Last April, on the newly christened holiday known as Record Store Day, a Portland music store called Jackpot Records rented out a launderette-turned-performance-space to continue the celebration of independent music into the wee hours of a Saturday night. Posters advertising the event were stapled...

Top 10 lists are awesome, but they’re also cliche, so we thought we’d take a different angle this year, come up with a random array, and mash it all together. Hope you enjoy: — The Top Five Albums By Portland Artists In 2008 by Jordan Green Last year, Portland’s music scene...

This overly self-reflective culture of ours has many issues, but in the music world, one of the most glaring is the necessity to hear every last bit of recorded material by a particular artist, no matter how raw, unfinished or terrible it might be. Case in point: this recent collection of home demos...

Being a fan of rather outre music, I have never felt the need to justify or try to explain away why I like a song that most people would turn their noses up at or mock you for liking. So, I was a bit hesitant about asking our music writers to tell you, our fair readers, what songs they carry in their...

It’s so hard for me to make lists like these. Music is ridiculously accessible nowadays, which makes a music junkie like myself go into nervous fits wondering what I should download next. And with the amount of incredible music being released by a wide variety of artists and musicians, well, narrowing...

Last year in school, I took a class that required me to read the book Absalom, Absalom!. I knew the author’s name and that he had written The Sound and the Fury, not to mention knowing the caricature that the Coen Brothers made of him in their film Barton Fink (the drunken writer W.P. Mayhew,...

The Top 5 Albums of 2005 1. Doves: Some Cities (Capitol) This group didn’t get any attention this year by the critics and the writers because they weren’t trying to sound like either a Southern U.S. rock band or Gang of Four. Instead, they hearken back to the elegiac days of early ’90s...