Brett Campbell

Wealthy Londoners Make a Pact with an American Devil in Dealing With Clair

Brahms vs. Radiohead Is a Mashup 142 Years in the Making

Conductor Steve Hackman sees his “synthesis” as a gateway to bring pop fans to the classical arena he equally cherishes—and vice versa.

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.

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Brett Campbell

Wealthy Londoners Make a Pact with an American Devil in Dealing With Clair

Brahms vs. Radiohead Is a Mashup 142 Years in the Making

Dan Brugh Is Portland Classical Music’s Resident Misfit

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

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

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

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

Andrew Endres Collective, Desolation (Self-Released)

Album Review: Cartridge

TBA Diaries: Maya Beiser, Uncovered

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