A man of myriad moods, Matthew Stephen Ward from Portland, Oregon, can trade breathtaking tenderness for bitter despair in an instant, or display affection and contempt with a single breath. His transcendent Supernatural Thing captures indelible episodes of bright magic […]
If, as M. Ward says of his 10th album, Migration Stories, “music is a filter” through which to process the onslaught of heart-wrenching news we’re fed each day, then we are even more fortunate to have it than he probably […]
M. Ward Help the Hoople Benefit 1/5/18 Star Theater Portland, OR
M. Ward Help the Hoople Benefit 1/5/18 Star Theater Portland, OR
M. Ward Help the Hoople Benefit 1/5/18 Star Theater Portland, OR
As an impressive rainstorm has finally been hitting Northern California, I’m enjoying the calming rain-sounds as I finally get to share with you my conversation from back in October with indie musician M. Ward, in support of his eighth studio […]
It’s that time of year again. While many welcome fall with eagerness of Halloween or the cliché pumpkin spice latte, there are those of us who fondly welcome it as “Octoberst”. Conor Oberst‘s guaranteed two Bay Area shows in a row, often accompanied […]
Anyone who has discovered something at once uncommon and comforting amid the dusty bric-a-brac of a crawl space will appreciate the fact that M. Ward spent a good portion of the last two years crafting Post-War, his fifth album, in […]
Portland singer-songwriter M. Ward stresses that Transistor Radio was intended for vinyl, but for practical purposes was released on CD. Regardless of the format, the music is blatantly separated into two parts: sixteen songs, eight to a side. Side As […]
Alone with his grief, trying to find the expressions and tones that would, as the CD sleeve reads, “keep the loss alive and behind me,” Portland’s Matt Ward painted his masterpiece. Transfiguration Of Vincent, like portions of his second album, […]
