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Interview: Zac Pennington from Parenthetical Girls
Anyone who has caught a Parenthetical Girls concert knows that the band’s frontman Zac Pennington handles the stage like some magical combination of Oscar Wilde and Cillian Murphy, all sharp cheekbones and an even
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Revisit: Beastie Boys: Hello Nasty
Revisit is a series of reviews highlighting past releases that now deserve a second look. Paul’s Boutique must be the most successful fake business of all time. Since its release, Brooklyn’s Beastie Boys’ masterpiece
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Concert Review: Wild Flag/The Thermals/EMA
(Photos: Renee Barrera) Now here’s something revolutionary: a concert bill where all three acts could easily headline their own show. I’m not sure about the economics behind staging such an event, but it certainly
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Concert Review: The Bad Plus
When I started listening to the Bad Plus back in 2004 or so, they seemed like such rebels. Here was a jazz trio from Minnesota, one with traditional instrumentation, playing aggressive, avant-garde-leaning covers of
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Interview: Kurt Wagner from Lambchop
I asked Kurt Wagner if we could talk about his friend Vic Chesnutt, who committed suicide in 2009, before I started recording our discussion. To be fair, it would be somewhat cathartic for me
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Rediscover: Mclusky: Mclusky Do Dallas
Rediscover is a series of reviews highlighting past releases that have flown under the radar and now deserve a second look. It’s been a great year so far for post-hardcore and punk bands, with
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Concert Review: Tennis
People don’t go to Tennis shows to rock out. When descriptors of a husband and wife duo largely consist of the words “adorable” and “endearing,” the rafters aren’t going to be shaking anytime soon
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Concert Review: Neon Indian
On a drizzly, very Portland Thursday night, a mix of thirtysomethings clinging to hipness, starry-eyed college students arriving late to the scene and the occasional Skrillex impersonator filed in to the Doug Fir Lounge
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Interview: Brock Van Wey (aka BVDUB)
Ambient and electronic music may have a reputation for some as being nice relaxing music that you can put on to escape from life, but the music of Brock Van Wey (aka bvdub) is,
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Concert Review: M83
(Photos: Peta Calvert) The year 2012 is something of a victory lap for M83. Why else tour on a double album that landed on numerous shortlists for record of the year in 2011 after
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