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Waterfront Blues Festival 2020: Paintings & Drawings from the past 20 years of performances
By DIANE RUSSELL // Painter Diane Russell, and also an OMN photographer, has been photographing and painting subjects from the Waterfront Blues Festival for 20 years. Here's a gallery of her WBF paintings.
Waterfront Blues Festival 2020: Paintings & Drawings from the past 20 years of performances
Darkswoon live-streams on Sunday, July 5 at 6pm on OMN Live
Watch Darkswoon perform live on Sunday, July 5 at 6pm on the OMN Facebook page.
Darkswoon live-streams on Sunday, July 5 at 6pm on OMN Live
Allen Toussaint: Familiar songs and brand new tunes at the 2015 Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival - video interview and review
By TOM D'ANTONI // Allen Toussaint played the 2015 Waterfront Blues Festival on July 3. He died the following November. Here's a video interview from a few weeks before the festival.Plus coverage of the day.
Allen Toussaint: Familiar songs and brand new tunes at the 2015 Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival - video interview and review
Karl Denson: Waterfront Blues Festival, July 5, 2013 / Audio interview
By TOM D'ANTONI // Karl Denson fills a very important place in the Jazz/Funk nexus. His tunes are complex enough to make any Jazz fan happy, but funky enough to make you dance. This was the original function of Jazz, so Denson brings the music full circle.
Karl Denson: Waterfront Blues Festival, July 5, 2013 / Audio interview
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Darkswoon live-streams on Sunday, July 5 at 6pm on OMN Live
Watch Darkswoon perform live on Sunday, July 5 at 6pm on the OMN Facebook page.
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Karl Denson: Waterfront Blues Festival, July 5, 2013 / Audio interview
By TOM D'ANTONI // Karl Denson fills a very important place in the Jazz/Funk nexus. His tunes are complex enough to make any Jazz fan happy, but funky enough to make you dance. This was the original function of Jazz, so Denson brings the music full circle.
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A new video from Toots and the Maytals: "Got To Be Tough"
We are told: "Got To Be Tough" is an energizing provocation that renews the near six-decade career of the man who launched a new sound and genre with his 1968 release, “Do ......
What's New
Darkswoon live-streams on Sunday, July 5 at 6pm on OMN Live
Jul 4, 2020
Watch Darkswoon perform live on Sunday, July 5 at 6pm on the OMN Facebook page.
Waterfront Blues Festival 2020: Paintings & Drawings from the past 20 years of performances
Jul 4, 2020
By DIANE RUSSELL // Painter Diane Russell, and also an OMN photographer, has been photographing and painting subjects from the Waterfront Blues Festival for 20 years. Here's a gallery of her WBF paintings.
Karl Denson: Waterfront Blues Festival, July 5, 2013 / Audio interview
Jun 30, 2020
By TOM D'ANTONI // Karl Denson fills a very important place in the Jazz/Funk nexus. His tunes are complex enough to make any Jazz fan happy, but funky enough to make you dance. This was the original function of Jazz, so Denson brings the music full circle.
Allen Toussaint: Familiar songs and brand new tunes at the 2015 Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival - video interview and review
Jul 1, 2020
By TOM D'ANTONI // Allen Toussaint played the 2015 Waterfront Blues Festival on July 3. He died the following November. Here's a video interview from a few weeks before the festival.Plus coverage of the day.
A new video from Toots and the Maytals: "Got To Be Tough"
Jul 1, 2020
The album won't be out until the end of August but here's a taste from one of Reggae's originators.
Featured Audio
Jun 24, 2020
Skip vonKuske: The cellist at work during a pandemic / Coffeeshop Conversations @ Artichoke Music #252
By TOM D'ANTONI // Although Portland Cello Project, Groovy Wallpaper and Skip vonKuske's other projects, solo and otherwise are prevented from in-person appearances, he's had a busy spring.
Today Portland Cello Project’s Skip vonKuske is in the Artichoke Music Café with me. That’s not the only ensemble he’s involved with. He has lots of projects and after we’re ...
May 22, 2020
Celebrating World Goth Day with “My Summer as a Goth” film composer Jana Cushman
By ANA AMMANN // Talking about music supervision and film scoring with Jana Cushman of Darkswoon on World Goth Day. Download the My Summer as a Goth Motion Picture Soundtrack on Bandcamp today.
Noting that Goths tend to shy away from the limelight, DJ Cruel Brittania “accidentally engineered” the first World Goth Day in the UK, when he encouraged followers to publicly embrace who ...
Apr 6, 2020
Sammy Hagar & The Circle: Won't Get Fooled Again
By SCOTT CUNNINGHAM // Crank it up with this terrific Who cover
Who says you can't make great music during a lockdown? Sammy Hagar & The Circle hooked up over the net to record an in-your-face cover of the Who classic Won't Get Fooled Again. Crank the volume ...
Mar 27, 2020
Bob Dylan: Murder Most Foul
By SCOTT CUNNINGHAM // Epic ballad recounts JFK assassination
Bob Dylan released his first new song today in nearly a decade, a haunting, epic ballad detailing the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. The release was a surprise in music circles and ...
Mar 12, 2020
Size 85 High Tops’ “Someplace Else Maybe,” off of their forthcoming album, Rev It Up? / Premiere
Portland's Size 85 High Tops’ forthcoming album, Rev It Up (In Music We Trust Records), fuses power pop, prog, acid-folk, and country
We are told: Portland’s Size 85 High Tops’ forthcoming album, Rev It Up (In Music We Trust Records), fuses power pop, prog, acid-folk, and country to deliver a dark and lovely ...
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Allen Toussaint: Familiar songs and brand new tunes at the 2015 Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival - video interview and review
Jul 1, 2020
By TOM D'ANTONI // Allen Toussaint played the 2015 Waterfront Blues Festival on July 3. He died the following November. Here's a video interview from a few weeks before the festival.Plus coverage of the day.
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