Music

KR3TURE’s (pronounced ‘creature’) first show in Bend was just last January at the Volcanic Theatre and it was sold out. Electronic and modern live music fusion that defies any sort of category is what can be expected during a KR3TURE performance. All with the goal of connection.  The mountains of Santa Cruz is where KR3TURE […]

Local live music fans can get their dance on when the longtime purveyors of ska, the Warsaw Poland Bros., hit town July 15. The Bend date kicks off a six-show Oregon run, the band’s first Oregon tour in more than a decade. This tour is a milestone for founder and frontman Chris Poland, the band’s […]

For nearly a decade, Sarah McLachlan took a break from making music and instead was busy fundraising for the not-for-profit Sarah McLachlan School of Music, which provides free music education and mentorship to underserved children and youth facing barriers to music education access in three Canadian cities. Along with being a mom of two teenage […]

There is a saying that goes, “Many hands make for light work.” It’s certainly the case with the Tedeschi Trucks Band, a 12-piece that’s been driven by the marital tandem of Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks dating back to the band’s Grammy Award-winning 2011 debut “Revelator.” Since then, the rock and soul-fueled outfit has not […]

Chris Culos was looking at a list of 40-something songs that O.A.R. was getting ready to play as the hard-touring Maryland rock band was set to start yet another run of shows. That list included hits like “Love and Memories,” “Lay Down” and “Shattered (Turn The Car Around),” some of the band’s earliest songs like “That […]

For a quarter century, a band of 5,000-year-old, bandage-wrapped undead have prowled America with their “terrifying funk from beyond the grave.” Sometimes sharing the stage with the likes of Parliament-Funkadelic, Al Green, Mavis Staples and Cheap Trick, other times appearing at massive festivals and often, headlining at clubs, theaters and festivals, Here Come The Mummies […]

In 2022, The Head and The Heart released its melancholic opus, “Every Shade of Blue,” a 16-track “collection of songs that celebrates the beautiful mess that we were during this time of transformation,” the band wrote on Instagram. The opening notes of the title song introduced the exquisite complexity that characterized the album as a […]

Artificial intelligence has fingers in nearly every part of life. But many artists see it as a watering down of creative license. While some see the efficiencies in using technology for the business side of the industry, many are adamantly opposed to the use of AI in making music. Bend musician Eric Leadbetter of the […]

I was surprised to hear Michael Jones say he’s never felt like he made it, considering the 17 years and dozen studio albums under his belt, not to mention the numerous national tours he’s gone on. He explained that success is an ongoing process, and every development always felt like a stepping stone toward something bigger. Part of that sentiment is tied to […]