This week’s all-ages shows.
Morgan Troper
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Sheer Mag Sounds Like Taylor Hanson Fronting Thin Lizzy
The Philadelphia Band’s Modern Rock
The modern rock of Philadelphia’s Sheer Mag.
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How to Say “Nah” Without Being a Buzzkill
‘People Who Don’t Smoke Weed Can Have Fun, Too!
People who don’t smoke weed can have fun, too!
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See My Friends Records’ Debut Release Documents the Secret Kingdom of Portland Pop
VINCE SKELLY and Stevie Pohlman belong to some kind of alternate reality where the internet never sucked the fun out of music. They’re the founders of Portland’s newest record label, See My Friends Records. The duo’s inaugural release is a 12-inch compilation, Secret City Volume 1, which features some of the best pop music currently […]
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Tell Your Friends About See My Friends Records
Secret City Volume 1 Documents the Secret Kingdom of Portland Pop
The label’s Secret City Volume 1 documents the secret kingdom of Portland pop.
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The Wasted Opportunity of I Saw the Light
“Folk music, hillbilly—it’s sincere,” Hank Williams (Tom Hiddleston) tells an inquisitive New York reporter about halfway through I Saw the Light, in what’s intended to be the film’s pivotal mic drop moment. Unfortunately, the same can’t be said for I Saw the Light, a movie marred by dull performances and overwrought dialogue. As one of […]
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I Saw the Light Is Country for Dummies
Why the Hank Williams Biopic Is a Wasted Opportunity
Why the Hank Williams biopic is a wasted opportunity.
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All-Ages Action! Record Review: Dreamdecay, F.R.A.N.K.
Dreamdecay has operated out of Seattle for the past half-decade, but in many ways the group is bound to Portland’s all-ages scene. They regularly played at Laughing Horse Books until it closed in 2014, and were as essential to that community as erstwhile local favorites Cower and Grandfather. With the recent enlistment of two Portlanders, […]
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Bruce Springsteen and the Secret Handshake—Moda Center, March 22, 2016
All photos by Christopher Keith Garcia.Click on each photo to see a larger version. “You better write something good, because that was amazing.” This is what the person sitting next to me says at the end of Bruce Springsteen’s show last night. He’s a member of the Fraternal Order of Bruce and spends three and […]
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All-Ages Action!
Review: Dreamdecay, F.R.A.N.K.
Dreamdecay releases their F.R.A.N.K. cassingle.