Sound Stories & Interviews

You might not have heard of Linda Quon & Hello Trouble yet, but if you’re at all familiar with the local music scene, you’ve probably heard the frontwoman’s voice. Linda Quon has been a frequent player since moving to Bend from the San Fernando Valley in 2005, offering vocal harmonies in folk-inspired bands like Parlour, […]

Sisters Katelyn and Laurie Shook have spent more time together than most siblings. While the identical twins from Sandpoint, Idaho, are best known for weaving vocal harmonies and plucked banjo strings into their own idiosyncratic brand of danceable folk-pop as the eponymous Shook Twins, they are not as inseparable today as they’ve been for the […]

Dave Dernovsek grew up playing competitive classical piano. In college, he picked up guitar and “started to play in the jazz-funk realm,” he says. “But I’d always had interest in the jam scene and then eventually developed a strong interest in electronica.” Then, in the early aughts, he saw bands like Lotus and Sound Tribe […]

The celestial, melodic vocals of singer Harlee Case float over pulsing synths and a steady rhythm of programmed drums. These are the hallmarks of the brief but potent pop output of Portland-based electronic trio New Constellations. Alongside bandmate and songwriter Josh Smith and the recent addition of multi-instrumentalist Kyle Farook, the threesome will wrap up […]

In layman’s terms, the “O Theory” states that “if everybody believes in something, then it works.” This is according to groove-generating, Portland guitar wizard Scott Pemberton, who delved into operator belief theory during the pandemic times when he was working on his 2022 record, “Spot” — or “Scott Pemberton O Theory.” “When there’s conflict, you […]

When music is your full-time job, making ends meet means it’s, “always sort of a patchwork quilt of touring and writing and recording, and they all sort of feed each other,” singer/songwriter Anna Tivel explains. “Being out in the world touring is a lot of taking in the way things move, and people and their […]