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Sinkane’s new album Life & Livin’ It incorporates Afrobeat, Sudanese pop, psych-rock, and ’60s funk.
Rip City Boxing teaches kids how to fight, and more importantly, the art of self-respect.
Her new album Beyond the Bloodhounds draws from Gothic Americana and Oblivions-fueled garage rock. NORITSU KOKI IT’S EASY to forget, in its current whitewashed and sterilized state, that blues music used to be dark and dangerous. From Robert Johnson’s hellhounds to Geeshie Wiley’s buzzards, there was a time, many decades ago, when blues was the […]
musicNashville’s Adia Victoria plays the dark and dangerous blues of yesteryear.
NONAME Thurs 2/16 Doug Fir BRYAN ALLEN LAMB No disrespect to Chance the Rapper, but last year’s most anticipated Chicago hip-hop release was not Coloring Book, but Telefone, the full-length debut from the relatively obscure and obscurely named Noname. Hailing from Bronzeville—the Southside neighborhood celebrated by poet Gwendolyn Brooks—Noname (born Fatimah Warner) came up in […]
Hilliard at his desk at the Oregonian, 1979. PHOTO PROVIDED BY THE OREGONIAN William A. Hilliard passed away today at age 89, after a remarkable and unprecedented life as a newspaperman. After being turned down by the Oregonian as a young boy for a paper route (for being black), Hilliard went on to earn a […]
Laura Jane Grace RYAN RUSSELL Rock ’n’ roll memoirs have become a genre all their own, usually telling similar stories of fame, sex, alcohol, and heroic amounts of drugs. These books have largely become formulaic, written by white, able-bodied, cisgender men. Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock’s Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout, the new memoir by Against […]
The Against Me! singer’s new memoir arrives at a critical time.
In 1938, an 11-year-old boy was turned down for a paper route job for being black. What he went on to do in the newspaper industry was remarkable.
Sloan’s Tavern Minh Tran IT CAN USUALLY be found in the darkest corner—standing like a loner with its back to the wall. It’s not the first thing you see when you enter a bar, but it’s probably the first thing you’ll hear. More than just decoration or a piece of furniture, a jukebox can be […]
In pursuit of Portland’s classic jukeboxes.
ANDERSON .PAAK No longer Breezy Lovejoy. Jabari Jacob THIS YEAR HAS SEEN the loss of two of our greatest and most visionary performers—David Bowie and Prince represented a disappearing art, in which songwriting was innovative, musicianship was paramount, and singing was transcendent. But this year also saw the unanticipated success of Anderson .Paak, a relative […]
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