Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons Salt Lake City Holladay Records BUY If there were justice in the world of Rocknroll, certainly Jerry Joseph would have received the acclaim he so genuinely deserves. Since arriving in Portland in the early ’90s…
Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons Salt Lake City Holladay Records BUY If there were justice in the world of Rocknroll, certainly Jerry Joseph would have received the acclaim he so genuinely deserves. Since arriving in Portland in the early ’90s…
Dave Carter w/ Tracy Grammer When I Go Self-Produced BUY The craft of creating the “story” song goes back at least as far as the days of the bards who wrote and sang “Childe Roland” and “Beowulf;” or to Homer’s…
The Sophia Starlight The Sophia Starlight Demo (Self-Produced) Here’s a wonderful little suite of three songs contributed by a new quartet of scene veterans. The Sophia Starlight is something of an all-star team, comprised of Doris Daze front-woman, guitarist/vocalist Maria…
Joe Reisman Amish In Vegas Custer House Records BUY Singer/songwriter Joe Reisman migrated to Portland about three years ago, having spent the majority of the previous two decades in LA, in pursuit of an acting career. Here he links with…
December 1994 Tree Frogs, Land Of The Blind, Gern Blanston, Craig Carothers Trio, Shock, Monti Amundson And The Blubinos, Year End Club Roundup November 1994 Chris Newman, Mckinley, Satan’s Pilgrims, Dimbulb, Terry Lee Hale, Iceberg Slim, The Shaven, Naked…
Various Artists Colonel Jeffrey Pumpernickel – A Concept Album Off Records BUY The idea of a ”concept “ album in pop music dates back to the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Beatle John Lennon later refuted the whole…
Here Comes Everybody Astronauts Refrigerator Records BUY Two of the three songs HCE submitted last August as Demo, surface here . The remaining nine songs continue the trend set by “It’s A Buick” and “Have To Choose,” toward classic Pop…
December 2001 Julie Larson, Bobby Birdman, Amy Anelle, The Sugar Beets November 2001 Here Comes Everybody, Bingo, Blanket Music/Noise For Pretend, Cool Nutz, Doug Smith & Mark Hanson October 2001 The Wipers, TV:616, Fernando, Morgan Grace September 2001 Dahlia, Sunset…
by SP Clarke. Part 6: The Late ‘80s (Continued) The gradual shift in pop music away from slick, highly polished productions toward a more raw, stripped-down sound was a musical trend which seemed to be springing from all the major…
by SP Clarke. Part 5: The Late ’80s After the wild roller coaster that was 1986, it seemed only natural that 1987 would be a year of transition and retrenchment in the Portland music scene. Still, it was the year…