• Drink too much beer! Drink way too much beer!

    By Matt Rowning | May 24, 2016 | Comments Off on Drink too much beer! Drink way too much beer!

    7 p.m. is an auspicious time. It’s the twilight hour where the boredom of the day culminates into the night’s plans. At that hour I jumped into a white coffin of a ’95 Chevy pickup and belted in the center seat. To my left was my photographer and designated driver, and to my right a…

  • Composing a new consciousness

    By Matt Rowning | May 19, 2016 | Comments Off on Composing a new consciousness

    The writing conference hosted many workshops, from meditation to dive bars By Matt Rowning My eyes rapidly twitched. A drip of drool perched on the end of my lip. Faint impressions of light took shape on the inside of my eyelids as my body wisped away into nothingness, twisting out into light and dust. This…

  • Introspective Soul

    By Matt Rowning | April 13, 2016 | Comments Off on Introspective Soul

    A group of eight adolescents in the back row banged their heads and laughed at the back of the Youth Music Project hall in West Linn. Andromeda Sun was performing their first song of the night in their hour-long set to more than 90 people. As the band played on, the youths’ heads calmed, and…

  • Animal Collective dabbles in dada

    By Matt Rowning | March 9, 2016 | Comments Off on Animal Collective dabbles in dada

    Psychedelic concert at the Roseland had ups and downs, but was an overall success

  • Esperanza Spalding swings home

    By Matt Rowning | March 9, 2016 | Comments Off on Esperanza Spalding swings home

    Four-time Grammy winner returns to Portland with a new album ‘Emily’s D+Evolutuion’

  • The Clackamas Print Goes Hollywood

    By Matt Rowning | February 24, 2016 | Comments Off on The Clackamas Print Goes Hollywood

    Santa Monica: In-N-Out

  • The Life of Yeezy

    By Matt Rowning | February 24, 2016 | Comments Off on The Life of Yeezy

    Kanye West’s antics have been inescapable this last month: Does his album own up to all the rachor he’s made?

  • Bond can’t pay our bills

    By Matt Rowning | February 17, 2016 | Comments Off on Bond can’t pay our bills

    Board discusses raising tuition $3 per credit hour

  • The Student Files

    By Matt Rowning | February 10, 2016 | Comments Off on The Student Files

    Clackamas student starts business with hemp

  • Psychedelic disco rocks Revolution Hall

    By Matt Rowning | February 3, 2016 | Comments Off on Psychedelic disco rocks Revolution Hall

    Somewhere in the psychedelic dance party that is the sound of Unknown Mortal Orchestra is a higher ideal than the hedonism you’d expect. On their last album “Multi-Love,” songwriter and frontman Ruban Neilson used dance, disco and polyamory to create a collection of amazing psychedelic rock songs. Their live show on Jan. 30 at Revolution Hall expounded on those themes and proved that UMO isn’t…