Another Mercury music section to read while you recover from getting struck by lightning while wearing your ipod. Or not.

If all is right in the world, Honest Racket, the brand new release from Sandpeople, will be recognized the world over as a highlight to our city’s burgeoning hiphop scene.
MP3: Sandpeople - Industrial Grade

Speaking of great moments in PDX hiphop, don’t forget Watts Happening, the new record from Ohmega Watts. Alternate album title: Watts Eating Gilbert Grape.
MP3: Ohmega Watts - Model Citizen

Curling and songs about cats? The Weakerthans are crazy, man.
MP3: The Weakerthans - Sun In An Empty Room

Bill Callahan has decided that he no longer wants to be known as Smog, “that one guy who dated Chan Marshall,” or “that one guy who is dating Joanna Newsom.” He is now just Bill Callahan, or as I like to call him, THE LUCKIEST MAN ALIVE.
MP3: Bill Callahan - Diamond Dancer

Loch Lomond unveil their plot to kidnap the Loch Ness Monster in order to make a some $$$. Oh, sorry, I mean £££.
MP3: Loch Lomond - A Field Report