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A night of rockin' riffage...ranging from urgent acid-washed skate-metal, to pulsing/hypnotic garage, and meandering/fuzzy psychedelia!!!

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).

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!

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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.

8:30pm | $8.00 advance $8.00 day of show
Tickets: Stranger Tickets

As the producing-team behind Grails, Alex Hall and Emil Amos have hybridized and warped various culture's versions of psych music over the past decade. With their project Lilacs and Champagne, they've created another umbrella under which to tweak hip-hop, tape-collage and the darkest creases of 70's film-soundtracks with their lysergic and perverse style of head-music. The project's name and imagery evoke a strange thrift-store mystery LP you might come across, unsure if you've discovered an exotic dub record, a flowery Bacharach AM radio classic or something by an obscure duo of Swedish avant-techno producers.

The record began under the influence of Madlib's production style....which had suggested that writing songs using an Akai MPC sampler would force the two to stretch their legs and explode any expectations created by records they've made in the past. But rather than sampling the funk and soul canon of traditional hip hop, they pulled from disparate sources such as Polish private press hippie records, indistinguishable radio noise or the chopped and reversed sounds of Jayne Mansfield's head being decapitated. Layers of instruments and found sound were then painted over the original samples until entirely new directions were created and taken to their logical conclusion... creating something simultaneously alien and familiar... something like the sound of Nurse with Wound collaborating with J-Dilla.

As the producing-team behind Grails, Alex Hall and Emil Amos have hybridized and warped various culture’s versions of psych music over the past decade. With their new project they’ve created another umbrella under which to tweak hip-hop, tape-collage and the darkest creases of 70′s film-soundtracks with their lysergic and perverse style of head-music. The project’s name and imagery evoke a strange thrift-store mystery LP you might come across, unsure if you’ve discovered an exotic dub record, a flowery Bacharach AM radio classic or something by an obscure duo of Swedish avant-techno producers. 

The record began under the influence of Madlib’s production style….which had suggested that writing songs using an Akai MPC sampler would force the two to stretch their legs and explode any expectations created by records they’ve made in the past. But rather than sampling the funk and soul canon of traditional hip hop, they pulled from disparate sources such as Polish private press hippie records, indistinguishable radio noise or the chopped and reversed sounds of Jayne Mansfield’s head being decapitated. Layers of instruments and found sound were then painted over the original samples until entirely new directions were created and taken to their logical conclusion… creating something simultaneously alien and familiar… something like the sound of Nurse with Wound collaborating with J-Dilla.

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (often abbreviated CYHSY) is an American indie rock group based in Brooklyn, New York and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The band, whose members met years earlier at Connecticut College, formed in the beginning of 2004 and played shows in Manhattan and Brooklyn. They are notable for achieving their initial fame and commercial success via the internet rather than through a record label.

Their debut album, "Clap Your Hands Say Yeah," was self-released in 2005. Shortly after the release of the album, they received favorable reviews and attention from numerous blogs. The ensuing demand for the album was so great that the band was forced to repress the record, as the initial production run was too small. They garnered even more press after David Bowie and David Byrne were spotted at some of the band's shows in 2005.

In October 2005, they signed to Wichita Recordings in the U.K. The band released their second album, "Some Loud Thunder" in January 2007. The album was produced by Dave Fridmann, known for his work with Mercury Rev and The Flaming Lips and debuted at #47 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart.

Guitarist and frontman Alec Ounsworth released his solo debut, "Mo Beauty," in late 2009 while concurrently releasing "Skin and Bones," the debut album with his other band Flashy Python. Keyboardist Robbie Guertin and bassist Tyler Sargent have been playing in another project called Uninhabitable Mansions, along with Annie Hart from Au Revoir Simone. Recently drummer Sean Greenhalgh has been producing records for a number of bands including Takka Takka, Conversion Party, Sam Izdat, Radial Dads and Tom McBride.

Released in September 2011, their long awaited third album "Hysterical" was produced by John Congleton. The band released "Same Mistake" and "Maniac" as the album's singles.

Now their new album "ONLY RUN" will be released worldwide on June 3. The album will be independently released by the band in North America with distribution and marketing help from The Orchard. Big Nothing will release the album in Japan and XtraMile Recordings will be releasing everywhere else.

XRAY.FM presents masterful guitarist of what SPIN magazine hailed as "the most exciting live band in rock n roll" touring his punk- and jazz-influenced roc.

General admission: $10

Friday <> AUG 1st <> at Crush Bar
Queer music showcase
headlined by GAYTHIEST!
w/ Night Cadet (SEA)
7hirdwav3
Noddy
John Coons
& more TBA...
6pm / $8