Musical ‘Influencers’
Meet six people who are instruments of the Eugene sound
Music scenes are like phantoms: Point them out, and they disappear; name them and they shift; call out a great house-show venue and watch it … Continue reading
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Heart & Soul
R&B artist Bilal brings experimental soul to the heart of Eugene
One thing is for certain of Bilal: the neo-soul artist is surely on a journey of self-made greatness. Bilal says his story began in Philadelphia, … Continue reading
Rap Caviar
Ab-Soul hits town with his five-star hip hop
If there were ever rap raw enough to contend with a dish of five-star tartare, Ab-Soul would easily be the dollop of prime caviar served … Continue reading
It’s Different for Barnes
EW talks with the frontman of Athens band of Montreal
I ask Kevin Barnes from of Montreal whether early Bowie stuff or bands like T Rex were on his mind when writing and recording Innocence … Continue reading
Character Sketches
Songs from an imaginary font of lost love and loneliness
Julien Ehrlich says that when he started writing as a duo with guitarist Max Kakacek, the musicians “wanted the songs to sound like they were … Continue reading
American Voices
Spring brings vocal music by 20th- and 21st-century American composers
Although America seems like a scary place at the moment, we can draw strength and solace from the music of American composers of our own … Continue reading
Lincoln Street Sessions
Live Music, Local Musicians, Recorded in our Shitty Office
Lincoln Street Sessions is a series of video studio sessions filmed live in the Eugene Weekly office at 1251 Lincoln in Eugene Oregon.
Who gets the baton?
We handicap the race among three musicians who want to lead the Eugene Symphony
It’s all over now except for the hiring. Eugene Symphony’s yearlong music director search has all but ended, once more attracting national attention as the … Continue reading
Death is Real
Mount Eerie's fragile renderings of grief
Last summer Québécois artist and musician Geneviève Castrée died of pancreatic cancer. Now her husband, Washington state musician Phil Elverum, known for work with indie … Continue reading
The Slants
The Asian-American band that mustn’t be named is playing in Eugene
Artists live at the crossroads of the active and the passive, between merely creating and sharing or creating and engaging with the broader community. Asian-American … Continue reading