Portland Celtic-Punk early show at Mars Bar Saturday night
Amadan is a Portland whiskey-in-the-jar rock/punk band that has been around for several years, and transcends the usual "Pogues as a genre" style through really…
Object 47
I love Wire, and I stayed with them past their big bang moment of helping to re-create the modern rock song and sound, getting into…
REVERB 2008: Hazelwood Motel
Hazelwood Motel conspicuously played their nimble nocturnal ravers and disturbing lullabies to help open the sprawling-on-a-strip-of-Ballard magnificent REVERBfest 2008. The band has enticed new fans…
REVERB 2008: Sage
The word "Sage" can mean wise old man, and that would be appropriate for an alternative band as technically adept as 90s-rock legends Sage, if…
REVERB 2008: Brothers of the Sonic Cloth
Seattle band Brothers of the Sonic Cloth -- the latest project from Tad Doyle of Tad -- sounds priestly, and the astral musical communion it…
Mike Leigh comes to SIFF Cinema Wednesday night
This Wednesday night October 8th, Mike Leigh -- the great UK director and writer who brought us both the boldest statement on cinematic post-modernism with…
Damien Jurado blisses out The Triple Door
The recent show at the Triple Door was one of those hometown hero shows, from an ex-Sub Pop original who is compared by dinosaur rock…
Joan As Police Woman at Triple Door on Saturday
Joan Wasser, known to perform and record as Joan As Police Woman, raved it up with her band the Dambuilders in the 90s. More recently, Wasser…
"Red Heroine" and DME At SIFF Theater this weekend
I have never caught The Devil Music Ensemble live -- a Boston group made up of three experimental musicians who do for the NE what…
Why Squeeze Matters
I never bought that many Squeeze albums, and I was old enough to enjoy the band in their prime.But everyone I knew owned Singles 45…