Thursday night’s show had potential to be a half-hearted disaster from each of the bands. As it was their last show on the tour, Local Natives were looking to spend a little more time before their set relaxing and hanging out. The overall vibe backstage was excited, but ultimately sad to see them [...]

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 [...]

In any given weekend, there’s too much going on to even begin writing about. This weekend in Portland though, there is a particularly unique set of shows going down. Everyone knows the weekend begins on Thursday now-a-days, but for the purposes of this post I’ll start on Friday.
The epic and amazing Black [...]

A record made solely of samples seems an exhausting effort; one hard not to approach with skepticism. Essentially records created using this technique promise no hook, no point of entry. That has certainly been the case with much of Junk Culture’s label mates. Illegal Art is one of those niche labels that [...]

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 [...]

The social/racial effects of poverty are hardly as evident as they are at a Ghostface Killah show taking place in a small college town. One would expect the crowd to be diverse in both color and status, due to the popular nature of anyone coming from a group so big as the Wu-Tang clan. [...]