Matthew Neil Andrews

Music editor Matthew Neil Andrews is a composer, writer, and alchemist specializing in the intersection of The Weird and The Beautiful. An incorrigible wanderer who spent his teens climbing mountains and his twenties driving 18-wheelers around the country, Matthew can often be found taking his nightly dérive walks all over whichever Oregon city he happens to be in. He and his music can be reached at monogeite.bandcamp.com.

The taste of metal: A sampling of heavy Oregrown bands

From YOB to Agalloch, just in time for Bandcamp Friday.

Industrial garden of forking paths: Local musics at Lose Yr Mind

Choose your own adventure with a walking tour of Southeast Portland’s two-night music festival.

Now Hear This: Juneteenth edition

Black Bandcamp Matters: A wealth of sounds, from JxJURY to Darrell Grant.

MusicWatch Monthly: Maybe the hoarse will learn to sing

As musicians play canary in the Covid coal mine, youth orchestras play concerti; cellos haunt The Old Church and Dante's; Gaytheist and Eight Bells get hard.

A brief note regarding Geter’s ‘Requiem’, premiering this weekend

A few seats remain for this historic concert. If you can’t make it to The Schnitz on Saturday, listen on the radio.

MusicWatch Monthly: With courage and determination

Reser Center marches forth in Beaverton; Black music still matters; "Ladies’ Night" with Third Angle.

MusicWatch Monthly: Out of darkness into marvelous light

Christmas concerts, drag shows, música latina, doom metal, and everything in between

Music is free, stupid: How to stop stealing music

The Oregon ArtsWatch guide to giving musicians your money

In praise of isolation: Enjoying Oregon music from home

Eschewing the "return" to "live" music in favor of a relieved, sustained, sustainable isolation.

Catching up with: Third Angle New Music

Third Angle moves out of the dark days with Sunday's Fresh Air Fest on a Sauvie Island farm.

Navigating the wave: An interview with Kirsten Volness

The composer and Reed prof talks about doing what all composers should: releasing a whole album of her own music.

Catching Up With: Fear No Music

ArtsWatch’s new series asks music groups: How are you doing? How about that last Year of Weirdness? What’s next?

Black Music Matters, Vol. 3: Smell the roses

"There’s a lot this country needs to explore, and understand, and comprehend about itself. Transformation--that’s what 'Revolution' is about."

Black Music Matters, Volume Two: Multiples

Matthew Neil Andrews on the joy of following Machado Mijiga, plus Joe Henderson, Bobby McFerrin, Freddie Hubbard & more.

Black Music Matters, Volume One: Black Messiahs

In Black History Month, a good time to freshen up and start a new tradition of seeking out and hearing Black music.

Looking Back 2020: Reports from the orchestra seats

Cut to December: It didn’t get less weird. Seeing the music and larger worlds from our almost front-row seats.

Christmas music for heathens

Christmas music is complicated and inescapable, ranging from infant refugees to flying reindeer.

Once things clear out, what do you hear?

I just have to tell you about this song I’ve had stuck in my head for the last nine months.

The spirit of radio

One function of radio in the digital age is savvy curation. How All Classical's programming fills the bill.

MusicWatch Monthly: October surprises

Living composers, ghost composers, cloned string quartets, and a virtual songspiel

MusicWatch Monthly: Labors of love

Shining a light on rose gardens Oregon musicians are tending; listening to Kenji Bunch on behalf of the City of Roses.

MusicWatch Weekly: The living

On the opposite of “the dead." Living music, the “quick,” the good stuff: paying living performers, promoting living composers, responding to living audiences.

MusicWatch Weekly: What (else) is going on?

Last week we talked all about how everyone should be making albums right now, and hopefully you all nodded your heads and muttered, “hell yeah!”

MusicWatch Weekly: For the record

Taking a spin with some recordings fit for troubled times (plus a few albums we wish existed).

MusicWatch Monthly: Sour grapes

Let’s talk about the part of the music industry most directly impacted by The Troubles: the shuttered venues where we no longer gather and share musical ecstasy. But let’s be honest...

MusicWatch Weekly: 0 brave new world

In which we lament Geter’s Requiem, remember Menomena, and set Kevin down on the PDX Couch.

MusicWatch Weekly: Welcome to Digital Heaven

We're toggling between extremes: mass digital socialization and truly next-level hermit action.

MusicWatch Monthly: Mayday!

Strikes, unions, mega-corporations and the unpaid labors of love (with a tip of the hat to Bandcamp).

MusicWatch Weekly: La dérive symphonique

Examining the New Flesh. Staying home and slaying dragons. Running on a treadmill. It's corona time.

MusicWatch Weekly: Don’t just do something, sit there!

Music in the Time of Pandemic: Turn off the web, put on an album, close your eyes, and listen.