Performance interrupted to wish Houston a happy birthday Local Portland saxophone player, Reggie Houston, performed on July 1 at the Waterfront Blues Festival’s Crossroads Stage. While the Blues Festival felt…
5th day of the blues on Independence Day
Fourth of July festivities began at this year’s Safeway Waterfront Blues Fest on Tuesday, July 4 at around 11 a.m. in celebration of the annual concert’s 30 years of service…
The 30th Annual Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival kickoff
The 30th Annual Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival kicked-off at the Tom McCall Waterfront Park in downtown Portland on Friday, June 30. The Blues Festival is currently organized by the Oregon…
Cheers and jeers pay the same at Corey Feldman show
In the realm of a gritty director breathing new lives into their acting careers, Corey Feldman seems closer to the spectrum of Danny Bonaduce and Lindsay Lohan than Robert Downey,…
Corey Harper’s Homecoming Show Feels Like a House Party
Being at Mississippi Studios this Wednesday night in May is like exploring a parallel universe of what life would have been like if I had gone to the same high…
Looking back at ‘Rock of Love,’ and other stuff Google told us about Bret Michaels
To celebrate Poison and Tesla opening for Def Leppard tonight, our Online Editor, an obsessive fan of mid-aughts VH1 programming, gives you the ultimate queer guide to Poison frontman Bret…
PSU Orchestra at Farmer’s Market or maybe not
You’re gonna be on campus this Saturday, right? Hanging out in the library, finishing papers, scanning textbooks, cramming for finals, checking out our astounding Dark Horse Comics holdings? Maybe you’ll…
Vérité, Betty Who and the State of Pop Music 2017
Concert Etiquette Before we talk about Vérité or Betty Who, let’s take a refresher on concert etiquette. Dear Washington Squares and Lloyd Center frumpkins: When you get one of the…
A Seat at Solange & Big Freedia
Solange Is this the best we can do for Solange? I’m sitting in the eleventh row of the sold-out Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, and Solange’s opening act, the all-white clad…
Magic in magical thinking: Vanessa Carlton at the Doug Fir Lounge
“Fake news exists in families,” Vanessa Carlton said during her sold out 2017 performance at the Doug Fir Lounge, generating laughter from the audience. Carlton was explaining the painting behind…
A few green music recommendations
Everyone has different taste in everything: movies, books, ice cream flavors, driver’s seat position, shoe size etc. No topic of interest, however, has a more widespread preference palate than music,…