The Bardo philosophy is ingrained in the Blitzen Trapper frontman’s music, and his new career in homeless services has influenced his writing and his artwork B litzen Trapper hasn’t played a show in 2020, which makes them pretty much like every other arti ...
30 Dec 2020 - Jason Cohen
Local artists and music curators discuss the beats Portland’s Black Lives Matter movement is marching to A few short months ago, the streets of Portland were eerily quiet, subdued by the uncertainty of COVID-19’s sudden grip on the globe. Now, Portland is ...
4 Aug 2020 - Donovan M. Smith
Jeff Hughes, a professional musician, explains how he calmed tensions between police and protesters in the Colorado town where police killed the young Black man AURORA, Colo. — For 30 minutes, it looked as if the vigil for Elijah McClain would be remember ...
14 Jul 2020 - Giles Clasen
'Songs from the Shadows,' featuring songs by people who have experienced sexual trauma, will bring awareness to human trafficking and exploitation The present is reaching back to heal the past deep in the subterranean passageways beneath Portlan ...
17 Aug 2018 - Helen Hill
The Prophets of Rage (and Rage Against the Machine) musician has never been afraid to be politically provocative In the 1980s, Tom Morello – years before becoming Rage Against the Machine’s resident Guitar God – was just a young man in Spandex who loved h ...
13 Oct 2017 - Jason Greenough
In the midst of political turmoil in Europe and the U.S., the band was motivated to make its most political record yet – but hopes never to have to write another one like it Thirty-four years ago, when British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had just won ...
14 Jul 2017 - Richard Smirke