The Clayton Piano Festival returns for ten days on Thursday, bringing high-energy concerts by world-renowned pianists to the area. Concerts run through Nov. 4 both in Clayton and in nearby communities ...

Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or ...

Odesza is a production duo from Washington State that set out to make electronic music that isn’t necessarily following in the traditional EDM mold. Inspired by indie rock but utilizing software in ...

This month, on The Underscore, we are celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with Clayton William. Clayton William is a Chinese-American composer who has worked on some great ...

One of the United States’ most significant cultural exports is, without a doubt, the blues. Born of the unique pain inflicted upon black Americans, the blues taps into deep wells of spiritual and ...

Merry Clayton was a very popular background singer in the late 1960s and 1970s, and is especially well-known for her amazing vocals on The Rolling Stones' hit "Gimme Shelter" in 1969. She is less well ...

When the American pianist Gerald Clayton was eight years old his Los Angeles elementary school staged a talent contest. The young prodigy had been having lessons for a couple of years and had already ...

Jace Clayton is a writer, composer, and DJ who performs and releases sonically expansive, conspicuously border-crossing mixes under the name DJ /rupture. He lives in a loft in East Harlem, where I ...