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Local music is what KZME (91.1 FM) is all about ? or rather, will be all about when it begins broadcasting some time in 2009. Based in Gresham, the venture will be a full power, noncommercial station, dedicated to local music on local airwaves. The station is the result of a coalition of ...

There will be plenty of pyrotechnics lighting up the Fourth of July sky, but where do Valley music lovers go to check out some local music fireworks after the smoke clears?

Micachu (real name Mica Levi) is a precociously talented newcomer. The punk experimental songwriter from East London studies composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and recently the London Philharmonic Orchestra played one of her avant-garde pieces at theRoyal Festival Hall.

An evening of overindulgence can often end with drunken boasts, flights of fancy and grandiose business plans for global domination. But for frustrated musician Neil Claxton, his alcohol-fuelled rant with a friend about the state of the music business struck such a chord that, in the cold light of day, he phoned his friend David Wood with a proposition.