Portland-based rockers Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside prepare to release the new album “Untamed Beast” By Sue Zalokar, Staff Writer Sallie Ford plays rock ‘n’ roll. Just ask her — she’ll tell you that she and the band surprise folks sometimes. Or bette ...
21 Feb 2013 - Street Roots Staff
Journeyman Jim Page talks about music, activism and today’s political climate by Sue Zalokar, staff writer Hailing from the Bay area in California and making Seattle his home for the last four decades, Jim Page is an iconic storyteller with a heart that b ...
11 Feb 2013 - Street Roots Staff
Street Roots conducted a 24-hour Twitter project reporting around the clock on homelessness in our town. Here are the stories we heard. This report is drawn from the Twitter feeds of Alex Zielinski, Jake Thomas, Joanne Zuhl, Robert Britt, Erin Fenner, Sue ...
31 Dec 2012 - Street Roots Staff
Bluegrass artist David Grisman reflects on a half century in the music scene, still truckin’ into 2013 By Sue Zalokar, Staff Writer David Grisman is iconic in the world of bluegrass, having played with a who’s who of artists, including Doc Watson, Bela Fl ...
29 Dec 2012 - Street Roots Staff
A long way from Haiti: Portland’s prince of kompa By Sue Zalokar, Contributing writer Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. The environmental and political travesties there, coupled with the devastating natural phenomena that have pelted ...
6 Dec 2012 - Street Roots
The Judah blues explosion [caption id="attachment_7803" align="alignnone" width="500"] Judah Bauer (far right) with his Jon Spencer Blues Explosion band mates, Russel Simins (left) and Jon Spencer (center).[/caption] By Sue Z ...
22 Nov 2012 - Street Roots
Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls talks with Street Roots about music and politics By Sue Zalokar, Contributing Writer When the Indigo Girls hit the music scene, a queer folk duo from Atlanta was quite the departure from the kinds of role models, female musicia ...
7 Nov 2012 - Street Roots
Natalie Merchant talks with Street Roots By Sue Zalokar, Staff Writer For the tuned in, turned on youths of the 1980s, Natalie Merchant’s lilting quiver was a siren’s song; a soothing intellectual voice for a generation of young Americans. Her audience ha ...
11 Oct 2012 - Street Roots
Portland musician Okaidja Afroso releases his third album, ‘Messenger’ By Sue Zalokar, Contributing Writer Ghana is a long way from Portland, but to local musician, Okaidja Afroso, the gap is almost imperceptible. Afroso grew up in Kokrobite, a small fish ...
29 Aug 2012 - Street Roots
On the road with Grace Potter The Nocturnals’ front woman talks about finding her own place in music By Sue Zalokar Staff Writer Last year, a fresh face hit the country music scene when Grace Potter performed a duet with Kenny Chesney on “You and Tequila ...
19 Jul 2012 - Street Roots