About to take their “longest break from shows we’ve had in maybe three years” to continue working on their next, double LP, catch what’ll likely be Starfucker’s last two NW shows for a while: May 24 at Branx with UMO and Wampire and May 25 at Sasquatch!
This isn’t about music. It’s about taking stock at the end of the year. Maybe showing some kindness where you might not have. God knows I should. This is a true story.
Portland’s Violet Isle hit the road for a two-week trip through California and is now back home.
Portland’s Violet Isle hits the road for a two-week trip through California and back.
Portland’s Violet Isle hits the road for a two-week trip through California and back. This stops lands them in San Francisco to play Bottom of the Hill and embrace the culture before hitting the beach.
Violet Isle works their way through northern California and offers some advice along the way.
Portland’s Violet Isle hits the road for a two-week trip through California and back but the band faces a hiccup before they can even start. Follow their experiences in this tour diary.
MHCC Education District Board says they’re proud of the music department publicly, but without notice or discussion, takes steps to eliminate the renowned music program, dismantling it piece by piece.
Speaker Minds has a big goal, a national teaching tour after doing the same at Portland schools.
The final Gulfsongs event of the Fall happens Saturddy with Devin Phillips, Reggie Houston, Steve Kerin, Too Loose Cajun band, Mac Potts, Paris Slim and others at the Alberta Rose Theatre.
A bad person hacked OpenX. We got hit, as did countless other sites all over the country. At 11am, we’re still working on restoring some of the damage, but we’re totally secure. See? I’m on the site!
Unlike the opinion of a local snarky writer, we feel kids are indeed entitled to their own music, their own discoveries, and the help of their families to find the resources and means to develop whatever innate abilities may be awakened at a simple weekend concert.
This August I had the opportunity to attend two of the West Coast’s premier jazz workshops: The Stanford Jazz Residency and the Brubeck Summer Jazz Colony at the University of the Pacific.
Stumptown Bliss providing the production, an interview by OMN’s Stephen Murray will follow the performance.
Recorded before Mystical went back to jail. / Galactic photo by sp7.
Mary Flower was nominated in two categories, Acoustic Artist and Acoustic Album. Drummer Jimi Bott also recieved a nomination.
She died this morning after a battle with cancer which she was reportedly trying to keep under wraps.
Portland is such a strange, special town; populated with larger-than-life personalities like Ashia, drawn here apparently by chance, with nothing to do all day but explore new forms of beauty and deliver them up to the world.
“Go-go is D.C.’s very own unique contribution to the world of pop music, and Chuck Brown was regarded as Go-go’s creator and, arguably, its most legendary artist,” D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray said in a statement.
Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready and his UFO tribute band Flight to Mars will play in Portland on May 22nd at the Hawthorne Theater to benefit the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America’s ‘Camp Oasis’ for children.
Sugarman 3, The – What The World Needs Now (CD)(LP),Tenacious D – Rize Of The Fenix (PA) (CD)(PA) (LP), The Green Pajamas – Summer of Lust (CD), The Original Caste – One Tin Soldier: Expanded Edition (CD), Thelonious Monk Quartet – Misterioso [Remastered CD]…many more.
The Quadraphonnes return, Linda Hornbuckle sings Jazz, Scroggins and Houston, Guitar Summit and wine. / Photo by John Rudoff
Using specialized instruments, Miller Packwood spends hours making the perfect reed for upcoming performances.
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