Electric vehicles, and many hybrids, are fundamentally quiet at low speeds. So to be sure they’re heard in crosswalks and on city streets, they need to make sounds. Yes, that means adding “fake” ...

Velvet Crush's new Soft Sounds probably incorporates too much feedback to qualify as lite rock, but the title should be taken seriously. For their group's fifth proper album, venerable power-pop ...

When Japanese Breakfast first emerged into the world, it was to deal with the loss of Michelle Zauner’s mother. The solo project from Little Big League singer Zauner mourned with impeccable pop style ...

Michelle Zauner, who writes music under the moniker Japanese Breakfast, was born in Seoul, Korea, but grew up right here in Eugene. “I feel like I got my start there,” Zauner tells Eugene Weekly over ...

Arranger, vibraphonist and singer Gary McFarland is regarded as one of the major purveyors of orchestral jazz—a type of jazz which had its heyday in the 1960s, but which is not heard as much anymore.

“I’ve been listening to a recording of a show I did in Norway,” says Vashti Bunyan. “And I’m just amazed at how soft it is. When I’m listening back I think, my goodness, it sounds like a child up ...