Casey Neill and the Norway Rats’ new album, ‘Sending up Flares’ embraces collectivity, community and love Billy Bragg was a veteran of both protest music and actual protests when he released “Workers Playtime” in 1988… an album of love songs fueled by a p ...
6 Mar 2024 - Jason Cohen
Ahead of Wilco’s Portland appearance, frontman Tweedy reflects on ‘Cousin,’ working with producer Cate LeBon and his upcoming book ‘World Within a Song’ On March 23 and 24, 2020, Wilco was set to play the Arlene Schnitzer Hall in support of its 11th recor ...
11 Oct 2023 - Jason Cohen
Musician and activist Logan Lynn on Gucci, “gay joy,” thriving and surviving during lockdown and touring — or rather, not touring — in the time of COVID In some ways, these have been the best two years of Logan Lynn’s career. He’s been a Gucci model. He s ...
31 Aug 2022 - Jason Cohen
Drummer Hugo Burnham on Gang of Four’s return to the stage Gang of Four have aged well. That’s because of the band’s music — clattering, sometimes funky, ahead-of-its-time art-punk that has never stopped being a frame of reference for contemporary bands ...
23 Mar 2022 - Jason Cohen
The Bardo philosophy is ingrained in the Blitzen Trapper frontman’s music, and his new career in homeless services has influenced his writing and his artwork B litzen Trapper hasn’t played a show in 2020, which makes them pretty much like every other arti ...
30 Dec 2020 - Jason Cohen
Chris Slusarenko and John Moen are joined by former Tim Buckley collaborator Larry Beckett Chris Slusarenko and John Moen of the Portland indie rock band Eyelids are in their early 50s. Poet and songwriter Larry Beckett is in his early 70s. But their new ...
6 Mar 2020 - Jason Cohen
The actor-musician-writer and longtime collaborator Chris Slusarenko, of Eyelids, talk ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch,’ ‘Shrill,’ Lou Reed and the ‘Origin of Love’ tour John Cameron Mitchell doesn’t live in Portland, but he’s sure spending a lot of time here. ...
21 Feb 2020 - Jason Cohen
The Everclear frontman and former Portlander talks about his first solo album, his MS diagnosis and Trump Art Alexakis has survived a lot. An impoverished and fatherless childhood in California. Sexual abuse. Drug addiction. And then later, in Portland, t ...
13 Dec 2019 - Jason Cohen
The Portland comic book author talks to Street Roots about the Timbers, social media, white supremacy and the new ABC adaptation of his private-eye series If you’re not familiar with Greg Rucka’s comic “Stumptown,” you’ve probably seen commercials for the ...
20 Sep 2019 - Jason Cohen
‘Night Dogs’ exposes racial and economic disparity in 1970s Portland The scene is Portland, Ore. A largely African-American community has been laid-off, bulldozed and forgotten, its neighborhoods awash in poverty and drugs. The police, even according to o ...
28 Jun 2019 - Jason Cohen