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MUSIC
Will Work for Good
Portland pop dynamo Logon Lynn
quits music, for now
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Logan Lynn just wants a new hoodie. Sit this town that I know that would be like,‘Dude,
ting outside a North Portland cafe, blue hood you’re super blowing it. I have no idea what
yanked over a navy baseball hat, he points to a you’re talking about,m concedes Lynn, fresh
missing zipper pull— and later, more tellingly, off a West Coast Pride tour with his band The
Gentry, and fresh out of a single-album con
to letters on the hoodie’s front, “F-R -E -D .”
“It just needs to say ‘not what I thought it tract with the Dandy Warhols’ Beat the World
label. “And I feel that way too. I get that.”
was gonna be,’” he says, half joking.
W hat he hasn’t gotten, however, has been
It s been that kind o f decade for the Port
land musician, who took to his website Thurs time to deal with issues a decade in the mak
ing, from the end of a
day, July 29 to announce
“One
thing
that
is
long-term relationship to
his
self-proclaimed
the “slimy” clingers-on to
“career suicide,” an in p a in fu ll/ clear to me
his well-publicized battle
definite hiatus from the
and
ever/one
who
music business. W ith
with substance abuse.
characteristic
candor, knows me in real life is “I just really don’t see
Lynn wrote: “As I near
myself being in a good
that
I
AM
MISERABLE.
the 10-year-anniversary
place a year from now if
of my debut record,... I I have been for some
I keep on this path,” Lynn
have come to some con
time. I’m sick of being shares. “This might be me
clusions not only about
being a fucking dramatic
broke,
mismanaged,
the journey I’ve been on
Libra, but I do have a ten
since then musically and overworked, screwed
dency to be all or nothing
in my personal life, but
about stuff. I feel like the
over
b
/
the
folks
who
also the journey I intend
only way to stop it at this
to be on moving forward ore supposed to be
point is to just break it.
with both.
Break everything, stop
looking
out
for
me
...
One thing that is
doing the whole thing,
painfully clear to me and /o u know, oil the hits."
kinda come clean.”
everyone who knows me
Lynn has been clean of
- LOGAN LYNN
in real life is that I AM
cocaine and alcohol since
MISERABLE. I have been for some time. I’m 2007, about the time he signed with Beat the
sick of being broke, mismanaged, overworked, World and began production on his third full-
screwed over by the folks who are supposed to length solo record, From Pillar to Post, a polished
be looking out for me ... you know, all the hits.” electro-pop confessional. The disc debuted to
A few days later over iced coffee, Lynn pulls critical acclaim—the video for his single “Feed
even fewer punches, with himself and others. Me to the Wolves” landed among the Logo
“The more time I have to think it over, the more Network’s “Top 10 of 2008”—and by Lynn’s
comfortable I am with the whole idea,” he says, online tallies, 18,000 downloads. “For a while,
in what begins a conversation about demons, I was able to see that as dollar signs,” he says.
downloads and the decision to withdraw from “If Billboard cared about that, if my label cared
what he admits is an enviable, even courted about that, then I’m a huge success. But that’s
spotlight— at least from the outside.
not how the industry is set up. ... It’s still very
“I’m sure there’s at least a thousand bands in much record sales. Something’s going to have to