Politics & Other Mistakes
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If an indie-pop masterpiece drops in the Forest City, will anyone hear it?
- Racisms
[…] Williams, if she would share a couple of poems in this column to set the tone for the New Year [“Words against the worst,” Jan. 2025]. She not only agreed, but what she shared was so wonderful, I had to ask her again […]
- Metal Feathers
[…] group, Metal Feathers. “MF is dirtier [than Cult Maze] and more to the point,” Pence wrote in his review of their self-titled 2008 debut (retitled Statistically Marred on YouTube). “There are nuances in […]
- Cult Maze
[…] the second Cult Maze album, 35, 36, came out in 2007, Pence began his review by stating, in all seriousness, “This band might be better than Badfinger.” In retrospect, they […]
[…] cover of this magazine as the subject of a half-serious “Portland indie rockumentary” called “Metal Feathers: Prepare for Takeoff” [April 2011]. […]