At least for the Portland-based and live-music minded, winter is generally known as the slow season, but the flip side of that is that in an artsy city like Portland, there’s never a complete lull.

But that’s why Return to Dust is in line to lead the next generation of rock. Latest single, “New Religion,” is the perfect example of the connective tissue between 1990s grunge, early 2000s hard rock ...

Particularly in the second half of this year, nearly every major heritage rock act — including the Beatles, the Rolling ...