Zac Pennington

Circling the perimeter of the Expo Center parking lot in nervous awe of the hundreds of menacingly painted clown faces, we slowly work up the courage to mingle with the Juggalo. On the surface, the task of defining the Juggalo seems an easy one: clinically speaking, a Juggalo is–like the Deadhead or the Misfits’ Horror […]

Le Tigre Mon Nov 22 Roseland 8 NW 6th Avil Lavigne Tues Nov 23 Rose Garden One Center Ct. The potential of pop music’s political muscle has been largely undermined by its many perceived failures–the hedonistic implosion of the ’60s, the self-fulfilled prophecy of British punk, the alt-rock collapse of the ’90s. What is often […]

Frog Eyes Tues Nov 9 Meow Meow 320 SE 2nd Ave Carey Mercer is always one feigned gasp away from hyperventilating. Wheezed and darting like an untied latex balloon, his voice slobberingly arrows toward strained falsetto with the frequency of his chord changes–which is to say, an awful lot. To describe Mercer’s vocal affects as […]

Nancy Sinatra Tues Nov 2 Aladdin Theater 3017 SE Milwaukie nancy sinatra It’s payback time! There’s a little bit of poetic justice in Nancy Sinatra’s new self-titled album– soundly punctuating a career so desperately deserving. It’s a just desert that finally finds Sinatra welcomed in the arms of a new generation’s counterculture icons–the same sort […]

POH-Hop 9 Fri Oct 22 Ash Street 225 SW Ash Sat Oct 23 Berbati’s Pan 10 SW 3rd Fri-Sat Oct 22-23 Blazers Boys and Girls Club 5250 NE MLK “In the world of hiphop in general, there aren’t really any other festivals that have legitimately taken place this consistently,” proudly professes POH-Hop co-founder Cool Nutz […]