Dear Gingerbeard No. 2
Dear Gingerbeard, It’s my third year in college and I still don’t know how to make myself sit down and study for my difficult classes. I find that I spend the four hours I reserved for learning doing anything else. At least my apartment is clean and well-decorated. You seem like a gentleman and a [...]
PDX’s Bar-muda: Who’s Biting Whose Style?
When heading home to Portland for an all-too-brief academic hiatus, I was looking forward to reading something cooler than the Eugene Weekly, i.e., The Portland Mercury and the Willamette Week. But today, when I glimpsed the words “Navigating PDX’s Bar-Muda Triangle” on the cover of the hot-off-the-press WW, I was all like, “Oh heck no!” [...]
Odd Encounter: Animal Collective Members Say Hello
Last Monday, Stephen, Megan and I journeyed up to Portland to catch a screening of Animal Collective’s visual album, ODDSAC. After the show, band members Avey Tare and Deakin said what’s up to us… Ch-ch-ch-check it out. [youtube l6VmY41KYck]
Blitzen Trapper announce Black River Killer EP
News fresh from Sub Pop. The new EP will be in stores August 25th. We’ll do our best to get some advanced listenings of it this summer. According to Stereogum, it’ll pull together many divergent sounds, making a hard rock departure from their usual home-spun melodies. I’m offering a special prize to the person who can [...]