15 bands for those who are sick of serious music
Independent music is actually growing sillier, weirder, and more irreverent.
Hating Hipsters: How The Mainstream Hijacked Authenticity And Made Non-Conformity A Joke
Why exactly does the whole world want to distance itself from the term hipster?
Surfing with the Orca Team at Record Room, Portland
Orca Team is Pacific northwest surf music: cool, biting, sweet.
Riot Grrrl Karaoke Portland Part II: Not Enough! and Punk Start My Heart
That’s the whole point of the thing, right? That’s what riot grrrl was about too. It was about finding that core connection in feminists and supporting other girls in whatever endeavors they are pursuing.
Riot Grrrl Karaoke Portland celebrates, connects, creates
GO ON TAKE EVERYTHING, TAKE EVERYTHING, I WANT YOU TO…
Jan Terri meets Thë Ünïcörnz and conquers Seattle
Many people have told her that they conceived their children to ‘Get Down Goblin’.
It’s a hard thing to get hipsters dancing: The Maxines and The Shivas in Portland, Oregon
And it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, and it’s a hard/It’s a hard thing to get hipsters dancing.
Gilly Ann Hanner – VI: Braille Stars and beyond
Now I like being in someone else’s band because I don’t have time to write, but I still get to play
Gilly Ann Hanner – V: Nirvana, Riot Grrrl and aftermath
I felt like the perception at that time of females in bands was that maybe somebody else was doing a lot of the stuff for them. Especially if there was a guy in the band.
Gilly Ann Hanner – IV: Calamity Jane in Portland
Questioning the tactics of the police, while occasionally spitting on them, outspoken guitarist Gilly Hanner … was grabbed by the hair by one of the cops, summarily smashed into a wall and dragged towards the door as well.
Gilly Ann Hanner – II: Cave Junction childhood
When we arrived, my aunt and uncle were already in Cave Junction with their three daughters. We stayed in tents while my parents remodeled this grain barn into a house.
Gilly Ann Hanner – I: Intro
Maybe this profile can at least serve as a keyhole view into the life of an tenacious and brilliant musician.
My Favorite Find of 2011: The Fabulous Jan Terri
I suppose you would call Jan Terri an outsider artist. Her approach to music is an engaging mix of pop convention, genre mixing, and unique personality.
Three female-fronted bands from early grunge-era Portland, Oregon
Here are three female-fronted 80s bands who helped create that heavy rock sound which became popular in the 90s.
Mt. Tabor Madness: 5 Music Videos Filmed on Portland’s Urban Volcano
Mt. Tabor has also been a favorite place for Portland-identifying bands to get inspiration
The best rock song about being hungry
It is weird to be hungry in America. No one wants to hear about it, recognize it, or believe it.
Catcall – The Collapse Board Interview
by Bianca Valentino Catcall is the latest musical project from Sydney-based musician Catherine Kelleher. Kelleher first performed as frontwoman for Australian DIY punk band Kiosk in the early 00s. Upon returning home from a 2006 Kiosk US tour Kelleher had a life changing moment (which she talks about here) and after much soul searching decided [...]
how to get featured on a music website
Sure, we’re open to bribery here at Collapse Board. Isn’t everyone in the music industry?
Song of the day – 198: The Corin Tucker Band
New music. From Corin Tucker. What more do you need to know? Me and my wife, we used to love Cadallaca, back in the day. Like a fun-time Portland party band with righteous vocals, a kick-ass drummer and the sweetest of Hammond organs. There were a couple of other bands too, but their names momentarily [...]
Video: Interviewing The Dandy Warhols in Portland, Oregon
Last week, my girlfriend Rachael and I won a trip to the United States. The competition asked, in 25 words or less, which Parklife 2010 headline act we’d would like to interview and why. We both chose The Dandy Warhols. Why? Two reasons. We both dig their music… and the competition terms mentioned that the interview would take place [...]
Song of the day – 128: Boo Frog
Despite the assertion from the editor of Mess And Noise that my blogging is all “NME this, or Franz Ferdinand that”, my desk seems to be currently sadly bereft of new releases from major labels, or even major indie labels. Instead, I’m reduced to scrabbling around among the scrag-ends of cultural abandon – or, as [...]
