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Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely was one of the major influences for The Helio Sequence’s 2012 album, Negotiations. EW caught up with the singer of Portland’s beloved alt-rock duo, Brandon Summers, on tour, shortly after his car broke down on the way to St. Louis. “Conceptually, sonically — on every level it’s amazing,” Summers says of Ol’ Blue Eyes’ melancholy album. “How did they get the vocals so thick and warm?” Continue reading
The last time EW covered the North Mississippi Allstars in depth was in 2006, in anticipation of their McDonald Theatre performance to support their sixth album, Electric Blue Watermelon. In the intervening years, much for the band has changed, but much has come full circle. In 2008, the band took a hiatus, and brothers Luther and Cody Dickinson pursued other projects. Luther formed a string band and a folk band. Cody contributed to several motion picture soundtracks like Black Snake Moan. Continue reading
“Eugene has one of the most talented hip-hop scenes around,” says Kendrick Gilkey (aka Mac Nut), who is a founding member of local hip-hop group Fresh Inc. “There is everything for everyone here.” And on Feb. 8 at Luckey’s, Eugene is hosting two of the scene’s most vital up-and-coming acts: Fresh Inc. and The Architex. Continue reading
Oil painter Mark Rogers has been taking a lot of vitamins lately, and he doesn’t know how he feels about it. His ambivalence towards vitamins, and medicine in general, is illustrated in his latest painting, “Take Your Medicine.” The oil panel features, in the words of the artist, “This old guy with these fucked-up bat wings giving medicine to these prairie dogs … I was thinking he was kind of like an angel but a bad angel.” The effect is at once unsettling and comical. Continue reading
The Lane County Cultural Coalition will host Eugene-Springfield metro area grant-writing workshops for their Cultural Opportunity Grants. A workshop is offered at 10:30 am Saturday, Feb. 9, at the Florence Library. The workshops are done in a small, roundtable formats and cater to individual artists. However, non-profits and for-profit organizations can also apply for these grants, ranging from $500 to $2,500, that "support access, awareness and education for programs and projects related to arts, heritage and humanities." Continue reading
"Au Moulin Rouge" by Toulouse Lautrec, 1895 Continue reading
Local artist Mark Rogers has an uncanny way of painting the mundane in a fantastical and macabre light. His show The New Ending opens tonight at Jameson's tonight – part of the First Friday ArtWalk. Check out EW's Feb. 7 issue for an artist profile. Continue reading
The UO Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art is trying to capture an era, an art movement, a revolution. When artists use drugs, publications, shelter and lifestyle as tools for expression just as artists preceding them employed cameras, paint and clay; when artworks don’t fit neatly into a gilded frame or beneath a sparkling glass case, museums must adapt and turn the establishment on its head. Continue reading