Cheap Trick and Dowager play all-ages shows this week.
Morgan Troper
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Make Mine Country: Saint Lucia’s Obsession with Classic Country Music
MAKE MINE COUNTRY In which Saint Lucia’s country scene puts America’s to shame. If you’re a stupid American like me, there’s a good chance you can’t place Saint Lucia on a globe—it’s a relatively small, rugged paradise in the lower portion of the Caribbean, with a population that hovers around 180,000. The island nation also […]
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All-Ages Action!
This Week in All-Ages Music
Centaurpalooza and Donovan Wolfington in this week’s all-ages shows.
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Make Mine Country and Saint Lucia’s Obsession with Country
In Saint Lucia, Country’s Golden Era Lives On
Classic country reigns in a small, rugged paradise in the lower portion of the Caribbean.
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All-Ages Action!
This Week in All-Ages Music
All-ages shows from Weatherbox and John Value.
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Outsider Hart
David Liebe Hart’s Notorious Puppet Show
David Liebe Hart takes his notorious puppet show on the road.
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All-Ages Action!
This Week in All-Ages Music
Dragging out the Vans Warped Tour’s disinterred corpse.
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The Official All-Ages Action! Field Guide to PDX Pop Now! 2015
WRITING ABOUT PDX POP NOW! gets a little tougher every year, and it becomes difficult not to regurgitate the festival’s own mission statement. On the other hand, that might just be testament to PDX Pop Now!’s consistency and unwavering value to the all-ages community here in Portland. For kids who like music, it’s a three-day […]
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All-Ages Action!
PDX Pop Now! 2015 Field Guide
Fourteen must-see bands at this year’s PDX Pop Now!
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All-Ages Action!
This Week in All-Ages Music
All-ages shows with Ceremony and Graham Nash. Not together. That would be crazy.
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Elvis Costello and the Imposters at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Wed July 8
People seem to forget that young Elvis Costello was an absolutely terrifying performer. His media reputation as rock ’n’ roll’s “angry young man” was not unwarranted—the Attractions’ 1978 appearance on German TV show Rockaplast is a perfect document of that period of Costello’s career. Musically, he combined Paul McCartney’s cherubic penchant for melody with a […]
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All-Ages Action!
This Week in All-Ages Music
Rod’s debut EP stakes a claim for PDX’s top pop throne.