Podcasts about music millennium

In this episode, Aki and Michael sit down with Musician and Composer Dan Wilensky to discuss his captivating music career and the dynamic music industry. Dan has played with the likes of Ray Charles, Joan Baez, Santana, Steve Winwood, and on hundreds of records. He also brings a unique perspective on what it means to be a musician and an insider view of the business side of music. In this week's small business spotlight, Aki and Michael head to Music Millennium located on the corner of 32nd & East Burnside. Music Millennium is the oldest CD and vinyl shop in the Pacific Northwest and truly has a little something for everyone.

They spent so much money at Music Millennium, y'all. It was a very good first seven months, though, so they earned it. We hope you enjoy, and thank you for your time.

I've got good news today. After a few years of bad news in the music industry, there have been many musicians who have lately told me that they're gigging more than ever. Now here comes Terry Currier who runs Music Millennium with similar good news. He'll tell us all about it. It's always good to sit down and talk with Terry. He's been an immensely valuable member of the Oregon music industry for decades. Coming up on Thursday, March 16 Music Millennium will celebrate it's fifty-fourth anniversary. There's nothing quite like browsing in a record store. Welcome back Terry Currier.

Terry Currier grew up in Seattle and took a liking to music in school, playing the flute-o-phone in 4th Grade. The following summer he took up the violin with the Suzuki method. Three months into the 5th grade his father Lando, noticed a slide in the enthusiasm about the instrument while he did his daily practicing. “Are you not happy with the violin?' Terry said “the sound the other violins make hurt my ears. They screech.” After a serious conversation, his father found out Terry would rather play the clarinet and woke him up a month later and presented him with a new clarinet. To make up for being 4 months behind on the instrument, he took private lessons to catch up. By junior high it was apparent that Terry would go to college after high school and pursue music. Between music and his participation in Boy Scouts, that pretty much took up most of his free time as a youth. When he was 16 he decided to get a motorcycle versus a car and he learned to drive in the yard. At 16 ½, he realized a motorcycle was not the best mode of transportation in the Northwest, where it rained and snowed in the winter, so he bought a ‘66 Mustang. It had a radio in it and he discovered recorded music for the first time. A week after he turned 17, he went to his first concert. He saw Nitzinger opening up for Leon Russell and the Shelter People. 2 weeks later he applied for a job in a record store (DJ's Sound City). He was hired solely on his enthusiasm and not for his musical knowledge, which was close to nil. HISTORIC MOMENTS IN CARRER. - Pioneered live music in a Record Store. In 1989, while deciding what to do for Music Millennium's 20th Anniversary, he turned to his then partner, Don MacLeod and stated “Let's have 20 straight days of live music in the store,” After looking at renting a system, they decided to buy a system and put a permanent stage in the store. Since then Music Millennium has hosted over 4000 live performances including Soundgarden, Steve Earle, Cyndi Lauper with the only ever instore performances of Randy Newman, Joe Strummer and Keith Emerson. - Currier and Music Millennium dubbed “modern day folk heroes” for their role in the brilliantly effective crusade against used CD policies. Discontent with policies instituted by 4 of the 6 major distribution companies, Terry fought to overturn the policies. After Garth Brooks announced his new album would not be available in stores that sold used product, Currier immediately responded with a “West Coast Bar-B-Q For Retail Freedom” tour – actually roasting Brooks CDs, VHS, Posters and cassettes to dramatize the retailer' plight. The tour started in Bellingham, WA and hit 9 stores between there and San Diego, CA. The protest captured the attention of TNN, CNN, Forbes and People magazine, and resulted in a repeal of the restrictive polices. - In the aftermath of the Bar-B-Q For Retail Freedom, Terry realized the common concerns and interests in the 9 stores on the tour as well as stores that reached out about the issue from around the country. He presented a proposal to Mark Cope, Retail Editor of Album Network and arranged for a meeting at the NARM convention in Florida. The idea was to create a group of retailers who could work records together and make a difference as well as act as a support team. This germinated into a meeting in San Francisco at the NAIRD convention in May 1995, with 25 retailers from across the country meeting in a room for a day to see if they could find commonality to work together. CIMS was born. - After a several year germination of an idea to support local unique businesses and talking multiple times to John Kunz of Waterloo Records about a new slogan in his city, “Keep Austin Weird”, Currier created “Keep Portland Weird.' at the suggestion of Kunz. It has organically become the city of Portland's motto and most used phase. All production by Cody Maxwell. Artwork by Cody Maxwell. Opening graphic assets by UlyanaStudio and Grandphic.sharkfyn.com maxwellskitchenpodcast.com

Part one of our two-part celebration of RSD Black Friday (November 25) focuses on the late Joe Strummer (1952-2002) and his world. Joe's surviving life partner Lucinda Tait remembers life with Joe during the time of his last band The Mescaleros, and discusses the expansive Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years recently released on the Dark Horse Records label. Joe's friend, filmmaker Don Letts talks about Joe, forming Big Audio Dynamite (B.A.D.) with Mick Jones, and the new documentary about Letts' life, Rebel Dread.  Terry Currier from Music Millennium in Portland, Oregon, returns to the show to remember the 1999 instore concert that is at the heart of this year's RSD Black Friday limited edition vinyl release, Joe Strummer - Live At Music Millennium. Comedian and drummer Fred Armisen pops in to tell us about the time he met Joe and The Clash. Plus our regular check-in with RSD's Carrie Colliton remembers Public Image Ltd's Keith Levene (also a founding member of The Clash!) For the most up-to-date information about Record Store Day, go to RecordStoreDay.com. Sponsored as always by Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, Tito's Handmade Vodka, and Crosley turntables. Please subscribe to the Record Store Day Podcast wherever you get your podcasts. Follow host Paul Myers on Twitter and Instagram @pulmyears.

“The snap music movement f*cked me up as a producer, but it was cool cause we was putting on for the city… Johnnie Cabbell played me “Laffy Taffy” and I said what the f*ck is this.. To a producer snap music was horrible.” ~ Lil Jay of Crime Mob & Don P of Trillville Crime Mob and Trillville do their first ever joint interview on The Progress Report Podcast to speak on their journeys in the music business, music genres in Atlanta changing over time (crunk, snap, swag, futuristic, trap music), getting their business affairs in order finally after 2015, their music getting sampled, their music becoming modernized now with social media, ghost writing, the new generation of Crunk Music, Migos popularizing Crime Mob's sound, and getting involved with the Millennium Tour and bringing a different energy to it. 

On this week's episode, the guys go head to head to determine the best Elliott Smith album. Despite nearly every major publication stating that Either/Or is his best, the guys are planting their flag by arguing for one of Elliott's major label albums to be on the list; XO or Figure 8. Our independent record store of the week is Portland, Oregon's own Music Millennium. As always, we thank our sponsor Anchor for their support. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

If you want to be happy in life, find yourself someone who loves you like Terry Currier loves music. He joins the show from his office at Portland's iconic record store, Music Millennium, to talk to Emily about vinyl, first concerts, and feuding with Garth Brooks.

There are a couple of guys in Portland who have been playing together for a long time. They are both guitarists. They call themselves Moon and Bike mainly because their names are Boone and Mike. Boone Johnson plays acoustic guitar and Michael Robert Swanson plays electric guitar. It's an interesting pairing and brought into high relief when they just play as a duo. They released their first album as a duo last year…all instrumental. They're not kids, but have a lot of fresh spacy ideas. Their combination of crystal clear acoustic and reverbed electric guitars is pretty unique these days. They recently played their first Portland Gig at Music Millennium and will be playing right here at Artichoke on December 3. Boone the Moon is here with me right now.

Record Store Recon: Music Millennium record store in Portland, Oregon, gets reviewed for its stock, staff, website, social media presence and selection (almost a perfect score!) by veteran anonymous reviewer Dr. Disc on an episode of the Goldmine Podcast.Plus, listen to the episode and receive a hint on how to win a punk 7-inch 45 rpm record!This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts

Record Store Recon: Music Millennium record store in Portland, Oregon, gets reviewed for its stock, staff, website, social media presence and selection (almost a perfect score!) by veteran anonymous reviewer Dr. Disc on an episode of the Goldmine Podcast. Plus, listen to the episode and receive a hint on how to win a punk 7-inch 45 rpm record! This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts

Record Store Recon: Music Millennium record store in Portland, Oregon, gets reviewed for its stock, staff, website, social media presence and selection (almost a perfect score!) by veteran anonymous reviewer Dr. Disc on an episode of the Goldmine Podcast.Plus, listen to the episode and receive a hint on how to win a punk 7-inch 45 rpm record!This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts

Record Store Recon: Music Millennium record store in Portland, Oregon, gets reviewed for its stock, staff, website, social media presence and selection (almost a perfect score!) by veteran anonymous reviewer Dr. Disc on an episode of the Goldmine Podcast. Plus, listen to the episode and receive a hint on how to win a punk 7-inch 45 rpm record! This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts

Record Store Recon: Music Millennium record store in Portland, Oregon, gets reviewed for its stock, staff, website, social media presence and selection (almost a perfect score!) by veteran anonymous reviewer Dr. Disc on an episode of the Goldmine Podcast. Plus, listen to the episode and receive a hint on how to win a punk 7-inch 45 rpm record! This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Todd and I's conversation continues. More discussion of some of our fav poets… this round it's Matthew Yeager, Joyce Monsour, Bill Cassidy, and N.H. Pritchard. Later we talk about being young in the 80s/90s, experiencing the era's surreal omnipresent homophobia. We riff about Robin Williams as a weirdness role model, as well as the way humor and tragedy are often linked. Todd unveils his concept of The Noem… aka… writing a poem, that isn't a poem? Here's Todd: “I was just writing a noem. It wasn't a poem. It was like a journal entry that moved a little deeper than a journal entry normally might.” Listen for a full unfurling of this delightful (and useful!) concept. Music from Jocko, Conor Oberst, some unknown ambient, found audio from Curb Your Enthusiasm, + audio from Matthew Yeager reading poems at Music Millennium in Portland.

We’ve been checking in on folks to see how they’re doing during the current tribulations. We checked on Jim Brunberg, Jeremy Wilson, Storm Large and others and today we’ve got Music Millennium’s Terry Currier on Skype. They’re still open, doing curbside delivery but everything is tenuous. Life itself. They’re still getting new product in every week at Music Millenium so let’s find out how their doing, what they’re doing and what are some good new albums. Here’s Terry Currier

Robert Parish talks with Terry Currier about the impact of COVID-19 on Music Millennium, the Waterfront Blues Festival, live music, and how the virus is hurting the Portland music community. He also shares his "number 1 record of the year."

The iconic Portland store Music Millennium has been selling records, cds, and tapes for fifty years this month. Owner Terry Currier joins us to talk about how much the music industry, and the shop, have changed in that time.

OMN’s Coffeeshop Conversations has traveled today. Next week we begin making these at Catfish Lou’s in Northwest Portland. But today we’re at Music Millennium for our annual conversation with Terry Currier on all things record store and lots of other things. They have their fiftieth anniversary coming up in March, and Terry has been there almost that long. They have lots of cool things happening to celebrate it, in-store and out, including a special concert at the Aladdin theater on March 15th. What’s he been listening to lately?

This week's episode features the second part of our conversation with Terry Currier of Music Millennium. In this podcast, Terry talks about the synergy between KINK and Music Millennium, and the formation of the Oregon Music Hall of Fame.

art 1 of our conversation with Terry Currier from Music Millennium an independent record store founded in 1969. It might be the oldest continually-existing record store in the Pacific Northwest.

. Instead of sitting in the cupping room at World Cup, we are in an office located somewhere inside the Music Millennium building on East Burnside where I’m going to talk to Terry Currier who owns the joint. It’s comforting to come to Music Millennium, not only because you can find any kind of music there is, but because it’s still HERE…unlike so much of Portland. It’s here and Terry’s here…It’s coming up on their forty-ninth anniversary…Thursday, March 15th. Terry and I did one of these a little while back and we both enjoyed it. Just catching up on what’s going on…but mostly two guys sitting around bullshitting about music.

Music Biz 101 & More is the only radio show in America that focuses on the business side of the music & entertainment worlds. Hosted by William Paterson University's Dr. Stephen Marcone & Professor David Philp, the show airs live each Wednesday at 8pm on WPSC-FM, Brave New Radio. In this episode, Terry Currier, owner of Portland, Oregon's music retailer store called Music Millennium, talks about how he stays in business, the battle against Napster, the strength (and origins) or Record Store Day, and much more. Click and listen to get some music retail 101. Enjoy the talk, listener tweets, and see what you can get out of this. Like what you hear? Tweet us anytime: @MusicBiz101wp Engage and Adore us on The Facebook, The Twitter & Instagram: www.facebook.com/MusicBiz101wp twitter.com/MusicBiz101WP instagram.com/musicbiz101wp/

May 5, 2016 We’re not at our usual stand, World Cup Coffee and Tea for this OMN Coffeeshop Conversation. Because he’s so busy, we came to the temple of records to meet the Grand Vizier of music in Portland, Music Millennium’s owner Terry Currier. If there’s a more central figure in the music industry around here, I’ve never met him. Most of the time, when he’s interviewed, everybody always asks him how the store is doing and will the record store business survive. I don’t want to do that. If you’ve ever sat with Terry, the most fun is to talk about music. Thing is, his taste is so broad, he can be talking about the Kinks one minute and thrash metal the next. Let’s talk to the person who has done more for music and musicians in Oregon than anybody else.

May 6, 2017 This is the second of our Coffeeshop Conversations Mini-episodes. Yes, I said “mini.” Even the world “campy” is campy, I know. Whatever. Josh Malm has been here before. On his new album, Saints & Renegades, he’s billing himself as Josh Allan Malm, he’s aka Redwood Son, also the name of his band, he’s been known as Josh Malmtree and I think Prince. Maybe not. He’s releasing his new album as an LP, available only at Music Millennium at first, with a rollout later on. He was here a few months ago talking about a prospective move to Nashville. We’ll see how that went. We’ll also find out how it felt to have the new album recorded and ready to go and then sit on it for three years. The life of a musician huh? Anyway, Josh is an interesting cat. Why else would I have invited him back? Let’s catch up and find out about the new album…and hear a track when we’re done talking.

Like many creative cities, Portland is growing rapidly, but is the vibrant music scene that bolstered its reputation benefiting? The city is known as one of the nation's hottest music spots, so how can we make sure that its beloved music industry thrives as Portland changes? On this episode we delve into these questions and more with local industry leaders, Pat Rice (Old Town Music), Larry Crane (Tape Op Magazine, Jackpot Recording Studio), Terry Currier (Music Millennium), Sierra Haager (Public Display PR, bed.) and Andre Middleton (Friends of Noise). PLUS hear Jack Black talk Elliott Smith from 'Say Yes.' Subscribe to The Future of What on iTunes: http://apple.co/1P4Apk0 Follow us: Twitter: http://bit.ly/2gOYMYM Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thefutureofwhat/ Instagram: http://bit.ly/1L6T8fl

Terry reflects on years running an independent music store with Larry Ullman.Support the show (https://www.paypal.me/pdxpod)

Terry Currier, owner of the famous record store Music Millennium in Portland, sits in as guest c0-host to spin cuts from Brandee Younger (from her Wax & Wane CD) and Rene Marie (from her upcoming The Sound of Red CD).  Terry and Lee then riff on the state of the record store and on the vinyl revival,including Record Store Day, which Terry founded many years ago to promote record-buying. This episode sponsored by ECM Records.

John Malkovich make a record, a Southern rocker relocates to Portland, kids confront gentrification and sneakers become high fashion. Change is afoot in this week’s State of Wonder.Malkovich On VinylActor and director John Malkovich has powerhouse interpretive skills and a knack for transformation that has carried iconic performances in films such as “Dangerous Liaisons,” “Of Mice and Men,” “In the Line of Fire” and, of course, as a fictional actor-turned-puppeteer in "Being John Malkovich." His greatest asset might be his voice, which is front and center in a new avant-garde record, “Like a Puppet Show.” We talked with him during the album's national release at Music Millennium.Portland filmmaker Todd Haynes’ "Carol"One of Portland’s most famous directors, Todd Haynes, captured our attention with experimental classics “Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story” and “Poison” and held it with "Far From Heaven” and the HBO miniseries “Mildred Pierce.” His latest film, "Carol," about the love that dare not speak its name, stars Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara. It’s racking up raves, including a best actress award for Mara at Cannes, and one of the most insightful reviews comes from critic David Edelstein for Fresh Air. It opens in Portland on Dec. 25.Dreamscapes in AstoriaDarren Orange of Astoria paints large, bold, abstract landscapes that are collected inside and outside Oregon. His moody treatments and strong color communicate coastal land and water with force and energy. He tells us about his latest exhibition, “Cascadian Slipstream,” which opens in downtown Astoria at 1198 Commercial St. on Dec. 12 and runs through Jan. 3. Drive-By Trucker Rolls Into PortlandOver the past couple of decades, Patterson Hood and his band, the Drive-By Truckers, have become standard-bearers for a unique strain of Southern rock – scorching and also super-thoughtful. Now, as the band releases a sprawling live album, Hood is spreading his wings. He turned heads with a recent essay in The New York Times Magazine about the Confederate flag and he recently relocated to Portland. Jerad Walker of opbmusic caught up with Patterson at Wordstock. Hood plays solo shows at the Doug Fir Lounge Dec. 9 and 16.A YA Sensation About Portland GentrificationAs a teenager in the 1990s, Renee Watson watched her friends and neighbors get priced out of Northeast Portland. Although she has since moved to New York, Watson’s new young adult novel, “This Side of Home,” is set in Portland and explores gentrification through the eyes of teenaged twins who come down on different sides of the issue. What’s The Most Expensive Book At Powell’s?Thousands wander through Powell’s City of Books in downtown Portland everyday, browsing through more than one million titles. As OPB’s John Rosman learned, there is one book that almost no one — including staff — is able to see. It’s locked away in a secret location and only taken out for serious buyers.Portland: The Center Of The Sneaker Universe? Portland has been called the Paris or Milan of sneakers, and that’s a big deal. “Sneakerheads,” who collect the shoes, have helped U.S. sales for Nike, Adidas and Under Armour sneakers soar 47 percent since 2009, and all three companies have major presences in Portland. OPB’s John Sepulvado hit the pavement to find out more about how sneaker fashion transforms Portland’s streets.Rapping Like The PopeThis week, Pope Francis set the Twitterverse on fire with a photo taken during his historic tour of Africa that looks like his Holiness is … well, rapping. Wags have been posting papal rhymes to Twitter with the hashtag #popebars. We asked Portland’s own Elton Cray, of Elton Cray and the Pariahs, to read some of the best ones for us. For example:“I murder these bars like Cain did to Abel /Better call me Charlie cause I'm surrounded by angels"