
Here is a recap of week number 9 of the Pampelmoose New Music Hour radio show on WOXY.com. This week Dave features cuts from Portland bands, in fact the whole hour is dedicated to Portland's rich music scene. You'll hear The Decemberists, The Builders and The Butchers, Loch Lomond, Mirah, Menomena, The Thermals, Starfucker and more. The Decemberists - The Rake's Song The Builders and The Butchers - Barcelona Run On Sentence - The Afterlife Pt 1 [...]
Politics returns to music news again this week. Lame Duck George Bush Jr. has pardoned the former Fugees producer John Forte . If you recall Forte was busted back in 2000 for trying to smuggle $1.4 million in liquid cocaine through Newark Airport. Forte will be released on December 22nd. Strangely it was Senator Orrin Hatch that lobbied for his release. Jose is speechless. In Fort Lupton, Colorado residents have been sentenced to listen to Barry Manilow . Those guilty of violating a [...]

That's a logical impossibility. Policies and opinions about them are determined by what is known or plausibly believed, not by what is discovered afterwards. That should be elementary. - theory-frankfurt-school mailing list archive / chomsky Preterition is an artifice, pretending discretion when something is said with total clarity and indiscretion. For example: "If I were not obligated to keep military secrets, I would tell all of you of the large amount of armaments that we have so that you would feel even more confidence that our [...]

Warp Records has signed Portland, OR's Nice Nice . In the Warp Records tradition, this electronic duo has a habit of putting together heavy beats with twisted and "warped" (ha!) yips and electronic whinings, mish-mashing discordant sounds together in a way that their songs are drastically more than a sum of its parts. Listen to what I'm talking about with "I Am A Human Person" and "Yes" below and see if you can decide if you're supposed to bob your head, cover your ears or dance. [...]