I’m dropping a Guy Clark song for this week’s title because a) it’s very good and b) it was brought to my attention by a dear friend and one of the brightest stars in our local music scene. Beverly Twist and I have known each other for years now and I’ve written a lot about […]
Clean Girl and the Dirty Dishes
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Music Tonight: Friday, April 26
Two great shows tonight, covering very different genres and locations for your discretion. First up at 8 p.m. at Phatsy Kline’s, you will find a line-up of garage and divine-kitsch glam rock in the form of touring act the Scott Yoder Band supported by local duo Clean Girl and the Dirty Dishes, a perfect amuse-bouche […]
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Freedom of Choice
There was some sort of local scuffling happening during press time for this column, so under the comforting thump of a police helicopter in the near-full moon-lit sky over my home, I consulted an official government dictionary for American Media — both social and corporate — to help clarify some terms I’ve been hearing a […]
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Music Tonight: Monday, April 15
The Logger Bar hits us with a rare Monday night show at 7:30 p.m. and this one looks like a rip-snortin’, garage-rockin’ deal with our local lovelies Clean Girl and the Dirty Dishes cranking the amp alongside SUX from Seattle, featuring a lady named Lolli from the infamous mean-ass punk band Mommy Long Legs. The […]
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Big White Cloud
No, we didn’t get a proper eclipse last Monday, but I still found a momentary pulse beat of Satori from a gliding collision of outside sources, and that’s good enough for me. I had been driving around listening to the sublime John Cale song I titled this week’s column after, so perhaps a moment like […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, March 26
Monsoon is an art rock act from Athens, Georgia, that has tasted a little bit of commercial success (literally, their music has been in a Toyota commercial) without giving up an inch of ground with their experimental bona fides. Tonight at 7 p.m. the duo-plus will be landing at the Outer Space in the midst […]
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He Was a Friend of Mine
The Ides of March came last Friday, some 2060-plus years since mighty Caesar got smoked, and we lost our little king. I am talking about my partner and I putting down our sweet, little, old dog man, when the forces of time and congestive heart failure brought on a fast catastrophe. I had put some […]
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Father and Child Reunion
As a fan of editorial cartoons from years long gone, I can assure you that few themes survive the incomprehensible gulf of time’s effect on human culture and meaning other than a small handful of personifications. These caricatures — the fat cat business tycoon, the resolute but downtrodden worker, the clumsy, vicious and stupid warmongering […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Aug. 31
Blondie’s is the place to be tonight, as traveling glam rock troubadour Scott Yoder returns to Humco for a set that is guaranteed to be redolent of the golden space age of the 1970’s, the gender bending ground zero of one of the greatest movements in musical history. Local support comes from some of our […]
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Solidarity Forever
I’m not going to waste too much of your time here, as we all have a long weekend ahead, one we can enjoy collectively only because of the efforts of the greatest collective struggle of all time, and the one least reported on in our country because the struggle isn’t over yet. I am talking […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, July 22
The students may be gone, but university-adjacent venue Blondies is still running a hot summer schedule. Portland’s new-new wave dance band Rad Max is joining forces with local garage duo Clean Girl and the Dirty Dishes and Think Tank for a night of (mostly) dancefloor fun. There’s a $5-$10 sliding scale door price and a tentative […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, July 18
Seattle band Hell Baby is a who’s-who of band members from the roster of boutique pop punk label Youth Riot! Records, including musicians from Mommy Long Legs, The Carols and Sleepover Club. The group is playing at the Siren’s Song tonight, joined by labelmates Titanic 2 and local retro pop superstars Clean Girl and the […]