With all the strangely sunny and dry February weather, getting out of the house to grab some dinner and see a show doesn’t sound all that bad. This week there’s more than a couple promising showcases (and from different ends of the genre spectrum, no less), a couple of new music-minded releases, and an upcoming album from Rose City rapper Serge Severe. MUST-SEE: A can’t miss upcoming show. Dolphin MidwivesPortland-based Dolphin Midwives—the solo future-pop-chaos project.
1988 (Maybe)
Courtney Love meets Kurt Cobain for the first time at Old Town punk club Satyricon, kicking off one of rockâs most tumultuous and significant pairings. In a 2012 interview with
Fuse, Love says she met Cobain at the club after reading spoken-word poetry with garage rockers Dharma Bums in 1988. Other accounts push the date to 1989 or 1990, when the two wrestled over control of the jukebox after a Nirvana gig.
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1990s
DIY hits its stride, and Portland is a damp, divine epicenter. Singer-songwriter Elliott Smith enters the scene in 1991, and by 1998, is performing at the Academy Awards. Riot grrrl (and post-riot grrrl) heavy hitters like Bikini Kill and Sleater-Kinney bounce back and forth between Portland and the Puget Sound. Everclear flees the Bay Area for the Rose City in 1993; the Dandy Warhols pick up their guitars in â94. Seattle-based label Sub Popâestablished in â88âis actively snapping up Portland talent. The dream of t