Events

All Ages // 4:30 PM Doors Show 6 PM // $80 + up Children 10 & under free

Indigo Girls

Across four decades, 16 studio albums, and over 15 million records sold, Indigo Girls continue to blaze the trail for generations of Queer artists in the mainstream. The Grammy-winning duo of Emily Saliers and Amy Ray began their career in clubs and bars around their native Atlanta, GA amidst a blossoming alternative music scene before signing to Epic Records in 1988. Indigo

Girls' eponymous major label debut sold over two million copies under the power of singles

"Closer to Fine" and "Kid Fears" and introduced the duo's signature harmonies and stirring, sophisticated songs to a dedicated, enduring global audience. Indigo Girls was the first of six consecutive Gold and/or Platinum-certified albums. Their latest record, Look Long, is a heartfelt and eclectic collection of songs that finds the duo reunited in the studio with their strongest backing band to date. "We joke about being old, but what is old when it comes to music? We're

still a bar band at heart," says Saliers. "While our lyrics and writing approach may change, our passion for music feels the same as it did when we were 25 years old."

Committed and uncompromising activists, Saliers and Ray work on issues like racial justice and reproductive rights (Project Say Something), immigration reform (El Refugio), LGBTQ advocacy, education (Imagination Library), death penalty reform, and Native American rights (First Peoples Fund).

"As time has gone on, our audience has become more expansive and diverse, giving me a sense of joy," says Saliers. Recently, "Closer to Fine" featured prominently in Greta Gerwig's blockbuster film Barbie and introduced Indigo Girls' music to a new generation of listeners. Released in 2024, their critically-acclaimed documentary Indigo Girls: It's Only Life After All (directed by Alexandria Bombach) blends 40 years of home movies, raw film archive, and intimate present-day verité into a soulful career retrospective. A New York Times Critic's Pick, the documentary premiered opening night at the Sundance Film Festival in 2023 and went on to screen at SXSW, Tribeca Film Festival, and Hot Docs before releasing to Netflix. A third film, director Tom Gustafson's 2023 jukebox musical Glitter & Doom tells the tale of a whirlwind summer romance through inventive reimaginations of classic Indigo Girls songs. Glitter & Doom boasts a star-studded queer supporting cast featuring Lea DeLaria, Tig Notaro, Kate Pierson (The B-52s), RuPaul's Drag Race alum Peppermint, and even a cameo from Amy and Emily themselves.

While Rolling Stone describes them as "ideal duet partners," Indigo Girls' live performances aren't so much duets as they are community experiences-massive group singalongs together with their audience. To hear those collective voices raise into one, overpowering the band itself, one realizes the importance Indigo Girls' music has in this moment. In our often-terrifying present, we are all in search of a daily refuge, a stolen hour or two, to engage with something that brings us joy, perspective, or maybe just calm. As one bar band once put it, "We go to the doctor, we go to the mountains...we go to the Bible, we go through the work out." For millions, they go to the Indigo Girls: a creative partnership certain of its bearings, forging a way forward.

Melissa Etheridge

Melissa Etheridge stormed onto the American rock scene in 1988 with the release of her critically acclaimed self-titled debut album, which led to an appearance on the 1989 Grammy Awards show. For several years, her popularity grew around such memorable originals as "Bring Me Some Water," "No Souvenirs" and "Ain't It Heavy," for which she won a Grammy in 1992. Etheridge hit her commercial and artistic stride with her fourth album, Yes I Am (1993). The collection featured the massive hits, "I'm the Only One" and "Come to My Window," a searing song of longing that brought Etheridge her second Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Performance. In 1995, Etheridge issued her highest charting album, Your Little Secret, which was distinguished by the hit single, "I Want to Come Over." Her astounding success that year led to Etheridge receiving the Songwriter of the Year honor at the ASCAP Pop Awards in 1996.

Known for her confessional lyrics and raspy, smoky vocals, Etheridge has remained one of America's favorite female singers for more than two decades. In February 2007, Melissa Etheridge celebrated a career milestone with a victory in the "Best Song" category at the Academy Awards for "I Need to Wake Up," written for the Al Gore documentary on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth. As a performer and songwriter, Etheridge has shown herself to be an artist who has never allowed "inconvenient truths" to keep her down. Earlier in her recording career, Etheridge acknowledged her sexual orientation when it was considered less than prudent to do so. In October 2004, Etheridge was diagnosed with breast cancer, a health battle that, with her typical tenacity, she won. Despite losing her hair from chemotherapy, Etheridge appeared on the 2005 Grammy telecast to sing "Piece of My Heart" in tribute to Janis Joplin. By doing so she gave hope to many women afflicted with the disease.

On October 7, 2016 Melissa Etheridge released Memphis Rock & Soul, her first album since 2014's critically lauded This Is M.E. Recorded at Royal Studios in Memphis, the album received stellar reviews from the likes of Entertainment Weekly, Parade, Rolling Stone, American Songwriter and more. She followed that up with the release of The Medicine Show in April, 2019. For The Medicine Show, Melissa reunited with celebrated producer John Shanks and sounds as rousing as ever, bringing a new level of artistry to her 15th studio recording.

In June of 2020, Etheridge launched The Etheridge Foundation to support groundbreaking scientific research into effective new treatments for opioid use disorder. The Foundation works towards advancing treatment approaches that address the root causes of opioid abuse and make available better, more effective solutions for people to truly heal their opioid use disorder.

In 2021, Melissa returned with then album One Way Out. The 9-track album is a collection of songs Etheridge wrote in the late '80s and early '90s that never made the cut... .until now! The time was finally right, and fans finally got a deeper glimpse to who Melissa was then.

October 2022 saw Melissa's return to the theatre with her one woman show, My Window - A Journey Through Life. The critically acclaimed, sold-out run premiered at New World Stages on October 13 and opened at Circle In the Square Theatre on Broadway in September 2023.

2024 saw Melissa release Melissa Etheridge: I'm Not Broken, a two-part docuseries (Paramount+) and accompanying live album. Recorded live within the grounds of the Topeka Correctional facility the album and two-part docuseries follows her journey both penning and performing an original song inspired by her correspondence with residents of the TCF and features raw and rousing versions of specially curated fan favorites and original songs.

No Requests – July Edition
Sunday, July 27 • 6–9 PM
White Eagle Saloon • No Cover
21+

DJ Klyph and DJ Ambush return for another edition of No Requests—spinning golden era classics and underground gems. No gimmicks, no requests—just two DJs curating the vibe.

2 DJs • 4 Decks • No Requests
“It’s not a party, it’s a vibe.”

21+ // 8 PM Doors/Show // $11 Advance $21 DoS

Doors 6:30pm, Event 7pm // $15

PAM CUT is thrilled to present a special screening of Kate Bush’s mystical art film The Line, The Cross, The Curve, directed by, written by and starring Kate Bush. It was released in 1993 as a companion piece to her album The Red Shoes, and features 6 songs from the album. The album and the film both draw inspiration from the classic Grimm’s fairytale of The Red Shoes, as well as Michael Powell’s 1948 film of the same name. We’ll also kick off the screening with a curated selection of some of Kate Bush’s most iconic music videos, from the fertile early years of her career, 1978-1993, which saw her collaborating with the likes of Terry Gilliam and more.

Join us as we step into the visual realm of this singular avant-pop diva, a world rich with mythology and magic, full of striking fashion, sumptuous sets, deep symbolic imagery, and imaginal resonance. As we journey through her music videos, as well as her film, we see her embodying a myriad of feminine archetypes, holding a mirror up to these aspects of womanhood. Her music, and her cinematic offerings, invite us – to quote Clarissa Pinkola Estes in Women Who Run with the Wolves – to experience “ llamar o tocar a la puerta, the fairy-tale knock at the door of the deep feminine psyche.”

This event is curated by Gina Altamura, Holocene talent buyer and also known as DJ Serious Moonlight on XRAY.FM, and is presented at the Tomorrow Theater in partnership with PAM CUT, Holocene, and XRAY.FM.

ON SCREEN: The Line, the Cross & the Curve
1993. Directed by Kate Bush. Runtime: 45 minutes. 

A singer struggles to dance well in rehearsal with her band. A power outage leaves her alone in the studio, reviewing her life, when a mysterious woman appears through the mirror and gives her a pair of Red Shoes. The cursed shoes dance beautifully, but endlessly. The singer is drawn irresistibly into the fey world beyond the mirror, where she must redeem three magic symbols from the mysterious woman in order to obtain release from the cursed shoes.

HOSTED BY: Gina Altamura

Gina Altamura is a live music and arts event curator and DJ out of Portland, Oregon. She has been curating events for local music venue Holocene since 2008. She co-hosts the radio show Intuitive Navigation on XRAY.FM, which has been on air since the station’s founding in 2014. She holds a degree in Philosophy from Lewis & Clark College. She also volunteers as a Board member with Oregon Friends of C.G. Jung. She has a deep interest in exploring archetypes through the lens of popular culture, as well as helping her generation connect to archetypal thinking via modalities such as artistic practice and tarot.

All Ages // 7 PM Door Show 8 PM // $35 Advance $40 DoS

The Alain Johannes Band is hitting the Pacific Northwest this July, marking Johannes' first rock tour with a full band in the U.S. since his days with Eleven. The band features drummer Gene Trautmann, also of Queens of the Stone Age. Their set will draw heavily from Johannes' rock catalog, including material from Eleven, his solo work, and collaborations with Mark Lanegan, Chris Cornell, and QOTSA.

In July, the AJB will play a mix of festivals and intimate club shows around the greater Seattle area. They'll also appear at the Ohana Festival on September 27 in Dana Point, CA.

21+ // Doors 7 PM // $5 Tickets

XRAYFM and Mississippi Studios present our monthly series Local Love Letters which showcases Portland Artist. This month we have NIght Brunch with support from Party Witch and Field Drums. Stop on by at Mississippi Studios and use their ticket vending machine to skip on processing fees. 

All Ages // 7 PM Doors 8 PM Show // Tickets $28 - 36

Federale is a six-piece ensemble based in Portland, OR. Spearheaded by longtime Brian Jonestown Massacre bassist Collin Hegna, the band was conceived as an outlet to channel inspiration from '60s & '70s European soundtracks, particularly those from Italy made famous by the Spaghetti Western & Giallo genres. As well as the narrative driven song stylings of Lee Hazlewood and Nick Cave.

Reverb & Seduction is the legendary Portland band's most immersive and varied album to date. A tour de force road trip from psych rock to country duets that never strays too far from the spaghetti western roots that inspired the band so many blood moons ago.

"...equal parts Ennio Morricone, Lee Hazelwood, and Nick Cave with a touch of Chris Isaak's less romantic side... few if any artists are brave and/or creative enough to channel this ghostly, often ominous vibe into moving, sensual and stirring music." HAL HOROWITZ, American Songwriter

Website: http://federalepdx.com/

21+ // Doors 7 PM // $10 Advance $12 DoS

Join DJ Wednesday from the XRAYFM show Six Beats Under (Mondays 9-10pm) for a curated evening at Holocene

Performances by Mercury's Antennae, Among the Black Trees (release party), Darkswoon and Bridal Veil. DJ Set by DJ Wednesday

7pm, 21+
$10 in advance, $12 at the Door

Live Broadcast From XRAY FM // Free // All-Ages on the Street // 21+ in the venue after 8pm

Join us for a double header event on Saturday July 12th at the Mississippi Street Fair!

Noon to 4pm - All Ages

Catch us out front of Mississippi Studios for a live broadcast of our regular Saturday afternoon lineup, featuring Beaches, the Impact! Sound, and The "IN" Crowd.

8pm - Midnight - 21+

The party continues into the night with a free dance party featuring XRAY DJs and hosted by Mississippi Studios in the venue. Featuring DJs Morning Remorse (of Meaningful Connections, Thursdays 8-9pm), Honest John (of Savage Beat, Thursdays 7-8pm) and Freaky Outty (of The Filet, Saturdays 4pm).

Plus join us for plenty of ways to win cool prizes this weekend!

21+ // 7 PM Doors 8 PM Show // $28 Advance $35 DoS

Constant Debauchery (Depeche Mode tribute)

Constant Debauchery is the Pacific Northwest's premier Depeche Mode celebration band, playing the arena hits, club faves, and b-sides of the dark dance music pioneers. This dynamic four-piece crafts electrifying sets from over three hours of music across four decades of Mode!

Major Tomboys (all-femme David Bowie tribute)

Known for their electrifying live shows, Portland's all-femme David Bowie tribute band, Major Tomboys, brings a bold and fresh twist to Bowie's iconic catalog. From the glam rock anthems of Moonage Daydream to the futuristic sounds of Ashes to Ashes and Heroes, Major Tomboys delivers every song with precision and passion, while incorporating elements of Bowie's theatricality, androgyny, and boundary-pushing aesthetics.

Live Broadcast From XRAY FM // Free // All-Ages on the Street // 21+ in the venue after 8pm

Join us for a double header event on Saturday July 12th at the Mississippi Street Fair!

Noon to 4pm - All Ages

Catch us out front of Mississippi Studios for a live broadcast of our regular Saturday afternoon lineup, featuring Beaches, the Impact! Sound, and The "IN" Crowd.

8pm - Midnight - 21+

The party continues into the night with a free dance party featuring XRAY DJs and hosted by Mississippi Studios in the venue. Featuring DJs Morning Remorse (of Meaningful Connections, Thursdays 8-9pm), Honest John (of Savage Beat, Thursdays 7-8pm) and Freaky Outty (of The Filet, Saturdays 4pm).

Plus join us for plenty of ways to win cool prizes this weekend!

21+ // Doors at 7pm, DJs at 7pm // $10-$20 sliding scale at door

State of the world got ya down? Not feeling super patriotic this 4th? Don't worry, we got you.

Join XRAY FM for an anti-fascist 4th of July party at Swan Dive (727 SE Grand Ave). We're throwing a benefit show for Doctors Without Borders with live music (curated by Down the Rabbit Hole) featuring...

• Black Shelton
• Piggy Bank
• Whisper Hiss
• Vague Fugue

with a DJ set by Down the Rabbit Hole

All proceeds will go to support Doctors Without Borders. Let's party for good.

All Ages // Doors 7 PM Show 8 // Tickets $23+

All Ages // 6:30 PM Doors 8 PM Show // Tickets $40 - $55 

Crumb

New York psych-pop band Crumb return with AMAMA, their most carefree and open-hearted album to date. A soundscape full of playful and patchwork experimentation - glitchy pitch-shifted vocals, cell phone recordings, nautical blips, sax mouthpiece solos, blasted drum samples, and piano strings dampened with Silly Putty - AMAMA continues to deepen the band's hypnotic sound in a cohesive line back through 2021's Ice Melt, 2019's Jinx, and breakout EPs Locket and Crumb. Without a doubt, AMAMA is Crumb - singer and multi-instrumentalist Lila Ramani, keyboardist and saxophonist Bri Aronow, bassist Jesse Brotter, and drummer Jonathan Gilad - at their most animated.

Buoyed by Ramani's songwriting, at turns poetically abstract and directly confessional, AMAMA culls the strange encounters from Crumb's touring years, tracing the dizzying path of a group that's been in movement for nearly a decade. 'Crushxd' is an ecstatic requiem for a turtle flattened under the tires of a tour van; '(Alone in) Brussels' finds Ramani in forced isolation in a distant city. On 'The Bug,' we're at a pit stop in a seedy motel, where a critter's bite leaves a nagging feeling: 'It's always on my mind / it's just always on my mind,' Ramani repeats over a creeping groove as she wanders the place at night. On 'Side by Side,' perhaps the most candid track on AMAMA, frenetic percussion and disorienting, layered synth envelop Ramani as she considers the personal sacrifices she's made along the way.

Even as it explores transient stops and fraught encounters, AMAMA features some of Crumb's most vulnerable, tender searches for organic connection. 'Home is what I want and what I need,' Ramani sings on the clear-sighted opener, 'From Outside a Window Sill'-which samples a police radio scan about a flock of geese crossing a bridge in Gowanus, Brooklyn, where Ramani grew up. The title track, 'AMAMA,' is an upbeat and hopeful homage to Ramani's grandmother, her namesake, who sings in Malayalam in the opening sample. The two voices, Lila's and Leela's, separated by language and place, intertwine as if on a spotty long-distance call in what is the most direct love song of Crumb's repertoire. On the album's closer, 'XXX,' laden with distorted, industrial sounds, we finally find respite-a house shared between two lovers, a safe place. In the last moments, Ramani asks: 'Isn't this as good as it can get?'

AMAMA exists at the crossroads of psychedelia, pop, jazz, and rock, and cements Crumb as a band uniquely their own. Released independently on Crumb Records and produced alongside Johnscott Sanford and Jonathan Rado in Los Angeles, AMAMA is an incandescent statement about searching for solid ground, connection, and clarity in a life of nomadic upheaval.

Over 100 vendors, every Friday from 4-7pm from May 16th to September 19th. Open to the public. The Manzanita Farmers Market also accepts SNAP benefits.

21+ // 6 PM // No Cover

No Requests Vurzez Series: Queens vs The Bay

The Vurzez Series returns with a heavyweight showdown between two iconic regions in hip-hop history—Queens vs The Bay.

Join DJ Ambush and DJ Klyph as they dig deep into the crates, spinning classic and underground joints from Queens, NY and the Bay Area, CA. From Nas to Mac Dre, LL to E-40, Mobb Deep to Hiero—expect a night of gritty bars, hyphy energy, and non-stop head-nods.

Strictly vibes. No requests.

Let the music speak—who you got?

21+ // 10 PM // $10 DoS

Carnevale Night at White Owl Social Club features 8Flat, DJ Ambush and DJ Storm JR bringing a night for cultures to come together and dance to the music. Come with energy and open ear.

Over 100 vendors, every Friday from 4-7pm from May 16th to September 19th. Open to the public. The Manzanita Farmers Market also accepts SNAP benefits.