With a whiff of PechaKucha, and a penchant for sideline knowledge areas, Weird Shift hosts "MicroTalks": an evening of short-form presentations that might include inspiring rants, marginalia studies and image-laden screeds.
Expect (and/or become part of) an eclectic array of offerings from local and telepresent artists, writers, concept engineers, cranks and independent researchers.
All are welcome! Bring images on flashdrive or laptop, or just step up, open-mic style!
Mike Thrasher Presents:
ABBATH
High On Fire
Skeletonwitch
Tribulation
All Ages | Bar w/ ID
Thirsty City- A monthly event featuring fresh vibrant sounds from local and touring beat and rap acts- Live music from 8:45-11:00, followed by Dj sets 11:00-close
March will be showcasing:
Slick Devious (Renessaince Coalition)
http://slickdevious.com/
OneWerd (SF/Builders)
https://onewerd.bandcamp.com/
Bryson Fisher (PDX)
https://brysonthealien.bandcamp.com/releases
Dan Dillinger (Bkyln)
https://dandillinger.bandcamp.com/
CTZN ( Poe & CTZN)
https://soundcloud.com/studymusicgroup/poe-ctzn-center-the-frame
Dj set by NorthernDraw
flier by Dax
$5- 21+
Over the past four years, North-East siblings Peter and David Brewis have threaded their way through one extra-curricular project after another but were inevitably drawn back to working together on theirown songs. "As much fun as we might have had on our own or collaborating, we missed just spending time in the studio, the two of us, trying things out and playing together." explains David. The space that Field Music vacated in those four years still appears to be empty. No one else really does what Field Music do: the interweaving vocals, the rhythmic gear changes, the slightly off-chords, but with the sensibility that keeps them within touching distance of pop music. But with Commontime, FieldMusic show off their unashamed love of choruses in a way they’ve only hinted at before. Written and recorded in spontaneous bursts over six months in their Wearside studio, Commontime is built around the brothers playing and singing together again, but also features a wider array of players, including original Field Music keyboardist Andrew Moore, Peter's wife Jennie Brewis and new member of the live band Liz Corney on vocals, plus a panoply of other players. “We wanted to embrace being a duo and, perversely, that made us feel more comfortable about all of those conspicuous cameos” reveals David. Over the fourteen songs of Commontime, real life conversations are replayed, acquaintances come and go, hard won friendships are left to drift and diffuse snap shots of the everyday are pulled together into what must rank amongst Field Music’s best works to date.
Its existence having been revealed to the world via a one-two punch of an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and exclusive profile in The New York Times, it can now be announced that Iggy Pop’s new album Post Pop Depression (Rekords Rekords/Loma Vista/Caroline International) will be supported by a very limited run of one-time-only live performances in specially selected venues. tour will mark the sole occasion that the album lineup of Iggy, producer/guitarist/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/bandleader Joshua Homme, Homme’s Queens Of The Stone Age bandmate and Dead Weather-man Dean Fertita and Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders—augmented by QOTSA multi-instrumentalist Troy Van Leeuwen and journeyman guitarist/bassist Matt Sweeney—will perform this material, as well as classics spanning Iggy’s legendary solo career, in a live setting.The Post Pop Depression
In the wake of The Late Show debut and release of first single "Gardenia" and the Post Pop Depression pre-order going live, a second advance track "Break Into Your Heart" has been premiered. Both tracks will be delivered instantly with pre-order from iTunes or on vinyl. Iggy and the band’s web exclusive performance of "Break Into Your Heart," previously witnessed only by The Late Show studio audience, has also been unveiled.
Post Pop Depression is equal parts a dream come true for co-creator Homme as it is a record that defiantly takes its place in Iggy’s storied discography alongside the twin towers of The Idiot and Lust For Life--two records, and the mythic Berlin era of their creation, canonized as much lyrically ("German Days") as sonically ("Sunday") on this new record. The album is a singular work that bears its creators’ undeniable sonic DNA while sounding like nothing they’ve done before. It’s a record that wouldn’t exist without either Pop or Homme--and one that probably shouldn’t, in theory, if you really think about it--but it does, and we and rock ‘n’ roll are all the better for it.
Since Joanna Newsom's first album, The Milk-Eyed Mender, came out in 2004, her music has been an ever-growing category unto itself for listeners around the world. Her albums are regularly found on "Best of the Year" and "Best of the Decade" lists. Newsom's highly-anticipated fourth album Divers is "a treasure trove of melody and learning that rewards prolonged, enraptured study."
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Last Sundays of every month TENTH DEGREE will be bringing you#AllThingsClub Dive into the sounds of BMORE, Jersey, Chicago, Detroit, UK and beyond. This is a worldwide movement. Expect guest headliners, intimate atmospheres, and heavy bass.
Guests:
Traxman // Tekk Djz, Teklife, Planet Mu, Dance Mania
Cornelius Ferguson a.k.a. Traxman is from the West Side of Chicago and one of the longest serving producers working in Footwork with releases stretching back to the glory days of Ghetto House on Dance Mania records in the nineties. He’s also one of the co-founders of Chicago's two-decades-old Geto DJz clique and a member of DJ Rashad & DJ Spinn's teklife
crew and was one of the creators of the legendary mixtapes on coloured cassettes which were the prototype for Footwork's evolution. His unique brand of Footwork is very strongly rooted in Chicago's history of Soul, Funk, House and Ghetto Trax; he’s a veteran and renowned crate digger who has provided the sample sources for many of Footwork's classic tracks over the years. His deep knowledge of music (check the mixes he occasionally throws up on the net) makes him one of the city’s most versatile and skilled DJs and producers.
https://soundcloud.com/traxman-2
https://www.facebook.com/TRAXMAN-319606828087891/?fref=ts
J Drago // Juke Bounce Werk
https://www.facebook.com/djjdrago/?fref=ts
https://soundcloud.com/jukebouncewerk
Swisha // Juke Bounce Werk
https://soundcloud.com/djswishasweet/
https://www.facebook.com/quiseboi/?fref=ts
https://soundcloud.com/jukebouncewerk
Residents:
ALBINO GORILLA // Tenth Degree, Club Portland, Cosine
https://soundcloud.com/albinogorilla
10pm
21+ w/ID
$10 at the door
Àha = music + performace
presented by À reading ♥
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Amenta Abioto
Keyon Gaskin
C.A.R.L. w/ Julian Smuggles
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Ready! Steady! Go-Go!
IT'S A DANCE PARTY DISCOTHEQUE!
DJ Drew Groove selects Rare & Classic Soul! RnB! Garage! Mod! 60s Beat! Wild Rockers and Floor Stompers! Tons of Dance Craze 45s All Night! Come dance the Frug, the Jerk, The Hully Gully and the Hanky Panky!
Large Dance Floor! Groovy Projected Visuals! Cocktails! No Cover!
Women's Beat League & Alchemy Present:
JLIN (Planet Mu - Gary, IN)
https://soundcloud.com/jlinnarlei
2015 Album of the Year at The Wire and The Quietus #3 on Resident Advisor.
"As the popularity of Footwork has continued to soar, the range of sounds within the genre has expanded. From the angular, minimal beats of RP Boo to the widely admired sound of sadly departed DJ Rashad, the genre has lovingly seeped into hearts and feet worldwide whilst continuing to innovate. Until now most of the focus has been on the male DJ/Producers, but that is about to change. Gary based producer Jlin, who some of you might remember for her track Erotic Heat (Bangs and Works Vol.2 Planet Mu 2011), or from her moment in the mainstream light providing music for fashion designer Rick Owens F/W 14 Paris runway show, is stepping further into the light with a stunning eleven track debut album Dark Energy showcasing her unique and bold new sound.
Gary, Indiana, a neighbouring City to Chicago, is one of those towns people overlook or perhaps expect the worst of. It's famous for the Jackson 5 and its Steel Mills, one of which Jlin works long shifts at. She says her sound and the themes behind my tracks are all based off what my creativity absorbs, whether it be bad or good, and the music certainly shows that intent. It's forceful, yet ripples with colour; its an intense, monolithic sound with rugged rhythms that stop and breathe and roll out in unusual staccato patterns. Its a sound unlike any other out there, one thats fiercely unique." Planet Mu http://www.planet.mu/discography/ZIQ356
DJ NOIR (Juke Bounce Work - Los Angeles, CA)
https://soundcloud.com/jukebouncewerk
A dj, creative director, photographer co-founder of Juke Bounce Werk- a collective of "tastemakers as well as performers, Juke Bounce Werk (or JBW, for short) has fostered the rising awareness of the footwork movement in Los Angeles and abroad. The devoted group comprises DJs, producers and artists who use their passion for the groove to promote juke to the masses. Insomniac headed to JBWs studio compound in sunny San Pedro, California, to learn more about the history and future of the 150160-BPM genre during their weekly gathering and rwd.fm radio show. In true crew fashion, they preferred to have their answers credited to the group as opposed to any individual." - Amanda Ross (https://www.insomniac.com/media/spreading-love-dance-juke-bounce-werk)
Supported by:
Lincolnup B2B Rap Class
https://soundcloud.com/lincolnup, https://soundcloud.com/rap-class
Illordess
S1 is a nonprofit artist-run center in Portland, Oregon. We strive to provide engaging, relevant, and critical visual art, performance and education programming in ways that are accessible to a diverse population of artists and viewers in and outside the city. If you cannot afford this show or would like to get involved, email us for volunteer opportunities: felisha@s1portland.com
Flyer by Reid Stubblefield
$10 presale, $15 door
21+, Cash Bar
ADA Accessible
An evening of music and gaiety to help raise money for the 2016-2017 project cycle! There will be a 5$ cover at the door, and every dollar raised will go directly to funding artist projects throughout the year!
Featuring performances by:
Antonio Bonilla
Patrick McCulley
Kiran Moorty
Becca Schultz
Kela Parker
& Paperwork Collective playing works by Richie Greene
poster by Jade Novarino
BAG RAIDERS
"Gigantic, dulce de leche pop that expertly marries tuxedo dance with brazen, hooky vocals. ... Bag Raiders transcends typical dance and pop boundaries, showcasing the creativity of a band at the forefront of modern production. The album will appeal to fans new and old, coming correct with sing-a-long choruses, deep-breath anthems, blissful chill and pure dancefloor energy." - RCRDLBL
PLASTIC PLATES
2013 Plastic Plates released his original song, an old school house jam, "Come On Strong", following his debut EP "Things I Didn't Know I Loved" on French tastemaker record label Kitsune as well as remixes for Miami Horror (Vitalic Noise), Para One (Marble), Nile Delta (Cutters), The Aston Shuffle (Polydor), Yolanda Be Cool (Dim Mak) and Munk (Under The Shade).
Both 2014 and 2015 have been a massive growth period for Plastic Plates on the touring and festival circuit. A recent collaboration with Sam Sparro on the single "Stay in Love" hit the airwaves, and the pair performed together on select dates. With over 6 million plays on Soundcloud and regular appearances in the Hype Machine top 10, Plastic Plates' popularity around the world continues to rise. This has found him extensively touring throughout Europe, North America, Central and South America, Russia, Asia and Australia.
His latest remix for Demi Lovato's "Cool for the Summer" is set to be the remix of the summer and his remix for Cassian's track "Running" topped the Hype Machine charts. Plastic Plates upcoming release on Intuit Records "Lose My Mind" premiered on July 28th, 2015 on BBC Radio 1. He is currently in the studio collaborating with Martina from Dragonette, Boy George, Sam Sparro and more for what will be his first full length album.
Madrid-based garage rockers Hinds started as a duo of Carlotta Cosials and Ana García Perrote. Shortly before releasing their first single "Demo" in 2014 the duo became a four piece, with close friend, ex guitar player and singer Ade Martín on bass and one of their first fans, Amber Grimbergen on drums. During the rest of the year and throughout 2015 they embarked on their first world tour, playing everywhere from Thailand, Vietnam and Australia to the United States to the worldwide festival circuit, including SXSW (in which they played 16 concerts in just 4 days), Glastonbury and Burgerama. They have received very positive reviews in Pitchfork, Pigeons and Planes, Gorilla vs. Bear, Paste, SPIN, Entertainment Weekly and NME.
Their debut album, Leave Me Alone, made its way into the world on Friday, January 8, 2016 via Mom + Pop Music.
Fresh off their release, Hinds is receiving praise for their work. "This great garage-rock crew from Madrid folds decades of naïf-rock history into its craftily shambling tunes," said Rolling Stone. Pitchfork suggests its "[Carlotta] Cosials and [Ana] Perrote's shared vocal responsibilities, which fit perfectly together" that "truly set Hinds apart." Entertainment Weekly calls Hinds "...the year's buzziest indie breakout," while SPIN asks "Whether seeing Hinds live, or listening to their debut album, Leave Me Alone, one question always comes to mind: Can I join?"
QUILT was formed in late 2008 in Boston, MA.
Shane Butler, Anna Fox Rochinski and Taylor McVay met at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and spent the next couple of years honing a strange yet magnetic ramshackle sound in the smoke-filled basements and living rooms of Jamaica Plain and Allston. They released a home-made tape in 2009, touring DIY style around the northeast in a 1993 Buick Roadmaster.
In Spring/Summer 2010, the trio recorded a collection of seven songs in the home of Jesse Gallagher, in Cambridge. The following winter, after Taylor’s amicable departure from Quilt, John Andrews was recruited and subsequently plucked from the suburbs of New Jersey to join the band on a tour to SXSW.
It was around this time that those seven songs had made their way to the big guy’s desk at Mexican Summer records in Brooklyn, via former Captured Tracks label manager Katie Garcia (a friend from the college years in Boston). The band returned to Cambridge and recorded three more songs, now with the songwriting input and drumming from John.
Quilt’s self-titled ten-song debut was released in November 2011 on Mexican Summer to positive reviews from critics and the band began touring in support of the record on and off for the next year or so.
Their following record, Held In Splendor, was recorded in Brooklyn with producer Jarvis Taveniere. Released in early 2014, the album ushered in another year of near-constant touring. The trio recruited New Hampshire-based bassist Keven Lareau for their live shows.
Nearly two years later, Quilt’s third full-length record, Plaza, will see the light of day on February 26th, 2016. Lead singles “Eliot St” and “Roller” have been met with praise and the group has full US and Europe tours lined up.
The band considers itself a New York-based band that formed in Boston.
The 4 members reside in Brooklyn, Upstate New York, and New Hampshire.
And as lovely as it was to tour in a 20-foot station wagon with faux-wood panelling, they eventually upgraded to a 12 passenger Chevy Express van. His name is Big Earl.
An exhibition of new work from Rachel Malin and Raque Ford. S1's first Artists-in-Residence in 2016.
Rachel Malin was born in Southern California and lives and works in New York. Rachel received her BFA from CAlifornia State University Long Beach and received her MFA from Mason Gross School of Arts at Rutgers University. She has shown at Edward Thorp Gallery, NY and was included in the American Academy of Arts and Letters annual exhibition in 2014. Raque Ford lives and works in New York. She received her BFA at Pratt Institute and her MFA from Mason Gross School of Arts at Rutgers University. She has had solo shows at Soloway, Brooklyn, NY and Welcome Screen, London, UK . She has exhibited in group shows at, Evelyn Yard, London, UK, 321 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY and is apart of the upcoming show In Practice:Fantasy Can Invent Nothing New at SculptureCenter, Queens, NY.
http://www.raqueinezford.com/
http://rachelmalin.com/
Nap Eyes
Cian Nugent
Recorded over a week beginning on Valentine's Day 2015, Night Fiction was recorded in Bow Lane Studios in Dublin with Daniel Fox (Girl Band) and mixed by Brendan Jenkinson. The album's seven songs include solo ventures as well as full-band recordings feat. David Lacey on drums, Conor Lumsden on bass, Brendan Jenkinson on organ and piano and Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh on viola. The vibe here is familiar yet refreshing and a logical progression for Cian.
A Talk
John Russell is an artist who writes. He has a good eye for the absurd damage that academics and galleries do to the English language. Often, he works the tools of the publicist. Outraged, philosophical, mock-didactic, and with disarming glints of lucidity, his works can take the form of PRESS RELEASES, GALLERY ANNOUNCEMENTS, and delirious promotional images. Here Russell jams up the distinctions between art criticism and artwork, words and things, attempts at articulation and traps of self-validation—or as Foucault puts it, “…the oldest oppositions of our alphabetic civilization: to show and to name; to shape and to say; to reproduce and to articulate; to imitate and to signify.” In Russell’s works, the voice does not hover in feigned clarity and grace, as it does with so many philosophers, ad men, and conceptualists. Instead the voice is meaty. It has a corpus.
John Russell lives in the UK where he is a director of research for art at University of Reading. He is the editor of Frozen Tears.
KINGBANANA, NET PRESENTS:
ALEX G / PORCHES
w/ YOUR FRIEND
ALL AGES (BAR W/ ID) / $12 ADV - $14 DOS
ADV TICKETS:
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Needle Drop Co. is a full service music agency in Portland, Ore., specializing in library music licensing, music supervision and original music production. Tonight they've curated an evening of cross-disciplinary performances and collaborations, all to benefit youth music programs via My Voice Music!
Featuring:
Talkative
Damon Boucher (Chanti Darling) collab with DNVN
Tonality Star collab with LEO
Needle Drop DJs (Talia Gordon & Josh Spacek)
Readings:
Michael Heald (Perfect Day Publishing)
Zachary Schomburg (Octopus Books)
Dance:
House of Aquarius
Film:
Matt Ross Screening excerpts from Book of Matches, a collab with Kyle Morton of Typhoon
Visual art:
Jordan Domont
Proceeds benefitting:
My Voice Music
CHAIRLIFT
An evolution from their last album, 2012's Something, Moth proves to be an emotionally uninhibited and markedly stronger, more pop inspired body of work. A very New York City inspired album, listeners can expect to be led through an aural mix of big, rich pop inspired hooks, vibrating bass, lively brass and sensuous R&B inspired vocals, all anchored in the duo's meticulously crafted instrumentation.
LYDIA AINSWORTH
Blurring the boundaries between indie music, filmic orchestration, and electronic music, Lydia's debut 'Right From Real' thrives on haunting melodies and draws inspiration from a wide range of musical sources - Verdi's Requiem, Ace of Base, Bulgarian Choirs, Bernard Herrmann, Tones on Tail, Art of Noise… just to name a few. This sense of unexpected marriages of influence flows throughout much of Lydia's previous work which features use of voice sampling and string arrangements woven into a unique minimalist fabric.
"As I listen to the finished album I am reminded of the immense comfort I felt in the obscurity of it's destination. I became entranced by the evolving process that took shape within those invisible tactile walls of tradition. Whether I was sampling instruments/ writing lyrics/ incorporating lyrics by my pen pal Matthew/ recording multiple arrangements for each song - stripping them down - building them back up - I was guided only by a relentless instinctive urge to express what I could not in waking life. The songs approach dreams, thoughts, and inspirations that demand a search for the unknown, a search for something beyond what the five senses can offer."