The Sparks News

Caribbean music lovers and music lovers that follow or support West Indian artists will be happy to know that international artist and prolific songwriter, Oliver Chapman has just release his latest project appropriately titled, " A Life Of Words & Music ." The album features thirteen tracks, which features a new arrangement of the song " Progress ... (more)

XPN welcomes Aimee Mann and Ted Leo to World Cafe Live at The Queen tonight. After sharing a bill last fall while Mann was promoting her latest Charmer LP, the singer-songwriter and Ted Leo teamed up for a proper collaboration called #BOTH earlier this year.

"We don't have that much of a preconceived idea of what Portland will be like in a musical sense, or what the audience will be like," Sparks singer Russell Mael told me at the end of our half-hour conversation prior to the band's first-ever appearance in town.

The Sparks show last night was the exactly the sort of show* you want on a Monday.

Ron and Russell Mael of Sparks are touring as a duo for the first time in their four decade-plus career, presenting theatrical rock in an acoustic format.