Pop star Beck contributes to a celebrity series of letters to younger versions of themselves for street papers worldwide. Beck talks about the “insanity” of public life, the hard times of his teenage years — and a life-changing trip to London. When I was ...
25 Jul 2015 - Beck
Gerrard's albums with Hazel Dickens in the ’60s and ’70s paved the way for women in the genre Alice Gerrard, born in Seattle, raised in California and now settled in North Carolina, is an American banjoist, guitar player and singer with a career that ...
18 Jul 2015 - Suzanne Zalokar
With the release of her debut album, “It’s My Way!,” in 1964, Buffy Sainte-Marie was named Billboard Magazine’s best new artist. It was the same year the United States was “invaded” by the Beatles and was in the midst of the Vietnam War. Soon after, with ...
10 Jul 2015 - Suzanne Zalokar
Indie-rock drummer turned chile roaster, Jesse Sandoval, tells how his brush with death brought him back to life "You have three months to live.” Jesse Sandoval knew his lifestyle would catch up with him eventually, but this soon? The doctor’s words ...
7 Jul 2015 - Emily Green
Spencer Tweedy is making music with his father – Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy – and paying tribute to his mother, who is fighting cancer Last year, at 18 years of age, Spencer Tweedy learned his mother had cancer. That sent him and the Tweedy family reeling. He d ...
15 Mar 2015 - Suzanne Zalokar
Ritchie Young was born and raised in a Republican family in Bend. He played a little music is school, but he will tell you he was “horrible.” Though he plays the guitar and sings lead vocals for his band, Loch Lomond, Young admits he identifies more as a ...
19 Jan 2015 - Suzanne Zalokar
Jennifer Batten didn’t become one of rock’s most accomplished professional guitar players with a waifish, coy girlie image. She got there by living, breathing and being music — by being a badass woman in an industry dominated by men. She did three world t ...
15 Jul 2014 - Suzanne Zalokar
Portland musician Chaz Mortimer blends the worlds of tradition and technology The popular adage says it takes a village to raise a child. Local percussionist, educator and producer Chaz Mortimer will tell you it also takes a village to raise a musician. M ...
18 Jun 2013 - Suzanne Zalokar
Canadian country star and self-proclaimed history buff Corb Lund talks music, health care and gun control By Sue Zalokar, Staff Writer Corb Lund hails from a long line of cowboys. He grew up in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta, Canada, went ...
16 May 2013 - Suzanne Zalokar
The Portland singer, songwriter uses crowdsourcing to put a new album on the market, with proceeds to help support local organizations By Sue Zalokar, Staff Writer Susannah Weaver. Why does that name sound familiar? Weaver, otherwise known as “Little Sue” ...
6 May 2013 - Suzanne Zalokar