Events

with Colleen Green and Larry Yes

Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm

Join us for an annual Mardi Gras parade

Starts at Ecliptic Brewing, heads to Prost!, and returns to Ecliptic Brewing.

6:30pm-7pm

Masks, beads, and costumes encouraged. Free and all ages.

Doors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm / Show: 10:00 pm

Early Show SOLD OUT

$22.00 ADV/$25.00 DOS

This event is 21 and over

Tickets still available for the recently added late show on 2/16 at 10pm! 

Tickets: aladdin-theater.com

"Hannibal Buress is a wildly popular Emmy and WGA Award nominated comedian, writer and actor who The New York Times praises as having an “irresistible” comedic presence that lands squarely between “cerebral and swagger.” He is a cast member on the hit Comedy Central series “Broad City,” which will premiere its second season in 2015, and is the co-host of Adult Swim’s “The Eric Andre Show,” which will premiere its third season in November 2014. This summer he also appeared in the blockbuster comedy feature “Neighbors,” starring Seth Rogen and Zac Efron, and later this year he can be seen in the film “Flock of Dudes,” starring Chris D’Elia, Eric Andre, and Hillary Duff. 

Hannibal’s highly-rated second hour standup special “Hannibal Buress Live from Chicago” premiered on Comedy Central on March 29th, 2014, with GQ declaring “He makes us ugly laugh. Hard.” His first hour special, “Animal Furnace,” premiered on the network in May 2012. Hannibal also recently shot a pilot for his own Comedy Central series, and has been featured on several comedy-fan favorite TV shows including FX’s Louie, Fox’s Bob’s Burgers and The Mindy Project, Comedy Central’s Kroll Show, and Adult Swim’s China, IL. He has written for NBC’s Saturday Night Live as well as 30 Rock, where he also appeared on camera several times. He is a regular on the late night TV circuit, with appearances on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show with David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Conan, and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson."

Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm

At the release party, there will be a short readings by the students and a slideshow. Food will be provided by neighborhood restaurant, Wing Wa BBQ, and Voodoo Doughnuts.

https://www.facebook.com/events/810215279049705/?notif_t=plan_user_invited

“I remember my first bike—a little pink Schwinn ‘My Fair Lady’ spec’d with a banana seat and a bell! I had the training wheels for half a summer before I declared them useless and in one afternoon I had learned the art of the two-wheeler. Once I had a bike no television could keep me inside—the world was mine to discover. Today I ride a pink Sweet Pea bicycle spec’d with a brooks saddle, bell and no training wheels!”
-Jude Gerace, Owner Sugar Wheel Works

Get your ticket here. And one for your date.

What is Live the Revolution?

Live the Revolution is a collection of stories told live by your favorite Portland personalities. This year’s storytellers are (drumroll):

• Thomas Pikaart, American Coffee and Barista School
• Megan Schubel, elementary school teacher and new mama
• Laura Crawford, Bicycle Tourism Specialist
• Chris DiStefano, Communications Director for Rapha North America

Safe Routes to School For Every Kid. Support the revolution.

We know you love bikes. We also know you love being able to get to a date with your bike safely. We know that if you and your +1 end up with little ones, you’ll want them to be able to bike and walk to school safely. The BTA recently launched a campaign, For Every Kid, that aims to secure critical funding that will educate students and families, fix neighborhood streets, and increase access to transit for every kid in the metro area. Live the Revolution raises awareness for our Safe Routes to School efforts, and we encourage you to sign the petition today"

Show some love to our sponsors. They help make the stories happen.

This year, Live the Revolution is sponsored by XRAY.fm,  Sugar Wheel Works, Portland Story Theater, Hopworks Urban Brewery, Bethany Bauman Design, Hotlips Pizza, Brink Communications, Abraham Fixes Bikes, and Visual Aid.

Celebrate Valentine's Day with “2 by 2: An Evening of Duos and Duets” at
Mississippi Pizza on Feb. 13

"Bring someone you love to hear local songwriters team up for an evening of
acoustic duets February 13 from 6-8pm at Atlantis Lounge, otherwise known as the performance space at Mississippi Pizza, 3552 N Mississippi Ave, Portland. This is an all ages show with a suggested donation of $10/adult. 

Kelly Brightwell & Michael Henchman and Avery Hill & Chris Stewart explore
the timeless beauty and power of male/female harmonies -- just in time for
Valentine’s Day! 

These four musicians have solo careers and songs that stand alone, but
this show takes their original music to a new level. Those who know and
love them will get to hear their favorite tunes done up with harmonies and
instrumentation, while new audiences get a chance to discover four artists
all at one venue and one price. 

The idea for this show began with a question by the artists, themselves:
What happens when solo songwriters, so accustomed to performing alone, let
other songwriters in on their own music? Not unlike tackling the basic
challenges of beginning a new relationship, this show will be a memorable
experience for the artists as much as for their audience, resulting in a
compelling evening of heart-y, original, local music."
   

QUOTES:

"Kelly writes songs that are evolved.  With themes that are literary,
meditative...  with the smoothness of Sarah McLachlan, but with a bit more
Americana grit and charm."  -- Rob Stroup, 8 Ball Studio

"[Michael has a] unique hybrid style that fuses the rhythms of classic
folk, singer/songwriter and vintage pop melodies with a lyrical sense of
humor." -- Skope Magazine

"[Avery] has a memorable, lilting voice and is already penning songs that
could someday be classics. She is an extraordinary young talent." - Tom
May, River City Folk

“With a voice that wanders the halls between folk, country and blues,
Chris’s expression draws from a wide array of influences... The result is
an unmistakable sound that draws the listener in.”  -- www.chrisstewart.net


WEBSITES:
http://www.kellybrightwell.com
http://michaelhenchman.com
http://www.averyhilltunes.com
http://www.chrisstewart.net

CONTACT 

For more information, promo requests or to set up an interview or
in-studio performance, please contact kelly@kellybrightwell.com  or call
503-891-5186

Women Worth Knowing: Betty Roberts: a woman who lit the way

Nancy Golden, Alice Tang, Seema Patel, Nicole Auerbach

Cost is $10 and spaces are limited (RSVP requested). 

An exciting evening of psychedelic Cambodian pop

Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm

"The Los Angeles band was born 12 years ago, when brothers Zac (guitar) and Ethan (keyboards) Holtzman discovered the Cambodian rock music of the ’60s and ’70s. Ethan heard Cambodian pop during a trip to Southeast Asia, while Zac collected cassettes of Cambodian surf music during his tenure at San Francisco’s Aquarius Records. When they assembled a band to play Cambodian rock, they discovered three more Angelenos who had been listening to Cambodian pop — bass player Senon Williams, drummer Paul Smith and horn player David Ralicke.

During a trip to a Cambodian nightclub in Long Beach, they met Chhom Nimol, who’d been a star back home before immigrating to Los Angeles. She joined up, and the band set out to introduce the music they loved to American audiences."

About Pigwar:

http://www.pigwarmusic.com/

About Hong Kong Banana

"A local five-piece making stormy garage soul that is not to be trusted. Sure, those needle-sharp guitars, go-go beats, and cottonmouth Sticky Fingers-isms sound plenty irresistible, but they're just gonna get you into trouble. This is music that's not going to bail you out of jail, let alone call you the next morning.

Even the names of the conspirators sound blatantly like a gang of thieves and heartbreakers: There's Nigel Bubblesworth and Amora Pooley sharing the vocals; there's Hillstomp bucket-man Johnny Mao turning tricks on the bass; a guitarist named Justin Thorpe—okay, that could be legit, although sources indicated another ne'er-do-well by the name of Jesse Decker played on the recordings—and a drummer who goes by the alias Stony Buttons. (Sources indicate he's one Chris Hutton, probably using an alter ego to avoid Johnny Law). They have a brand new 10-inch vinyl EP called Now, But Not NOW Now, and we shall post the music here as a public service to show you what you need to look out for. Carefully observe these slambang garage nuggets and glittery gems in the comfort of your workplace or home computer, and learn their tricks so that you can avoid being seduced out in the real world."

21 +

2026 NE Alberta Street ~ Portland, OR 97211

THE BODY
"record release show for collaborative record with Thou, "You, Whom I Have Always Hated" on Thrill Jockey Records"

MUSCLE AND MARROW
muscleandmarrow.bandcamp.com/

R.A.W.
"Stupergrope feat. members of Billions and Billions, Fist Fite, Humours, Mongoloid, and the Habesha Lounge. Liquid Trippery by Underlords Take Acid."

The Fretless:

Karrnnel Sawitsky (Fiddle)

Ivonne Hernandez (Fiddle)

Eric Wright (Cello)

Trent Freeman (Fiddle)

"The Fretless is a string quartet featuring 3 fiddles & a cello that transforms fiddle tunes and folk melodies into intricate, beautiful, high-energy arrangements. 

2012 was capped with 3 awards - Instrumental Album of the Year at the Western Canadian Music Awards, and at the Canadian Folk Music Awards, the Fretless walked away with both Ensemble of the year, and Instrumental Group of the Year.
In 2014, the Fretless once again won Instrumental Album of the Year at the WCMA's, and Ensemble of the year at the CFMA's."

Visit http://www.thefretless.com

Watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb-GQUG9K9A

DOORS: 8:00 PM / SHOW: 9:00 PM

About S

"S started over a decade ago as a bedroom-based side project. Just a guitar, a four-track, and Jenn Ghetto's heartbreaking voice."

This is how most of my bios start. And it's true that my first S record, Sadstyle, was made in my room on a little four-track, and if I had a superpower it would be forced empathy.

I am sometimes known as one of the founding members of the now-defunct Seattle band Carissa's Wierd. We disbanded after releasing our third album in 2003, and some other members (Ben Bridwell, Mat Brooke) went off to form Band of Horses. They were wildly successful.

Suicide Squeeze released my second full-length record, Puking and Crying, in 2004. It was a little less bedroom-y and a little more electronic. I played a handful of shows, and then decided to quit music.

Of course, like many before me who have quit music, I made another record. 2010's I'm not as good at it as you was put out by Own Records, a label in Luxembourg. This album was back to basics — just melodic electric guitars and whispery vocals, once again recorded at home. I toured through Europe as a two-piece with another Carissa's Wierd offshoot, Grand Archives (Mat Brooke's band).

At the start of 2012, in the middle of a break-up, I started writing this record. As with the others, the songs all started in my bedroom, but I convinced my metal drummer friend Zach McNulty to help me flesh them out (you guys, he uses a lot of restraint), along with my longtime friends Betsy Olson (bass) and Carrie Murphy (guitar) because I knew they were talented, I liked being around them, and they both had cars.

We spent about a year getting the new songs livable. We played around Seattle, and then Hardly Art was like, "Hey if you are gonna make another record we would like to put it out." I got to know them when they reissued the Carissa's Wierd catalogue in 2010. And I was like "Yessssss!" So I tracked down Chris Walla (Death Cab for Cutie) to engineer and produce this thing. I had worked with him on a few Carissa's Wierd albums some years back, and thought he would be a perfect fit.

After many months of trying to get our schedules aligned, there we were, in the studio with Chris Walla. As he was setting up my guitar amp combo and pulling gadgets off the shelves and microphones out of boxes he said to me, "This is how you make a Van Halen record." And then we made Cool Choices. I feel pretty good about it and I hope you think it is okay." --Jenn Ghetto

About The Ghost Ease

"The Ghost Ease is Portland's dynamic driven, moody garage rock trio comprised of vocalist/guitarist Jem Marie, drummer Nsayi Matingou, and bassist Lauren Vidal. As a musical entity, the Ghost Ease revel in the warm folds of a sort of soft savagery, pin-pricking holes into the fabric of the astral veil, and creating hypnotic, raw opuses by way of heavy guitars, frenzied drums and lilting vocal timbres."

Mike Thrasher Presents:

ADDRESS: 600 E Burnside St.

Andy Shauf at Tender Loving Empire Hawthorne Store (FREE//ALL AGES)

7 p.m. doors, 8 p.m. show (Ringlers music 5 to 7 p.m.)

All ages welcome

SOLD OUT

So let's dispense with "stoner" and "doom" and while "metal" is a good catch-all even that does what SLEEP does an injustice. What SLEEP does and has been doing since
1990. Since San Jose. Since vocalist and bassist Al Cisneros hinted darkly at his next act after Asbestosdeath. Make something that was like something you had never heard/felt
before even if you had heard/felt it before. Like wind or the yawning subsonic expanse of
an earthquake: something undeniably large.

And like ragas, the songs were not just songs but movements and the movements trended
toward the eternal. Almost time-wise too with songs that lasted as long as some entire
records, which is as long as it needs to be to get short-sighted labels to drop you. And
beyond time, the weight was equally significant. Heavy, sublime and not even a little bit
ridiculous and whether or not these were influenced by the sacramental consumption of
weed really misses the point.

While there may have been a few like them before them, there were none like them really
and certainly none of after them. And so in 2009 when they were reborn with Cisneros
who'd been reframing the world with the band OM, Matt Pike doing double duty with
this and his HIGH ON FIRE, and the estimable Jason Roeder doing the same with
NEUROSIS, SLEEP did what it had done and what it had left to do. Largely and without
pause, make music in tune with The Ages.

Best to be enjoyed? Live and living. See, hear, feel, do it. Well, beyond just music and
well into the experiential joy of pure being. SLEEP. Undoubtedly."

About Nothing:

"Nothing was formed in 2011 by Domenic Palermo. Previously Palermo was the brains behind the early 2000's hardcore/punk act Horror Show. in 2002 Horror Show was put on hold after Palermo was incarcerated for a stabbing that eventually led to a 2 year prison sentence.

Upon his return Palermo would take a lengthy hiatus from music. In 2011 Palermo released a demo tape titled "Poshlost" under the moniker NOTHING. After several attempts at constructing a solid lineup for the band Palermo met Brandon Setta. Setta would bring a lush, rich soundscape and a fresh approach to Palermos vision for Nothing.

Setta and Palermo would handle the writing for the next release, a very rare 12" EP that was released on Japanese boutique label Big Love Records called Suns And Lovers( A play off of the D.H. Lawernce book). It was limited to 300 copies and the bands share was donated back to the label for a Tsunami Relief Charity.

The next release, Downward Years To Come was a 5 song EP and was recorded at the Rubber Tracks Studio in Brooklyn with Kyle "Slick" Johnson. The record was released by Baltimore Label A389 Records in November 2012. The record was written by Palermo and Setta. The concept behind Downward Years To Come was a dedication to several different poets who had taken their own lives.

Setta and Palermo would again head into the studio, this time with Jeff Zeigler at Uniform Recordings to write their debut Lp, "Guilty Of Everything" and sign with Relapse Records. "Guilty of Everything" has since been released to brilliant reviews, and cements that "Nothing" are a band to be excited about."

 About Black Pussy:

"When The Rolling Stones wrote their classic track "Brown Sugar" it was originally titled "Black Pussy," but record-label politics got in the way: It was deemed too offensive and the powers at work refused to put it out. So the band had to change the name to something that was easier for the general public to swallow. At least that's how the legend goes.

For Dustin Hill, the creative mastermind and songwriter behind Black Pussy, it sounded like a fantastic band name. It encapsulates exactly what the band is: a sex-charged, '70s-influenced, hide-your-daughters-because-they're-coming-to-town rock ‘n' roll band that sounds like Tarantino directing a Thin Lizzy video in the low desert. Considering the name comes from a song that directly speaks out against racism, Hill isn't willing to entertain the notion that the band intends to offend anyone.

For the past few years, the group has perpetually headed out on nationwide tours, including a full U.S. and Canada stint opening for ex-Kyuss legends Vista Chino in 2013, rightfully earning them the tagline, "ON TOUR FOREVER." The group has also spent the last two years constantly working on heavy, psychedelic rock songs with not only Portland recording engineer Adam Pike (Red Fang, Norska, Black Elk, etc.) but also the legendary Kyuss founding drummer and multi-instrumentalist Brant Bjork.

Black Pussy's heavy, bluesy sound and clear influences of Kyuss, Hendrix and The Who have found a niche in the ever-growing, global stoner-rock movement. The band exclusively uses vintage Sunn gear, pushing a massive 44 speakers when playing live and tends to land shows with the heaviest, sludgiest bands in the Portland, Oregon scene. However, their classic, upbeat, relentlessly hooky tracks have led to Hill coining the phrase "stoner pop," like The Cars meets Black Sabbath. The band's catchy music tends to seduce anyone, even those who walk in off the street after seeing the intriguing band name on the marquis of the venue.

The 2012 debut album, On Blonde, is Hill's baby: It was written and mostly recorded by him alone, though guitarist Ryan McIntire, drummer Dean Carroll, bassist Aaron Poplin and keyboardist Chief O'Dell were later added to the band. The record, which kicks off with the rip of a bong and sounds like a drug-riddled midnight misadventure in a '70s muscle car, even found its way across the ocean as well: The track "Blow Some Steam Off" landed a spot on the February 2013 Metal Hammer compilation. 2013 saw a split release from Black Pussy and LA-based Biblical Proof Of UFOs: a contact high-inducing, 22-minute psychedelic opus entitled "Galaxies."

"For The Sake Of Argument" is the first taste of Black Pussy's forthcoming album, Magic Mustache, which will be out in early 2015. The band's evolved sound takes the feel of rock legends Deep Purple, Thin Lizzy and Hawkwind and combines it with the heaviness of stoner rock icons Kyuss and Monster Magnet, adding add a potent dose of pop sensibility reminiscent of The Cars and Queens Of The Stone Age for the quintessential stuck-in-your-head-for-weeks, sound that is Black Pussy. Filmed using an analog liquid light projector, the video utilizes a classic yet unique-looking take on the psychedelic and drug inspired imagery popularized in the 60s and 70s. Black Pussy are back doing what they do best: sending on a journey through time and space where vintage gear acts as the controls, and sound waves are the highways."

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