Category: Music

Hellfire and Brimstone Hootenanny

On Jan. 18, Iowa musician William Elliott Whitmore performs insurgent gutter-punk blues at Art House, supported by Jim Ward from the singular Texas experimental hard...

Growing Pains Shows Sonic Growth

It’s been three years since Growing Pains, a band local to both Portland and Eugene, released its first full length album Heaven Spots. Since then...

Witching Hour

Few bands can match the pleasantly violent assault on the ears of The Stooges’ 1973 classic Raw Power. But Frankie and the Witch Fingers can...

A Walk Through Old New England

It’s been a bastion of flowering culture throughout the nation’s history, with Western European threads tied to much of it, and a slice of that...

From Swing To The Cool

“I’ll Be Seeing You” — sung by Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday and many others — carries at its heart the tender spirit of friends and...

‘S Wonderful’ swinging

“True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today,” George Gershwin...

Jackson Browne: Like He Never Left

Going into Cuthbert Amphitheater on the night of the Jackson Browne concert it must have been clear that I was there for some reason other...