Music

Dr. Record & Mr. Live

Preview: Weinland Plays Record-Release Shows This Weekend

With their new album, the Portland folk-rock mainstays successfully capture their livelier live sound. Hear it at Mississippi Studios Friday and Saturday.

10/24/2012 By Jonathan Frochtzwajg

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Symphony Cancels Return to Carnegie Hall

Amid other changes to keep the organization solvent (and please the Tea Party paradigm).

10/18/2012 By Aaron Scott

forget champagne

Ticket-Sale Alert: Pink Martini on New Year's Eve

The Portland favorites ring in 2013 at the Schnitz. Tickets go on sale tomorrow.

10/18/2012 By Jonathan Frochtzwajg

the british are coming!

Win Tickets to Snow Patrol + Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

The chart topping Brit/Scot/Irish bands perform on Tuesday at the Schnitzer.

10/17/2012 By Aaron Scott

Interview

Portland Opera's Globe-trotting Guest Diva

An interview with Stefania Dovhan

10/16/2012 By Zach Dundas

moving in the right direction

Review: Gossip Changes Lives with its Live Show

The local band-made-big returned home for an infectious show that ended in profound transformation. Banging new local standout Magic Mouth opened.

10/11/2012 By Aaron Scott

it's "soof-yawn"

Ticket-Sale Alert: Sufjan Stevens

The gifted and eccentric musician is coming to the Aladdin with a X-mas show that sounds nutty even for him. Tix go on sale tomorrow.

10/11/2012 By Jonathan Frochtzwajg

blues killer

Interview: Corin Tucker

We talk with Corin Tucker about performing the mom–musician balancing act, the changing face of feminist music, and her band's new album. Corin Tucker Band plays Bunk Bar Saturday.

10/10/2012 By Jonathan Frochtzwajg

stripper kicks

Exclusive Interview: Grizzly Bear's Edward Droste

In preview of their concert tonight at the Keller, we talk with Droste about his cousin, Pink Martini's China Forbes, hitting the gay bar with Thomas Lauderdale, and what they have in store for Portland audiences.

10/04/2012 By Aaron Scott

a musical duel

New Music Video: Menomena’s “Plumage”

Assault rifles, smoking jackets, Evel Knievel suits, snifters, and rocket launchers. An outrageous musical one-upmanship that’s the best thing we’ve seen all week.

10/03/2012 By Aaron Scott

ballot ballads

Updated: Local Musicians Pick Sides in Fluoride Fight

The Dandy Warhols and other Portland heavy-hitters play a concert to benefit the ballot campaign against fluoridation this Sunday at Rotture/Branx.

10/02/2012 By Jonathan Frochtzwajg

because the night...

Win Tickets to Natalie Merchant with the Oregon Symphony

Put your name in the hat for two tix to Natalie Merchant with the Symphony on Thursday, October 4.

09/27/2012 By Jonathan Frochtzwajg

finding the magic position

Five Questions for Patrick Wolf

The flamboyant British artist discusses his ten-year journey as a musician, his newly released retrospective album, and his show at the Aladdin on Sunday.

09/26/2012 By Laura Lundberg

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Slide Show: MusicfestNW Wrap-Up, Captioned by Twitterers

A recap of Portland's biggest music festival in photos and festival-goers' Tweets.

09/20/2012

festival plotlines

TBA:12 in Retrospect

In its first year under the curation of artistic director Angela Mattox, the PICA fest got more thematically unified—and just plain better—as it progressed. Here's what worked (and didn't).

09/20/2012 By Aaron Scott

dogs playing piano

TBA: Laurie Anderson Review

The matron saint of performance art ends the festival with not so much of a bang as a plunk.

09/19/2012 By Aaron Scott

revenge of the moms

Menomena's New Album, Moms, out today

Read our profile of the band and stream the album.

09/18/2012 By Aaron Scott

Ticket Giveaway

Win Tickets to Animal Collective

Critically acclaimed psych combo Animal Collective plays Crystal Ballroom September 20

09/13/2012 By John Chandler

record productivity

Mike Coykendall

After 30 years and 21 albums, this folk-rock "Band-pa" keeps it real with analogue recording, community collaboration, and an inexhaustible passion for music-making.

09/12/2012 By Anne Adams

helio goes dark

New Helio Sequence Album + Video Out Today

The band's long-anticipated fifth album, Negotiations, is out today, along with a dark new video.

09/12/2012 By Aaron Scott

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