dj brzy’s top 5 music things of 2017
Yes, another best of list — and I am, of course, cheating by including plenty of sublists… 1. Mdou Moctar takes Portland. Mdou Moctar spent a lot of time ...
Month: December 2017
GROUNDISLAVA II: 8-BIT MEMORIES AND THE SOUNDS IN BETWEEN
It’s hard to say what makes some songs feel nostalgic even though you’ve never heard them before. Maybe it’s the quality of the tones you hear, or the familiar ...
The Chrome Cranks Spent The Night At My House
In 1996, while on tour to promote their album “Love In Exile,” The Chrome Cranks played a show at the venerable punk rock club, The Satyricon, in Old Town Portl...
The Top 15 Albums of 2017 & More – From DJ Noah
Catch DJ Noah’s show on Thursdays from 2PM-4PM. It’s a fine blend of lo-fi bedroom pop, weirdo indie rock, and outsider music. Music to stare at you...
Nigerian Afrobeat: The Wings / Original Wings / Super Wings
by Karen Lee (Weekend Family Music Hour) and Jim Bunnelle (Center For Cassette Studies) (We are indebted to founding band member Manford Best for the details su...
Top Fives (Collected by Secret Snake) Part 1
Ever wonder what punks, metal heads, and grind freaks listen to other than their preferred genre? I asked some musicians about their top five favorite albums. T...
Flashback – Who Played In Portland This Week in 1967?
I turned forty recently and realized something that I found intriguing. When I was 15 in 1992, the legendary music year of 1967 was just as many years in the pa...
Richard Hell and the Blank Generation
Richard Hell is widely acknowledged as one of the prime movers of punk rock. Born Richard Meyers of Lexington, KY in 1949, he moved to New York City in 1966 aft...