Future Bluesman
North Carolina’s Reed Turchi & His Kudzu Choir recorded their latest release, Just a Little More Faith, in a single day. The album is out … Continue reading
William Kennedy
Will Kennedy is a freelance writer and a senior music writer with Eugene Weekly. He lives in Eugene with his wife, daughter and two cats. All of whom politely accommodate his obsessions with Doctor Who and The Smiths.
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Candy Corn
Rich Sellers, vocalist and bandleader with Eugene-based Candy Apple Bleu, remembers a time from the late ’70s to early ’90s when there was a difference … Continue reading
First Dance with Mary Jane
A marijuana newbie goes shopping at a local weed joint
Tyler Banks, budtender at Moss Crossing, a weed dispensary located in Eugene’s Friendly Street neighborhood, wants you to know it’s OK if you don’t know … Continue reading
Outer-Space Cowgirl
Get cosmic with country singer Caitlin Jemma
Eugene musician Caitlin Jemma wanted a vintage sound for her new album Love Notes, so she decided to record it at the OK Theatre in … Continue reading
Suite Judy
Judy Collins and Stephen Stills perform live in Eugene
Whether platonic or romantic, long-lasting relationships can enrich a life. We should all be so lucky as to have one. But sometimes, the very stuff … Continue reading
Spin the Black Circle
Eleventh annual Record Store Day celebrates real deal record shopping
After the internet blew up recorded music’s manufactured scarcity, freeing the commerce of sound from wax and plastic, it didn’t take long for people to … Continue reading
Soul Satisfied
Take a road trip to see Portland’s genre-blurring Soul’d Out Music Festival
Nicholas Harris tells me that nine years ago, Portland’s Soul’d Out Music Festival was founded because “the Pacific Northwest was painfully lacking in the diversity … Continue reading
Chaos Creation
The ever-changing L.A. duo formerly known as Smoosh visits Eugene
Asya Saavedra who, along with her sister Chloe Saavedra forms LA duo Chaos Chaos, says her band took its name from a species of amoeba … Continue reading
Sprouting Springfield
Sprout! Regional Food Hub offers worldwide grub
This spring, on a warm Friday afternoon, I decide to play hooky. And now I can say that, should you find yourself in or around … Continue reading
Alvvays and Forever
Novia Scotia snowbirds fly their melancholy indie pop into Eugene
As a teenager living in Nova Scotia, Molly Rankin bought records by Teenage Fanclub and The Smiths. “That’s when I started writing guitar music,” she … Continue reading