AltWeeklies Wire
Growing Out of I Can Lick Any Sonofabitchnew
Michael Dean Damron's new band, Thee Loyal Bastards, turns the volume down a touch and puts greater emphasis on songwriting.
Willamette Week |
Casey Jarmon |
11-07-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Southern Belle Breaks Your Toysnew
The lo-fi indie-pop trio joins forces with upwards of 20 friends for a "Little Boys Club" meeting, where they create franken-toys.
Willamette Week |
Nilina Mason-Campbell |
11-07-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Southern Belle
Queercore Icons Team Dresch Have Never Been Predictablenew
Since the Portland-based punk band formed 14 years ago, its four queer members have broken social and musical conventions, but has anything changed?
Willamette Week |
Paige Richmond |
10-31-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Team Dresch
Michele Wylen Gets her Dance Onnew
Wylen doesn't know exactly how she came to be branded a dance act, but making her live debut opening for Liverpool-based electronic act Ladytron last October may have had something to do with it.
Willamette Week |
Nilina Mason-Campbell |
10-31-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Michele Wylen
Portland Hip-Hop Had to Start Somewherenew
The U-Krew represents a long list of firsts: They were the first Portland hip-hop group to ever show up on MTV or BET, and the group likely retains its title as the most widely heard hip-hop group ever to come out of Stumptown after its single "If U Were Mine" reached No. 24 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1990.
Willamette Week |
Casey Jarmen |
10-31-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: U-Krew
The Next Great Portland Icons?new
Four grown-up guys with real jobs play Portland's catchiest music.
Willamette Week |
Paige Richmond |
10-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Honus Huffhines
Leigh Marble Opens Up, Gets Dark.new
Pray you're never Leigh Marble's muse. If it doesn't work out, he will write the most hurtful, yet somehow tender, song about the whole mess, and it will burn.
Willamette Week |
Amy McCullough |
10-17-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Leigh Marble, Red Tornado
Luther Russell Returns with His First Solo Album in Six Yearsnew
Former Freewheeler creates tracks that veer from effortless, enlightened pop reminiscent of Elliott Smith to rootsier ambles, but they never sink beneath the weight of their tormented subjects.
Willamette Week |
Jay Horton |
09-26-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Luther Russell, Repair
The Soda Pop Kids Prep for Upcoming Debutnew
Heavily mulleted in skintight denim, the Kids look like a cross between Motley Crue and the Ramones, but this is no hair band.
Willamette Week |
Paige Richmond |
08-29-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Teen Bop Dream, The Soda Pop Kids
Hank III Schools Portland's Power of Countrynew
Guitarist-vocalist David Rives Curtright of twang-rock outfit Power of County shares what it's like to be "on a real tour" with Hank Williams III and alt-country writer Jim Goad.
Willamette Week |
Jay Horton |
08-29-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Power of Country
Preacher's Gay Son is 'Putting the Disco Back in Discomfort'new
Singer/songwriter Lynn earned a following after playing San Francisco's Folsom Street Fair, the world's biggest BDSM-lifestyle fair -- his song "Burning Your Glory" has been in Logo's rotation all summer.
Willamette Week |
Byron Beck |
08-29-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Logan Lynn
Violinist Jun Iwasaki Leads Oregon Orchestranew
In his new position, 25-year-old Iwasaki discusses the pressures of leading an orchestra in real financial trouble.
Willamette Week |
Stephen Marc Beaudoin |
08-29-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jun Iwasaki
The Dimes: Intelligent & Often Whimsicalnew
On the band's full-length debut, the grim realities of the lyrics blend refreshingly with dreamlike guitars and an unabashedly poppy, radio-friendly sound.
Willamette Week |
Ap Kryza |
08-22-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Dimes, The Silent Generation
Renegade: 'Theater for ADD'new
Portland A/V mastermind makes geeky cool with rockin' weird theater.
Willamette Week |
Travis Ritter |
08-22-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Renegade
Gingerbread Patriots Bring to Mind Children's Music & Grandaddynew
The Portland-via-Albuquerque space-poppers come together over Mexican food and "your mom" jokes.
Willamette Week |
Amy McCullough |
08-08-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Gingerbread Patriots
