POW editor Sheena Salazar sat down with King Khan of King Khan & The Shrines to talk about his upcoming projects, his Halloween costume ideas, and how the band manages to make every show such a party. [wpdevart_youtube]P3qJAZ36ZMk[/wpdevart_youtube] Stay tuned for lots of footage from the show! Interview filmed October 19th at Star Theater In Portland OR. Videography by Jonathan Moore
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New Week, New Release: Hollow Hand’s Star Chamber
Do you like The Kinks? Do you also like baby-making music? Then you’ll love Hollow Hand. The psych folk band, hailing from Brighton, centers mostly around Max Kinghorn-Mills, who not only looks like a young Ray Davies but writes songs like him too. The outfit’s 2nd album, Star Chamber, releases this Friday October 19th on Talkshow Records and is well worth taking for a spin. Star Chamber opens with “Ancestral Lands”, which sounds a bit like an unfinished demo, but is so beautiful in its rawness that it immediately locks you in as a listener. “Blackberry Wine” is a brilliant tune, sounding like the lost Kinks/Donovan collaboration. There are so…
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Show Review: Charts, Michael Rault, Cut Worms
Tuesday nights lineup of PDX locals Charts, Canada’s Michael Rault, and Brooklyn’s Cut Worms at the swanky Doug Fir Lounge in Portland was so good the show deserves a full write-up. The night began with Charts, a Portland band I was not previously familiar with. Music snob that I am, I was fully prepared to just drink my beer and not cover the first band at all, but from their first song I was pulled in. Their sound is a rooted in what I’d call modern indie rock, but there were some surprising bits of psych, surf, and garage all throughout. The band also seemed super excited and happy to…
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New Writer, New Review, New Nudes: POW Magazine Reviews The Nude Party
The members of The Nude Party first came together in the freshman dormitories of Boone, North Carolina’s Appalachian State University in 2012. Patton Magee, and later Austin Brose, linked up with childhood friends Connor Mikita & Alec Castillo and step brothers Shaun Couture & Don Merrill. The following summer, the young men moved into a lake house outside of town to begin learning their respective instruments and jamming on rudimentary riffs. Friends came by the lake house to swim and party and soon there developed a group obsession with performing in the nude. They quickly gained a following as the house band at a notorious Boone party palace referred to…
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POW’s Portland “Tea” Party With The Evening Attraction
POW Editor Sheena Salazar sat down with Chicago’s The Evening Attraction September 1st in Portland, OR to discuss their tour, their upcoming new singles, and just how the hell exactly to describe their unique sound. Watch the interview below, and watch their full set from The Waypost below that.
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Discography Biography #2
It’s time for the newest installment of Discography Biography- POW’s monthly look into the mind, and the record collection of a various musician. For those who missed our inaugural feature, here’s a quick rundown: As any music lover knows, there’s a huge difference between “desert island discs”, favorite records, most influential records, etc. The ones that interest me the most are the ones that are the most personal- the albums that define who you are, the ones that could be called the soundtrack of your life. Every month here on POW, I’ll be talking to a different musician about the top 3 albums that make up what I’ve affectionately titled…