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03/01/2018 | comments
Lake Street Dive is one of those bands that flew under my radar for a long time and I didn't get hip to their sound until last fall. And am I glad I did. While scrolling through some YouTube videos one ...
01/30/2018 | comments
Seth Walker swings through Portland this week with a date at the White Eagle Saloon on Thursday. The critically acclaimed Walker has just released his latest single, Spirits Moving, in advance of a live ...
12/17/2017 | comments
... in concert to celebrate the anniversary. Creepy Little Noises fitfully kicked off the show. American F**k Machine followed and put things in overdrive. This is where the SOBs shine. Heavy guitars, a monster ...
12/13/2017 | comments
Montreal's The Barr Brothers swing through Portland on Friday with a stop at the Wonder Ballroom. The band just wrapped up a European run opening for The War On Drugs and their current headlining tour ...
12/05/2017 | comments
Big Head Todd and the Monsters swing through Portland this week with a stop at Revolution Hall Thursday. Some bands just seem to get everything right from the start and BHTM is most definitely one of those. Based ...
11/01/2017 | comments
Bands that fall in the spaces between musical genres have tremendous flexibility. Some get lost in that amount of creative freedom. Others, like Deer Tick, thrive. Simultaneously folksy, funky, soulful, ...
10/17/2017 | comments
In his spoken intro to the song I Can't Turn You Loose, Elwood Blues of the Blues Brothers says, "By the year 2006 the music known today as the blues will exist only in the classical records department ...
10/11/2017 | comments
After cutting his musical chops the past ten years, Lukas Nelson may finally have broken through to the national stage in a major way. His latest album "Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real" is a great ...
10/11/2017 | comments
Being successful in music can have a certain Peter Pan quality: The temptation to never grow up is strong. "When you're at the top, the waters can get really muddy in terms of how you carry yourself and ...
10/03/2017 | comments
I had been out Sunday evening and away from my messages. Taking a quick look at my phone before going to bed, I saw a push notification from the New York Times mentioning a shooting in Las Vegas. My first ...
10/02/2017 | comments
Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats cruised through Portland on Saturday evening with a solid show at the Widmer Brothers' Oktoberfest Saturday at Pioneer Square. Quite honestly, I'm not sure how ...
09/26/2017 | comments
North Carolina based Sarah Shook swings through town this week with a stop at Mississippi Studios on Thursday night. "Sidelong", her latest release, dropped back in April and is a raucous trip featuring ...
09/05/2017 | comments
Life is full of irony and the latest musical version of this observation comes from the Country Music Association. Over the weekend, Jason Isbell's latest release, "The Nashville Sound", was announced ...
08/31/2017 | comments
We are where we usually are this week, World Cup Coffee & Tea at NW 18th and Glisan in Portland, but we've changed it up a bit. I'm sitting in for Tom D'Antoni, hosting our Coffeeshop Conversation ...
08/23/2017 | comments
Rebecca Correia's latest single dropped today alongside a moving video featuring dancer Adrianne Haslet, who lost a leg in the Boston Marathon bombing. The song was produced by Keb' Mo' and is being released ...
08/19/2017 | comments
Evidently, time is flying by because when I started to think about writing down some thoughts about Pokey LaFarge I was kind of surprised to (re)discover that since his debut in 2006 he has put out seven ...
08/18/2017 | comments
Robert Johnson, as legend tells it, sold his soul to the devil in exchange for being able to properly play his guitar. One could be forgiven for beginning to think Ray Wylie Hubbard has made a similar ...
08/16/2017 | comments
Saturday evening at Edgefield is lined up for an epic night of music as Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue come through Portland with St. Paul & The Broken Broken Bones providing support. In April, ...
08/09/2017 | comments
Describing the speed of life in New York City to someone who has never spent time there is pretty difficult. Imagine people constantly being hyped up on triple espressos, walking faster than the traffic ...
08/07/2017 | comments
John Moreland is out with a new album titled "Big Bad Luv" and swings through Portland this Thursday with a date at the Aladdin Theater. In a preview like this, I'd normally focus on the new music and ...