Oh my god, you guys. My “Tramp Stamps and Birthmarks” video just passed half a million views on YouTube!

Big thanks to Kevin, Emily, Josh, Kelly and Benjamin from Hippodrome Media, to Robert for pulling off scary and creepy so well, to Spencer for co-writing the song with me and to Gino for producing it…did I already say “oh my god”?

Check it out HERE or by clicking play below. Thank you for watching, darlings. This was a difficult video to make, so I’m glad you like it!

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Shall we go for a cool million next?

(Originally Published on The Huffington Post on 1/2/2014, HuffPost Entertainment Section)

Portland’s Crystal Ballroom — an iconic, historic entertainment landmark for the city since 1914 — is celebrating its centennial birthday on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014.

To ring in the anniversary, McMenamins Crystal Ballroom has amassed an epic, 100-night celebration, appropriately called “100 Nights!” The party has been going strong since this past October and keeps churning out banger shows nightly until the 21st, with a special performance by Colin Meloy of The Decemberists.

Any band who has ever played the Crystal Ballroom, any person who has every been to a show in that special place, holds some piece of this rich, 100-year history as their own — myself included.

This past week I caught up with Carrie Brownstein (Sleater-Kinney, IFC’s Portlandia), Courtney Taylor-Taylor (The Dandy Warhols), Calvin Johnson (K Records Founder) and Jimi Biron (Music Director, Crystal Ballroom) to chat about the 100 nights of shows, what this birthday means for the NW music scene, and some of the more memorable moments from the ongoing Rock and Roll spectacle that is Portland’s Crystal Ballroom.