Alien Boy’s 2021 album, Don’t Know What I Am, dealt in glimmering hooks and dialed-up distortion. The Portland alt-rock group’s next record, You Wanna Fade?, ups the stakes, turning their songs into ...

God damn, god damn, god damn—as Beyoncé would say—there’s a lotta stellar music being made in Portland right now! Longtime Rip City psych-outs, Grails drop their new album May 16 while up-and-coming ...

Whose idea was it to hold release shows for Alien Boy and Grails on the same night, at different venues a mile apart? I’d like to speak to your manager, please! On May 9, Alien Boy unveiled their ...

Last month, Portland's Alien Boy returned with the announcement of their new album You Wanna Fade? The band shared the great lead single "Changes," and now they're back with another banger titled ...

In 2021, the Portland band Alien Boy released a really solid album called Don't Know What I Am, which included "The Way I Feel," one of my personal favorite songs of the year. Today, they're back with ...

Portland is a great city for loud rock-’n’-roll music right now, and Alien Boy is a major reason why. Loud, queer, sincere and blessed with a guitar tone that sounds like a wall of liquid gold, Alien ...