Tenth Degree presents in association with High Water Mark Lounge & BdaP Booking:
THE DEDEKIND CUT // Ninja Tune, NON
Lee Bannon made a name for himself producing beats for underground hip-hop MCs like Joey Bada$$ and Smoke DZA, but after signing to Ninja Tune and releasing two albums that all but abandoned hip-hop in favor of experimental jungle and ambient music, he stopped making music under his own name and began using the alias Dedekind Cut. The work created under his updated moniker is dark, volatile, jarring, and unpredictable, recalling the frenzied breakcore of Venetian Snares, the haunted U.K. garage of Burial, and elements of gabber/hardstyle, grime, ambient, and mutated Southern rap. Dedekind Cut's first release was the self-issued tHot eNhançeR EP in September of 2015. In early 2016, Dedekind Cut and Rabit joined forces on a blistering one-sided 12" EP on Ninja Tune titled R&D. A self-issued single named "Last" appeared shortly after, and a Black History Month-themed mix titled BHM/N3D was released by NON WORLDWIDE. In March, an ambient drone tape American Zen was issued by Dominick Fernow's Hospital Productions.
https://soundcloud.com/leebannon
https://www.facebook.com/LeeBannon3030
Special Guest:
E3 // Zam Zam Sounds
E3 (Ezra E. Ereckson) is a selector, producer, artist and co-boss of dub vinyl labels ZamZam Sounds and Khaliphonic. A founding member of the pioneering agit-dub band Systemwide (check the recent reissue 12” on Bristol’s No Corner label) and the president of now-retired BSI Records, E3 has been collecting records since the age of 13 and DJing for 15 years. On the solo tip, E3 has remixed Ishan Sound for Bristol’s Hotline label, and has vinyl releases on Bella Union and Boomarm Nation.
https://soundcloud.com/ae_e3
https://www.facebook.com/aee3dub
Residents:
ALBINO GORILLA // Tenth Degree
https://soundcloud.com/albinogorilla
https://www.facebook.com/TheAlbinoGorilla
KNATE PHASER // Tenth Degree, Doki Doki
https://soundcloud.com/knatephaser
https://www.facebook.com/KNATEPHASER
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Come Early, Stay Late, Cheap Drinks, Patio
21+
Quadruple tape release with performances by:
Kulululu https://kulululu.bandcamp.com/
Wave Action https://waveaction.bandcamp.com/
Star Club https://starclub.bandcamp.com/
Marcy's Band https://marcysband.bandcamp.com/
-Local favorite Wave Action will give their official release from See My Friends Records
-Brand new Portland band Star Club will be selling their Demo Tape fresh off the press
-Jon Huteson Johnson (of Wave Action and Marcy's Band) is releasing a tape for his solo project (https://jonhutesonjohnson.bandcamp.com/)
-Kulululu will be surprising the audience with an experimental/live recorded tape of some kind
This is a benefit show for XRAY.fm. All Proceeds go to Xray.fm.
All Ages, Bar with ID/$5
Organic Encounters
2015–2016 Papermaking Residency Exhibition
Organic Encounters presents work from the 2015–2016 c3:initiative and Pulp & Deckle Papermaking Residency artists Ellen George, Laura Foster, Tyler Peterson, and Ryan Woodring. Culminating from their experiences in the Pulp & Deckle studio, each artist utilized handmade paper as a medium to create new works that present ideas central to their art practice.
Organic Encounters considers the transformation of material to propel the medium of paper beyond its familiar use as a substrate. The process of papermaking is one of both strategic intent and material intuition. With no rigidity in process but an inventive appreciation for materialist ideals, Organic Encounters brings together disparate works that are sculptural in form but conceptual in methodology. The results present themselves as commentary on the natural world, the unstable value of objects, the mutability of biological forms, and notions of memory that are dually fluid and tangible.
Under the tutelage of Pulp & Deckle, the artists experimented with a variety of woodfree materials (including abaca, cotton rag, natural dyes, and locally sourced plants and vegetables) to create bodies of work concerned with paper's pliable nature and capacity for layering.
An artists' walkthrough is to follow on October 26th.
A performance
To pursue an acting career as a soap opera star as James Ferraro ® Simulacra Company was the ultimate 21st century dream for James Ferraro, a dream that was forged on a note pad under the cyber skies of Manhattan's slick midtown metropolis to become a world-famous hyperized living puppet of our Postmodern civilization, acquiring the world's media stage as a canvas, in the form of a glossy pure entertainment pop machine.
The approach to assembling his acting style was to be a theoretical expedition through the virtual landscape of Tabloid Cultoure, The Linguistic Consequence of Modern Decadence and Digital/Mega Entertainment Age Sexuality Persona … to name just a few sources of inspiration, and of course for it all to be captured on the flawless $1,000,000 TV cameras of the entertainment industries' major studio networks.
But where to assimilate to the aforementioned theories:
"My ideas from New York had flowered in the most violently magical way, as I entered what we Hollywoodologists call 'The Floor' (HOLLYWOOD GROUND ZERO) . . . and this led to outlets beyond my wildest imagination, seeing beyond the institutional buildings of the worlds Entertainment Center," says Ferraro.
JF continues: "Whilst wine tasting in Napa valley with my mother, on a tour through Simulacra's wine country . . . in the red convertible PT Cruiser and watching a giant Hollywood Blockbuster intermittently on the on-board DVD screen between wineries, I was so excited and inspired by the leading actors performance that I decided to leave the world of acting to focus more dramatically on a venture to be a recording artist."
"I became completely obsessed with Bach's Concerto for Oboe and Violin in C minor. As it blasted from the speakers of the PT Cruiser, spilling out into the open air, I indulged in an ecstatic delirium that was colored by a sweet subtle victorious madness, ideas flooded my mind, blood coursed through my veins, Smart Water™ oxidized my brain . . . thoughts of Napoleon at the Olive Garden, Julius Cesar reading poetry to me . . . I started to fully investigate these two artistic individuals almost exclusively at this moment, scanning what historic memory I had available in my brain. When I arrived home I ran into my humble chamber and got to work."
Ferraro has since released countless musical recordings on various record labels hailing from The U.S.A., The United Kingdom, Japan, Europe and beyond. A critically acclaimed artist of the 21st Century POP ART wave, the man with the moon-lit pompadour now teams up with Hippos in Tanks to create the next chapter in his on-going sonic adventure, in which, Ferraro explains, "The results of this relationship will see a new era in Art History."
McMenamins, StarChile Pabst Blue Ribbon & XRAY FM Present: MIC CHECK
Mic Check is a Hip Hop Showcase every last Thursday of the month at White Eagle, with live performances, drink specials and good vibes.
Special Guests:
THE LAST ARTFUL, DODGR & LIBRETTO
Hosted by StarChile
Music by Trox
21 and over, $7 at the Door
Twin Peaks
When 19-year-old Chicagoans Cadien Lake James, Clay Frankel, Connor Brodner, and Jack Dolan finished high school a year ago, they were under the impression that things had to change. They were expected to go to college, and more importantly, had to deal with the reality of breaking up their band, Twin Peaks, which had just started to get some notice. Three of them committed to Evergreen State College in Olympia with the idea of keeping some semblance of the band together, but it was clear that there was a magic the four of them had. All this happened BEFORE a pivotal self-booked, three-week tour in the summer of '12. They had just recorded their debut album, Sunken, in Cadien's basement, hit the road in earnest, and everywhere they went, one thing remained the same. After seeing the energy, power, and exuberance of their live show, people in every town and members of every band they played with urged them to see this thing through. However, real life is rarely so kind or easy. Deposits were paid, dorm rooms reserved, promises made. Cadien, Connor, and Jack were headed north to Olympia.
It's a funny thing how clarity and circumstance can set and reset the table. After one semester at Evergreen, peoples' compliments still ringing in their ears, the self-described "industrious dudes" decided to quit school and give Twin Peaks a fair shake. They returned to Chicago in December, reunited with Clay, and geared up for their SXSW debut. Esquire even gave them a nod as an "Artist to Watch" at SXSW, calling them "A bunch of dirty, precocious underage kids raised on a steady diet of Jay Reatard and their parents' records...Twin Peaks deploy sugary pop hooks with the infectious enthusiasm of a high school punk band." The guys moved back in with their folks, looked into part-time jobs, and began planning the re-write of the first, post-high school chapter of their lives. The feeling was palpable: Things were about to take off.
So here we stand, ready to offer Twin Peaks to the wider world. A record full of the youthful excitement, sure to elicit "oh yeahs," and if you're not a total square, some body movin'. Sunken is out July 9th on Autumn Tone.
We went all over the country and grew our hair out a little bit,͟ says guitarist/singer Tony Esposito about the past year spent on the road with the likes of Deerhoof,Young Widows, Priests, and more.
After signing to Polyvinyl in early 2014 and releasing a self-titled EP that blasts through six tracks in a breakneck 15 minutes, the Reapers — Esposito, keyboardist Ryan Hater, bassist Sam Wilkerson, and drummer Nick Wilkerson — soon began working on new material to fill out their set.
Enter White Reaper Does It Again: a raucous debut full-length from a bunch of barely 20-somethings who have more fun on a Tuesday night than you do on a Saturday.
Recorded in White Reaper's hometown of Louisville, KY, with engineer Kevin Ratterman (Young Widows, Coliseum),WRDIA is a pure rock 'n' roll adrenaline shot: vicious guitar scratches, elastic bass, sugary keyboard leads, and a thudding drums that will inevitably give your heartbeat a new rhythm.
Modern Vices
Self-proclaimed dirty doo-wop, Modern Vices are Alex, Peter, Thomas, Patrick, and Miles. They hail from Chicago. Noir in tone, their sound resides somewhere between late '50s croon and wet garage rock snarl. Their self-recorded, eponymous, LP drops in October via Los Angeles' Autumn Tone Records. A romantic revolution.
Avi Buffalo
Ah, yes, age—much was made of it when Avi Buffalo's first album hit the ground running, and for good reason: While their Millikan High School classmates were preoccupied with quaint and youthful pursuits, the musicians behind Avi Buffalo were busy making an off-kilter pop gem that eventually bowled over NME, The AV Club, Pitchfork, the BBC, and numerous other outlets on both sides of the Atlantic whose tastes are respected by the general public. Like a lot of kids their age, the Buffaloes celebrated the end of high school in Europe, but instead of visiting the Louvre and Buckingham Palace, their overseas journeys took them to the festival stages of Reading, Leeds, Glastonbury, the Pavement-curated All Tomorrow's Parties in Minehead, and beyond.
So is Avi Buffalo a he or a them? The answer is a definitive yes, as leader Avigdor Zahner-Isenberg has lent his musical nickname—bestowed in childhood by a pal who'd picked up on his friend's inclination toward spicy chicken wings—to this full-fledged outfit that works something like a solo project in the studio and then builds into a band onstage. Not that he goes it alone when recording—to the contrary, many able-bodied compatriots, including longtime collaborator Sheridan Riley, have assisted with committing his songs to tape—but everything begins and ends with Avi, and after ending a year on the road in support of the first record, he decided to take his time beginning work on the second.
The creation of At Best Cuckold turned out to be a three-year journey; a stretch of time that resembles its predecessor. While transitioning from teenager to twentysomething and traversing the interpersonal wilds which accompany that age, Avi kept playing music (even picking up a new instrument every now and again), collaborated with and produced several friends (including Kevin Litrow's N.O.W. project and Douglas James Sweeney's Arjuna Genome), and even started DJing. He also wrote new songs, and by the time 2013 rolled around, it was time to begin capturing his latest sparks—with that, the band headed into the studio on New Year's Day.
Two weeks later, the basic tracks for At Best Cuckold were recorded, having been captured at Tiny Telephone, the analog-friendly San Francisco studio run by John Vanderslice of John Vanderslice fame. The engineering was actually handled by Jay Pellicci (The Dodos, Deerhoof, Sleater-Kinney), though during his stay, Avi had a chance to play with the head honcho when he was asked to contribute to JV's tribute to Bowie's Diamond Dogs. Needless to say, Avi has nice things to say about the place.
The "clean and tight" recordings from Tiny Telephone served as perfect skeletons for Avi to flesh out with his analog and digital overdubs, which were completed over the next year or so at various locations around Southern California. ("I've always had a lot of fun with overdubs," says Avi. "Maybe my favorite instrument is overdubs.") The result—which was completed and mixed with Nicolas Vernhes at his Rare Book Room studio in Brooklyn—is a quirky yet comforting set of songs driven by refined pop songcraft and sneaky moments of grandeur that stick in the brain. Classic-sounding melodies are delivered with a modern sensibility, creating an album that's equal parts timely and timeless. Well-placed piano, sax, clarinet, French horn, and cornet further enhance the proceedings with a glorious orch-pop sheen.
"So What" gets things started with its understated charm and sing-songy goodness, however, it isn't until the rollicking "Memories of You" that Avi lets his trademark falsetto fly. There are great pop moments all over At Best Cuckold, but Avi also excels at moodiness, exemplified in subdued beauties like "Two Cherished Understandings" and "Oxygen Tank."
"I really like some of the ballad aspects of this record—it's kind of my tribute to the ballad," says Avi. "I predicted in an interview during the time of my first record what I was going to use in my next record, and I said a lot of major seventh chords, which, to me, sounded like laying down. And that ended up in the record, too."
Lyrically, there are a lot of unsettled emotions on the album; a product of Avi observing the world around him and writing "about life, dealing with relationships and yourself, and trying to keep your head up and keep learning amidst whatever it is you're going through." Disappointment ("Thought we understood each other well / I was wrong as usual") and anxiety ("Someone told me if I messed around / then my head would fill up with guilty clouds") abound, though there's also a feeling that everything is eventually going to turn out okay, even when everything seems to be falling apart during closer "Won't Be Around No More." If anything, Avi's passionate delivery is the ultimate source of optimism.
At the ripe old age of 23, Avi Buffalo is ready to take on the world (again), armed with all of the experience he's compiled over the past few years. And he's made sure the second time around will be just as memorable as the first.
The Kickback
After a steady three years of touring and supporting acts like White Rabbits, Smith Westerns, Here We Go Magic, Telekinesis, Tokyo Police Club, The Districts, and Manic Street Preachers, the band have released their debut album, Sorry All Over The Place, produced by Spoon's Jim Eno, drawing praise from The Huffington Post, Consequence of Sound, and more. The Kickback are now back on the road in 2016, sharing their stellar and explosive performance across the country.
To document their travels, the band began recording their podcast, DISASTOUR, in December of 2010. With over 100 episodes, the show attempts to address the far-from-glamorized lives of a band on the road and the arrested development indicative of the lives they have chosen.
Many bands lay claim to the adjective "cinematic." But how many can claim a truly cinema-worthy moment as part of their inception? It was a dark and foggy night when Still Corners songwriter Greg Hughes first laid eyes on vocalist Tessa Murray. "It sounds stupid but it's completely true," he recounts. "I was on a train that was going to London Bridge. But for some reason it went to this other stop. And I got out, and this other person got out. It was Tessa."
Recorded at Hughes' own studio in Greenwich, the devil is truly in the details of Creatures of an Hour. Fusing whispered intimacy to the emotional expansiveness of composer Ennio Morricone, Hughes crafts deceptively simple songs that linger like half-remembered dreams. Lead single "Cuckoo" shines in its simplicity, a single drumbeat, ghostly guitar, and distant organ highlighting Murray's haunting soprano as she asks, "I'd like to read your mind/can you read mine?" "It's about confusion," explains Hughes. "It's about being confused. Am I going crazy? Does this person like me? What's happening? That's the vibe of the whole record really."
Elsewhere, the tone isn't so much one of emotional conflict as it is pure atmosphere. Like a world-class art director, Hughes fills the set of "Endless Summer" with walls of reverb and splashes of longing, echoing a very real conflict in his own life—the pursuit of the illusive London sun. "It's about wishing and chasing after the fleeting sun of England and wishing for an endless summer—or at least that the summer would go on a bit longer," he says with a laugh. "It only seems to last about a week here!"
For the time being, Hughes is happy to maintain Still Corners' musical mystery as—like many artists—he's discovered less is more. "I don't like to talk too much on decoding the songs. It takes the mystery away," he says, cagily. "I like when people listen and then come up with their own kind of thing."
Still Corners (now filled out to a 4-piece by Leon Dufficy and Luke Jarvis) are releasing their debut LP Creatures Of An Hour on October 11th. Tour dates to be announced soon.
So grab some popcorn and stick around, for Still Corners this is just act one.
$12.00 - $15.00
This event is 21 and over
Debates! Debates! Join XRAY.FM and Dig a Pony to laugh, gasp, point, cheer, or sit back in silence during all four of the 2016 Presidential Debates on the big screen. XRAY DJs will spin records before and after the debates and also during commercial breaks. Dig a Pony will offer drink specials, helping to keep spirits high during what is sure to be a very historic series of debates.
Join us for the first debate on Monday, September 26 with records by DJ Crambone of Mr. Ghost Goes to Town.
Also join us for the following three debates, co-hosted by XRAY.FM, Dig a Pony and The Bus Project.
Tuesday, October 4th (Vice-President)
Sunday, October 9th (Pres)
Wednesday, October 19th (Pres)
All at Dig a Pony, all FREE and 21+
The MLK Dream Run benefits the NNEBA Fellow Youth Entrepreneur Career Leadership Program which trains and connects young people ages 16-26 to business skills and business owners in Portland's communities.
Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have A Dream" speech
Benefiting Youth Entrepreneurship & Empowerment
Featuring Music, Food, Entertainment & Professional Chip-Timed Races
The 5th annual MLK Dream Run is the most important year of the run to date. To help make sure this event stays around for years to come, as one of the best culturally diverse races in our city, please sign up today to walk, run, contribute or volunteer: www.mlkdreamrun.org
After Hours @ S1
Co-Presented by Women's Beat League
LIVE
Russell E. L. Butler (OAK, Opal Tapes) https://soundcloud.com/russellelbutler
Sean Pierce https://soundcloud.com/sean_pierce
Courser https://soundcloud.com/courseroffical
DJ
Deena B https://soundcloud.com/thesoundbox
Lindsay Bailey https://soundcloud.com/lindsay_bailey
Daniela Karina http://soundcloud.com/danielakarina
Nishkosheh http://soundcloud.com/nishkosheh
21+, $10
Chrome Sparks
w/ special guest Roland Tings
Connect with Chrome Sparks:
http://www.chromesparks.com/
https://www.facebook.com/chromesparks/
https://twitter.com/chromesparks
https://soundcloud.com/chrome-sparks
Canadian indie-roots/chamber folk band West My Friend is releasing their third album at Abbie Weisenbloom's House Concerts, featuring instrumentals and 4-part harmonies.
The band features pure and thrillingly elastic vocals with catchy arrangements of bass, guitar, mandolin, and accordion that draw from jazz, classical, folk, and pop influences. Inspired by artists such as Owen Pallett, Joanna Newsom, Bright Eyes, The Decemberists, and the Punch Brothers, and forged from a sonically adventurous acoustic music scene on Canada’s west coast, West My Friend is proving to be a key part of a new generation of grassroots folk music. (Visit: www.westmyfriend.com)
6:30 Potluck, 7:30 Concert
Suggested donation $15-20, $10 students
Reserve at http://froggie.com/ or email abbiew@froggie.com
S1 and the Synth Library are pleased to announce a workshop and conversation with Russell E. L. Butler on. The workshop will focus on the history of improv and how it relates to Russell’s artistic process. Following the lecture, Russell will address strategies and key considerations of improvisation by demonstrating their live set as well as inviting students to patch a modular system as a group.
Russell Butler is an experimental artist and DJ based in Oakland, California. Originally from Bermuda, Russell has developed a process of improvisation that draws from a rich cultural of history rooted in their island and the black, queer diaspora.
Russell has been making waves in the Bay Area music scene for years.Their project Black Jeans evoked the emotional and physical qualities of minimal synth and electronic body music to transport listeners to hidden and forgotten sonic landscapes. For the past few years they have been making a brand of stripped down machine techno that has evolved rapidly with each successive release. Transplantation, evolution, and healing are themes in Russell’s music. They based their 2015 album, “God is Change”, on Octavia Butler’s Parable series of novels, in which these are central tenets of the philosophy that the books explore. Since its release “God is Change” has received major acclaim, with NPR naming it one of their top 10 favorite electronic albums of 2015. In 2016, Russell released Visions of the Future on Jacktone Records, which is a collection of improvised modular synthesizer sessions. A month later, Russell’s follow up to “God is Change”, “The First Step”, was released on Black Opal. “The First Step” is dedicated to the “…black, brown, trans, queer, and gay folks of Oakland” and posits that “…sometimes to resist oppression, all we must do is simply exist. That is the first step. Let us strive to walk without fear.”
Russell E. L. Butler will be playing live at S1 the following nighthttps://www.facebook.com/events/1565770287064141/
Enrollment for this class is on a sliding scale $5-15 and will be collected at the door. The workshop will be on Friday September 23rd at 6:00pm, and will last approximately 1 1/2 hours. This workshop is open for all. Payment is cash only.
Tatsuya Nakatani is a creative artist / percussionist originally from Osaka, Japan who has released over sixty recordings in North America and Europe. Residing in the USA since 1994 he has performed countless solo percussion concerts and has collaborated with hundreds of artists in international music festivals, university concert halls, art museums and galleries. His latest project is the Nakatani Gong Orchestra, which builds community ensembles performing on multiple bowed gongs under his direction, as recently presented at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
Nakatani’s constant touring fosters the raw and fresh quality in his music, which can only survive through an open willingness to share energy, culture, music and self on a global human scale. His master classes and workshops at schools and universities, emphasize his unique musical approach and philosophy in creating visceral, non-linear music.
He has created his own instrumentation, effectively inventing many instruments and extended techniques. He utilizes drums, gongs, cymbals, singing bowls, metal objects, bells, and various sticks and bows to create an intense, intuitively primitive, expressive music of unusually strong spirit that defies category or genre. His music is based in improvised/ experimental music, jazz, free jazz, rock, and noise, yet retains the sense of space and beauty found in traditional Japanese folk music.
$5-15, SS
American Icon & Cravedog presents
NORTHWEST HESH FEST
Sept 22 -24
RED FANG -UNCLE ACID & THE DEADBEATS-DEAFHEAVEN
DANAVA-AMERICAN SHARKS -WITCH MOUNTAIN-BANQUET
THE BLOOD ROYALE-DIESTO-GREENBEARD
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https://www.eventbrite.com/e/northwest-hesh-fest-2016-3-day-pass-tickets-25661605553 ( 3 Day Pass )
http://www.danteslive.com/event/6780785 RED FANG DAY 1
http://www.danteslive.com/event/6776535 UNCLE ACID DAY 2
http://www.danteslive.com/event/6780605 DEAFHEAVEN 3
Curated by American Icon presents
In partnership with Cravedog, Inc.
Backline provided by the Amazing Boss Tweed Backline
ALL SHOWS 21+
OUR FABULOUS SPONSORS INCLUDE
Pabst Blue Ribbon Portland Mercury
Koll Guitar Company XRAY.FM
The Obelisk-Doomed & Stoned
http://pabstblueribbon.com/ (Pabst Website Who's Thirsty?)
http://www.portlandmercury.com/ (Portland Mercury Online)
http://www.kollguitars.com/ (Koll Guitar Website)
https://xray.fm/ (Listen to RAY.FM Here)
http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/ (The Obelisk)
Liima is a new band consisting of the Finnish percussionist Tatu Rönkkö and the three members of Efterklang, Mads Brauer, Casper Clausen and Rasmus Stolberg. The debut album "ii" includes songs written in Finland, Berlin, Istanbul and Madeira during four weeklong residencies. Each place has affected the sound, sometimes literally in the form of samples and field recordings, and each residency ended with a concert where the band performed the newly written songs.
The same approach was chosen for the studio recording of the album. In October 2015 the band recorded the album in just three days in the Vox Ton studio in Berlin together with the Finnish producer Jonas Verwijnen. Everything was recorded live with the whole band. No overdubs and no click track. Afterwards Francesco Donadello mixed the album on tape. Liima started 2016 with two more residencies in London and Copenhagen, and a European tour will follow in the spring.
Since their formation in 2007, Blue Cranes have become a key player in the Portland, Oregon creative music/DIY scene and one of the most exciting groups to keep tabs on in the Northwest. They've developed a singular musical voice grounded in melody and explosive improvisations--marking off their unique microcosmic territory in "post-jazz" circles.
Wanda Sykes has been called "one of the funniest stand-up comics" by her peers and ranks among Entertainment Weekly's 25 Funniest People in America. Her smart-witted stand up has sent her career in many different areas.
In 2012 Wanda joined forces with veteran producer Page Hurwitz to form Push It Productions, a production company dedicated to creating quality, comedy-based programming for network and cable television outlets. The company's diverse slate of projects includes sketch comedy, concerts, reality, talk/variety, and competition formats. Their first set of specials, Herlariousaired in summer of 2013 and January 2014 on Own and was the recipient of a 2014 Gracie Award. In just its first year, Push It has made a first look production deal with NBC, has a new series on OWN, and has shows currently in development with NickMom (Comedy Camp) and Comcast.
Sykes was previously seen on several television shows over the past few years. She can currently be seen on the Amazon Prime show Alpha House created by Gary Trudeau about a group of Republican Senators who share the same DC rental house; Last year she made a return to HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm; she also spent five years on CBS's New Adventures of Old Christine. In 2010 she starred on her own late night talk show on FOX, The Wanda Sykes Show. Other TV credits include Fox's Wanda at Large which she wrote, produced and starred in; Wanda Does It on Comedy Central and on Crank Yankers as the voice of Gladys Murphy.
Her first HBO comedy special Wanda Sykes; Sick and Tired debuted in October 2006 and was nominated for a 2007 Primetime Emmy for ‘Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special.’ It was taped in Seattle Washington and covered everything from racial profiling to gay marriage. She returned to HBO for her second stand up special I’ma Be Me. This time it was taped at the Warner theatre in Washington DC where she tackled topics like the first black president, gay cruises, being a new mom and aging. The special was nominated for two 2010 Primetime Emmy awards: ‘Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special’ and ‘Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Special.’ Her first special Wanda Sykes: Tongue Untied premiered on Comedy Central in 2003.
She can be heard in many animated feature films; Ice Age: Continental Drift as ‘Granny'; in FOX's Rio as ‘the Goose’; in Dreamworks’ Over the Hedge and Paramount’s The Barnyard.
Sykes was also seen in the feature films Evan Almighty, the sequel to Bruce Almighty, in which she co-starred with Steve Carell; the New Line feature Monster-In-Law starring opposite Jane Fonda, My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Pootie Tang, Nutty Professor 2; The Klumps, and Down to Earth.
Her first book titled Yeah, I Said It, published by Simon and Schuster, hit bookstores in September 2004. Yeah, I Said It is a hilarious collection of essays touching on life, family and current events.
She spent 5 years as part of the HBO's critically acclaimed Chris Rock Show. As a performer and writer on the show, she was nominated for three Primetime Emmy's and in 1999 won the Emmy for ‘Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Special.’ In 2001, she won the American Comedy Award for ‘Outstanding Female Stand Up Comic.’ She won three more Emmy’s, in 2002, 2004 and 2005, for her work on Inside the NFL for ‘Outstanding Studio Show – Weekly.’
Wanda was born in Portsmouth, Virginia and raised in Maryland. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from Hampton University. Her stand-up career began at a Coors Light Super talent Showcase in Washington, DC
where she performed for the first time in front of a live audience.
In 2010 she won a GLAAD award for promoting a good image of equal rights for gays and lesbians.
$19.50 - $65.00 Regular adult reserved seating (on sale Fri. 4/29 at 10am)
$200 Meet & Greet packages available (on sale Tue. 4/27 at 10am)
Service charges apply.
PCM is proud to present g͠lͮi̔t᷾c̝h̳, a pop-up exhibition of 35 new media artists organized by arts collective Peripheral Forms. On Thursday, Sept. 22, g͠lͮi̔t᷾c̝h̳ will take over PCM’s lobby, showcasing work on PCM’s TVs that plays with a “glitch” aesthetic, exploring the beauty of pixelation, visual “noise” and other digital image imperfections.
G͠lͮi̔t᷾c̝h̳ features an international grouping of artists, including Aaron Oldenburg; Alex Hovet; Anneli Goeller; Beau Torres; Brandon Bauer; Carlos Rene Pacheco; Caspar Below; Russell Chartier and Paul Botelho; Claire Burelli; Donna Kuhn; Turing Torso; Esstro9 and Eduardo Markodzay; Eric Souther; Filipe Afonso; g1ft3d art; Gabriel Junqueria; Hannah Edward; Jm Rolland; Jody Zellen; Joe Hedges; Justin Lincoln; Matthew Gualco; Mighty Kongb0t and Stereout; Nicholas James Lockyer; Michel Ducerveau; Peter Whittenberger; Rachelle Beaudoin; Rebecca Uliasz; Samantha Harvey; Samantha Winfrey; San Ferlinghetti; Sevgi Tan; Tara Youngborg; and Ullrich Klose.
Image credit: Eric Souther, Myth of The Masses.
Learn more about Peripheral Forms here: http://peripheralforms.com/
Yall know it, The Know is closing its doors in November. It's a school night.