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The eclectic, acoustic-oriented sounds of Green Martini haven’t been an easy task to categorize, but that hasn’t prevented the Portland, Oregon-based band from acquiring a devoted, enthusiastic cult following. Green Martini have provided a risk-taking mixture of jazz (generally swing), globe music, cabaret, lounge, and ’40s-’50s film music, with affects …

Playing brittle and evocative alt-country with lyrics that pull powerful and sometimes troubling portraits of lifestyle across the margins from the contemporary American Western, Richmond Fontaine may be the brainchild of singer, guitarist, and songwriter Willy Vlautin, who was simply blessed in Reno, Nevada. When Vlautin is at his early …

A country artist using a special voice but a solid function ethic, Kalie Shorr took the hard street to stardom as she first produced her name in Nashville as an adolescent. Shorr was created and elevated in Portland, Maine on July 11, 1994, where she was the youngest of seven …