Album Review

Lindsay Costello

Nolan Parker

Audrey Vann

John Gourley of Portland-based Portugal. The Man has been quietly dropping heat since the mid-2000s, well before the formation of P.TM and the band’s move from Wasilla, Alaska, down to Rip City. It’s been all community building of some sort or another: community building with other musicians and creatives, community building between cultures and traditions, […]

According to the Puritan Themes press release, the album’s lead single “Chain Gang,” is “an imaginary take on if Cat Stevens had smoked a ton of salvia and taken a much darker route within the world of dense, story-telling songwriting.”  Experiences with salvia can be impactful. Fun trips where textures replicate themselves across various surfaces, […]

In an age where search engine optimization is a vital consideration for news headlines, business upstarts, and pretty much all creative endeavors, you’d be forgiven if you thought that a band called Guitar would drift into eternal, unsearchable obscurity. But ask Guitar brainchild Saia Kuli about the would-be gaffe, it’s the innate humor in such […]

Joan Mitchell made a name for herself in the art world through her large scale paintings featuring gestural, emotionally charged mark making. Working mainly as an abstract-expressionist, her paintings vibrate in her use of color and the movement of brushstrokes across the canvas. Though her paintings appear to be non-objective, as one spends time with […]