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The soundtrack to a revolution: Hip-hop plays an important role in Portland protests

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
In an era of social distancing, Portland musicians find alternatives to performing live

Musicians, promoters and venues are getting mixed results with attempts at reaching audiences online Months after the coronavirus pandemic shut down most of Oregon, two musicians stood on stage, playing live music. Portland hip hop artists Mic Capes and D ...

26 Jul 2020 - Anthony King
Violinist transformed hostility into beauty at vigil for Elijah McClain

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
As pandemic ravages Portland music industry, what will happen to independent venues?

Some fear that if they don’t get financial support, national corporations will swoop in to take their place When the Music Stops Gig workers among Portland’s many independent venues are struggling to secure relief. Many also find themselves at a crossroa ...

15 Jun 2020 - Anthony King
For gig workers in the Portland music scene, jobless benefits are elusive

Changes at the Oregon Employment Department might finally provide an avenue for relief during the pandemic When the Music Stops Gig workers among Portland’s many independent venues are struggling to secure relief. Many also find themselves at a crossroad ...

12 Jun 2020 - Anthony King
New Eyelids album part of a Golden Age for bands of a certain age

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
Art Alexakis is not giving up

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
With book and new album, Tegan and Sara get nostalgic

In dedicating time to their memoir, “High School,” the musical twins are surprised to find they’re ‘so different and also so similar’ Imagine spending more than half your life working professionally with your twin sister – being so intertwined in every as ...

29 Nov 2019 - Giselle Au-Nhie...
Lin-Manuel Miranda: Me at 16

He found storytelling inspiration in hip-hop, and he took his projects seriously back then – ‘so much more seriously than I do now’ Lin-Manuel Miranda, a performance polymath best known for “Hamilton” and now starring in the TV adaptation of Philip Pullma ...

15 Nov 2019 - Jane Graham
Believe in yourself: What Brian May would tell his 16-year-old self

The Queen guitarist speaks out about struggling to ‘reprogram’ himself after school, dealing with depression, and Freddie Mercury Brian May, of the rock band Queen, penned a letter reflecting on his younger self. His letter is part of a series for Street ...

1 Nov 2019 - Jane Graham