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Portland Transplant Saoirse Dream Finds Her Own Blend of Maximalist Cyberpop
“I realized how much I felt like I was missing.”
Shows of the Week: Esperanza Spalding Keeps Letting Her Project Be What She Wants
What to see and hear the week of June 11–17.
Chamber Music Northwest’s Latest Summer Festival Goes Deeper Than Bach to Basics
Echoes of Bach explores the Baroque composer’s legacy over five weeks of concerts.
St. Johns Music Venue The Fixin’ To Is Fixin’ to Become an Arcade
The bar will become a new Portland pinball destination with more than 30 machines.
Shows of the Week: Portlander-via-Alabama Patterson Hood Brings Drive-By Truckers to Revolution Hall
What to see and hear June 4–11.
Friends and Family Remember the Late Michael Dean Damron, Leader of I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House
“He was one of the rawest writers, one of the rawest performers.”
Oregon Symphony’s Badalamenti-Lynch Tribute Veered Off Into Cornball Territory
Singers acted out scenes as “Twin Peaks” characters visiting Portland, with cringey references to the world outside the Schnitz.
Wu-Tang Clan Rapper RZA Returns to the Hollywood Theatre
RZA will do a post-film discussion, then DJ at Lan Su Chinese Garden.
Barry Manilow Will Award $10,000 to a Portland-Area School and Its Music Teacher During His Rose City Concert
Fans can vote between 10 PPS music teachers on the Manilow Music Project’s website through June 10.
Shows of the Week: Mabe Fratti Picks Up Where Arthur Russell Left Off
What to see and hear May 28–June 3.
These Five Joints Will Satisfy Your Spontaneous Craving for Jazz, Blues and Soul
Welcome to the Blues Triangle.
Nils Frahm Brings Improvisational Sounds to Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
The night included animal sounds from the audience.
Sarah Hicks Conducts the Music of Angelo Badalamenti and “Twin Peaks”
“It’s a little bit theatrical, what we do. Lynch created such a visual world in films and in “Twin Peaks.””
For the Record: Julius Smack Gets Ahead of the Conversation of AI and Art
Super-Electric Records owner Bob Ham notes what’s been in heavy rotation on the shop’s turntable in May.
Soul’d Out Brings a New Concert Series With an Environmentally Conscious Tilt to Green Anchors
Summer performances include Elephant Revival, Dirtwire and Beats Antique.