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Old friends return

Wax Tablet
The sinewy post-punk group HUAK drop Yorba Linda , their first full-length, named for the birthplace of Richard Nixon.
By PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | September 07, 2011

Arms Against A Sea parts ways, OK Go releases a live album, and more

Sibilance
We were disappointed to hear the promising ARMS AGAINST A SEA have decided to call it quits.
By PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | June 29, 2011

The year's top 10 local albums, and five EPs to boot

With Confidence
I'm not sure when local music has been better. If there is any problem with our little scene here in Portland, it's that there's more talent than there are fans to support it.
By SAM PFEIFLE | December 22, 2010

Review: CiB's strong finish

Get stung
The personal is apolitical. With this simple inversion of an old cliché, you'll discover why Covered in Bees (who disbanded in September) were so important.
By NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | November 11, 2010

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Fall Music Preview: Stay positive

The local concert calendar is filled to capacity
The face of the local nightlife landscape undergoes a major change in the form of a renewal this autumn, as the State Theatre’s exhaustively maligned absence ends on October 15, with 10 fall concerts on their docket already. But that’s not the only new venue to look out for.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | September 15, 2010

Rachel Griffin's new single, New album from Steve Jones, and more

Sibilance
Portland ex-pat RACHEL GRIFFIN continues to make her way in NYC.
By PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | August 11, 2010

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Covered in Bees album, John Paul's show, and Nicole Rabata's debut disc

Sibilance
COVERED IN BEES are doing their best to plan ahead: They've got the date set for the release of their fourth album, Holy Crap! It's Covered In Bees : September 25. Where's the party? Geno's. Where else?
By PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | July 28, 2010

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Review: AC + PanzerBastard + AoK Suicide Forest

Music Seen: AC + PanzerBastard + AoK Suicide Forest, live at Geno's, January 15
AoK Suicide Forest, featuring Michael Anderson (Loverless, Johnny Cremains), David Joy (Sunrunner) and Leif Sherman Curtis (Moneycastasia, ex-Conifer), have only been around since last summer and have quickly honed their blend of '70s proto-metal, psychedelia, and Japanese noise rock to a razor-sharp edge through relentless gigging.
By DAN CLARK | January 20, 2010

50 ways to leave 2009

Get your New Year's Eve down to an Auld Lang science
We sent a team of future-thinking Predator drones all across the state of Maine, and a little ways down into Seacoast New Hampshire to sniff out any NYE happenings, from barely-off-the-couch to the Maine mountains, all the way to interstellar travel (we're not kidding!).
By JEFF INGLIS | December 30, 2009

Hot, hot heat

New Year's Eve is just a warm-up
Is New Year's back? It seemed to have been taken away from us, by a general and hard-to-pin-down sentiment that it ought to be some kind of family holiday. Fuck that.
By SAM PFEIFLE | December 30, 2009

Local luminaries’ picks

A sample of other best songs of the 2000s
I asked a bunch of people who really dig local music to help me make sure I wasn’t leaving any songs out when I was developing my list of the best 10 songs of the 2000s, but then I quickly realized that “best” is about as subjective as things come when you’re talking about songs.
By SAM PFEIFLE | December 22, 2009

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Music Seen: Man-Witch CD-release at Geno's

Anyone who doesn't like Man-Witch either didn't watch enough Saturday-morning TV as a kid, or is an incurable sourpuss.
By DAN CLARK | August 05, 2009

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Death Punk Kareoke with Covered in Bees + Grendel's Army

Geno's, February 5
There are few words to describe the experience of sharing a stage with your favorite band. For most of us, even those without eight-figure incomes or friends with influence, it's the stuff of dreams.
By DAN CLARK | February 11, 2009

Covered in Bees

Music seen at Geno's, November 8
If any Portland band can claim their own cult of personality, it's Covered In Bees.
By DAN CLARK | November 12, 2008

One day at a time

Covered in Bees' 24 Hour Album
Covered in Bees have never taken themselves too seriously, have a ton of talent and experience, play a style of music that's not known for its complexity, and are therefore well suited to taking a whack at this 24-hour album concept.
By SAM PFEIFLE | November 05, 2008