In his novel The End Of The Affair, Graham Greene held that “A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.” In 2016 Willy […]
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For the past three years, Fernando Viciconte and a veritable who’s who of Portland, Oregon area musicians have been pining away at his latest effort, Leave the Radio On, out on Fluff and Gravy Records a couple, three weeks back (September […]
Born in Argentina and raised in the SoCal Mexican barrio of Pacoima, Fernando Viciconte fronted hard-rockers Monkey Paw before relocating to Portland, Oregon, in 1994. His sixth disc (and first in five years) finds the singer-songwriter backed by an accomplished […]
Old Man Motel kicks off with an old car engine starting, followed by a John Fogerty-esque chord and then a pummeling drum beat. The lead track, “Ride”, is, like many of the cuts here, a smartly structured roots-rock song performed […]
On his third effort for Cravedog Records, Fernando Viciconte took leave from the band that bears his first name to pursue a Spanish-language solo project “about the American Chicano experience”. Set in his childhood home of Pacoima, California, Fernando’s experience […]
Fernando Viciconte is a true believer. Like Hank Sr., Springsteen, David Hidalgo and his other heroes, he sees a bleak world out there but clings to the romantic notion that letting it out in the passion of song can ease […]
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