AltWeeklies Wire
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
Caves Does Nothing New Pretty Darn Rightnew
Caves' pretty-boy retro rock certainly pays proper homage to its influences.
Willamette Week |
Amy McCullough |
10-24-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Caves, Get On With It
When Did Playing a Cello Become, Well, Kind of Cool?new
Quick: Name your favorite cellist (besides Yo-Yo Ma). Chances are, when you hear the words "rock star" or "Portland music scene," the cello is the last instrument that comes to mind -- unless you're Doug Jenkins of the Portland Cello Project.
Willamette Week |
Paige Richmond |
10-24-2007 |
Music
Intervision's Virtual Insanitynew
Paul Creighton and company wax chill and sexy, offering funk-laced jazz with a decidedly futuristic bent, making dance-soul fusioneers Jamiroquai an easy comparison.
Willamette Week |
AP Kryza |
10-17-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Intervision, Shades of Neptune
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
The Revisions' Debut Sounds Familiarnew
Debut acoustic album from former punk rockers needs, well, revising.
Willamette Week |
Paige Richmond |
10-10-2007 |
Reviews
The Recording History of Loch Lomond is a Curious Thingnew
Listening to Paper the Walls is like watching a season go by in a Disney-esque time lapse.
Willamette Week |
Brandon Seifert |
10-03-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Loch Lomond, Paper The Walls
Sandpeople Finally Kills 'Em ... With Kindnessnew
My expectations for the Portland hip-hop crew's long-awaited second album were impossibly high; I expected an album that would get the U.S. out of Iraq and reverse global warming. Well, kids are still dying and ice is still melting, but Honest Racket is really good.
Willamette Week |
Casey Jarman |
10-03-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Honest Racket, Sandpeople
Scout Niblett Balances Eccentricity and Confidencenew
This Fool Can Die Now shows that Niblett has talent in spades -- and it speaks so much louder when she focuses on substance over style.
Willamette Week |
Paige Richmond |
10-03-2007 |
Reviews
Old Time Relijun: Bad in that Good Waynew
It takes 90 seconds to dismiss Old Time Relijun’s new album, Catharsis in Crisis, as completely unlistenable, but listen again.
Willamette Week |
Paige Richmond |
09-26-2007 |
Reviews
Tractor Operator Gets Dark, Real Darknew
There's a shadow hanging over Bleeding Hearts and Severed Legs, as well -- and the thematic heaviness is mirrored by heavier sounds.
Willamette Week |
Amy McCullough |
09-26-2007 |
Reviews
Yellow Swans Depart from Realitynew
Yellow Swans has come a long way from the spastic electro-cartoon violence of 2004's Bring the Neon War Home, and At All Ends further cements the band's place at the forefront of Portland's thriving noise underground.
Willamette Week |
Erik Bader |
09-26-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: At All Ends, Yellow Swans
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
A Hour-By-Hour Breakdown of MusicfestNWnew
Willamette Week sent our writers out to soak up both MusicfestNW and PICA's Time-Based Art Festival. And then their heads exploded.
Willamette Week |
Staff |
09-12-2007 |
Music
Willamette Week's MusicfestNW Guidenew
MusicfestNW is that special time of year when Portland adopts the best of music everywhere and gives it a home. It's the four days when Stumptown venues and music fans open their doors and ears, respectively, to a super-concentrated brand of sonic awesomeness.
Willamette Week |
Staff |
09-05-2007 |
Concerts
Tags: concerts
