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Culture,
Culture Features
Sep 6, 2017
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Central Oregon's struggle against methamphetamine
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Music,
Sound Stories & Interviews
Feb 13, 2009
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By Jeff Trainor
Exhibit A: Institutionalization
You're crazy, not me.In the interest of public safety, we hereby present biographical
information on Bronx-based hip hop MC and accused madman, Keith
Thornton. The first exhibit in evidence: Reports that Thornton was once
a psychiatric patient in the Bellevue mental hospital, New York, New
York.
Thornton denies the hospitalization, which reportedly took place
shortly before the 1985 debut of his former rap group, Ultramagnetic
MCs. He attempted to brush off the widespread reports of the event as
mere products of the music industry rumor mill in a recent phone
interview with the Source Weekly:
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Music,
Sound Stories & Interviews
Apr 23, 2008
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By Jeff Trainor
Wilco
Confirmed!
Famous last words, right? Indeed, if Modest Mouse has taught us anything, it's that announcements of hugely awesome flannel shirt≠≠≠-related (we hereby declare a moratorium on the phrase "indie") bands playing shows at Les Schwab Amphitheater are best taken with a grain of salt.
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Music,
Sound Stories & Interviews
Mar 19, 2008
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By Jeff Trainor
just like the real thing, except in a much smaller stadium.In the spirit of fearlessly exploring the oft-scary phenomenon of
tribute bands, Sound Check moseyed over to the Reed Pub Company last
Saturday night to catch a face full of Motorbreath.
Around a
hundred souls were holding down the wee pub's peanut shell-sprinkled
floor and spilling out into the smokers' patio outside when we showed
up. Once the openers were done, the smoke machines had the joint socked
in and the audience had had their fill of obnoxious Nickelback hits on
the sound system, the main event started at darn near the stroke of
midnight.
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Music,
Sound Stories & Interviews
Feb 20, 2008
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Smith (left) and Crow (right), deep within the realm of sickly soul.Pinback is a band of human beings. We suspected as much, but we had
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By Jeff Trainor
Smith (left) and Crow (right), deep within the realm of sickly soul.Pinback is a band of human beings. We suspected as much, but we had to see it to believe it.
The members of the San Diego-based band have a reputation for superhumanly intelligent melody and prolificacy, and their sound on studio recordings is a strangely precise exercise in dense, viscerally ethereal, rock-bred think-pop.
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