“Pop music shouldn’t always get a bad rap,” says Top Pops!, a recurring selection of pop music highlights across a selection of styles, updated throughout every month to bring you...
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Vee Hua 華婷婷Portland’s greatest interdisciplinary festival, TBA Festival, is back in 2012 with some of the most diverse and impressive programming it’s had in years. Check out our picks in dance, theatre, performance, and music for a what’s...
This in-depth feature highlights how well-executed album artwork can go beyond genre lines to expand into territories of philosophical, thematic, and conceptual significance. Perhaps now more than ever, album cover artwork plays a vital role in...
Karla HernandezWhen three bands that can be categorized as experimental or avant-garde team up for a tour, it is easy to expect there to be an artsy fartsy, pompous vibe at a show. Luckily, that was not the case when the wondrous Parenthetical Girls, Extra Life...
Parenthetical Girls’ lead singer Zac Pennington is certainly a theatrical one. He boldly proves this by consistently capturing the attention of viewers, whether it be on stage during a performance or in this music video for “The...
It is only after listening to Parenthetical Girls many times over do you realize why the name of the band is so apt: the song lyrics sound like long stories, ripe for parenthetical sentences. There is an epic nature to Privilege, Pt. 2: The Past...
This is an old one from earlier this year, but here’s a clip Into The Woods did about Explode Into Colors. Zac Pennington from Parenthetical Girls is also featured on guest vocals for a track.
pdx pop now! picks for friday, july 30th, 2010 blue horns Free-spirited vocals and bouncy beats call for arm-flailing good times; Blue Horns are an excellent opening band for PDX POP NOW! 6:00PM, INSIDE subarachnoid space San Francisco’s...