Listening to Alien Boy is like experiencing high-stakes romance on a molecular level. Every wispy, nasal romantic plea and rumble of succulent anglophile jangle courses through your veins like you’re ...

Chances are most Portlanders remember hearing about the night James Chasse died, even if they don't remember his name or the exact circumstances. In September 2006, Chasse died in police custody after ...

Earlier this year, Oliver Tree “retired” from the world of music. But that won’t stop the bowl-headed provocateur from rubbing his scalp all over the face of comics. Indeed, Z2 Comics has announced ...

Alien Boy’s 2021 album, Don’t Know What I Am, dealt in glimmering hooks and dialed-up distortion. The Portland alt-rock group’s next record, You Wanna Fade?, ups the stakes, turning their songs into ...

Whose idea was it to hold release shows for Alien Boy and Grails on the same night, at different venues a mile apart? I’d like to speak to your manager, please! On May 9, Alien Boy unveiled their ...

Infuriating, tragic, heartbreaking and incendiary in equal measures, Portland filmmaker Brian Lindstromâ s Alien Boy: The Life and Death of James Chasse is a documentary that plays out like a horror ...

Portland, OR band Alien Boy released their very good third album You Wanna Fade? in May, and they’ll be taking it out on the road this fall. They’ve announced a new US tour of the East Coast and ...

Of all the abductions, this one is different.