Floater is a band on a tightrope walk. The Portland-based trio has for nearly 20 years maintained a healthy balance that keeps it in this tenuous world between brain-dead hard rock and the noodlings ...

Not everything from Portland is considered cool. Floater, a hard-rock band that formed in Eugene 17 years ago and relocated to Portland in 1998, is a fine example. The group's sparse mentions in local ...