music preview

The Biggest Portland Concerts of Spring 2026

Yungblud, FKA Twigs, Peaches, Springsteen, the Black Keys, and Florence and the Machine make for a heavy hitting musical season.

9:30am By Matthew Trueherz

festival season

The Waterfront Blues Festival Drops Its 2026 Lineup

Tank and the Bangas headline. But plenty of Portland bangers fill out the Fourth of July weekend fest’s lineup.

02/19/2026 By Matthew Trueherz

seeing things

45 Years of Elizabeth Leach Gallery

Also: 20 years of Typhoon, and other events in town this week.

01/22/2026 By Matthew Trueherz

music preview

The Biggest Portland Concerts of Winter 2025–2026

Cardi B, Cat Power, Sudan Archives, Earl Sweatshirt, John Legend—and a Pink Martini New Year’s.

12/02/2025 By Matthew Trueherz

Requiem

Michael Hurley Was the Folk Hero of Portland

Novelist Justin Taylor remembers the cherished songwriter, who named Sweedeedee, was a LaurelThirst regular, and filled out Mississippi Records’ catalog.

08/11/2025 By Justin Taylor

Music Preview

The Biggest Concerts in Portland, Summer 2025

It’s festival season. Japanese Breakfast, Lucy Dacus, and the Pixies are coming. Aminé’s festival is back. And there’s more!

06/30/2025 By Matthew Trueherz

Music Preview

Jack White, Beabadoobee, Pink Martini, and Other Spring Concerts

Also: J Balvin, Leon Bridges, and more in our seasonal roundup of major concerts.

03/25/2025 By Matthew Trueherz

Festival Preview

Who’s Coming to Project Pabst This Summer?

Japanese Breakfast, Death Cab for Cutie, Devo, and Iggy Pop headline the waterfront festival in 2025.

02/25/2025 By Matthew Trueherz

Music Preview

The Biggest Portland Concerts of Winter 2024–2025

This season, the Dandy Warhols are taking us back, and Tyler, The Creator is taking us forward.

12/06/2024 By Matthew Trueherz

Concert Review

20 Years In, Modest Mouse Floats Different, but Floats Nevertheless

A Rev Hall anniversary show celebrating the band’s biggest album was a time machine to 2004, for better or worse.

11/11/2024 By Jordan Michelman

Hotel, Motel

Roots of a Scene: The Jupiter’s 20 Years on East Burnside

Blitzen Trapper will headline the hotel’s birthday block party celebrating its decades as a cultural touchstone.

08/22/2024 By Matthew Trueherz

Bookshelf

Riot Grrrl History in Kathleen Hanna’s Rebel Girl

The Portland-born musician’s memoir details ’90s Olympia, Bikini Kill, life on tour, and some serious trauma and healing.

05/17/2024 By Margaret Seiler

Self Portrait

Reyna Tropical Is in Concert with the Universe

Ahead of a new album, the guitarist and singer shares her healthy diet of ancestral dialogues, TikTok dances, and Sushi Ichiban.

03/27/2024 By Matthew Trueherz

Music

The PoMo Essential Summer 2023 Playlist

Summer songs from Portlanders old and new, and even a tribute to the city itself, to spin this season on our Spotify playlist, brought to you by Portland Monthly.

06/14/2023 By Matthew Trueherz and Margaret Seiler

Music

Portland Monthly’s Essential Spring 2023 Playlist

Days are getting longer, bees are buzzing, Margo Cilker is crooning, and Yeat’s bars are flowing. Loves, good and bad, old and new, fill out our spring tunes.

03/20/2023 By Matthew Trueherz