Creating the Ultimate Expression of Love

In times of uncertainty, music is medicine.
EL VY: Trading Moves

Ramona Falls’ Brent Knopf and The National’s Matt Berninger finally make their lunar landing: With a debut record out on October 30, they’ll kick off their tour in Portland with two sold-out Doug Fir shows on November 2 and 3 where you can expect plenty of local guests to share the stage.
Papi Fimbres and the Illusion of Time

The prolific drummer and percussionist will go from navigating 22 bands down to just a couple when he and his wife move to Germany for a year beginning in August 2015. Moving day aside, you still have a zillion chances to catch Fimbres playing in one of his many bands before he leaves town.
Portland’s Indespensable Sideman: Dave Depper

“He asked if I wanted to play bass for his band. I didn’t play bass, nor did I own one, but for some reason I said yes.”
Side Projects: Willy Vlautin

Willy Vlautin weaves dark narratives in novels—and in song.
Side Projects: Dreamboat

Listening to the collaboration between singer-songwriter Ilyas Ahmed and the experimental duo Golden Retriever, comparisons aren’t easy to come by, yet there’s a strange inevitability to the project—as if the pieces were long since waiting for these three musicians to pick them up and lock them together. From tense moments of free jazz skronk to rafter-rattling drones, the evolution of Dreamboat has been aided in no small way by their tight-knit relationship.

Features > Side Projects

New bands, fresh collaborations and one-off musical explosions: This is a showcase of multi-talented, sonically polyamorous Portlanders and their various projects, in the music world or otherwise.

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