Oregon Music News

We're at World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan for another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation. If you are a regular visitor, you know that from time to time I like to bring an OMN staffer in here so you can find out things about them, you nosey visitor you. Today it’s one of our photographers, Brent Angelo. Multi-media is just as important to us as the written word and we have a long history of...

Kelley Astoria intro We’re still in Portland but we’re going to talk about a special holiday show in Astoria with singer/composer Kelley Shannon who has done a lot of travelling since she moved away a few years ago. But she’s right here with me in the Cupping Room at World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th & Gilsan along with a lovely little two-year-old named Violet. Her holiday show in Astoria at th...

I’ve been wanting to get Ken DeRouchie in the coffeeshop for years. He wanted to wait for his new album but we’re not there yet. But every year around this time, he does the Ken DeRouchie Food Drive. It’s been growing larger every year, so here he is at World Cup Coffee and Tea. He’s been leading his Soul band for a long time and it’s always been one of the best. So we’re going to talk about the F...

It’s OMN Coffeeshop Conversation #172 right here at World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan. In with me today is one of the busiest guitarists in town, Mark Bowden. He’ll play at the 7th annual Next Waltz show on Friday, Saturday and Sunday November 23-25 at The Alberta Rose Theater. A portion of the proceeds benefit the Jeremy Wilson Foundation and patrons are encouraged to bring two non-p...

Back here at World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan…with me today is one of Oregon’s great singers, Shirley Nanette. She’s sung it all, Jazz, Soul, Blues…you name it. She’ll be a part of the Albina Soul Revue on Friday, November 16 at Alberta Rose Theater along with many other vintage Soul musicians. We’ve never met, although she’ll call my KMHD show now and then when she likes something I...

When the history of music at the turn of the century in Portland is written…IF it is ever written, they’ll write about someone who played a major role in it. His name is Jim Brunberg and he’s with me in World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th & Glisan for this OMN Coffeeshop Conversation. Number 170. There’s his own music, of course, and responsibility for Mississippi Studios, Revolution Hall, and a n...

I’ve been waiting for this Coffeeshop Conversation for years. That’s because it’s been a few years since Rachel Taylor-Brown has given us a new album. This one’s called “Run Tiny Human.” Hi there. We’re in World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th & Glisan. Rachel is not a singer-songwriter, although she gets lumped in with them. She makes art songs. Hoping saying that is not the kiss of death because h...

Changing things up a little bit, as we do now and then, and on this episode of OMN’s Coffeeshop Conversations…I should tell you, right here at World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th & Gilsan…I’ll be talking with Sam Mowry about a special kind of theater…live radio theater. Say what? You’ll find out. If Sam’s voice sounds familiar, it’s because you’ve heard him on many commercials, but it’s radio dram...

At World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th & Glisan today for another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation. I’m Tom D’Antoni. With me today is someone I’ve always wanted to meet. It’s Isaac Slusarenko who opened Jackpot Records 21 years ago this week. Pretty amazing that a store like Jackpot still thrives. He also runs their label which on November 9, is bringing out a vinyl reissue of Dr. John’s epic “Gris Gr...

Pepe Raphael is back in the Coffeeshop for a brief stopover in the middle of a whirwind week of rehearsals for the concert at the Old Church Concert Hall with two shows on Saturday, October 13. So, as they say,back by popular demand: DUELING TANGO DUOS! This year, THREE international duos take the stage in this one of a kind bilingual concert exploring the passion of Argentine tango music in Engli...

Hope you like the new theme music. It’s called “Ghost Jazz.” Thanks to Auditory Sculpture and Derek Sims for that. And thanks to World Cup Coffee & Tea at NW 18th & Glisan… which is where we do these OMN Coffeeshop Conversations. Very very happy to have been able to catch the great drummer Tony Coleman before he’s off to some other part of the world. Tony lives in Portland but he was the drummer i...

There's new theme music for OMN’s Coffeeshop Conversations. It’s Ghost Jazz by Auditory Sculpture and Derek Sims. Thanks for letting us use it. We’re not in the coffeeshop today. We’re in the studio of Soul singer/composer Ural Thomas, a fixture in the Portland music community for a very long time. A few years ago he started collaborating with drummer/composer Scotty Magee, who is also known as DJ...

In the cupping room at World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th & Glisan for the one hundred and sixty fourth OMN Coffeeshop Conversation. It was 17 years ago that Lisa Marsicek, a fiddler in the Flat Mountain Girls band became Miz Kitty, a saucy wench who introduced Portland to modern Vaudeville. She has brought her show back to the Mission Theater this fall. Miz Kitty’s Parlour’s season debut is Satu...

This is another Coffeeshop Conversation although our guest is not in the cofeeshop, although I am. And that coffeeshop would be World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th & Glisan. No, talking with us today through the miracle of Skype is John Doe of X and several other bands. He’s bringing his Folk Trio to the Old Church Concert Hall on Saturday, September 22 and Sunday, September 23. John’s no stranger...

Here we are at World Cup Coffee & Tea at NW 18th & Glisan for another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation. We’ve got Bob Howard, the CEO of Artichoke Music, an institution around here. As you may know, they moved out of their home for decades on Hawthorne Boulevard to a new place on Powell. What’s different? What’s the same? How has the move been for them? What’s in their future? And how to I play this go...

Back in the cupping room at World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan in what used to be Portland, Oregon for another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation. Number one hundred and sixty-one. Geeze. Today we’ve got one of the finest musicians in Oregon and beyond. He’s a Jazz pianist and composer but in addition, has been Diana Ross’ pianst since 1980. Think about that for a minute. He’s been all over t...

From the air conditioned cupping room at World Cup Coffee and Tea, NW 18th & Glisan in smoky Portland this is OMN Coffeeshop Conversation number 160. Coming up next month is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the birth of Tony Starlight. He was already alive and grown at that time, but his career as Tony the crooner, entertainer, nostalgia boy, club owner and one funny guy began in 1993…and I will le...

Remember the David Simon HBO series Treme? The one based in New Orleans? And the character Davis McAlary? You know, the guy who got fired from WWOZ for sacrificing a chicken in a Voodoo ceremony while on the air? The guy who was kinduva semi-lovable asshole? Well that character was based on a real person who actually had a hand in creating that character (played by Steve Zahn) and also helping cre...

Hello sweltering Summer fans, it’s nice and cool in the cupping room here at World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th & Glisan. I’m Tom D’Antoni, your genial host. You know, music today is so diverse, it’s hard to tell which kind is more popular than another. Used to be Rock, used to be Indie, but today due to the Soul Music revival of the past few years, you can find just as much funky music and you c...

Glad to be back in the cupping room here at World Cup Coffee and Tea for another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation. Also very glad to bring back Lloyd Jones, who has been bringing us Blues and Soul since dinosaurs ruled the earth. He was last in here in way back in June of 2015…we’ve been doing these things for a while now, huh? Whether he’s singing, guitar slinging or playing Delta Blues on his trusty...

Happy to be back in the brand new grand newly re-decorated World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan for OMN Coffeeshop Conversation #156. You know, educating our kids is a big enough task but it doesn’t help things when schools don’t teach music as part of the regular curriculum. When that happens, private organizations have to step in. One of those is the Youth Music Project, which is much...

Back at World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th & Glisan in the world famous Cupping Room after a week in the OMN booth at the Waterfront Blues Festival. I’ve got composer/guitarist Ryan Meagher in here with me, continuing something that I find fascinating, that’s when we bring in the curator of one of Portland’s music festivals and have them talk about the performers they’ve booked into the festival....

Welcome back to the newly redone World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th & Glisan in Portland. You have stumbled across another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation. Today in the cupping room with me is Amanda Stark, Executive Director of The Old Church which is now known as The Old Church Concert Hall, something she’s been working on since 2010 and is no longer a work-in-progress….although everything in life...

The great Boogie-Woogie Blues pianist, vocalist and musical polemicist David Vest talks to OMN's Tom D'Antoni before coming to Portland to play at the 2018 Waterfront Blues Festival. Hear all about his new album.

We’re back in the World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan for another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation. They’ve finished completely re-doing the place and it’s fabulous. You should stop in and check it out. With me today is Dylan Magierik who twenty years ago founded Badman Records. Over that time they’ve put out a whole lot of albums including Starfucker, My Morning Jacket and many others. They...