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Holocene
9:00pm Saturday, June 11, 2016

21+ & $5 BEFORE 10PM

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THIS MONTH'S VERIFIED LINE-UP FEATURES ALL STYLSS AFFILIATED ARTISTS:

⇉ ⇉ EASTGHOST
[STYLSS]
Portland, OR

https://soundcloud.com/eastghost

⇉ ⇉ ONHELL
[STYLSS]
Humbolt, CA

https://soundcloud.com/onhellmusic

⇉ ⇉ KOOLTRASHER
[STYLSS]
Paris, France

https://soundcloud.com/kooltrasher

⇉ ⇉ SHMUCK THE LOYAL
[STYLSS]
Nashville, TN

https://soundcloud.com/shmucktheloyal

⇉ ⇉ IG88
[STYLSS]
Seattle, WA

https://soundcloud.com/ig88

⇉ ⇉ ECHAVOX
[STYLSS]
Los Angeles, CA

https://soundcloud.com/echavox

⇉ ⇉ TYLER TASTEMAKER
[STYLSS]
Portland, OR

https://soundcloud.com/tylertastemaker

⇉ ⇉ JVNITOR
[STYLSS]
Portland, OR

https://soundcloud.com/jvnitor

⇉ ⇉ GANG$IGN$
[STYLSS • VERIFIED]
Portland, OR

https://soundcloud.com/gangsignsmusic

⇉ ⇉ QUARRY
[STYLSS • VERIFIED]
Portland, OR

https://soundcloud.com/quarry

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Panic Room
9:00pm Saturday, June 11, 2016

DJ Deeon, Tha Low End Legend (Dance mania)

DJ Deeon is a Chicago dance music legend. Hailing from the Windy City, he is one of the original producers behind the now well established ghetto house sound. Starting on the streets by selling his mixtapes, he soon moved up the ranks and became a taste making selector and producer who has had many cult hits and released on the most respected labels in the scene. A child of the late 60s and early 70s, Deeon experienced a big change in the ethnic make-up of his homeland, and this is something which has always informed his enviable catalogue of work ever since. 

Using real drum machine hardware—Roland 808s, 909s and 606s—to make his beats he fomented a gritty, raw, streetwise style that was quick in tempo and robust in attitude. This minimal ghetto style was a spark that ignited the Chicago house and Detroit techno scenes and offered a getaway from the realities of life for those in the Midwest and beyond. Working under many different names, the man born Deeon Boyd had hits like ‘Accelerate’ and put out no fewer than three full length albums as well as many singles and remixes. They came almost exclusively on the Dance Mania label—one of the most legendary of them all—and in all numbered more than 45 EPs. Although health problems led to him to spend some time away from music, nowadays he is back where he belongs and is touring Europe playing all the finest nightclubs with his expressive and energetic DJ sets.

Lincoln Up (Alchemy/Portland)

DJ Rafael (Ecstasy)

Dj Bear and Alex Marine (RCU/One Wub)

10$ before 11, 15$ after

21 and over

Doors open at 9

Bar open until 2.15, venue will stay open until 4

Colonel Summers Park
2:00pm5:00pm Saturday, June 11, 2016

This is a call for all unicorns of all ages, in the City of Portland (and beyond) to gather together at our enchanted green patch: the greenest grass found next to the tennis court at Colonel Summers Park. As unicorns absorb our energy through the sun, we will be ready to spread our wings and soar through the streets of Portland by mid afternoon!

Not everyone will be able to see us, since we are magical beings, but we will be able to see each other! Unicorns barely touch the ground- some even say they merely skim it, so finding the trail of a unicorn is almost impossible... but, we will go on an adventure eastward: up and over the thorns of haw, to the top of the beautiful candy mountain, stopping for vegan soft serve, and back down. 

Ride as bare as you dare- just roll around in sparkles or paint your body in rainbows if you want! The shimmery and more glittery, the better. Bike decorations highly encouraged. This is the first weekend of Pedalpalooza so let's get this party started! 

Meet at 2 to sparkle up, fly out at 2:15.

Tell your all your sparkly friends! Glitter, sidewalk chalk, dance jams, candy, and hoof high tens provided!

S1 (4148 NE Hancock St)
9:00pm Friday, June 10, 2016

V I O L E N C E - Baltimore MD
A multi-instrumentalist, Olin Caprison composes, produces, and performs for all of VIOLENCE's output. Their compositions are known for their complexity, shifting between and combining multiple styles of music in single songs. This complexity comes from a desire to dissect these styles of music in search of a syncretic narrative of human sound. Lyrical themes resonate from earlier experiences growing up in Baltimore, MD, to meditations on life from primary viewpoints of the intersections between various cultures.
https://soundcloud.com/vilentsiolence

Cameron Shafii is a San Francisco-based composer practicing generative and systems music. His compositions are inflected by software processes involving spectral analysis, convolution, recombination file handling, and stochastic elements. His works do not impose upon the listener any temporal scheme - 'engagement/disengagement' in Greimassian terms - refusing to form what we call a narrative tension. But his music has kinetic movements and climaxes; a functional exploration of sounds that range from microscopic and minimal, to macro and maximal.
https://soundcloud.com/ge-stell

Chemtrails - https://soundcloud.com/sequel-label/sq03-chemtrails-seismic-excerpt

tastesweet - Kathleen + Felisha

Holocene
8:30pm Thursday, June 9, 2016

Featuring:
The Last Artful, Dodgr
Pleasure Curses
Wine + Coffee (Ripley Snell + Grape God)

Sponsored by Henry's Hard Soda and Leinenkugel's Summer Shandy.

PULSE is a free quarterly music event curated by Willamette Week, showcasing the diverse and talented musicians and producers under the radar and on the rise within the Portland music scene.

Hosted by Holocene, PULSE shines a spotlight on an eclectic mix of hip-hop, R&B, soul and their extended genres. Expect up and coming MC's and DJ's, as well as rock bands with rhythm and creative individuals marching to the beat of their own drum machine.

Free 
21+ 
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Mississippi Studios
8:00pm Monday, June 6, 2016

KEVIN MORBY

Singing Saw is a record written simply and realized orchestrally. In it, Kevin Morby faces the reality that true beauty – deep and earned – demands a whole-world balance that includes our darker sides. It is a record of duality, one that marks another stage of growth for this young, gifted songwriter with a kind face and a complicated mind.

In the Autumn of 2014, Kevin Morby moved to the small Los Angeles neighborhood of Mount Washington. The move would shape Singing Saw, Morby's first album for new label Dead Oceans. Previous tenants at Morby's new home happened to leave an upright piano behind, with a few mysterious pieces of sheet music and an introductory book of common chords stacked on top. Thankful to finally be in one place for an extended spell, Morby, a beginner at the piano, immediately sat at the new instrument and began composing the songs that would form Singing Saw. 

Alongside, he began taking long walks through the winding hills and side streets of the neighborhood each night, glimpsing views of both the skyline's sweeping lights and the dark, dried out underbrush of the LA flora. The duality of the city itself began to shape a set of lyrical ideas that he would refine with the sparse accompaniment of piano and acoustic guitar. 

What is a singing saw? It is an instrument that creates ethereal sounds, but it is also a tool: basic and practical while also being fearsome, even destructive. Morby watches the singing saw in its eponymous song; that instrument of eerie soft beauty cuts down the flowers in its path and chases after him, while his surroundings mock and dwarf him, Alice in Wonderland style. And in a singing saw, we can understand music as something more powerful than its inviting, delicate sound. No wonder Morby talks about a "songbook" in his head as something he needs to take up the hills so he can "get rid of it." Heavy themes are nothing new for Morby, whose previous records (2013's Harlem River and 2014's Still Life, both released on the Woodsist label) dealt with their own eerie visions and damning prophecies.

Morby opens Singing Saw with "Cut Me Down", a song of tears, debts and a prescient vision of being reduced to nothing. "I Have Been to the Mountain", "Destroyer" and "Black Flowers" continue to explore beauty and freedom, seizing upon the rot that seeps into even the supposedly safest of realms; peace, family and romantic love. By the end of the record on "Water", Morby is literally begging to be put out once and for all, like a fire that might burn all the visions away. 

Travels beyond his mountain walks inform songs like "Dorothy", which recounts a trip to Portugal, witnessing a fishing ritual and luxuriating in the aura of a bar light-tinged reunion with old friends The touching innocence of "Ferris Wheel" stands alone in stark simplicity amidst the lush sonic textures of the album. Here, the album is balanced by Morby's signature sweetness and joie de vivre.

The arrangements of Singing Saw trace back to Morby's experience playing in The Complete Last Waltz, a live recreation of The Band's legendary last performance. There, Morby developed a fast friendship with producer/bandleader Sam Cohen (Apollo Sunshine, Yellow Birds), which led Morby to forgo recording in Los Angeles and take the nascent songs of Singing Saw to Isokon Studios in Woodstock, New York. There, in a converted A-frame house, they set about creating a record that would bring a sonic balance, intricacy and depth to match these songs and all that inspired them. 

Sam Cohen added a multitude of instrumentation to the record (guitar, bass, drums and keyboard), and were joined by fellow Complete Last Waltz alum Marco Benevento on piano and keyboard, fleshing out Morby's original compositions and upholding the vision for a cohesive piano sound that serves as a touchstone for the entire album. Backup vocalists Hannah Cohen, Lauren Balthrop and Alecia Chakor contribute soaring harmonies; Nick Kinsey (Elvis Perkins) adds drums and percussion; Justin Sullivan, a longtime Morby collaborator and staple of his live band, contributes drums; Oliver Hill and Eliza Bag lift numerous songs with string accompaniments, and Alec Spiegelman on saxophone and flute and Cole Kamen-Green on trumpet bring dramatic swells. Finally, John Andrews (Quilt) adds the eerie lilt of the album's promise, providing saw on the "Cut Me Down" and "Singing Saw". 

In the end, Morby fulfills the promise many heard on his first two albums, bringing his most realized effort of songwriting and lyricism to fruition. The songs of Singing Saw reflect the clarity that comes from welcoming change and embracing duality, and the distillation of those elements into an entirely new vision.

JAYE BARTELL

Born in Massachusetts, Jaye Bartell moved to Asheville, NC, in the early 2000s where he began playing music among friends as a parallel activity to his work with poetry and other writing. Writing was his main focus for most of a decade—a time that involved constant traveling and moving around the U.S., mostly between North Carolina and the Pacific Northwest, where he lived on a small island in northern Washington.

After moving to Buffalo, NY, in 2006, he found the company of the writers and musicians of House Press, a publishing collective made up of friends from Buffalo and Chicago that produced small-edition handmade books and home-recorded albums. He released his first album, Feeling Better, Pilgrim, in 2008, after musician/writer Damian Weber taught him how to record. The album incorporated live incidental sounds (wind, chimes, traffic, birds), some of which were manipulated and processed as loops, but emphasized vocal melody and lyrics above all. A typical performance from this time included guitar and voice accompanied by a portable turntable that played field recordings of bird song, ocean waves, wind and other incidental sounds.

He moved back to Asheville in 2009 and recorded The Dog’s Dinner, which departed from the solo, self-production of his earlier work, and initiated the collaboration among Bartell and other area musicians, especially guitarist and composer Shane Parish of Ahleuchatistas. He collaborated with a number of visual artists in Asheville as well, including Ursula Gullow and Nathanael Roney, who have illustrated a number of Bartell’s albums and continue to influence his songwriting. Bartell continued to write, record, and perform intensively in Asheville for the next few years with Parish and other musician, although most of the recorded output came from live performances.

He recorded the EP Elation with Asheville musician J Seger in 2012, as well as the full-length, full-band album Loyalty in 2013 with Parish, Seger, and Emily Easterly. These two recordings display a more settled, resolved vocal delivery.

Bartell moved to Greenpoint, Brooklyn in the fall of 2013, where he began working on the new set of material that will furnish his next release — a set of songs that examine and resist transcendence, dissociation, and departure to “find a home on earth” as Robert Creeley wrote, and take images and inspiration from hot air balloons, Spalding Gray, and the neighborhood around McGolrick Park.
YU
8:30pm Sunday, June 5, 2016

Maher Shalal Hash Baz is a band with the shape of a congregation or theater troupe. For three decades, members have come and go: friends, passers­by, devotees, neighborhood children… Tori Kudo, the group director, welcomes absolute beginners, accomplished and non­musicians alike and directs everyone like actors. He embraces error and imperfection. The work is made out of inadequacy. “Out of laziness, poverty, and ideal.” While this smacks of the social, Kudo speaks otherwise, “I am not a socialist designer for amateurs or shamateurs but just an egoist who is trying to realize my own inspiration.”

At Yale Union, MSHB will play surrounded by Susan Cianciolo’s memory kits, altered sleeping bags, and unanimated soft people—an alchemical trial of some sort. Kudo is coming from Japan for the occasion, long-time collaborators will join him, as well as last-minute newcomers.

A Performance as part of CIANCIOLO
$12—Tickets at the door 

White Owl Social Club
1:00pm10:00pm Sunday, June 5, 2016

June is Pride month.

To say thank you for being so rad and give you a special treat. 

// GUEST DJs //
Yolo Biafra (!!!)
Miss Pop

// BRIDGE CLUB DJs //
Troubled Youth
Pocket Rock-It
Casual Aztec
Hold My Hand
Orographic

// Yolo Biafra //
Allan Wilson came up in the musical hotbed of the mid-90s Sacramento, CA punk scene. Enthralled as much by disco, pop and hip-hop as by punk's visceral noise attack, he and his close friends formed seminal dance-punk machine !!! (chk chk chk) in 1996. For 18 years, Allan toured the world with !!!, moving on stage between sax, drums, piano, organ, synth, and all manner of percussion, taking breaks only for rehearsals and recording sessions. During the last several years of his tenure with the band, Allan stepped into the role of official !!! afterparty DJ. Since then, he’s played parties in Australia, France, Germany, UK, Ireland, Norway, Belgium, Macedonia, Croatia, Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Chile, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, the Philippines, as well as in cities and festivals all over the US. His mixes have been featured on Vice China, self-titledmag's Needle Exchange, and BBC Radio 1.

// Miss Pop //
Hailing from San Francisco, Miss Pop, aka Ajai Nicole, is part of the lengendary party, Club Something. We are thrilled for her Bridge Club debut. Expect a set heavy on hip hop and all things club.

// About Bridge Club //
Portland’s gay/lez/queer/all-loving daytime dance party. Started in 2012, this is Portland's favorite Sunday T-Dance bringing the finest cuts of: House, Disco, Techno, Club, DIVA, and more...

FIRST SUNDAYS // APRIL - OCTOBER
WHITE OWL SOCIAL CLUB
1PM // $5 // 21+

Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St, Portland, OR 97211
7:00pm Saturday, June 4, 2016

SAT JUNE 4, 2016

Back Fence PDX: MAINSTAGE | Flirting With Disaster
DOORS 7:00PM | SHOW 8:00PM |21+
ALBERTA ROSE THEATRE | 3000 NE Alberta St

FEATURING returning crowd favorites Actress/Writer MOON ZAPPA(LA) and Financial Advisor, Upcoming United Solo Theatre Festival Performer ROBERT KATSUNO (VANCOUVER), along with soon-to-be-favorites: Award Winning Poet, NuYoRican Poet’s Café Grand Slam Champion XAVIER CAVAZOS (Ellensburg), Technnologist, Completed 4-Year Philosophy Degree in 15 Years, KARL MIDDLEBROOKS (PDX), and Veterinary Technician, Animal Rescuer & Caregiver KAHLIE TOWLE(PDX)!

For a special price we offer a limited number of VIP tickets, reserved until 7:50pm, on the front rows of the main floor.

*Storytellers subject to change without notice. Stories may contain explicit language and/or subject matter.

Tethered Cord
6:00pm9:00pm Saturday, June 4, 2016

An exhibition by Will Elder and Eli Coplan

Will Elder (b. 1989) is a visual artist and a curator at hq Objective in Portland, OR. He writes and initiates poetic scripts and sculpture from a place of longing and of curiosity toward architectural phenomena, urban identity and flows. He graduated with a BFA in Studio Practices from Portland State University in 2015.

Eli Coplan (b. 1992) is an artist and curator with Conduit in Happy Valley, OR. His practice is formed across physical and virtual spaces, considering digital modes of production with an eye toward history and materiality. He received a B.A. from Reed College in 2015. In the daytime he teaches art to second graders. elicoplan.com

Rainmaker Artist Residency
5:00pm Saturday, June 4, 2016

Rainmaker Artist Residency is pleased to announce "Third Space" -- a two­ person exhibition featuring the work of Portland­based artists and Rainmaker residents Bukola Koiki and Kathryn Yancey.

In "Third Space", Koiki and Yancey seek out and investigate hybrid spaces as locations of shifting physical and cultural realities. Through video, sculpture, and performance, the artists examine the often blurred and intangible locations, selves, and identities that constitute their lived, daily experiences.

Mining personal, physical and material based cultural memories, Koiki seeks to explore the immigrant experience of cultural displacement and dislocation by attempting to imbibe through repetition, the Yoruba female rite of passage of tying a gele (a head tie worn for special occasions) and documenting her own repeated attempts to claim a piece of her culture that she was unable to to learn at the feet of her mother, so to speak. Furthering this exploration of dislocation is the use of surrogate versions of the original textiles, made in Tyvek and canvas using experimental techniques in dyeing and image transfer.

Intuitively reacting to urban and domestic spaces, Yancey uses video to explore the formal elements of painting and sculpture. In an attempt to connect inner and outer, virtual and physical, organic and synthetic, Yancey presents digital, time­-based media as sculptural form.
About the artists: 

Bukola Koiki was born in Lagos, Nigeria and came to study art in the United States as a teen through a series of events involving a secondary school classmate and the American Visa Lottery Program. She received her MFA in Applied Craft + Design from Oregon College of Art and Craft and Pacific Northwest College of Art in May 2015. Her work explores cultural hybridity and cultural dislocation through the lens of memory, language, rituals, and rites of passage, using a variety of mediums. She has exhibited her work in galleries in Portland OR, Morristown, NJ and Gatlinburg, Tennessee and her work has been featured in Surface Design Journal and online in Art21 Magazine and Art Practical. She lives and works in Portland,OR.www.bukolakoiki.com/

Kathryn Yancey generates video, sound and installation work through a multi­disciplinary practice that explores the materiality of the poetic voice. She received an MFA in Contemporary Art Practice from Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, and a BFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana­Champaign. She lives and works in Portland, Oregon.www.katieyancey.net/

Kellys Olympian
9:00pm Thursday, June 2, 2016

We Out Here Magazine and XRAY.FM present
THE THESIS | June 2nd, 2016
celebrating our photographer Renée Lopez's birthday
our line-up this month features...

Mic Capes Music
Maze Koroma
STRAY
SamuelThe1st
with guest DJ TROX Diesel
+ a special guest

$5 at Kelly's Olympian in Portland, OR for First Thursday. 21+. Make sure to get out there early, as The Thesis tends to sell out quickly!

DISJECTA
8:00pm Thursday, June 2, 201611:00pm Saturday, June 4, 2016

Full schedule at www.creativemusicguild.org/isp 

June 2-4, 2016

Presenting: 
Ava Mendoza (solo and with Halfbird)
Vinny Golia (solo)
Tahni Holt and Luke Wyland (Performance)
Vinny Golia/Ava Mendoza/Thollem McDonas Trio 
Rich Halley 4 w. Vinny Golia - CD release!
John Gross Trio
Catherine Egan and Doug Theriault (Performance)
Pebble Trio 
Stephanie Trotter (Performance)
PJCE with Holland Andrews
Jesse Mejia and Taka Yamamoto (Performance)
Battle Hymns & Gamble
Pure Surface: A Tonal Service (large ensemble of movement and voice curated by Pure Surface)
Juniana Lanning 
Thick in the Throat Honey
Danielle Ross (Performance)
Golden Retriever 
I’d Rather Not Talk About it
Consumer 
CHOIR

With workshops by Vinny Golia and Thollem McDonas!
Panel Discussion with Reed Wallsmith, Matt Hannafin, Ava Mendoza, Claudia Savage, Ben Kates, more.

S1
6:00pm Thursday, June 2, 2016

Course Description

This 3-part workshop will focus on the basic understandings of operating and manipulating turntables, mixers, and a power amplifier (PA) in the context of creating a live DJ mix.

We will begin by introducing the basics behind these pieces of gear, both individually and their relationship to each other. Next, our focus will turn to practical listening as we work to comprehend rhythms and the ways our records work together to create a momentum of sound. These two basic tools of DJing – electronic hardware and human intuition – will be reconciled in the final session as we identify systems for sequencing records in a live setting.

We will discuss ways of training our bodies to react to our ears and translate those reactions to the turntable & mixer. Core concepts touched on include beat-matching, identifying tempos, and developing an identity as a dj based on each individual’s tastes and strengths.

Each week, in addition to the guided session, there will be a day of open equipment hours to practice the concepts that were taught in each class.

Bio

John Kammerle is a DJ and producer based in Portland, Oregon. John received a BA in Audio Engineering from the Evergreen State College in 2009. He currently works as a teacher at Ethos Music Center in North Portland with a focus on digital music composition and beat making for middle school students. John performs regularly in and around the Pacific Northwest under the moniker, Rap Class.

Enrollment

Introduction to DJing is a 3 part series with open deck nights included in cost of class. There will be 3 different sessions, June, July, and August. Students are not required to bring any material, but are encouraged to bring their own music on vinyl. You must be at least 16 years old to enroll. If you are a minor, please contact us for further instructions: s1portlandinfo@gmail.com

June Session
Monday June 6
Monday June 13
Monday June 20
Open Deck Nights: Wednesday June 8th, 15th, and 22nd

All Classes are from 6:30pm-8:30pm & Open Deck nights 6:30-8:00pm

July & August Sessions also available 
Visit our website for more details www.s1portland.com/workshops

Various Venues
8:00pm Wednesday, June 1, 201611:59pm Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Performers and Shows Announced!

"We’re proud to present the preliminary lineup for the ninth installment of the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, taking place June 1-5, 2016. With performances from recent Golden Globe and Critics’ Choice Award-winner Rachel Bloom of CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Oscar nominee Aimee Mann, rock legend Ted Leo, long-form improv from alums of SNLBest in Show and The Office, and standup from greats including Eddie Pepitone, Martha Kelly, Matt Braunger, Baron Vaughn and Karen Kilgariff, this year’s fest is not to be missed. Tickets go on sale soon, with festival passes and select individual show tickets available for purchase.

Stay tuned for more lineup announcements over the coming weeks, and in the meantime browse our list of performers and shows to see what’s in store for this year’s Bridgetown, and we’ll see you in June!" -Bridgetown


More info here!

Midtown Ballroom
8:00pm Wednesday, June 1, 2016

The sound of summer is coming to Midtown Ballroom on June 1st in the form of eight-time Grammy winning Reggae producer, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Stephen Marley.  Marley is hitting the road for his 30-city tour which begins next weekend (May 26-July 24) in support of his fourth studio album, Revelation Part II: The Fruit of Life, releasing July 22.

Stephen "Ragga" Marley is the second eldest son of reggae legend Bob Marley and Rita Marley. He was raised in Kingston, Jamaica and started singing professionally at seven-years old with his elder siblings Ziggy, Sharon and Cedella as The Melody Makers. The singer, songwriter, musician and producer has consecutively landed #1 on the U.S. Billboard Reggae Album Chart for all of his solo albums and has earned a total of eight Grammys for Best Reggae Album. He won this accolade as a solo artist for Mind Control, Mind Control Acoustic and Revelation Part I: The Root of Life, as producer for Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley’s Half Way Tree and Welcome To Jamrock and as a member of Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers for Conscious Party, One Bright Day and Fallen Is Babylon. The multi-talented artist has been steadily releasing music since his last album Revelation Part I: The Root of Life (2011) and is gearing up for his Spring 2016 album Revelation Part II: The Fruit of Life. Off the album, he has two new songs available on iTunes, including "Rock Stone" ft. Capleton & Sizzla and "Ghetto Boy " ft. Bounty Killer & Cobra (which captures the perpetuating cycle of violence and crime that can start from an early age). Marley shines as a live performer, beaming with the color and spirit of modern Reggae.

"Ghetto Boy" by Stephen "Ragga" Marley ft. Bounty Killer & COBRA; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyP3cojSe1w

“Rock Stone” ft. Sizzla and Capleton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laMMLQfnySw

The Hollywood Theatre
7:00pm Wednesday, June 1, 201610:00pm Thursday, June 2, 2016

It's the 1st Annual Portland Horror Film Festival, featuring the very best independent horror from all genres of cinematic terror, from the folks behind the Portland H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival and Zompire: The Undead Film Festival. From supernatural horror to dark fantasy and everything in between. You might see some Cosmic Horror, you might see some Zombies and Vampires, but you’ll also probably see monsters from outer space, demons, devils, cabins in the woods, possession, cannibals, parallel dimensions, and anything else that might go bump in the aisles.

More importantly, you’ll get a look at terror you won’t likely ever see elsewhere, made by the new faces of horror from across the planet. How would you like to be there to see the newest horrors from not only Europe, but from Asia and the Middle East? This is stuff you’re not going to see at the multiplex.

Revolution Hall
8:00pm Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Having been the subject and willing conspirator of many intentional lies planted in Sonic Youth bios over the years, I know first hand the way album lore can bend reality to its truth. After the infamous Byron Coley originated the SY "Trilogy" myth in the Murray Street bio, we had no choice but to fulfill those expectations with Sonic Nurse. "Why did you decide to make a trilogy?" was always the first question asked in interviews around that time.

But this is Kurt Vile's bio, and I wont do that to him. Anyway, Kurt does his own myth making; a boy/man with an old soul voice in the age of digital everything becoming something else, which is why this focused, brilliantly clear and seemingly candid record is a breath of fresh air. Recorded and mixed in a number of locations, including Los Angeles and Joshua Tree, b'lieve i'm goin down… is a handshake across the country, east to west coast, thru the dustbowl history ("valley of ashes") of woody honest strait forward talk guthrie, and a cali canyon dead still nite floating in a nearly waterless landscape. The record is all air, weightless, bodyless, but grounded in convincing authenticity, in the best version of singer songwriter upcycling. In Kurt's words, "I wanted to get back into the habit of writing a sad song on my couch, with nobody waiting on me. I really wanted it to sound like it's on my couch — not in a lo-fi way, just more unguarded and vulnerable."

For a record that plays like a cohesive acoustic experience, its musicality marks Kurt's departure from an electric guitar experience to include a range of instrumentation with a large group of players. From the banjo he plays on "I'm an Outlaw" to the piano and lapsteel on "Life Like This," and the myriad other instruments on other songs, including farfisa, resonator, arps, horns and synth, one never thinks about what exactly yr listening to as it all serves the song.

The heart of the record is "Stand Inside." The music is quiet and the melody, like a hymn, folds in on itself, and embraces full strength in a sexy, floating forcelessness that slowly gathers into a wave that doesn't go where you think it will or rather gives in to itself and celebrates a man willing to be defined by a woman and his love for her as witness to each other's lives… Don't stand by my side, stand inside gives up roleplaying for true exposure and vulnerability.

It's a weird, accepting, mature record, acknowledging the inherent immaturity of being a person whether father, husband, partner, adult, musician, not perfect, but compelling for its understanding … that's life though so sad to say… I love this record,
b'lieve i'm goin down.

Mississippi Studios
7:30pm Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Tim Heidecker was born and raised in Allentown, PA. As a freshman film student at Temple University he met Eric Wareheim. After graduation they continued to work together on short films and strange bits of comedic nonsense. One of their first pieces was Tom Goes to The Mayor, which made its way into various film festivals. Fueled by Tom’s success Tim and Eric began sending their tapes to their comedic heroes in Hollywood. One of those recipient’s being Bob Odenkirk who loved what he saw and helped to develop their ideas into a TV show. Through a chance meeting they were able to get their tapes to the senior vice president of Adult Swim, Mike Lazzo. He loved the stuff and they were immediately given the funds for development. Tim and Eric used some of the money to move to Hollywood where they worked on the show for a two season, 30 episode run. Tim later went on to again collaborate with Eric Wareheim on their next show, the Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Which aired five seasons on Cartoon Network. Tim and Eric also created a spin off show starring John C. Reilly called Check It Out! With Dr. Steve Brule, which has run for two seasons. Tim has also collaborated with Eric on big budget commercials for brands like Old Spice, Red Stripe, and Boost Mobile. In 2012 Tim co-wrote, directed, and starred in his first feature film, Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie, which was produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay. Tim’s most recent collaboration with Eric was for an anthology series, Tim and Eric’s Bedtime Stories. Season two premiered in November of 2015 with two new half hour specials for Adult Swim. The series included guest stars such as John C. Reilly, Jason Schwartzman, and Zach Galifianakis in a dark stylistic departure from their usual comedy shows. Tim also has a musical side project Heidecker & Wood with Davin Wood, the composer of all things Tim and Eric. Heidecker & Wood's second album "Some Things Never Stay The Same" was released in November of 2013 and they continue to play live shows and work on new music together.

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