Subject: Portland (Oregon)

• Make the Cut: We Have a Winner!

  November 28, 2006

• We're Not Sure About Cathy Mincberg, But You Definitely Have a Problem Writing Original Headlines

  July 24, 2007

• Open Letter to Messrs. Van Halen, E., and Roth., D.L.

  August 14, 2007

• Solidarity, Baby

  October 23, 2007

• Battle of the Dimes: What’s in a Name?

  December 18, 2007

• My Morning Jacket Announce Fall Tour

  May 8, 2008

• Houston's Light Rail Not Good Enough For Baltimore

  August 13, 2008

• R.I.P. Mitch Mitchell

  The Jimi Hendrix Experience (l-r): Noel Redding, Mitch Mitchell and Hendrix Drummer Mitch Mitchell, the last surviving member of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, was found dead Wednesday morning in his Portland, Oregon, hotel room, Billboard reported today. Mitchell, 62, most likely died of natural causes, the Multnomah County Medical Examiner's office said. Mitchell had just finished the "Experience Hendrix" tour with former Band of Gypsies bassist Billy Cox and several others including Buddy Gu

  November 13, 2008

• Top Ten Indie Rock Albums of 2008

  In 2008, independent rock returned to the underground, where it belongs. Given the grand catastrophe that is today's record industry, most major-label executives don't have the time or energy to convince music fans they might like something a little out of the ordinary. They're too busy recycling variations on what were once sure things while desperately searching for career exit strategies that don't involve tall buildings, open windows and running leaps. As a result, fringier artists have ha

  December 23, 2008

• Ray Stevens Lives!!!

  November 24, 1994

• Pond Rising

  February 23, 1995

• Dandy Affair

  March 28, 1996

• Dream So Real

  April 30, 1998

• Tonight: MDC at Walter's on Washington

  Early 80's hardcore punk would have been a tad empty without Austin's Millions Of Dead Cops (or MDC for short). Singer Dave Dictor was one of the first sexually ambigious - as outlined on "America's So Straight," from the band's 1982 debut Millions of Dead Cops - singers among the decidedly macho collective of bands like Agnostic Front and Bad Brains. Dictor routinely confronted homophobia while on tour, an the movement's latent phobic leanings being ever magnified. Along with such legends

  April 7, 2009

• Happy Birthday, "Louie Louie"

  Forty-six years ago today, a group of teenagers gathered in a Portland, Oregon, studio to record a ridiculously simple anthem that would go on to become one of the most influential - and most misunderstood - songs in rock history. The group was the Kingsmen - none of whom was over age 17 - and the song was, of course, "Louie Louie," which sent shockwaves through the music world that are still being felt to this day. As ubiquitous as it is now, "Louie Louie" spent the first decade of its l

  April 13, 2009

• Blitzen Trapper: Furr

  January 1, 2009

• Merchant of Soul

  Spoon's musical tinker Britt Daniel avoids the cringe.

  April 16, 2009

• The Dandy Warhols / Teen Idols

  Enjoy the ride

  November 16, 2000

• Untraceable is Massively Dumb

  Following the lame-brained argument, we're all to blame for this movie

  January 24, 2008

• Esque

  Peel Gallery hosts the West Coast glasswork illuminati.

  December 20, 2007

• Low Self-Esteem, Flirting Double Standards and One Intelligent Mexican

  Mexican-American Culture

  October 25, 2007

• Alt-Weeklies Provide Web Links to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Home Address

  Action Taken in Solidarity with Phoenix New Times

  October 18, 2007

• You Kill Me, Evan Almighty, American Silent Horror Collection and Mala Noche: The Criterion Collection

  October 11, 2007

• King Crimson's Heir

  July 20, 2006

• The Gospel According to Tammy Faye

  Tammy Faye Messner adds music to the mascara

  July 19, 2007

• Lifesavas

  Lifesavas performs Sunday, June 3, at the Proletariat, 903 Richmond, 713-523-1199. Strange Fruit Project and DJ Marc Sense also perform.

  May 31, 2007

• Stars of Track and Field

  Stars of Track and Field perform Saturday, May 12, at the Engine Room, 1515 Pease, 713-654-7846. Joseph Arthur also performs.

  May 10, 2007

• Mail Call

  Trash Talk

  May 10, 2007

• Loving and Teasing That Silly Gabacho

  March 1, 2007

• Letters

  January 27, 2005

• Americana Pie

  Grab a slice of 2004's best roots music while it's still hot

  December 23, 2004

• Americana Pie

  Grab a slice of 2004's best roots music while it's still hot

  December 23, 2004

• Free Lunch

  Freegans prove there is such a thing as they Dumpster-dive for food for themselves and the homeless

  November 25, 2004

• The Shocking Truth

  Houston police are looking to Tasers as a panacea. But nothing's perfect.

  October 28, 2004

• The Thermals

  Fuckin A (Sub Pop)

  June 3, 2004

• Sleater-Kinney

  One Beat (Kill Rock)

  October 31, 2002

• Letters

  Rockin' On, A Stark Affair, Wrong War?

  May 31, 2001

• The Mark

  A reporter gets branded for cash (again)

  February 1, 2001

• Stirred and Shaken

  McCormick & Schmick's Spanish coffee

  January 25, 2001

• Today's Horoscope

  You'll meet a creative Aries who will shake up your traditional ideas

  December 7, 2000

• Breeze from the Northwest

  Attention, Gulf Coast seafood fans: You're about to love a chain from Oregon

  September 9, 1999

• News of the Weird

  April 1, 1999

• Pork and Beans on a Bun

  May 14, 2009

• Friday Night Noise: John Wiese & C. Spencer Yeh, Yellow Swans, Headdress

  John Wiese & C. Spencer Yeh, "Pink Pyramid" Noise dudes do love their collabos, huh? Sometimes, I love 'em, too. Often these meetings-of-the-messed-up-minds produce muddled junk. Laptop-power-electronics-psycho Weise and violinist-electronic-twiddler Yeh have crossed circuit boards more than a few times, and Cincinnati (DroneDisco), their latest Marvel Team Up, doesn't disappoint. Electronics, synths, voice and base guitar are the ingredients, but this is the sort of album in which method

  June 5, 2009

• Friday Night Noise: B L A C K I E and Talk Normal

   B L A C K I E, "Pink and White Ice Cream Trucks": Noise-rap? Sure, why not? Acid-rap, electronic-rap, and rock-rap are all pretty well-established - if not equally, universally respected - so there's no reason MCs shouldn't be dropping magma-hot 16s into distortion vortexes and bottle-rocketing the results out into the public sphere. Enter Houston's own multi-HPMA nominee B L A C K I E, a twentysomething who flouts a fierce, meter-disdaining flow and a name that, given its racial self-iden

  July 24, 2009

• The Dandy Warhols

  September 3, 2009

• Magical Mesoamerican Chocolates

  Photo by Robb Walsh​Sagahún Chocolates in Portland, Oregon makes some of the most interesting chocolate confections in the nation. The chocolate barks get their crunch from nuts, pumpkin seeds and crushed, salted corn nuts. They take their scents from edible flowers and lavender. And they contain potent doses of jalapeño, ancho and other chiles. I am not talking about a dainty little dusting of pepper -- I am talking about enough chile to make your mouth burn. I have often wondered if

  September 3, 2009

• Aftermath: The Dandy Warhols at Warehouse Live

  Photos by Craig Hlavaty​ While Afermath doesn't have any hard data on hand to back this up, we're guessing that driving an audience to a show on Labor Day evening is a tough sell. Or at least it seemed to be for the Portland, Ore.-based Dandy Warhols Monday night at Warehouse Live. Despite their long-established musical reputation which sells out shows around the world, the Warhols had to content themselves with playing to a crowd of roughly 600 Houstonians. To their credit, it didn't seem to

  September 8, 2009

• MarchFourth Marching Band

  October 15, 2009

• Blind Luck

  October 22, 2009