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Relatives -Legendary guitarist Robert Quine & Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys as told by Tim Quine

Posted on March 4, 2021 by Freeform Portland Blog / 0 Comment

Robert Quine is considered one of the greatest guitarists of all time, he’s in the Rolling Stones Top 100 list, and an original member of Richard Hell and...

album reviews/Commentary/Events/History/International Music/Music History/Top Fives/Uncategorized

WFMH Shares 5 Asian Songs to Celebrate Asian Lunar New Year: Year of the Metal Ox

Posted on January 24, 2021 by Karen Lee / 0 Comment

February 12, 2021 marks a new Asian Lunar calendar year for the Year of the Ox. The corresponding element for 2021 is Metal and many fortune tellers predict thi...

DJ Interviews/DJ roundups/Hip Hop/Music/Music History/Uncategorized/Vlog

Michael B’s Top 6 Songs from 2020

Posted on December 30, 2020 by Freeform Portland Blog / 0 Comment

Now up on the Freeform Vlog: 6 songs that helped move Michael B through one of the more ferocious years on human record. 1. Smif N’ Wessun – Tools o...

ART/Commentary/indie rock/International Music/Misc/Music/politics/Uncategorized

Pixy Liao & Her Art of Giving the Middle Finger to Heteronormative & Patriarchal Ideologies

Posted on September 21, 2019 by Karen Lee / 1 Comment

Pixy Liao (Yijun Liao) is a Chinese Shanghai-born photographer, musician and multidisciplinary artist who resides in Brooklyn, NY with her partner and muse, Mor...

Featured/Hip Hop/History/Music/Music History/Uncategorized

How The Moog Synthesizers Helped Revolutionize the Sound of Hip Hop

Posted on June 11, 2019 by Freeform Portland Blog / 0 Comment

by William Vance When Robert Moog sold his first vacuum-tube theremin kit back in the early 1950s, one would scarcely imagine he envisioned the world-changing i...

album reviews/indie rock/Misc/Music/Top Fives/Uncategorized

5 Pick Up Lines for Spring Lovers ala David Berman from Silver Jews

Posted on May 27, 2019 by Karen Lee / 0 Comment

Fans of the Silver Jews often recognize the lyrical genius of songwriter and founding constant member David Berman. The band formed in 1989, as an indie rock ba...

Music/Music History/Uncategorized

A Music Video Introduction to the Wide, Weird World of Sparks

Posted on May 13, 2019 by Dustin Krcatovich / 0 Comment

There will always be a region of the music world for which any concession to visual flair is considered anathema, where Vans and sensible jeans are the rule. Y&...

Music/Uncategorized

Will Sergeant – a listener’s perspective

Posted on April 30, 2019 by Noah Fence / 0 Comment

It does not happen as often as it used to, but I am sometimes still met with a quizzical face, when I mention that Echo & The Bunnymen are one of my favorit...

Misc/Music History/Punk Rock/Uncategorized

“He’s Up There With MAD Magazine”: How Ghoulardi, AKA Paul Thomas Anderson’s dad, Helped Create Punk Rock in Cleveland

Posted on April 25, 2019 by Dustin Krcatovich / 0 Comment

It’s never been quite enough to correct the mainstream record, but lots of ink has been spilled over the years on how punk rock’s truest, bluest bug...

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Spy Jazz

Posted on March 26, 2019 by Noah Fence / 0 Comment

Following the end of World War Two, the US moved into an era of prosperity. Dad went to work each day. Mom stayed home and raised the kids. The kids went to sch...

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  • 1971: The Rise of the Singer-Songwriter
  • Relatives -Legendary guitarist Robert Quine & Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys as told by Tim Quine
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