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The Brothers Young
Release New Album

Portland chamber folk’s other Youngs, are making a name for themselves.

Posted by: Anne Adams on Sep 03, 2010 at 11:55AM Speech Bubble0 Comments

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Get this gimmick: The Brothers Young is a band which features three actual brothers, actually named “Young.” The group, formed with the encouragement of their elder brother Ritchie Young (frontman of transcendental chamber-folk combo Loch Lomond), brings a darker timbre than Ritchie’s haunting falsetto. Like three Cains to Ritchie’s Abel, the Brothers often sing in a baritone unison, of world-weariness, caution and betrayal—sometimes bursting into open-ended Gregorian harmonies.

Supported by the drumming of Leviethan (whose PCS residency Culturephile covered earlier this summer), and the guitar-playing of Trevino Brings Plenty, the group will present a new EP, Good People, this Sunday at Rontoms (6th and E Burnside), and launch a west-coast tour. Whether or not you brave the Rontoms Sunday-night throng, you ought to lend this pioneering band of brothers your ears.


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Tags: Publishing, music, chamber, album, portland, portland, northwest, folk

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Portland Zine Symposium

Posted by: Anne Adams on Aug 27, 2010 at 10:59AM Speech Bubble1 Comments

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Zines-2

Does that say “readings 4 dorkz?”
Read at your own risk.

What happens when just anyone can publish their own book or magazine? As you might imagine, many elements slip into the mix at Portland Zine Symposium.

Rebels
Content that would normally get nixed by a publisher, becomes fair game for the printed page: incendiary rants, unauthorized cut-and-pastes of copyrighted content, and a barrage of unedited, indulgent diary confessionals. Some of this stuff is cathartically irreverent, or awkwardly humorous. Some of it is intriguingly “outsider.” And some of it is illegible, or otherwise un-readable, point blank. (Caveat emptor: if you can’t read the cover, may as well put it down.)

Artisans
On the other hand, with little economic incentive, and no third-party directives, many zine-makers feel free to create something more wonderful than the market demands. Handmade touches emerge, like letterpress impressions, screen-print, hand-coloring, and crafty binding. Illustrations abound. Some authors who don’t try to “market,” prove nevertheless quite compelling to read. One gets the sense that the content is purer, unchecked by an editor’s agenda-pen.

Professionals
Some small publishers, like recent Culturephile featuree Brandon Seifert, writer of Witch Doctor, self-publish with one eye on the prize of a mainstream deal. They bring slick, shelf-ready books to the zine scene, providing readers a sneak preview of work that will eventually “go big.”

So what does the zine world offer? Variety. Freedom. Risk. Rarity. Enough stuff, that there’s probably something for you. Head over to PSU, browse the tables and meet the makers.


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Tags: Publishing, comics, writer, weekend, weekend, weekend picks, Arts Education, author, book, Weekend Plans, zine

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Trio of New Art Publications for Portland

Posted by: Lisa Radon on Feb 16, 2010 at 02:00PM Speech Bubble0 Comments

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Tonight and tomorrow night, experience the one-two punch of two launch parties for two new arts publications based right here in Portland.

First is and&review, edited by Mia Nolting and Rachel Peddersen, which launches tonight with a party at TIGA (NE 15th and Prescott) from 7-10 PM.

And launching tomorrow night with a party at Reading Frenzy (921 SW Oak) , from 7-9 PM is Forrest Martin’s new arts magazine, Death, supported by a Stock grant.

Both and&review and Death are available in some form online. and&review is free in print form as well (Nationale and PNCA have copies, I believe).

Plus (no party, but you could perhaps buy the editor a drink) Lorna Nakell has recently started Arts Interviews with intros to artist/curator’s Derek Franklin and TJ Norris, thus far.

Congratulations to all.

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Research Club + Publication Fair=!

Posted by: Lisa Radon on Dec 23, 2009 at 10:00PM Speech Bubble2 Comments

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Research Club at Tribute Gallery. photo: Brian Wilson

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Research Club at Tribute Gallery. photo: Brian Wilson

Sunday in Portland was a most hopeful day. So hopeful that precipitation was taken to mean future daffodil rather than hair mess as I walked here and there downtown.

“Here” was Research Club at Tribute Gallery. With the event scheduled to start at 11, I snuck in around 12:30 to find the gallery full to the brim with folks eating brunch and chatting with the formal proceedings not to begin until 1. Score. This iteration of Research Club was a mashup of salon and Pecha Kucha/Ignite/Interesting Portland lecture. (See also: the Lecture Series.) According to RC’s Nim Wunnan, Research Club sometimes means dinner, sometimes synesthetic events and/or football games. The website says, “The point of Research Club is to help inquisitive people and their ideas meet other inquisitive people and their ideas,” which is right up my alley.

Sunday’s highlight for me was finally hearing Amber Case do an abbreviated intro of her ideas on Cyborg Anthropology, as well as Kawandeep Virdee talking about Pattern Language and a love letter to Portland, and Rafael of Eggy Records talking about his cassette tape-only label and distro. Christine Taylor of Igloo Gallery talked about their new artist’s residency project in 2010, first hosting Colin Mathes, and Mike Merrill talked about his project as a publicly traded individual.

“There” was <a href=‘http://acehotel.com/portland/events/cleaners">The Cleaners at the Ace Hotel where Publication Studio (Matthew Stadler and Patricia No) hosted the Publication Fair with lots of small presses as well as purveyors of great printed matter. The place was packed, and according to No had been all day! I finally picked up a full set of poet/editor Sam Lohmann’s superb lit. ’zine Peaches & Bats, had a great talk with designer/author Mark Searcy (see his beautiful visual blog), caught up a bit with Diana Kim of Stand Up Comedy (loved the Scott Ponik-designed poster series for SUC), and thumbed through a couple of copies of Veneer. Also, renewed love of IPRC.

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During her 10 year Portland residency, Anne Adams has contributed to local publications, including Barfly, the Portland Tribune, and Portland Monthly. In 2005 her serial zine, The Bookmark, was endorsed by Wordstock and Powell’s Books.

Anne’s horizons extend beyond pen and page, with an Art Department credit in the movie Coraline, and passionate participation in the indie music community. Anne is an avid arts appreciator who can zero in on a detail of gesture or craft, but cannot suppress a wistful tear when faced with expressions of human truth. Email the editor »

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