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Legendary PSU Music professor Charley Gray has passed away: A remembrance / Plus interview from 2015
By Lars Campbell // Charley Gray died of cancer on Friday, November 7th. He spent 27 years educating generations of Jazz musicians at Portland State University. He was named a Jazz Master in 2015. Also listen below to the OMN podcast from that year.Here's a remembrance from from trombonist Lars Campbell.
Legendary PSU Music professor Charley Gray has passed away: A remembrance / Plus interview from 2015
Mdou Moctar at Polaris Hall on 12/9/25 Photos
By RAMBOD BEHNAM //
Mdou Moctar at Polaris Hall on 12/9/25 Photos
Andy Bell at Newmark Theatre 12/2/25 - Photos
By ANTHONY PIDGEON //
Andy Bell at Newmark Theatre 12/2/25 - Photos
Storm Large : Holiday Ordeal 2025, Aladdin Theater, Nov 28-29, 2025
By JOHN RUDOFF //
Storm Large : Holiday Ordeal 2025, Aladdin Theater, Nov 28-29, 2025
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Funhouse Lounge Presents: Die Hard the Musical Parody at Portland Center Stage on 11/13/25 - Review
By MATT HANSEN // Beloved holiday action film gets the musical treatment for the first time at Ellyn Bye Studio Theater now through November 23rd
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Múm - The OMN Interview
By MATT HANSEN // Icelandic band played Wonder Ballroom in support of the new album "History of Silence"
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Ace Frehley at the Aladdin Theater (02.10.2017)
By MIKE LEWIS // Ace Frehley, original lead guitarist and founding member of KISS, passed away at age 74 on October 16, 2025 due to complications from a fall in his Manhattan home studio. It caused a brain bleed.
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"SYNTHESCHEISSE" music video from ADULTLAND is a sleazy lesson in Berlin clubbing learned the hard way
Techno fans are sporting violent evulsions on the dancefloor over the much-anticipated arrival of Euro-groovemeisters ADULTLAND, with their singular, self-released Teutonic colonic, “Synthescheisse,” mixed ......
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Legendary PSU Music professor Charley Gray has passed away: A remembrance / Plus interview from 2015
Dec 11, 2025
By Lars Campbell // Charley Gray died of cancer on Friday, November 7th. He spent 27 years educating generations of Jazz musicians at Portland State University. He was named a Jazz Master in 2015. Also listen below to the OMN podcast from that year.Here's a remembrance from from trombonist Lars Campbell.
Paul Brainard: Playing many instruments including "The Fun Machine: Coffeeshop Conversations #448
Dec 2, 2025
By TOM D'ANTONI // Paul Brainard (emphasis "Brain") plays many guitars, horns, keys and others. He writes, produces and arranges and specializes in playing an instrument called "The Fun Machine." He, himself is also a fun machine. Enjoy.
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Jun 1, 2023
Oregon-based rock band Last Giant's "Animals," from their forthcoming album, Monuments
Beginning in 2014 from the ashes of former Northwest indie-rockers System and Station (1998-2013), Last Giant is comprised of front man RFK Heise (vocals, guitar, keys), Palmer Cloud (bass), and Matt Willes (drums).
All things in due time. Portland, Oregon's Last Giant has been patiently waiting to release their 4th full-length album Monuments into the world. Filled with monstrous guitar riffs, ...
Mar 10, 2023
Wayne Shorter: A musical obituary by Christopher Woitach, Paull K. Ward and David Evans / audio
By PAUL K. WARD // Three Portland musicians pay tribute to the late saxophone master, Wayne Shorter.
Wayne Shorter, prominent and influential jazz tenor saxophonist, and composer, passed away on March 2, 2023, at the age of 89, after a long, active life playing and shaping America’s great musical ...
Mar 3, 2023
Audio premiere: Leadbetter Band / "All It Is"
Leadbetter is a band from Bend. This is the premiere of "All It Is," their new song from their new album Cake. OMN Featured audio.
We are told: Eric Leadbetter on the song: "'All It Is' is a really fun funky rock tune that was born with the rebirth and new line up of the band. It started as a groove in my head when ...
Nov 23, 2021
My Brothers and I: "Anger and Grace" / Featured audio
Oregon-based brothers-turned-bandmates, My Brothers And I just released a new single entitled "Anger and Grace,"
We are told: Oregon-based brothers-turned-bandmates, My Brothers And I, exude soul and emotion through their indie pop jams. The band, which consists of Wurgler brothers Erik (bass/vocals), David (lead ...
Apr 14, 2021
Killin' The Silence: "Life Support: / OMN Featured audio
Just released, Killin' the Silence gives us "Life Support" from conversations between vocalist Monivoi Vataiki, lyricist Stephen Jerome, and producer/lyricist The Stains of Leisure about near death experiences that they had personally lived through and what it was like to occupying that hazy space between life and death.
We are told: This genesis of Killin the Silence's new single "Life Support," was released by the Portland, Oregon-based hip-hop group April 8th, sprang from conversations between vocalist ...
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Legendary PSU Music professor Charley Gray has passed away: A remembrance / Plus interview from 2015
Dec 11, 2025
By Lars Campbell // Charley Gray died of cancer on Friday, November 7th. He spent 27 years educating generations of Jazz musicians at Portland State University. He was named a Jazz Master in 2015. Also listen below to the OMN podcast from that year.Here's a remembrance from from trombonist Lars Campbell.
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