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Concert Review: Wild Flag/The Thermals/EMA

Concert Review: Wild Flag/The Thermals/EMA

David Harris May 20, 2012 0

(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

Concert Review: The Bad Plus

Jacob Adams May 17, 2012 0

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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Concert Review: Tennis

Concert Review: Tennis

Josh Goller May 13, 2012 0

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

Concert Review: Neon Indian

Joe Clinkenbeard May 10, 2012 0

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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Concert Review: M83

Concert Review: M83

David Harris May 6, 2012 0

(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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Concert Review: Perfume Genius

Concert Review: Perfume Genius

David Harris May 2, 2012 0

(Photo: Diana Khong) Maybe it’s unfair to place expectations on things. When I saw Antony and the Johnsons play in Seattle a few years ago, it was the most moving concert I’d ever seen.

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Concert Review: Justice

Concert Review: Justice

Joe Clinkenbeard April 29, 2012 0

(Photo: Sebastien Cuvelier) On a wet spring evening amid a few slurring highschoolers a crowd of chatty teens and college kids piled up in the queue for French electro duo Justice, each energetically jockeying

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Concert Review: Trampled by Turtles

Concert Review: Trampled by Turtles

Jacob Adams April 26, 2012 0

(Photo: Jesse Chan-Norris) Trampled by Turtles, a progressive bluegrass band from Duluth, Minnesota, are known for their raucous, insanely speedy jams. Their music is a stimulating hybrid of punk-rock energy and jam-band virtuosity. Audiences

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Concert Review: Andrew Bird/Laura Marling

Concert Review: Andrew Bird/Laura Marling

Joe Clinkenbeard April 22, 2012 0

(Photo: Jason Stoff) The soft-spoken 22 year-old British folk songstress Laura Marling began her set at Portland’s Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall with a simple, “Hello, my name’s Laura” as she slung the strap of

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Concert Review: Trust

Concert Review: Trust

Sky Madden April 19, 2012 0

Last March, Stereogum ran an article called 18 Dark Bands to Watch in 2011. Their list detailed acts from the unfrozen punk of Iceage to the haunted folk of Chelsea Wolfe to the horror

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