Shop, listen to XRAY.FM DJs (Magic Beans and T-KRAY), and learn more about community radio at the same time! Did we mention that you can do all of this plus have a cocktail in your hand? It just keeps getting better.
XRAY.FM Presents - Pop Up: An Evening of Music & Shopping.
There will be vintage clothing, housewares, ceramics, art, accessories and 2 guys selling records. Shop and show your support both on and off the air. See you there! All ages welcome.
Omen Vintage https://www.omenvintage.com/
Shop Nu Nu https://inspicks.com/user/shop_nu_nu/324416824
Sami Gaston http://sami.design/
Mixed Needs https://mixedneeds.com/
Main & Grand https://www.mainandgrand.com/
Switchblade Sistas Vintage
Plus 2 guys selling records
On the occasion of Mark E. Smith's would-be 61st birthday, Mystic Crew Filth (a collective of XRAY.FM and Freeform Portland DJs) pay tribute to The Fall, spinning records from their 40-year career as well as side projects and bands who influenced their music.
Celebrating 10 years of live storytelling! Throwing back our price to 2008!! Only $10 for GA and $22 for VIP!! GET ON IT!
True never-been-told stories based on the theme TRANSPLANTS.
LAUREN WEEDMAN Star of two SOLD OUT Runs of People’s Republic of Portland at Portland Center Stage at The Armory, Doris from HBO’s LOOKING, JENNY BRUSO the amazing force behind UNLIKELY HIKERS, Check her and her 30k followers out on IG: @unlikelyhikers, CAITLIN WEIERHAUSER Voted WW’s Funniest Person 2017, Voted Portland’s Funniest Person 2017, Member of Lez Standup SHANNON BALCOM GRAVES 5-Time Back Fence PDX: RUSSIAN ROULETTE Winner, Co-Host of XRAY.FM’s Sex, Drugs and Basketball, CHRIS WILLIAMS Broke Gravy Improv, 3-Time Back Fence PDX RUSSIAN ROULETTE Winner and JEN FELDMAN & JONATHAN COHEN Kidney Donor/Donee telling in tandem. Jen is the Development Director for Congregation Beth Israel, Veteran of 40 Years of Marriage. Jonathan is a partner in Old Town’s Society Hotel, Founder of Solar Contracting Firm, Imagine Energy.
Hosted by B. FRAYN MASTERS with announcer JASON ROUSE
Music by DJ BOBBY D from XRAY
A portion of this show’s proceeds will go to Donate Life Northwest.
XRAY.FM PRESENTS: GOLD BRIX TAPE 01 RELEASE PARTY
Gold Brick Records will be releasing its first in a series of special mix tapes (on cassette tape) featuring rare /unreleased music from all 4 bands on this bill. We will also have tunes DJ'd from a reel to reel machine in between sets by the illustrious DJ Cat and Cone.
TICKET LINK: https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1636336"
The bands:
Night Heron (ft. members of Radiation City, Aan, Reptaliens, et al) :
http://soundcloud.com/nightheronmusic
Wet Dream (ft. members of Grandparents, Moon By You, et al):
http://wetdreamcommittee.com/
S.E.C.R.E.T.S. (ft. members of Nurses):
https://soundcloud.com/supersecretsongs
Martha Stax (ft. members of Star Club, Rare Diagram, Ancient Elk, No Aloha)
Get your tickets here: https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1636336
Doors at 8pm
Show at 9pm
21+
$8 advance / $10 day of show
Everyday Mixtapes & KBOO Present:
ILL CAMILLE: http://www.illcamille.com/
After building her name up through LA’s underground, Ill Camille took a professional hiatus due to hardships that forced her to grow both personally and musically. Always stressing the importance of God and family before everything else, since finding the light at the end of the tunnel she has designed Heirloom as a collection of stories dedicated to keeping
her head on straight in the midst of turbulence.
Ill Camille’s divine mission to uplift the world through Heirloom is an extension of ancestry that includes musicians and fighters whose spirits make her art a necessity. Translating her tumultuous past few years through cathartic soulful Hip-Hop, creating this album was key to maintaining her sanity as she notes “I don’t think I had a choice in the
matter”.
Despite self-awareness being at the core of who Ill Camille is on and off of the mic, the bittersweet beauty of her most introspective release to date is the life struggle contained within her songs. Heirloom details all she’s experienced since 2012’s Illustrated, from losing relatives to incarceration and death, her own health complications and mistakes made diving headfirst into love and lust.
Evidenced by Heirloom’s lead single “Almost There” (which features recent TDE signee SiR), and her follow up “Home”, Ill Camille is able to shine by simply relaying her innermost truths for the world to relate to. Never overthinking the process in figuring out her path, she says “I let the spirit in my feeling guide me in everything, I didn’t plan anything out. Your music should reflect the mental space you’re in at the time, I have a moral
obligation to put that on my records.”
A window into Ill Camille’s upbringing, last four years and days to come, Heirloom represents a rebirth with her continuing to evolve as a woman before being a warrior. In the end, inner strength and communal support triumphed over her setbacks and obstacles, with Camille summing up the experience saying “I was inspired to finish this project because I owed it to myself and the people around me the respect to show my appreciation for them.” Having used pressure to form a diamond, this latest body of work
promises to speak for past, present and future generations of confused souls determined to become hopeful survivors.
Heirloom has received press on the blog of Solange’s label, Saint Heron, in Brooklyn Vegan, LA Weekly, and NPR's 21 Hip Hop Albums That Reflected The Politics of Race, Space, and Place in 2017.
FRITZWA: https://fritzwa.bandcamp.com/
This soul-drenched sound doesn’t quite sit in a neat box of influences Hailing from NYC’s Lower East Side, with West African heritage, Fritzwa’s lifelong experience has been constantly enveloped in artistic inspiration;
From Broadway to poetry, jazz to traditional, childhood dance classes and piano lessons, to balmy summers listening to Hot 97
She say’s, “I see art in everything,” and it’s something she translates into her music —
Including her latest, the self-written and produced Avenue |A|.
Whether she’s finding painful beauty in break-ups, or creating melodic soundscapes from NYC’s subway ambience, Fritzwa’s creativity and musical talent shine through in a beautiful way.
DJ sets by DJ Black Daria and DJ ShiShi of XRAY FM's Everyday Mixtapes.
8pm / 21+ / $10
Adv tix: https://holdmyticket.com/event/303597
Flyer by: Nagini Reddy
https://www.instagram.com/staceysnakes/
XRAY FM, McMenamins, StarChile, & Pabst Blue Ribbon Presents: MIC CHECK
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 FEBRUARY 22ND:
Special Guests...
HANiF
ANDRE WAYMOND
LISA VAZQUEZ
Hosted by StarChile
Music by Trox
Dooors @ 9pm, Show starts at 10pm...
21 and over, Tickets: $8 @ the Door
Timony’s fearless approach to her craft resulted in her forging a new path for the much-discussed “woman in rock,” one where a woman could nod to her femininity without hewing to outdated ideas of womanhood, and one where someone could not just play guitar, but could play with ideas of how the instrument should be approached. Timony simultaneously deconstructs and rebuilds riffs, searching for resolution but also savoring the journey toward it; with Helium, she pushed her technique and explored unconventional compositional ideas in-depth. The chug of “Pat’s Trick” was of a piece with the brand of ‘90s rock given the “indie rock” blessing, but Timony’s swallowing-itself solo and laconic vocal elevated the track, making it a head-rush of damaged beauty.
Helium’s first single, 1993’s “The American Jean,” announced a band that was as influenced by prog’s exploratory impulses as it was by punk’s willingness to speak its peace, its thrum anchored by Shawn King Devlin’s crashing drums and Brian Dunton’s loping basslines. The work that followed—the “Hole In The Ground”/“Lucy” 7-inch, the high-concept EP Pirate Prude—furthered the vision of Timony, whose guitar playing and lyrics hummed with the desire to build something new out of the world’s various rubbles, to grow a flower out of the apocalypse.
In 1995 Helium released The Dirt Of Luck, a stunning collection that revealed how Timony’s songwriting prowess had grown. Its lyrics were filled with heady feminist imagery that matched the restlessness of Timony’s playing, while new bassist Ash Bowie (Polvo) gave added heft to the music’s low end; “Superball” is a broadside from a small-but-mighty being that could demolish any comers, while the late-hour drawl “Honeycomb” paints a picture of a witchy woman who’s “a roll of the dice.” “Baby’s Going Underground,” meanwhile, is the highest point on an album full of them, its thundering drums and bad-dream drones creating a song that could conceivably stretch on for eons.
With 1997’s The Magic City, Timony shifted her lyrical focus to more escapist-minded concepts, and the music lightened up a bit as well. The album, co-produced by Mitch Easter, adds sitars and harpsichords to the mix; its blend of fantastic imagery and lighter textures caused Rolling Stone to proclaim that Helium had “discovered a strange new world where progressive isn’t always synonymous with pompous.” “Leon’s Space Song” buries power-pop oohs underneath its churning guitars; “Aging Astronauts” pairs Timony’s ventures into her upper register with slide guitar and keyboard filigrees, giving its anxious lyrics extra bite.
Timony has struck new-millennium gold with her power trio Ex Hex, but that band’s taut tracks are enlivened by the curiosity and drive to explode expectations that characterize her work with Helium, whose body of work is crucial to understanding where indie rock has been—and where it can go.
ALLISON CRUTCHFIELD
For now, you catch Allison Crutchfield and her band the Fizz on the road this October with several west coast dates supporting The Julie Ruin.
Bill Frissell: A Portrait
Bill Frisell in attendance for Q+A with local film composer Mark Orton!
A character portrait of anti-archetype guitar hero, Bill Frisell, this nuanced film traces the ideas and processes that shaped Frisell’s music, and provides rare insight into the mind and personality of one of the significant musicians of recent decades. Full of live music, revealing stories, and intimate access to the normally reclusive Frisell, various collaborations are followed from development to fruition, including the last ever performance of the Paul Motian Trio with Frisell and Joe Lovano. Also featuring Bonnie Raitt, Hal Willner, Paul Simon, Nels Cline, Joey Baron, Jim Hall, Jason Moran, Mike Gibbs, John Zorn, Jack DeJohnette, Ron Carter and John Abercrombie.
The Sabertooth festival returns February 16-18 in celebration of all things Psychedelic and Stoner Rock! Find the full event schedule and ticket information at https://www.sabertoothpdx.com/
While psychedelic music covers a range of styles and genres, it is inspired by psychedelic culture and the attempt to replicate the mind altering experiences that started in mid-'60s folk rock and blues. As such, Sabertooth celebrates the historical role the Crystal Ballroom played through previous half-century of psychedelic music.
THIS ONES FOR DILLA w/ DJs SHOESHINE (aka REV SHINES & HOUSE SHOES) + original beat sets from TROX & THEORY HAZIT!!
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We're once again paying our annual tribute to the late James Dewitt Yancey, aka J Dilla, one of the most beloved and prolific hip-hop legends of our time...Portland's finest selector, Rev Shines will be joined by Detroit legend and longtime Dilla collaborator House Shoes and the evening will kick off with original beat sets from Trox & Theory Hazit.
“J Dilla changed my life” is an oft-heard endorsement amongst the hip-hop community as a founding member of the legendary Detroit group Slum Village and member of the Native Tongue movement, J Dilla has produced records for some of the most recognized and celebrated names in the game – Janet Jackson, Common, De La Soul, The Pharcyde, A Tribe Called Quest and countless others.
Since his untimely passing in 2006, his name and work continue to be celebrated through the hip-hop community worldwide.
Join us in a celebration of the life and work of J Dilla.
February 15 – March 1, 2018
Featuring a cavalcade of visiting artists and the Portland premiere of over 130 films, the Portland International Film Festival returns for its forty-first year. Join more than 40,000 filmgoers in attendance this year at Oregon’s largest annual film event, and learn why PIFF is the best time of the year for movie fans living and watching in the Portland Metro Area. Portland Art Museum members receive discounts on Festival tickets. Explore the Festival.
For a full listing of all screenings visit https://nwfilm.org/festivals/piff41/
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!
Join us in the upstairs bar at Doug Fir Lounge for 2 more nights ofXRAY.FM DJs!
DJs from 8pm 'til Midnight!
Late Night Happy Hour starts at 10pm!
Monday, February 13th, 8pm-Midnight
DJ KM Fizzy of Strange Babes
Punk, Garage, Modern Underground
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Drink specials every night to raise money for our favorite community supported music organization XRAY.FM!
Back Fence PDX & OK Chorale PDX Present Love, Lies, and a Bit of Bleeding, a Valentines Day singalong and storytelling event. Love, Lies and a Bit of Bleeding celebrates love in all its twisted, splendid glory.
FEATURING stories and songs from STEPHANIE SCHNIEDERMAN, JOHN RODERICK, MARIA WEBSTER, MATT SHEEHY, with house band BEN LANDSVERK and the What’s Love Got To Do With It Allstars. More singers and songs announced soon!
Hosted and Produced by B. FRAYN MASTERS & KATE SOKOLOFF
MON FEBRUARY 12 | 21+
DOORS 6:30 | SHOW 7:30
MISSION THEATER |
1624 NW Glisan St
Music Business Forum: Social Media for Musicians
Sunday, February 11 at Doug Fir Lounge (1p)
Free Admission, All Ages Welcome
In association with Vortex Music Magazine and J-Fell Presents, MOGO Music Festival is hosting another FREE Music Business Forum for ANYONE IN THE PORTLAND MUSIC COMMUNITY who wishes to learn more about music business best practices. PLUS, you'll also be able to pick up a copy of the brand new issue of Vortex!
GOT QUESTIONS FOR OUR PANELISTS? Leave 'em here!
The panel will be moderated by Vortex Music Magazine founder Chris Young.
Panelists include:
- Tracey Gill Miller, Global Marketing Manager at CD Baby. She is responsible for the strategy, execution and management of all international campaigns in Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese through social media networks, email, digital advertising, and content management at CD Baby, the leader in music distribution for independent musicians. She holds an MBA from IE Business School in Madrid with a focus on international marketing. cdbaby.com
- Gil Assayas, aka Glasys, is a YouTuber, synth wizard, producer and vocalist located in Portland. GLASYS delivers impassioned vocals, intricate keyboard parts and electronic soundscapes in one package that combines his many influences including classical music, electronic, jazz and indie rock. Oh, and he kicks ass on social media—it got him into the studio with T-Pain last year... just wait till you hear some of his stories!glasys.com
- Daniel Bozyk, Radio Personality, Social Content & Marketing Specialist at Bozyk Digital Media. Bozyk is a longtime radio personality including Portland shows on CBS Radio's 101 KUFO rock station and iHeartRadio's 105.9 The Brew classic rock station. Bozyk was the director of digital programming for the iHeartRadio Portland group before going independent. His current client roster includes the J-Fell Presentsnetwork of bands and music festivals. bozykdigital.com
And if you can't make it in person, we're also excited to announce that the event will be live streamed thanks to our new partnership withAudioGlobe!
vrtxmag.com
j-fell.com
mogofest.com
1939 Ensemble
1939ensemble.net/
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Volcanic Pinnacles
volcanicpinnacles.bandcamp.com/music
$7 / 21+
White Owl Social Club and XRAY FM are very proud to welcome Shannon and the Clams back to the Portland stage, supported by L.A.'s Ivory Deville and XRAY's own DJ Honest John.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8TH, 2018
Doors @ 7PM
All tickets are $15 - but get them now because THEY WILL SELL OUT!
***PLEASE BE SURE TO HAVE MOBILE TICKETS READY TO PRESENT AT THE DOOR***
Shannon and the Clams
The American West. America’s America. It was here in three very different worlds that Shannon and the Clams were spawned. From the dark redwood forests of Oregon emerged Cody Blanchard: singer and guitarist. The dusty walnut orchards and vineyards of northern California gave us Shannon Shaw: singer and bassist. Out of the lonely dunes of California’s central coast shambled Nate Mayhem: drummer and keys. These three talented visual artists were drawn separately to Oakland, California and it was there that the Clams began playing house parties and grimy clubs.
The band was forged in the anachronistic remote communities of the west, in some strange mixture of computer show and country fair; their music is some odd alloy of The Last Picture Show and The Decline of Western Civilization. The pioneer spirit of western life is all over this band: pushing into the unknown, blazing their own trail, creating their own destiny, with the accompanying canyon-esque loneliness and untamed joy only truly known by those with the courage to pull up stakes and head off into the big empty sunset.
Gone by the Dawn, the newest Shannon and the Clams album, is their best work to date. The music is complex, the lyrical content is emotionally raw and honest, and the production is the strangest it’s ever been. The album was written as one member was recovering from a serious breakup and another was deep in one. The lyrics reflect it, and the entire album is dripping with sadness, pain, and introspection. Shannon and Cody have not written generic songs about love or the lack of it. Instead they have written about their very own specific heartbreak, mistreatment, and mental trials. The emotion is palpable. On Gone by the Dawn the Clams have DARED TO BE REAL. They’ve exposed their true emotions, which is what’s most moving about the album. People are scared to be so real. Society does not encourage it. Folks remain guarded to protect themselves from being mocked, punished, and becoming outcast . The Clams have opted to forgo the potential tongue-clucking finger-waggers, and have instead had the artistic courage and audacity to splay their pain and struggles out for all to hear. We are lucky to hear them get so damn real.
For Gone by the Dawn, the Oakland trio hooked up with studio wizard and renaissance man Sonny Smith to record the album at Tiny Telephone Recording in San Francisco. Best known as the driving force behind San Francisco’s beloved Sonny and the Sunsets, Smith uses his refreshing production techniques to create an engaging sonic landscape without compromising the Clams’ signature Lou Christie-meets-The Circle Jerks sound. The Clams have evolved: their skills are sharper, their chops are tighter and weirder and they’ve added new instruments to to the mix. A whole new dimension of the Clams has emerged.
In the West everything is big. The mountains are towering, the rivers broad, the deserts vast, the canyons deep, and the emotions huge. The Clams have painted themselves into a massive landscape of sound and desolation. Gone by the Dawn is monumental; immense, magnificent, and unforgettable. Shannon and the Clams have pioneered their way into a lonesome land where the past still lives in the long shadows of a hot afternoon, where whispering spirits follow high along canyon walls, and if you sink your fingers into the dusty hard-packed earth you pull out hands smeared with blood.
– Dan Shaw
Los Angeles band Ivory Deville produces an uncommon swagger and juxtaposition of sound that hits its stride at the intersection of honky tonk, glam rock, and mid-century rock and roll. Born out of the raucous beer joints and restless bones of the Plains, and warmly branded by soaring female harmonies from the California coast, Ivory Deville is an authentic roadhouse band for our time.
FEATURING* Winner from our December show, Member of That’s What She Said Queer Comedy Collective, Seasoned Performance Artist, Grandma in Training KATIE PIATT, Author of Turtleface and Dogwalker, Emmy Nominated Filmmaker, 2-Time Winner ARTHUR BRADFORD, Back Fence PDX Announcer, Writer/Actor JASON ROUSE, Singaporean, Dancer, Rat mom, Real life anime character, Deceivingly adorable but can fuck you up ELINA LIM, along with formidable first-timers: Named one of the Portland Mercury’s Geniuses of Comedy, Host of Earthquake Hurricane KATIE NGUYEN and Star of Fun Home The Musical, Children’s Choir Director, Cabaret Singer from Harlem, Rodeo Clown Wannabe ALLISON MICKELSON
Hosted by B. FRAYN MASTERS & MINDY NETTIFEE
Music DJ BOBBY D from XRAY
WED JANUARY 31 |21+
DOORS 6:30 | SHOW 7:30
CURIOUS COMEDY |5225 NE MLK Blvd
Join us in the upstairs bar at Doug Fir Lounge for XRAY.FM DJs - Mondays in January!
Monday, January 29th, 6-10pm
Grand Yoni of The IMPACT! Sound
Sweet ska and rocksteady from the sixties, the deepest roots reggae from the seventies and the best dancehall from the eighties and beyond.
PORTLAND, Ore. – The Portland Ballet presents a series of FREE PRE-ballet classes for ages 6-9. The series are each four classes held once a week at TPB’s studio, 6250 SW Capitol Highway.
The FREE PRE classes introduce young dancers to the fundamentals of ballet and help them decide if ballet is right for them. TPB welcomes all new dancers in these commitment-free series with the goal of giving students the basic foundations and an appreciation of dance. TPB is devoted to nurturing, student-centered ballet training.
The final class acts as a placement assessment for the Curriculum Ballet program. Students must attend the full series (all four classes) but are not required to pay an audition fee. Parents who wish to enroll their children must complete a Registration Form. Class sizes are limited, and they may be cancelled if they do not meet minimum enrollment.
Dress code: Female dancers should wear pink tights, pink ballet shoes and a leotard of any color. They should not wear skirts or tutus. Male dancers should wear black tights, a white t-shirt and black ballet shoes.
Dates and times:
- July 10, 17, 24, 31 – Mondays 4:30-5:30 p.m.
- July 15, 22, 29, Aug. 5 – Saturdays 10-11 a.m.
- September 9, 16, 23, 30 – Saturdays 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
- January 6, 13, 20, 27, 2018 – Saturdays 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
To register: theportlandballet.org or 503.452.8448
The Portland Ballet, led by artistic directors Nancy Davis and Anne Mueller, nurtures young dancers from age three to 22. TPB students are trained with professional intent by a faculty that includes some of the nation’s finest dancers and choreographers, with experience at companies such as the National Ballet, the original Los Angeles Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Royal Danish Ballet, Trey McIntyre Project, and BodyVox. Professionally produced performance experience is at the core of TPB training. TPB graduates have gone on to professional dance careers with companies such as Grand Rapids Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Nevada Ballet Theatre, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Sacramento Ballet, Houston Ballet, St. Louis Ballet, Royal Swedish Ballet, Batsheva, LEV, Ballet Memphis, and Ballet West