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March Fourth’s 7th Anniversary party — Download interview

Stream or download interview with March Fourth’s Jason Wells. What’s it like on the bus with 30 band members?



Brazilian Carnaval at the Bossa Nova on Friday

7 bands including the Lions of Batucada and the Brazillionaires bring Brazil to Burnside.


Black Francis of the Pixies and author Carl Wilson discussed Celine Dion: Why do some adore her, yet others abhor her?


Ghosts at the Aladdin?

Nope, just Joe Henry’s unique musical style haunting the Aladdin Theater on Wednesday night. Even sneakier than a ghost was drummer Joe Bellerose and his spellbinding, rhythmic ways.


The 16th annual WOW Hall awards for 2009

Winners include Oregon acts Medium Troy, Portland Cello Project, GRRRLZ ROCK, and many more local and national bands!


Album: Professor Gall — The Psychology of Booze and Guilt

They don’t call him “The Mad Scientist of Song” for nothing.


Joe Henry brings his genre bending, blending to the Aladdin

Not only has he been the producer for Elvis Costello and Ani DiFranco, but he wrote Madonna’s 8-weeks-in-the-top-ten single, “Don’t Tell Me.”


Guitar is overrated: Les Claypool vibrates Eugene

Bass guru Les Claypool shuns the guitar-centric music world with a performance steeped in stomach churning low-end.


Les Claypool: A strange man is coming to town

Wandering bass minstrel Les Claypool descends on McDonald Theatre in Eugene with a cadre of musical freaks and circus acts.


Ben Darwish’s pipe dreams…Rock organ at the Chapel Pub

Neil Young to Gnarls Barkley in a former funeral home…on a pipe organ. Ain’t Portland wonderful?


Tom Tom Magazine Showcases Girl Drummers of the NW

These girls eat cymbals for breakfast!

Wednesday night at Holocene, I showed up to a packed house–I could…


New Bossanova Ballroom debuts for media and friends

After undergoing a face-lift, and under new and experienced management, what was the Viscount and then the Bossanova and…


Yeasayer listening party tonight at Jackpot Records Downtown

At 5 PM tonight, you can hear Yeasayer’s awaited album Odd Blood at a listening party at


REEL MUSIC 27 : Sufjan Stevens is brilliant musically and visually in ‘The BQE’ Saturday, Jan 16 + 23

Sufjan Stevens’ The BQE is an optic triptych, a symphonic masterpiece, a mixed-medium artistic exploration into a maze of…


Recently, there was a post in the DJ/electro section of OMN with the title Reporter challenges you to


Nurses, Gulls, and The Slaves to compose live vampire film score at Holocene

Holocene presents FIN de Cinema–a screening of the 1970 Czech vampire film Valerie and Her Week of Wonders featuring…


Needed in Portland: A real steel band, like this one

What is missing in the vast Melting Pot of Portland bands who are influenced by other cultures, who take…