Music seen at Slainte, July 12, 2008
With side projects, you always learn a thing or two about the scope of the musician’s interests and influences.
By CHAD CHAMBERLAIN | July 16, 2008

As the AltCom Festival arrives at the Somerville Theatre, we look at the roots of the indie comedy boom.
“Ashlee Simpson’s new album sold so poorly,” snorted the headline on Yahoo! this past week, that “it was beaten by a comedy album.”
By MIKE MILIARD | May 08, 2008

Let’s talk numbers

Cult Maze move well beyond Ice Arena with 35, 36
There’s some talk that Cult Maze are the best rock band in Portland right now.
By SAM PFEIFLE | November 07, 2007

Beirut’s French kiss

Escaping the Gulag, with romance and accordions
Beirut’s role in the Gypsy reappropriation wave is more whimsical than their more aggressive counterparts in Gogol Bordello, in both form and function.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | October 10, 2007

Easy, tiger

Reconsidering hipsterism, sensitivity, and Ryan Adams’s legacy
It’s been interesting to, however briefly, listen to songs I’ll likely still enjoy in twenty years.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | September 12, 2007

Hollywood hit

Grace Potter makes a major-label smash
Grace Potter is going to be a star.
By TED DROZDOWSKI | September 04, 2007

iPhone home

Could be verse: poetry ripped from the headlines
Lines upon the Multimedia and Internet-enabled Mobile Phone Newly Produced by the Apple Corporation
By JAMES PARKER | July 06, 2007

2007 Best National Indie

The Shins

By WILL SPITZ | June 04, 2007

Readers' picks 2007: Arts and Entertainment

Best bar, best gallery, best jukebox, best happy hour, and more
SPACE Gallery, Dock Fore, the White Heart, and more.
By PORTLAND PHOENIX STAFF | April 27, 2007

Going on sale: February 23, 2007

Breaking news from the concert ticket trade
Shins, Three Day Threshold, Norah Jones, and more.
By GOING ON SALE | February 20, 2007

What’s the story?

Sorting through the ruins of Oasis
‘Liam Gallagher should have stayed in England,’ opined Newsday after a show on Long Island.
By JAMES PARKER | February 06, 2007

Size matters

The Shins tend to a growing fan base
The Shins’ third album, Wincing the Night Away (Sub Pop), is as good as any rational mortal should expect an indie-pop album to be in the winter of 2007. The Shins, "Phantom Limb" (mp3)
By FRANKLIN SOULTS | February 06, 2007

Sub Pop video bin

The singles club
Once upon a time, Sub Pop had a singles club.
By MATT ASHARE | January 30, 2007

Wincing the blogs away

Indie rockers try selling out for a change
In the first quarter of 2007, more than a dozen bands who made very big names for themselves via the Internet hype machine face a compelling and dangerous question: what does it take to maintain your cred and succeed commercially in such a dynamic environment?
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | January 17, 2007

The House that Headstart built

It’s more Amityville Horror than Victoria Mansion
How did that CSN song go? “Our house/ Is a very, very, very fine house/ With two cats in the yard/ Life used to be so hard/ Now everything is easy, cuz of you.” That’s it.
By SAM PFEIFLE | October 11, 2006

Hunting the wild Klosterman

Things about the pop-culture writer that are true, things that might be true, and something that isn’t true at all
He is Charles John “Chuck” Klosterman: pop-culture critic, four-time author, celebrity profiler, Esquire columnist, ESPN Page 2 sportswriter, former Spin senior editor, unrepentant Billy Joel fan. And he makes girls spit. Chuck Klosterman reads from Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas (mp3)
By CAMILLE DODERO | October 05, 2006

Curse of the twentysomethings

20/20
What the hell does it mean to be a twentysomething in 2006? Generation Snark. By Nina MacLaughlin
By CAMILLE DODERO | September 27, 2006

Skeleton crew

Figurines give good Danish
With a sound rooted several thousand miles away in the Pacific Northwest, Figurines prove there’s something brilliant in the state of Denmark.
By KURT B. REIGHLEY | June 07, 2006

Screening sounds

Great music moments at the movies -- from Portland and beyond
Great moments in film have always relied upon great music — and often Hollywood’s most memorable scenes are birthed from that perfect juxtaposition of song and image.
By HOOTIE GIANGRECO | February 23, 2006

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