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Sleep on What is Perhaps the Best Penny Jam Ever (Video) [July 19th 2:14pm] It seems like things are finally going Sleep's way. The Oldominion MC is performing at this year's PDX Pop Now! festival, has some off-the-record tightness a-brewin' (we hope to tell you more about that stuff soon), and he was just selected by the fantastic Penny Jam video blog as their very first hip-hop... CASEY JARMAN \| 0 COMMENTS
Dirt Jake Replicas: Line 'Em Up (Sunderland, UK) [July 19th 12:00pm] June 21st Line ’em up! (Day 5) I don’t think any of us expected today’s events to unfold the way they did. I mean who has ever even heard of Sunderland, UK?... DIRT JAKE REPLICAS \| 0 COMMENTS This is What PDX Pop Now! 2008 Will Sound Like (MP3s!) [July 18th 9:00pm] All year round, we dig through Portland's best music to find MP3s for our Cut of the Day feature. We've done 433 such "cuts" since the site began. And 31 (of 49)... CASEY JARMAN \| 2 COMMENTS Almost Nearly, Starfucker, Get Lost in the Gospel [July 18th 7:19pm] It seems like everyone is getting on the Take-Away show bandwagon. Fortunately, local group Lost Gospel is adding a little twist to the usual "band walks down the... MICHAEL MANNHEIMER \| 3 COMMENTS Recently by the Local Cutters - 7/18 Dirt Jake Replicas: Great Big ... - 7/18 It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to... - 7/17 Jared Mees and the Grown Child... - 7/17 Dirt Jake Replicas: Waving the... - 7/16 In the Mux: Ryan Feigh (Update... - 7/16 Sneak Peek: Alexis Gideon's Up... Return of the King: The long, strange musical trip of King Black Acid’s Daniel Riddle. [July 16th 6:05am] Daniel Riddle claims he isn’t wearing any pants. Over the phone, he says he’s more comfortable this way. Born on a hippie commune in the 1960s—he... DAVID WALKER \| 0 COMMENTS Also this week... - 7/16 Here Comes Your Fan: Moral Sup... - 7/16 LSD&D, Wednesday & Saturday, J... - 7/16 StarChile, host of KXJM’... - 7/16 DIRTY MITTENS, Pinky Swear (se... LC PODCASTS: Portland Lounge Series XX with Carcrashlander, Shelley Short and Adam Shearer [July 1st 9:40pm] Right before this past Sunday's 20th Portland Lounge Series, I had a strange realization: Adam Shearer, frontman for local folk-rock outfit Weinland, played the... AMY MCCULLOUGH \| 1 COMMENT Recently in LC Radio... - 5/30 LC PODCASTS: Portland Lounge S... - 5/6 LC PODCASTS: Portland Lounge S... - 4/2 LC PODCASTS: Portland Lounge S... DIRTY MITTENS, Pinky Swear (self-released) [July 16th 6:00am] [MOTOWN-TINGED INDIE-POP] It takes a few minutes into “The Small Things,” the first song on cute-pop band Dirty Mittens’ new five-song EP, Pinky... MICHAEL MANNHEIMER \| 0 COMMENTS Recently in Album Reviews... - 7/9 THE OLD BELIEVERS, Eight Golde... - 6/25 TEA FOR JULIE, The Sense In Ty... - 6/18 AU, Verbs (Aagoo) - 6/11 DERBY, Posters Fade (Green Sub...	Lackthereof, "Last November," from Your Anchor (Barsuk) [July 16th 1:04pm] I wasn't until I reached the final track on Your Anchor, the ninth release from Lackthereof, a.k.a. Menomena's Danny Seim, that I started to notice how much Seim's... AMY MCCULLOUGH \| 1 COMMENT Recently in Cut of the Day- 7/15 Ghosts & Mysteries, "I'd Rathe... - 7/14 The Wires, "Gimme The Answer" ... - 7/11 Double COTD! Portland Cello Pr... Dancing in the Street: Mississippi and Pix Fests, Saturday, July 12 [July 14th 6:00pm] If you were in North Portland last Saturday and didn't go to a street fair, you are probably dead—or, at the very least, agoraphobic. Between the Mississippi... JOE WATTS \| 1 COMMENT Recently in Live Cuts- 7/10 Photo Review: Ratatat at Holoc... - 7/10 Photo Review: Southern Belle a... - 7/9 White Rainbow, Rob Walmart, Ex... Nick Jaina: Take This Child, Lord (Tucson, AZ) [June 18th 3:03pm] Yes! A new post-tour diary entry from Nick Jaina! I recently had a dream where I was asked to play second base for the New York Yankees. Just me, in my street... NICK JAINA \| 2 COMMENTS Recently in Nick Jaina Tour Diary- 4/28 Nick Jaina: He Strummed His Wa... - 4/23 Nick Jaina: Repair Is The Drea... - 4/21 Nick Jaina: All My Favorite Si... Fast Computers: Gayeties, Sparks Plus, and The Best Food in the Bay (San Francisco) [July 14th 4:13pm] Day 7, While San Luis Obispo may seem like an alcoholic wonderland at 2 am, it’s a much different beast in the cold light of morning. Or so it seemed to us, anyway,... FAST COMPUTERS \| 0 COMMENTS Recently in Fast Computers Tour Diary- 7/11 Fast Computers: The Downside t... - 7/8 Fast Computers: Drinking Spark... - 7/3 Fast Computers: His Wails of E... Southerly: Glasgow Invades Manchester, Customs Cranky (UK) [June 10th 4:00pm] THEE UNITED KINGDOM (15/5/2008 – 19/5/2008) If anyone thinks that customs in the US is difficult you should really gather a taste of the UK. We’re supposed... SOUTHERLY \| 0 COMMENTS Recently in Southerly Tour Diary- 6/9 Southerly: Ascending to Heaven... - 5/13 Southerly: Gatwick is for Love... - 11/15 Southerly: Southerly en Españ... Shoeshine Blue: I Saw My Reflection in an Ice Cream Cone (MO). [July 3rd 2:43pm] Your early Independence Day present is a quick one-shot tour diary from our friend Michael Apinyakul of Shoeshine Blue (Fun fact: Blue is one of three colors featured... SHOESHINE BLUE \| 0 COMMENTS


View Calendar for information about all tonight's events (all 80 of 'em). Aimee Mann, Blind Pilot [SINGER-SONGWRITER] Some voices just have character. And the pipes of L.A.-based, Academy Award-nominated songwriter Aimee Mann—which lean upon notes with the weight of the world—manage to embody her own (smart, perceptive, empathetic) and those of her songs’ subjects, which range, on recent release @#%&! Smilers* (insert your own profanity), from drug addicts to ex-boxers. Smilers sounds bigger and bolder than her oft-sparse previous efforts (see the honky-tonk piano and tuba of “Ballantines”), but it shouldn’t take more than album opener “Freeway,” which features Mann belting, “You got a lot of money/ But you can’t afford the freeway” over Cars-like synth, to sell you on it. Local duo Blind Pilot, which plays equally thoughtful acoustic pop, opens—because Mann asked it to. AMY MCCULLOUGH. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 233-1994. King Black Acid and the Sacred Heart, The Upsidedown, New York Rifles [EPIC, AND SEXY] See music feature, "Return of the King," on LocalCut. Doug Fir, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. Gray Matters (CD Release), Sandpeople, Step Cousins, Living Proof, Def Minds Crew, Diezel P, State of Mind, Cool Nutz, DJ FlipFlop (Main Theater); Unkle Nancy (Balcony) [HIP-HOP] Gray Matters, a two-man crew that reps for both Portland and Seattle—a wise move these days, what with Seattle’s Blue Scholars (and friends) getting big national props—is calling in favors from extended family and friends tonight to celebrate the release of Intellectually Sound. But then, Gray Matters got these friends because the duo knows how to work a stage. And a studio, as demonstrated on the new album: Mr. Mr. mixes book smarts and street slang while Introspective’s murky, quick delivery reminds of Grayskul’s Onry Ozzborn. The beats are typically NW-strong (with some exceptionally dope production from Oldominion’s Pegee 13), and some of your favorite Sandpeople show up here as well. Gray Matters might claim both Portland and Seattle as homes, but dude, we got dibs. CASEY JARMAN. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. Northwest String Summit: Keller Williams and the WMD's, Yonder Mountain String Band, Drew Emmitt and Bill Nershi, Great American Taxi, Greensky Bluegrass, Bryn Davies and Sharon Gilchrist, Head for the Hills, Pete Kartsounes Band (starts at 11:30 am) [A-PICKIN’ AND A-SINGIN’] See Friday listing. Horning's Hideout, 21277 NW Brunswick Road., 647-2920. The Maybe Happening, Pancake [THEATRICAL POP] In what is a refined experiment in postmodern music making, the Maybe Happening draws from a retrograde pastiche of musical styles (gypsy, punk, ’50s doo-wop and raw indie pop, to name just a few) to drive home the thoughtful personas behind its theatrical, character-driven lyrics. In fact, the band’s 2008 release, the violin-driven Beyond the Bells, is a narrative album centered on the trek of an anonymous 17-year-old who permeates Portland’s various urban layers with music on his mind. CHANDLER FREDRICK. Kelly's Olympian, 426 SW Washington St., 228-3669.