. But the Harry Potter books have a unique resonance with millennials whose growth mirrored Harry’s own during the course of the seven […]
WHITNEY Guess which one invented the cotton gin. Sandy Kim THE INDIE ROCK WORLD is still subconsciously taking cues from humorless dorks like Thom Yorke and Win Butler—masters of the solemn and cerebral. Which is exactly why the blogosphere loses its collective shit over a band like Whitney, whose grand ambition is simply to write […]
The Chicago band’s debut sounds like the kids found the ’70s.
Harry Potter And The Cursed Child is like a letter from an old friend.
Peter Gabriel as “The Flower.” Last week my house was served a 90-day, no-cause eviction notice, meaning I’m one more Portlander who has been fucked by the city’s cabal of evil landlords or whatever. There are a handful of great songs about getting evicted/having your rent raised—the Dead Kennedys’ “Let’s Lynch The Landlord,” John Lee […]
This is not Phil Collins. The source material might be more than a century old, but for many people my age, The Legend of Tarzan will feel like a live-action sequel to Disney’s 1999 cartoon (which, for what it’s worth, is still the best animated film to feature a soundtrack by Phil Collins). This time […]
Yep, that’s definitely Tarzan.
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