Category: Music

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...

Two Tone Army

If Brandon Jenison, who plays trumpet in ska band Mustard Plug, were to do standup comedy, he says he would have a great opening line. ...

Sessions to Close at End of October

For the past seven and a half years, Sessions Music Hall’s stage has seen performances from the likes of legendary punk groups to folk and...

Endr Won to Perform and Release New Album

 A stay-at-home dad. A husband. A sober, recovering addict and alcoholic. A Eugene native. An independent rap and hip-hop artist. Kenneth. Endr Won.  The name...