Oregon Music News

Tom D’Antoni: Editor-In-Chief

With a career which includes network TV, newspapers, national magazines, network radio, and all over the internet, Tom brings the experience of having interviewed thousands of musicians with him. Oregonians know him from his years as a Producer/Reporter on OPB’s Oregon Art Beat show. He’s been writing for the Oregonian newspaper since 1997 and is a DJ on KMHD.

“There’s nothing else in the world I’d rather do with my life,” he said, “than bring the story of our musicians to the people who live and die by the music.”

Tom is in charge of all OMN content. tomd@oregonmusicnews.com

Nancy Glass: Publisher

As Publisher of Oregon Music News, Nancy brings a long history of business management for a wide diversity of companies including those in the music industry.

She was a business management consultant for an international consulting firm and has managed a wide variety of retail, service and professional offices and businesses. She has been a business consultant for a wide variety of health care industries as well as a diverse number of other businesses ranging from landscape design to construction to spa’s.

She has over 10 years experience working for various music publications as a music journalist, an arts and entertainment writer and is a nationally published music journalist.  As well Nancy launched “Only Local Music” while residing in Cincinnati, OH catering to local musicians of all genres to promote their works and increase attendance at shows.  From the idea to the hands, Nancy was responsible for the creation of this publication.  Pertaining to the music industry, she has been a record label publicist for the record label, Burnside Records, as well as Sideburn Records, and has worked for the Burnside Distribution Corp CD Distribution Company.

Playing 12 string guitar since she was 12 years old, Nancy is an avid and eclectic music lover of all styles and genres of music and enjoys not only writing her own material but has a knack for singing as well.  In addition to her musical interests, Nancy enjoys writing fictional stories with a penchant for musical theatre, as well as creating a variety of art.

Nancy is in charge of the business side of OMN. nrg@oregonmusicnews.com

John Nastos: Webmaster

John Nastos makes his living primarily as a working musician in Portland, Oregon. As a saxophone and woodwinds player, he has played with Portland’s top jazz musicians in clubs, festivals, stage productions, and recordings.

Besides performing, John has a strong presence in the web-technology scene in Portland. He is the creator, designer, and maintainer of numerous websites, including everything from musicians’ pages to tech resources.

http://johnnastos.com

Chris Young: Managing Editor, DJ/Electro Editor

Chris Young is always finding ways to surround himself by beautiful noise, lately as a freelance music journalist and blogger.  As a story-teller in a digital world, his work has appeared in CWG Magazine, The Deli Magazine, and on his blog.  He also dabbles in design, photography and copywriting. chris@oregonmusicnews.com

Matthew Bratschi: Associate Publisher

Matthew Bratschi has skirted with the entertainment business in various forms as a former tenor sax and trumpet player, a former open mike stand-up comic, an incredibly horrible karaoke singer, a published poet, and a writer of news articles and press releases. On the business side, he has nearly two decades of experience in public relations and marketing, has run his own public relations company, and has worked for non-profits and for-profits. He is a board member of a local food bank and supports Greenpeace, Children International and Youth for Human Rights International. He would be a bleeding heart liberal if he wasn’t so conservative. Oh, and he digs music and stuff.

James Bash: Classical Editor

James has written for national magazines and newspapers world-wide including Opera America The San Francisco Chronicle, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Oregonian. He was a fellow to the 2008 NEA Journalism Institute for Classical Music and Opera. He is a member of the Music Critics Association of North America.

Stephanie Salvey: Rock/Roots Editor

This fourth generation Portlander has been a business player in the Oregon music scene since the early nineties when she owned a live music club near the downtown waterfront. Industry gigs include days as a music journalist, publicist, concert promoter, record label gal and indie band manager. Ticket stubs and phone pole poster art from Cascade rock and country shows testify to her years of swimming through the area’s live music world. Weekdays are for a rural county legal writing gig. Nights are spent at a flat in NW Portland or out in two-tone Tony Lamas, chasing live music as an insider and fan. “Cascade Country Music comes from that area under the thumb-tip when placed over the Cascade mountain range on a table-top globe.”

Don Campbell: Writer

Don is a Pacific Northwest writer and musician who finds endless amusement in combining the two.

Barbara Mitchell: Acoustic writer

Barbara Mitchell a freelance writer whose work appears in The Oregonian, Magnet, the Stranger and NPR’s “Song of the Day,” and until recently she was the music writer for the Portland Tribune. She began her career in the music industry as a publicist for various independent labels in Los Angeles (Slash, World Domination, Triple X, Alias) before relocating to Seattle and working as an independent publicist for clients as varied as Death Cab For Cutie, Rickie Lee Jones and Marc Almond. She managed the Posies for five years, and in 2003 started a label called Roslyn Recordings which released albums by Mudhoney’s Steve Turner, Marc Olsen, Derby, Cabinessence, Downpilot and the Transmissionary Six.

Robert Ham: Writer

Robert Ham has been obsessing over music since he picked up a copy of The Smiths’ “The Queen Is Dead” in a mall record store almost 25 years ago, and has been writing about music for the past six years. When he’s not editing the Indie section of Oregon Music News, you can find his work in The Oregonian, Willamette Week, Relevant, Christianity Today, and Pampelmoose.

Aaron Brandt: Bend Correspondent

Aaron has lived in Bend since 1997 and has watched the Central Oregon music scene evolve and gather force.  Being a  musician, voice actor, writer, real estate broker, avid cyclist, and father of two, he’s rarely bored.  Aaron’s passion for music and sense of humor give him a unique and entertaining perspective on all things “music,” global to local.

Noah Mickens: Writer

Noah Mickens is a theatrical director, circus ringmaster, scrap metal percussionist, compere, butoh dancer, event producer, songwriter, hype machine, and bon vivant.

Once labelled “the impressario of the underground,” he has founded and performed in such diverse performing troupes as Wanderlust Circus (with Nick the Creature), Bogville (with NagaSita), Societas Insomnia (with David Heifetz), The 999 Eyes of Endless Dream (with Dylan McPuke and Samantha X), and Nequaquam Vacuum (with Tyler Armstrong); as well as such one-shot productions as A Midsummer Night’s Dream (a butoh adaptation, with Mizu Desierto), Day of the Zombie (a rock opera, with Zombie Dan Abbott), and the forthcoming Queen of Knives (an opera, with Eric Stern).

As a musician, Mickens has focused on singing and on the creation of improvised music using found objects, most particularly scrap metal. In addition to his own ensemble, Nequaquam Vacuum , some of the ensembles he’s played with include Soriah, Pretty Art Narcotic, The Steve MacKay Ensemble, Danse Perdue, Z’EV, Implied Violence, Sikhara, The Hop-Frog Kollectif, Moe! Staiano’s Moe!kestra!, and Damo Suzuki’s Network.

Beginning with the independently-produced 36 Invitsibles series at The Jasmine Tree tiki lounge; his curatorial and organizational Work has included serving on the board of directors for 2Gyrlz Performative Arts and The EnterActive Language Festival; a U.S. node of the international Radon collective; creative director of Someday Lounge during its early period (and before); and in-house booker for Rotture, Branx, and The Hippodrome.

He’ll take you off like a Saturday.