Peter WoodburnI put Portugal. the Man’s new album as one of my outside favorites. The Satanic Satanist is a brilliant soul-influenced album that really shows the Portland band is coming into its own. This is the absolutely bizarre video for the track...
Vee Hua 華婷婷Eskimo Snow is an album full of what I would call “unseeming pop songs.” WHY? have managed to craft an album of songs that aren’t particularly graceful or classically poppy, but somehow, it works. A couple lines from this song or...
This is the second Arrington de Dionyso disc I’ve been given to review for Redefine, and fortunately for me, the quality seems to be improving. Whereas 2008’s I See Beyond The Black Sun was intriguingly odd, I also found its endlessly...
"I feel like more people are discovering [comic books] and realizing that it's a medium where you can pretty much do anything. There's no limit."
Anyone who is going to listen to Schleusolz’ debut album, Running Out of Time, should be prepared to take part in some quirky dancing — as in the type of dancing that middle-aged men in Hawaiian shirts carry out at music festivals. Doing...
Allen HuangAn artist’s dream is that work he/she leaves behind will outlast their lifetime — that he/she will make a permanent mark on the annals of human history. Ultimately, the result is much more important than the person behind it, but in many...
About a year ago, I was working for a start-up in an old building in Seattle’s SoDo District. It was complete with rickity floorboards and unusual decorations crafted from salvaged parts. The overwhelming scent could’ve been described as...
The ever-great Together Gallery in Portland brings together another group of illustrators for the month of May. This show ends on the 28th, but if you hurry, you’ll be able to catch the busy, schizophrenic works of Betsy Walton (top) and the...