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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (March 3, 2000)
______ mtirrh 1 MUSIC "finn J— t "* 3 5 Lighting up Portland's Broadway Motherlode varies its style by playing songs ritten by each of the women. Collie, who aches health and drug and alcohol awareness high schoolers in Portland, is known best for riting songs with a sense of melody and uthenticity. She says politics are most potent hen delivered through music, because the telody makes people want to listen, it makes essages more accessible. Fallon, a ceramic artist who lives in a farm- ouse near Canby, Ore., is known for her bal- adry and her ability to paint with words. Col lie says Fallon also writes many of the groups -omedic songs. “Kath is wonderfully quick-witted,” she says. Like Collie, Janet Peterson is known in the group as a melodic songwriter. One of the two who live in Bellingham, she works as a sign language interpreter during the day. Marie Eaton, who also lives in Wash ington and serves as dean of an alternative college, has an ever-evolving style, and her bandmates say she has been expanding her composing abilities recently by learning new, different-sounding chords. These days, 20 years is longer than most marriages last. Both Collie and Fallon agree that the music is what has kept Motherlode playing this long—and the bond of womanly friendship is what keeps the audience coming back. “We’ve lived a lot of lifetimes in these 20 years,” Collie says. “Heart and soul is why we sing, why we stay together." Adapting the same quick-witted mind-set that she uses to write many of Motherlode s funnier songs, Fallon retorts: “I do it for the money.” celebrates its 20th anniversary with a March 4 concert at the Hollywood Theatre, 4036 N.E. Sandy Blvd. Tickets are $14-50 in advance, $17 at the door. They are available at It’s My Pleasure and through Fastixx. The new CD and video will be previewed at the show and may be purchased afterward. ■ MOTHERLODE eparting from the depths of Portland’s punky east side, the retro-pop act Cadalla- ca has taken off for a frontier not yet explored in dyke rock with a new four-song EP, Out West. Unlike Motherlode, Cadallaca only has a couple years under its belt, but the band still emits the feeling of a unit of friends. The group will celebrate the release of its new record at Portlands Crystal Ballroom on March 3, the night before the Motherlode concert. Cadallaca, a hand that features three of D dyke rock’s big guns—Sarah Dougher, formerly of the Lookers; the mysteriously named “sts” of the Haggard; and Corin Tucker of Sleater- Kinney—first rolled onto the scene in 1998 with the album Introducing, a rocking ode to girl groups like the Shirelles. With Out West, the band seems to have honed its collective song-writing skills a bit, but we’re only treated to four songs that end as quickly as they begin. Four seems like the right number of tracks for a 7” record, so it’s a little perplexing that the Kill Rock Stars label decid ed to release Out West on compact disc. Anyway, the EP’s F eaturing unique candles Sc accessories I» ...something fo r all occasions lv s d ì midi. LM I 1902 NE B roadwav 503.281.2438 first song, “Out West,” is raw and powerful but, because of the fuzzy guitars and vocal delivery, sounds like it was lifted from a P.J. Harvey album. Cadallaca may be pioneering, but cer tainly not in this musical territory. The remaining three songs are where Cadallaca shines the most. “Scarface” has a well-iaid-out chorus and verses. Its lyrics stab you with honesty and poignancy, like when Dougher sings, “This isn’t my real heart, baby, it’s just a scar.” “The Trouble with Public Places” is the EP’s best song. As on “Out West," Tucker’s vocals are fuzzed out, but there’s no hint of Harvey on this one—this track is a singalong rocker. 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