It’s solstice eve, and due to the coming of another more celebrated eve on Wednesday,I’m loading the underboughs of this evening with shows to balance the silent nightsahead. The big shebang is happening over at the Arcata Playhouse, where the JingleJam Holiday Benefit, packed with so many local shining stars, will be happening in two […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Nov. 6
The Outer Space is hosting an indie rock showcase tonight at 7 p.m. Portland’s Tradie will share the stage with local acts The Cowtown Sound, Mold and Fig, for those of you out there inclined toward gentle jams and bedroom poetry. Considering we are hitting the three-decade mark of indie rock as a genre name, […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, April 19
Portland, Oregon-based Native musician and Saddle Creek Records artist Katherine Paul, better known by her stage name Black Belt Eagle Scout, is a marvel of post-rock innovation, blending fuzzy after-grunge sparks with the sounds of her heritage with a result which rises higher than the sum total of its ingredients. I highly recommend this show […]
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Green Destroyed
This column’s song title comes from the highly influential — in my formative years, at least — album Human=Garbage by the anarcho crust punk band Dystopia. Lines like these were once attractive to an angry and borderline nihilistic young man: “Humanity is diggin’ its own grave From the master in the high rise To his […]