** a daytime outdoor cover band festival **
Sometimes cover bands are the only reason we get out of bed. And sometimes we only dream about cover bands playing in the afternoon's sunlight, while sipping a Mexican lager with lime. That dream is real life and here is your dreamy line-up:
AMY WINEHOUSE
performed by FINEHOUSE (playing Back to Black in it's entirety)
feat. members of Lola Buzzkill, Adebisi, Human Ottoman, Rachel Brashear, Paper Gates, The Shrike, & Havania Whaal.
IGGY & THE STOOGES
performed by 1969
feat. members of Tender Age, Mascaras, Mini Blinds, & Cat Hoch Band.
THE TALKING HEADS
performed by WHISPERING SKULLS
feat. members of Surfer Rosie, Havania Whaal, Gut Knife, & Jazz Boyfriends.
THE B52'S
performed by PARTY OUT OF BOUNDS
feat. members of Miss Rayon, Star Club, Mini Blinds & The Fur Coats.
Meet us in the parking lot of Church Bar, 2600 NE Sandy Blvd!
$10 / 21+ / 4-9PM / Dreams Come True
PDX Cannabis Industry Appreciation Patry // An Event for Everyone // 21+
This event is open to the public, however it is a Cannabis Industry Appreciation party and there will be benefits and discounts for OLCC MJ Cardholders including: 50% off discount code! Just click the ticket link, fill out the form and receive your discount code. First 25 plates of BBQ (veggie options included) free to people who show their OLCC MJ Card.
Backyard BBQ will also have a raffle where we will be raising money for The Sentencing Project:
https://www.sentencingproject.org/about-us/
Although this is a Cannabis Industry Event, there is NO CONSUMPTION allowed on the premisses
Tickets available here.
Frog Eyes have made their last album. 17 years after their teetering debut, the Vancouver band unveils Violet Psalms—a giddy lament; a gnashing jubilee; a rain-drenched allocution on hope vs. horror, paradise vs. pride, Marx and Brexit and bad acid trips.
It's an ending like a beginning. "We were trying to pretend it was our first record," Carey Mercer says. This is their final record, Frog Eyes' last gasp—but the art-rockers wanted to capture the energy of a debut, the freedom you feel "when there's no expectation that anyone will actually listen." They made it at home, burrowing under the house where Mercer lives with drummer Melanie Campbell. The goal was to blot out the world, focusing on what they could grow down there, four musicians in a basement. Could they squeeze out ten songs? Was there enough paste in the tube to squeeze out 10? "In the end there was. Which is rad.”
Ural Thomas is, and forever will be Portland's pillar of soul. He started singing beneath his mothers knee in church at the age of 3. By high school he led the doo-wop group the Mono Rays, breaking hearts and taking names at Jefferson High and Irvington Park along the way. Ural's voice and songwriting soon gained national attention and he found himself sharing the stage with the likes of James Brown, Otis Redding, Johnny Guitar Watson and "Little" Stevie Wonder. He played the Apollo 44 times. He backed the Northwest's biggest soul and garage outfits of the1960s (The Kingsmen, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Cavaliers Unlimited) and he never for a moment stopped teaching, singing and loving soul music..
Now Ural is poised to represent Portland on equal ground with contemporaries like Lee Fields, Sharon Jones and Charles Bradley, all of whom ultimately gained their dues in their golden years. To ensure the legacy he's backed by a 9 piece band comprised of the some of the most recognizable session and solo players in town. Band leader/drummer Scott Magee (aka Cooky Parker) has arranged a setlist compiled from the gilded age of soul and R&B and Ural originals, all with a sharp focus on moving the dance floor. The foot stomping days of Jump Town, USA have returned and Ural Thomas & the Pain are here to lead the way.
A STORY OF SAHEL SOUNDS
Christopher Kirkley in attendance for this US premiere!
Shot on three continents, this film provides an inside look at Portland's own Christopher Kirkley’s project “Sahel Sounds” – a blog, record label, and platform to explore arts and music of the Sahel region through non-traditional ethnographic fieldwork. Not a strict portrait, nor a straight music documentary, A STORY OF SAHEL SOUNDS celebrates the wide range of musical performances of current artists from Niger, while leaving room to reflect on today’s role of ethnomusicology. Still held back by asymmetrical power differentials, but now backed up by an expanding globalism and new possibilities to claim their independence, artists try to reach for success - on stages and on cellphones. Featuring early appearances of bands such as Mdou Moctar, Les Filles de Illighadad, Mamman Sani and many more!
McMenamins, Pabst Blue Ribbon & XRAY FM Present: MIC CHECK
Mic Check is celebrating 2 years of bringing you some of the best hip-hop in the region. This year we're bring you an additional hour featuring beat sets from some of the regions best producers, continuing the open mic and live remixes from resident DJs Trox and O.G. One. Transitioning to a quarterly event, the Hip Hop Showcase is happening the last Thursday of the quarter at White Eagle, with Live performances, drink specials and good vibes!
Make sure you hit www.miccheckpdx.com
THURSDAY JUNE 28TH:
Special Guests...
SERGE SEVERE
WYNNE
YUNG MIL
QBALA
Beat Set by: Trox
Hosted by: DJ Klyph
Music by: Trox & DJ O.G. One
Dooors @ 8pm, Show starts at 9pm...
21 and over, Tickets: $8 @ the Door
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Join us at the Say Ciao Columbia River Taproom and Eatery from 4-7 pm on Saturday June 24th for a KXRW fundraiser. We'll have a meet and with the KXRW show hosts and board of directors, as well as a raffle for 3 nights at Prinevilla Resort Home. Tickets are $25 each or $40 for a pair, kids under 12 get in free. 2501 SE Columbia Way ste 270, Vancouver, WA.
HEAR TO BE HEARD: THE STORY OF THE SLITS
Director William E. Badgley in attendance!
A new documentary telling the tale of the formation, journey and end of the seminal Punk/Reggae band The Slits, the world's first all-girl punk band. Forming in London in 1976, they were contemporaries of The Clash & The Sex Pistols, and were the pioneering godmothers of the musical movement known as "Punky Reggae". The film tells the story of the band and the lives of the women involved, from the bands inception in 1976 to the bands end in 2010 coinciding at the death of lead vocalist Ari Up.
Sonic Cinema sponsored by Lagunitas, XRAY FM and Music Millennium
Bambi and Cole met on a basketball court, filming a music video for a band that didn’t have any music. After dating for six months, the two married under a blanket of smoke from the season’s forest fires.
Reptaliens quickly evolved from a conceptual collage of ideas into the bedroom recording project for the duo, captured with analog synthesizers, electric guitars, and melodic bass lines, and tape delayed vocals telling stories of science fiction, obsession, and transhumanism.
As long time, active participants in the Portland music scene, Bambi and Cole call on a number of talented musicians to guest on songs throughout the entirety of Reptaliens’ recordings and live performances. The band embraces the captivity of their audience with their sincere and theatrical performances.
Pay attention to the journey, from New Brigade, a juvenile delinquent take on post-punk, full of cold, distant condemnation, and onto the ecstasy of You’re Nothing, shedding the more aggressive hardcore influence and dragging in more light, a tendency followed on Plowing Into The Field Of Love. The intoxication is consistent, this has always been drunk music, but it’s less a stumbling confusion and more a sturdy heartfelt confession with each record. They have finally caught up with their ambition. Their entire charm has always rested in their running ahead of themselves with blind confidence, taunting you to follow and you follow because wherever they are going is vital, is alive; on Beyondless they are treading with an assurance that is disarming, but there is no loss of charm, you are arm in arm now, whispering intimacies.
TREEPEOPLE w/ THE PRIDS, THE DELUSIONS
Rock band from Boise, Idaho which was active from the late 80s to 1994. Treepeople shared its members with punk band State Of Confusion and The Halo Benders. Upon leaving the group in 1993, Doug Martsch formed Built To Spill.
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TREEPEOPLE w/ THE PRIDS, THE LONELY CHILDREN
Rock band from Boise, Idaho which was active from the late 80s to 1994. Treepeople shared its members with punk band State Of Confusion and The Halo Benders. Upon leaving the group in 1993, Doug Martsch formed Built To Spill.
FRI, JUNE 8, 2018
DOORS: 8:00 PM / SHOW: 9:00 PM
Holocene is turning 15 years old!!
To celebrate, we're throwing a FREE show for our community, headlined by the Northwest's own effervescent electronic producer Manatee Commune, and featuring support sets from celestial funk purveyors Tribe Mars, and soulful DJ sets for your dancing pleasure from Chanti Darling and XRAY.FM’s own Bobby D.
Space will be limited for this FREE event, so we recommend arriving early.
June 6th Instrument Drive (for immigrant & refugee youth with Portland meet Portland)
Portland Meet Portland welcomes and befriends immigrants and refugees, enriching community by creating mutually beneficial mentoring opportunities that promote cross-cultural learning, enhance work skills and build trust.
More information at: https://www.gofundme.com/immigrantrefugee-youth-rock-camp
Mic Check is a Hip Hop Showcase every last Thursday of the month at White Eagle, with Live performances, drink specials and good vibes!
Make sure you hit www.miccheckpdx.com
THURSDAY MAY 31st:
Special Guests...
SLEEP
of OLDOMINION
RAQUEL DIVAR
JxJURY
Hosted by DJ Klyph
Music by Trox
Dooors @ 9pm, Show starts at 10pm...
21 and over, Tickets: $8 @ the Door
Onion Music Fest, The Fixin' To, and XRAY.FM Present: A night of unique, soulful, and passionate expression, as we celebrate community and the upcoming OMF 2018.
Tribe Mars:
Tribe Mars is a guerrilla faction of freedom fighters combating against the forces of tyranny and systematic oppression through music, art, and spiritual practices learned from our extraterrestrial Martian brothers many lifetimes ago on the Red Planet.
Their expression through the use of their instruments channels these ancient practices and beliefs, which are then internalized and etched into the souls of those exposed to their tight grooves and soulful vocals
The Fur Coats:
The Fur Coats are a psych-soul-pop band from Portland, Oregon fronted by American sweethearts Chris Karl and Betty. Their lineup includes members of Wampire, Charlie Hilton and Reptaliens.
Onion The Man:
Psychedelic grooves ooze from the depths of their hot souls. Raw shallot force energy merges to create the layered vibrations that is Onion The Man. Residing in the northern realms of Oregon, four passionate artists birth, break, and surf the wave of contagious groove through melodic texture, rhythmic harmony, and musical empowerment. Riding the mothership upward and onward, the Onion family tours all over the west coast and organizes Onion Music Festival annually for the sake of bringing all paths of life together in the name of personal expression and humanity.
Tickets available here.
Carla dal Forno is an Australian singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, currently based in Berlin. She is a member of the groups F ingers and Tarcar, and formerly cult Melbourne outfit Mole House. Autumn 2016 sees the release of her debut solo album, You Know What It’s Like, on Blackest Ever Black.
Tickets available here: https://www.holocene.org/event/1640414-carla-dal-forno-portland/
Saturday, May 26th 9pm
Spare Room Restaurant & Lounge
4830 NE 42ND AVE
PDX OR 97218
$10 ADV/DOS tix at http://bit.ly/lithicstix
21+
Lithics
http://lithics.bandcamp.com/
Honey Bucket
https://honey-bucket.bandcamp.com/
Scorch
https://scorchusa.bandcamp.com/
Saturday, May 26
XRAY.FM, Sahel Sounds, & Multiflora Productions Present:
Mdou Moctar
http://mdoumoctar.bandcamp.com
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Secret Drum Band
https://secretdrumband.bandcamp.com/
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Amenta Abioto
https://soundcloud.com/amentaabioto/
TICKETS → https://tinyurl.com/ybtr77lt
Music for desert picnics. Tuareg guitarist Mdou Moctar delves into his more sensitive side with a minimal studio recording of dreamy ballads. Thumping calabash, droning guitars, and vocal overdubs evoke an imagined desert soundscape. All instruments and vocals performed by Mdou only, creating a very personal and auteur sessions. Emotive and introspective, exploring themes of religion, spirituality, and matters of the heart.
After his underground success on the pirate mp3 networks of West Africa with his first release, the psychedelic autotuned “Anar,” (2008) he was featured on the Sahel Sounds compilation “Music from Saharan Cellphones” (2011) and launched a successful touring career. In 2012, Mdou relocated from his village to Agadez, the center of Niger’s guitar scene, and formed his band. Over the past years, he has become well known on the international circuit, playing high energy electrified music in festivals and clubs across Europe and North America. In 2013, he released his first international album, “Afelan,” rocking and raw sessions recorded live in Niger. In 2015, he starred in the first ever Tuareg language film, “Rain the Color Blue with a Little Red In It,” a Nigerien remake of “Purple Rain.”