Events

XRAY.FM joins forces with Tender Loving Empire for a in-store DJ on select Saturdays each month from 12-4PM! 

Come hang out and listen to music:

5/4 - Christopher Nakayama 
5/11 - DJ Theo Craig
6/1 - DJFGQBNYJ
7/6 - DJFGQBNYJ
7/13 - Christopher Nakayama 

Join us for The Big Float, Portland’s splash hit of the summer – coming up Saturday, July 13th on the Willamette River downtown. A parade/float/beach party spectacle with music by Blitzen Trapper and Redray Frazier. Our river is revived. Join the revival and jump into The Big Float 9! Register at thebigfloat.com. A movement disguised as a party – a benefit for the Human Access Project.

WHEN: Saturday, July 13, 2019
10:00 am - 6:30 pm

WHERE: Tom McCall Bowl - Waterfront Park (SW Columbia & Naito)

COST: $5 through Sunday, July 7th, $10 after, $15 Day of event. Discounted pricing under age 18.

WHO: 5,000+ floaters, observers and after-partiers.

WHY: To give our Willamette River a community hug.

WHAT: THE Portland summer celebration benefiting Human Access Project. Featuring Blitzen Trapper, Redray Frazier and Perk! Portland Grooves on two floating stages and MORE!

More information is available at www.thebigfloat.com

Beach party here we come!
To get to this year’s Big Float, Go By Transit! TriMet can get you right by the waterfront and yes, you can bring your water wings on board. To plan your trip to Waterfront Park, visit trimet.org to use their Trip Planner!

The Big Float is open to all ages. All floaters must wear a life jacket. It's a safe voyage, not a race. Join the flotilla and attend the grandest pool party Portland has ever seen! The Big Float is the annual fundraiser for the Human Access Project. www.humanaccessproject.com

KayelaJ's debut album D.Y.K.E (Don't Yield, Keep Enduring) is an album she has waited to make her entire life. Throughout her life she's experienced battles with the world and within herself. The album is a autobiography and an emotional roller-coaster which starts in KayelaJ's deep depression, transitions into her rage, and ends in love (including her self-love and love for others). She hopes this experience will be as therapeutic for you as it was for her. Join her at her album release party at Kelly's Olympian where she will bare it all.

Performances by:
DJMyrie
Quinn Foster
Covi.
Shardea Booth
Lyric Ranea Branch

Short film premiere from KayelaJ mixtape "Homage"
Written by KayelaJ and shot and directed by Devin Boss from Kill Class Productions

Thanks to sponsors:
XRAY.FM
The Numberz
Green Hop
Karma Rivera


Event is 21+
Pay $10 at the door

XRAY.FM joins forces with Tender Loving Empire for a in-store DJ on select Saturdays each month from 12-4PM! 

Come hang out and listen to music:

5/4 - Christopher Nakayama 
5/11 - DJ Theo Craig
6/1 - DJFGQBNYJ
7/6 - DJFGQBNYJ
7/13 - Christopher Nakayama 

Every first Tuesday from 9PM-1AM join XRAY.FM DJs spinning records live at one of the coziest bars in Portland, Beech Street Parlor! For a full schedule of events visit Beech Street Parlor here. 

XRAY.FM presents the Lavender Flu, Woolen Men, and Michael O. performing live at The Spare Room on June 28th. 

Lavender Flu
(https://intheredrecords.com/collections/lavender-flu)

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Woolen Men
(https://woolenmen.bandcamp.com/
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Michael O.
(https://fruitsandflowers.bandcamp.com/album/powers-out)
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Tacocat, The Black Tones, B.R.U.C.E.
Tickets
Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm
$18 Advance, $20 Day of Show
This event is all ages

When Seattle band Tacocat—vocalist Emily Nokes, bassist Bree McKenna, guitarist Eric Randall, and drummer Lelah Maupin—first started in 2007, the world they were responding to was vastly different from the current Seattle scene of diverse voices they’ve helped foster. It was a world of house shows, booking DIY tours on MySpace, and writing funny, deliriously catchy feminist pop-punk songs when feminism was the quickest way to alienate yourself from the then-en vogue garage-rock bros. Their lyrical honesty, humor, and hit-making sensibilities have built the band a fiercely devoted fanbase over the years, one that has followed them from basements to dive bars to sold-out shows at the Showbox. Every step along the way has been a seamless progression—from silly songs about Tonya Harding and psychic cats to calling out catcallers and poking fun at entitled weekend-warrior tech jerks on their last two records on Hardly Art, 2014’s NVM and 2016’s Lost Time. 

This Mess is a Place, Tacocat’s fourth full-length and first on Sub Pop, finds the band waking up the morning after the 2016 election and figuring out how to respond to a new reality where evil isn’t hiding under the surface at all—it’s front and center, with new tragedies and civil rights assaults filling up the scroll of the newsfeed every day. “What a time to be barely alive,” laments “Crystal Ball,” a gem that examines the more intimate side of responding emotionally to the news cycle. How do you keep fighting when all you want to do is stay in bed all day? “Stupid computer stupor/Oh my kingdom for some better ads,” Nokes sings, throwing in some classic Tacocat snark, “Truth spread so thin/It stops existing.” 

Despite current realities being depressing enough to make anyone want to crawl under the covers and sleep for a thousand years, Tacocat are doing what they’ve always done so well: mingling brightness, energy, and hope with political critique. This Mess is a Place is charged with a hopefulness that stands in stark contrast to music that celebrates apathy, despair, and numbness. Tacocat feels it all and cares, a lot, whether they’re singing odes to the magical connections we feel with our pets (“Little Friend”), imagining what a better earth might look like (“New World”), or trying to find humor in a wholly unfunny world (“The Joke of Life”).

Throughout the album, Tacocat questions power structures and the way we interact with them, recalling the feminist sci-fi of Ursula K. Le Guin in pop-music form. “Rose-Colored Sky” examines the privilege of people who have been able to skate through life without ever experiencing systemic disadvantage: “For all the years spent/Hot lava shaping me/For all the arguments/I wonder who else would I be?” Nokes sings. “If I wasn’t on the battleground/I bet I could’ve gone to space by now.” “Hologram” reminds us to step outside ourselves and try to see beyond imaginary structures that trap us: “Just close your eyes and think about the Milky Way/Just remember if you can, power is a hologram.”

The record is full of beautiful details, finding plastic beaded curtains catching light amidst feelings of despair. This Mess is A Place explores politics with more nuance than the topical songs of Tacocat’s past, inviting listeners in for more complicated exchanges and leaving space for introspection. “Grains of Salt” finds the band at the best they’ve ever sounded: Maupin’s spirited drums, McKenna’s bouncy walking bass, Randall’s catchy guitar and Nokes’ soaring melody combine to create a bonafide roller-rink hit that reminds us that it just takes some time, we’re in the middle of the ride, and to live for what matters to you. It’s a delightfully cathartic moment and the cornerstone of the record when they exclaim: “Don’t forget to remember who the fuck you are!” 

Producer Erik Blood (who also produced Lost Time) brings the band into their full pop potential but still preserves what makes Tacocat so special: they’re four friends who met as young punks and have grown together into a truly collaborative band. Says Nokes: “We can examine some hard stuff, make fun of some evil stuff, feel some soft feelings, feel some rage feelings, feel some bitter-ass feelings, sift through memories, feel wavy-existential, and still go get a banana daiquiri at the end.” 

—Robin Edwards

DJ Klyph Productions, McMenamins, XRAY FM, Cascade Record Pressing & Ear Trumpet Labs Present: MIC CHECK

The Bi-Monthly event brings you some of the best MCs in the region. Also featuring beat sets from some of the region's best producers & sets from resident DJs Trox and O.G. One., the Hip Hop Showcase is happening the last Thursday every other month at White Eagle, with Live performances, drink specials and good vibes!

Make sure you hit www.miccheckpdx.com

THURSDAY June 27th:

Featuring:

VURSATYL

Special guests:

CALL ME ACE

GEPETTO

SAMMY

Beat Set by: O.G. One

Hosted by: Klyph

Music by: Trox & DJ O.G. One

Doors @ 8pm, Show starts at 9pm...

21 and over, Tickets: $8 Pre-sale; $10 @ the Door

A Beat Happening is celebrating their 2nd year anniversary by throwing a 2-day fest! Forward Frequencies Fest is presented by A Beat Happening, an all-ages, monthly, inclusive, electronic/hip hop producer showcase, YouTube channel, and record label. Forward Frequencies is a celebration of DIY, left-field beat, hip hop, and electronic music culture in Portland, Oregon.

http://FORWARDFREQ.COM

Day 1
Brown Calculus https://browncalculus.bandcamp.com/
Amenta Abioto https://amentavera.bandcamp.com/
The Touri$t Showcase https://www.instagram.com/touristxtourist/
Vibra https://abeathappening.bandcamp.com/album/delirium
Jason Undefined https://soundcloud.com/jason-undefined
Sir Nai https://spoti.fi/2IqldBU
Cheyne Queezy x See the King https://soundcloud.com/cheynequeezy
Everyday Mixtapes https://www.instagram.com/everydaymixtapes/

Day 2
Fountaine https://fountaine.bandcamp.com/
Omari Jazz https://soundcloud.com/omarijazz
Northern Draw https://northerndraw.bandcamp.com/
Lisa Vazquez https://lisavazquez.bandcamp.com/
Auvie Sinclair https://abeathappening.bandcamp.com/album/float
Ms. Elle https://soundcloud.com/msellemusic/sets/thebrokeep
Kokio https://soundcloud.com/kokiobeats
DJ King Tim 33 1/3

Community Partners
Thirsty City Records https://www.facebook.com/ThirstyCityPDX/
Friends of Noise http://www.friendsofnoise.org/
Future Shock https://www.facebook.com/futureshockpdx/
XRAY.FM https://xray.fm/

TheyThemHer is beyond excited to be hosting not one but TWO parties over PDX Pride Weekend 2019! Join us at Church on Saturday June 15 & Sunday June 16 where we'll be celebrating Black Excellence!


FEATURING:

June 15th:
- DJ Carissa Lilly, DJ Reverend Dollas and DJ Nadia

June 16th
- Carlos the Rollerbalder (3pm - 6pm)
- DJ Reverend Dollas (6pm - 8pm)
- DJ No Bi.es (8pm - 10pm)

Stay tuned as we announce more entertainment and details soon!

TICKETS:

Tickets will be $30 for access to both parties!

THIS EVENT IS:
- An inclusive LGBTQIA+ event. Come exactly as you are!
- 21+

ABOUT THEMTHEMHER:
We host queer day parties focusing on the trans, womxn, femme, and non-binary community!

COLLATE / collate.bandcamp.com
NEUTRALS (Bay Area) / neutrals.bandcamp.com
SEABLITE (Bay Area) / seablite.bandcamp.com
CAY IS OKAY / cayisokay.bandcamp.com

8pm / 21+ / free! / no jerks!

Join Thom Wednesday, June 12: PORTLAND, OR 7:30pm Location: Powell’s, 1005 W Burnside St., Portland

Mass shootings are on the rise. The call for gun control is at a fever pitch. And a recent Quinnipiac University poll shows that the majority of Americans support stricter gun laws. So what’s holding the U.S. back from enacting change?

In The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment (Berrett-Koehler Publishers; June 4, 2019; 9781523085996), nationally syndicated talk show host and New York Times bestselling author Thom Hartmann offers an in-depth, historically informed view of the role guns have played throughout American history, from early European settlement to the Revolutionary War and Manifest Destiny, through the use of Slave Patrols in the Deep South (which became the "well-regulated militias" so debated in 1787), to the recent school massacres. He shows how the NRA and conservative Supreme Court justices used specious logic to invent a virtually unlimited individual right to own guns, which has enabled the ever-growing number of mass shootings in the United States.

There are solutions to this epidemic of gun violence and mass shootings, but they require a clear eyed reconciliation of America’s past with its present. Hartmann identifies common-sense and powerful solutions that would break the power of the gun lobby and restore the understanding of the Second Amendment that the Framers of the Constitution intended, such as:

• getting money out of politics to get the NRA out of lobbying

• passing laws that would treat gun ownership like car ownership (title, license, insurance)

• addressing the social despair and economic inequality that drive violent crime and mass shootings

Every first Tuesday from 9PM-1AM join XRAY.FM DJs spinning records live at one of the coziest bars in Portland, Beech Street Parlor! For a full schedule of events visit Beech Street Parlor here. 

XRAY.FM joins forces with Tender Loving Empire for a in-store DJ on select Saturdays each month from 12-4PM! 

Come hang out and listen to music:

5/4 - Christopher Nakayama 
5/11 - DJ Theo Craig
6/1 - DJFGQBNYJ
7/6 - DJFGQBNYJ
7/13 - Christopher Nakayama 

A community benefit concert for Power to the Dreamers and Friends of Noise ft. Samuel Eisen-Meyers & The Joyful Noise, Edna Vazquez, and special guest performances by Sarah Brahim and Mia O'Connor-Smith

Sponsored by XRAY.FM

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Power to the Dreamers (formerly We the Dreamers) organizes creative spaces for undocumented people to share their experiences and foster outlets for dialogue, healing, and understanding within undocumented and documented communities.

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Friends of Noise Friends of Noise seeks to foster healing and growth for the creative youth in our community via the arts by hosting professional development workshops and inclusive all age concerts that provide live performance opportunities for youth artist and hands on experience for emerging youth sound engineers.

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Artists:

Samuel Eisen-Meyers & The Joyful Noise
http://samuelem.com/

Edna Vazquez
http://ednavazquez.com/

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Sarah Brahim

Sarah Brahim is a movement artist passionate about creating meaningful work with artists of varying mediums. She grew up studying, choreographing, performing, and teaching jazz, contemporary, ballet, and tap. She studied at the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance and in 2016 she graduated from London Contemporary Dance School. Currently she is producing and creating work on the themes of culture, identity, borders, belonging, language, loss, and home.

Mia O'Connor-Smith

Mia O'Connor-Smith is a multidisciplinary experimental artist, born & currently based in Portland, Oregon. She started an arts platform known as DUG/ Deep Underground that expanded her creative community, experience and the need for more ways to express. Mia currently teaches & takes dance classes, performs and collaborates with family like The Sun Ra Arkestra, Brown Calculus, Omari Jazz, Akela Jaffi, Alexandria Saleem, Uriah Boyd, The Ah Ra Dance Ensemble, Rejoice!, SebeKan and more to come.

JAMS FOR CAMPS is My Voice Music's spring benefit concert that raises funds for our summer camp season. The funds raised at this event will ensure we can provide summer rock camps tuition-free to youth that can't afford them otherwise.

This year's event will be held at Lagunitas Brewing Company's Community Room in NE Portland, and features:

- Performances by MVM students with Eric Earley (of Blitzen Trapper) and other artists TBA
- Silent auction
- Drinks and light snacks, including beer from Lagunitas
- and more!

Tickets are $20 in advance or $25 at the door (includes 2 free drinks). Youth tickets (ages 12 and under) are available for $10.

Monthly donors to My Voice Music get 2 free tickets to JAMS FOR CAMPS! Become a monthly donor today and we will email you a discount code for free tickets! Sign up here: https://crm.bloomerang.co/HostedDonation?ApiKey=pub_3e88cbd4-2b86-11e7-bb7f-024e165d44b3&WidgetId=41984

Sponsored by Schoolhouse

Food from Cheryl's on 12th and Sizzle Pie

JAMS FOR CAMPS
Friday, May 31
Lagunitas Community Room
237 NE Broadway St, Suite 300, Portland 97232
Doors 6:30pm / Show at 7pm
All Ages