Reedux: A wandering member of Portland's music vanguard visits home.
JEFF ROSENBERG of wweek.com

Those of us old enough to have gotten our hair done or bought clothes back in the '80s lived to regret it. Most, though, are thankful those unfortunate choices aren't immortalized online-unlike the ultra-permed, acid-washed image of Dan Reed inhabiting videos by his old band, the Dan Reed Network.

Reed led the multi-ethnic, funk-rocking DRN from its humble home at Old Town's Key Largo nightclub to gigs opening for the Stones and Jovi. When the band lost momentum, he retrenched to PDX and underwent a musical conversion to electronica, buying Key Largo and refashioning it as Ohm. But before long, he was ready for another change. Traveling to India, then settling in Israel, Reed experienced a spiritual transformation to match his musical one.

Our recent phone conversation found him in NYC, gearing up to launch a new album of conscious, electro-acoustic music titled Coming Up For Air. With that '80s mane tamed to a close shave, Reed revisits Portland this week to share his new songs.