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Portland (Oregon)

  • Blogs

    October 3, 2007

    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. W ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2008

    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 app ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 20, 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 t ... More >>

  • Unknown

    May 25, 2000

    Feel the Gastro-Ambient Love!

    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 t ... More >>

  • Film

    November 21, 2002

    Get Out Your Handkerchiefs

    Todd Haynes postmodern tearjerker

  • Culture

    April 2, 2009

    [Trendzilla] Living the Plush Life

    Todd Haynes postmodern tearjerker

  • Music

    October 16, 2008
  • Calendar

    November 20, 2008

    Twice as Bright

    Swordfight Deathmatch Artshow

  • Film

    January 24, 2008

    You Kill Me

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

  • Columns

    October 25, 2007

    !Ask a Mexican!(r)

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

  • Culture

    October 11, 2007

    DVDish

    WEB EXCLUSIVE! You’ll Laugh Dying

  • Columns

    June 28, 2007

    It's Your Money

    But the government spends it

  • Features

    February 13, 2003

    Dumped: Sex & the Pity

    Tales of being dumped and dumping

  • Features

    April 3, 2003

    The Thermals

    Heartwarming, heartbreaking

  • Columns

    March 1, 2007

    !Ask a Mexican!

    Why is it in their nature for Mexicans to steal?

  • News

    July 22, 2004

    The Church of Bush

    What liberal infidels will never understand about the president

  • Columns

    April 10, 2003

    Stuck in the Middle With You

    Awards, violence, preening, bickering!

  • Music

    October 18, 2001

    Two Worlds

    Glass Candys John David V of the produce department

  • Music

    January 11, 2001

    Search and Annoy

    God spare us the horror! Its Fish People

  • Music

    October 19, 2000

    We Should Give You Such a Spanking!

    God spare us the horror! Its Fish People

  • Unknown

    September 28, 2000

    Oregon Bound

    God spare us the horror! Its Fish People

  • Music

    November 18, 1999

    Metaphysical Graffiti

    The Zen blues of Kelly Joe Phelps

  • Music

    October 21, 1999

    Vacation, Baby

    The Zen blues of Kelly Joe Phelps

  • Music

    June 24, 1999

    Toxic Rock Syndrome

    Theyre up! Theyre down! But dont call the Pinehurst Kids emo

  • Culture

    May 13, 1999

    Polyester Road Diaries

    My life in the bush of filmic ghosts

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2009

    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 p ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 4, 2009

    The Dandy Warhols

    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 p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2010

    The Union Line Tour With Local Natives

    ​So we just heard that The Union Line will be touring with their buddies Local Natives this fall. The Local Natives are really blowing up, performing in festivals around the world this summer.  This is also the third time the Union Line is going on the road, and the difference is that mos ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2010

    Matt Costa Announces New Album, Mobile Chateau, and Fall Tour

    ​It's been over two years since the release of Matt Costa's second studio album, Unfamiliar Faces, with its infectious lead single "Mr. Pitiful." But now the Huntington Beach resident has finally announced plans for his third full-length, titled Mobile Chateau, due out September 21... along with p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2010

    The New Limb Tour Diaries: Days 3 & 4

    ​(Alt-pop four-piece the New Limb went on tour for the first time EVER, so they're sending Heard Mentality missives from the road. They're going to take turns guest blogging; on their third and fourth days on the road, Dan Perez and Lauren Salamone give us the scoop. Read their first entry here.-- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2010

    The New Limb Tour Diary: Day 5

    (Alt-pop four-piece the New Limb went on tour for the first time EVER, so they're sending Heard Mentality missives from the road. They're going to take turns guest blogging; on their fifth day on the road, drummer Adam Chavez talks. Read their first entry here and their second one here.--Ed.)Adam ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2010

    Saturday: Burger In-Store with Clorox Girls and Welcome Home Walker

    ​​ For those who never thought the phrase "pop punk" would ever be used again to describe something worth listening to, Portland trio Clorox Girls--no actual girls in this group by the way-- is on a mission to change your mind. Invading the neon-green walls of Fullerton's Burger Records this S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2010

    Free Moral Agents Announce Tour to Support 'Control This'

    Mary Bell/OC Weekly​As we mentioned a few months ago,  Isaiah "Ikey" Owens, Long Beach-based, Grammy-award-winning keyboardist for Mars Volta, is now taking some time off Mars Volta to focus on Free Moral Agents.As Ikey expanded his 2002 solo project into a full band five years ago, he corral ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2010

    3hree Things: On Halloween (Plus: Thrice's Best Halloween Costumes!)

    Watch out for 3hree Things every Tuesday, where Riley Breckenridge, drummer of Orange County's favorite local alt-rock band Thrice, gives his take on life in Southern California as an OC native. If memory serves me correctly, this Halloween will be just the second that I've spent at home s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 26, 2010

    Warped Tour Annouces 2011 Dates

    ​The dates for the 2011 edition of the Warped Tour have been announced; this year, it kicks off in Dallas. There's no information on venues or performers yet, but  the tour will be in Pomona July 1, San Diego, August 9 and LA on August 10. Tickets are already available for $45--you can buy t ... More >>

  • Film

    February 4, 2011

    The Big Chill

    The mysterious world of mumble-noir in Cold Weather

  • Calendar

    March 10, 2011

    Starfucker

    Detroit Bar

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2011

    A Perfect Circle Announces New North American Tour--And a Call for the APC Superfan

    Tim CadienteLeft to right: James Iha, Matt McJunkins, Billy Howerdel, Josh Freese, Maynard James Keenan.​If you didn't manage to catch A Perfect Circle the last time around (click here to see our review), good news: The band just announced a new slew of North American tour dates, including a Los A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2011

    [UPDATED: Murder Arrest] Andrew Pieatrucat, OC Homicide No. 45: Conked in Head in Alley

    Courtesy of FPDSergio Camacho Gonzalez​UPDATE, MARCH 25, 10:20 A.M.: The Fullerton Police Department (FPD) announced an arrest has been made in the September 2010 murder of Andrew Petrusiak, who was also known as Andrew Pieatrucat.Sergio Camacho Gonzalez, 36, is accused of beating 56-year-old Petr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2011

    Tickets for A Perfect Circle On Sale on Friday

    ​Tickets for A Perfect Circle's upcoming tour will be available on Friday, Apr. 8 at 10 a.m. everywhere! You can buy them at www.aperfectcircle.com then. They'll also be available at venue box offices, Ticketmaster.com and Livenation.com.

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2011

    Auto-Tune the News: 'Stay Away from Auto-Tuning People at Bar Mitzvahs and Adolf Hitler'

    ​DigiTour 2011 hopes to turn viral audiences into the real thing for YouTube stars during a live six-week 27-city US tour.  Their videos may range from cinematic to DIY-simple, but they all have one thing in common: extravagant numbers of Internet views.

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2011

    Four Music Museums Worse than the Danish Graceland

    ​ A replica of Elvis Presley's Graceland opened in Denmark this week, proving that the creators of Lego are a lot less classy than they've always let on. To be fair to the Danes, we figured there must be an even stranger assortment of music-related museums here at home. We were right. The places ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2011

    On the Line: Jared Cook of St. Roy Chef's Pub at Vine Restaurant, Part One

    Phot by Kevin Lara​Can a name for our featured chef be more appropriate than Jared Cook? Nah. The man in the kitchen at St. Roy Chef's Pub offers us his thoughts on foodies and how he likes to spend his free time. On the Line, Part One, begins below.What are six words to describe your food?Real, c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2011

    On The Line: Jared Cook of St. Roy Chef's Pub At Vine Restaurant, Part Two

    Photo by Kevin Lara​Our second installment of this week's On The Line has Jared explaining who what St. Roy is named after. We also learn just how much he admires Julia Child. To catch up on Part One, you can click here. Stop by Thursday for a juicy recipe.Hardest lesson you've learned:No matter h ... More >>

  • Music

    May 19, 2011

    Menomena Is Menomenal

    The OC-by-way-of Portland group doesn't have enough hands but still puts out gems

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2011

    James Harry Fluch Accused of Embezzling $822,000 From Buddy's Business to Fund Lavish Lifestyle

    ​A former Rancho Santa Margarita accounting consultant is scheduled to be arraigned in Santa Ana today for allegedly embezzling $822,000 from a longtime friend's company, using the ill-gotten money to pay off seven credit cards that racked up charges for gasoline, bar tabs, restaurant bills, cable ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2011

    READ: An Excerpt from Duff McKagan's Memoir, 'It's So Easy: And Other Lies'

    ​The following is an excerpt from Duff McKagan's memoir, It's So Easy: And Other Lies, out now via Simon & Schuster. McKagan is a weekly columnist at our sister paper, seattleweekly.com/reverb. He's be signing books at the Barnes & Noble at South Coast Plaza at 2 p.m. on Saturday (901 B So ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2011

    Amanda Palmer Wraps Tour of Seven Occupy Sites, Teams Up With Boston Filmmaker To Create Occupy Homage Film

    ​After visiting Occupy sites in L.A., Oakland, Portland, Vancouver, Seattle, Boston and New York, Amanda Palmer has teamed up with Boston filmmaker and friend Michael Gill to create a video montage of images from the Occupy movement, backed with Palmer's ukulele version of Leon Rosselson's 1975 so ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2011

    New Artists Just Added to SXSW's 2012 Lineup

    Mary Bell/OC WeeklyDelta Spirit at BuskerFest in Long Beach in 2010​South By Southwest revealed a whole slew of new acts confirmed to play at official showcases during the annual music and film conference in Austin. This is the third list of musicians to be released. The venues and dates they ... More >>

  • News

    December 8, 2011

    Meet Shaheen Sadeghi, the LAB Man

    In his his quest to hipsterize OC retail, Shaheen Sadeghi has built quirkily beautiful properties and gained more than a few critics

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