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The interactive art project, which installs public pianos throughout Portland, celebrates its tenth anniversary and unveils a new batch of “community making machines.”

Portland’s inaugural Freadom Festival celebrates Black literacy and liberation.

Waia’u Walker’s debut record explores themes of personal and professional change and the deep connection to her Hawaiian heritage.

The new book “The Great Big One” by Eugene-based young adult author J.C. Geiger follows a group of teens as they prep for a natural disaster on the Oregon coast and fall in love with music along the way. A companion mixtape brings the story to a cassette

The city is home to over 800 music businesses—most of them small and independent. Two years into the pandemic, many still face challenges.

From the Punjab to Portland, this dynamic duo shares a mix of dance songs from around the world.

The legendary indie record label passes the three decade mark and looks to the future of rock with renewed excitement.

The trailblazing publisher and musician Fabi Reyna shares a mix of songs by likeminded artists from around the world who blur the lines between the past, present, and future.

On an impressive new six-song EP, Portland rapper Wynne continues a steady climb to the top with a little help from one of hip-hop’s most in-demand producers.

On an impressive new six-song EP, Portland rapper Wynne continues a steady climb to the top with a little help from one of hip-hop’s most in-demand producers.

Country musician Margo Cilker’s debut album is filled with vivid stories inspired by rugged, but beautiful, people and places.

As a 16-year-old, musician Graham Jonson shared self-produced beats with throngs of online fans under the name quickly, quickly. Now 21, he’s transformed that project from a curiosity into a full-fledged songwriting career.

A new audio documentary called The Albina Soul Walk chronicles the birth of a music scene and the injustices that destroyed it, and a community, along the way.

Portland’s hip-hop hype man DJ O.G. ONE shares the sounds of his city. The beloved producer, musician and Blazers gameday DJ spins a special playlist inspired by Portland Hip Hop Week.

Oregon’s classical music industry returns to the stage and peers into a digital future. While challenges and uncertainty loom large, Portland’s musicians and classical institutions are adapting to a brave new world.

Oregon’s classical music industry returns to the stage and peers into a digital future. While challenges and uncertainty loom large, Portland’s musicians and classical institutions are adapting to a brave new world.

A powerful and incredibly personal new recording from songwriter and historian Julian Saporiti reexamines a neglected history and challenges what it means to be an American.

The Northwest rock band faces down an uncertain future and embraces change with its new record.

As live music comes back to the city, a new generation of resilient young artists — inspired in part by activism — are leading the way.

The Black Belt Eagle Scout bandleader shares a special guest DJ playlist inspired by a move home.

A pillar of the Oregon punk rock music scene puts her eclectic taste as a curator on full display with a special guest DJ playlist created for OPB.

From Japanese katana sword stunts to drumming in swimming pools, the Portland outfit goes to great lengths to blow your mind.

Jessica Boudreaux is undergoing an artistic transformation while normalizing illness, treatment and recovery to a devoted group of online fans.

Eric D. Johnson’s band has survived tragedy, neglect and the vagaries of the road. And now, he says things are just getting started.

Bend-based musician Jason Graham is bucking expectations, asking tough questions and pushing artistic boundaries in Central Oregon.

The former jazz musician went viral in 2014, and it almost ruined her career. Now she’s reinvented herself and resurfaced as a force in the world of rock music. Her new album, “Strange Boy,” completes a remarkable turnaround.

The Portland rock collective’s new release is an album for our times, filled with intense themes, conflicting emotions, incredible highs and crushing lows.

Portland band bed. plays from their album "Replay" at Kelly's

Portland band Animal Eyes plays an opbmusic session

The Parson Red Heads talk about their 2017 album

Conor Oberst spoke with opbmusic's Jerad Walker at SXSW in 2017

Iceland's Asgeir talks with JT Griffith about his music in this 2015 opbmusic session

Iceland's Asgeir talks with JT Griffith about his music in this 2015 opbmusic session

The Portland-based artist opens up about the dissolution of her 20 year partnership with producer Tucker Martine and their final collaboration together.

Portland-based Drive-by Truckers frontman Patterson Hood chats with us about his band's new album "The New Okay," the mental health crisis isolated music communities are facing and his work with legendary musicians Bettye LaVette, Booker T. Jones and Jerry Joseph.

Tinariwen bassist Eyadou Ag Leche talks with opbmusic about playing their music for an English-speaking audience, winning a Grammy, and the war at home in Mali

The Oregon-born and raised rapper chats with us about going through a quarter life crisis, his embrace of brutal honesty, Portland protests, and the musical influence of spending Sunday mornings with his parents.

Musician Thao Nguyen of Thao and The Get Down Stay Down chats with opbmusic's Jerad Walker about her intensly personal new album.