Guitarist Ripley Johnson (also of Wooden Shjips) and keyboardist Sanae Yamada have been churning out fuzzy psychedelic reverb and shimmer on Sacred Bones Records for close to a decade as Moon Duo. The San Francisco group’s 2011 debut, Mazes, is heavy, head-nodding stoner rock with more sheen than you’d expect from the genre. But on […]
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Portland’s Wooden Shjips challenge a turbulent world with hypnotic, inward grooves
Ripley Johnson has said his Portland quartet Wooden Shjips made its latest album, V. (Thrill Jockey), under a cloud—figuratively and literally. His band was still grappling with the initial implications of the Trump presidency while ash from forest fires that engulfed much of the countryside surrounding his hometown rained down and cast a fog over […]
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More summer concert news: City announces Downtown Sound lineup
The lineup for the wildly popular Millennium Park concert series is revealed.
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The year in music: my favorite albums the Reader has favored
My favorite albums of the year that the Reader wrote about
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Here Comes the Crust
The prime dogs-with-bandannas-spotting event of the season. Plus: Permanent Records’ fourth anniversary, a “rock and roll general store” in Logan Square, and more