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Concert Review: Miike Snow
(Photo: Luciano Guala) Populated, as it is, by people of discerning tastes, Portland can make for a tough place to play. Rarely do visiting bands receive de facto praise in the City of Roses.
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Concert Review: Cults
(Photos: Peta Calvert) After the fifth rainiest March on record, the sun has finally begun to reclaim Portland. You see more people out on bicycles, walking dogs and wandering the streets now that the
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Concert Review: The Ting Tings/MNDR
The Tings Tings certainly let anticipation build for their second album. After 2008’s breakthrough We Started Nothing, the British duo of Katie White and Jules de Martino scrapped much of the project they were
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Concert Review: Of Montreal
(Joann Jovinelly) For a band whose roster shape-shifts as frequently as the psychedelic visuals of their live shows, the one constant for Of Montreal has been flamboyant songwriter and frontman Kevin Barnes. Whether as
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Concert Review: Magnetic Fields
(Photo: Peter Butler) What’s that you say? You want to hear about the time I trudged seven miles through rare spring snow with the flu and a fever to watch Stephin Merritt complete his
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Concert Review: Crocodiles
Of late, Portland’s ever cozy Doug Fir Lounge has been having sound and monitor level difficulties. The live ambience of the space itself, which resonates intimately during generally quieter sets, can verge on cacophonous
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Interview: Genevieve Schatz of Company of Thieves
After their 2009 debut Ordinary Riches and last year’s Running From a Gamble, Chicago indie band Company of Thieves have proven that there’s still a place for heartfelt rock songs played with maximum energy
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Concert Review: Cloud Nothings
(Photo: Rob Dunalewicz) As the wind whipped the Willamette River, Cloud Nothings brought their blogosphere-hyped third LP Attack on Memory, an impressive effort of indie offhandedness and punk snarl, to bear on Portland’s Holocene.
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Concert Review: Matthew Dear/Blondes
No bullshit – Matthew Dear will be a rock star. I can’t promise when or from what angle, but his empyrean, sold-out Bowery Ballroom performance could’ve been transplanted to Madison Square Garden or Wembley
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Concert Review: Grimes/Born Gold
(Photo: Oliver Peel@ Konzerttagebuch.de) The real, true big question of indie music is this: what the hell do you do during an electronica concert? Do you dance? If you live in a hipster town
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