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fuzzreport · 3 months ago
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Gondos
Shrine Basement, Boise ID, March 30th, 2025
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Portland’s own, Gondos closed out the Treefort Music Fest in the Shrine Basement in the heart of Boise. Gondos emerged onstage screaming cool, but the scream was silent and wearing sunglasses. Lead singer and rhythm guitarist, Case looped the most evil and ominous riff I’ve ever heard as the band made their final preparations. 
There was a certain uncertainty in the air. How much in our legs did we, the audience, have to give after 5 days of rocking out in Boise? But Case answered for us. “Everything,” he said. “You have to give me everything.” And we did. Thus ensued one of the most energetic, joyous, caring, moshes I have ever been a part of. It seemed there was an unspoken consensus among the crowd that we were all going to go insane with violent joy. Simultaneously with, at its peak, three to five crowdsurfers of all shapes and sizes floating their way on top of the crowd. 
(Long exposure photo taken while I was crowd surfing)
Before the set, a member of Gondos confided in me that he wanted to bring down the building, and sure enough, a light fixture came down in the chaos. 
As the final notes rang out and the dust settled in the dimly lit basement, there was a collective sense that something rare had just occurred—something louder than the amps, wilder than the pit, and deeper than the riff. Gondos didn’t just close out Treefort—they detonated it. What lingered wasn’t just ringing ears or bruised shins, but a feeling of strange, euphoric catharsis. Gondos didn’t burn out or fade away—they exploded, and in doing so, took us all with them.
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fuzzreport · 4 months ago
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Screenshot
Kelly's Olympian, Portland OR, Jan 19th, 2025
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Masters of dynamics, theatricality, and chaotic fun, PDX’s Screenshot entranced their Sunday night Kelly’s Olympian audience. Predominately a slowcore band, their emphasis on dynamics and repetition while maintaining control over the room evokes the best moments of post-rock.
The band was so tight that it was difficult to tell when the diligently rehearsed moments ended and the improv began. In the middle of the set, frontman Steven Shoelace claimed to forget a line and transformed a mistake into a hypnotic, rhythmic ramble regarding his faults, regrets, and anxieties, all while the rest of the band continued a droned riff that eventually erupted to a cathartic, steadfast crescendo.
I remember looking around the room and seeing so many jaws dropped. Steven’s words were raw and human. It was like seeing a great play, it seemed the audience felt ownership of the shared moment.
Check out Screenshot on Instagram!
Shot on digital.
Words by Billy King, Hunter Moore, and Mickey Fishback
Photos by Billy King
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fuzzreport · 4 months ago
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Beautiful Freaks
Local 31, Ashland OR, Nov. 3rd, 2024
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Seattle's own freaks.
A band after my own heart.
Legends of the road.
Photos by Casey Julian Minnick
shot on Ilford XP-2 400 speed film, with a Minolta XD-11 and an MC Rokkor 16mm 2.8-16 fisheye lens.
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fuzzreport · 4 months ago
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Rheumatoid Trapezoid
Mississippi Studios, Portland OR, Feb. 11th, 2025
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You may ask yourself: "Self? Is that you? Yes. Hello. Anyway, self, do I really want to listen to instrumental shreddy math rock? I mean, is that REALLY for me? The answer is YES, IDIOT if said shreddy math rock is coming from Rheumatoid Trapezoid. And stop calling yourself an idiot, cut yourself some slack."
PDX based mathematic shredders, Rheumatoid Trapezoid, kicked ass at Mississippi Studios. Andrew Mandell's multi-amp stack showered with Benton Smith's acrobatics behind the kit made the duo sound like an orchestra of controlled mayhem.
As the openers on a three band bill, Trapezoid set the bar for the night. They immediately took a commanding presence, then weaved between songs seamlessly, which glued the crowd and subsequently rendered them into a quadratic trance.
They paused rarely, and when they did, they paused with firm intention. During one of these pauses, Ben stood up, stretched unapologetically, then drank the fastest glass of water I've ever seen. That hydro was gone before he lifted the glass. They proceeded to do the hardest cover of the first few bars of a Weezer song I've ever heard, then jumped straight back into the satisfyingly relentless crescendo of their set with a medley of originals.
Rheumatoid Trapezoid's sense of unapologetic fun combined with their ability to ignite an unstoppable urge to rock out, place them as one of the top must-see bands in the PNW rock scene.
Check out rhematoidtrapezoid on Instagram!
Shot on 35mm
Photography and Words by Billy King
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