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Monqui-ing Around Lloyd Center

Update on Monqui Presents teaming with AEG for new music venue in Lloyd Center.
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It might not have a name yet, but the realization of the much-ballyhooed mid-sized music venue by Portland’s Monqui Presents and AEG Presents is well underway at the corner of Northeast 9th and Multnomah.  Demolition at the site of the former Nordstrom inside the 1.472 million square foot footprint of Lloyd Center Mall has been […]

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Wherefore Art Thou Doug Fir?

The beloved Portland music venue will (hopefully) make its grand return soon! 
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Despite a renaissance of new music venues sprouting up around Portland’s Central Eastside, the delayed relaunch of one of the city’s most beloved venues is on the tip of many local showgoers’ tongues. The reopening efforts of the Doug Fir Lounge in the former Le Bistro Montage digs has encountered ongoing bureaucratic speed bumps due […]

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Album Review: Times Infinity’s Boy on Horse Is Worth the Wait

The heater new LP delivers the sonic assults we’ve been missing
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When Portland five-piece Times Infinity first began writing songs for what would become their fifth album, Boy on Horse, they were in the midst of their rollicking 2018 West Coast tour, at which time it looked as though the country might finally escape from underneath Donald Trump’s grubby thumb. By the time the band was […]

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Portland’s Chameleonic Artists Deliver on Tender Loving Empire’s New Compilation, Paradise Hotel

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Various Artists Tender Loving Empire There may have been some sort of overarching “Portland sound” at one point or another—who knows? It’s a pointless debate, and besides, the cross-pollination of genres—not just in Portland but all over the world—has broken those arguments wide open. Paradise Hotel, a compilation of songs by various artists from Portland’s […]

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Record Review: TK and the Holy Know-Nothings, Arguably OK

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Mama Bird Recording Co. Taylor Kingman’s frequent performances at venues like the Laurelthirst have garnered him a strong local following, made all the more powerful when he’s backed by his band, the Holy Know-Nothings. The group’s debut LP, Arguably OK, possesses a gruff kind of poise, thanks to Kingman’s smart, relentlessly honest songwriting. Heavy-lidded country […]

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