Lose Yr Mind 2024

Let’s Get Psychedelic! Nestled in the sonic bullseye of inner SE PDX (SE Morrison x…

Pickathon Music Festival 2024: Embracing a New Wave of Sound and Community

(Featured photo: Nehemiah Sliwoski)[Get your Pickathon 2024 tickets here!] As we sweat through the warmth…

images used Courtesy of Harry Smith Archives
Who is Harry Smith? Portland’s Prodigal Son: A Primer

In 1991, filmmaker and musicologist Harry Smith nibbled on his “just desserts” when he received…

Turn! Turn! Turn! turns 10: Portland’s intimate community venue survives another year

This weekend, February 22-25, Portland’s beloved Turn! Turn! Turn! (also known as T3) celebrates 10…

Mad God tells us what we may not want to hear

We’re only two years into the 2020s, and the first animated masterpiece of the decade…

Take Us Back to Treefort 10!

Over the years, Boise has really grown to become a musical extension of Portland—almost like…

Treefort 10 Scrapbook

Built to Spill at El Korah Deerhoof on the Main Stage Help at El Korah…

Hank Failing with guitars.
Hank’s Music Exchange is a shop for the community.

In a world where massive corporate entities can send you anything you could think to want within 24 hours thanks to outsourced supply chains and exploitative labor practices, Hank’s model seems crazily outmoded, but also rare and necessary–his care for the things he sells and his insistence that they get sold function as two parts of the same impulse, which is towards the creation of a larger collective musical community.

ELEVEN is Celebrating 10 Years of Musical Discovery at Treefort Music Fest!

ELEVEN PDX is proud to have attended nearly a decade’s worth of shows at Treefort…

Boy Harsher’s “The Runner (Original Soundtrack)” examines the human condition through the lens of campy horror

At the brink of 2020’s semi-social collapse—the live music scene dwindling to a low hum—Boy…