Mercury Music Picks: Hyperpop’s Enfant Terrible Alice Longyu Gao and Berlin Darling Nils Frahm at It Again

Plus electronic music daddies, PNW favorites, and Portland music news! 

Film Review: Björk's Cornucopia Is What a Concert Film Should Be

How is it possible to be a literal deity while so deeply human?

Album Review: Slowing Down with elijah jamal asani

,,, as long as i long to memorise your sky ,,, explores both inner and celestial heavens.

Hear In Portland: Local Queens Esparanza Spalding and Karma Rivera Drop Emotional New Tunes 

Read all about what’s on the music forecast in the latest HIP!

Mercury Music Picks: Uh Oh, Portland’s Alien Boy and Grails Host Album Release Parties the Same Night! 

Plus the stacked lineup at St. Johns Bizzare and the nostalgia of the Jesus Lizard, Alison Moyet, and Slowdive

Album Review: Fading Responsibly With Alien Boy

Pushing through anxieties and fears on new album You Wanna Fade?

Album Review: Times Infinity’s Boy on Horse Is Worth the Wait

The heater new LP delivers the sonic assults we've been missing

The Buzz with Melvins’ Frontman King Buzzo

New album Thunderball, grunge history, and what’s next. 

Fans of PDX's Upgrade, Mass Timber, and Sustainability Just Got a New Anthem! 

DJ Avelanche's fire video for “PDX (Wooden Roof)” is a fun who’s who of Portland hip-hop 

Mercury Music Picks: Michael Hurley Memorial and Björk in Portland??

Plus big rave energy, hardcore, and Portland music news.

Name All the Punk and Metal Cameos in Nasalrod’s New Music Video—if You Can!

“The Maker” is a mini-epic and love letter to Portland.

Hear In Portland: Night Heron Album Release, Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, and New Music by Veana Baby

Read all about what’s on the music forecast, Hear In Portland!

Mercury Music Picks: Cyberplasm and Help Get Loud in Old Town

Plus Beacon Sound takes over Sou'Wester, three must-sees at Holocene, and Portland music news! 

Album Review: The Blue Knots Share Their Sun-Dappled Debut Becoming Noise

The new project’s micro-beat exploration is now your spring soundtrack.

Mercury Music Picks: Black Water's Back, These Fucking Hands Last Show, and a New Performance by Yelling Choir 

Plus reunited slowcore bands, Extradition’s spring concert, and Portland music news!

Gang of Four Bassist Dave Allen Has Died

The Portland music juggernaut was 69, and had struggled with dementia. 

The Top 10 Releases to Seek Out on Record Store Day 2025!

Pharoah Sanders, Charli xcx, Sunn O))), and more to throw on your turntable!

Hear In Portland: Feasting on a New Track From Milc, Wynne, and Spinitch

Plus where to catch a Cinco de Mayo cumbia dance party and SiR at the Crystal Ballroom.

Mercury Music Picks: Etran de L’Aïr Lights Up Wonder Ballroom, An Oregon Music Hall of Fame Benefit Show, and Roseblood’s Record Release Party

Plus two American Sign Language performances, some Cali hardcore, and vaporwave is back??

The Apple of Portland’s Eye, Michael Hurley Passes Away at 83

Listen to the outsider folk hero’s songs today and always. 

Mercury Music Picks: Kraftwerk Techno Daddies, Crystal Quartez’s Record Release Party, and the Launch of the Crush On Everyone Emo Party

Plus transcendent classical, Bay Area noise, and more! 

Hear in Portland: Epic Upcoming Shows from Oh, Rose, Durand Bernarr, and a Wu-Tang Finale This Summer

Read all about what’s on the music forecast, Hear in Portland.

Mercury Music Picks: MSC, James K., and Frank La Rocca’s Requiem for the Forgotten

Plus local album releases, a major punk venue relocation, and the Reed Zine Fest!

Mercury Music Picks: Mother Danzig, Amyl & the Sniffers, and the Linda Lindas

Plus Portland music news!

Can We Make Portland a Music Capital Again? 

City Councilor Jamie Dunphy has ideas.

Darci Phenix Releases Her Dreamy New Album, Sable

Learn how the multi-disciplinary Portland artist uses her hands to get out of her head.

Northwest Hardcore Fest, the PNW’s Hardest-Hitting Festival, Is Back

The freshly announced line-up is a biggie!

Hear In Portland: Albina Music Trust’s Soul Assembly, Jakki and the Pink Smudge, Keeks’ EP Release

Read all about what’s on the music forecast with Hear In Portland.

Mercury Music Picks: Experimental Film and Performance, Local Album Release Parties, and Lots of Dancable Punk

There’s too much going on this week to even list, sheesh! 

Eye-Popping Eyes & Ears

Bijan Berahimi talks to us about curating his massive survey of visuals in music at PNCA.

Gaytheist Return With Frenetic New Album, The Mustache Stays

It’s the first album in five years from the long-running Portland-based noise-rockers.

Mercury Music Picks: Erykah Badu (hopefully), Moondog’s Music, and Unga Dunga’s Second Show

Plus PNW folk punk, the handsomest family, and Portland music news!

Hear in Portland: The Thesis and Friends of Noise Getting up in PDX

Plus, new music and visuals from Zyah Belle

Mercury Music Picks: The Music Of Alice Coltrane, Steve Reich, and Hardcore Punk

Plus we’re adding local music news to the mix! 

Project Pabst Is Back in a Big Way This Summer

The massive lineup includes Iggy Pop, Devo, Cap’n Jazz, Death Cab, Exploding Hearts, plus so many more!

Pickathon Hopes To Raise $1 Million by March

Survey shows attendees prefer the farm fest indie and eco-friendly, but will they support with their wallets?

Mercury Music Picks: Erykah Badu at PDX Jazz Fest, Mars Volta at the Moda

Plus three local record release shows + more!

FREE TICKETS THURSDAY: Enter to Win Free Tix to See Javier Zamora, J. Graves, Blind Pilot, and MORE!

Hear in Portland: Dreckig's EP Release for Eclipse

Plus, a new concert series in a Portland laundry room and Lo Steele spends Valentine's Day at the Fixin’ To!

PDX Live Concerts Take Over the Square Again This August

Featuring Jamie xx, returning favs the Roots, and beloved Portland band STRFKR!

Say “I DO!” To Live Music and All-Nighters This Valentine’s Day Weekend

Queer hip-hop, black metal, and underground raves make for a packed V-Day weekend  in Portland!

FREE TICKETS THURSDAY: Enter to Win Free Tix to See Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, Theory of a Deadman, Comedian Maddie Wiener, and MORE!

Introducing the Portland Mercury’s New Music Editor, Nolan Parker!

How they went from publishing a grass roots music newspaper in Berlin to being Portland’s ONLY music editor.

Hear in Portland: Mal London's New Release on "Fresh Finds R&B"

Plus Julimar headlines the Thesis and the Blacker the Berry II celebrates Black creatives.

FREE TICKETS THURSDAY: Enter to Win Free Tix to See Michael Shannon & Jason Narducy, Los Lobos, Comedian Zoltan Kaszas, and MORE!

FREE TICKETS THURSDAY: Enter to Win Free Tix to See Damien Jurado, The Builders and The Butchers, Moe., and MORE!

FREE TICKETS THURSDAY: Enter to Win Free Tix to See Tim Heidecker, Shook Twins, the Portland Folk Fest, and MORE!

Hear in Portland: Keeks Calls on Femme Queens to “Move!”

Portugal. The Man play Revolutions Per Movie podcast, and Wynne spits “Rug Burn” verses from a sofa.

Portland's Folk Festival Breaks Down the Genre's Walls

Acoustic in Lola's Room, bands in the Crystal Ballroom, and your plans for the weekend—all set.

FREE TICKETS THURSDAY: Enter to Win Free Tix to See Tank and the Bangas, Death From Above 1979, Rorschach Test, and MORE!

Where's Portland Music Month This Year?

MusicPortland put the annual celebration on pause for 2025, citing complications from the election and a desire to expand its vision.

Hear in Portland: Three Picks for Live New Year's Eve Shows (That Are Not DJ Shadow)

Nonbinary Girlfriend and Kye Alive co-create a NYE Experience, and Black Belt Eagle Scout feels like a perfect kickoff to 2025.

Eric Isaacson of Mississippi Records Is Retiring From Booking Shows

He wants you to take up the mantle.

FREE TICKETS THURSDAY: Enter to Win Free Tix to See The Murder City Devils, Leftover Salmon, and Eric Rachmany & Friends!

Hear in Portland: PDX Jazz's Once-In-A-Lifetime Erykah Badu Concert

Plus, Cool Nutz planned a Christmas-themed hip-hop "Festivale," and Ural Thomas plays his own 85th birthday party.

FREE TICKETS THURSDAY: Enter to Win Free Tix to See Ural Thomas, Karl Denson, and MAE.SUN!

FREE TICKETS THURSDAY: Enter to Win Free Tix to See MAITA, The Cabin Project, Livingston Taylor & Loudon Wainwright III, and MORE!

Hear in Portland: Jinkx Monsoon and BenDeLaCreme's Holiday Humor Intensifies

Plus, the Barbaras play an unmissable irreverent post-Thanksgiving country show and Fountaine's "throw away album" catches flame.

FREE TICKETS THURSDAY: Enter to Win Free Tix to See The Moth Mainstage, Comedian Phil Hanley, Samantha Fish, and MORE!

The Mercury Is Hiring a Full-Time Music Editor (Hurry, Applications Due This Friday!)

Hear in Portland: Mal London’s Fourth Album Shows off Pretty Sonics and Flows To Match

Plus, a new show case of local duo and trio collabs, and Justin Timberlake adds a 2025 Portland date to his world tour.

FREE TICKETS THURSDAY: Enter to Win Free Tix to See The Dandy Warhols, La Femme, Dusters, and MORE!

Salami Rose Joe Louis's Dream Pop Makes Catastrophic Ecological Degradation Sound So Good

See her Tuesday in Portland at Jack London Revue.

Screaming With Meaning: The Definitive Blood Brothers Lyrics Q & A

Ahead of the hardcore band's sold out show at Revolution Hall, Johnny Whitney and Jordan Blilie tell us what the group's intense, abstract song lyrics really mean.

FREE TICKETS THURSDAY: Enter to Win Free Tix to See Reverend Horton Heat, Des Demonas, Mason Jennings, and MORE!

Hear in Portland: Rihanna’s New Favorite Song Is by Zyah Belle

Wynne postpones the release of Speak of the Devil, but gives us "Bad Girl," and a hot Halloween line-up at Hungry Hungry Hip-Hop

FREE TICKETS THURSDAY: Enter to Win Free Tix to See Pretty Girls Make Graves, Marc Broussard, Two Evils, and MORE!

FREE TICKETS THURSDAY: Enter to Win Free Tix to See Nick Swardson, the Portland Book Festival, Jeffrey Martin, and MORE!

Mercury Music Picks: Once Chance To See That At the Drive-In Doc in Portland

Erykah Badu headlines the 2025 PDX Jazz Festival, and we have NEW Haley Heynderickx songs—INCOMING!

What's Wrong With the Dare?

This Portland indie heartfelt went full New York sleaze, and we're dancing to it.

André 3000 Is Seriously Weird Live

Audience members called for OutKast hits, Mr. Benjamin replied with eerie minimalism and a variety of incredible-sounding instruments.

Oregon Folk Singer Jeffrey Martin Captures Live Music Magic at Mississippi Studios

Martin's heart-on-sleeve folk tunes are like walking past a graveyard of love and loss, light and dark, hurt, hope, faith, and uncertainty.

FREE TICKETS THURSDAY: Enter to Win Free Tix to See Portland Cello Project, Bilal, Valley, and MORE!

Hear in Portland: Isabeau Waia'u Walker Hits the Hard Stuff of Life on Heavyweight

Seven years of local beatmaker showcase A Beat Happening, and Fountaine flows fast for "Skyrocket (Jump'n)."

FREE TICKETS THURSDAY: Enter to Win Free Tix to See Ta-Nehisi Coates, Haley Heynderickx, Sprints, and MORE!

Portland Opera Makes
History Come Alive

Our Oregon debuts commissioned work about poet and advocate Shizue Iwatsuki.

An Abridged Oral History of Seattle’s Greatest Rock Band, Pretty Girls Make Graves

"Our first or second show was opening up for Fugazi. That’s amazing, right?"

Illuminati Hotties' Sarah Tudzin on Writing All Rippers, No Filler

The not-so-secret Arthur Russell fan could see herself writing a folk record in the future—a folk record that rips!

FREE TICKETS THURSDAY: Enter to Win Free Tix to See Shannon and the Clams, Soul Asylum, The Psychedelic Furs & The Jesus and Mary Chain, and MORE!

Portland Opera Makes the Forgotten Resistance of Shizue Iwatsuki Come Alive

FREE TICKETS THURSDAY: Enter to Win Free Tix to See Summer Salt, the Portland Erotic Ball, ScareGrounds PDX, and MORE!

What Art Goes
With Your Job?

Make art, truth, and beauty
work for you for a change.

FREE TICKETS THURSDAY: Enter to Win Free Tix to See Sky Ferreira, Tokyo Police Club, Wand, and MORE!

Hear in Portland: Lose Yr Mind Fest Adds Afterparty Dance Nights

Celebrate the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival with Alana Rich, and give Oh, Rose's new record some love.

Dreamgaze PDX Revives Portland Shoegaze With a Two-Day Fest in St. Johns

TBA Review: If You Want Solitude, Stay Far Away From Club Alive

Kye Grant's monthly, genre-fluid event blends participatory art and dance parties.

TBA Review: Te Moana Meridian Proposes Moving the Prime Meridian

Sam Hamilton makes a solid proposal; Mere Tokorahi Boynton sings it in te reo Māori.

FREE TICKETS THURSDAY: Enter to Win Free Tix to See Cornelius, Connie Chung, That Mexican OT, the ABBA Tribute, and MORE!

FREE TICKETS THURSDAY: Enter to Win Free Tix to See The Get Up Kids, Comedian John Early, Slipknot, T Bone Burnett, and MORE!

Foo Fighters Rock the Hell Out of Portland's New 30,000-Seat Stadium

Providence Park's concert mode is a great addition to the city, and those complaining about it uphold a time-honored tradition.

FREE TICKETS THURSDAY: Enter to Win Free Tix to See Santana w/ Counting Crows, Buena Vista Social Orchestra, Falling in Reverse, and MORE!

In the Shadow of Writer's Block, Blind Pilot Triumphantly Returns

Last summer, frontman Israel Nebeker suddenly found a path through his eight-year compositon drought.

Hear in Portland: Wynne's "Dog In Me" Is an Unapologetic Bop

Plus, a rebrand of the beloved summer block party in front of Green Muse, and Greaterkind's long-awaited Change of Plans.

Photo Essay: Pickathon Night Mode

Our annual photo essay brings you beautiful live music moments from Elephant Revival, Durand Jones, and Pahua.

Pickathon 2024 Maintains the Live Music Magic

The farm music fest sent everyone home with a new favorite band—we were surprised to find plenty were from Portland!

FREE TICKETS THURSDAY: Enter to Win Free Tix to See Elle King, BLÜ EYES, Junior Brown, Sean Hayes, and MORE!

The Mercury's Guide to Pickathon 2024: Nine Music Picks You Must Not Miss

Listen for La Lom, Andi Oasis, and Lo Steele. Plus, our hot anticipation for Geese's Justin Bieber cover

Behind the Project Pabst Unicorn With Matt Slessler

The music festival returns to Portland with a bill where Billy Idol follows T-Pain, an onsite dive bar, and a brand new big unicorn.

Three Country / Folk-Rock / Psych-Rock Acts That Stood Out at FairWell Festival's Year Two

If you didn't make it down to Deschutes County Fairgrounds last weekend, you should still hear Adeem the Artist, S.G. Goodman, and Black Opry Revue.