Dan Brugh Is Portland Classical Music’s Resident Misfit

In a genre populated by rule-bound retro-gazers, Brugh combines unbounded creativity, stage savvy and tech geekery with a childlike sense of playfulness.

Tristan Bliss Challenged Portland's Classical Music Establishment to Do Better. Then It Challenged Him.

45th Parallel artistic director Greg Ewer issued a challenge. What, he asked, would a 45th Parallel show look like if Bliss were in charge?

A Guide to the Portland Jazz Festival for the Newbie, the Purist and the Adventurer.

Whatever you’re hardcore fan or just really loved “La La Land,” the Portland Jazz Festival has something for you.

Songhoy Blues Came Together in Exile, but Its Music Has No Boundaries

While sizzling with the bubbling, trance-inducing electric guitar lines of famous Malian bands like Tinariwen, Songhoy Blues’ “Music in Exile,” co-produced by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Nick Zinner, varies the traditional desert-blues slow grind with a potpourri of song forms and rhythms, including funk and reggae.

Black Violin Is Introducing Rap to Classical Audiences—But First, They Had to Survive the Apollo

Enter Black Violin, whose members say they love classical music, but they live hip-hop.

Andrew Endres Collective, Desolation (Self-Released)

Instead of flinching from or wallowing in the pain of its dark inspirations, Desolation never devolves into mere dreariness, but—to borrow Ray Bradbury’s term—confronts it with a tart musical medicine for melancholy.

Album Review: Cartridge

A kind of crazy mood-swinging animates this atmospheric new release by the nonpareil Portland improvising flutist John C. Savage and percussionist and producer Will Northlich-Redmond.

TBA Diaries: Maya Beiser, Uncovered