Best Teef in the Game
Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals, Thundercat and Earl Sweatshirt perform at Edgefield (6.22.19)
Music: Page 53
The River Keeper
Okkervil River looks back while moving forward
From the outside, the creative process seems so mysterious and alchemical. We want in on it, to take nip off that bottle, to be there … Continue reading
Amber Pop
Learning life lessons with Cayucas
As though preserved in amber, Real Life, the brand-new release from Los Angeles twin-brother duo Cayucas, captures and inhabits all those moments growing up that … Continue reading
Minus 5 at Sessions Lounge June 14
Subterranean Brainsick Blues
The Minus 5 debuts the brilliant, baffling Stroke Manor in eugene
Minus 5’s new release is a concept album, of sorts. In song after song on the aptly named Stroke Manor, words slip their foundation, falling … Continue reading
Can’t Tell Her No
Summer Cannibals return to Eugene
“Can’t Tell Me No” is the rowdy leadoff single from Portland garage-punk quartet Summer Cannibals’ fourth album, which has the same name as the song. … Continue reading
Sax Master
Jazz, Bach and choral music coming to a venue near you
Is Idit Shner a jazzer or a classical musician? Yes! A native of Israel, the longtime University of Oregon music prof is a master of … Continue reading
Music to Heal a Dying Planet
Contemporary composers contemplate the apocalypse
On a warm, sunny Sunday afternoon in May, hundreds of people crammed into the gymnasium at Burns High School in eastern Oregon for a concert. … Continue reading
Father John Misty and Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
Live June 9 at Les Schwab Amphitheater in Bend
Eugene Balkan-i-ana
Sample the many musical moods of Mood Area 52 in the band’s new album
Michael Roderick is feeling modest. “I’m not ambitious to a flaw,” he says, despite the fact his band Mood Area 52 has released eight studio … Continue reading