Oregon Music News

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 //

10/29/2025

Múm - The OMN Interview
By MATT HANSEN // Icelandic band played Wonder Ballroom in support of the new album "History of Silence"

By MATT HANSEN // Icelandic band played Wonder Ballroom in support of the new album History of Silence

10/25/2025

I LIKE IT LIKE THAT!
10PM Radio and internet. After that? OnDemand kmhd.org Demand it!
Kicking off with two from James Brown at the Apollo and two more from Hank Ballard and the Midnighters including his original recording of the Twist.
Plus three different versions of We Shall Overcome because....you know why.
Also H Bomb Ferguson doing an anti-sack dress song, Paul deLay, Andy Stokes, Stevie Wonder, The Wild Tchoupitoulas and much more.
That's H Bomb.

10/21/2025

Kaytranada x Justice at the Moda Center on 10/19/25 Photos
By CHRISTINA HALL //

By CHRISTINA HALL //

10/20/2025

Ace Frehley at the Aladdin Theater (02.10.2017)
By MIKE LEWIS // Ace Frehley, original lead guitarist and founding member of KISS, passed away at age 74 on October 16, 2025 due to complications from a fall in his Manhattan home studio. It caused a brain bleed.

By MIKE LEWIS // Ace Frehley, original lead guitarist and founding member of KISS, passed away at age 74 on October 16, 2025 due to complications from a fall in his Manhattan ...

10/20/2025

Aux animaux, October 24th at coffinclubpdx - Preview By MATT HANSEN // Swedish "Hauntwave" artist who tapped Portland's Dancing Plague on the single "Demonizer" will play The Coffin Oct. 24

By MATT HANSEN // Swedish Hauntwave artist who tapped Portland's Dancing Plague on the single Demonizer will play The Coffin Oct. 24

10/17/2025

LIKE IT LIKE THAT!
This week (beginning tonight 89.1fm and kmhd.org at 10pm, OnDemand online thereafter).
Kicking off with a set about happiness and love. Plus Galactic with Macy Gray. Also the most thoughtful song Champion Jack DuPree ever recorded. And Louis Armstrong singing We Shall Overcome with Miles Davis and Ornette Coleman backup singing.
Do the Graveyard Cha Cha for Halloween too. And a whole lot more.
That's Macy.

10/14/2025

The Hans Zimmer Experience at the Moda Center (10.09.2025) / Photos
By MIKE LEWIS //

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