Events
GENDERS WITH HELVETIA, TIBURONES
- 8:00pm Friday, June 26, 2015
GENDERS
Genders is a four-piece casual rock and roll band from Portland, Ore. Finding a balance between shredding your clothes off and weeping softly in the corner, Genders’ performance will move you…be it physically or emotionally. Want your face melted? Want your toes tapping? Want to hold hands with your sweetie? Come to a Genders show and have the night of your life.
Voted one of Portland’s Best New Bands of 2013 by the Willamette Week, with a debut EP and full length 'Get Lost' under their belt, they are currently working on a new EP!
Genders is comprised of Stephen Leisy on guitar, Toby Tanabe on bass, Katherine Paul on drums, and Maggie Morris on guitar and vocals.
Voted one of Portland’s Best New Bands of 2013 by the Willamette Week, with a debut EP and full length 'Get Lost' under their belt, they are currently working on a new EP!
Genders is comprised of Stephen Leisy on guitar, Toby Tanabe on bass, Katherine Paul on drums, and Maggie Morris on guitar and vocals.
HELVETIA
It's been a few years since we've formed; and it still is like we just started. not in a bad way, just the fact that experimentalism is at the core of our music. While there may be a poppy song or an punk-esque tune, it's still all about pushing the music around like paint. and some songs resurface and form into new sonic shapes.
It's about influence. Not just the many bands we are influenced by, but by environment, change. Like a New York city street where one moment it's musical ambient textures, the next a disharmonic chaos of horns and sirens. That is what we're about. Chords that overlay in washes, then bite and stab and tear the canvas.
The core philosophy of sonic youth is a strong commonality. Lee Ranaldo played with Glenn Branca often, where he learned to play with alternate tunings and create 'white noise'. Branca was a musician/composer who enlisted several (sometimes up to six) guitarists to play his symphonies of noise. Sonic Youth learned much from Branca later, such as using alternate tunings and various non-conventional ways of playing to create their style of noise. - source the Rare Vinyl Network
Though we may not sound entirely like Sonic Youth, we embrace this aspect. The non-convention. Interestingly, non-convention has its own pattern. Chaos has pattern. turn on a faucet a little, it drips water at the same rate. a little more, and the drops start combing with another, erraticaly. But upon closer inspection, there is a pattern. Society is erratic, but the same mistakes happen again. It is all around us. And we try to embody that in our music.
The reason we chose the name, Helvetia, is because it doesn't interrupt. Use this typeface and it somehow embraces the personality of whatever visual it is part of. Without being obstructive. It reinvents itself, like a chameleon, adapting without having to necessarily change. Sometimes light, bold, italic. that's it. And we are that. We let the music be the visual, and we ourselves try not to be brash and corny showmen. The music is the importance. We simply carry the message.
The songs here are a tiny slice of what we are all about. We are still discovering what it is. And that makes it all worthwhile.
It's about influence. Not just the many bands we are influenced by, but by environment, change. Like a New York city street where one moment it's musical ambient textures, the next a disharmonic chaos of horns and sirens. That is what we're about. Chords that overlay in washes, then bite and stab and tear the canvas.
The core philosophy of sonic youth is a strong commonality. Lee Ranaldo played with Glenn Branca often, where he learned to play with alternate tunings and create 'white noise'. Branca was a musician/composer who enlisted several (sometimes up to six) guitarists to play his symphonies of noise. Sonic Youth learned much from Branca later, such as using alternate tunings and various non-conventional ways of playing to create their style of noise. - source the Rare Vinyl Network
Though we may not sound entirely like Sonic Youth, we embrace this aspect. The non-convention. Interestingly, non-convention has its own pattern. Chaos has pattern. turn on a faucet a little, it drips water at the same rate. a little more, and the drops start combing with another, erraticaly. But upon closer inspection, there is a pattern. Society is erratic, but the same mistakes happen again. It is all around us. And we try to embody that in our music.
The reason we chose the name, Helvetia, is because it doesn't interrupt. Use this typeface and it somehow embraces the personality of whatever visual it is part of. Without being obstructive. It reinvents itself, like a chameleon, adapting without having to necessarily change. Sometimes light, bold, italic. that's it. And we are that. We let the music be the visual, and we ourselves try not to be brash and corny showmen. The music is the importance. We simply carry the message.
The songs here are a tiny slice of what we are all about. We are still discovering what it is. And that makes it all worthwhile.
TIBURONES
"Tiburones" in a wild new musical project joining the sometimes unhinged vocals of "Y La Bamba's" Luz Elena Mendoza with fiery intensity of Nick Delffs of "Shaky Hands" and Death Songs. Luz and Nick began collaborating when "Y La Bamba" and "Death Songs" toured the west coast in 2012.
During that tour they discovered a mutual reverence that sung louder than words. After Touring with The Lumineers in 2012 Mendoza finished writing Y La Bamba's EP "Oh February" Inspired by the journey and the adventure Nick and Luz began to collect there songs with a raw approach "The Thrill of creating new music overwhelmed us and gave us a path to celebrate life with others." she said.
The Vibrant, Incessant beat of "Tiburones" is a intoxicating three piece with enchanting harmonies and syncapated percussion, electric guitar, bass, and keys. Influenced by Neil Young, Patti Smith, Richard Brautigan and the pulse of the Velvet Underground. "TIburones" Frames the sound of folk with Beat heavy rhythms and songs that split the sea.
During that tour they discovered a mutual reverence that sung louder than words. After Touring with The Lumineers in 2012 Mendoza finished writing Y La Bamba's EP "Oh February" Inspired by the journey and the adventure Nick and Luz began to collect there songs with a raw approach "The Thrill of creating new music overwhelmed us and gave us a path to celebrate life with others." she said.
The Vibrant, Incessant beat of "Tiburones" is a intoxicating three piece with enchanting harmonies and syncapated percussion, electric guitar, bass, and keys. Influenced by Neil Young, Patti Smith, Richard Brautigan and the pulse of the Velvet Underground. "TIburones" Frames the sound of folk with Beat heavy rhythms and songs that split the sea.