Young guns
For all the talk about classical music being your grandparents’ music, there sure seem to be plenty of young musicians heading in that direction. Continue reading
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In the Garage
Bass Drum Of Death
As far as band names go, Bass Drum Of Death is in my top five. In recent years, acts such as Ty Segall, Wavves and King Tuff have spearheaded a gorgeous, fuzzy garage revival, leaving footprints in the ashes for other bands to follow. Bass Drum of Death’s eponymous 2013 album was chockfull of tasty lo-fi licks. Every song had the same basic tone: howling six-strings. swampy bass lines and a snare drum that just wouldn’t quit. Continue reading
RL Grime & Company in Review
If you wanted to party at WOW Hall this winter, this was your best chance
All photos by Athena Delene If I learned one thing at the RL Grime DJ set at WOW Hall Jan. 25, it’s that Eugene doesn’t need Sunday to be an end to the weekend — for many, it could have be their highlight. The RL Grime set was the kind of performance that made many sweat with more perspiration than they’d collected at the fancy new UO recreation center. If you wanted to party at WOW Hall this winter, this was your best chance. Continue reading
Information Overload
A swirling, whimsical, breathless catalogue of human relationships in varying stages of intimacy
Caryl Churchill’s new play Love and Information is simultaneously the worst and the best first-date idea ever. In the intimate horseshoe shape of UO’s Hope Theatre, the play’s litany of 57 scenes and 100-plus characters was so relentless that it never occurred to me to shift so that my date could grab my hand. Continue reading
The Wild Art of Hanif Panni
He is returning to his hometown with a Noah’s Ark of artwork in tow
Former Eugene hip-hop staple Hanif Panni (aka Hanif Wondir) is returning to his hometown with a Noah’s Ark of artwork in tow — a mandrill monkey, a wolf, a zebra, a lioness, a tiger and an elk are just a few of his traveling companions. Continue reading
Photos: Whitey Morgan & the 78s at Sam Bonds Garage [1.22.15]
We met up at Tiny's before they show to have drinks and take some shots before they tore it up at Sam Bonds. Continue reading
Photos: Wale & Audio Push at McDonald Theatre [1.24.15]
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Remembering Juan Carlos Amy-Cordero through dance and song
It’s going to be an interesting mix of music, from a piece of antiquity to these funny poems
When the community loses an artist, it’s first felt acutely in his mortal absence, and then in the slow, aching realization that he will never again be there to sing another song or paint another picture — or dance just one more dance. Continue reading
The Scope of War
I’ve been to hundreds of movies over the years, but I’ve never experienced anything remotely like the solemnity that settled over the audience at the end of Clint Eastwood’s latest film, American Sniper. Absolute quiet. Not a person rose to leave. It wasn’t until the real-life footage of the memorial motorcade for murdered Navy SEAL Chris Kyle bled into a stream of rolling credits that the souls in that movieplex rose, still in silence, and filed out like a funeral procession. Continue reading
All In The Family
Not to mince words, but Evynne and Peter Hollens are kind of a big deal. Evynne Hollens is a singer and performer who directs and teaches. Peter Hollens is a singer-songwriter, producer and entrepreneur. Together, they’ve built a life in music and, from their cozy base in Eugene, shared it with the world. Continue reading