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An Interview with Growing Pains

By Logan Normandeau Growing Pains at the Shredder in Boise Forever ago, I sat down with Oregon band Growing Pains to talk about their music, inspirations, and friendship. The band consists of Carl (guitar and vocals), Kalia (bass and main vocals), Jack (guitar and vocals), and Kyle (drums).  Throughout the many years they’ve spent playing shows in Eugene and Portland, touring across the west coast, and creating together, they have fun. And their fun is contagious. Growing Pains has an electric and captivating stage presence, no matter the venue. Having opened for major artists such as Franz Ferdinand and Beabadoobee, and with 15k monthly Spotify listeners, Growing Pains is slowly reaching a new height–and never losing sight of their DIY beginnings. They continue to be supported by a huge base…
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Deepdives: The Psychedelic 90s Sound of Triphop, and an Album Breakdown of Good Looking Blues by Laika

by Logan Normandeau (they/them) My recent deepdive into the world of triphop was sparked by summer boredom and my love of 90s animation and music. More specifically: the incredible soundtrack of MTV's animated show Downtown. The tracks were heavily triphop centric, and the score created by Kimson Albert was full of industrial breakbeats and synth that perfectly matched the grime of the show1. Until this point, I've always been fairly turned off by triphop, seeing it as one of the worst outcomes of the 90s music trends—I don't tend to like electronic music, and I greatly preferred every other genre it borrows from. (And some songs sound creepily like sonic realizations of the visuals of the early Windows operating system and my hazy memories of the public library trips I…
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