Musician and activist Logan Lynn on Gucci, “gay joy,” thriving and surviving during lockdown and touring — or rather, not touring — in the time of COVID In some ways, these have been the best two years of Logan Lynn’s career. He’s been a Gucci model. He s ...
31 Aug 2022 - Jason Cohen
Drummer Hugo Burnham on Gang of Four’s return to the stage Gang of Four have aged well. That’s because of the band’s music — clattering, sometimes funky, ahead-of-its-time art-punk that has never stopped being a frame of reference for contemporary bands ...
23 Mar 2022 - Jason Cohen
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
Chris Slusarenko and John Moen are joined by former Tim Buckley collaborator Larry Beckett Chris Slusarenko and John Moen of the Portland indie rock band Eyelids are in their early 50s. Poet and songwriter Larry Beckett is in his early 70s. But their new ...
6 Mar 2020 - Jason Cohen
The Everclear frontman and former Portlander talks about his first solo album, his MS diagnosis and Trump Art Alexakis has survived a lot. An impoverished and fatherless childhood in California. Sexual abuse. Drug addiction. And then later, in Portland, t ...
13 Dec 2019 - Jason Cohen
Eighteen months after suffering a stroke, the Portland indie legend returns in both Filthy Friends and The Minus 5 Scott McCaughey has made scores of records over the past 35 years – with his Seattle band, the Young Fresh Fellows; with his more recent Por ...
10 May 2019 - Jason Cohen
The worldly musician talks to Street Roots about seeing the American South through a Welshman’s eyes In 2016, as Donald Trump was emerging as the 45th president of the nation, Mekons co-founder Jon Langford was getting ready to go down to Alabama, where t ...
28 Sep 2018 - Jason Cohen
The former Pavement frontman has a new release with his longtime local band, the Jicks Nobody was trying to keep Californians out of Oregon back when Stephen Malkmus got here (or at least, no more than usual). The Stockton native and former Pavement front ...
18 May 2018 - Jason Cohen
The musician talks about the band’s political stripe, losing his artistic heroes and setting down new roots in Portland The songs for “American Band,” by Southern rockers Drive-By Truckers, were mostly written in 2014 and 2015 and recorded in the first ha ...
26 Jan 2018 - Jason Cohen
Portlanders Corin Tucker and Peter Buck talk about their brand-new band Filthy Friends formed like most bands do. In fact, it’s right there in the name: They are a bunch of people who like each other, playing music together. It just so happens that two me ...
17 Aug 2017 - Jason Cohen