The 2026 Stars On Ice tour mesmerized Portland audiences at Veterans Memorial Coliseum on May 24, bringing together Olympic medalists and world skating champions from the 2026 Winter Games. The ...

By MICHAEL SHOEHORN CONLEY // Sonny Rollins passed this week. It seems like Sonny could do anything he could think of on the horn, If Sonny did ...

By MATT HANSEN // Music festival newcomer Punk Rock Pride returns to Portland this June for a day of loud riffs, drag performances, and community-minded protest ...

From the moment Diane Sullivan dropped me off at the front door of Leon and Mary's home in Encino, California in 1977, where he greeted me and the adventure began, to the last time we visited on his ...

This is from Terry Currier on the Oregon Music Hall of Fame Facebook page.: In 1959 Lynn Easton and Jack Ely started a band that wound eventually be called the Kingmen after another band named the ...

Simply brilliant. Listen to him tell us all about it.

Simply brilliant. Listen to him tell us all about it. A year ago Curtis Salgado was sitting in Paul K Ward’s studio blue telling us about the new album he was preparing to record. A live record of his ...

Teddy Martin Jr. has been in Portland with his family for almost a decade, but he hasn’t strayed far from his love of creating music. He released his first single in many years last Valentine’s day.

It was a quiet, cold Sunday night in North Portland when I spoke with The Macks earlier this month, local rockers with a gigantic sound and, as I would find out later, even bigger aspirations to take ...

Welcome back to the Café in Artichoke Music. I’m Tom D’Antoni. Sitting across from me is Pepe Raphael, a singer and dancer who may be best known for his Pepe and the Bottle Blondes ensemble. He was a ...

Dancing With the Stars comes to Portland. It has been 20 years and counting, since June 1, 2005, the dance competition reality television show, Dancing With the Stars ...

When word reached me this past Sunday (August 8th) that my oldest close friend, guitarist Bruce Conte, had passed away, I was shocked and stunned. Bruce—legendary for his 7-year, 7-album stint with ...