Collin Yeo

Identical twins and multi-instrumentalists Katelyn and Laurie Shook front Portland’s indie pop band The Shook Twins. Banjo, electric guitar, and hushed telephonic vocals collide with gentle ambient pops and subtle harmonies to create a very lovely sound. This is roots music with modern songwriting and an emphasis on textures and harmonic innovation. Catch them at […]

This is a good evening for free live jazz (not to be confused with “live free-jazz”) in a barroom or beer garden. For the latter, head to Blue Lake and the Mad River Brewery taproom at 6 p.m. for the guitar and vocal stylings of Blue Lotus Jazz, a mellow duo that picks out standards […]

Oh boy, he’s back. Puppeteer, singer, storyteller, “alien abductee” and Adult Swim channel gadfly David Liebe Hart will be at the Miniplex for a night of multimedia music, comedy and A.I.-uncanny-valley-type weird behavior to support his new album Space Ranger. Years ago I saw his show in New Orleans and had a blast talking to […]

Are you feeling a desire to jam out? Do you enjoy a Phish-y mix of acoustic and electric instrumentation? Vermont-based Twiddle is the show for you tonight at Humbrews at 9 p.m. Tickets are $15 in advance, $18 at the door.

The Arcata Vet’s Hall Bar (on the corner of 14th and J streets, downstairs) has been undergoing something of a renaissance lately. Thanks to the efforts of a younger crop of local veterans, there is a brand new beautiful redwood bar in the basement and shows have started to crop up there semi-regularly. Similarly, what […]

Portland’s greatest Talking Heads cover band Life During Wartime brings the full David Byrne cosplay to Humbrews at 9:30 p.m. with the next best thing to being in Hollywood’s Pantanges Theater in December of ’83 when Jonathan Demme was filming Stop Making Sense ($15). If you are looking for something more contemporary (with another 1980s […]