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A rainy evening in the Twin Cities set the stage for Japanese Breakfast to electrify the Palace in St. Paul on September 9, 2025, with their uplifting melodies and soulful performance. The nearly sold-out crowd was treated to an hour and a half of music that masterfully blended new and old songs, including many from […]

Not too many touring musicians can call Red Rocks Amphitheatre home, but Gregory Alan Isakov can lay claim to just that. The Boulder, Colorado-based songwriter has been playing shows at the famed venue around Labor Day weekend for some time now, and this year’s run featured two consecutive sold-out nights. So, yeah, it’s a second home for […]

Some music transcends time and place. It doesn’t matter what era or what is currently hot on the radio – it simply exists in an ever-youthful state. Béla Fleck and the Flecktones have occupied this space for nearly four decades. Fusing jazz and bluegrass, but reaching into far more varied musical realms, the group has […]

On August 26th, 2025, Todd Rundgren brought his “Still Me/(Still We)” tour to the Paramount Theater in Charlottesville, Virginia. This was the first time in Rundgren’s nearly 50-year-long musical career that he performed in Charlottesville.  Many in the audience who were early fans, primarily in the 1970s, were pleased to hear a handful of old […]

From Thursday, July 31st through Sunday, August 3rd, the forest and fields of Happy Valley, Oregon’s Pendarvis Farm just outside the Portland city limits came alive for the 25th installment of Pickathon. This little music festival has become the trusted home for those looking for a unique and thoughtful experience. It’s a festival of discovery, […]

At first glance, a festival that is blatantly branded and named after its corporate parent seems ripe for protest by the cool, socially liberated kids. But Pabst Blue Ribbon holds a special place in the heart of anyone who has ever spent late nights in a dive bar smoking butts and pounding the cheap lager, […]

Over the course of two days, July 18 and 19, 2025, the Deschutes County Fairgrounds in Redmond, Oregon hosted a festival that brought an incredible lineup of independent country music artists and tens of thousands of fans to the high desert of Central Oregon. In the days leading up to Fairwell Festival, reports of nearby […]

To see James McMurtry live is to witness one of the finest American songwriters at work. Lucky for us, the 63-year-old Texan troubadour is still a road dog, criss-crossing the country for much of the year while somehow still maintaining a fairly consistent and now legendary residency at the fabled Continental Club in Austin. If […]

Two of the most tried and true acts in rock and roll music are Deer Tick and the Drive-by Truckers. Resilience, quality songwriting and musicianship, and an ability to stand the test of time are all qualities they share despite one hailing from the Northeast and the other from the South. And this was just […]

If you’ve followed Jason Isbell’s career for roughly the past two decades, you’ve by now likely realized that there are two sides to the gifted songwriter and guitarist. On the one side, there is the prodigal Alabama son who put in his years of hard living and harder rocking with the Drive-by Truckers while amassing […]

Portland, Oregon music fans who made their way to Revolution Hall on Friday, May 16th, left not just satisfied, but somewhat stunned by the quality of the soul shakedown party they were presented with by this Neal Francis Return To Zero tour stop. Francis and his band, along with opening act Color Green, both commanded […]

Washington D.C. – based surf-sludge-punk garage rockers Teen Mortgage are taking the American rock club scene by storm, with a slew of sold-out shows across the nation. Fueled by the April 11 release of their first LP, Devil Ultrasonic Dream (Roadrunner Records), the duo, consisting of James Guile on guitar and vocals and Edward Barakauskas […]

The last time the four members of Phish all set foot in Portland, it was a different century. September 12, 1999 at the now-gone Portland Meadows, to be exact. In the more than twenty-five years since that date, a lot has happened. The Vermont jam legends played a marathon show to usher in the new […]

Deep in the Saharan desert in the country of Niger lies Agadez, a city that is known for its mysterious desert rock music. After many years playing weddings and other gigs throughout Agadez, Etran De L’Aïr has caught fire internationally and now spends much of their time bringing their Saharan rock to increasingly larger audiences […]

The Greyboy Allstars are celebrating the upcoming May release of Grab Bag: 2007-2023, their eighth LP, which includes nine cuts previously unreleased over the past decade and a half of the band’s 30-year history. The quintet is also playing a few live dates leading up to their appearance at Tipitina’s as part of the New […]

Among the handful of Australian bands that have taken the world by storm in the last several years, few have grabbed the attention of such a diverse range of music fans as Amyl and the Sniffers. Fronted by the brash vocalist Amy Taylor, the band has exploded as they have evolved from their gritty early […]

On Saturday, March 22nd, Maryland jam outfit Pigeons Playing Ping Pong treated Portland, Oregon fans to two solid sets, the first of which included the debut of new tune “Not Who You Are.” The band encored with the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Suck My Kiss.” Edinburgh, Scotland power funk trio High Fade opened the show. […]

Among the current crop of real-deal country artists that have emerged as a rebuttal to that polished and poppy Nashville sound, Vincent Neil Emerson is a clear standout. Similar to peers like Charley Crockett, Colter Wall, Brent Cobb – and at times sounding like an amalgamation of all three – as well as Tyler Childers […]

Recent inductee to the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame. Mary J. Blige brought her “For My Fans” tour to the Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, MN on 3/16/25. In her diverse “eras” setlist, Blige shared personal battles with depression and drug addiction through powerful ballads and bumping beats along with themes of love […]

Cruising up the West Coast on their 18th Tour d’Amour, ALO stopped by Portland, Oregon’s The Get Down on Thursday, February 27th before heading to Seattle to close out this short tour with two shows at the Nectar Lounge. ALO treated their Portland fans to a mix of long-time favorites and newer material. Guitarist Dan […]