Shawn Reynaldo started First Floor as a placeholder. When Red Bull Radio shut down in 2019, taking the longtime music journalist’s radio show with it, Reynaldo decided to turn it into a self-published ...

1001 SE Morrison St., 503-239-7639, holocene.org. Best Way to Rave Close to Home: It’s no secret Portland has a thriving community of techno gods. Holocene isn’t known for always having the best music ...

ON BAD DAYS, a music scene can be a dark, treacherous forest populated with giant, soulless spiders, toxic flowers, cowardly but poisonous snakes, and fallen, martyred heroes. Positivity and proactive ...

Still from Casual Hex music video "The System" Credit: Music video by Logan Devlin. I usually try to save the Mercury Music Picks intro for joy… This week’s a little different. I am so tired—exhausted ...