Comedian/producer MCQUEEN brings his unique world of music, comedy and video to cities across the US this Fall on his Fever Dream Tour. McQueen is a one-man show extraordinaire whom fan Thom Yorke of Radiohead hails as “just brilliant!” and Dave Chappelle raves “This show is mad funny! Dude’s doing something crazy original, it’s going to be huge man!”. McQueen performed a two week sold out run in London, followed that with a successful Spring tour and now premieres his highly original show to more US cities this Fall.
It was while McQueen was touring with Radiohead that he impressed the band with an impersonation so fresh that an idea was born. A fusion of music, comedy and video which parodies pop stars, movies and a variety of celebrities, McQueen creates an incredibly unique new universe with every show. Co-created with Julian Gross from LIARS, McQueen presents a pop culture mix of music, projections and sketches with subjects as varied as the sounds of Daft Punk to the magic of the the wizard Gandalf, with some Jason Statham, Vladimir Putin, Matthew McConaughey and Coldplay mixed in along the way.
LOW is coming to town!
'Don't break my Grammy streak.'
We have worked with many of the great engineer/producers. Jeff Tweedy has been on our side of the microphone for over 25 years, however with engineer (and fellow Grammy winner) Tom Schick, he has of late become a formidable and eclectic producer. He spoke a language we understood, but then took us effortlessly into the mystery.
We've made many records, and you know our M.O.: slow, quiet, sometimes melancholy, and, we hope, sometimes pretty…
How is this different from any other Low record?
- Mimi sings lead on five of the eleven songs (she usually only does one or two, despite being a fan favorite).
- Piano, lots of piano… and an acoustic guitar.
- Songs about intimacy, the drug war, the class war, plain old war war, archaeology, and love.
Thank you for your time again and please enjoy what we made. I think it's beautiful."
Yo La Tengo is one of the most beloved and respected bands in America. For nearly thirty years, Ira Kaplan, Georgia Hubley and James McNew have enjoyed success entirely on their own terms – playing the world’s best concert halls, museums, and dives, dominating critics’ lists, doing a Simpsons theme, playing the Velvet Underground in “I Shot Andy Warhol,” sharing stages with some of the most important musicians of our time, and even creating a holiday tradition onto themselves with their yearly series of Hanukkah shows at Hoboken, New Jersey’s legendary club Maxwells, from which they’ve donated hundreds of thousands to charity.
http://www.revolutionhallpdx.com/event/869353-evening-yo-la-tengo-portland/
Invisible City is a duo comprised of Joshua Ward (harp, electronics) and Derek Hunter Wilson (piano, drones, and violin). Interested in the ephemeral and conversational aspects of music, they explore these qualities through improvisation and creating textured sound environments.
Seattle based musician Bardo:Basho creates hypnotic loops using software synths, drum samples, field recordings, and her own voice to create pastoral and medieval sounding textures. She studied composition and piano performance at University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, where she was exposed to techno through the college radio station, KUPS. She released her debut self-titled album earlier this year through Elevator, a tape label and event production company that she co-founded.
Are you looking for a job? Are you tired of sending resumes left and right and never getting an answer? If you are, dress in your best professional clothes, bring resumes and visit our Portland career fairs.
You will have the opportunity to meet top employers and to interview for several positions during the course of the day, meeting the people who actually make the hiring decisions. You will save a lot of time since there will be no need to craft a customized personal statement for each company you visit: You’ll be able to tell them why you wish to work for them, and you’ll have the chance to sell yourself.
La Dispute
La Dispute is an American post-hardcore band from Grand Rapids, Michigan who formed in 2004. The current line-up is vocalist Jordan Dreyer, drummer Brad Vander Lugt, guitarist Chad Sterenberg and bass guitarist Adam Vass.
Envy
Wildhoney
The EP — which the band is currently recording right now — will serve as the follow-up to their debut full length album, Sleep Through It, released earlier this year through Deranged and Forward! Records along with 2014's Photobooth Records effort Seventeen Forever (which is where we initially got hooked on them, and is a great place to start if you've never listened to them before). When pressed to describe the direction of the new material, guitarist Joe Trainor simply states,"the [Topshelf] EP we are working on now is very uptempo and noisy" — which is fucking fine.
The group formed in late 2011, aiming to write pop songs with the energy and malcontent of hardcore punk, but without its entrenched masculinity — drawing influences from '60s girl groups, '80s post punk, indie pop, and shoegaze. The five-piece has since become one of the loudest — and sweetest — bands in its hometown of Baltimore.
Lila Rose
WORTH
WORTH’s sophomore record - 'Two'- is the 2nd concept piece in a trilogy titled 'The Identity Tryptic' which he plans to complete by late 2014. Like the first album, 'Two' takes the listener on an epic journey through as wide a range of emotions as it does genres. 24 tracks in all (12 songs and 12 interludes), the album was recorded mostly live to 2” tape in just two and a half weeks. Psychedelic interludes blend vocal samples over abstract improvisations and act as segues tying together a narrative in song. The compositions are simultaneously classic and modern; the sound is rich, warm, and alive.
The 2013 fall tour schedule will bring WORTH’s uniquely Portland style of “bohemian blues hop” to many new markets across the Western US in Sep./Oct. (OR, WA, ID, MT, UT, CO, CA) as well as central Europe in November (Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Czech Republic).
Since the dissolution of his prior full band project NIAYH (Now Is All You Have) in 2011, WORTH has played at festivals like What The Festival and Waterfront Blues Fest (OR). He has shared the stage with Allen Stone, Lynx, March 4th Marching Band, Marv Ellis, SaQi, Russ Liquid, Lila Rose and has been a repeated cast member in Portland's yearly White Album Christmas show. OPB's Oregon Art Beat recently did a full feature on him which you can view here.
THE Brocks
Brian Copeland Band returns to Jimmy Mak's with a new single from their recent sessions. BCB features Jeff Koch on guitar, Mike Snyder on drums, Arcellus Sykes on bass guitar, Jean-Pierre Garau on keys, and Kat Cogswell on vocals. Those attending will receive a complementary download of the new song!
Joining BCB on the stage will be The Beautiful Train Wrecks and the Kelly Brightwell Band.
Admission: $10 at the door (no guaranteed seating)
For reserved seating, call (503) 295-6542. There is a $15 minimum food purchase for reserved seating.
Doors: 6:00 pm
Music: 8:00 pm
For More Information:
http://briancopelandband.com/
http://beautifultrainwrecks.com/
http://kellybrightwell.com/
Witness a night of adults telling stories about their lives by sharing their most mortifying childhood artifacts (diaries, letters, lyrics, poems, home movies in front of total strangers. Mortified Live has grassroots “chapters” in multiple cities– some cities are monthly, others are only a few times a year. Experience a night of adults sharing the embarrassing things they created as kids.
Lief Hall’s performative lecture will weave storytelling, video bricolage, live performance and musical compositions to explore how mythology, science fiction and virtual embodiment affect the creation of gender identity within popular culture.
Pulling from Judith Butler’s notion of ‘gender performativity’ and Donna Haraway’s ‘Cyborg Manifesto,’ the lecture will explore how performative space is re-shaped through technology, and the integration of cyber-virtual identities. Looking at the work of contemporary female pop stars such as Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj, Hatsune Miku and Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, Lief Hall explores how the narratives created in pop music play an important role in the creation of contemporary mythology.
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Lief Hall is a composer, singer-songwriter, director/choreographer and creator of opera, musical theatre, video and installation. Hall was previously the vocalist for Vancouver no wave punk band ‘Mutators’ (2007), a vocalist for the improvisational trio ‘Glaciers‘ (2009), and one half of Canadian ‘femme noir’ pop duo MYTHS (2012). Her most recent EP Transform (2015) marks a new direction in her solo musical work, creating dark electronic pop, which merges the experimental dance music with layered vocal harmonies, exploring themes of love, identity, and fear in a post-human world.
Hall has performed her solo music alongside artists such as Bear in Heaven and Inga Coupland and was named on NME’s list of '50 Brand New Artists Set to Storm in 2015.'
Her interdisciplinary installation and performance works explore themes of nature, technology and the body as they relate to mythology, feminism and the production of cultural ideology. In 2005 Hall completed her BFA at Emily Carr University, and has since presented work at VIVO Media Arts Centre, Simon Fraser University, Or Gallery, Vancouver Art Gallery, 221A Gallery, Western Front, and Mercer Union Gallery.
Over the summer, the 18-year-old quickly won over fans and critics alike with a steady stream of song and video releases off her self-funded, self-titled debut EP out on August 28. Helmed by veteran producer David Kahne (Pauly McCartney, Lana Del Rey, Ingrid Michaelson), her style off the EP has been described as “sharp-edged, brooding, indie folk and pop.” Her musicianship has already been praised by NPR, BULLETT, Paste, InStyleBuzz, Billboard, ABC News and more.
Watch:
“Ride With You” video: http://vevo.ly/CWMQbe
“Sirens” video: http://vevo.ly/RaM4w6
Listen to the full EP:
https://soundcloud.com/soren-bryce
Hate Eternal with Beyond Creation, Misery Index and Rivers Of Nihil!
Lineup:
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Hate Eternal http://bnds.in/u2gR42
Misery Index http://bnds.in/qye2d7
Beyond Creation http://bnds.in/HHwI2h
Rivers Of Nihil http://bnds.in/r0q96X
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The Big Gone and Friendly Males, both from Los Angeles, CA have decided to take their friendship and love for donuts, psych pop and sparkling water on the road. They both play a variation of the infamous 'indie rock' with plenty of conviction and laughter.
They will be supported locally by Arlo Indigo and Tommy Alexander (both friendly).
There will most certainly be
-Free Pins
-Hand painted miscellanous clothes and music for sale
-Properly printed small run of T-Shirts (these are rad)
Friendly Males (Los Angeles - Lolipop Records)
www.facebook.com/friendlymalesCA
latest release:
https://soundcloud.com/friendly-males/bite-an-apple-1
The Big Gone (Los Angeles)
www.facebook.com/thebiggonemusic
latest release:
https://soundcloud.com/thebiggonemusic/sunsetgraveyard
Arlo Indigo
https://www.facebook.com/arloindigo
Tommy Alexander
https://www.facebook.com/Thomas-Joel-Alexander-131563066884648/
The OO-Ray
The OO-Ray is the alias of Ted Laderas, an improvisatory and experimental cellist from Portland, OR. A systems biologist by day, he extends his experimental attitude to exploring the outer possibilities of the cello, often distorting, looping, or pitchshifting his instrument beyond recognizability into waves of reverberation and extended drones. Inspired by the gauzy textures of My Bloody Valentine, he call his style “shoegazer cello” or “chamber drone”. His music explores the realms of electroacoustic, shoegazer, and ambient
Apartment Fox
Apartment Fox’s Alex Neerman was once the drummer of anarcho-art-punk band The Intima back in the early 2000′s. After that group’s demise he found a new outlet for his percussive mind building drum machines and synthesizers. Over the last 4 or 5 years he has refined his craft and emerged as one of Cascadia’s finest hardware techno producers, providing “off-center dance music that throws off all sorts of wonky textures while still delivering crushing grooves that make you feel indestructible” (The Stranger)
An evening dedicated to one of pop music's most enchanting and uncompromising stars. A bevy of Portland's most talented female musicians will take on Kate Bush's catalog for this Siren Nation Festival event.
Cover songs performed live by:
Sara Jackson-Holman
Johanna Warren
Unicorn Domination
Coco Columbia
Lynnae Gryffin
Patricia et Cameron
Moniker with LKN and Ali Clarys
Dance by: Lucy Lee Yim
$8.00 advance $10.00 day of show
21+
Set times:
10:30p Balto
9:30p tents
Check out both bands' music here:
https://balto.bandcamp.com/
tentsband.bandcamp.com
21+ / FREE
Amber Webber (Black Mountain, Lightning Dust) and Derek Fudesco (Cave Singers/Pretty Girls Make Graves) have joined forces for a new project Kodiak Deathbeds. The duo play Bunk Bar on Friday November 6th. All the info is right here.
LISTEN TO KODIAK DEATHBEDS HERE
XRAY will be there in full effect, listen to 107.1fm or online at xray.fm for chances to win tickets.
8pm $13 tickets available at ticketfly or at the door for $15!