Jerad Walker
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Video games are becoming an entry point for people who want to race real cars and NASCAR drivers are now training with games, too.
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Portland's rising folk star is soft-spoken in person, but has the unguarded assurance to lay herself bare when performing. -
The burgeoning Portland songwriter counts John Fahey and Leo Kottke as inspirations.
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Fresh on the heels of winning the NPR Music Tiny Desk Contest, the seven-piece group wowed the Oregon festival crowd with a mix of funk, hip-hop, rock and jazz.
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Most of the victims of the terrorist attacks on Paris last November died in the Bataclan concert hall. For tour managers tasked with taking care of bands, the job has changed. -
The characters in Walker's song revolve like celestial bodies around a neighborhood dive bar. A "blitzkrieg celebration" in a Chicago neighborhood on the Fourth of July serves as the video's locale.
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Portland's Crystal Ballroom has one of the few remaining spring-loaded dance floors in the country. It's put a spring in the step of jitterbuggers, Grateful Dead fans and EDM dancers alike.
