A performance
To pursue an acting career as a soap opera star as James Ferraro ® Simulacra Company was the ultimate 21st century dream for James Ferraro, a dream that was forged on a note pad under the cyber skies of Manhattan's slick midtown metropolis to become a world-famous hyperized living puppet of our Postmodern civilization, acquiring the world's media stage as a canvas, in the form of a glossy pure entertainment pop machine.
The approach to assembling his acting style was to be a theoretical expedition through the virtual landscape of Tabloid Cultoure, The Linguistic Consequence of Modern Decadence and Digital/Mega Entertainment Age Sexuality Persona … to name just a few sources of inspiration, and of course for it all to be captured on the flawless $1,000,000 TV cameras of the entertainment industries' major studio networks.
But where to assimilate to the aforementioned theories:
"My ideas from New York had flowered in the most violently magical way, as I entered what we Hollywoodologists call 'The Floor' (HOLLYWOOD GROUND ZERO) . . . and this led to outlets beyond my wildest imagination, seeing beyond the institutional buildings of the worlds Entertainment Center," says Ferraro.
JF continues: "Whilst wine tasting in Napa valley with my mother, on a tour through Simulacra's wine country . . . in the red convertible PT Cruiser and watching a giant Hollywood Blockbuster intermittently on the on-board DVD screen between wineries, I was so excited and inspired by the leading actors performance that I decided to leave the world of acting to focus more dramatically on a venture to be a recording artist."
"I became completely obsessed with Bach's Concerto for Oboe and Violin in C minor. As it blasted from the speakers of the PT Cruiser, spilling out into the open air, I indulged in an ecstatic delirium that was colored by a sweet subtle victorious madness, ideas flooded my mind, blood coursed through my veins, Smart Water™ oxidized my brain . . . thoughts of Napoleon at the Olive Garden, Julius Cesar reading poetry to me . . . I started to fully investigate these two artistic individuals almost exclusively at this moment, scanning what historic memory I had available in my brain. When I arrived home I ran into my humble chamber and got to work."
Ferraro has since released countless musical recordings on various record labels hailing from The U.S.A., The United Kingdom, Japan, Europe and beyond. A critically acclaimed artist of the 21st Century POP ART wave, the man with the moon-lit pompadour now teams up with Hippos in Tanks to create the next chapter in his on-going sonic adventure, in which, Ferraro explains, "The results of this relationship will see a new era in Art History."
McMenamins, StarChile Pabst Blue Ribbon & XRAY FM Present: MIC CHECK
Mic Check is a Hip Hop Showcase every last Thursday of the month at White Eagle, with live performances, drink specials and good vibes.
Special Guests:
THE LAST ARTFUL, DODGR & LIBRETTO
Hosted by StarChile
Music by Trox
21 and over, $7 at the Door
Twin Peaks
When 19-year-old Chicagoans Cadien Lake James, Clay Frankel, Connor Brodner, and Jack Dolan finished high school a year ago, they were under the impression that things had to change. They were expected to go to college, and more importantly, had to deal with the reality of breaking up their band, Twin Peaks, which had just started to get some notice. Three of them committed to Evergreen State College in Olympia with the idea of keeping some semblance of the band together, but it was clear that there was a magic the four of them had. All this happened BEFORE a pivotal self-booked, three-week tour in the summer of '12. They had just recorded their debut album, Sunken, in Cadien's basement, hit the road in earnest, and everywhere they went, one thing remained the same. After seeing the energy, power, and exuberance of their live show, people in every town and members of every band they played with urged them to see this thing through. However, real life is rarely so kind or easy. Deposits were paid, dorm rooms reserved, promises made. Cadien, Connor, and Jack were headed north to Olympia.
It's a funny thing how clarity and circumstance can set and reset the table. After one semester at Evergreen, peoples' compliments still ringing in their ears, the self-described "industrious dudes" decided to quit school and give Twin Peaks a fair shake. They returned to Chicago in December, reunited with Clay, and geared up for their SXSW debut. Esquire even gave them a nod as an "Artist to Watch" at SXSW, calling them "A bunch of dirty, precocious underage kids raised on a steady diet of Jay Reatard and their parents' records...Twin Peaks deploy sugary pop hooks with the infectious enthusiasm of a high school punk band." The guys moved back in with their folks, looked into part-time jobs, and began planning the re-write of the first, post-high school chapter of their lives. The feeling was palpable: Things were about to take off.
So here we stand, ready to offer Twin Peaks to the wider world. A record full of the youthful excitement, sure to elicit "oh yeahs," and if you're not a total square, some body movin'. Sunken is out July 9th on Autumn Tone.
We went all over the country and grew our hair out a little bit,͟ says guitarist/singer Tony Esposito about the past year spent on the road with the likes of Deerhoof,Young Widows, Priests, and more.
After signing to Polyvinyl in early 2014 and releasing a self-titled EP that blasts through six tracks in a breakneck 15 minutes, the Reapers — Esposito, keyboardist Ryan Hater, bassist Sam Wilkerson, and drummer Nick Wilkerson — soon began working on new material to fill out their set.
Enter White Reaper Does It Again: a raucous debut full-length from a bunch of barely 20-somethings who have more fun on a Tuesday night than you do on a Saturday.
Recorded in White Reaper's hometown of Louisville, KY, with engineer Kevin Ratterman (Young Widows, Coliseum),WRDIA is a pure rock 'n' roll adrenaline shot: vicious guitar scratches, elastic bass, sugary keyboard leads, and a thudding drums that will inevitably give your heartbeat a new rhythm.
Modern Vices
Self-proclaimed dirty doo-wop, Modern Vices are Alex, Peter, Thomas, Patrick, and Miles. They hail from Chicago. Noir in tone, their sound resides somewhere between late '50s croon and wet garage rock snarl. Their self-recorded, eponymous, LP drops in October via Los Angeles' Autumn Tone Records. A romantic revolution.
Avi Buffalo
Ah, yes, age—much was made of it when Avi Buffalo's first album hit the ground running, and for good reason: While their Millikan High School classmates were preoccupied with quaint and youthful pursuits, the musicians behind Avi Buffalo were busy making an off-kilter pop gem that eventually bowled over NME, The AV Club, Pitchfork, the BBC, and numerous other outlets on both sides of the Atlantic whose tastes are respected by the general public. Like a lot of kids their age, the Buffaloes celebrated the end of high school in Europe, but instead of visiting the Louvre and Buckingham Palace, their overseas journeys took them to the festival stages of Reading, Leeds, Glastonbury, the Pavement-curated All Tomorrow's Parties in Minehead, and beyond.
So is Avi Buffalo a he or a them? The answer is a definitive yes, as leader Avigdor Zahner-Isenberg has lent his musical nickname—bestowed in childhood by a pal who'd picked up on his friend's inclination toward spicy chicken wings—to this full-fledged outfit that works something like a solo project in the studio and then builds into a band onstage. Not that he goes it alone when recording—to the contrary, many able-bodied compatriots, including longtime collaborator Sheridan Riley, have assisted with committing his songs to tape—but everything begins and ends with Avi, and after ending a year on the road in support of the first record, he decided to take his time beginning work on the second.
The creation of At Best Cuckold turned out to be a three-year journey; a stretch of time that resembles its predecessor. While transitioning from teenager to twentysomething and traversing the interpersonal wilds which accompany that age, Avi kept playing music (even picking up a new instrument every now and again), collaborated with and produced several friends (including Kevin Litrow's N.O.W. project and Douglas James Sweeney's Arjuna Genome), and even started DJing. He also wrote new songs, and by the time 2013 rolled around, it was time to begin capturing his latest sparks—with that, the band headed into the studio on New Year's Day.
Two weeks later, the basic tracks for At Best Cuckold were recorded, having been captured at Tiny Telephone, the analog-friendly San Francisco studio run by John Vanderslice of John Vanderslice fame. The engineering was actually handled by Jay Pellicci (The Dodos, Deerhoof, Sleater-Kinney), though during his stay, Avi had a chance to play with the head honcho when he was asked to contribute to JV's tribute to Bowie's Diamond Dogs. Needless to say, Avi has nice things to say about the place.
The "clean and tight" recordings from Tiny Telephone served as perfect skeletons for Avi to flesh out with his analog and digital overdubs, which were completed over the next year or so at various locations around Southern California. ("I've always had a lot of fun with overdubs," says Avi. "Maybe my favorite instrument is overdubs.") The result—which was completed and mixed with Nicolas Vernhes at his Rare Book Room studio in Brooklyn—is a quirky yet comforting set of songs driven by refined pop songcraft and sneaky moments of grandeur that stick in the brain. Classic-sounding melodies are delivered with a modern sensibility, creating an album that's equal parts timely and timeless. Well-placed piano, sax, clarinet, French horn, and cornet further enhance the proceedings with a glorious orch-pop sheen.
"So What" gets things started with its understated charm and sing-songy goodness, however, it isn't until the rollicking "Memories of You" that Avi lets his trademark falsetto fly. There are great pop moments all over At Best Cuckold, but Avi also excels at moodiness, exemplified in subdued beauties like "Two Cherished Understandings" and "Oxygen Tank."
"I really like some of the ballad aspects of this record—it's kind of my tribute to the ballad," says Avi. "I predicted in an interview during the time of my first record what I was going to use in my next record, and I said a lot of major seventh chords, which, to me, sounded like laying down. And that ended up in the record, too."
Lyrically, there are a lot of unsettled emotions on the album; a product of Avi observing the world around him and writing "about life, dealing with relationships and yourself, and trying to keep your head up and keep learning amidst whatever it is you're going through." Disappointment ("Thought we understood each other well / I was wrong as usual") and anxiety ("Someone told me if I messed around / then my head would fill up with guilty clouds") abound, though there's also a feeling that everything is eventually going to turn out okay, even when everything seems to be falling apart during closer "Won't Be Around No More." If anything, Avi's passionate delivery is the ultimate source of optimism.
At the ripe old age of 23, Avi Buffalo is ready to take on the world (again), armed with all of the experience he's compiled over the past few years. And he's made sure the second time around will be just as memorable as the first.
The Kickback
After a steady three years of touring and supporting acts like White Rabbits, Smith Westerns, Here We Go Magic, Telekinesis, Tokyo Police Club, The Districts, and Manic Street Preachers, the band have released their debut album, Sorry All Over The Place, produced by Spoon's Jim Eno, drawing praise from The Huffington Post, Consequence of Sound, and more. The Kickback are now back on the road in 2016, sharing their stellar and explosive performance across the country.
To document their travels, the band began recording their podcast, DISASTOUR, in December of 2010. With over 100 episodes, the show attempts to address the far-from-glamorized lives of a band on the road and the arrested development indicative of the lives they have chosen.
Many bands lay claim to the adjective "cinematic." But how many can claim a truly cinema-worthy moment as part of their inception? It was a dark and foggy night when Still Corners songwriter Greg Hughes first laid eyes on vocalist Tessa Murray. "It sounds stupid but it's completely true," he recounts. "I was on a train that was going to London Bridge. But for some reason it went to this other stop. And I got out, and this other person got out. It was Tessa."
Recorded at Hughes' own studio in Greenwich, the devil is truly in the details of Creatures of an Hour. Fusing whispered intimacy to the emotional expansiveness of composer Ennio Morricone, Hughes crafts deceptively simple songs that linger like half-remembered dreams. Lead single "Cuckoo" shines in its simplicity, a single drumbeat, ghostly guitar, and distant organ highlighting Murray's haunting soprano as she asks, "I'd like to read your mind/can you read mine?" "It's about confusion," explains Hughes. "It's about being confused. Am I going crazy? Does this person like me? What's happening? That's the vibe of the whole record really."
Elsewhere, the tone isn't so much one of emotional conflict as it is pure atmosphere. Like a world-class art director, Hughes fills the set of "Endless Summer" with walls of reverb and splashes of longing, echoing a very real conflict in his own life—the pursuit of the illusive London sun. "It's about wishing and chasing after the fleeting sun of England and wishing for an endless summer—or at least that the summer would go on a bit longer," he says with a laugh. "It only seems to last about a week here!"
For the time being, Hughes is happy to maintain Still Corners' musical mystery as—like many artists—he's discovered less is more. "I don't like to talk too much on decoding the songs. It takes the mystery away," he says, cagily. "I like when people listen and then come up with their own kind of thing."
Still Corners (now filled out to a 4-piece by Leon Dufficy and Luke Jarvis) are releasing their debut LP Creatures Of An Hour on October 11th. Tour dates to be announced soon.
So grab some popcorn and stick around, for Still Corners this is just act one.
$12.00 - $15.00
This event is 21 and over
The MLK Dream Run benefits the NNEBA Fellow Youth Entrepreneur Career Leadership Program which trains and connects young people ages 16-26 to business skills and business owners in Portland's communities.
Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have A Dream" speech
Benefiting Youth Entrepreneurship & Empowerment
Featuring Music, Food, Entertainment & Professional Chip-Timed Races
The 5th annual MLK Dream Run is the most important year of the run to date. To help make sure this event stays around for years to come, as one of the best culturally diverse races in our city, please sign up today to walk, run, contribute or volunteer: www.mlkdreamrun.org
After Hours @ S1
Co-Presented by Women's Beat League
LIVE
Russell E. L. Butler (OAK, Opal Tapes) https://soundcloud.com/russellelbutler
Sean Pierce https://soundcloud.com/sean_pierce
Courser https://soundcloud.com/courseroffical
DJ
Deena B https://soundcloud.com/thesoundbox
Lindsay Bailey https://soundcloud.com/lindsay_bailey
Daniela Karina http://soundcloud.com/danielakarina
Nishkosheh http://soundcloud.com/nishkosheh
21+, $10
Chrome Sparks
w/ special guest Roland Tings
Connect with Chrome Sparks:
http://www.chromesparks.com/
https://www.facebook.com/chromesparks/
https://twitter.com/chromesparks
https://soundcloud.com/chrome-sparks
Canadian indie-roots/chamber folk band West My Friend is releasing their third album at Abbie Weisenbloom's House Concerts, featuring instrumentals and 4-part harmonies.
The band features pure and thrillingly elastic vocals with catchy arrangements of bass, guitar, mandolin, and accordion that draw from jazz, classical, folk, and pop influences. Inspired by artists such as Owen Pallett, Joanna Newsom, Bright Eyes, The Decemberists, and the Punch Brothers, and forged from a sonically adventurous acoustic music scene on Canada’s west coast, West My Friend is proving to be a key part of a new generation of grassroots folk music. (Visit: www.westmyfriend.com)
6:30 Potluck, 7:30 Concert
Suggested donation $15-20, $10 students
Reserve at http://froggie.com/ or email abbiew@froggie.com
Tatsuya Nakatani is a creative artist / percussionist originally from Osaka, Japan who has released over sixty recordings in North America and Europe. Residing in the USA since 1994 he has performed countless solo percussion concerts and has collaborated with hundreds of artists in international music festivals, university concert halls, art museums and galleries. His latest project is the Nakatani Gong Orchestra, which builds community ensembles performing on multiple bowed gongs under his direction, as recently presented at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
Nakatani’s constant touring fosters the raw and fresh quality in his music, which can only survive through an open willingness to share energy, culture, music and self on a global human scale. His master classes and workshops at schools and universities, emphasize his unique musical approach and philosophy in creating visceral, non-linear music.
He has created his own instrumentation, effectively inventing many instruments and extended techniques. He utilizes drums, gongs, cymbals, singing bowls, metal objects, bells, and various sticks and bows to create an intense, intuitively primitive, expressive music of unusually strong spirit that defies category or genre. His music is based in improvised/ experimental music, jazz, free jazz, rock, and noise, yet retains the sense of space and beauty found in traditional Japanese folk music.
$5-15, SS
Liima is a new band consisting of the Finnish percussionist Tatu Rönkkö and the three members of Efterklang, Mads Brauer, Casper Clausen and Rasmus Stolberg. The debut album "ii" includes songs written in Finland, Berlin, Istanbul and Madeira during four weeklong residencies. Each place has affected the sound, sometimes literally in the form of samples and field recordings, and each residency ended with a concert where the band performed the newly written songs.
The same approach was chosen for the studio recording of the album. In October 2015 the band recorded the album in just three days in the Vox Ton studio in Berlin together with the Finnish producer Jonas Verwijnen. Everything was recorded live with the whole band. No overdubs and no click track. Afterwards Francesco Donadello mixed the album on tape. Liima started 2016 with two more residencies in London and Copenhagen, and a European tour will follow in the spring.
Since their formation in 2007, Blue Cranes have become a key player in the Portland, Oregon creative music/DIY scene and one of the most exciting groups to keep tabs on in the Northwest. They've developed a singular musical voice grounded in melody and explosive improvisations--marking off their unique microcosmic territory in "post-jazz" circles.
Wanda Sykes has been called "one of the funniest stand-up comics" by her peers and ranks among Entertainment Weekly's 25 Funniest People in America. Her smart-witted stand up has sent her career in many different areas.
In 2012 Wanda joined forces with veteran producer Page Hurwitz to form Push It Productions, a production company dedicated to creating quality, comedy-based programming for network and cable television outlets. The company's diverse slate of projects includes sketch comedy, concerts, reality, talk/variety, and competition formats. Their first set of specials, Herlariousaired in summer of 2013 and January 2014 on Own and was the recipient of a 2014 Gracie Award. In just its first year, Push It has made a first look production deal with NBC, has a new series on OWN, and has shows currently in development with NickMom (Comedy Camp) and Comcast.
Sykes was previously seen on several television shows over the past few years. She can currently be seen on the Amazon Prime show Alpha House created by Gary Trudeau about a group of Republican Senators who share the same DC rental house; Last year she made a return to HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm; she also spent five years on CBS's New Adventures of Old Christine. In 2010 she starred on her own late night talk show on FOX, The Wanda Sykes Show. Other TV credits include Fox's Wanda at Large which she wrote, produced and starred in; Wanda Does It on Comedy Central and on Crank Yankers as the voice of Gladys Murphy.
Her first HBO comedy special Wanda Sykes; Sick and Tired debuted in October 2006 and was nominated for a 2007 Primetime Emmy for ‘Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special.’ It was taped in Seattle Washington and covered everything from racial profiling to gay marriage. She returned to HBO for her second stand up special I’ma Be Me. This time it was taped at the Warner theatre in Washington DC where she tackled topics like the first black president, gay cruises, being a new mom and aging. The special was nominated for two 2010 Primetime Emmy awards: ‘Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special’ and ‘Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Special.’ Her first special Wanda Sykes: Tongue Untied premiered on Comedy Central in 2003.
She can be heard in many animated feature films; Ice Age: Continental Drift as ‘Granny'; in FOX's Rio as ‘the Goose’; in Dreamworks’ Over the Hedge and Paramount’s The Barnyard.
Sykes was also seen in the feature films Evan Almighty, the sequel to Bruce Almighty, in which she co-starred with Steve Carell; the New Line feature Monster-In-Law starring opposite Jane Fonda, My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Pootie Tang, Nutty Professor 2; The Klumps, and Down to Earth.
Her first book titled Yeah, I Said It, published by Simon and Schuster, hit bookstores in September 2004. Yeah, I Said It is a hilarious collection of essays touching on life, family and current events.
She spent 5 years as part of the HBO's critically acclaimed Chris Rock Show. As a performer and writer on the show, she was nominated for three Primetime Emmy's and in 1999 won the Emmy for ‘Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Special.’ In 2001, she won the American Comedy Award for ‘Outstanding Female Stand Up Comic.’ She won three more Emmy’s, in 2002, 2004 and 2005, for her work on Inside the NFL for ‘Outstanding Studio Show – Weekly.’
Wanda was born in Portsmouth, Virginia and raised in Maryland. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from Hampton University. Her stand-up career began at a Coors Light Super talent Showcase in Washington, DC
where she performed for the first time in front of a live audience.
In 2010 she won a GLAAD award for promoting a good image of equal rights for gays and lesbians.
$19.50 - $65.00 Regular adult reserved seating (on sale Fri. 4/29 at 10am)
$200 Meet & Greet packages available (on sale Tue. 4/27 at 10am)
Service charges apply.
PCM is proud to present g͠lͮi̔t᷾c̝h̳, a pop-up exhibition of 35 new media artists organized by arts collective Peripheral Forms. On Thursday, Sept. 22, g͠lͮi̔t᷾c̝h̳ will take over PCM’s lobby, showcasing work on PCM’s TVs that plays with a “glitch” aesthetic, exploring the beauty of pixelation, visual “noise” and other digital image imperfections.
G͠lͮi̔t᷾c̝h̳ features an international grouping of artists, including Aaron Oldenburg; Alex Hovet; Anneli Goeller; Beau Torres; Brandon Bauer; Carlos Rene Pacheco; Caspar Below; Russell Chartier and Paul Botelho; Claire Burelli; Donna Kuhn; Turing Torso; Esstro9 and Eduardo Markodzay; Eric Souther; Filipe Afonso; g1ft3d art; Gabriel Junqueria; Hannah Edward; Jm Rolland; Jody Zellen; Joe Hedges; Justin Lincoln; Matthew Gualco; Mighty Kongb0t and Stereout; Nicholas James Lockyer; Michel Ducerveau; Peter Whittenberger; Rachelle Beaudoin; Rebecca Uliasz; Samantha Harvey; Samantha Winfrey; San Ferlinghetti; Sevgi Tan; Tara Youngborg; and Ullrich Klose.
Image credit: Eric Souther, Myth of The Masses.
Learn more about Peripheral Forms here: http://peripheralforms.com/
Yall know it, The Know is closing its doors in November. It's a school night.
Sigur Rós have announced an upcoming North American tour this fall. For the first time in their career, the band will be touring without a support act, instead offering the audience two sets (+ intermission) starting from 8:30pm sharp at each show.
The month-long run is comprised primarily of theater shows, marking the band’s most intimate tour in a decade. In keeping with the scale of the venues, the group will be performing without the string and brass sections that have been characteristic of recent performances, opting instead to focus on the core unit of the band itself. The shows will give the group a chance to road test new music, the first time since the tour leading up to the acclaimed '( )' album in 2002 that the band has performed new material ahead of album recording sessions. Alongside this experimentation played out in public, the band is also planning on attempting new interpretations of old songs that haven’t been played in a very long time.
Though the scale of the venues and band will be reduced, the live production will be characteristically stunning, designed again by the team behind their previous "Knights of Illumination" award-winning tour.
SIGUR RÓS - A BIOGRAPHY
Named for singer Jonsi's youngest sister Sigurros -- born just before the band started in 1994 -- Iceland's Sigur Rós were formed by guitarist and vocalist Jon Thor Birgisson (Jónsi), bassist Georg Holm and drummer Agust Gunnarsson, while all were teenagers. Their sprawling debut LP, 'Von' ('Hope'), was released in 1997 on the local label Bad Taste. In 1998 Kjartan Sveinsson joined the band on keyboards and the expanded band made the string-heavy 'Ágætis Byrjun' ('A Good Start'), which was released the following year to huge accolade in their homeland. Agust then departed and was quickly replaced by Orri Páll Dýrason.
"Svefn-g-englar," their first release to be distributed outside Iceland, was hailed as NME's Single of the Week late in 1999, and so began
a rapturous press reception in the UK, soon to be mirrored around the globe. In Q magazine 'Ágætis Byrjun' was deemed "the last great record of the 20th century." April 2000 dates in England with Godspeed You Black Emperor! were capped off by an appearance at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival, and they also opened several dates of Radiohead's European tour before year's end. By the end of the year, it had won the US Shortlist Prize for Artistic Achievement in Music; it was also declared Iceland's Best Album of the Century.
'( ),' Sigur Rós' third album, was released in 2002. The majority of the material was honed on the road prior to being recorded at Alafoss, the group's studio, located outside Reykjavik. The album featured a raw, darker sound in comparison to its predecessors, and was also notoriously wordless and title-less throughout. Nevertheless it established itself as the band's most successful record in America, a status it holds to this day. Three years later, they issued 2005's 'Takk...,' featuring tighter arrangements and brighter tones, best exemplified by the uplifting -- and hugely requested by film directors -- "Hoppipolla."
In 2007 they released the documentary film "Heima," which chronicled the band's free tour of Iceland the previous year, accompanied by the acoustic/rarities double album package 'Hvarf/Heim.' The following year they wrote, recorded and toured their fifth album, 'Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust,' all within the calendar year of 2008. The final shows of the tour were recorded on both film and audio, and later released as the double live album and DVD 'Inni' in 2011. They then went on "indefinite hiatus." During this time, Jónsi launched a solo career, first collaborating with boyfriend Alex Somers (as Jónsi & Alex) on 2009's 'Riceboy Sleeps,' then releasing 2010's 'Go' under his own name.
The hiatus ended in 2012 with the quietly beautiful 'Valtari,' which realised the band's long-held ambitions to make a choral/ambient album. Recorded in several sessions over a period of years, the record saw the band re-embracing the stately pace and deferred gratification of their earlier work. The release was supported by the Valtari Film Experiment, wherein film directors interpreted the music instead of the band members doing interviews.
The band went back on the road in summer 2012 for the first time in four years. In November -- at the biggest show ever by an Icelandic artist in the country's capital Reykjavik -- the band unveiled the first material written without departing member Kjartan Sveinsson, which would soon become the harder and more electronic seventh Sigur Rós album, 'Kveikur.'
This summer, with no new album to promote but new songs to road-test, the band are once again challenging themselves and changing things up by shedding the comfort blanket of string and brass sections and additional musicians, and going back to being the core band that is Sigur Rós...as you've never seen them before.
$79.50 Orchestra Level Seats
$59.50 Box Level & Balcony Level Seats
*Tickets go on sale Friday, April 8 at 9am. Service charges apply. Ticket limit=4 on regular tickets.
Tickets are available online, at the Portland'5 Box Office & TicketsWest outlets, and by phone: 800-273-1530.
*Platinum seat tickets go on sale Tuesday, April 5th 9am – Thursday, April 7th, resumes Friday, April 8th 9am (while supplies last)
Platinum seat tickets available online only - (Pit seats to Row M- based on availability; limited quantities available; ticket limit=4; 2-ticket minimum; prices subject to change & increase)
*Besta VIP Packages go on sale Tuesday, April 5th 9am – Thursday, April 7th, resumes Friday, April 8th 9am (while supplies last)
Guarantees One of the Very Best Reserved Seats in the House
Plus, something unique to this tour: An exclusive, Limited Edition Sigur Rós Notebook/Sketch Pad (each of which will be autographed by Jonsi, Orri and Georg)
$175.00 - Available online only (package ticket limit=6)
Kevin Greenspon’s history as a mindful and concise composer of graceful ambient compositions for guitar, synthesizer and cassette tape reach for new horizons on his newest release. “To Leave A Mark” stitches the ethereal atmosphere of previous work with rhythmic elements of techno, noise and pop music. On his 2016 tour, each song’s performance is synchronized to rapid-cut video projections that melt into abstract pools, coaxing the viewer into a state of self-reflection. http://kevingreenspon.info/
Sage Elaine Fisher aka dolphin midwives began composing at age 5 and explored guitar, sound healing, raga, and opera, before developing her polyrhythmic harp style with an african drumming circle while on hiatus on Maui. She began performing her effected harp pieces in 2013, and her latest release, Orchid Milk, took place at the Kenton Masonic Temple with the VSB Gamelan Orchestra this spring. http://www.dolphinmidwives.us/
Don Gero (Zach D'Agostino) uses live drums to control modular synthesizers. His new cassette is out on Ewe of Now Recordings: https://dongero1.bandcamp.com/album/weirding
All Ages, $8 suggested
LOSE YR MIND FEST presents:
Naomi Punk (OLY)
DIY, psychedelic, primitive, lo-fi, art punks from Olympia.
http://www.capturedtracks.com/naomi-punk
Talkative
Space punk, psycho pop, shoegaze dudes
https://talkative.bandcamp.com/
Adult Swim wants you to come cuddle up with us under the stars. Prepare your lil' hearts to spend a magical night at the Adult Swim Drive-In and take a look at what's on the horizon for the network. The evening will be filled with unaired [as] episodes, never before seen pilots & specials, and a load of other Williams Street favorites. It's going to be a fantastical night full of Adult Swim, food trucks, trivia, prizes, and friendship.
Vouchers for a free meal from one of the food trucks on-site will be handed out, while supplies last.
Blankets, pillows, slankets, blillows, and chairs welcome.
CAR LINEUP BEGINS AT 5PM | 6:15PM DOORS | 7:45PM SHOW
18+ | Free with RSVP through adultswimpresents.com
Spend The Night & Sure Thing Present:
Randomer (NW Debut)
Clone, L.I.E.S, Hemlock - UK
https://soundcloud.com/randomer
https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/randomer
https://www.facebook.com/rohanrandomer/
https://www.discogs.com/artist/1057742-Randomer
+ Spend The Night & Sure Thing residents:
Aaron J, Graintable & Ben Tactic
21+,
About Randomer:
Few have a recent back catalogue as rich and diverse as Randomer. His discography reads like a who’s who of modern techno: across a six year career, he’s produced four EPs for Untold’s Hemlock Recordings; released records for Hessle Audio, Numbers and Clone; and most recently, been cherrypicked for Ron Morelli’s L.I.E.S.
As a DJ, he's one of the UK’s finest, capable of effortlessly stitching together modern bass with classic techno and less esoteric 4/4 rhythms.