Bringing Out the Dead

A PSU student attempts to recreate a lost Grateful Dead show, based on the memories of those who were there. Good luck!

Music Stories They say anyone who remembers the ’60s wasn’t there. Tell it to Travis Neel. For the last six months, the 29-year-old Portland State University graduate student has been studying the Gratefu   More

 

Wednesday, May 15, 2013 BRANDON WIDDER

George Rozwick, Accordion Master

At age 94, Portland’s accordion king is still pushing buttons.

Music Stories The accordion has 233 buttons, 41 keys and 8,888 chords. George Rozwick won’t claim he knows all the chords off the top of his head. Pretty much everything else, though? He’s got it. Of cour   More

 

Wednesday, May 15, 2013 KAITIE TODD

Blood Bros

Wampire crawls out of the basement.

Music Stories Six years ago, the last band anyone would’ve pegged to make it big outside of Portland might have been Wampire. First of all, there’s that name. An inside joke goofing on the German pronunciat   More

 

Wednesday, May 8, 2013 MATTHEW SINGER

SoHiTek Records: Wednesday, May 8

Not every young person comes to Portland to retire. Some start record labels.

Music Stories The founder of SoHiTek Records, 30-year-old Erik Carlson, lives the quintessential Portland dream. Aside from owning and operating his own homegrown record label, he also curates the SoHiTek visua   More

 

Wednesday, May 8, 2013 EMILEE BOOHER

Primer: Big Boi

Music Stories Born: In Savannah, Ga., in 1975. Sounds like: Listening to the coolest dude at the party shoot the shit as the DJ spins ’70s soul, ’80s boogie funk and the occasional modern electro-pop recor   More

 

Wednesday, May 8, 2013 MATTHEW SINGER

Family Function

Meet the Salas-Humaras.

Music Stories Walter Salas-Humara and Charlie Salas-Humara have nothing in common.  Well, except for the last name, of course. And Charlie’s dad, who happens to be Walter’s brother. In musical terms,   More

 

Wednesday, May 1, 2013 MATTHEW SINGER

Soriah: Sunday, May 5

Inside the golden throat of Portland.

Music Stories [TUVAN THROAT SINGING] One of the world’s best Tuvan throat singers lives in Portland. His name is Enrique Ugalde—though before explaining who he is, maybe it’s best to explain exactly what    More

 

Wednesday, May 1, 2013 AMANDA SCHURR

Soopah Eype: Friday, May 3

Don’t tell Judah Mobley what to rap about.

Music Stories [HIP-HOP HERESY] Early on Soopah Eype’s most recent mixtape, El Planeta de los Simios (that’s “Planet of the Apes” for those without access to Google Translate), the Portland rapper drops    More

 

Wednesday, May 1, 2013 ROBERT HAM

Shred the Light Fantastic

The adorable electrocution of Marnie Stern.

Music Stories In 2006, Ben Parrish of the Portland- and Olympia-based record label Kill Rock Stars received a demo from a 31-year-old New York singer-guitarist named Marnie Stern. At the time, the label was bei   More

 

Wednesday, April 24, 2013 MARK STOCK

Kenji Bunch: Sunday, April 28

One of Portland’s brightest composers escapes from New York.

Music Stories [CLASSICAL] Like it is in everything else these days, Brooklyn is all the rage in classical music. It’s an old story, really: For a century at least, if you wanted to be at the forefront of co   More

 

Wednesday, April 24, 2013 BRETT CAMPBELL