TICKETS // GA: $20 per person // VIP: $30 per person (includes VIP seating, parking, food & drink voucher)
Kids 5 & under are free.
ROOFTOP CINEMA AT THE LLOYD CENTER
Enjoy great movies, food, drinks (including beer, wine, cocktails) & spectacular rooftop sunsets!
Doors open at 8 pm with food and beverages available for purchase. Music from XRAY DJs begins at 8 pm and films begin at dusk. Entry for advance ticket holders is guaranteed until 8:30 pm. Advance tickets ensure that you will not have to wait in the ticket purchase line but do not guarantee entry after 8:30 pm. A limited number of chairs are available on a first-come basis, so feel free to bring a chair or blanket, along with a light sweater or jacket.
FAQS AND SUMMER MOVIE GUIDELINES
SCHEDULE:
Weekend 1 – The Deep Search
- July 1 Life Aquatic, DJ Bobby D of Night School
- July 2 Wonder Woman, DJ Emoji Heap of Radio UwU
- July 3 Nomadland, DJ Bob Ham of Double Bummer
Weekend 2 – Tiger Beat! The Heartthrobs of Gen X
- July 10 Beetlejuice, DJ Bob Ham of Double Bummer
- July 11 Say Anything..., DJ PHNM of Phenomenal Disco
Weekend 3 – ‘90s Slumber Party Weekend
- July 17 House Party, DJ Honest John of Savage Beat
- July 18 Clueless, DJ Honest John of Savage Beat
Weekend 4 – Shake It Dance-Along
- July 24 Dirty Dancing, DJ Womb Service of Much Finer
- July 25 Zola, DJ Cheyenne McClain of Reverse Couple Skate
Weekend 5 –Solve The Mystery Movies!
- July 31 Knives Out, DJ Womb Service of Much Finer
- August 1 Sherlock Holmes, DJ Kyle Reese of VCR TV
Weekend 6 – What The World Needs Now Is More L’Amore
- August 7 Brokeback Mountain, DJ Ryan Bunao of Radio UwU
- August 8 Medicine for Melancholy, DJ Chancie Chance of Welcome to Your Good Day
Weekend 7 – Cosplay! Fantastical Fantasy Worlds
- August 14 The Green Knight,
- August 15 The Dark Crystal, DJ Nate C. of Heavy Metal Sewing Circle
Weekend 8 – New Hair, New You
- August 21 Barbershop,
- August 22 Steel Magnolias, DJ Emoji Heap of Radio UwU
Weekend 9 – ‘80s Slumber Party Week
- August 28 Valley Girl, DJ Bob Ham of Double Bummer
- August 29 Tron, DJ Nate C. of Heavy Metal Sewing Circle
Weekend 10 – Sing-Along Cinema Soiree
- September 4 Selena, DJ Morning Remorse of Blind Dates w/ Morning Remorse
- September 5 Beats, Rhymes & Life, DJ Bob Ham of Double Bummer
Weekend 11 – PowerTeen Queens
- September 11 Pariah, DJ Serious Moonlight & DJ Palm Dat of Intuitive Navigation
- September 12 Lady Bird, DJ JBJ of Hello Cruel World
Weekend 12 – Theme: Athletic, Independent
- September 18 Boogie Pariah, DJLX of DiaspoRADIO
- September 19 Blue Crush, DJ Ryan Bunao of Radio UwU
Weekend 13 – Animation Overload: Drink & Draw
- September 25 Mars Attacks, DJ DNA of Beautiful Music
- September 26 Shrek, DJ Chancie Chance of Welcome to Your Good Day
All Ages | 7pm Doors, 8pm Show | $15 Advance, $20 Day Of
Celebrated northwest crew Boom Bap Project headlines the return of Mic Check to a live audience. It's the Portland album release event for "Return Flight", their first project in 15 years. The night will feature performances from:
BOOM BAP PROJECT
JABEE
COOL NUTZ
HANiF
KUNU
Surprise special guests:
Mic Check is partnering with local non-profit Hip-Hop Fighting Cancer and is honored to donate a portion of proceeds of the event to them.
We'll be recognizing DJ Ambush for the work he's done for the scene providing platforms, support and encouragement through his work with XRAY FM and The Numberz FM.
Featuring sets by DJ OG One
Hosted by DJ Klyph, of Welcome to the Neighborhood Saturday Nights on XRAY
FREE, No Tickets Required | 6:30pm
Kickstand Comedy is proud to present Comedy in the Park, Bringing FREE live stand up shows back to Portland audiences all summer long. Featuring your favorite comics from Portland and beyond in one of the city's most beautiful spaces — Laurelhurst Park. Hundreds of Portlanders have been showing up each week to remember what laughter sounds like, so come early to claim your spot on the lawn! Bring your pup and whatever Summer bevvy you'd like to sip on. Blankets drop at 6pm, and the show starts at 6:30pm.
Comedy in the Park: Portland’s #1 Comedy Show of all time… in a public dog park
Kickstand Comedy is a 501c3 nonprofit dedicated to curating live comedy with a focus on quality, community, and unique voices. An all-inclusive space for Portland’s comedy scene to perform, collaborate and learn.
We'll see you there!
FREE, No Tickets Required | 6:30pm
Kickstand Comedy is proud to present Comedy in the Park, Bringing FREE live stand up shows back to Portland audiences all summer long. Featuring your favorite comics from Portland and beyond in one of the city's most beautiful spaces — Laurelhurst Park. Hundreds of Portlanders have been showing up each week to remember what laughter sounds like, so come early to claim your spot on the lawn! Bring your pup and whatever Summer bevvy you'd like to sip on. Blankets drop at 6pm, and the show starts at 6:30pm.
Comedy in the Park: Portland’s #1 Comedy Show of all time… in a public dog park
Kickstand Comedy is a 501c3 nonprofit dedicated to curating live comedy with a focus on quality, community, and unique voices. An all-inclusive space for Portland’s comedy scene to perform, collaborate and learn.
We'll see you there!
WITH SPECIAL GUEST: OPEN MIKE EAGLE
21+ // Doors 8PM // Show 9PM
TICKETS: $20 Advance & Day of Show
"Armand Hammer raps from another dimension, it's on us to catch up" - NPR
"The rappers are superb foils for one another" - Pitchfork
Haram is a mercurial collaboration between incendiary rap duo Armand Hammer, and living legend The Alchemist. For the first time ELUCID and billy woods have crafted an album with a single producer and the result is extraordinary. With their unmatched penchant for stirring imagery and incisive storytelling, the two rappers dive into an ocean of Alchemist’s creation: warmly inviting on the surface, black and bonecrushingly cold at depth. Haram is a collection of the profane and the pure; a reminder that that which is forbidden is also sacrosanct.
The artists are joined by their friends and fellow travelers on this journey. KAYANA’s golden voice upps the wattage on “Black Sunlight,” while Fielded’s sultry alto gets chopped and screwed on “Aubergine”. Earl Sweatshirt makes a sun-soaked appearance, while Curly Castro and Amani mix like ice and salt on Brooklyn sidewalks and Quelle Chris, as always, finds a pocket all his own. Still, there is a natural rapport that belies the New York-to-Los Angeles-and-back nature of the project, allowing Haram to be more than the sum of its parts, however impressive those parts may be. This isn’t just the genre’s most insistent contemporary voices paired with arguably its best producer. This is when you buy a beautiful house only to discover, hidden behind a heavy bookcase, a stairway twisting up and away into the darkness.
Humor can conceal and alleviate the pain of trauma, but no joke will erase it. Even Wu-Tang Clan told you that tears come after laughter. Relief comes only from opening every emotional and psychological wound.
Open Mike Eagle spent the 2010s finding comedy in rap music and American nightmares. On albums like Brick Body Kids Still Daydream and Dark Comedy, he delivered hilarious socio-political insights via half-sung verses laid atop progressive production. Acclaim from publications like Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, and NPR coincided with headlining solo tours and top-billing at events like Adult Swim Festival. Between studio sessions, Eagle co-founded The New Negroes, a standup-meets-music variety show that explores perceptions of blackness. He and co-founder Baron Vaughn brought the show to Upright Citizens Brigade, Comedy Central, and venues around the U.S. Since founding his record label Auto Reverse Records, though, Eagle has scaled back the jokes. He’s finally unpacking his traumas and acknowledging their impact.
With over a dozen solo and collaborative projects to his name, Eagle has spent his career redefining and expanding the parameters of “art rap,” the term he coined as a shorthand for leftfield and avant-garde rap music. On Dark Comedy, which Pitchfork called “one of the most compelling indie-rap listens of [2014],” he chronicled everything from smartphone addiction to the realities of being an indie artist in the streaming era with self-deprecation and side-splitting absurdity. 2017’s Brick Body Kids Still Daydream (Mello Music Group) marked Eagle’s shift toward examining trauma. Here he waded through the rubble of Chicago’s demolished Robert Taylor Homes, where several family members once lived. Part documentary and part tribute, BBKSD b lended powerful fantasy and grim reality. It illustrated the strength and vulnerability of a community afflicted by institutional racism and the enduring pains of life in the projects. There were few jokes but decades of survival.
Anime, Trauma, and Divorce is Eagle’s first full-length album on Auto Reverse and the most personal project of his career. On the verge of middle age, reeling from the collapse of his marriage, he probes the darkness of his past and searches for lights to guide him forward. This is the sound of a broken man sifting through the pieces while trying to rebuild, the struggle to self-critique while practicing self-care. Do you disassociate by envisioning yourself as the lead in your favorite anime, or do you reflect on your headass behavior? Tattoos and beer or push-ups and smoothies? Executive produced by renowned rock producer Jacknife Lee (U2, R.E.M.), the album’s few features include Auto Reverse artist Video Dave and Eagle’s son. Anime, Trauma, and Divorce finds Eagle virtually alone, doing his best to reject the humor that will not cure his ills. All is not well, but he’s never been better.
THIS EVENT IS 21+
VALID U.S. ID OR PASSPORT REQUIRED FOR ENTRY
MOSTLY STANDING / LIMITED BALCONY SEATING
21+ // Doors 7pm // Show 8pm
TICKETS // $15 Advance, $17 Day of Show
RATBOYS
10 years ago this April — April 1st to be exact — Chicago’s Ratboys put out their first collection of songs. The RATBOY EP, consisting of five indie-folk dorm room recordings, was free to download on Bandcamp and humbly passed around to friends on social media.
Cut to 2021, and Ratboys would normally be celebrating their 10-year anniversary on the road, playing a mix of songs from their very first release to their most recent, last year’s critically-acclaimed Printer’s Devil. Instead, just two weeks after the album’s February 2020 release and mere days before heading out on their first headline tour, the COVID-19 pandemic forced all touring to a halt. Despite not being able to play in-person shows for the past year, Ratboys has managed to stay busy by performing their music online via their own Virtual Tour series and by finding a different way to celebrate their first decade of being a band.
Lots of time at home last year gave Ratboys a chance to hit the studio, which has led to Happy Birthday, Ratboy, a surprise party of a new album featuring 10 brand new recordings of the band’s earliest songs + a newly-written bonus track entitled “Go Outside.”
WILD PINK
Wild Pink’s last album, 2018’s Yolk In The Fur, concluded with a song about the strange sense of relief that comes with “letting go of youth.” Frontman John Ross, then in his early thirties, was singing from a place of newfound comfort and wisdom, but it ended with a repetition of the line, “I don’t know what happens next.” The song, titled “All Some Frenchman’s Joke”, is a beautifully concise rendering of a universal milestone: leveling up from the wide-eyed naivety and self-destructive routines of our youth, only to realize that we’re as unprepared for the future as we were for the past.
On Wild Pink’s third album and first for Royal Mountain Records, A Billion Little Lights, Ross explores that dichotomy of finally achieving emotional security—of accepting the love and peace he deprived himself of in his twenties—while also feeling existentially smaller and more directionless than ever before. The record is a two-pronged triumph: an extraordinary reflection on the human condition presented through the sharpest, grandest, and most captivating songs Wild Pink have ever composed.
MOSTLY STANDING / LIMITED BALCONY SEATING
THIS EVENT IS 21+
VALID U.S. ID OR PASSPORT REQUIRED FOR ENTRY
21+ // Doors 7PM // Show 8PM
TICKETS: $20 Advance & Day of Show
The Weather Station
Ignorance, the forthcoming album by The Weather Station, begins enigmatically; a hissing hi hat, a stuttering drum beat. A full minute passes before the entry of Tamara Lindeman’s voice, gentle, conversational, intoning; “I never believed in the robber”. A jagged music builds, with stabbing strings, saxophone, and several layers of percussion, and the song undulates through five minutes of growing tension, seesawing between just two chords. Once again, Toronto songwriter Tamara Lindeman has remade what The Weather Station sounds like; once again, she has used the occasion of a new record to create a new sonic landscape, tailor-made to express an emotional idea. Ignorance, Lindeman’s debut for Mississippi label Fat Possum Records, is sensuous, ravishing, as hi fi a record as Lindeman has ever made, breaking into pure pop at moments, at others a dense wilderness of notes; a deeply rhythmic, deeply painful record that feels more urgent, more clear than her work ever has.
MOSTLY STANDING / LIMITED BALCONY SEATING
THIS EVENT IS 21+
VALID U.S. ID OR PASSPORT REQUIRED FOR ENTRY