Stars of Cascadia are one of Portland, Oregon’s most enduring alternative country bands, having released three albums and performed countless shows around the Pacific Northwest since 2014. Owing to the likes of Gram Parsons, Neil Young, Waylon Jennings, Jason Isbell, Drive-By Truckers and Sturgill Simpson, their sound is modern yet timeless with infectious hooks and soaring harmonies, seamlessly transitioning from gorgeous to sad to rocking, awash in fiddle and pedal steel and Telecaster twang. 

Their debut album Riverside Skyline was released ten years ago, filled with some of their most iconic songs yet sounding like a band still finding their way. Now a decade on with two more albums under their belt, the band decided to revisit their maiden work, going back to the original multitrack recordings, redoing some parts, adding overdubs, rerecording one song from scratch and recording another never-before-released track, and completely remixing and remastering it. The result is the Riverside Skyline 10th Anniversary Edition, out everywhere on May 14th, 2026, with an album release show the following night, Friday, May 15th, at the Alberta Street Pub with local favorites Garden Flowers.

The band are primarily led by Scott Jeffries, who penned and sang 8 of the 12 songs on that record and named it after his hometown of Riverside, California. His songs transport you to sunny Southern California with imagery of palm trees and orange blossoms and fires fueled by the scorching Santa Ana winds. Now-former guitarist Ray Yurkewycz contributed two songs and bassist Paul Regan added one of his own while also taking lead vocals on the new addition, a heartfelt cover of Gram Parson’s “A Song for You” that the band has been playing since their formation. 

Scott started Stars of Cascadia when he was the lead guitarist in the big loud rock band Spirit Lake and increasingly wanted to form his own, more melodic, country-inspired band. He pulled a group of friends together including Regan, his Spirit Lake bandmate Yurkewycz, Texas fiddle champion John Nyen, Tennessean singer Mandy Allan, and drummer Ty Downing. That lineup produced the band’s first two albums while opening for Kelly Willis, performing live on NBC affiliate KGW, and getting regular radio play in the area. Yurkewycz and Downing left the band in 2019, replaced by guitarist Allan Kaufman and longtime friend and collaborator Michael Doying on drums in 2021.

The new lineup quickly pulled together a new, more collaborative batch of songs and returned to the studio, releasing their self-titled third album in 2023, which received an 8/10 score from Americana UK and earned radio play on England’s Sine FM and all across the northwest. Though they are currently looking to the past, they also have their sights set on the future with a sprawling set of songs they have already begun recording for their next release.