21+ // Doors 7PM // Show 8PM
TICKETS: $20 Advance & Day of Show
The Weather Station
Ignorance, the forthcoming album by The Weather Station, begins enigmatically; a hissing hi hat, a stuttering drum beat. A full minute passes before the entry of Tamara Lindeman’s voice, gentle, conversational, intoning; “I never believed in the robber”. A jagged music builds, with stabbing strings, saxophone, and several layers of percussion, and the song undulates through five minutes of growing tension, seesawing between just two chords. Once again, Toronto songwriter Tamara Lindeman has remade what The Weather Station sounds like; once again, she has used the occasion of a new record to create a new sonic landscape, tailor-made to express an emotional idea. Ignorance, Lindeman’s debut for Mississippi label Fat Possum Records, is sensuous, ravishing, as hi fi a record as Lindeman has ever made, breaking into pure pop at moments, at others a dense wilderness of notes; a deeply rhythmic, deeply painful record that feels more urgent, more clear than her work ever has.
MOSTLY STANDING / LIMITED BALCONY SEATING
THIS EVENT IS 21+
VALID U.S. ID OR PASSPORT REQUIRED FOR ENTRY
TICKETS | $12 Advanced
Doors 8PM | Show 9PM
21+ | Proof of COVID vaccination or Negative Test within 48 hours required for entry
Called “one of Mexico’s greatest young talents and vocalists” by KCRW’s José Galvan, Silvana, who is 23 years old, is the new voice of a movement of independent female artists who have characterized Latin Alternative music over the past decade.
TICKETS | $35 advance, $40 day of show, $40 advance 21+ reserved balcony, $45 day of show 21+ reserved balcony
Doors 6:30 PM | Show 8 PM
21+ | VENUE COVID POLICY
Galactic bring the sound of New Orleans to the Crystal Ballroom with guest Too Many Zooz. After 25 years performing together and ten albums, the group continue to build on their jazz funk sound with the recent addition of vocalist Anjelika "Jelly" Joseph.
TICKETS | $40 advance, $45 day of show, $45 advance reserved balcony, $50 day of show reserved balcony
Doors 9pm, Show 10pm | 21+ | Proof of COVID Vaccination or Negative Test within 72 hours Required for Entry
The Polish Ambassador is among the premier EDM/live crossover artists in the country. Founder of independent label Jumpsuit Records, an environmentalist and early progenitor of the permaculture action movement, the world's funkiest diplomat is here to party with a purpose. Enjoy an immersive, high energy New Years party at the Crystal Ballroom!
TICKETS 12/31 | TICKETS 12/30 | $25 Advanced
Doors 8PM | Show 9PM
21+ | Proof of COVID vaccination or Negative Test within 48 hours required for entry
A 2 night celebration! Y La Bamba exists in the dimension of the Mexican American imagination: somewhere cynical and optimistic at the same time. Their fifth record, Mujeres, carries on the Portland-based band’s affinity for spiritual contemplation but goes a step further in telling a story with a full emotional spectrum. Two nights at the historic Doug Fir Lounge!
TICKETS 12/31 | TICKETS 12/30 | $25 Advanced
Doors 8PM | Show 9PM
21+ | Proof of COVID vaccination or Negative Test within 48 hours required for entry
A 2 night celebration! Y La Bamba exists in the dimension of the Mexican American imagination: somewhere cynical and optimistic at the same time. Their fifth record, Mujeres, carries on the Portland-based band’s affinity for spiritual contemplation but goes a step further in telling a story with a full emotional spectrum. Two nights at the historic Doug Fir Lounge!
All Ages Welcome // Doors @ 6:30 PM // Show 8 PM
TICKETS: $29 Advance, $35 day of show, $35 advance 21+ reserved balcony, $40 day of show 21+ reserved balcony
Blood. Spectacle. Lifestyle. Mythology. Costumes And more blood.
21+ // Doors 7 PM // Show 8 PM
TICKETS: $20 Advance & Day of Show // Friday Tix // Saturday Tix
w/Jacob Jolliff Duo
Very few musicians of any stripe so personify a musical genre as completely as Tony Furtado embodies Americana roots music. A native of Pleasanton, California, he now makes his home in Portland, Oregon, where he’ll play back-to-back nights at Mississippi Studios! Don’t miss Tony Furtado’s 10th Annual Thanksgiving Bash and "Decembering" Album Release!
*Proof of COVID vaccination or negative COVID test required for entry. FREE onsite testing may be available - Details & testing schedule here*
ALL SALES ARE FINAL. PLEASE, DOUBLE CHECK YOUR ORDER BEFORE PURCHASING. NO REFUNDS.
GENERAL ADMISSION & FULLY SEATED
THIS EVENT IS 21+
VALID U.S. ID OR PASSPORT REQUIRED FOR ENTRY
21+ // Doors 7 PM // Show 8 PM
TICKETS: $20 Advance & Day of Show // Friday Tix // Saturday Tix
w/Jacob Jolliff Duo
Very few musicians of any stripe so personify a musical genre as completely as Tony Furtado embodies Americana roots music. A native of Pleasanton, California, he now makes his home in Portland, Oregon, where he’ll play back-to-back nights at Mississippi Studios! Don’t miss Tony Furtado’s 10th Annual Thanksgiving Bash and "Decembering" Album Release!
*Proof of COVID vaccination or negative COVID test required for entry. FREE onsite testing may be available - Details & testing schedule here*
ALL SALES ARE FINAL. PLEASE, DOUBLE CHECK YOUR ORDER BEFORE PURCHASING. NO REFUNDS.
GENERAL ADMISSION & FULLY SEATED
THIS EVENT IS 21+
VALID U.S. ID OR PASSPORT REQUIRED FOR ENTRY
TICKETS: $15 advance, $20 day of
The Thesis (@TheThesisPDX) is a first Thursday hip hop showcase
A Portland institution!
Sour Deez
Wavy Josef
MADGESDIQCEG
Hinnessy Da Goon
Hosted by Verbz
21+ // Doors 7pm // Show 8pm
TICKETS // $15 Advance, $17 Day of Show
RATBOYS
10 years ago this April — April 1st to be exact — Chicago’s Ratboys put out their first collection of songs. The RATBOY EP, consisting of five indie-folk dorm room recordings, was free to download on Bandcamp and humbly passed around to friends on social media.
Cut to 2021, and Ratboys would normally be celebrating their 10-year anniversary on the road, playing a mix of songs from their very first release to their most recent, last year’s critically-acclaimed Printer’s Devil. Instead, just two weeks after the album’s February 2020 release and mere days before heading out on their first headline tour, the COVID-19 pandemic forced all touring to a halt. Despite not being able to play in-person shows for the past year, Ratboys has managed to stay busy by performing their music online via their own Virtual Tour series and by finding a different way to celebrate their first decade of being a band.
Lots of time at home last year gave Ratboys a chance to hit the studio, which has led to Happy Birthday, Ratboy, a surprise party of a new album featuring 10 brand new recordings of the band’s earliest songs + a newly-written bonus track entitled “Go Outside.”
WILD PINK
Wild Pink’s last album, 2018’s Yolk In The Fur, concluded with a song about the strange sense of relief that comes with “letting go of youth.” Frontman John Ross, then in his early thirties, was singing from a place of newfound comfort and wisdom, but it ended with a repetition of the line, “I don’t know what happens next.” The song, titled “All Some Frenchman’s Joke”, is a beautifully concise rendering of a universal milestone: leveling up from the wide-eyed naivety and self-destructive routines of our youth, only to realize that we’re as unprepared for the future as we were for the past.
On Wild Pink’s third album and first for Royal Mountain Records, A Billion Little Lights, Ross explores that dichotomy of finally achieving emotional security—of accepting the love and peace he deprived himself of in his twenties—while also feeling existentially smaller and more directionless than ever before. The record is a two-pronged triumph: an extraordinary reflection on the human condition presented through the sharpest, grandest, and most captivating songs Wild Pink have ever composed.
MOSTLY STANDING / LIMITED BALCONY SEATING
THIS EVENT IS 21+
VALID U.S. ID OR PASSPORT REQUIRED FOR ENTRY
WITH SPECIAL GUEST: OPEN MIKE EAGLE
21+ // Doors 8PM // Show 9PM
TICKETS: $20 Advance & Day of Show
"Armand Hammer raps from another dimension, it's on us to catch up" - NPR
"The rappers are superb foils for one another" - Pitchfork
Haram is a mercurial collaboration between incendiary rap duo Armand Hammer, and living legend The Alchemist. For the first time ELUCID and billy woods have crafted an album with a single producer and the result is extraordinary. With their unmatched penchant for stirring imagery and incisive storytelling, the two rappers dive into an ocean of Alchemist’s creation: warmly inviting on the surface, black and bonecrushingly cold at depth. Haram is a collection of the profane and the pure; a reminder that that which is forbidden is also sacrosanct.
The artists are joined by their friends and fellow travelers on this journey. KAYANA’s golden voice upps the wattage on “Black Sunlight,” while Fielded’s sultry alto gets chopped and screwed on “Aubergine”. Earl Sweatshirt makes a sun-soaked appearance, while Curly Castro and Amani mix like ice and salt on Brooklyn sidewalks and Quelle Chris, as always, finds a pocket all his own. Still, there is a natural rapport that belies the New York-to-Los Angeles-and-back nature of the project, allowing Haram to be more than the sum of its parts, however impressive those parts may be. This isn’t just the genre’s most insistent contemporary voices paired with arguably its best producer. This is when you buy a beautiful house only to discover, hidden behind a heavy bookcase, a stairway twisting up and away into the darkness.
Humor can conceal and alleviate the pain of trauma, but no joke will erase it. Even Wu-Tang Clan told you that tears come after laughter. Relief comes only from opening every emotional and psychological wound.
Open Mike Eagle spent the 2010s finding comedy in rap music and American nightmares. On albums like Brick Body Kids Still Daydream and Dark Comedy, he delivered hilarious socio-political insights via half-sung verses laid atop progressive production. Acclaim from publications like Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, and NPR coincided with headlining solo tours and top-billing at events like Adult Swim Festival. Between studio sessions, Eagle co-founded The New Negroes, a standup-meets-music variety show that explores perceptions of blackness. He and co-founder Baron Vaughn brought the show to Upright Citizens Brigade, Comedy Central, and venues around the U.S. Since founding his record label Auto Reverse Records, though, Eagle has scaled back the jokes. He’s finally unpacking his traumas and acknowledging their impact.
With over a dozen solo and collaborative projects to his name, Eagle has spent his career redefining and expanding the parameters of “art rap,” the term he coined as a shorthand for leftfield and avant-garde rap music. On Dark Comedy, which Pitchfork called “one of the most compelling indie-rap listens of [2014],” he chronicled everything from smartphone addiction to the realities of being an indie artist in the streaming era with self-deprecation and side-splitting absurdity. 2017’s Brick Body Kids Still Daydream (Mello Music Group) marked Eagle’s shift toward examining trauma. Here he waded through the rubble of Chicago’s demolished Robert Taylor Homes, where several family members once lived. Part documentary and part tribute, BBKSD b lended powerful fantasy and grim reality. It illustrated the strength and vulnerability of a community afflicted by institutional racism and the enduring pains of life in the projects. There were few jokes but decades of survival.
Anime, Trauma, and Divorce is Eagle’s first full-length album on Auto Reverse and the most personal project of his career. On the verge of middle age, reeling from the collapse of his marriage, he probes the darkness of his past and searches for lights to guide him forward. This is the sound of a broken man sifting through the pieces while trying to rebuild, the struggle to self-critique while practicing self-care. Do you disassociate by envisioning yourself as the lead in your favorite anime, or do you reflect on your headass behavior? Tattoos and beer or push-ups and smoothies? Executive produced by renowned rock producer Jacknife Lee (U2, R.E.M.), the album’s few features include Auto Reverse artist Video Dave and Eagle’s son. Anime, Trauma, and Divorce finds Eagle virtually alone, doing his best to reject the humor that will not cure his ills. All is not well, but he’s never been better.
THIS EVENT IS 21+
VALID U.S. ID OR PASSPORT REQUIRED FOR ENTRY
MOSTLY STANDING / LIMITED BALCONY SEATING
Doors 7:30PM | Show 8pm | Ages 21+ | Tickets
Proof of COVID vaccination or negative COVID test required for entry. FREE onsite testing available.
Catch Mipso touring in support of their new self-titled full length album, with bonus b-side tracks and new official videos recently released. Watch Mipso perform their single Big Star to get a feel for how this Carolina-bred four-piece’s layered harmonies captivate audiences and go swimming in space in three digitally authentic full-color dimensions with the "Big Star" music video. You can catch Mipso playing at Mississippi Studios on Saturday, September 18th.
September 7, 8, 9, 2021 | 8:30 PM (doors open at 7:30 pm)
TICKETS: $35 General Admission, $30 Senior (65+), $10 Students (w/ valid ID), $5 Arts-for-All (available at box office only)
Gentrification in Portland and the city’s redlining past go under the microscope in Darrell Grant’s jazz chamber opera, Sanctuaries, a new work commissioned and produced by Third Angle New Music.
Blending elements of jazz, spoken word, and devised theatre, Sanctuaries aims to speak to the experience of displaced residents of color in Portland’s historically Black Albina district. Sanctuaries debuts at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum Pavilion on September 7th, with two additional performances on September 8th and 9th, all beginning at 8:30 pm.
This world premiere, jazz chamber opera is composed by critically acclaimed jazz pianist Darrell Grant (who ‘Gramophone’ has called “a composer of substance”), with libretto by two-time National Poetry Slam Individual Champion and Oregon Poet Laureate Anis Mojgani and stage direction by LA-based opera director Alexander Gedeon.
For more information and tickets, visit the Third Angle website at Third Angle.org.
September 7, 8, 9, 2021 | 8:30 PM (doors open at 7:30 pm)
TICKETS: $35 General Admission, $30 Senior (65+), $10 Students (w/ valid ID), $5 Arts-for-All (available at box office only)
Gentrification in Portland and the city’s redlining past go under the microscope in Darrell Grant’s jazz chamber opera, Sanctuaries, a new work commissioned and produced by Third Angle New Music.
Blending elements of jazz, spoken word, and devised theatre, Sanctuaries aims to speak to the experience of displaced residents of color in Portland’s historically Black Albina district. Sanctuaries debuts at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum Pavilion on September 7th, with two additional performances on September 8th and 9th, all beginning at 8:30 pm.
This world premiere, jazz chamber opera is composed by critically acclaimed jazz pianist Darrell Grant (who ‘Gramophone’ has called “a composer of substance”), with libretto by two-time National Poetry Slam Individual Champion and Oregon Poet Laureate Anis Mojgani and stage direction by LA-based opera director Alexander Gedeon.
For more information and tickets, visit the Third Angle website at Third Angle.org.
September 7, 8, 9, 2021 | 8:30 PM (doors open at 7:30 pm)
TICKETS: $35 General Admission, $30 Senior (65+), $10 Students (w/ valid ID), $5 Arts-for-All (available at box office only)
Gentrification in Portland and the city’s redlining past go under the microscope in Darrell Grant’s jazz chamber opera, Sanctuaries, a new work commissioned and produced by Third Angle New Music.
Blending elements of jazz, spoken word, and devised theatre, Sanctuaries aims to speak to the experience of displaced residents of color in Portland’s historically Black Albina district. Sanctuaries debuts at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum Pavilion on September 7th, with two additional performances on September 8th and 9th, all beginning at 8:30 pm.
This world premiere, jazz chamber opera is composed by critically acclaimed jazz pianist Darrell Grant (who ‘Gramophone’ has called “a composer of substance”), with libretto by two-time National Poetry Slam Individual Champion and Oregon Poet Laureate Anis Mojgani and stage direction by LA-based opera director Alexander Gedeon.
For more information and tickets, visit the Third Angle website at Third Angle.org.
All Ages | 7pm Doors, 8pm Show | $15 Advance, $20 Day Of
Celebrated northwest crew Boom Bap Project headlines the return of Mic Check to a live audience. It's the Portland album release event for "Return Flight", their first project in 15 years. The night will feature performances from:
BOOM BAP PROJECT
JABEE
COOL NUTZ
HANiF
KUNU
Surprise special guests:
Mic Check is partnering with local non-profit Hip-Hop Fighting Cancer and is honored to donate a portion of proceeds of the event to them.
We'll be recognizing DJ Ambush for the work he's done for the scene providing platforms, support and encouragement through his work with XRAY FM and The Numberz FM.
Featuring sets by DJ OG One
Hosted by DJ Klyph, of Welcome to the Neighborhood Saturday Nights on XRAY
Lose Yr Mind is a two-day warehouse festival in industrial SE Portland. Music kicks of at 9pm each night. Doors open at 8.
+ FRIDAY 7 OCTOBER +
The Shivas
Beach Fossils
The Woolen Men
Candace
Tickets: https://genero.us/loseyrmind/friday2016
+ SATURDAY 8 OCTOBER +
Shannon and the Clams
Mommy Long Legs
Máscaras
Moon By You
Tickets: https://genero.us/loseyrmind/saturday2016
A percentage of ticket sales will benefit The Jeremy Wilson Foundation, which assists musicians with medical debt.
This event is 21+ / no outside alcohol.
Beer, wine cider and mixed drinks will be available for purchase.
Tip yr bartender.
Tickets are sold nightly and on a sliding scale:
$15 suggested
$20+ DIY hero (Includes screen printed poster)
Lose Yr Mind is proud to only partner with Oregon-based businesses. Support local. Support DIY.
Shout out to our sponsors:
Cascade Record Pressing + Eleven PDX Magazine + Secret Aardvark Trading Company + New Deal Distillery + Gilgamesh Brewing + Union Wine Company + Tender Loving Empire + ATLAS Cider Company + Baby Doll Pizza + Rontoms + Misplaced Screen Printing + Curly Cassettes +XRAY.FM + The Liquor Store
loseyrmind.com
write feelings to: loseyrmind@gmail.com
xoxo
Art by: Sam Farrell of Curly Cassettes
Yo La Tengo is one of the most beloved and respected bands in America. For nearly thirty years, Ira Kaplan, Georgia Hubley and James McNew have enjoyed success entirely on their own terms – playing the world’s best concert halls, museums, and dives, dominating critics’ lists, doing a Simpsons theme, playing the Velvet Underground in “I Shot Andy Warhol,” sharing stages with some of the most important musicians of our time, and even creating a holiday tradition onto themselves with their yearly series of Hanukkah shows at Hoboken, New Jersey’s legendary club Maxwells, from which they’ve donated hundreds of thousands to charity.
http://www.revolutionhallpdx.com/event/869353-evening-yo-la-tengo-portland/
Founded by producer-composer Ryan Lott in 2007, Son Lux “works at the nexus of several rarely-overlapping Venn Diagrams” (Pitchfork). With the recent additions to the band of guitarist-composer Rafiq Bhatia and drummer Ian Chang, Son Lux is now a ferocious trio both live and on record. Bones (June 23, 2015) is the first album documenting this new formation, and it draws from the three members’ unique and omnivorous musical vernaculars. Few bands have built a more impressive and varied array of collaborators: Lorde, Beyoncé producer Boots, Sufjan Stevens, Matthew Dear, Busdriver, Vijay Iyer, Nico Muhly and Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw.