Tonight is another night on the decks for me. This time it’s a free event, a benefit to raise money for Portland’s Rock Camp for Girls. If you’re wondering what kind of music I play, well I have to say it varies way more than you might think. I do like digging through my old [...]
So there comes a time when you just have to crack out the best tunes in your record collection. Problem is that most of us only get to play them to ourselves. And vinyl, being the only real alternative to digital these days, is such a deliciously tactile format that sounds somehow more fulfilling to [...]
As you may know, local club Holocene have started their own record label specializing in the latest and hottest in indie and electronic music. Pitchfork writes, “Holocene Music focuses on local Portland music, teaming knob-twiddling beat merchants with shaggy rockers to create electro-twee swirl-jams. On Tuesday, April 18, the label will release its first compilation, [...]
A cd landed unexpectedly on my desk this week. It’s the self-titled debut from Imaad Wasif, who friends who are far hipper than I explain, used to play with such bands as alaska! and The New Folk Implosion. This is a very confident and impressive debut, one of those albums that sticks with you, sets [...]
Forbes announced today that Fox Interactive Media, the corporate owners of Myspace.com has hired a Chief Security Officer. By the way, for all you folks who have happily posted all your personal information on MySpace, you should probably know that Fox Interactive Media is a division of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, the place the [...]
Another of the Moose bands gets props from the Portland Mercury. Here’s what they say, “You don’t have to work in the service industry to take advantage of this ass-kickin’ night of rock and fun—but it helps (your wallet)! Burning up the stage and wetting your whistle will be good-time rockers the Hard Lessons, along [...]
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Portland General Electric shares edged down in their debut on the New York Stock Exchange Monday after the provider of electricity to 780,000 separated from bankrupt parent Enron. Bought by Enron for $3.1 billion in 1997, Portland General (POR) became independent from the former Fortune 500 company last week as part [...]
When the trees have all gone, it’ll be smart to dot com
The Moose has come to notice that the alternative weekly dead-tree-print companies in town appear to have drawn even in the race to fulfill the inky-fingered needs of Portland’s readers. The Portland Mercury and the Willamette Week, rather like the big radio stations in [...]