by Charles Norman | Mar 20, 2014 | Features
Full disclosure: The first time I visited Feral Conservatives’ Bandcamp page, and saw that the “band” is a little girl with an electric mandolin and a badass-looking guy on drums, I thought “Oh god this is gonna suck.” I anticipated some sort of lo-fi noise rock that...
by Charles Norman | Mar 8, 2014 | Features
“You don’t write about popular music. You write about unpopular music.” – Anonymous Donald and Jack, by any and all of the usual standards, are Unpopular. Not unpopular in the sense of having been evaluated, and rejected by, the Great Unwashed or Washed Masses...
by Charles Norman | Feb 10, 2014 | Features
The Sweets Greatest Hits is a wonderful lo-fi mess of hooks, stuck-in-your-head melodies, reverby guitars, and wistful energy. But through the hum, hiss, and distortion, you hear, feel, and enjoy the unique creativity that drives The Sweets. The Sweets are brothers...
by Charles Norman | Jan 24, 2014 | Music
I have seen post-grunge alt-folk country dream pop future and its name is Wormbag. Wormbag slammed into the Portland music scene in 2012. The following year they arrived near the bottom of Willamette Week’s Best New Band poll of music industry insiders, barely edging...
by Charles Norman | Jan 15, 2014 | Song of the Day
Newglads – Make Believe Hi, it’s me again. The cat. Well, the Food Guy is in another one of his moods. He fed me, then he got back in bed and spent most of the morning Googling names like Ted Piercefield and Danny Kirwan. Then he listened to Gerry...
