XRAYFM Concert Calendar - 02/20/2026 Latest Episode
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All Ages // 5 PM doors // Tickets $71
The Dead South have never been about constant reinvention, but about full commitment to their own singular way. With confidence in their sound and style and trust in each other, The Dead South arrive at the cusp of explosive global success in an enviable, and well-earned, position: total autonomy. It doesn't really matter what you call their music - progressive bluegrass, alternative Americana, country, folk and western, what matters is that this is theirs, and people from all different backgrounds, beliefs, experiences, languages and ages love it.
True blue right through, The Dead South don't shy away from ruffling traditionalists' feathers from time to time, as they flawlessly execute banjo rolls and lightning-fast mandolin tremolos, 3-part harmonies and songs of classic themes -murder ballads, disloyalty, ghosts and the like, all with a wink and a smile. As they continue their climb to the top, The Dead South have learned an important lesson: If you're going to be outsiders, you'd better be great.
Confirmed by the passion of their Dead South cosplaying fans, who go to concerts in the band's signature look, this four-piece acoustic set from the middle of the Canadian prairies have found their people. Good Company, as they call themselves, is a global community of vastly dissimilar folks who might not see eye to eye, but who stand shoulder to shoulder at the gigs.
All Ages // 6:00 pm Blanket Drop // Free Entry
This year features the freshest line up of the funniest comedians from Portland and around the country, pre-show DJ sets XRAYFM DJs, new community sponsors, hilarious hosts, your best buds and plenty of sunshine! Grab a blanket, pack your picnic, and join us for some laughter in the sun! Hosted by Julia Corral and Rachelle Cochran.
Kickstand Comedy is Portland’s home for 🔥 local comedy. Providing mission-based programming and educational outreach that helping Portland connect, learn and laugh together. We run the #1comedy training center in the Pacific Northwest featuring improv, stand up, sketch, physical comedy classes and more!
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All Ages // 6:00 pm Blanket Drop // Free Entry
This year features the freshest line up of the funniest comedians from Portland and around the country, pre-show DJ sets XRAYFM DJs, new community sponsors, hilarious hosts, your best buds and plenty of sunshine! Grab a blanket, pack your picnic, and join us for some laughter in the sun! Hosted by Julia Corral and Rachelle Cochran.
Kickstand Comedy is Portland’s home for 🔥 local comedy. Providing mission-based programming and educational outreach that helping Portland connect, learn and laugh together. We run the #1comedy training center in the Pacific Northwest featuring improv, stand up, sketch, physical comedy classes and more!
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All Ages // 6:00 pm Blanket Drop // Free Entry
This year features the freshest line up of the funniest comedians from Portland and around the country, pre-show DJ sets XRAYFM DJs, new community sponsors, hilarious hosts, your best buds and plenty of sunshine! Grab a blanket, pack your picnic, and join us for some laughter in the sun! Hosted by Julia Corral and Rachelle Cochran.
Kickstand Comedy is Portland’s home for 🔥 local comedy. Providing mission-based programming and educational outreach that helping Portland connect, learn and laugh together. We run the #1comedy training center in the Pacific Northwest featuring improv, stand up, sketch, physical comedy classes and more!
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All Ages // 4 PM Doors // Tickets $62
A benefit for the Menopunks Documentary
Featuring:
Calamity Jane
Berzerk
All Girl Summer Fun Band
GABALANCH featuring Sara Lund & Rachel Blumberg
Puerta Negra
Party Witch
Grrrizzly
DJ Allison Wolfe of Bratmobile
Menopunks of Comedy
+ Secret surprise guests
All Ages // 7 PM Doors // Tickets $35
Some music engulfs you like a freezing wave — so totalizing that you lose track of where you end and where the experience passing through you begins. Death in the Business of Whaling, the new album from Oregon-based songwriter Alec Duckart, a.k.a. Searows, is one of those records that soaks you to the bone.
A bold evolution from the indie-folk of Duckart’s earlier releases, Whaling steers toward the megalithic expanses of shoegaze, drone, and Undersea-era Antlers, folding an array of new sounds into Searows’ organic palette. It’s an arresting document of a young artist coming into his own, and a probing meditation on life, death, embodiment, and the tangled threads that connect all three.
A lifelong denizen of the Pacific Northwest, Duckart makes music deeply inflected by his surroundings — the dramatic coastline with massive rock formations rearing from the waves, the persistent gloom, the lush overgrowth of abundant forests. He began writing his first songs on guitar in middle school, and at age 16 started uploading his music to SoundCloud and Bandcamp.
Once Duckart began sharing videos on TikTok, he quickly gathered a cult following drawn to his timeless, old-world sensibilities and sensitive lyricism. Albums and EPs like 2022’s Guard Dog and 2023’s End of the World established him as a compelling storyteller, leading him to share stages with Gracie Abrams and Ethel Cain. Whaling breaches into newfound cinematic intensity — a collection of songs that converge like weather systems over choppy grey waters.
Duckart started writing the songs on Whaling in 2023. Even before he had a full sense of the album’s sound, he found himself energized by approaching his lyrics in a newly abstract way. Rather than painting autobiographical pictures, he turned to fiction to circle more nebulous emotions and ideas.
“I started letting myself write about whatever I was interested in without worrying about whether it conveyed something personal in an obvious way,” he says. The songs found their anchors in recurring images: the unknowable vastness of the ocean, the biblical Leviathan, Jonah lost in the belly of the whale. Duckart used these stories to plumb the mysterious bridge between life and death, wondering how those two states of being might blur together.
The album’s title comes from Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick:
“Yes, there is death in this business of whaling — a speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity. But what then? Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death. … Methinks my body is but the lees of my better being.”
Duckart came across the passage while flipping through books in search of a title. “What I got from that paragraph is that you aren’t just your body and your physical self,” he says. “I was thinking of death and life as part of the same process that continues through itself.”
To record the album, Duckart traveled to Washington to work with producer Trevor Spencer (Father John Misty, Mary Lattimore, Beach House) at Way Out Studios. It marked the first time he’d recorded a full album outside his home studio. Working collaboratively with Spencer helped him build the songs to the scale their subject matter demanded.
Staying in an Airbnb overlooking the Sammamish River, Duckart found that the change in scenery helped usher in the album’s dramatic shifts in sound. Leaving mixing duties to Spencer — and unable to access works in progress once he left the studio each day — Duckart felt some of his perfectionist tendencies loosen.
“If I’m not mixing the music myself, there are so many other creative elements I can focus on,” he says. “It was definitely scary to give up that control, but it ended up being so much better for my creative process.”
The music that emerged from these sessions approaches like a colossus in fog — partially visible, partially obscured, and staggering in scale. Opener “Belly of the Whale” sends banjo chords darting through the drone of a bowed upright bass as Duckart’s vocals cut through with whispered urgency. “Hunter” bares its teeth with crashing drums and heavy guitars; the gentler “Junie” drifts through clouds of enveloping reverb; and “Dearly Missed” oscillates between palm-muted chords and unsheathed distortion as Duckart sings of someone driving off a bridge into a river, never to be seen again.
Images crystallize and dissolve, alternating between the concrete and the dissociative, until the album settles into the darkening sky of closer “Geese,” where Duckart’s voice and guitar flicker through a thinning Wurlitzer haze — as if calling someone back from the brink of oblivion.
Each song on Death in the Business of Whaling shivers with the urgency of the untranslatable — emotions felt far more powerfully than they can ever be articulated. “I feel like I am never able to explain my thoughts in a way that justifies them,” Duckart says. “Music is really the one way I feel I can communicate well.”
Sometimes the most immediate way to share a feeling is to plunge in and see what surfaces. Death in the Business of Whaling invites listeners to immerse themselves with all the conviction of an artist who believes in the transformative power of the depths. When you come up for air, you’ll be different.
All Ages // All Weekend
XRAYFM is excited to partner with the Overlook Neighborhood Association for their annual Porchfest in 2026.
Mark your calendars for July 11th & 12th, 2026, as our Overlook neighborhood transforms its streets into a vibrant, decentralized arts venue for the fifth annual Overlook Porchfest.
At its heart, Porchfest is a grassroots celebration where neighbors generously offer their front porches, driveways, and yards as stages for local musicians. For families, it represents an unparalleled opportunity to connect with neighbors and experience live art in a safe, walkable environment.
This year offers a trifecta of community events. The music festival coincides with the beloved Overlook Yard Sale and Free Share weekend, as well as the Mississippi Avenue Street Fair. Residents can spend the day hunting for yard sale treasures and shopping local street fair vendors before spreading a blanket on a neighbor’s lawn to enjoy an open-air concert.
More information, map, schedule and artist applications can be found at www.https://overlookneighborhood.org/events/porchfest/
All Ages // 6:30 pm Doors // Tickets $41-153
Hailing from Philadelphia and now based in the vibrant city of Charleston, SC, alt indie hip-hop duo Little Stranger (Kevin and John Shields, no relation but best friends) have spent years honing their signature sound and perfecting their version of the 'organized chaos' that a Little Stranger live show entails. In an era where genre is increasingly irrelevant, Little Stranger delivers a fresh take on melodic hip-hop garnering comparisons to newer artists like Remi Wolf, Still Woozy, and Marc Rebillet but also the golden age of hip hop running into pop epitomized by early 2000s Timberland, Gorillaz and NERD. Between John's melodic singer-songwriter magnetism, Kevin's in-your-face delivery, and an overall undeniable groove the duo has become known for their unique sound, - garnering millions of streams, playing countless sold-out shows and major festivals like Lollapalooza, Governor's Ball, Hangout Fest, BottleRock, Levitate Music & Arts Festival, and more.
A musical lighthouse, shining a resilient light for everyone that has had to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, Tropidelic has arrived on the national stage. Hailing from Cleveland, Ohio, a city rich in character and music history, this six-piece performance powerhouse carves their own path with an independent mentality. Front man Roads, explores feelings more than sounds, seeing where the emotional travel can take him, while valuing being comfortable and honest.
Brooklyn-based MC / Producer, Jarv started making music in 2009 and put out his first official release 'Jarvage Vol.1' in 2016. He has since released four full-length projects in his modern yet classic boom-bap style. He has garnered millions of streams and YouTube views and has toured with the likes of RA The Rugged Man, Masta Ace, Little Stranger, Mr. Lif & Akrobatik, Sadat X, Spose, The Palmer Squares and so on.
21+ // 7:00 Doors // Tickets $29
CODA is a Led Zeppelin tribute super group with a cast of (7) world class musicians. This All Star cast come together in recreating the eternal epic sounds of the original studio recordings from the greatest rock & roll band in the world's history with a full 7-piece ensemble of career A-list musicians that deliver the most authentic, transformative audible experience since Led Zeppelin played their last concert in 2007 @ London's O2 Arena.
All Ages // 7:00 pm Doors / Tickets $41
Sondre Lerche has always been a romantic. Whether it be the songs he wrote as a teen for his critically acclaimed 2001 debut, Faces Down, or starring as the love-lorn Christian in the Norwegian stage production of Moulin Rouge! The Musical. In 2026, though, his love of, well, love is shot through with a kind of defiance.
The result is Lerche's 11th studio album, Acrobats, an eight-song suite that pingpongs between joy and introspection, loss and love. Recorded across nine studios with a gaggle of creatives, it's a perhaps more sobering followup up 2022's Avatars of Love - although no less brimming with passion. "If there's one theme to this album, I suppose it is finding love in times of great unrest and hopelessness," Lerche says. And that's precious.