The Portland-based publication is a revolutionary platform for female guitarists Five years ago, local musician Fabi Reyna started what would become a revolution. A guitar player since she was 9, she had long been frustrated by the lack of representation ...
2 Nov 2018 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
The worldly musician talks to Street Roots about seeing the American South through a Welshman’s eyes In 2016, as Donald Trump was emerging as the 45th president of the nation, Mekons co-founder Jon Langford was getting ready to go down to Alabama, where t ...
28 Sep 2018 - Jason Cohen
The Portland band's members draw on their own lived experiences when talking about their concert series to support Keep Oregon Well Portugal. The Man has lent its name to a lot of causes: raising more than $1 million for school musical instruments, s ...
31 Aug 2018 - Joanne Zuhl
'Songs from the Shadows,' featuring songs by people who have experienced sexual trauma, will bring awareness to human trafficking and exploitation The present is reaching back to heal the past deep in the subterranean passageways beneath Portlan ...
17 Aug 2018 - Helen Hill
The former Pavement frontman has a new release with his longtime local band, the Jicks Nobody was trying to keep Californians out of Oregon back when Stephen Malkmus got here (or at least, no more than usual). The Stockton native and former Pavement front ...
18 May 2018 - Jason Cohen
The Maybelle Community Singers will lend their voice to a special appearance with the Oregon Symphony at Portland’s Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall Thank you. Thank you for your patience Trekking from office to office. Thank you.” Sixty voices si ...
11 May 2018 - Helen Hill
The Lullaby Project pairs new mothers with professional musicians to promote bond with infant For all the uncertainty in Kate Fraser Daley’s life right now, her devotion to her family has remained steadfast and strong. Her family members include her 6-mon ...
20 Apr 2018 - Helen Hill
The musician talks about the band’s political stripe, losing his artistic heroes and setting down new roots in Portland The songs for “American Band,” by Southern rockers Drive-By Truckers, were mostly written in 2014 and 2015 and recorded in the first ha ...
26 Jan 2018 - Jason Cohen
Bassist Lucas Warford discusses music and the Portland trio’s latest trip to Russia It is difficult to do justice to the band of eclectic misfits that make up Three for Silver. A full-time trio (and sometime big band) of gypsy jazz mercenaries and multi- ...
17 Nov 2017 - Stephen Quirke
The Prophets of Rage (and Rage Against the Machine) musician has never been afraid to be politically provocative In the 1980s, Tom Morello – years before becoming Rage Against the Machine’s resident Guitar God – was just a young man in Spandex who loved h ...
13 Oct 2017 - Jason Greenough