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
Love, addiction and rock ’n’ roll come together in the band’s theatrical debut, ‘Wild and Reckless’ Since releasing its eighth record, “All Across This Land,” in October 2015, Blitzen Trapper has played three Portland shows: one in Pioneer Square and two ...
28 Mar 2017 - Jason Cohen
Ian Brennan brings music of far-off cultures to American ears I an Brennan has worked to bring music diversity to the ears of listeners around the globe since he began making field recordings in San Francisco in the early 1990s. His first journey to ano ...
25 Apr 2016 - 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
When I was growing up, in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, my days were metered by a crossstitch piece that my mother had made that was hanging in the hall. It read, “Thank God I’m a Buckeye and not just some nut.” I always – always – think of that saying when ...
21 Jul 2014 - Suzanne Zalokar
After graduating from law school, Beth Wooten found herself hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, in a dismal job market, at the height of the recession. She decided to forgo taking the bar exam and look to other work options. She turned to another ca ...
5 Jun 2014 - Suzanne Zalokar
Portland musician’s innovative website UseMusic.org joins artists with nonprofits for charity Ezra Holbrook has already made a name for himself in Portland. He is a a founding member of the Decemberists and has collaborated with numerous Northwest artists ...
15 Feb 2014 - Devan Schwartz