Scout Niblett Sun July 3rd Berbati’s Pan 10 SW 3rd To talk about an artist in terms of their self-indulgence probably seems more than a little redundant: The act of music making in itself–especially music making in the traditional context of the pop music industry–is by definition a pretty indulgent enterprise, especially considering the overwhelming […]
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Cashing In
Cashing In What began as a miniscule, isolated blip on a giant corporation’s no doubt hulking promotional schedule has in the last week or so become a fresh source of vitriol for angry white teenagers with computers the world over–as news that Nike had less than discreetly co-opted a painfully recognizable piece of punk iconography. […]
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The Girls of NASCAR
Lindsay Lohan’s Attempt at Respectability
Herbie: Fully Loaded dir. Robinson Now Playing Various Theaters In the year’s time since Lindsay Lohan committed her masterstroke in Mean Girls, the world (which is to say, mostly just the staff of this paper) has lived solely in anticipation of the formerly buoyant actress’ next masterpiece. We’ve mourned with her at every public breakup, […]
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Vote Now!
Prepping PDX Pop! 2005
With a hushed announcement on June 8th, the organizers of PDX Pop Now! opened the online voting polls for its second annual festival–or rather, opened the floodgates. “We got 3,500 votes [so far]–and freaking 1,500 votes on the first day alone,” explains Matt Wright, one of PDX Pop Now!’s founding members, and co-chairman of the […]
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Gretchen Wilson
It was during one of those particularly long road trips through the Midwest–the kind whose tedium invariably leads its participants into feats of ridiculous patience and strength–that I first discovered the unpolished diamond of Gretchen Wilson. The radio spewed a marathon of hours of contemporary country music–an experience that left me questioning how the glorification […]
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Gleeful Gluttony
P:ano Pony Up For Their Indulgences
P:ano Thurs June 16 Acme SE 8th & Main I am of the semi-firm belief that pop records should not exceed 14 songs. It’s an arbitrary, perhaps even too liberal number (and one that is regularly challenged by the painfully prolific amongst us), but for the most part, 14 is a safe space wherein which […]
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“Trapped In the Closet”
Speaking of alleged celebrity pedophiles still on the loose: have you guys been paying attention to R. Kelly lately? As you may have heard, ol’ golden showers has been hard at work preparing for the July 5th release of TP.3 Reloaded, his 10th full-length. What’s so specifically remarkable about the lead-up to TP.3 has been […]
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Mind the Gap
Electrelane’s Frustrating Genius
Electrelane Tues June 14 Berbati’s Pan 10 SW 3rd One chilly September evening of last year, after an exhausting spell of particularly disappointing shows from which I’ve yet to entirely recover, I ventured with decidedly low expectations to Berbati’s to see an evening of glossy magazine fare–the Ex, and before them, a four-piece band from […]
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Screening Room
As my hunger for musical knowledge is only slightly less developed than my laziness, I’m a total sucker for the rock documentary–and as it happens, there have been a few released in recent weeks that have whet my appetite. Here’s what I think: Made In Sheffield (Plexifilm). Painfully brief at only 52 minutes, the recently […]
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This Band Could Be Your Life
Why Everybody Loves the Minutemen
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen dir. Irwin Opens Fri June 3 Clinton St. Theater In many ways, the Minutemen seem like the SoCal punk band least likely to get the documentary treatment–though it’s certainly not for lack of merit. It’s just that, in many ways, the story of the Minutemen is a […]
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Seann McKeel
We here at “It’s Who You Know,” in a bid to live up to our namesake, decided this week to have a brief sit down with one Ms. Seann McKeel–former booker for Nocturnal and current fixture at Acme, (corner of SE 8th and Main) who’s also currently working with the owners of the Wonder Ballroom, […]
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Progressive Twee?
Architecture in Helsinki’s Thoughtful Sugar High
Architecture in Helsinki Fri May 27 Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside Beneath all of the schizophrenic song structures, expansive membership, and mountains of instrumentation, Architecture in Helsinki is not a neo-psyche band, an experimental folk collective, or even a chamber pop orchestra. No, what Architecture in Helsinki is, at heart, is a twee pop […]