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 Maybelle Community Singers will lend their voice to a special appearance with the Oregon Symphony at Portland’s Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall Thank you. Thank you for your patience Trekking from office to office. Thank you.” Sixty voices si ...
11 May 2018 - Helen Hill
The Lullaby Project pairs new mothers with professional musicians to promote bond with infant For all the uncertainty in Kate Fraser Daley’s life right now, her devotion to her family has remained steadfast and strong. Her family members include her 6-mon ...
20 Apr 2018 - Helen Hill
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
Bassist Lucas Warford discusses music and the Portland trio’s latest trip to Russia It is difficult to do justice to the band of eclectic misfits that make up Three for Silver. A full-time trio (and sometime big band) of gypsy jazz mercenaries and multi- ...
17 Nov 2017 - Stephen Quirke
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
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
Father John Misty’s third album, "Pure Comedy," is a sardonic sermon on hope, despair and the doom-laden future of humanity Father John Misty’s back catalog is enough to convince you that he is a brilliant, slightly unhinged misanthropist who ca ...
4 Aug 2017 - Katherine Smyrk
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
The musician from West Africa has a unique style of music and storytelling aimed at inspiring a better understanding of others Parfait Bassale is a local singer, songwriter and rap artist who, when he’s not at his day job, produces music out of the baseme ...
17 May 2017 - Emily Green