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Month: November 2017

Interviews/Music History/Uncategorized

Chickfactor 25 – An Interview with Gail O’Hara

Posted on November 28, 2017 by Freeform Portland Blog

Founded in 1992 by Gail O’Hara and Pam Berry, Chickfactor is a stalwart of the indie pop scene, publishing one of the longest running and consistently readable ...

Featured/History/Music History

Music of Anthology: Harry Smith and American Folk Music

Posted on November 22, 2017 by Freeform Portland Blog

Among many other things, Harry Everett Smith made seminal surrealist films, overstayed his welcome at countless cheap hotels, produced the first Fugs album, att...

show reviews

Show Review: Isaac Rother & the Phantoms – White Owl/Blackwater

Posted on November 14, 2017 by DJ ShotAway

Isaac Rother & the Phantoms are one of the best and most entertaining bands you’re missing out on. Luckily for you they tour frequently. I became a fan abou...

Musician Interviews

Studio Convo #4 DJ Abi Interviews Darin from Wave Action

Posted on November 13, 2017 by Freeform Portland Blog

Abi: tell me about your new album. What are the juicy details? Darin: Well there’s a lot going on with it, we have all kinds of different players. We have...

Music

I Listened So You Don’t Have To: Odd Monster Reviews the Billboard Top Ten

Posted on November 11, 2017 by Patrick Chizeck

There is nothing inherently wrong with pop music, even modern pop.  So why are the Top Ten songs so consistently terrible?  I occasionally make the heroic gestu...

Music History

The Story of Instrumental Rock, pt. II

Posted on November 9, 2017 by Noah Fence

In Part One, I briefly touched on the fact that for a time, Instrumental Rock was the pop music of the era. That era was a few brief years in the early 1960’s, ...

Misc/Music/Stories/Uncategorized

Music of Books: M Train by Patti Smith

Posted on November 9, 2017 by Freeform Portland Blog

Although I’m a huge fan of musicians with a gift for the poetic, I was fairly unfamiliar with Patti Smith. I had heard that she was an incredible memoirist and ...

album reviews/Commentary/History/Misc/Stories

Music and Memory: The Return of The Clientele

Posted on November 8, 2017 by Freeform Portland Blog

Where does music end and memory begin? Some of my earliest recollections exist solely because of the music that accompanied my experience. I have vivid memories...

Commentary

What’s the Deal With House Shows?

Posted on November 3, 2017 by Secret Snake

album reviews

An Appreciation of Guitars Tuned to Air Conditioners

Posted on November 2, 2017 by Freeform Portland Blog

Amidst the usual flurry of new releases, reissues, record store bin surprises, and mixcloud and bandcamp streams, one record has returned to my turntable again ...

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