I’ve gotta ask… Where the hell was Portland at this Kid Sister show? Was it the Wednesday night? Was it the nearly $20+ price tag?
Whatever it was, the lack of folks in attendance inspired the promoters to section off the two main floors at Holocene for an all ages crowd, leaving the narrow [...]

After a ridiculous amount of anticipation, Melissa Young, better known as Kid Sister, is finally dropping her album Ultraviolet in November via Downtown Records. In support of the record, of course, she’s headed on a tour that puts her in Portland Wednesday the 21st of this month! I first caught a glimpse of [...]

Its hard to tag this band around these parts, because the Fool’s Gold crew we usually link to and write about is entirely different. The one playing Holocene next weekend, however, is out to prove that there is room enough on this earth for the both of them. Beyond their name, there’s not a [...]

[Mount Eerie]

This year’s MusicFest NW differed quite a bit from last year’s. 2008’s festivities showcased a number of old favorites, but the focus seemed largely on some burgeoning new acts like Fuck Buttons, Monotonix and Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson. This year the festival was full of many familiar faces. Bands like [...]

The diversity of sounds on Shelley Short’s new record A Cave, A Canoo is striking. While the record maintains a mood that evokes genuine laughter and longing (thanks mostly to Short’s perfectly produced vocals) the variety of instruments, and even vocalists on tracks like ‘Time Machine/Submarine’ and ‘Familiar’ give the typically slow moving tracks [...]

MusicFest North West exists in a realm between two of the biggest city-wide festivals of the year. While Austin’s SXSW kicks the summer off with essentially every artist you could ever want to see playing multiple times, New York’s CMJ offers a similar set of shows across its vast city. MusicFest North West, [...]

You remember Julie Doiron from her collabo album with Mt. Eerie. Well, since then she’s released an excellent new record called I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day on JAGJAGUWAR. Appropriate title, because she truly does contemplate some day to day occurrences throughout the record! With a melisma reminiscent of [...]

It’s been on the books for months and finally it is here. If Telepathe’s excellent, eclectic debut Dance Mother hasn’t yet made a believer out of you, it definitely will when they bring it live to Holocene this Thursday. It’s just what you need to get over missing Animal Collective, and you can [...]

For those of us not financially (ready/)able to get a Grizzly Bear ticket on time, fear not!! The wonderful Benoit Pioulard has recently moved to Portland (read: like a year ago) and is opening a show at Holocene this Sunday. While his album may not be as hyped or hyper as the new Grizzly [...]

Surely competing with Trina for the “Baddest Bitch” title, Amanda Blank is hitting up all the stops in support of her forthcoming debut album I Love You. Thankfully one of these stops includes Portland’s biggest little venue Branx, where Blank is scheduled to tear it up this Saturday. If you’ve ever seen Spank Rock, [...]