Oregon Music News

12/22/2025

In case you missed the OMN Coffeeshop Conversation with Paul Brainard...or couldn't find it...for whatever reason here it finally is, complete and everything.

By TOM D'ANTONI // Paul Brainard (emphasis Brain ) plays many guitars, horns, keys and  others. He writes, produces and arranges and specializes in playing an instrument ...

12/20/2025

I LIKE IT LIKE THAT!
Tonight at 10pm 89.1fm and kmhd.org or OnDemand at kmhd.org
More from Mavis Staples new album. Plus: our yearly playing of Stanley Adams and his Chicken Flickers doing Matzoh Balls Matzoh Balls... in the chicken soup. Also, Shemikia Copeland asking that man in the red suit with the big white beard to Stay a Little Longer Santa....The Coasters, Leon Russell singing Robert Johnson.......
I could go on and on

12/16/2025

Darka Dusty: Processing her musical travel to Ukraine / Coffeeshop Conversations #448
By TOM D'ANTONI // Darka Dusty has had a few months to process the trips she and her photographer husband Miri took to Ukraine. She has a lot to say.

By TOM D'ANTONI // Darka Dusty has had a few months to process the trips she and her photographer husband Miri took to Ukraine. She has a lot to say.

12/13/2025

I LIKE IT LIKE THAT!
Tonight at 10pm on 89.1/kmhd.org and OnDemand thereafter...also kmhd.org.
From Phil Upchurch to Helen Humes to both parts of the original Cold Sweat by James Brown to Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes with their original lead singer to James Booker live at the Maple Leaf....and a wholehelluvlot more.
That's Helen.

12/12/2025

Legendary PSU Music professor Charley Gray has passed away: A remembrance / Plus interview from 2015
By Lars Campbell // Charley Gray died of cancer on Friday, November 7th. He spent 27 years educating generations of Jazz musicians at Portland State University. He was named a Jazz Master in 2015. Here's a remembrance from from trombonist Lars Campbell. Also listen below to the OMN podcast from that year.

By Lars Campbell // Charley Gray  died of cancer on Friday, November 7th. He spent 27 years educating generations of Jazz musicians at Portland State University. ...

12/11/2025

Mdou Moctar at Polaris Hall on 12/9/25 Photos By RAMBOD BEHNAM //

By RAMBOD BEHNAM //

12/05/2025

I LIKE IT LIKE THAT!
Tonight at 10pm / Radio 89.1/ kmhd.org. OnDemand thereafter kmhd.org.
Remembering Jimmy Cliff, the song that made B.B. cry, Curtis Mayfield, Me and Mrs. Jones by Chrissie and kd,.
Plus one from Molly Tentarelli, Rosetta Howard, Dumpstaphunk...and the return of She Took My Drawers.
Also Thomas Morris and His Seven Hot Babies....and much more.
That's Rosetta Howard.

12/04/2025

Andy Bell at Newmark Theatre 12/2/25 - Photos
By ANTHONY PIDGEON //
Fab feel-good solo show by Andy Bell (of Erasure) last night at the Newmark Theater in Portland. Andy and his band, including rising star Chelsea King on backing vocals, played a high energy mix of solo material and classic Erasure hits to an enthusiastic crowd.

By ANTHONY PIDGEON //

12/03/2025

Paul Brainard: Playing many instruments including "The Fun Machine: Coffeeshop Conversations #448
By TOM D'ANTONI // Paul Brainard (emphasis "Brain") plays many guitars, horns, keys and others. He writes, produces and arranges and specializes in playing an instrument called "The Fun Machine." He, himself is also a fun machine. Enjoy.

By TOM D'ANTONI // Paul Brainard (emphasis Brain ) plays many guitars, horns, keys and  others. He writes, produces and arranges and specializes in playing an instrument ...

12/01/2025

Storm Large : Holiday Ordeal 2025, Aladdin Theater, Nov 28-29, 2025
By JOHN RUDOFF //

By JOHN RUDOFF //

11/28/2025

I LIKE IT LIKE THAT!
10PM Tonight and OnDemand thereafter @ kmhd.org
From a jukebox in a bar in 1954: Amos Milburn, Little Brother Montgomery, Elmore Nixon, Jesse Mae Hemphill and David Vest (well....)
Also Jimmy Smith, Elmer Bernstein, Parliament, more from the new Mavis Staples album. And Ann Sexton, Sharon Jones, Chaka, Les McCann, R.L. Burnside, The Gone All-Stars and much more.

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 ...