Woolen Men

& Amanda Hatfield Every year is a good year for new music, but 2015 felt like the best one in a while. It was an especially great year for major label rap, after 2014 was an especially slow one, but it was good for plenty more than that too: folk, post-punk, indie pop, noise, art pop, punk, etc...

Portland's Woolen Men released one of my favorite albums of 2015 -- the angry and awesome Temporary Monument -- and they've just released a new cassette EP titled Options...

Lame Drivers have been a constant presence on the Brooklyn indie/DIY scene for while, and have released a number of 7"s, tapes and splits in that time, some of which was collected on the Cruisin' Classics CD...

Woolen Men's terrific new album, Temporary Monument, is out this Friday (9/4) via Woodsist but you don't have to wait till then -- a stream of the album premieres in this post...

Portland, OR's Woolen Men will release their new album, Temporary Monument, on September 4 by way of Woodsist. The impetus behind this one is a familiar topic in cities around the country:Our hometown has been buried under an avalanche of condos and pointless businesses catering to the newly rich...

Woolen Men's new 7" EP, Rain Shapes, is out at the end of the month via Loglady and you can order yours now. The very catchy title cut, "Rain," which is a little bit like Jeff Mangum fronting The Clean, now has a much video which makes its premiere in this post...

Woolen Men @ Baby's All Right in April (more by Amanda Hatfield) Portland, OR trio The Woolen Men will release a new EP, titled Rain Shapes, via Loglady Records in early 2015...

As you know, Death By Audio will be gone forever in less than a month, November 22nd to be exact. This message is currently up on their website: Note for Nov: we are having our final show on 11/22 and we will be releasing the schedule for this month bit by bit as to keep everyone on their toes, we will be open every night, just dont wanna give away all the fun...

Pabst Blue Ribbon, or PBR if you prefer, is throwing their first-ever music festival this year in various Portland, OR venues from September 26-28...

It had been a while since I'd seen Woods, a few years probably. The last time, whenever that was, was when the band still had Kevin Morby and that guy who spent most of his time on all-fours messing with a cassette deck and yelling into an old pair of headphones repurposed as a mic...