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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
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
A new side of Amanda Palmer

The musician’s new album, ‘There Will Be No Intermission,’ contains more than her provocative and flamboyant fare Amanda Palmer has always made a point of standing out. With an eye for the theatrical and an open-book honesty that’s seen her songwriting ta ...

2 Aug 2019 - David James Young
With 2 albums in 5 months, Anderson.Paak is not your average rapper

‘Oxnard’ and ‘Ventura’ represent a short distance along Highway 101 but a significant journey in life for the California musician No corner of California is invisible to Anderson.Paak’s eye. After releasing his sun-soaked debut, “Venice,” in 2014, the sou ...

26 Jul 2019 - Brodie Lancaster
Street Roots vendor writing: NOFX lyrics speak for the disenfranchised

The famed punk band will play at Portland Meadows on July 12 Most of you in your 40s probably remember NOFX. They’re the punk band from Los Angeles famous for their punk/ska creations such as “Linoleum” and “Don’t Call Me White.” They were one of the firs ...

12 Jul 2019 - Timothy “Wrecks...