Haunted by Portland

Sure, The Gossip's latest album has been out for a while, but it was only about a month ago that the NME named Beth Ditto the Coolest Person in the World. She was also recently on the cover of The Guardian's Sunday magazine, and last Sunday she peered at us from her Portland kitchen on the cover of The Observer's Food Monthly magazine. This month I'm reading good reviews of new albums from The Shins and The Decemberists.

But yesterday was the last straw: I picked up the new Uncut magazine, whose free sampler CD includes a new track from Richmond Fontaine called The Kid from Belmont Street ... now that's really rubbing it in.

I'm looking forward to next month when Sleater-Kinney release You'd Be A Fool To Move Away From Portland.