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The Chickadees

Music seen at Amigos, January 11, 2008
Drony without being obnoxious, rocky without being too harsh.

By SONYA TOMLINSON | January 16, 2008

Pam Baker & the SGs

Music seen at the Frog + Turtle, January 4, 2008
Pam Baker & the SGs, Maine’s perpetual blues machine, were holding court in a fairly quiet room.

By TODD RICHARD | January 09, 2008

Return of the kings

Rustic Overtones at the Mercury Lounge in NYC, December 6
The tiny room in the East Village shook from top to bottom for almost an hour on a frosty New York night last week.

By RYAN O’CONNELL | December 12, 2007

Bucky done gone

Sage Francis’s erratic, brilliant opener
Let’s talk about Buck 65’s identity crisis.

By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | July 11, 2007

Roy Davis

Music seen, at the White Heart, May 5, 2007
Roy Davis may be the last great hope of good rock-and-roll in Portland.

By TODD RICHARD | May 09, 2007

Menomena + Field Music + Land of Talk, Great Scott, March 27, 2007
Those of us too poor to make it down to Austin for last week’s SxSW festival were treated to a mini-showcase of some of indie rock’s strongest up-and-coming bands.

By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | March 28, 2007

Kino Proby

at SPACE Gallery, December 30
The well-coifed, largely Russian-speaking crowd was perhaps the finest smelling audience ever to walk through the doors of SPACE Gallery.

By IAN PAIGE | January 09, 2007

Russians rock harder

Kino Proby, SPACE Gallery, December 30, 2006
The well-coifed, largely Russian-speaking crowd was perhaps the finest smelling audience ever to walk through the doors of SPACE Gallery.

By IAN PAIGE | January 03, 2007

Old soul

DJ Graymatter, the White Heart, December 12, 2006
Imagine your friend kicks everyone out of their holiday party because they’re tired of dancing and sharing their wine. Where are you going to go?

By SONYA TOMLINSON | December 20, 2006

Irish session

Music seen at Brian Boru, December 3
Winter brings the need for warm spaces, hot food, strong drink, and general conviviality.

By TODD RICHARD | December 06, 2006

Tempera and Citadel

SPACE Gallery, November 20, 2006
Saturday night at SPACE Gallery was packed with Portland locals and holiday visitors to see a lineup comprised of entirely homegrown acts, including the already-lauded-in-this-column Cult Maze, so let’s focus on the other fresh faces of the evening.

By IAN PAIGE | November 29, 2006

Esther’s Mixtape Collective

At the White Heart Sunday November 5
Congress Street was empty of people, and the White Heart had but a half-dozen patrons at 8:30 on Sunday. Perhaps these few were pondering the same question: who is Esther, and what’s up with this mixtape business?

By TODD RICHARD | November 08, 2006

The Lomax

At Chicky’s Fine Diner, October 13
Fans of fine food, deep drinks, and roots music were out in full swing at Chicky’s Fine Diner this past Friday.

By TODD RICHARD | October 18, 2006

Diamond Sharp’s Jason Rogers and Cult Maze

Geno’s Rock Club, September 23
What do you do when you’ve got at least an album’s worth of great songs and no band to help you play them? Diamond Sharp’s frontman Jason Rogers decided to rip his heart out, let it drip all over the stage of Geno’s Rock Club, and then enlist some Portland all-stars to help him mop up the mess.

By IAN PAIGE | October 04, 2006