The Exploding Hearts are the biggest “what if” in the history of Portland music. Less than four months later, it all ended. On the way home from a sold-out show in San Francisco, the band's tour van ...

The week that three members of Portland’s Exploding Hearts died in a car crash, I had planned to pick up two Stiff Records t-shirts at Norman’s Sound and Vision in New York: one for myself, and one ...