It’s been exactly three months since I first saw Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes. It’s been exactly three months and six days since I last saw them last. That’s because after stumbling upon them at this year’s Monolith Music Festival in Colorado, they quickly became a must see at Music Fest North West [...]

This year Cass McCombs released his latest album Catacombs to much deserved fanfare. The album is great, but allow me to be the first to say it’s no where near as good as his last few. Seemingly gone is his sense of experimentalism, traded for a poppier attitude in both music and meaning. [...]

Past Lives play Portland more often than even some local bands, and each time I’m right there watching.  If you haven’t noticed, Past Lives are my very favorite band to rise from the ashes of the Blood Brothers and projects past.  Everytime they play, they put on a show which embodies the best elements of [...]

Four full lengths and an EP into Phosphorescent’s carreer and finally we cover him on FuckBadMusic.com.  For those of you who missed him with Bon Iver (I know, me too), I sincerely hope you were present for his performance at Holocene last Wednesday. Although one might not normally charcaterize his music as being a sonic [...]

I’m pretty sure most Oregonians think Dubstep is a kind of dance, so I didn’t expect much of a turn-out for a Dubstep show in Portland, especially one that unfortunately fell on a wednesday, and for opening act Monkeytek my expectations were correct. This isn’t to say he didn’t do an amazing job though. I [...]

Sasha was correct when he called Ratatat’s new album, “noisier and more fleshed out”. This was on immaculate display at Holocene last night, where they were joined by family member, and perfect reason for Portland Pride, E*Rock.

E*Rock’s album is far less interesting than his live shows, where he is able to combine both his glitchy [...]

[ July 9, 2008; 8:00 pm; ] It’s too bad you are going to be at Kode9 tonight (not) because Matmos happens to be playing at the Aladdin Theater at the same time. Yesterday I had the good fortune of catching them do an improv set at KPSU in front of no more than 5 other people.

Improv albums almost never work, simply [...]

[ July 12, 2008 to July 13, 2008. ]

Although this festival is all for charity, and no press are given comped tickets, I somehow managed to win a pair by telling Sub-Pop that Wolf Eyes’ Human Animal is the best album they’ve ever put out on the label. Although that may be true, one thing Sub-Pop 20 has allowed me to do is [...]

[ June 29, 2008; 9:30 pm to 10:30 pm. ] Photo stolen from someone’s Flickr

If you scroll down, you will see that a few days ago I made mention of White Fang’s basketball party/ Poetry Reading/ All around good time. I’m really really excited about that, but since that STARTS AT SEVEN, one can assume it might be done by 9:30.

If in fact this is [...]

[ June 29, 2008; ]

White Fang (my very favorite guys in Portland) are going to be playing a show at Brooklyn Park Basketball Court this Sunday the 29th… I think around 8 or 9:00PM. Though the line-up fluctuates from show to show, this show very well could include all 50000000 members. If you haven’t seen WHT FNG live before, [...]