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Mike “Brass Cankles” Cunnane on local music

I reached to a number of friends who I think have some idea about what’s what in local music and asked them to name a band readers should pay attention to. Mike “Brass Cankles” Cunnane (who I interviewed back in September) offered the following direct, curmudgeonly take, the contrarian’s contrarian essence of which does not […]

Mike Cunnane’s Brass Cankles is like MTV minus reality TV, plus Portland and music

Mike Cunnane plays drums for The RattleSnakes, a band he has been in for 6 years, and he plays percussion in Sunset Hearts. He also documents the goings-on of Portland’s underground, indie and punk scenes on his video blog called Brass Cankles. The blog features well over 100 videos of 60 to 70 unique bands […]