Oregon Voice XXXclusive Interview with White Arrows at Music Fest NorthWest
White Arrows are a Tropical Crunk band from southern california. They are comprised of Mickey Church, Henry Church, Steven Vernet, J.P. Caballero and Andrew Naeve interview NOAH DEWITT Oregon Voice: It sounds like you come from a pretty “groovy” background. Henry Church: You’re talking to the dude with tie-dye sneakers. OV: How did you go [...]
Water Tower Bucket Boys “do” Portland
It was an emotional night at the Goodfoot bar in SE Portland, as The Water Tower Bucket Boys bid farewell to one of its founding members. I’m not actually sure which member, or why said member decided to leave the band, but I [...]
MaximumRocknRoll Magazine
Is a thing. words JOSEPH DE SOSA art IMOGEN BANKS Are you tired of Rolling Stone? Do you want a music magazine that doesn’t feature an interview with Eddie Murphy as the feature in its latest issue? If you do, I know the magazine just for you. Its name is MaximumRocknRoll. MRR began in 1977 [...]
Music Review: New Surfer Blood EP
Artist: Surfer Blood Album: Tarot Classics EP words COLETTE LEVESQUE The West Palm Beach, Fl. foursome Surfer Blood released their first full-length album last year, Astro Coast. It sounded so good my ears wept. This past month, Surfer Blood released their first EP, Tarot Classics. It’s deadly. It has four tracks; 15 easy minutes with [...]
Memory Tapes @ Doug Fir for the first time in PDX
Last Wednesday night, a whiskey sour in hand and my wrists inky with stamps of various woodland creatures, I grooved to Memory Tapes as they played at the Doug Fir Lounge for the first time in Portland. I say ‘they’ because it was not only Dayve hawk, the one man behind Memory Tapes and other [...]
PDX Concert Beat: Black Lips TONIGHT
If you’re up in Portland tonight, the southern garage rock band The Black Lips are playing at the Wonder Ballroom on tour to support their new album, Arabia Mountain. As the Lips are well known for their rowdy performances (which I’ve personally experienced and can vouch for), I would highly suggest that you roll. To [...]
And you thought lo-fi audio was just for surf rockers..
With his long-delayed Warner Bros. debut NoYork slated for a summer release, Blu has defied convention once again, dropping an unannounced 11 track album entitled “j e s u s” earlier this week. No leaks, no videos, not even a mention of the project before its release. Aside from his super-acclaimed 2006 Exile-assisted debut Below [...]
Paul Devro’s Explosive Rave
While I enjoy news stories about ASUO drama and fluffy opinion pieces, “The Weekend Police Blotter” is my favorite part of the Oregon Daily Emerald. If you don’t usually make it past page one, the blotter is a list of the weekend’s most serious — or most comical — police reports. Yesterday’s blotter contained this [...]
Up and Coming: Butterfly Bones
This week’s edition of “Up and Coming” is another piece of evidence suggesting I have only heard of bands that remind me of the summertime. But after two blisteringly hot days of 60-degree weather that may have motivated you to prematurely cut your jeans into shorts, you’re probably getting excited too. So if you’re like [...]
Just Breaking the Surface
Yesterday evening at around 9:00 I showed up at the McDonald Theater, slightly buzzed, and super stoked to see a show that I have been patiently waiting to see for a few weeks, or months, or something. Way back, when I had the red and black lumber jack, and I first heard that Beats Antique [...]
Weird Coast
There are are some young, innovative hip-hop artists in California blazing paths to international cyber-stardom, and they are weird as fuck. Among the leaders of the non-conventional movement is Lil B, a prolific, swagged-out and slightly effeminate Berkeley native. The 21-year-old new-wave rapper is speaking on previously-taboo topics of love, pain, life, death, God and [...]
Paul Devro is the Man — And He’s Coming
This Friday, Paul Devro, co-founder of Mad Decent records and world-traveling DJ, will bring a high-voltage sound system, a crate of records, and a brimming laptop hard drive here to Eugene, Oregon, an uncharacteristically small town on his usual circuit of major metropolitans. His intention is simple: to transform the barren ballroom of the Veterans’ [...]
Up and Coming: Beat Connection and Jordan Heffernan
This week’s edition of “Up and Coming” (yes, it is weekly, you haven’t noticed it before? weird.) is a daily double. Scratch that, WEEKLY double! Two different artists, two different media, one convenient blog post. Both Seattle band Beat Connection and Eugene director Jordan Heffernan are worth keeping an eye on. If either one becomes [...]
An Irie Evening with Barrington Levy
photo & video SREANG HOK 1980s reggae legend Barrington Levy brought a sweet, tropical slice of Jamaica to Eugene’s WOW Hall last Wednesday. Backed by twangy guitar, electronic organ, syncopated rhythms, groovy bass, and dancehall reggae’s obligatory air horn, Levy sang a solid set of strikingly happy island jams. The music was rad, but the [...]
SEX/DEATH
TYLER THE CREATOR: YONKERS MUSIC VIDEO BY PRETTY EYES from Josh Kennett on Vimeo. This is a music video I made from B-movie horror flicks from the 80′s and victoria secret commercials. I hope it entices/repulses you. See the original music video by Mr. T here
DIY- Dance It Yourself Instructional Video
Here at the Oregon Voice we love dancin’. And what better way to learn than through resident badass Chilly Willy? He and fellow Voice staffers Nick Jacobs and Jordan Chesnut cover the Reject, the Pin Drop, the Jerk, and the Dougie. Study up and get down. DIY- Dance it Yourself from Quinn Moticka on Vimeo.
Cold War Kids WOW
Long Beach Indie Soul Punks Cold War Kids are playing tonight at the WOW. They released their third album, Mine is Yours, this January. Opening band : A Lull Doors at 8 Bands at 9 Fun TBA PS – Sold Out
Yo La Tengo Says “Wassup” at the Wow Hall last Sunday
Whenever I listen to Yo La Tengo, my blood pressure goes down. When they play live, I feel stoned as hell. “They are sooo old!” I say. “Everyone here is so old!” I tell my good friend. And it was true. They are an old band starting in ’85 with an old dedicated following. My [...]
Oregon Voice Magazine Presents a Free House Show with yOya and Greenhorse
This Thursday, OREGON VOICE will be holding a free house show with two interesting LA-based bands: yOya, a danceable folk duo, and Greenhorse, an infectious electro-pop ensemble. Come quench your Thursday night thirst. Where: 1054 W 8th Avenue When: Thursday February 17, 9:00 p.m. Definitely roll.
Cut Copy: Zonoscope – Album Review
Going into 2011, Cut Copy’s Zonoscope was the album I anticipated most. In Ghost Colours, their 2008 album, was one of the best dance albums of the decade. It was full of feel-good anthems like “Hearts on Fire” and “Lights and Music,” and flowed together better than the typical dance records that mostly exist as [...]
Mac Miller At WOW Hall Tonight
Mac Miller only bothers to step onto college campuses when he is performing at them. Miller, only 19, just finished high school in Pittsburgh last year and is currently touring on his Incredibly Dope Tour. Miller signed with Rostrum Records August 11 of last year and just after released his mix tape K.I.D.S. The mix [...]
XXXclusive, Vol XXII, Issue 2
Album Reviews From Girl Talk’s new album, All Day. Label: Illegal Art *MP3: Girl Talk – “Oh No” Girl Talk’s new album can be downloaded in its entirety for free at the Illegal Art website as separate files or one seamless file. You can also listen to the full album via soundcloud Girl Talk – All [...]
