Written By: Lindy Rybloom

Slow Goat is a heavy metal band with a huge personality. Emerging in the Portland music scene in 2021, Gage Managhan, Eric Bloombaum, Rosie Peterson, and Dan Cuffe are the four rockers that make up this up-and-coming band.​ Each coming from small towns in Oregon and ultimately landing in Portland allowed them to unite, jam together, and begin making a name for themselves. Four people, all having their own coming of age within the music world, this local group provided me an inside look at the heavy music scene from a first-person perspective.

Slow Goat’s Origin Story

Lead singer, Rosie Peterson, grew up in Albany, Oregon but moved to Portland in 2016. Like a real rockstar, Peterson tells me that her interest in music began before she could even consciously recognize it.

Dan Cuffe is the lead guitarist from Salem, Oregon. His interest in music similarly had an early start. Coming from a musical family, notes and…

By: Jack Skidmore

It is pretty unusual for an entire crowd to immediately boo when the lights go down for a concert to begin. However, one could easily mishear this at the McDonald Theater in downtown Eugene as the entire room chanted an extended “Goooooose'' just before the band members took stage. Prior to the show on the night of the 25th of April, some eccentric fans made squawking 

noises at each other while others flapped their arms in excitement. One thing was for sure, this band meant something special to the attendees. 

For many in the jam band community, it has been a long time since they had the same admiration for a band quite like many hold for Goose. Hailing from Norwalk, Connecticut in 2014, what makes this band unique is their exceptional musical skill and attention to detail mixed with their boisterous youthful energy. Haze Moss, a Eugene resident and longtime frequent jam concert attendee described a highly positive experience seeing…

By: Megan Lorich

The most anticipated film of 2023’s blockbuster season is undoubtedly Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. The first full length trailer for the film dropped in early April to the delight of fans everywhere. From the trailer’s iconic first shot of immovable doll feet to the blank stare behind Ryan Gosling’s eyes as Ken, it’s clear that Barbie will be an instant classic. 

But every classic film needs a classic soundtrack and Barbie is no exception. It’s obvious that songs like Aqua’s “Barbie Girl” will be on the tracklist, but what other songs might make the cut? Here are our picks for Barbie’s soundtrack! 

1 - Surfin’ U.S.A by the Beach Boys 

The last scene of the newly released Barbie trailer features various Ken dolls bickering over a “Beach Off''. The aesthetic of various scenes in Barbie Land are clearly referencing 60’s surf culture, and you can’t go wrong with the Beach…

Written and Photographed by Paige Rodriguez

Pop music makes people mad. Is it art? Is it real music? Are music lovers too pretentious for sticking their noses up in its face?  

I’d argue these questions are missing the point. Instead of controlling the pop narrative by comparing it to classical, jazz, or rock, it deserves a spotlight of its own. 

I’m not saying that pop shouldn’t be well-crafted, but I think many music lovers stray from the genre because they believe that’s impossible. It can be easy to fall into a pit of pretentious thinking. We want music to hold the same thought and care as we put into listening to it. The criticism of pop also stems from the claim that it is heavily commercialized and therefore inauthentic. 

What music lovers find to be inauthentic is often how pop music artists survive. Making music is still…

Written By: Jack Skidmore

Favorites

● If I Ever Was a Child 

● Cry All Day

● Someone to Lose 

● Locator 

● We Aren’t the World (Safety Girl) 

For those looking for a more lighthearted Wilco album “Schmilco” is the one for you. Spearheaded by artist Jeff Tweedy, the Chicago-based alternative band, Wilco, delivers a whimsical folk and alt-country-focused track list on their 10th full-length album. I particularly enjoy the humorous and clever lyricism throughout the album. Each song is also tightly packaged and musically focused to be easily digestible and allow the album to flow through quite seamlessly. I would play this album during a laid-back morning in the comfort of my home or on a walk to the river on a sunny spring day. It is undoubtedly an instant…

Written By: Codi Farmer

There’s nothing quite like getting home on a Friday night with muddy shoes, a light ringing in your ears, and a catchy chorus stuck in your head that you heard that kid in your 10 AM class sing just a few hours before. This is the closing of another successful night as an attendee at a house show here in Eugene. It’s something I know and love dearly, but what often goes overlooked is everything that goes into making all that magic happen – the orchestration of a backyard gig here in the Dirty Eug. 

It often starts on Instagram DM where local bands will often reach out to each other with a proposal to do a show together. These messages often consist of some pretty brief information – a weekend, a rough lineup of who they want on the bill, and if you’re lucky, a venue location that has already agreed to take on the liability of a couple hundred inebriated college students stomping in their yard. Once the show is in the books, it’s time to get…

 Written By: Zoë Holguin

 I was scrolling through TikTok this past week and came across this video of a girl talking about how we need more “losers” starting bands. The video sucked me right in— who doesn’t like a good grabber sentence? She goes on to say how there are “too many hot people” in bands now, and how they all look “too cool” and as a result, it’s ruining the quality of music. In my head, I thought, “FINALLY, someone had to say it,” it’s something that all music enjoyers think about. We listen to music not because the lead singer’s hot, it’s all about the quality of the art. I’ll be honest when I watched the video I immediately thought of Will Toledo, frontman of the band Car Seat Headrest. The man is the definition of a scrawny, white guy that you’d feel scared of if he came up to you at a house party; doesn’t mean the music isn’t great. So that begs the question, is there a relationship between the quality of music and attractiveness?…

By Lindy Rybloom

Harriette adds significant depth to the world of bedroom pop by carefully placing allusions into her tunes. She draws listeners in with her unusual lyrical approach including distinctive use of puns and plays-on-words. Harriette’s rise to fame can be accredited to TikTok as she has shot straight to the top since getting her start in 2021 and gaining popularity by the day. Born and raised in Texas, Harriette reveals the notable impact of social media on the music industry and how it can be a gateway into the world of music production for those lucky enough to go viral. She is currently finishing a tour of European cities where she has been opening concerts for the Norwegian singer, Girl In Red.

Released in 2021 with over 700,000 listens on Spotify, Harriette’s addictive jam “Wednesday” is laced with references to The Addams Show, Ash Wednesday, and John Steinbeck’s novel, Sweet Thursday, among other Wednesday-related puns. The tune speaks to…

Week of 2/13

Week of November 21st, 2021