There’s an easy gait to “Adopt a Highway,” the new single from Portland, Oregon’s The Harmed Brothers. A breezy ode to wanderlust and chasing one’s dreams that sugarcoats nothing, “Adopt a Highway” is the latest single from Ray Vietti and…
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There is a strain of hopefulness that rises from the folkish melancholy of “Look Away,” the new single from Portland, Oregon singer/songwriter Anna Tivel. The opening track to Tivel’s forthcoming third album, Heroes Waking Up, the plainspoken “Look Away” — with…
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Releasing two albums and touring with the Delines as well as penning his fourth novel (The Free), Willy Vlautin has been a busy man in the five years since Portland, Oregon’s Richmond Fontaine issued The High Country. Set to return…
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Without a doubt the saddest song you’ll hear this entire holiday season, to download “Christmas at Home” from Vacilando will require a bit more work than clicking a link below. Released prior to the band’s proper recorded introduction, “Christmas at…
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Exhibiting a showman’s flair for the dramatic, Morgan Geer as Drunken Prayer sells rock and roll snake oil that the listener is too quick to buy. Taking advantage of half-infused patrons on a Saturday night, Geer extolls the virtues of…
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One could call Vacilando a vanity project given its players and their resources if it weren’t for their debut LP, While They Were Dancing, being so affecting. Featuring the executive team of Portland, Oregon’s Fluff & Gravy Records, Vacilando is…
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Portland, Oregon’s one-man-band Mike Coykendall knows there is no easy path. With a career that includes stints as a hired musical gun and producer, Coykendall lists M Ward, Blitzen Trapper, She & Him, Annalisa Tornfelt and Tin Hat Trio on…
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Since the 2013 release of his Primary Perception, Portland, Oregon renaissance man Nick Jaina has busied himself with projects such as serving as music director for a New York City ballet company he co-founded, composing music for multiple ballets and…
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From The OC to Occupy Wall Street, singer/songwriter Catherine Feeny has witnessed the full spectrum of American life. Having first worked with jazz drummer Chris Johnedis on her 2012 album, America, Feeny and Johnedis have paired to record their first…
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The futility of existence can be a soul-crushing weight if pondered too hard. Leaving such a dilemma to the philosophers, singer/songwriter Jeffrey Martin posits untethering oneself from the machinations of the material world on “Newborn Thing.” Included on Martin’s August…
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Having fronted California-based Silver Darling through 2010, Portland singer/songwriter Kevin Lee Florence has since struck out on his own with a little help from friends including bassist Jon Button (Sheryl Crow, Robben Ford), drummer James McAlister (Sufjan Stevens, Bill Frisell),…
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Words. Strip away the jazz arrangement on “Dogs in the Daylight,” the title track from Portland, Oregon, singer Jeffrey Martin‘s forthcoming LP, Dogs in the Daylight, and you are left with words. Powerful words: For a man is only a…
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