Crappy Indie Music - The Blog

A week or two ago, I got a message from the myspace of something called Tender Loving Empire. They said they'd heard that I wrote for Crappy Indie Music : The Blog and wanted to tell me about themselves. (I thought, Gee, these guys must think I'm WAY cooler than I actually am.) but I decided to take them up on it and Thursday morning before work, I ventured up to NW 18th and Lovejoy not knowing...

My name is Goldie and I am a blogaholic and a hater. You guys I started a conversation that I will not be able to finish right now... I am friggin' TIRED. I haven't slept in 3 days and am having waves of nausea and heart palpations. I am 100% grateful for the huge and timely response from the HUMANS at Willamette Week, the elite people and the readers of this blog. What a POWERFUL and...

The internet means everyone can have a voice. The internet means "the powers that be" can take a breather and let the readers decide what is in and what is out, what is a radical paradigm shift, and what is an overly-hyped jab at the establishment. Newspapers don't get to be the authority when it comes to music, literature, films, fashion, politics, social justice, or anything, anymore....

So the Willamette Week posted their Best New Band of 2008 thingy. oh gawd. The 400 people asked to vote for the BEST NEW BAND in Portland were "selected by our diligent team of local music scientist"... So does that mean they consider themselves disciples of the scientific method? They think themselves accurate? Or are they just going to share the blame with every booker, PR dude, and...

Hello Dear Readers, Last week, eh? pretty good right? I went to three of the million shows I listed. They were all great, but my favorite was the A Weather/Weinland show. Both are super good and had played three days in a row together. They were having a lot of fun and it spilled over to the rest of the audience. This week I will probably not see very many shows because I leaving...

Saturday night I headed downtown to check out this show at Backspace. Chrome Wings, Hornet Leg, Cex, and Ecstatic Sunshine. Chrome Wings played a really good show, and actually filled up a whole half hour or forty minutes of time with their music. I've been waiting for that! Hornet Leg was pretty good - straight-ahead simple rock stuff, a duo, main high point I think is the singer's voice,...

Dear AristeiA, It’s been too long. I’ve missed you. There’s a laundry list of things I’ve wanted to say but haven’t in the past year. I’ve been busy. Things are good; I just get distracted. I’m sorry I haven’t made it down to Portland to see any of your amazing shows and I’m sorry we haven’t spoken in a while. I’d like to take...