Oregon Music News

11/24/2025

Kerry Politzer: How to make a brilliant new album in a jiffy. Coffeeshop Conversations #447
By TOM D'ANTONI // Kerry Politzer has a new album, always a treat, a delight and a joy. It's called Alternate Routes and it features some of the best Jazz musicians extant. She tells us all about it and them. We'll hear a most beautiful tune from the album at the end of the conversation.

By TOM D'ANTONI // Kerry Politzer has a new album, always a treat, a delight and a joy. It's called Alternate Routes and it features some of the best Jazz musicians ...

11/22/2025

I LIKE IT LIKE THAT!
Tonight at 10pm and subsequently on KMHD's OnDemand feature:
From Shirley Nannette to Tom Waits to the Spinners to Baby Rose Marie to Marvin Gaye singing Violets for Your Furs to the Original It's All Over Now (not the Stones) to a set of songs from Specialty Records to the Rob Roys and a song about pizza.
All at kmhd.org That's the Rob Roys.

11/15/2025

funhouselounge Presents: Die Hard the Musical Parody at portlandcenterstage on 11/13/25 - Review By MATT HANSEN // Beloved holiday action film gets the musical treatment for the first time at Ellyn Bye Studio Theater now through November 23rd

By MATT HANSEN // Beloved holiday action film gets the musical treatment for the first time at Ellyn Bye Studio Theater now through November 23rd

11/15/2025

I LIKE IT LIKE THAT!
Tonight at 10pm and OnDemand thereafter at kmhd.org.
Anette Hanshaw, The Personality Girl kicks it off with Happy Days Aare Here Again (and why not?)
Also: Wynonie Harris does Grandma Plays the Numbers , Corey Harris sings Blind Blake. Plus Millie Jackson, Jimmy Castor. Plus Mahalia Jackson and Herbie Hancock (not together).
That's Annette

11/13/2025

Fleetmac Wood, November 22nd at Holocene Portland - Preview
By MATT HANSEN // AV project which remixes the storied career of Fleetwood Mac to return to Holocene

By MATT HANSEN // AV project which remixes the storied career of Fleetwood Mac to return to Holocene 

11/13/2025

bonginator.ma, November 24th highlimitroompdx – Preview
By ANTHONY TREVINO // Death metal party animals to throw a rager in Portland

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By ANTHONY TREVINO // Death metal party animals to throw a rager in Portland

11/11/2025

The Saints at Revolution Hall on 11/8/25 Photos
By RAMBOD BEHNAM //

By RAMBOD BEHNAM //

11/08/2025

I LIKE IT LILKE THAT!
10pm tonight and OnDemand thereafter at kmhd.org.
Langston Hughes once said that the Blues are too sad to be funny and to funny to be sad. Silas Hogan proves both while wearing his ESSO hard hat.
Also: Ray Charles Don't Need No Doctor (written by Ashford and Simpson). Plus: Booker T, Barbara Randolph, Mel and Tim, The Flock and The Mighty Sparrow, King of Calypso gives us an ILILT favorite, "Martin Luther King for President."
And a whole lot more.
That's Sparrow.

11/07/2025

Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise #43 - 10/25/25 - 11/1/25 - Photos
By DIANE RUSSELL // Artists included Taj Mahal, Ken Mo, Bobby Rush, Shemekia Copeland, Kingfish, Maria Muldaur, Rick Estrin, Eden Brent, and so many others. To find out more about LRBC, which offers two fully chartered cruises a year, visit Blues Cruise.
The original painting is sold, but prints are available! Diane Russell Art.

By DIANE RUSSELL // Artists included Taj Mahal, Ken Mo, Bobby Rush, Shemekia Copeland, Kingfish, Maria Muldaur, Rick Estrin, Eden Brent, and so many others. To find ...

11/03/2025

nuovotestamento.band, November 19th at Holocene Portland - Preview By MATT HANSEN // Dark Italo act will play Portland again after completing a recent tour with Sextile

By MATT HANSEN // Dark Italo act will play Portland again after completing a recent tour with Sextile

11/01/2025

I LIKE IT LIKE THAT!
Tonight: New show at 10pm KMHD.
Hear "I Like Pie, I Like Cake," and how Andre Williams loves his Pontiac. Plus Zilla Mays, the Mystery Lady; some early Curtis Mayfield, the Bagdad Cafe theme, something new from Leela James. Also the Ohio Players, P-Funk and so much more.
That's Zilla.

10/29/2025

Lorde with The Japanese House and Empress Of at the Moda Center on 10/21/25 Photos By CHRISTINA HALL

By CHRISTINA HALL //