WWW.OREGONMUSICNEWS.COM OREGON Johnny Marr MUSIC On Playland NEWS and Portland the magazine Marv Ellis and WE Tribe Feed the hungry Jarrod with album sales Lawson Liz Vice Soul Singer from Mollala A voice signaling breaking world-wide a change Also Taylor John Williams, Weresquatch, Horse Feathers, Kate Power and Cambrian Explosion, LiquidLight Steve Einhorn and Dr. Mike Hsu Oregonians once again VOLUME 1 ISSUE 2 | JANUARY 2015 CONTENTS THE FRONT ROW 4 Identifying Rising Stars is no hip chase THE SCENE HEADLINER Rising Stars 14 Marv Ellis and WE Tribe feed of Oregon’s the hungry with album sales Music Scene 15 Johnny Marr: 6 On Playland and Portland 17 The heart of Liz Vice Oregonians once again: 18 Former owners of Artichoke music move back after four years of blissful exile 15 REVIEWS Album Reviews: Moon By You, John Coltrane, 20 Portland Cello Project, Birch Hill Dam GET OUT! 22 Staff picks for shows to catch around Oregon 20 Cover photo by Anthony Pidgeon / www.AnthonyPidgeon.com ADVERTISE IN OREGON’S ONLY ALL-GENRE PUBLICATION AND GROW YOUR BUSINESS ALONG WITH THE STATE’S VIBRANT MUSIC COMMUNITIES 503-687-1252 | [email protected] 503-687-1247 | [email protected] FRONT ROW FROM THE MANAGEMENT Publisher Identifying rising Ana Ammann Editor-in-Chief stars is no hip chase Tom D’Antoni Managing Photography BY Tom D’ANTONI Editor EDITIOR-IN-CHIEF Kevin Tomanka Copy Editor “People should discard any notions of hipness The mission of Sunny Clark or coolness and simply relax and be themselves, Oregon Music News whatever that may be.” (OMN) is to grow Writers – a Tweet from Morrissey and sustain Oregon’s music community by James Bash Ruben Mosqueda Some people think we’re way off-base providing an all-genre music platform for Matthew Bernstein because OMN is not full of snark, because comprehensive online and Holly Johnson we don’t chase fashionable parties and print music journalism. Cervante Pope glamorous people, or for not venerating Inessa hipsters and everything connected with OMN develops writers, Alaya Wyndham them. photographers and digital Christa McIntyre Even though your eyes may tell you media producers of all Aaron Martin experience levels – driven differently as you walk down NE Alberta Estevan MuÑoz by a passion for music Street in Portland, we are now living in Post- H. Lime Hipster Oregon. Not everyone who passionately listens to music is either and a commitment to journalistic integrity. Stephen Murray young or a Portlandian. And, Oregonians of all stripies listen to all kinds of Stephen Blackman music. Since its inception in 2009, Thea Prieto Shocking facts, aren’t they? Especially to Millennials who seem to think OMN has strived to: Stephanie Salvey they invented the universe and that everything that came before them is Teri Briggs camp, although they may have never even heard of Susan Sontag (who • Provide training and Dennise Kowalczyk invented it). mentorship for new Of course, Hipsters of every era have always been the same. Self- writers and Photographers righteously, self-indulgent — right up until the moment a person 10 years photojournalists John Rudoff younger than they walks by and immediately annoys them with a new kind of Jon T. Cruz cool they hadn’t thought of. • Provide a vehicle for Jason E Kaplan Now and then folks have told us (even some within the OMN “family”) that established writers/ Anthony Pidgeon photographers to have we should try to make OMN look more hip. My answer has always been, “Then, Karen Fox their work published/ what happens a year from now when some other person like you comes along, syndicated Henry Ammann looks at us, and says the exact same thing?” William Riddle Post-Hipster is a continuum. Trying to be hip is like aiming for a set of • Introduce and promote goalposts in continuous motion that can never be reached. local artists through Design/Layout Hipness, what it is! coverage in OMN Ossie Bladine And sometimes hipness is what it ain’t! -Tower of Power • Inform community about Production It has never been our editorial aim to attract one type of audience over another. music events Dan Spence That’s why you see every kind of music imaginable here, also some that you may have never imagined – Tuvan Throat singing, for example. • Impact local youth Advertising We’ll keep it fresh and always look for what’s new. 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Some of our writers spotted these stellar talents hitting musical high notes, even speaking with a few as the final strains of 2014 were heard. egon r ’s o o f c M u s i primary logos lenames for les provided for use on general items – main webpahge, · OMN_BW_simple_headphones letterhead, business card OMN 6 | JanuaryO 2015MN OMN · OMN_BW_capsule_headphones oregonmusicnews.com oregonmusicnews.com oregonmusicnews.com · OMN_color_headphones · OMN_BW_simple_microphone · OMN_BW_capsule_microphone OMN OMN OMN · OMN_color_microphone oregonmusicnews.com oregonmusicnews.com oregonmusicnews.com · OMN_BW_simple_volume · OMN_BW_capsule_volume · OMN_color_volume OMN OMN OMN oregonmusicnews.com oregonmusicnews.com oregonmusicnews.com secondary logos for use in specic contexts · OMN_alternate_color_keyboard OMN OMN OMN · OMN_alternate_color_guitar oregonmusicnews.com oregonmusicnews.com oregonmusicnews.com · OMN_alternate_color_camera · OMN_alternate_color_mic · OMN_alternate_color_ticket · OMN_alternate_color_news OMN OMN OMN oregonmusicnews.com oregonmusicnews.com oregonmusicnews.com JARROD LAWSON – Soul singer from Mollala, breaking world-wide BY Tom D’ANTONI Jarrod Lawson hasn’t exactly been lying in the weeds, waiting for the perfect moment to leap out and become a star — it just seems that way. For years, he was “that guy.” You know, the unassuming-looking dude behind the keyboards, the one with that voice, the one you don’t know anything about. For a long time, it never seemed like he fronted a band, always the consummate side player who blew everyone away. He plays in SoulMates with Jay Bird Koder and Reinhardt Melz, but he’s not the front man. He has played with Liv Warfield — with lots of people in lots of situations. When you saw him and heard him, you always thought, “How can that voice be coming out of this guy?” The voice of Soul Music. The Soul of Soul Music. When he released his album, Jarrod Lawson, all that changed — not so much at home, but in the UK and Europe. He was a hit. A big hit. He’s getting ready to tour Japan and Indonesia (might be more stops by the time you read this) and to follow it up with a tour of Europe. The album is soulful and funky, of course, but what we didn’t expect was the level of spiritual- ity and social consciousness in it. Lawson will be taking his band from Portland with him. They are Christopher Friesen (Bass), Joshua Corry (Drums), Chance Hayden (Guitar), Tahirah Memory (BG Vox), Molly Foote (BG Vox) and Farnell Newton (Flugel Horn). Lawson grew up in Molalla and, sometimes, he