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chokecherry
All Ages // 7 PM Doors 8 PM Show // Tickets $25 Advanced $30 DoS
Chokecherry
SF based band chokecherry is dark, black widow energy wrapped in the foil of our generation. Self-produced with a head rush of garage band sonics overlaid with a siren ensemble of layered vocal poise, "Glass Jaw" puts an original fingerprint on a historic scene. This being just their debut single, the song amassed over 1 millions streams on Spotify without a single editorial playlist. With their second single, "Around Around Around," the duo continued to show they are paving their own way with a fusion of influences including shoegaze, classic rock, and grunge. The duo is set to perform at a number of festivals in the U.S. this year, while working on new singles and a debut album.
Instant Crush
A unique blend of sparkle and the familiar sound of late 00's pop that exists between organic and electronic. Synthy and spacey.
Altar Girl
Altar Girl is an empowered quartet of femme and trans musicians from Portland, Oregon. Their music combines elements of post-punk and grunge while paying homage to old-school goth and darkwave influences. The four-piece band began as a first-time collaborative songwriting effort between Kay Morrisette and Mara Vosien, who wanted to create something moody, lively and that speaks to their lived experiences. They were soon after joined by close friends Ariel Chamberlin on drums and Sam Mahon on bass. The band's sound combines Kay's wistful, vocal-heavy songwriting style with Mara's atmospheric guitar and driving punk rhythm. Woven into the anthemic melodies are ruminating lyrical themes of heartbreak, feminist issues, environmental collapse, and gender dysphoria. The rhythm section is galvanized by danceable back beats, propelling each song through a landscape of feral peaks and haunting valleys. They are preparing for the release of their first record Summer 2025.
Over 100 vendors, every Friday from 4-7pm from May 16th to September 19th. Open to the public. The Manzanita Farmers Market also accepts SNAP benefits.
No Requests Vurzez Series: Queens vs The Bay
The Vurzez Series returns with a heavyweight showdown between two iconic regions in hip-hop history—Queens vs The Bay.
Join DJ Ambush and DJ Klyph as they dig deep into the crates, spinning classic and underground joints from Queens, NY and the Bay Area, CA. From Nas to Mac Dre, LL to E-40, Mobb Deep to Hiero—expect a night of gritty bars, hyphy energy, and non-stop head-nods.
🗓 Sunday, June 22nd
🕕 6–9pm
📍 White Eagle Saloon
💵 No Cover
Strictly vibes. No requests.
Let the music speak—who you got?
Over 100 vendors, every Friday from 4-7pm from May 16th to September 19th. Open to the public. The Manzanita Farmers Market also accepts SNAP benefits.
All Ages // 6:30 PM Doors 8 PM Show // Tickets $40 - $55
Crumb
New York psych-pop band Crumb return with AMAMA, their most carefree and open-hearted album to date. A soundscape full of playful and patchwork experimentation - glitchy pitch-shifted vocals, cell phone recordings, nautical blips, sax mouthpiece solos, blasted drum samples, and piano strings dampened with Silly Putty - AMAMA continues to deepen the band's hypnotic sound in a cohesive line back through 2021's Ice Melt, 2019's Jinx, and breakout EPs Locket and Crumb. Without a doubt, AMAMA is Crumb - singer and multi-instrumentalist Lila Ramani, keyboardist and saxophonist Bri Aronow, bassist Jesse Brotter, and drummer Jonathan Gilad - at their most animated.
Buoyed by Ramani's songwriting, at turns poetically abstract and directly confessional, AMAMA culls the strange encounters from Crumb's touring years, tracing the dizzying path of a group that's been in movement for nearly a decade. 'Crushxd' is an ecstatic requiem for a turtle flattened under the tires of a tour van; '(Alone in) Brussels' finds Ramani in forced isolation in a distant city. On 'The Bug,' we're at a pit stop in a seedy motel, where a critter's bite leaves a nagging feeling: 'It's always on my mind / it's just always on my mind,' Ramani repeats over a creeping groove as she wanders the place at night. On 'Side by Side,' perhaps the most candid track on AMAMA, frenetic percussion and disorienting, layered synth envelop Ramani as she considers the personal sacrifices she's made along the way.
Even as it explores transient stops and fraught encounters, AMAMA features some of Crumb's most vulnerable, tender searches for organic connection. 'Home is what I want and what I need,' Ramani sings on the clear-sighted opener, 'From Outside a Window Sill'-which samples a police radio scan about a flock of geese crossing a bridge in Gowanus, Brooklyn, where Ramani grew up. The title track, 'AMAMA,' is an upbeat and hopeful homage to Ramani's grandmother, her namesake, who sings in Malayalam in the opening sample. The two voices, Lila's and Leela's, separated by language and place, intertwine as if on a spotty long-distance call in what is the most direct love song of Crumb's repertoire. On the album's closer, 'XXX,' laden with distorted, industrial sounds, we finally find respite-a house shared between two lovers, a safe place. In the last moments, Ramani asks: 'Isn't this as good as it can get?'
AMAMA exists at the crossroads of psychedelia, pop, jazz, and rock, and cements Crumb as a band uniquely their own. Released independently on Crumb Records and produced alongside Johnscott Sanford and Jonathan Rado in Los Angeles, AMAMA is an incandescent statement about searching for solid ground, connection, and clarity in a life of nomadic upheaval.
Over 100 vendors, every Friday from 4-7pm from May 16th to September 19th. Open to the public. The Manzanita Farmers Market also accepts SNAP benefits.
Over 100 vendors, every Friday from 4-7pm from May 16th to September 19th. Open to the public. The Manzanita Farmers Market also accepts SNAP benefits.
Join DJ Wednesday from the XRAY show Six Beats Under (Mondays 9-10pm) for a curated evening at Holocene
Performances by Mercury's Antennae, Among the Black Trees (release party), Darkswoon and Bridal Veil. DJ Set by DJ Wednesday
7pm, 21+
$10 in advance, $12 at the Door
Over 100 vendors, every Friday from 4-7pm from May 16th to September 19th. Open to the public. The Manzanita Farmers Market also accepts SNAP benefits.
All Ages // 7 PM Doors 8 PM Show // Tickets $28 - 36
Federale is a six-piece ensemble based in Portland, OR. Spearheaded by longtime Brian Jonestown Massacre bassist Collin Hegna, the band was conceived as an outlet to channel inspiration from '60s & '70s European soundtracks, particularly those from Italy made famous by the Spaghetti Western & Giallo genres. As well as the narrative driven song stylings of Lee Hazlewood and Nick Cave.
Reverb & Seduction is the legendary Portland band's most immersive and varied album to date. A tour de force road trip from psych rock to country duets that never strays too far from the spaghetti western roots that inspired the band so many blood moons ago.
"...equal parts Ennio Morricone, Lee Hazelwood, and Nick Cave with a touch of Chris Isaak's less romantic side... few if any artists are brave and/or creative enough to channel this ghostly, often ominous vibe into moving, sensual and stirring music." HAL HOROWITZ, American Songwriter
- Website: http://federalepdx.com/
Over 100 vendors, every Friday from 4-7pm from May 16th to September 19th. Open to the public. The Manzanita Farmers Market also accepts SNAP benefits.
Over 100 vendors, every Friday from 4-7pm from May 16th to September 19th. Open to the public. The Manzanita Farmers Market also accepts SNAP benefits.
Over 100 vendors, every Friday from 4-7pm from May 16th to September 19th. Open to the public. The Manzanita Farmers Market also accepts SNAP benefits.
Over 100 vendors, every Friday from 4-7pm from May 16th to September 19th. Open to the public. The Manzanita Farmers Market also accepts SNAP benefits.
Over 100 vendors, every Friday from 4-7pm from May 16th to September 19th. Open to the public. The Manzanita Farmers Market also accepts SNAP benefits.
Shadowlands, Kallai, Hawks Do Not Share, w/ DJ Wednesday- EARLY SHOW! – 21+
DJ Wednesday spinning tunes before, during and after the show. An evening filled with post-punk, shoegaze an darkwave in partnership with XRAY FM
Shadowlands – Dark postpunk dreamscapes by members of Murderbait and former members of Phantom Lights and the Minds. Post-punk, dark-wave, shoegaze, from Portland Oregon.
Kallai – formed in the summer of 2023 by members of Trance to the Sun, Luscious Apparatus and Lost Echoes. While inspired by the post-punk, shoegaze and doom acts of the past few decades, Kallai’s perspective is evolving with those scenes and seeking to spin sounds that unfold throughout time. Portland, Oregon
Hawks Do Not Share is dream-pop band from Portland, Oregon.
Over 100 vendors, every Friday from 4-7pm from May 16th to September 19th. Open to the public. The Manzanita Farmers Market also accepts SNAP benefits.
Over 100 vendors, every Friday from 4-7pm from May 16th to September 19th. Open to the public. The Manzanita Farmers Market also accepts SNAP benefits.
Over 100 vendors, every Friday from 4-7pm from May 16th to September 19th. Open to the public. The Manzanita Farmers Market also accepts SNAP benefits.