Portland’s PDX Adult Soap Box Derby is a 100 + volunteer-fueled grass roots community event traditionally held the third Saturday in the month of August. This years derby field is made up for Saturday, August 16th at Mt. Tabor Park 10am-4pm.
Once a year a brave group of racers convene on the daunting slopes of Mt. Tabor to test their metal to their mettle. These pages are dedicated to all those who have spilled their blood, or even worse, spilled their BEER. We thank the community and our beloved volcano for allowing us to tickle her spine.
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PALS is a semi-secret house show venue in SE Portland that sporadically hosts word-of-mouth concerts featuring some of this city's best talent as well as touring acts. PALS Fest is their annual festival of musical camaraderie featuring concerts at venues throughout the city.
Tonight's bill features Grandparents (psych pop), Aan (experimental pop), and Máscaras (surf kraut featuring XRAY's own Theo Craig)
Tara Jane ONeil is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and visual artist. She creates melodic and experimental music under her own name and in collaboration with her brilliant friends. Her recordings and live performances range from solo songing to noise improvisations. TJO has composed and performed music and sound for films, theater and dance performances, and written large and small ensemble experimental architectures.
As a solo artist, TJO has released 7 albums internationally. She was a founding member of Rodan and several other bands, and has collaborated on recordings and stages with musical artists such as the groups Ida, Mirah, Jackie O MF, Mount Eerie, Papa M, Come, the vocalist Nikaido Kazumi, and many more. In addition to rock clubs, galleries and DIY spaces all around north America, Europe, and Japan, she has performed at All Tomorrow’s Parties, the Centre de Pompidou, the Whitney Museum of American Art, TBA festival (portland), High Desert Test Sites and many many others. She has shown her visual art in galleries all over the northern hemisphere and had four monographs of her visual art published.
A night of rockin' riffage...ranging from urgent acid-washed skate-metal, to pulsing/hypnotic garage, and meandering/fuzzy psychedelia!!!
w/:Zig Zags (Los Angeles, CA - In the Red Records) - http://zigzags.bandcamp.com/
EX-CULT (Memphis, TN - Goner Records) - https://soundcloud.com/gonerrecords/ex-cult-ties-you-up-rsd
Eternal Tapestry (Thrill Jockey Records) - http://www.thrilljockey.com/thrill/Eternal-Tapestry/A-World-Out-of-Time#.U7nZsI1dWXQ
8pm // 21+ // $7 COVER
Ray LaMontagne has one of the remarkable stories in music’s past decade. Since leaving his job in a Maine shoe factory to pursue his calling as a musician, he has released four studio albums and two live EPs, won awards and topped critics’ polls internationally, and established himself as one of the most distinctive talents of his generation. His songs have been featured in numerous films and television shows, including multiple performances of his compositions on American Idol.
Ray’s most recent critically acclaimed, Grammy award winning album God Willin’ & the Creek Don’t Rise debuted at #3 on the Billboard Top 200 and #1 on the Digital Album chart. This marked a personal sales best for Ray and tied his debut chart position at #3 with Gossip in the Grain. God Willin’ & the Creek Don’t Rise garnered 3 Grammy Award nominations including the coveted Song of The Year category for “Beg Steal or Borrow” and won the Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album.
LaMontagne released his new single, “Supernova” in February 2014, the first single off his 5th studio album of the same name via RCA Records. The album was produced by Dan Auerbach (The Black Keys) and recorded in Nashville, TN. His touring lineup includes Portland and XRAY's own Dave Depper (Dive Deeper).
ARRINGTON DE DIONYSOS SONGS OF PSYCHIC FIRE
Portland area churches offer singing and music, vendors, food, and family activities at International Praise Festival, Pioneer Courthouse Square. Free.
Three classic Portland experimental pop acts (featuring XRAY's own Charlie and Marius from Heavy Breather) are back and on one fantastic bill! If you love Portland music and you don't know these groups, you need to be at this show ... it's for your own good.
$8 advance or day of show // Get tickets
9pm doors // 9:30 show
Panther is Charles Byron Salas Humara and Joe Faustin Kelly (Philip Glass Ensemble, Steve Reich ensemble) and occasionally Sara Welker on violin. With the release of their new record 14 kt God (Kill Rock Stars), they have blended hardcore, psych, dance and bop to create a new genre in what people have been describing as “caustic pop”. Panther has toured constantly and has built a reputation for often playing hectic and confusing live shows.
Portland, Oregon’s Marius Libman, otherwise known as Copy, combines dense harmonies with snap-tight digital beats to create an emotionally affecting style that doesn’t neglect the dance floor. Meshing the sounds of classic synth pop with electro, disco, 8 bit video-game soundtracks and hip hop, an instantly familiar yet unique sound emerges from each song Copy produces.
E*Rock is a producer, director, animator and designer from Portland, OR where he is heavily involved in the electronic music scene. He co-founded Audio Dregs, Fryk Beat and is involved with other collaborative art projects like Wyld File and the Collective Jyrk with Yellow Swans.
A tirelessly innovative performer, Beardyman has always pushed the boundaries of what people expect from human beatbox, merging phenomenal beatbox skills with his left-field sense of humour and incredible musicality. After winning the well renowned Lyric Pad Beatbox Battle twice in 2004, he went on to win the title of London’s best beatboxer in the 2005 Championships and the following year became UK Beatbox Champion 2006.
Beardyman’s first musical venture was composing a symphony for his school orchestra at the age of ten. At fifteen, an introduction to drum ‘n’ bass led to his long-standing obsession with music technology. Now, in his live shows, as well as baffllingly good solo human-beatbox, he utilzes cutting-edge sound-mangling technology to create dance-inducing layered rhythms, breath-taking soundscapes, fully produced songs and tunes, all improvised and created entirely from the human voice. No pre-recorded material is used, and everything is created live and in real time in front of the audience, who he takes on a mind-bending journey from dumbstruck to dancing and back again.
On five Friday evenings in July and August, the Square will be transformed into Portland’s largest outdoor movie theater for the entire community to enjoy! The movie series will kick-off on Friday, July 25th and continue through August 29th on five Friday nights accompanied by live pre-movie entertainment provided by 101.9 Kink. Admission to Flicks on the Bricks is FREE and attendees are encouraged to bring low back chairs, pillows, cushions or bean bags to truly make the Square their ‘Living Room’. Attendees can also enter the “The Best Seat in the Square” contest for premiere movie seating with IKEA furniture! - See more
- August 8 - The Princess Bride (PG)
- August 15 - Jurassic Park (PG-13)
- August 29 - Frozen (PG)
Please join Genders for a night of sweaty, shreddy, never-forgetty. xoxox
STUFF:
21 and over, $8 advance $10 day of show 8 PM doors!
More INF:
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PIB is a high end 3-day beer festival specializing in rare, hard-to-find, exotic beers. Over 200 world-class beers from 16 countries will be on hand, hailing from all over the planet, many from right here in the Pacific NW. Stroll around the beautiful park with a cold one as you listen to music play all weekend. See More
Wimps are a 3-piece rock band from Seattle, WA.
Listen to Wimps' track "Distraction" over on Soundcloud.
Download the record via Bandcamp.
$7 advance or day of show // Get tickets
9pm doors // 9:30 show
For a decade, Baltimore based composer Dan Deacon has been a fixture in the American underground music scene. Through relentless touring, Deacon built himself a devoted grassroots following. His breakthrough 2007 album 'Spiderman of the Rings' brought critical acclaim and exposed his work to an international audience. Since then, Deacon has begun expanding his output beyond indie/underground circles and has begun to emerge in the contemporary classical scene.
In addition to Deacon's solo work and composing for his own ensemble, he has worked on several acclaimed collaborations with So Percussion, including a 2012 performance at Zankel Hall, which Alex Ross of the New Yorker declared "one of the more entertaining and fulfilling evenings I've had in recent years." Deacon has also worked with the Calder Quartet, Now Ensemble, and the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony as well as composing for the score for Francis Ford Coppola's film 'Twixt.'
Deacon has performed his work at several leading music and art venues, including London's Barbican Centre, Carnegie Hall, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Getty Center in Los Angeles, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden at the Smithsonian. His latest album 'America' was released on Domino Records in August of 2012.
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band are a New Orleans style brass band which plays R&B and Traditional New Orleans music. To describe how the Dirty Dozen Brass Band has arrived at its 35th Anniversary, trumpet player Gregory Davis employs a tried-and true New Orleans-centric analogy: “It ends up being like a pot of gumbo – you drop in a little okra, drop in a little shrimp, you drop in some crabs. Before you know it, you’ve mixed in all these different ingredients and you’ve got a beautiful soup. That was our approach to music early on and it still is today.”
The Noon Tunes Summer Concert Series will return for its 24th year on Tuesdays and Thursdays in July and August. From Noon-1:00pm enjoy music from some of Portland’s best regional and local musical talent, curated by 101.9 Kink. With ten FREE concerts, and some of Portland’s favorite food vendors, the Square is sure to be Downtown’s summer lunchtime destination. Mark your calendar for the following musical acts: - See more
August 7th Dresses
August 12th Jared Evers
August 14th Hawks Do Not Share
Crocodiles are a two-piece from San Diego, USA formed in 2008 playing lo-fi new wave, featuring former members of The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower. They have released a 7” on Zoo Music, and a split 7” on Art Fag records with Dum Dum Girls and Graffiti Island. They released their debut LP entitled “Summer of Hate” in April 2009, and released their sophomore album “Sleep Forever” on Fat Possum records in the fall of 2010.
Tweens are very much their own band, bratty and precocious, sincere and genuine. The band’s name conjuresjust the right image: screaming hordes afflicted with Beatlemania, teenyboppers out for a good time, the underage, over-the-top punks in Ladies and Gentlemen: The Fabulous Stains. Think of cheery kids at their most excited, but juxtaposed with lyrics about bad boyfriends and unrelenting independency. Tweens are not a riot grrrl revisionist band, but they are a ferociously honest one.