are willing to band together with the right resources and access to the right information. There’s ... and amplifies the need for housing, health care and basic hygiene resources. Addressing one shortage, ... in this case, would address the other. A medical tent that is part of a homeless camp in Portland is ...
6 Mar 2020 - Kaia Sand
The Everclear frontman and former Portlander talks about his first solo album, his MS diagnosis ... Sexual abuse. Drug addiction. And then later, in Portland, the great success and gradual tailing off of ... the ‘90s alt-rock era, when Alexakis and his band, Everclear, had such hits as “Heroin Girl,” “Santa ...
13 Dec 2019 - Jason Cohen
Polish-born, Oscar-nominated Agnieszka Holland, who has helmed episodes of “The Wire,” “The Killing” and “House ... metal song called by Swedish band Avatar about a dead owl. Q&A: Right-wing extremists: ‘Exposing ... conservative commentators say, is that visitor logs place her at the White House several times during 2015. ...
7 Feb 2020 - Steven MacKenzie
A photographer's journey into the eyes of Portland’s homeless Adams' book highlights the stories of vendors ... musicians. You could put a band together, learn some songs, and you’d get gigs – and maybe even pay your ... I remember I did one gig somewhere for him on the Downtown Eastside in a kind of converted old house ...
15 Nov 2019 - Rosemary Newton
revolution in American music. Clinton formed The Parliaments in New Jersey in 1955, and the band rehearsed ... the seeds for house music and techno. And with 1992’s “The Chronic,” rapper and producer Dr. Dre ... rock ’n’ roll era, there was a group called Mother’s Finest – a black rock ’n’ roll band that most ...
17 May 2019 - Woody McDonald
arrived. He often materializes at indie rock gigs – catching bands like Rilo Kiley, Best Coast, Kings of ... partnership has toured the globe, including performances in Portland last fall, with no signs of slowing down. ... sing in front of this band, and your voice sounds like a frog.” (He’s not wrong.) The man is no ...
16 Nov 2018 - Doug Wallen
new roots in Portland The songs for “American Band,” by Southern rockers Drive-By Truckers, were ... The musician talks about the band’s political stripe, losing his artistic heroes and setting down ... about race, gun violence and the border made “American Band” feel like a Trump’s America record – much ...
26 Jan 2018 - Jason Cohen
history of American music. For the occasion, Langford – who also leads the alternative country band Waco ... Brothers and fronts a variety of solo backing bands – formed a whole new group, Four Lost Souls, with ... also got back together with the original line-up of the punk band The Mekons (now known as The Mekons ...
28 Sep 2018 - Jason Cohen
Portland-based band is used to playing in lots of gigs, in lots of different settings. The Pioneer Square ... already give it away, the band is up to something very different, and unlike anything it – or Portland ... Love, addiction and rock ’n’ roll come together in the band’s theatrical debut, ‘Wild and ...
28 Mar 2017 - Jason Cohen
people the freedom to choose what they want to do. Look at the British bands from the ’60s like the ... produce more pop bands? Bregman: Because it’s not just the right thing to do but also the financially ... later, nine of the 13 had a roof above their heads, two more had applied for housing, and it actually ...
12 Apr 2019 - Sam Delaney