Music Millennium

Oregon Music News


The Monarques’ first birthday

A year ago the seven-piece retro-pop band debuted at Musicfest NW. They’re playing the Bladen County Records showcase again for this year’s MFNW and have a new record in the works.



Blogs

Editor Blog

Tom D'Antoni

We were an idea a year ago. Now we are full-blown, our booth is open and the sun is out!



OMN Contributor Blogs

Dot Rust

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.



Tree Palmedo

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.



Mark Niemann-Ross

Looks like a winner so far…



Mark Niemann-Ross

Looks like a winner so far…



Tom D'Antoni

We’ll have (around) 12 people on site to bring you full reports, photos and video.



Patrick Lamb

By Patrick Lamb. If you have been a part of the Jefferson High School program(s) over the years, Jefferson needs you now to represent this week and let people know how important JHS has been to you, and why it is important that this school remains.



Bruce Fife

Do you ever wonder what happens to that cover charge you pay to see your favorite band? If you’re like most people, you probably don’t give it a second thought and just assume that it makes its way to the band as compensation for their performance. That assumption would be wrong.



Jeremy Winkler

Playing on a Fender electric bass, Wagner was right at home playing choro, one of the earliest styles unique to urban Brazil. With all ten stubby fingers, he performs with grace and style, and cuts loose with bursts of brilliance.



Tom D'Antoni

Happy half-birthday to us!



Terry Currier

Support your local independent record store!



Tom D'Antoni

ProPublica reporter Sheri Fink won a Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for her story about the deadly choices faced at one New Orleans hospital in the days after Hurricane Katrina.



News

THIS JUST IN! Watch Storm in bed, new Copy, Cool Nutz, Lovers mp3, Jared Mees mp3, Liv Warfield

…in bed with a sheep. Cool Nutz, Lovers and Jared Mees mp3s, Liv Warfield in Houston for Prince’s drummer’s bday party. Two mp3s from Copy.



Upcoming Music Millennium In-store shows

Including former Counting Crows bassist Matt Malley and more.



Big week for Jewel: Serious on the Emmys, silly in her Sarah Palin parody vid

This week she posted a clever video that’s a “Behind the Music” parody imagining a past life in which she and her rival for the title of most famous Alaskan were once a popular folk duo. Watch it here.



Misty River – Four Talented (busy) Women

Misty River – Talented women…and busier than cats in a cricket farm



THIS JUST IN! Soft Metals remix Reporter, Pink Martini, Niswanger, Quick and Easy Boys, Doom Folk?, Zippy’s musical

Notes and news, music videos and an mp3 download. Plus a tripped-out appearance from Clyde The Glide.



MFNW partners with Nike to present free Wonder gigs

The free, all-ages gigs include Ra Ra Riot, Phantogram, and Washed Out on September 9 and Black Lips, Surfer Blood, and Male Bonding on September 10.



Watch Dan Balmer between sets: Staying contemporary is second nature

Guitarist Dan Balmer is a fixture on Monday nights at Jimmy Mak’s with several different versions of his ensembles. Watch an interview between sets at Jimmy Mak’s.



Interview with Welsh choir director Eirian Owen

The North American Festival of Wales is sponsoring the voices of Côr Godre’r Aran in a concert on Friday evening.



Andrew Raeburn passes

The former artistic director of the Honens International Piano Competition dies at age 77.



Kanye West will perform at 2010 MTV Awards…will he behave better?

He will not be doing a duet with Taylor Swift.



WATCH: The funky bass of Errick Lewis

Already one of the go-to Soul, Funk, Gospel and Hip Hop players in town, he now his his sights on Jazz and a new album. Watch interview just after he got off the bandstand at the Dookie Jam.