Author: Mac Smiff

After spending years in the same hip-hop orbit without really getting to know each other, well-known local DJ Ronin Roc and I became friends over this last summer between dodging…

Selfie lifted from Donte’s Twitter You can pretty much always expect clean visuals and dizzying lyrics from Donte Thomas, and his New Year’s drop, la manzana, does both exquisitely. How…

Swiggle Mandela – well known around these parts for his evergreen anthem, Dear Portland Police – looks to have some juice behind his new single, Needed, a collaboration with his…

When Lovinditekai isn’t busy doing Mandalorian reaction videos, they sometimes get around to making music. Different and funky lyrics bounce over a clean beat by Graham Marlitt. The video, shot…

Cover Photo by Rebecca Ellis In our culture, along with the changing of the year comes the expectation to commit to self-improvement. One could assume that with the year we…

T.$poon‘s New Year’s Day drop drips with NE Portland vibes, cutting into a bleak winter with 14 upbeat, whip friendly tracks for the grown folks. Mixed by the homie Zeb.…

Cover Photo by Rebecca Ellis Generally speaking, there are few things more painful than listening in on a local budget vote. Still, Wednesday’s meeting full of budgetary amendments and amendments…

As Portlanders approach four months of physically protesting our police bureau, the police and their counterparts have done much to further the case against themselves. It’s frequently discussed amongst protesters,…

From one editor to some others, it’s time for you to stand down. Last night, a day after a protester was set on fire by an allegedly errant Molotov cocktail,…

I arrived home early one morning after being at the Justice Center, helmet and gas mask in hand, covered in the stench of tear gas, pepper and gunpowder. Without hardly…