T ribute bands have been around about as long as popular music —and while some of them capture the true essence of the original music, others flounder. The best tribute bands take the original songs and truly make them their own. A love for the music and a desire to do the songs justice fuel […]
W hen I first heard Milo, I instantly knew I wanted to talk with him. His eclectic hip-hop style reminded me of local rapper Mosley Wotta, but more experimental. Milo’s lyrics inspire fresh thought while his beats allow you to relax and chill or get up and dance. The way he manipulates sound and incorporates […]
K arl Denson plans to get organized about his next album—right after playing a string of eclipse-related shows in Oregon this weekend. The saxophonist and funk master has developed quite the following with his band, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, and even finds time to play with The Rolling Stones. On Friday night, Karl Denson’s Tiny […]
“I saw an eclipse when I was a kid,” says Chris Funk, curator of Funk’s Solar Obscuration Festival and multi-instrumentalist for The Decemberists. “I was probably seven or eight years old and I remember wearing the little glasses you’d wear in a tanning bed and people yelling at us not to look at the sun. […]
W hen it comes to the electronic and bass music scene, Zeke Beats continues to rise in the ranks, creating beats using digital and hardware synthesizers—his preferred method of artistry. He creates sounds, chops them up and uses them in a beat. Always experimenting, Zeke believes the best things come from good accidents. The Australian-born […]
B en Rougeou, a talented bass player from New Orleans who played with a band called Ma Fondue, loved the Christmas Valley Music Festival. Last year, suffering from cancer, he made the trip out. He got out of bed, sat on his chair, played the concert, and at the end of the night, stood up […]
W ayward Soul, a Bend-based eclectic band that blends styles ranging from Americana and roots to soul and funk, played last year’s Brokedown Soakdown festival at Summer Lake Hot Springs, and can’t wait to return this summer. “We’re going to try to reel it off for the second year,” Cameron Harris, Wayward Soul’s bassist says. […]
“I was doing this long before the term ‘Americana’ was applied to any form of music,” James McMurtry says of his music style. “I modeled my whole thing on Kris Kristofferson and Crazy Horse and The Band. My musical influences were more rock and roll.” U pon listening to McMurtry, who headlines at the Domino […]
Ian Cook and Andrew Carew are two busy dudes. In case you don’t recognize those names, they’re two-fifths of Bend favorites Larry and His Flask, half of Woebegone and the dynamic duo that makes up freshly formed Regal Manner. I recently sat down with the two in Cook’s home studio for a conversation about being […]
U sually for these interviews, I call a musician and we chat on the phone. I hear bits and pieces of where they are and what they’re doing, be it in a crowded van cruising down the highway or in the peaceful recluse of their own homes. But what I really love is talking to […]
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