Tag: Music

Do you like to write your own songs? If so, maybe you often break out the guitar and sing for friends. Perhaps you’ve always harbored a secret ambition to perform…

Nicole Glover decided she had to play the saxophone after hearing jazz on her father’s car radio. “My dad first started listening to jazz when I was only eight or nine;…

100 years ago on the corner of 14th and West Burnside, Cotillion Hall opened its doors and invited the residents of Portland to come in and kick up their heels…

Morbid Angel, the most influential death metal band of all time, annihilated Portland fans by playing their best-selling album, Covenant, for its 20th anniversary. Most people site Venom as being…

The biggest regret of my life was flaking out on dinner in Los Angeles with Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) and Jerry Casale (Devo) in 2006. That would’ve been the…

Last time GWAR was in Portland they chopped off President Barack Obama’s head. This time they disemboweled Justin Beiber and ripped off his legs. Gwar. I can’t believe I waited…

Feel like there’s nothing worth doing on campus? What if you could see one of the most exciting bands in the country perform live for about as much as a…

It’s amazing the sort of things you come across when you run internet searches for “Shy Girls.” I’ll say this, if you try this at work, be sure to play…

On Sept. 28, KPSU threw the first of what will become a quarterly event entitled, “SUP, PSU!? (A Hip-Hop Orientation)” at the Meetro Cafe, which went a long way into…

Despite being examined under the lens in various tomes, both academic and otherwise, ‘90s hip-hop (commonly referred to as “rap”) was a nascent art form that had not been considered…