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portland

Last updated: Thu Oct 23 2025 10:29:08 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)

Description

The Portland tag captures the eclectic indie spirit of the Pacific Northwest city's thriving music scene, blending folk storytelling, baroque pop arrangements, and experimental indie rock with an earnest, DIY ethos. Artists from this scene often emphasize literary lyricism, unconventional instrumentation, and a willingness to blur genre boundaries. The sound reflects Portland's creative community values: authenticity, artistic ambition, and a slightly quirky sensibility that prizes substance over commercial polish.

100 chronological releases

Place	Cover	Date	Artist	Album	Tags	Other places
90		1968	Paul Revere & The Raiders	12 Classic Tracks	classic rock garage rock portland rock
85		1980	Wipers	Box Set -- Is This Real?	portland
65		1985-05-14	Black Flag	Who's Got the 10½?	portland
70		1986-05	Black Flag	Who's got the 10½	portland
16		1993	Incendiary	Unrestrained split 7"	hardcore metalcore metallic hardcore portland
62		1995-02-14	Hazel	Are You Going to Eat That?	alternative portland rock
5		1997	JonnyX and the Groadies	I	electronic hardcore metal portland
24		2000	David Rovics	Live at Club Passim	folk folk rock portland singer-songwriter
60		2001	David Rovics	Living In These Times	folk portland singer-songwriter
39		2001-03-06	Plastiq Phantom	Enjoy The Art Of Lying Down	electronic idm portland seattle
27		2001-10-16	Wipers	Wipers Box Set	portland
57		2001-10-16	Dahlia	Emotion Cycles	portland trip-hop
49		2002	I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House	Creepy Little Noises	alt-country americana portland rock
42		2003	I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House	Put Here To Bleed	alt-country americana portland rock
89		2003	Haley Bonar	The Size of Planets	alt-country americana portland singer-songwriter
41		2004	Kasey Anderson	Way Out West	alt-country americana portland
58		2004	David Rovics	Songs for Mahmud	acoustic folk rock portland singer-songwriter
79		2004	Tracy Grammer	The Verdant Mile	acoustic folk rock portland
95		2004	Todd Snider	East Nashville Skyline	alt-country americana portland
50		2004-09-07	Vells	Flight From Echo Falls	indie rock pop portland seattle
37		2004-10-12	Kasey Anderson	Dead Roses	alt-country americana portland
43		2004-10-19	Plastiq Phantom	Plastiq Phantom	electronic idm portland seattle
35		2004-12-17	Psychic Emperor	Psychic Emperor	indie rock portland seattle
18		2004-12	bonus	Bonus	noise portland
75		2005	Tracy Grammer	Flower of Avalon	folk rock portland
56		2005-01-01	Derby	This is the New You	indie rock oregon portland	oregon # 87
74		2005-09	The Decemberists	Present 'Picaresque'	indie rock folk
11		2006	Iretsu	The Moon And Stars Remain In The Morning Sky	alternative chamber chamber pop dream pop indie pop indie rock portland	chamber # 73
9		2006	Hello Damascus	Harvest Dolls	portland
25		2006	Dirty Martini	Tea and Revenge	americana folk pop portland
77		2006	Richmond Fontaine	Live at the Doug Fir Lounge	alt-country americana portland singer-songwriter
31		2006	Iretsu	Name our Numbers, Numbers
83		2006-09-15	The Blow	Paper Television	alternative rock
100		2006-09-29	Wild Flag	Wild Flag	female vocalists indie rock portland
1		2006-11-28	Sheers	Sheers	classical piano portland
6		2007	Luxxx	cunt 4 ever	breakcore electronic jungle portland
45		2007	Visitations	Visitations	portland
10		2007-05-28	Tragedy Andy	Real Love Is Permanent	portland san francisco
73		2007-09-11	Kasey Anderson	The Reckoning	alt-country americana folk rock portland singer-songwriter
14		2007-09-18	Vells	Integretron	indie rock pop portland seattle
8		2007-11-07	Chris Robley	The Drunken Dance of Modern Man in Love	alternative folk rock portland rock
33		2008	Catfight	In Stereo	oregon portland	oregon # 73
86		2008-01-15	Tracy Grammer	Book of Sparrows	folk portland
26		2008-05	Mt. Moon	Bless Those Sleepy Sleepy Lights	american chamber country diy folk freak folk indie folk organ portland soundtrack	chamber # 80
53		2008-12-14	Hemmit	RocketRide	alternative classic rock garage rock guitar rock hard rock metal portland rock	guitar rock # 83
64		2009	Attica! Attica!	Napalm & Nitrogen	acoustic folk punk portland punk rock
88		2009-04-21	Weinland	Breaks In The Sun	folk rock portland
84		2009-06-09	Todd Snider	The Excitement Plan	alt-country americana portland
98		2009-06-16	The Builders and the Butchers	Salvation Is A Deep Dark Well	alt-country americana folk gothic country portland	gothic country # 93
63		2009-10-13	Shelley Short	A Cave, A Canoo
82		2009-10-21	Laura Gibson & Ethan Rose	Bridge Carols	ambient folk portland
55		2009-11-14	Marc Broude	Medicine	america american american underground chicago dark ambient illbient jazz oregon portland spoken word usa	america # 22 illbient # 37 american underground # 55 oregon # 85
28		2010	pEACEFANg	pEACEFANg EP	america american american underground electronic experimental indie folktronica indietronica organic electronica portland usa	american underground # 22 experimental indie # 54 organic electronica # 70
34		2010	Plankton Wat	shadows	portland
46		2010	Four Quartets	Four Quartets	alternative chamber folk folk lo-fi portland rock
59		2010	Richmond Fontaine	Postcard from Portland: Live at Dante's	folk rock portland
78		2010	Kasey Anderson	Nowhere Nights	alt-country americana portland singer-songwriter
13		2010-02-01	Ellie Fortune	Matriarch	california country portland
66		2010-04-20	Guidance Counselor	Guidance Counselor	portland
32		2010-05-11	Hosannas	Then & Now & Then	portland
71		2010-06-22	Spirituals	Spirituals	portland
20		2010-11-22	Thy Courage Quail	goblin's gate	america american american underground americana anti-folk diy lo-fi one man band one man project portland singer-songwriter usa	american underground # 11 anti-folk # 27 one man band # 56 one man project # 72
7		2011	Napalm Beach	Rock & Roll Hell	alternative rock diy portland punk rock
48		2011	Kasey Anderson and the Honkies	Heart of a Dog	alt-country americana blues rock portland rock
91		2011	Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside	Dirty Radio	alternative rock alternative rock portland
94		2011-01-18	Dolorean	The Unfazed	alternative portland
93		2011-02-15	AgesandAges	Alright You Restless	acoustic folk portland rock singer-songwriter
80		2011-04-23	Shook Twins	Window	acoustic folk portland
52		2011-09-24	Monomate	Negative Emotions	ambient ambient pop electronic experimental electronic experimental pop hypnagogic pop lo-fi noise noise pop plunderphonics pop portland shoegaze	experimental electronic # 30
92		2012-03-06	Todd Snider	Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables	americana portland singer-songwriter
4		2012-05-18	Vinnie Dewayne	The St. Johns Scholar	hip-hop oregon portland rap	oregon # 63
21		2012-07-31	AVOXBLUE	A Place Without Time	oregon portland	oregon # 69
87		2012-09-11	The Helio Sequence	Negotiations	rock indie rock
51		2012-10-05	Coastlands	Home, Again
81		2013-01-17	Menomena	Toomer	indie rock portland rock
67		2013-02-02	Agalloch	The Weight Of Darkness	black metal dark metal folk metal portland
19		2013-07-15	Lunch	Quinn Touched the Sun	garage punk noise punk portland	noise punk # 40
38		2013-08-30	Blackwitch Pudding	Taste the Pudding	doom metal oregon portland sludge metal stoner doom stoner metal stoner rock	oregon # 74
69		2014-01-21	Young Thug & Bloody Jay	Black Portland	portland
54		2014-10-14	Eyelids	854	lo-fi portland rock
44		2015	Coastlands	Come Morning, a Radiant Light		oregon # 82
68		2017-01-29	Fried Rice	The Perfect Nut	comedy portland rap
40		2017-09-17	Graveflowers	The Hyacinth Garden	black metal depressive black metal metal noise portland raw black metal
36		2018-12-14	Bed.	Replay	alternative lo-fi portland shoegaze
99		2020-04-03	Ezra Bell	Don't All Look Up At Once	alternative americana folk indie rock oregon portland	americana # 8 oregon # 100
97		2020-05-29	Charmer & Klay	Quiet Night	instrumental portland seattle	seattle # 80
72		2021-02-12	Rainmaking	rainmaking	hardcore portland screamo skramz	skramz # 29
12		2022-02-04	Autosarcophagy	Dolor	black metal blackened death metal death metal metal portland
61		2022-09-23	Todd Snider	Todd Snider Live-The Storyteller	alt-country americana portland singer-songwriter
96		2023	Various Artists	To: Elliott, From: Portland
22		2023-02-24	Jetlagged	depart, be lost, but climb		deutschland # 22 new york city # 26 oregon # 70 keyboard # 80 trip # 80
30			1800s Sea Monster	Soundtrack Tapes For Crazy Red	acoustic banjo bluegrass country diy field recordings folk hardcore krautrock noise noise rock portland slowcore sound collage soundtrack ukulele	banjo # 37 ukulele # 63
47			jakob battick & friends	Heavy The Mountains, Heavy Are The Seas		spain # 5 sadcore # 9 east coast # 22 requiem # 62
76			Blake McKibben	Haze	acoustic alternative alternative rock ambient american beat blues chillout christian classic rock electronic electronica emo emocore folk grunge hard rock hardcore indie pop indie rock jazz metal metalcore pop pop punk pop rock portland post-grunge post-punk power pop progressive rock reggae rnb rock screamo seattle singer-songwriter ska soul usa world	seattle # 32 beat # 69
2			Rabbits without Spleens	Promo release	ambient australia brooklyn electro electronic portland vibraphone
3			The Young Immortals	When History Meets Fiction	alternative portland rock
15			Truckstop Darlin'	Self Titled	alt-country americana portland
17			How to Build a Fire	An Open Mouth Hears No Words	alternative folk portland rock
23			Kevin Burke and Mícheál O'Domhnaill	Portland	celtic portland
29			Bone Blanket	Drown	brooklyn folk portland

Related genres

• oregon
• rock
• ambient
• singer-songwriter
• americana
• noise
• alternative
• electronic
• folk
• alt-country