Blog: LocalCut

Kelly Blair Bauman sees Portland burning, and he's got the midlife-crisis folk to soundtrack the destruction. [DOOM POP] "Across the bridge to this forsaken town/ Like some Gomorrah in the night," sings Kelly Blair Bauman on "I Saw Stars," a gorgeous standout from his debut solo record, Gomorrah. That's as specific as he gets in identifying the modern stand-in for the doomed biblical city of the album's title. He claims it's "any town where there's a lot of excess." How about an example? "Portland's a good one," says the Northwest [...]