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2022 Portland Record Store Walkabout
Originally published in Stereo Embers Magazine For some, Portland Oregon is just too weird. Weird houses. Weird lifestyle choices. Weird...
Shawn Brown
Dec 22, 20224 min read


Best of the Rest, Vol 14: Concerning Red Hot Chili Peppers and Eddie Vedder
Originally published in Stereo Embers Magazine Gen-X-ers…shit’s getting weird. Suddenly, without warning, milk is good for you again....
Shawn Brown
Jun 8, 20224 min read


Best of the Rest, Vol 13: 2021 Year End Review
Originally published in Stereo Embers Magazine As the great Mudhoney once nobly said, we’re “Flat Out Fucked.” 2021…yeah it’s not been...
Shawn Brown
Jan 12, 20223 min read


Best of the Rest, Vol 12: Toad the Wet Sprocket
Occasionally, when the “Deloreon in my mind” zooms me back to better days, I land somewhere in ’93-’94. There I am in Boise, Idaho. I’m...
Shawn Brown
Oct 24, 20212 min read


Best of the Rest, Vol 11: Del Amitri
Justin Currie from Del Amitri is, and always has been, my guy. It was 1990, Bush Sr. was president, Sam Malone’s hair still seemed real,...
Shawn Brown
Sep 25, 20212 min read


Best of the Rest, Vol 10: The Lemonheads
Rise and grind people! We’ve got Evan Dando business at hand. Evan frickin’ Dando. Dando, Dando, Dando. The enigmatic poster boy of Gen-X...
Shawn Brown
Aug 30, 20213 min read


Best of the Rest, Vol 9: Pearl Jam
I know what you may be thinking right this very second. Pearl Jam? Freaking Pearl Jam?? Eddie Vedder? Come the fuck on, dude! To which I...
Shawn Brown
Jul 20, 20213 min read


Best of the Rest, Vol 8: Biffy Clyro
Exploring one’s new neighborhood during a pandemic is tricky business. Thankfully, shit is swiftly reopening in Portland, Oregon. One can...
Shawn Brown
Jun 30, 20212 min read


Best of the Rest, Vol 7: Stereophonics
*as originally published in Stereo Embers Magazine 5/5/21 I’ll level with you. We’re good like that, yeah? I’m tossing myself a softball...
Shawn Brown
May 5, 20213 min read
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