Tame Impala Announce Lonerism, “Apocalypse Dreams” MP3 Download, “Elephant” Stream, Tour Dates
Ah, Tame Impala, an Australian band that has cleverly and subtlety pushed their way into psych-pop loving hearts with ease. By retaining the essence of Beatles-esque simplicity and swirling it about in cosmic colors, Tame Impala are a rare band that earns legitimacy in an often generic genre while managing to bum out remarkably few...Read...
Remix City: Cat Power + Nicolas Jaar, Alice Cohen + Lovers & Reflections MP3 Downloads & Streams
Remix City Sifting through mountains of remix trash so you don’t have to, in an attempt to find the ones that contribute to their originals. Cat Power and Nicolas Jaar create a truly repeatable duet between remix and original, and Alice Cohen makes music perfect for the summer. When two artists REDEFINE writers are...Read...
Drapes Like Wallpaper: Experimental Photography by Patty Carroll and Matthew Stone
Obscured male and female forms face off in these alternating works from Patty Carroll, obscuring the female form draped with patterns, and Matthew Stone, abstracting the male form with contortion. Regardless of its content, a sense of royalty and fluttering grace is pervasive in Stone’s Optimism As Cultural Rebellion, which flows like angel robes in...Read...
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs Live Show Review
Since my move to Portland a few years ago, what has continued to fascinate me is the diversity of music fans in the area and their inability to get involved with many concerts which likely interest them. So rarely is there ever a mix of under twenty-one concertgoers with the more bourgeois, approaching-thirty art folk...Read...
Liars “No.1 Against The Rush” and “Brats” Music Videos, WIXIW News
Liars further the weirdness of their new record, WIXIW, with this insanely bizarre — even for them — music video for “Brats”. Animated by Ian Cheng, this is 3-D animation at some of its most crass; Elmer Fudd (?), Bugs Bunny (?), and a dumb dog rave to Liars’ house beats while humping one another...Read...
Fang Island, Zechs Marquise Live Show Review
Sunday night shows can be hard to drag yourself to if you work a pretty standard Monday to Friday shift. But no band is better than Fang Island at creating an atmosphere of fun that you can be asleep and dropped off at the show, and Fang Island will energize you into waking. At a...Read...
Spectral Hypnosis: Matmos, Motion Sickness Of Time Travel, Clark MP3 Downloads & Streams
SPECTRAL HYPNOSIS A recurring series, featuring mesmerizing songs for one to lose sense of time and space, mind and body. Last time’s was a dark baby featuring BEAK>, Nguzunguzu, and Outlands, and this time doesn’t really let up either, with new tracks from Matmos, who explore parapsychology on their new EP, Clark who goes dancefloor...Read...
Antony And The Johnsons – Cut The World / Future Feminism Music Videos (ft. William Dafoe, Marina Abramovic)
With a drab color palette of greys and and blues, reminiscent of somber films like A Single Man, comes the music video for Antony And The Johnsons’ emotive new track, “Cut The World”. At just under 5 minutes, the music video features some well-known faces and figures, like William Dafoe, Marina Abramovic, and Carice van...Read...
Golden Retriever Live Show Review – Occupied With The Unspoken Record Release
Portland’s Golden Retriever opened their record release show for Occupied with the Unspoken not with a performance, but with the music video for their latest single, “Canopy”. Directed by Jeff Guay and shot throughout the Pacific Northwest, the music video is a slow-paced meditation on man in nature. As trees blew in light wind, water...Read...
Gardens & Villa Cover Fleetwood Mac, Remix & Tour w/ Polica
Photography by Cara Robbins Soulful funk-pop-rockers Gardens & Villa are back, with a tour with Minneapolis musical kins Polica on the books. To solidify the relationship is a remix for Polica’s “The Maker”, made all the groovier after being run through a G&V filter. Tour dates include MusicfestNW in Portland, where they will be rocking...Read...