Author: Jeremy Petersen
There's a hot Memorial Day weekend ahead rain or shine at Bend's Les Schwab Amphitheater, with headliners The Shins and Beck bookending the action Friday and Sunday. We've got ticket pairs for both and we're just giving them away!
The 2-disc, 41-track collection is once again an intriguing collection of knowns and unknowns covering a gigantic slice of the Portland music scene. The release show happens June 7th at Holocene.
The soaring, Hopelandic-singing quartet from Iceland introduces their first studio album in four years worldwide tonight. Listen to Valtari in its entirety here beginning at 7.
The former Portlander and rare-voiced singer-songwriter returns to town, playing the Doug Fir with opener Stefan Jecusco.
Local filmmaker James Winters pays homage to the memory of MCA with this spot-on re-creation of the Beastie Boys' classic "Sabotage" video. Even better? He cast his kids as the stars.
The singer for the long-running Florida-based band has dealt with gender dysphoria for years, plans to begin living as a woman.
The quintet that has seemingly charmed from day one takes home "Best New Band" honors in the annual Willamette Week poll.
The all-female Portland quintet releases their self-titled debut next week with a hometown release show to follow. Stream What Hearts here now in its entirety!
The Beastie Boys' MCA has died after a battle with cancer. He was 47.
The visual companion for "2B2" off of this year's Mr. M pairs behind the scenes and live footage taken from the veteran band's recent European tour, and gives a good idea of what we might expect from them Wednesday night at the Doug Fir.
PDX Pop Now! held their annual spring benefit last night at The Cleaners at the Ace Hotel, featuring a night of inspired performances and an interesting wrinkle or two.
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