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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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A Little Help from Her Friends

Music 8 years ago

Often a young musician is shaped by a singular performance that clicks a switch inside her, a switch that says: “I could do that, too.” … Continue reading →

Cold Heat

Eugene’s Le Rev brings its cinematic mood to Hi-Fi

Music 8 years ago

I’m eating skewered beef heart with Eugene band Le Rev at a Peruvian restaurant in the Whiteaker neighborhood, and the band is explaining how they … Continue reading →

Sing a Slaying Song

Music 8 years ago

Veteran heavy metal demi-gods Slayer return to Eugene behind their 12th studio album, 2015’s Repentless. And — besides a long and consistent output of some … Continue reading →

All the World’s a Stage

Hipsters meets hippies in VLT’s As You Like It

Theater 8 years ago

The trend in Shakespeare performance is to toss off all the “adieus” and “but softs” with the casual tone of a texting teenager. I, for … Continue reading →

Drama Rock

Music 8 years ago

Brian Viglioni, drummer with New York four-piece rock band Scarlet Sails, agrees there’s a theatrical edge to his band’s latest release, Future from the Past. … Continue reading →

24-Hour Party People

A user’s guide to the music at the 2017 Whiteaker Block Party

Music 8 years ago

Surveying this year’s Whiteaker Block Party music schedule (12 stages!), it’s hard to know where to start. So EW put together its own music itinerary. … Continue reading →

Anti-Capitalist Art Punks

Music 8 years ago

Kilynn Lunsford, vocalist with noisy art-rock band Taiwan Housing Project, is feeling scattered as she talks to me on the phone from her home in … Continue reading →

Metal in Good Mettle

Music 8 years ago

After seven years, Eugene Metal Celebration — a multi-night event held at Black Forest in downtown Eugene — is gaining attention from metal acts around … Continue reading →

Dog Man Blues

Music 8 years ago

“The problem with genres is you don’t get to pick,” Minnesota musician Charlie Parr tells me over the phone from his favorite Eugene café. He … Continue reading →

Bach for the 21st Century

A rock music writer ponders time, art, relevance and Johann Sebastian Bach at the Oregon Bach Festival

Music 8 years ago

By 1829, nearly 80 years after his death, the music of Johann Sebastian Bach had fallen out of fashion. Think of what we were listening … Continue reading →

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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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