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M. Ward: A Wasteland Companion
In Portland, pretty much everyone has an M. Ward story. As one of our favorite sons, it’s not hard to get an “oh yeah, I saw him before…” “I heard he was recording just
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Five Years Later: The Best Albums of 2006!!
Five years is an eternity in the life of a record. When coming up with this feature, the question the Spectrum Culture staff pondered was this: “How well do these albums play NOW!” Not
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Concert Review: She & Him
First of all, Portland loves cute and quirky. Living here, that almost seems self-explanatory, like having to state that Florida has swamps or New York City has a high sense of self-esteem in where
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She & Him: Volume Two
She & Him Volume Two Rating: 3.0/5.0 Merge Records She & Him’s sophomore effort may have one of the most apt titles for an album ever- Volume Two picks up exactly where the duo
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Concert Review: M. Ward/Chain and the Gang
Let it not be said that M. Ward’s palate doesn’t extend to the underground even as his star continually rises. The last time he stopped in Washington, D.C. he tapped The Vivian Girls as
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