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Born near Vancouver, British Columbia, singer-songwriter Sarah Jane Scouten says she’s a West Coast girl. “I may strike folks as a bizarro Oregonian,” she tells … Continue reading
Like a lot of ’90s kids, The Steel Wheels vocalist Trent Wagler grew up listening to Nirvana. “What attracted me to punk was authenticity,” Wagler … Continue reading
October’s big show is the Eugene Symphony’s Thursday, Oct. 18, Hult Center concert featuring eminent Portland composer David Schiff’s Stomp, Leonard Bernstein’s ambitious “Age of Anxiety” symphony … Continue reading
Eugene Weekly presents The Gossamer Strings performing ‘Where’s the Light’ for #lincolnstreetsessions live at the EW offices. Eugene Weekly’s Back Beat: Lincoln Street Sessions are … Continue reading
In this week’s episode of Eugene Weekly’s What’s Happening podcast, EW arts contributor Will Kennedy catches up with musician Betty Jaeger, now of Baroque Betty and formerly of other groups Betty and the Boy and Betty and the Babes. Jaeger plays a song for us live, in-studio. Kennedy also previews upcoming concerts to check out in the next few weeks and we listen to a never-before-heard track from local band Pancho + The Factory from their upcoming full-length album.
Music in this episode is from Betty Jaeger, Pancho + The Factory and Charlie Moses.
Jay Rock is lucky to be alive. In 2016, at what might have been the pinnacle of any other artist’s career, Rock was thrown from … Continue reading
A century ago, Englishman Cecil Sharp came to the U.S. looking for British folk songs he first collected in the U.K. “And he found tons … Continue reading
Eugene Weekly presents The Gossamer Strings performing ‘Following Through’ for #lincolnstreetsessions live at the EW offices. Eugene Weekly’s Back Beat: Lincoln Street Sessions are a … Continue reading
Why would a kid in Vancouver, British Columbia, grow up to play Celtic-influenced punk rock? “It’s my parents’ fault,” The Real McKenzies bandleader Paul McKenzie … Continue reading
“The times change, and we change with them. How? Time passing makes mankind worse.” That 17th-century epigram may sound depressingly apt to observers of our … Continue reading