The Promised List of Portland Bands

Other Portland musicians

• A Weather
• Ages and Ages
• Agalloch
• Dave Allen, former bassist for the post-punk band Gang of Four and former member of the band Shriekback
• Alex Arrowsmith
• Tarik & Julia Banzi
• American Me
• Beautiful Eulogy, a folk-influenced experimental hip hop trio
• Black 'N Blue
• Blind Pilot
• Blitzen Trapper
• Broadway Calls
• Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer, were a folk duo from Portland
• Crazy 8s
• Alela Diane
• The Dimes
• Lee Dorsey
• Dualesc
• Epoxies
• Everclear
• The Exploding Hearts
• Josh Garrels
• Glass Candy
• Grails
• Grouper
• Hazel (including Pete Krebs)
• Collin Hegna of Brian Jonestown Massacre and Federale
• The Helio Sequence
• Hillstomp
• Hockey
• Horse Feathers
• The Hudson Brothers
• I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House
• It Prevails
• Jackie-O Motherfucker
• Gary Jarman of The Cribs
• The Joggers
• JonnyX and the Groadies
• Kind of Like Spitting
• Miles Kurosky, formerly of the San Francisco band Beulah
• Kutless
• Storm Large, a singer who was a contestant on Rock Star Supernova,^[15] currently guest vocalist with Pink Martini
• Lifesavas
• Loch Lomond
• Stephen Malkmus
• Scott McCaughey, leader of Seattle-based bands The Young Fresh Fellows and The Minus 5
• MDC, or Millions of Dead Cops, formed in Austin, Texas
• Menomena
• The Minders
• Napalm Beach
• Neo Boys
• Nu Shooz had a #1 Hot Dance Club Play chart hit with "I Can't Wait" in 1986
• Pete Miser
• Pink Martini
• Portugal. The Man
• The Prids
• The Punk Group
• Quarterflash
• Quasi, an indie rock band
• Ramona Falls
• Red Fang
• The Jackals
• Dan Reed Network
• Terry Robb
• Curtis Salgado whose chance encounter with John Belushi in Eugene helped inspire The Blues Brothers
• The Slants
• Sons of Day
• Esperanza Spalding, jazz bassist/singer
• Starfucker
• Stars of Track and Field
• Tyler Stenson
• Sweaty Nipples
• Swords (also known as The Swords Project)
• Talkdemonic
• Theatre of Sheep
• The Thermals
• The Upsidedown
• Laura Veirs
• Vektroid, also known as Macintosh Plus, among other aliases.
• Viva Voce, formed in Muscle Shoals, Alabama
• Christopher Walla, guitarist and producer for the band Death Cab for Cutie
• Wet Confetti
• Whip
• Wild Dogs, featuring current Journey drummer, Deen Castronovo
• Yacht
• Yellow Swans