Peter WoodburnAURAL DEVASTATION is a regular column about heavy music. Today, Converge reasserts their importance, and Pig Destroyer get covertly political, arguably. +++ FULL POST + AURAL DEVASTATION COLUMNS + ALL MUSIC COLUMNS Converge Few bands have remained...
Vee Hua 華婷婷At the start, I am paired with a stranger. We are the only two participants for this iteration of the piece. An assistant equips each of us with headphones and an iPod Nano. We follow her up Multnomah County Central Library’s grand staircase. She...
John Coltrane once said: “My goal is to live the truly religious life, and express it in my music. If you live it, when you play there’s no problem because the music is part of the whole thing. To be a musician is really something. It...
"Time (and its physical/visual presence) is an ever-present concept in my work, as well as a large factor in crystal growth."
Like all good metal bands, the members of Agalloch know how to create atmosphere. Generally, when Band (A) comes Venue (B), A obviously plays in B. But when Agalloch came to The Crocodile in support of their new EP Faustian Echoes, Agalloch turned...
"The denser the number of events a second, the more we lose the facts itself, gaining objectivity but losing humanity." -- Gabriele Ottino
"Everything goes a long way. Every little thing counts." -- Jordan Dreyer
LUCY YIM AND JIN CAMOU If your name is Jeff Diteman, you might be a Portland artist that has spent two years secretly crafting a series of oil paintings, waiting patiently until the opportune time and place to debut the complete collection of works...