Matt Rowning

Drink too much beer! Drink way too much beer!

By Matt Rowning / May 24, 2016

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…

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Composing a new consciousness

By Matt Rowning / May 19, 2016

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…

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Introspective Soul

By Matt Rowning / April 13, 2016

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…

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Animal Collective dabbles in dada

By Matt Rowning / March 9, 2016

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

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Esperanza Spalding swings home

By Matt Rowning / March 9, 2016

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

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The Clackamas Print Goes Hollywood

By Matt Rowning / February 24, 2016

Santa Monica: In-N-Out

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The Life of Yeezy

By Matt Rowning / February 24, 2016

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

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Bond can’t pay our bills

By Matt Rowning / February 17, 2016

Board discusses raising tuition $3 per credit hour

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The Student Files

By Matt Rowning / February 10, 2016

Clackamas student starts business with hemp

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Psychedelic disco rocks Revolution Hall

By Matt Rowning / February 3, 2016

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…

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