Music

On Sunday, Les Schwab Amphitheater will host one of the best live bills to play Central Oregon this year. My Morning Jacket will be joined by Durand Jones & The Indications, two bands that are each bolstered with talented musicians and moments of awe-inspiring sound in their music. With MMJ’s mix of psych-rock and country, […]

There are nods to Central Oregon all throughout Jeshua Marshall’s first solo album. Whether it be his mentions of the area’s desert landscapes, the juniper trees or an entire song titled “Ochoco Hills,” there is plenty of homegrown love on the album. Even on the cover, you see Marshall playing his guitar with Smith Rock […]

Drake and Kanye West are two of the biggest names in the music world. When it was discovered that the two would be releasing albums within a week of each other, the hype around the battle was rising on social media. While hopefuls looked on, yearning for a similar matchup to the likes of West […]

On her 11th birthday, Jessica Dobson’s aunt gifted her with an electric guitar. Her life from there was split into a new chapter. Now? She’s one of the most exciting guitar players to watch today—along with being an absolutely brilliant vocalist. “It’s like there was a time before I played guitar and then a time […]

This year’s Britt Music & Arts Festival concert season in Jacksonville, Oregon, was a memorable one for a certain Central Oregon band. The Leadbetter Band (Eric Leadbetter, Patrick Pearsall, Dylan Bernal) was originally set to perform earlier in the day on Aug. 17 as an opener on the side stage, but the opening act on […]

Chicago was my very first rock ‘n’ roll concert, on March 14, 1971, at the Tulsa Assembly Center, and it was cathartic. We were juniors in high school, just shy of driving privileges, so my dad drove a buddy and me down to T-Town from Independence, Kansas. Dad was a great sport, willing to hang […]

Over the course of almost the past two years, singer/songwriter Jonny Pickett has been unveiling songs from his “Made in China” project. The project was a series of eight songs that were all inspired by different individuals who played different roles over the last 100 years of China’s history. If you’re familiar with Pickett’s work […]