Straight Boom Bap. 90's Hip-Hop and Golden Era inspired.
DJ Ambush
In a time when DJ's come a dime a dozen, DJ Klyph was faced with the obstacle of separating myself from the pack. And through years of trial and error, he has come to find that the best way to do that is consistency. Stick to the script and give the people what they want. Consistency doesn't mean playing the same records each week. But it does mean giving a quality performance every time you pick up the headphones.
DJ Klyph
Always pushing the foundation, the definition of hip-hop. Peace. Love. Unity and Having Fun.
TICKETS | $15 Advance, $20 Day Of
Shaped by Jared Squires (guitar/vocals), Luke Nevills (bass/keys), Brandon Hailey (saxophone), Owen Mayo (keys/guitar), Trevor Church (drums), Alex Dean (synth/keys), Sean Connelly (vocals/keys), and Connor Merritt (aux percussion). Cytrus’ eight-piece funk-driven fusion makes a place at the table for everyone, offering a psychedelic pallet of funk, disco, electronic, rock, soul, hip-hop, and more. The Seattle-based band is personalized by its juicy synths, bass-induced grooves, and cinematic live performances. However, the group is best known for their flowing transitions in variety, consistently sonic wall of sound, and undeniable chemistry.
Bodhi Mojo is a psychedelic, four-piece jamband rooted in the good feels. Characterized by mind-bending jams and heartfelt songwriting, they never play the same show twice and leave you yearning for more.
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TICKETS | $7 Advance/$10 At The Door
Neon Prairie Dogs
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Alison Self
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Johnny Franco
TICKETS | $20
Never Ending Fall’s dynamic blend of jazz, funk, and alternative rock sounds create a soul-filled immersion into a catalog of electrifying feel-good music. Pair this one of a kind tour with a lineup of the hottest emerging artists that Portland has to offer and this is a lineup surely not to be missed.
No professional video or photography equipment permitted in the venue without prior approval.
TICKETS | $48.50 Advance, $55 Day of Show, $139 VIP Packages
Twin sisters born in Calgary, Alberta and now residing in Vancouver, BC, Tegan and Sara’s career numbers are impressive – over 1 million albums sold, 7 Gold certifications, 1 Double Platinum certification, 3 Juno Awards, 2 Polaris Prize nominations, and a Grammy nomination. But even more impressive is the conviction that has driven Tegan and Sara’s relentless evolution as artists. Transitioning from acoustic roots to indie rock royalty in the mid 2000s, with widely-acclaimed albums So Jealous (2004) and The Con (2007), they began the path of reinvention that continues to inform their creative identity today.
If the highest intention of the artist is to self-actualize, Tegan and Sara have given their devoted audience the gift of a front-row seat to their lifelong process of evolution.In July 2021, Tegan and Sara announced on their social media a return to the studio to work on their tenth studio album. On February 1, 2022, they announced Still Jealous, a completely acoustic reimagining of So Jealous, which was released on February 11, 2022.
In April 2022 the duo announced they had left Warner Bros. records and signed a new record deal with Mom & Pop. They also released the first single, "Fucking Up What Matters", from their upcoming tenth studio album on April 28, 2022. On July 12, 2022, the duo announced the album is called Crybaby and will be released on October 21, 2022. The second single, "Yellow", was released on the same day, with the music video being released on YouTube. The twins also announced their first tour in three years, which starts in Philadelphia, PA on October 26, 2022 and ends in Vancouver, BC on November 20.
TICKETS | $23 Advance, $25 Regular
Recorded at Wright’s own studio in Denver, Colorado, Worlds Beyond marks the highly anticipated full-length debut from SoDown, who more than delivers on the promise of his early work with this bold, adventurous collection. Blurring the lines between the organic and the electronic, the music is both exhilarating and meditative all at once, equally at home on headphones as it is blasting out of a festival PA to a sea of thousands. Wright’s writing is deceptively sophisticated here, drawing on stoicism and Eastern philosophy in a search for some greater meaning and purpose, and his production is similarly ambitious, hinting at times to everything from dubstep and future bass to reggae and hip-hop through an intoxicating mix of live instruments and digital beats. Add it all up and you’ve got a rich, cinematic introduction to an endlessly curious artist with a knack for pushing boundaries, a compelling, conceptual joyride that manages to balance the visceral and the intellectual in perfect harmony as it grapples with life and death, darkness and light, struggle and transcendence.
TICKETS | $15
The Cabin Project - a quartet of queer, all women and non-binary Portland-based musicians - is a musical hybrid of orchestral folk, rock, and indie. The band’s sound stems from haunting choruses, three-part harmonies, pedals, synths and strings. Sonically expansive, but heartfelt and intimate, The Cabin Project has used the last 12 years of writing and performing together to hone a sound all their own.
The Cabin Project, a project of Katie Sawicki - former-folksinger from Brooklyn, gone electric, is now defined by musical partner Zanny Geffel, rooted in jazz and percussive inspired drums, Jean Mastaler on effect-layered electric violin and Kris Doty on reverent, counter-melodic bass. Collaborator Kelly Clifton recorded bass on this most recent project. Five studio records and hundreds of shows across the country later, the band knows how each other takes their coffee, the musical heroes that define each member’s individual sound, and the daily surprises a collective voice can yield in rehearsals.
This next record is a set of two EPs entitled "What I Heard When I Listened | What I Said when I Spoke”. It is more than a nod to the last two and a half years, but moreso a dive into transformation. At a time when many worlds were turned upside down, these albums narrate the reflection, revelations, joys and struggles of what grows from the opportunity to start again. The break from touring and playing live allowed the group an opportunity to reflect on our creative process as well the critical role of music and expression at this moment in time. The songs that emerged speak to a time of intensive listening and discovery. To help support this process, the band also ensured our communities were a part of each step of the process; the project was entirely written, recorded, mixed and mastered by queer, women, and/or non-binary artists. The Cabin Project will release “What I Heard When I Listened | What I Said When I Spoke” on November 18th at the Old Church in Portland, OR.
TICKETS | $15
Saroon plays Lighthouse/\Collider
with an opening set of songs-in-the-round by Lily Breshears, Kelli Schaefer, Em Warden, Isabeau Waia'u Walker, Alexis Mahler, Kati Claborn, Luke Ydstie, and Ryan Oxford
On November 13th Saroon will celebrate the release of the new record, Lighthouse/\Collider with a live performance of the album at The Old Church. For Saroon’s seventh offering, genre fluid songwriter, ayal this time shifts to the formal symphonic instruments of his youth to express the alienating landscape and psychological wrestling of an immigrant growing and seeking meaning in a culture not their own. Accompanying ayal and bringing voice to the collective unconscious in our story is an 8 person orchestra comprised of an eclectic group of brilliant local songwriters. Members of the band will open the evening with performances of their own songs in a songwriters-in-the-round format before uniting as an ensemble to perform the entirety of the new record.
TICKETS | $25 advance, $27 day of show, $27 advance 21+ balcony, $30 day of show 21+ balcony
with Toner
Surf Curse's Nick Rattigan and Jacob Rubeck have been crafting sounds spanning from punk to psych rock for nearly a decade with a rabid and dedicated international fanbase and no end in sight. With new members Noah Kohll and Henry Dillon, the band brings together a collage of sounds on 'Magic Hour,' their fourth LP and first release since signing with Atlantic Records. Featuring Rattigan on drums/vocals, Rubeck on guitar/vocals, Dillon on bass and Kohll on guitar, 'Magic Hour' is a rock-music exploration that ranges from '70s rock to '90s alternative to 2010s-style indie and combines each member's creative input to create an experimental record. 'Magic Hour' explores all aspects of rock-music with blistering indie punk "Arrow," pop-infused "Sugar," sing-along "Lost Honor" and somber yet fanatic blues rock "No Tomorrows." Rubeck says, "This album is the excitement of starting something that we all can feel good about with each other, but also progressing as creative people and throwing in that magic. We're feeling that magic, what's brewing in the air and what's existing in what we're doing together."
This event has been cancelled.
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TICKETS | $22 GA Advance, $25 GA Day of Show
Doors at 7pm | All Ages
After vaulting to fame as a founding member of the beloved indie pop collective Belle & Sebastian, Isobel Campbell enjoyed success as a solo artist, recording lush and elegiac chamber pop under her given name, under the moniker the Gentle Waves, and with longstanding duet partner Mark Lanegan.
On 1998's The Boy with the Arab Strap, Campbell delivered her first lead vocal, "Is It Wicked Not to Care?" With her ethereal voice and striking, Jean Seberg-inspired looks, it was inevitable that she earned much attention from fans and media alike, and in the spring of 1999 she released her first full-length solo project, the Gentle Waves' The Green Fields of Foreverland.... A second and final Gentle Waves release, Swansong for You, followed a year later, but Campbell nevertheless remained a full-time member of Belle & Sebastian through mid-2002, co-writing the Top 20 U.K. hit "Legal Man" before finally exiting just prior to the release of Ghost of Yesterday, a collection of Billie Holiday covers recorded in collaboration with jazz musician Bill Wells.
After 2003's Amorino, Campbell kept a low profile for several years, finally resurfacing in the spring of 2006 with Ballad of the Broken Seas, a collection of duets with former Screaming Trees frontman Mark Lanegan. The two again collaborated on 2008's Sunday at Devil Dirt and 2010's Hawk. Isobel announced her new studio album to be released on the 31st of January 2020 titled 'There Is No Other'.
TICKETS | $18 GA Advance, $22 GA Day of Show
The flurry of saxophones known as Battle Trance is a tour de force of intense focus and unending breath. Portland jazz ensemble Blue Cranes has long established itself as a forward-thinking entity.
Travis Laplante is a saxophonist, composer, and qigong practitioner living in Brooklyn, New York and southern Vermont. Laplante leads Battle Trance, the acclaimed tenor saxophone quartet as well as Subtle Degrees, his newest project with drummer Gerald Cleaver. He is also known for his solo saxophone work and his longstanding ensemble Little Women. Laplante has recently performed and/or recorded with Trevor Dunn, Ches Smith, Peter Evans, So Percussion, Michael Formanek, Buke and Gase, Ingrid Laubrock, Darius Jones, Mat Maneri, and Matt Mitchell, among others. He has toured his music extensively and has appeared at many major international festivals throughout the US, Canada, and Europe. As a qigong student of master Robert Peng, Laplante has undergone traditional intensive training. His focus in recent years, under the tutelage of Laura Stelmok, has been on Taoist alchemical medicine and the cultivation of the heart. Laplante is passionate about the intersection of music and medicine. He and his wife are the founders of Sword Hands, a qigong and acupuncture healing practice based in Brooklyn, New York and Putney, Vermont.
TICKETS | $29.50 advance, $35 day of show, $39.50 21+ Reserved Balcony
All Ages
with Car Bomb & Alluvial
"We all know how talented the guys in Animals As Leaders are. Absurdly talented...They are one of the finest, most interesting units in modern music."-- MetalSucks
Now more than a decade into their career, a quick look at the bands they've toured with demonstrates the consistently diverse appeal of Animals As Leaders. It's a list that includes Korn, Deftones, Dance Gavin Dance, Thrice, Meshuggah, Underoath, The Dillinger Escape Plan, TesseracT, and Circa Survive as well as major festivals with the likes of Linkin Park, Avenged Sevenfold, and Slipknot.
TICKETS | General Admission - $35, PAM Members, Seniors, Students - $30
Doors 6:30 PM | Show 7 PM
All Ages | You may be asked to show your photo ID along with proof of vaccination
PAM CUT and YACHT are teaming up for a night of film, music, and discussion. In 2019, Portland’s own YACHT broke new ground in music production with their GRAMMY-nominated seventh studio album, Chain Tripping, by collaborating with artificial intelligence. The Computer Accent (directed by Sebastian Pardo and Riel Roch-Decter) documents the writing and recording of Chain Tripping, as well as the group’s storied history. The film also serves as a broader look at the role of artificial intelligence and its potential impact on the creative process, raising questions about the future of art and its intersection with technology.
The program will begin at 7 p.m. with a discussion with the band and filmmakers, followed by a screening of The Computer Accent. After the film ends, YACHT will perform Chain Tripping in its entirety.
TICKETS | $25
Doors: 8:00pm // Show: 9:00pm // Ages 21+
A night of 70s and 80s covers, proceeds to benefit AMP (Artist Mentorship Program).
Featuring:
Slang
Mic Crenshaw
Louder than Moz
Pool Boys
The Macks
Eyelids
Soriah
& More!
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TICKETS | $30 GA
All Ages
Patrick says he became a singer by accident. He thought he would compose scores for others to play, which seems like an odd thing to say because he is so clearly sprinkled with the pixie dust that causes a person to be transfixing on stage. And it’s now hard to imagine Montreal without the soundtrack of his songs.
But he met the artist Brigitte Henry who was taking surreal underwater photographs of people in their clothes to make a book. This seemed like very important business to Patrick, so he made music for her exhibition. They performed the show at the porno movie theatre Cinema L’Amour. It was sold out. Brigitte Henry still designs some of his album covers, including this one.
Patrick likes to hang on to people. He met his first guitar player Simon Angell playing guitar on the small streets of Hudson. In his first jazz class at college he walked in and Robbie Kuster and Mishka Stein were both sitting there. It was as though they were all waiting for each other. They would play together for the next twenty years.
While they were working on his first album, the band lived in an abandoned church. They were kicked out for ringing the church bells when homeless people came in to be married, waking all the neighbours up in the middle of the night, in a misguided attempt to let them know love existed.
They opened up for James Brown where they learned to manage a large crowd. Every day before a concert James Brown and his team would hold hands and pray the show would be amazing. This taught the band that being on stage is a humbling honor and a music show is where people come to have a mystical experience. In the end, it was not so different than when he sang in church as a boy.
While writing this new album, the drummer Robbie left, Patrick and his partner separated, and his mother passed away. Much of this album is about having a wave knock you over when you realize that everything you have in life can be wiped away in a moment. He brought a notebook underneath the waves and composed tunes about melancholy while listening to the lonely hymns of mermaids. And the songs are about how sometimes you have to sing a love song to yourself when no one else will. Melody Noir is about writing a song to the hole inside us all.
Some of the songs, including Turn out the Lights and Look at You, are about falling in love again and learning how to be intimate in a new way. And how surprizing it is that, although life can change, it can turn out to be better in so many ways than you could ever have imagined. And, ultimately, the album is about rebuilding your life from scratch.
The beginning artist's craft is so intuitive and odd, drawing from a trunk of recipes for happiness and hope. They begin with an idea that the world is good and things and love will work out. The mature artist creates from a place of melancholy and understanding of foibles and accepting a story that has already been written. It’s the difference between singing a solo at a stranger’s grave as a child and singing one at your own mother’s funeral.
It’s the same magical and sweet Patrick Watson on this album, but each of the feelings are deeper and dive down to stranger places, where even happiness seems impossible to bear. So the album moves from a dark place of loss to one of hope and magic and new love. The way you thought life was going to work out, but never does. Then it sometimes turns out to be more beautiful and surprising once it is broken.
TICKETS | $30 advance, $35 day of show, $35 advance 21+ Reserved Balcony, $40 day of show 21+ Reserved Balcony
Doors 4:30 PM | Show 6
All Ages | Proof of COVID vaccination or Negative Test within 72 hours required for entry
Pittsburgh punkers Anti-Flag brings their signature festival on the road for the first time in North America, with special guests Good Riddance, Bad Cop/Bad Cop, The Last Gang, The Black Tones, and The Macks. That’s a lot of rock in one day; be ready for the 6pm start time!
ANTI-FLAG
with special guests
GOOD RIDDANCE
BAD COP/BAD COP
THE LAST GANG
THE BLACK TONES
THE MACKS
TICKETS | $30 advance, $35 day of show, $35 advance 21+ Reserved Balcony, $40 day of show 21+ Reserved Balcony, $130 Meet & Greet Package
21 and over
The 80s Alternative legends have returned to Portland!
In October 2011, a reconstructed Music Of Quality And Distinction concert at the Roundhouse on night one (featuring original artists from the projects such as Sandie Shaw, and new talent such as Polly Scattergood) would be followed on the second by a dramatic reconstruction of their biggest commercial success, The Luxury Gap.
The Luxury Gap has never been more relevant. Written during the height of Thatcherism by three Left-leaning young men against a backdrop of over 3 million unemployed the parallels with the Austerity Britain of today are obvious. Today with a Millionaire cabinet, bankers' bonuses, yet with once again three million unemployed and doom and depression everywhere, Heaven 17's sly, post-modern critique of modern society has never sounded so resonant, nor been so necessary.
With DJ Gregarious
Come have a beer, eat some food, and play trivia to support XRAY!
Our friends at Oakshire Brewing will donate $1 from every pint sold all day, as well as 10% of food sales back to XRAY. The XRAY staff will be there tabling starting at five PM.
Workshop Cost: $70
In this workshop students will learn to shoot in the classic, home movie, analog format and become part of a community of Super 8 and 16mm enthusiasts. Explore the “bucket method” of hand processing your film, and how to care for your negatives.
Stephanie Hough is an experimental filmmaker, production coordinator and director of photography whose work explores repetition, gender, relationships and emotional landscapes. Her films HOW TO FEEL (DV, 2010), HEART (16mm, 2013), SPOOKY ACTION AT A DISTANCE (Super 8, 2016) have screened in the NW Filmmaker’s Festival, Portland International Film Festival, Experimental Film Festival PDX, BendFilm, The Boathouse Microcinema, TriBeca Film Center and more. As an educator with the Northwest Film Center, Pacific University and the PNCA, Hough has a passion for sharing analog film techniques and making learning accessible for all.