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PLUS: CORRINA REPP | PAT KEARNS (BS4BH) | MOON DUO AT SXSW VOLUME 1 ISSUE 5 | APRIL 15 - MAY 15, 2015 FREE CONTENTS THE FRONT ROW 4 Keep on dancing HEADLINERS 6 Red Fang: OMN speaks with Frontman Aaron Beam 8 Corrina Repp: The Road Back to Music 10 Tony Ozier: And the Funk 12 Pat Kearns: Bright Forecast for Blue 6 HEADLINERS: Red Fang Skies For Black Hearts Creator 13 Spotlight on PDX Spotlight THE SCENE 16 Shy Girls: Unshy State of Dan Vidmar 17 Moon Duo Marches on Austin at SXSW + Their New Album 18 Daniel Lanois: A New Album, Multi-media Show and An Affinity for Portland 16 20 Keith Buncke: From Lake Oswego to the Chicago Symphony REVIEWS 21 Album Reviews: Lauren Sheehan and Zoë ADVERTISE IN OREGON’S ONLY Carpenter, Johanna Warren, and Danko Jones ALL-GENRE PUBLICATION AND GROW YOUR BUSINESS ALONG GET OUT! 21 WITH THE STATE’S VIBRANT Staff picks for shows to catch around Oregon MUSIC COMMUNITIES 22 Cover photo by Jon T. Cruz 503-687-1252 | [email protected] 503-687-1247 | [email protected] 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 Ana Ammann Editor-in-Chief Keep on dancing Tom D’Antoni Photography Editor BY TOM D'ANTONI Kevin Tomanka EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Copy Editor It’s not important that you are a good Christine Autrand Mitchell dancer, what’s important is that you want to dance. The mission of Writers Oregon Music News Robert Ham “Keep on dancing.” That’s what (OMN) is to grow Sunny Clark Heatwave said in their song “Boogie and sustain Oregon’s James Bash Nights.” Try to separate the image of that music community by Christa McIntyre era from this idea: everybody talks about providing an all-genre Ruben Mosqueda music but few talk about dancing to it. music platform for Matthew Bernstein comprehensive online and They talk about the people who make Holly Johnson print music journalism. it, the industry that manufactures it and Cervante Pope Inessa the horses they rode in on… leaving us OMN develops writers, Tony Starlight with the one thing that nobody talks about, yet is the real reason we photographers and digital love music. media producers of all Scott Cunningham It makes us dance in whatever manner our souls decide. If we’re experience levels – driven Nathan Rizzo open enough, we can hardly control ourselves. We are compelled to by a passion for music Alaya Wyndham dance. and a commitment to Aaron Martin journalistic integrity. Estevan MuÑoz “Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.” Stephen Murray — George Bernard Shaw Since its inception in 2009, Stephen Blackman OMN has strived to: Thea Prieto Think about all of the different kinds of dancing we do. Yes, it does Teri Briggs Dennise Kowalczyk blow your mind when you stop and consider. • Provide training and Mellish And it ranges from ballet and modern dance, the most artistic… mentorship for new Wait, or is it? Who’s to say? I was thinking about the range of dance writers and photojournalists Photographers but, really, it’s less a spectrum - with one type on one end and another John Rudoff type on the other – than something more like a circle of the dances we • Provide a vehicle for Jon T. Cruz do to music. established writers/ Jason E Kaplan photographers to have Anthony Pidgeon “You look ridiculous if you dance their work published/ Karen Fox You look ridiculous if you don't dance syndicated Henry Ammann So you might as well William Riddle dance.” — Gertrude Stein • Introduce and promote local artists through Design/Layout More people dance to music than sit and listen to it, if you count coverage in OMN Ossie Bladine the unofficial dancing we do every day, head bobbing, finger snapping, and the dozens of ways our butts move in time… or out of • Inform community about Production time. music events Teri Gunn It doesn’t matter what kind of dancing, either. Everybody’s got a right, everybody’s got their own dance. Respect it. • Impact local youth Advertising music programs through Tammy Cook “It doesn’t matter if I’m off the beat. It doesn’t matter if I’m snapping awareness and giving Adriana Ness to the rhythm. It doesn’t matter if I look like a complete goon when I dance. It is my dance. It is my moment. It is mine. And dance I will. 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How did that all come together? too so when it came time to feature What was that experience like? a Rock band for the cover story there It was all arranged by Libby Coffey at MSO PR. She is was no question: let’s get Red Fang. amazing. It was a bit shocking and seemed fake when Over the course of the past decade, she first emailed us about it. It said something like, “Ok the Portland act has been deliver- guys, which of these weekends works best for you for ing the goods — and has slowly but surely become an doing Letterman.” And I honestly thought it was a joke! undergroundO global act. Red Fang’s unadulterated, full- The experience was incredible! I likened it to going on throttle, alcohol fueled brand of Rock ‘n' Roll proves that a huge scary roller coaster for the first time. Once you music is the universal language. get in the car and commit to going, you know you can’t Red Fang is comprised of Aaron Beam on bass and lead turn around. It’s pretty scary. But the moment it was vocals, Bryan Giles on guitar and vocals, John Sherman over I wanted to do it again. If that is the only national on drums and David Sullivan on lead guitar. Red Fang is television thing I ever do, I have absolutely nothing to just as well known for their music videos as they are for complain about. their music. The videos showcase the band’s ‘fun’ at- titude and how they don’t take themselves too seriously. Perhaps that’s what makes Red Fang so endearing to the What’s your guilty pleasure band or artist and blue-collar guy and gal — they’re just like us and they why? love beer. Oregon Music News caught up with Aaron I am too old to feel guilty about anything