In the video for electronic artist Logan Lynn’s retro club banger, 'Is There Anyone Else Like This in the World,' Lynn dresses in a black hoodie and skull facemask, then swings a baseball bat at the camera. Portland rapper Wynne lights herself afire in the video for her head-noddy ' CARROT CAKE ,' with Christo, spitting, 'PPB can’t be reformed! / Used to slide by now I’m yelling back ‘free the boys,’' a clear reference to the Portland Police Bureau. Other hypnotic, provocative examples abound in hip-hop, rock, electronic and reggae. Similarly, the infectious first single off PTM's upcoming album, What Me Worry, has 'a lot of layers.' Its video begins with hip-hop artist-activist Mic Crenshaw shaving Gourley’s head, followed by imagery of protests and fires. 'Portland’s a really complicated place,' says John Gourley, lead singer and rhythm guitarist in Portland-based indie rockers Portugal. That may reflect the city’s continuing turmoil, including a mass shooting at a protest in February and another dumpster fire near a police station just this week. These days, there may not be a 'Portland sound,' but the scene coheres around progressive politics. Trombones are uncommon instruments of protest, but in Portland, musicians use any and every tool to bring people together and push for social justice. 'I’m a wreck, and that’s how it should be.' 'When I’m on the bandstand, all of that chaos, that unknowing, and hope comes out,' he says. Clad in a cholo-style button down and orange knit cap, Mendoza huffed, puffed, scoffed and mourned. His legal status hasn’t changed, nor have the political implications of the music. as children and accepted to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Mendoza won three GRAMMY awards in 2019 as one of John Daversa ’s 'Dreamers' - undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. Above bassist Sebastian Owens’ fluid arpeggios, Mendoza vocalized breathy, plaintive complaints and elephantine blasts of rage, at times seeming to yell into the horn. Mendoza then read British-Somali poet Warsan Shire’s poem ' Home ,' which reckons with the desperation of forced migration, before picking up his instrument.

'I am an illegal immigrant and a trombonist.' In front of a Black Lives Matter stencil at a small Portland venue in March, a trombone player began a concert by sharing a personal and political truth.

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