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Sontiago + Gabe FM

Music seen at Bubba's Sulky Lounge, July 24, 2008
Sorely under-appreciated hip-hop DJ Gabe FM is leaving us for the Left Coast, but couldn’t drop off the face without first dropping it like it’s hot.

By TODD RICHARD | July 30, 2008

Metal Feathers + Phantom Buffalo

Music seen at SPACE Gallery, July 19
The Year in Cult Maze Spin-Offs has taken yet another auspicious turn.

By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | July 23, 2008

Music seen at Empire Dine and Dance, July 5, 2008
Along with Phantom Buffalo, Brenda are one of the only indie acts in Portland with genuine crossover appeal, “good times" music in the non-pejorative sense.

By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | July 09, 2008

Boondocks + Pore + Juba

Music seen at Empire Dine and Dance, June 27, 2008
Anyone in their late 20s and early 30s can appreciate what a golden era the ’90s were for hip-hop, R&B, and dancehall.

By SONYA TOMLINSON | July 02, 2008

Benefit for the Portland Peace Festival

Music seen at Bubba's Sulky Lounge, June 21, 2008
Dancefloors are alive. They are living, breathing, changing animals that are hungry for more.

By TODD RICHARD | June 25, 2008

Various and assorted artists

Music seen at the DoorYard, June 15, 2008
When someone from the audience asked the first band what their name was, no one on stage knew what to say; they seemed a little surprised by the question.

By CHAD CHAMBERLAIN | June 18, 2008

Adam and the Waxmen

Music seen at Freeport Cabaret, June 6, 2008
The band, who play a rousing combination of bluesy, folksy, soulful rock, graced the stage of a brand-new Freeport Cabaret.

By DEIRDRE FULTON | June 11, 2008

Feign and fortune

The US Air Guitar Championships
McNallica shredded upon nothingness like an unholy hybrid of Mick Mars and a feral burlesque dancer.

By BARRY THOMPSON | June 10, 2008

Cursillistas + White Light

Music seen at the DoorYard, May 24 + SPACE Gallery, May 29
Cursillistas played perhaps their most fun set at SPACE.

By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | June 04, 2008

Camarojuana

Music seen at the Big Easy, May 24, 2008
The delicious drunken daze that was the ’80s may have reached its pinnacle with Portland audiences.

By TODD RICHARD | May 28, 2008

Cougars kill Cobras

Music seen at SPACE Gallery, May 17
Music seen at SPACE Gallery, May 17.

By SONYA TOMLINSON | May 21, 2008

Akudama

Music seen at 14 Winter St, May 10, 2008
Music seen at 14 Winter St, May 10, 2008

By CHAD CHAMBERLAIN | May 14, 2008

’80s night

Music seen at Bubba’s Sulky Lounge, May 2, 2008
Do you know what the Number One single was the day you were born?

By SONYA TOMLINSON | May 07, 2008

Montroller

Music seen at the White Heart, April 25, 2008
Free admission makes it hard to pass up a show on a Friday night, especially when it is the emerging Portland-and-New Hampshire band known as Montroller.

By TODD RICHARD | April 30, 2008

Darien Brahms + American Music Club

Music seen at SPACE Gallery, April 21, 2008
Not to diminish where she is right now, but Darien Brahms would make one hell of a novelty dive-bar act in 20 years.

By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | April 23, 2008

David Dondero

Music seen at SPACE Gallery, April 12, 2008
David Dondero might be one of indie-rock’s unsung heroes.

By CHAD CHAMBERLAIN | April 16, 2008

Cult Maze

Music seen at Geno’s + SPACE Gallery, April 4 + April 6, 2008
Early on in Cult Maze’s all-too-brief tenure as Portland’s best indie-rock band — probably when they were still called The Funeral — I offered to buy Joshua Loring a beer before his set.

By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | April 09, 2008

Susan Werner

Music seen at Stone Mountain Arts Center, February 8
She sang improvisational songs about converting vintage cars to hybrids, and turned familiar show tunes into pro-Obama ditties.

By SONYA TOMLINSON | February 27, 2008