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All Ages // Friday Sep 19th through Sunday Sep 21st // Single Day and Full Festival Pass
The Third Annual Cascade Equinox Festival is coming back to Central Oregon to celebrate the 2025 Autumnal Equinox. The musical lineup paired with the unique immersive experiences of visual and performance art, workshops, kids activities and camping make Cascade Equinox more than just a music festival. Alongside a curated selection of local wineries, breweries and eateries and a market featuring unique nomadic and artisanal crafts set against the majestic landscapes of the Pacific Northwest High Desert, Cascade Equinox is an event not to be missed.
Single day passes along with a multitude of camping and curated experiences plus lineup information and schedule can be found at www.cascadeequinox.com
All Ages // 6 PM Doors 7 PM Show // $21 Tickets
Sabertooth Presents a one day mini fest featuring the heavy/sludge/metal sounds of:
Gata Galactica
Fluid Druid
Salo Panto
Rarefaction
Gata Galáctica:
Gata
Galáctica are a Portland-based band that blend elements of cumbia,
afrobeat, surf music, and psychedelia from past to present. Their music
creates kaleidoscopic grooves that will make your body move and soul
soar. Their melting pot of influences are infused with high energy
performances that transport listeners to another dimension. BELIEVE, as
you travel through space and time with their infectious sound.
Fluid Druid:
Portland's Fluid Druid is a psychedelic rock band
blending the garage grit of 13th Floor Elevators with the glam flair of
T-Rex and Brian Eno. Their driving instrumentals, sharp hooks, and
engaging lyrics make for an irresistible live show, where energy flows
freely between band and audience.
Salo Panto:
Since
2015, Salo Panto has been exploring and bending every corner of the
rock genre. Rooted in psychedelia with a stage presence that will blow
your hair back, commonly being described as 'a sight to behold'. Their
technical skill and original hooks pay homage to the legends of rock
while transforming the genre into something new entirely. These
chameleons can be found anywhere from the alternative radio waves to a
doom show lineup, specially curating their sound for every performance,
creating an atmosphere that is infectious and inclusive, all for the
love of music.
Rarefaction:
Rarefaction
is a dynamic four-piece heavy psych band hailing from Portland, Oregon
with elements of progressive, garage, and stoner rock.
All Ages // 7 PM Door 8 PM show // $34 Tickets
Patrick Wolf
Patrick Wolf today announces the release of his long-awaited seventh album Crying The Neck due out 25th April via APPORT / Virgin Music and available to pre-order here. The album features guest appearances from Zola Jesus, Serafina Steer, drummer Seb Rochford and Wolf's sister Jo Apps. Alongside news of an extensive UK, European and US tour, the dates of which are listed below, Wolf has shared first single "Dies Irae", an anthemic "affirmation of life" set in the days before the passing of his mother.
"Dies Irae" comes from the Latin Requiem Mass and translates to "the day of wrath" or, as Wolf puts it, "the day of separation from the living". He wanted to write a response to that idea, seeing it instead as a "an affirmation of life in the last days of knowing you are about to lose someone you love, and a courageous - almost rebellious - choice against the misery to use the time remaining to deepen your love or joy with each other." He wrote it "to give myself another day I didn't have with my mother during her rapid descent in illness" and hopes that this might also help others who have been through the same process. The string arrangement at the end of the song is based on the Medieval Gregorian chant 'Dies Irae' from the Latin mass. The song, Wolf says, completed the narrative arc of the album, connecting the opening tracks with the "death suite" of pieces in tribute to his mother. "I finished the lyrics as an imaginary last conversation with my mother in her art studio and out to the garden as the evening falls," he says. "My sister Jo Apps came in the last days of mixing to sing the backing vocals, and in a way, it meant that we could both share a last dance in the kitchen with our ma together."o
Upcoming Events
at Mission Theater
21+ // Doors 7 PM // $75 3 - day pass and $30 DoS
A shoegaze, dream pop, psych and post-punk music festival
Pitchfork declared that 2023 was the year that the shoegaze revival hit its stride. Well, in the Pacific NW, shoegaze never really went away, with past trailblazing events in Portland like Shoegazer’s Ball / Fuzzy Ball, and now Seattle’s recent Seagaze and Tremolo festivals leading the way. Currently in Portland, however, there’s a shoegaze-shaped hole in our festival calendar. Our all-volunteer membership committee–made up of members of Kallai, Ten Million Lights, and presenting sponsor DKFM Shoegaze Radio–have joined together to remedy that.
Full festival lineup, tickets and more information at www.dreamgazepdx.com
Mammoth NW Presents:
Oddisee – The Good Fight 10 Year Anniversary Tour
Friday, October 10th, 2025 8:00PM
Hawthorne Theatre
21 & Over only with valid photo ID
All Ages // 7 PM Doors 8 PM Show // $33 and up
About Frankie Cosmos:
Different Talking, the sixth and, so far, best album by NYC indie-rock four-piece Frankie Cosmos, seems to exist across time and space, as we all kind of do. It’s a collection of fragments and memories, remembered places, and reinterpreted feelings that adds up to a lucent, humming whole: a sturdy, worldly indie-rock record about aging and the passage of time that nonetheless manages to feel sharply current.
Frankie Cosmos lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter Greta Kline has long been heralded as one of contemporary indie music’s most deft and most necessary writers, but on Different Talking, her lyrics soften out slightly, the wry cynicism that defined recent records now giving way to an acknowledgment of the awesome, and necessary, fallibility of the human brain and heart.
To classify Different Talking as a return to form, or at least a return to the lush directness of earlier Frankie Cosmos records, would be rude but also wholly incorrect: as Different Talking makes clear, you can never return to the comfort and bravery of your early twenties, but that person always kind of lives inside you, no matter how much you change. Different Talking is about finding that person, honoring them, and learning from them. “A lot of the album is about being grown up and figuring out how to know yourself – like, ‘What is moving on?’” says Kline. “How do we move on when we’re addicted to a cycle of haunting our own past? Writing songs is just the way through that.”