Michael Dean Damron’s Ghost Stories: Portland Singer-Songwriter Discusses Evil Men, Bad Tattoos and Sweet Puppies in an Interview With Steve Stav

Portland’s Michael Dean Damron began exorcising his demons about 12 years ago, and lucky for us, it’s still a work in progress. Both as a solo artist and with an assembled band of crazy local hotshots dubbed I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch In The House, Damron continually succeeds, however, in enveloping his inner turmoils and …

Jeff Koons Must Die!: The Video Game, at The Worley Gig

From Gail Worley at The Worley Gig: “Jeff Koons is one of the most polarizing and well known contemporary artists living today. He attempts to elevate the banal by constructing large metal sculptures that resemble balloon animals, oil paintings that contain subject matter derived from digital collage, and large-scale pornographic photographs featuring the artist and …

From Blind Vision to Blanc Burn – An Interview with Blancmange’s Neil Arthur at Intermittent Signals

“Blind Vision.” “Living On The Ceiling.” “Don’t Tell Me.” When the UK synthpop duo Blancmange called it quits 25 years ago, they left a number of iconic nightclub staples behind. Steve Stav interviews the “vocal half” of Blancmange about their new “reunion” CD, 80s video-production strategies and more at his website, Intermittent Signals…