Subject: Portland (Oregon)

• White Rainbow's Prism of Eternal Now

  White Rainbow Prism of Eternal Now (Kranky) Release date: October 1, 2007 Curb Your Cynicism is a recurring blogtastic feature in which the music editor pithily enthuses about new releases and reissues he thinks will enhance your life and erode your cynicism about the state of music, circa now. White Rainbow is manifested in Portland, Oregon by one Adam Forkner, who previously expanded minds in Yume Bitsu and Surface of Eceyon; he's also sat in on recordings with Devendra Banhart, Jackie-O Mo

  October 3, 2007

• Last Night: The Bravery's Secret Show at Spaceland

  Review by Andrew Youssef The Bravery, Wild Sweet Orange and The Dead Trees at Spaceland March 18, 2008 Better Than: Seeing the actual Wyld Stallons from Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure since the secret show was billed as such. Download: "Believe" from their Myspace page. Fresh off an appearance on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Bravery stopped by Spaceland for a secret show to a capacity crowd of 260 diehard fans. The Bravery is touring behind their recently released album “Th

  March 19, 2008

• Vinyl Considered Groovy—Again

  An employee at a Fred Meyer store in Portland, Oregon mistakenly ordered vinyl LPs of R.E.M.'s latest album, Accelerate, instead of the CD-DVD version, and a funny thing happened: 20 of the vinyl copies sold the first day they were put on the shelves. Now this retailer is going to stock the format that the music industry hoped would die a quarter century ago in 60 of its stores in Oregon, Washington and Alaska. “It's not just a nostalgia thing," Melinda Merrill, spokeswoman for Fred Meyer,

  June 20, 2008

• Feel the Gastro-Ambient Love!

  May 25, 2000

• Trailer Park Confidential

  September 6, 2001

• Get Out Your Handkerchiefs

  November 21, 2002

• [Trendzilla] Living the Plush Life

  April 2, 2009

• The Blues Don't Have to Suck, at Least When Portland's Hillstomp Play Them

  October 16, 2008

• Warped Tour to Launch in Pomona This Year, Lineup Announced

  For the third straight year, the Vans Warped Tour--46 dates in 2009-will be kicking off at the Pomona Fairplex, this time on June 26. Pre-sales for tickets start April 1 (not a prank), with the "regular" on-sale date being April 18. They've also announced the list of bands performing, though we don't yet know who's performing at what date yet. Names include: Newport Beach's Saosin (pictured), Huntington Beach's The Dirty Heads, Fullerton punk vets D.I. and Thrice, from Irvine, natch. And if you'

  March 25, 2009

• The Top 10 Indie Rock Albums of 2008

  December 18, 2008

• Twice as Bright

  November 20, 2008

• You Kill Me

  Following Untraceable's lame-brained argument, we're all to blame for this massively dumb movie

  January 24, 2008

• !Ask a Mexican!(r)

  "The same women who complain about ‘sleazy’ Mexican men go to France and giggle about ‘how flirtatious’ French men are"

  October 25, 2007

• DVDish

  WEB EXCLUSIVE! You’ll Laugh Dying

  October 11, 2007

• Im a Complete Intellectual Fraud

  January 20, 2005

• !Ask a Mexican!(r)

  'Rude to sing along? Never'

  August 30, 2007

• It's Your Money

  But the government spends it

  June 28, 2007

• Dumped: Sex & the Pity

  February 13, 2003

• The Thermals

  April 3, 2003

• !Ask a Mexican!

  March 1, 2007

• OC's 31 Scariest People

  Now 25 percent more terrifying!

  October 27, 2005

• 'I Really Like the One on VD'

  September 1, 2005

• Lets Give

  May 5, 2005

• OC Weekly Staff Mixtape Picks

  December 23, 2004

• Listen Between the Lines

  August 12, 2004

• The Church of Bush

  July 22, 2004

• All Aboard the Pedo-Train!

  July 22, 2004

• Stuck in the Middle With You

  April 10, 2003

• A Mid-Summer Nightmare

  April 3, 2003

• Hoe-Cakes, Onie-Style

  March 6, 2003

• Barrels of Fun!

  October 10, 2002

• Two Worlds

  October 18, 2001

• Search and Annoy

  January 11, 2001

• Just Declare Victory

  December 7, 2000

• We Should Give You Such a Spanking!

  October 19, 2000

• Oregon Bound

  September 28, 2000

• Our Annual South by Southwest Report

  March 30, 2000

• Metaphysical Graffiti

  November 18, 1999

• Vacation, Baby

  October 21, 1999

• Toxic Rock Syndrome

  June 24, 1999

• Letters

  June 10, 1999

• Polyester Road Diaries

  May 13, 1999

• Delivering the Goods

  January 14, 1999

• Incoming: Dandy Warhols Coming to Glass House!

  Here's something worth getting excited about as we toil through this waking life. Portland, Oregon's Dandy Warhols are coming to the Glass House in Pomona just a little under a month from now, on June 5. Tickets are on sale this Saturday (May 9) at noon, $20 at the door, $18 in advance. I'm pretty psyched, the Dandys are definitely in the list of "bands that I dig that I've never gotten to see live before." They're touring behind last year's ...Earth to the Dandy Warhols..., and a new remix EP a

  May 7, 2009

• The Dandy Warhols

  June 4, 2009

• Gettin' Made: Everything and the Kitchen Sink Dyeworks

  When you hear the word yarn, do you automatically think of Red Heart? Sure, 100% acrylic's definitely got its perfect uses, but I think you'll back me up when I say it can be less than a joy to work with. If you've never used 100% wool (or cotton or other natural fibers), you're totally missing out on yarn that actually feels good in your hands while you work. So whether you knit, crochet, or (gasp!) macrame, join me as I chat with Birmingham, Alabama's own Mercedes Tarasovich-Clark about her in

  July 14, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  August 6, 2009

• Recommendation From Me to You

  Maybe you noticed I didn't blog last week. Or maybe you didn't. OK, you probably didn't. Anyway, I hit the road and spent the week in Portland, Ore., a city I hope to call home one day. The trip was amazing -- tons of killer vegan food, the weather was nice and the beer flowed all day and all night. But perhaps the coolest part of the vacation was the fact that I "discovered" Amy Winehouse.Yes folks, three years after she became a household name, I finally heard Back to Black and guess what? It'

  August 10, 2009