Brian Copeland Band returns to Jimmy Mak's with a new single from their recent sessions. BCB features Jeff Koch on guitar, Mike Snyder on drums, Arcellus Sykes on bass guitar, Jean-Pierre Garau on keys, and Kat Cogswell on vocals. Those attending will receive a complementary download of the new song!
Joining BCB on the stage will be The Beautiful Train Wrecks and the Kelly Brightwell Band.
Admission: $10 at the door (no guaranteed seating)
For reserved seating, call (503) 295-6542. There is a $15 minimum food purchase for reserved seating.
Doors: 6:00 pm
Music: 8:00 pm
For More Information:
http://briancopelandband.com/
http://beautifultrainwrecks.com/
http://kellybrightwell.com/
Witness a night of adults telling stories about their lives by sharing their most mortifying childhood artifacts (diaries, letters, lyrics, poems, home movies in front of total strangers. Mortified Live has grassroots “chapters” in multiple cities– some cities are monthly, others are only a few times a year. Experience a night of adults sharing the embarrassing things they created as kids.
Lief Hall’s performative lecture will weave storytelling, video bricolage, live performance and musical compositions to explore how mythology, science fiction and virtual embodiment affect the creation of gender identity within popular culture.
Pulling from Judith Butler’s notion of ‘gender performativity’ and Donna Haraway’s ‘Cyborg Manifesto,’ the lecture will explore how performative space is re-shaped through technology, and the integration of cyber-virtual identities. Looking at the work of contemporary female pop stars such as Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj, Hatsune Miku and Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, Lief Hall explores how the narratives created in pop music play an important role in the creation of contemporary mythology.
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Lief Hall is a composer, singer-songwriter, director/choreographer and creator of opera, musical theatre, video and installation. Hall was previously the vocalist for Vancouver no wave punk band ‘Mutators’ (2007), a vocalist for the improvisational trio ‘Glaciers‘ (2009), and one half of Canadian ‘femme noir’ pop duo MYTHS (2012). Her most recent EP Transform (2015) marks a new direction in her solo musical work, creating dark electronic pop, which merges the experimental dance music with layered vocal harmonies, exploring themes of love, identity, and fear in a post-human world.
Hall has performed her solo music alongside artists such as Bear in Heaven and Inga Coupland and was named on NME’s list of '50 Brand New Artists Set to Storm in 2015.'
Her interdisciplinary installation and performance works explore themes of nature, technology and the body as they relate to mythology, feminism and the production of cultural ideology. In 2005 Hall completed her BFA at Emily Carr University, and has since presented work at VIVO Media Arts Centre, Simon Fraser University, Or Gallery, Vancouver Art Gallery, 221A Gallery, Western Front, and Mercer Union Gallery.
Over the summer, the 18-year-old quickly won over fans and critics alike with a steady stream of song and video releases off her self-funded, self-titled debut EP out on August 28. Helmed by veteran producer David Kahne (Pauly McCartney, Lana Del Rey, Ingrid Michaelson), her style off the EP has been described as “sharp-edged, brooding, indie folk and pop.” Her musicianship has already been praised by NPR, BULLETT, Paste, InStyleBuzz, Billboard, ABC News and more.
Watch:
“Ride With You” video: http://vevo.ly/CWMQbe
“Sirens” video: http://vevo.ly/RaM4w6
Listen to the full EP:
https://soundcloud.com/soren-bryce
Hate Eternal with Beyond Creation, Misery Index and Rivers Of Nihil!
Lineup:
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Hate Eternal http://bnds.in/u2gR42
Misery Index http://bnds.in/qye2d7
Beyond Creation http://bnds.in/HHwI2h
Rivers Of Nihil http://bnds.in/r0q96X
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The Big Gone and Friendly Males, both from Los Angeles, CA have decided to take their friendship and love for donuts, psych pop and sparkling water on the road. They both play a variation of the infamous 'indie rock' with plenty of conviction and laughter.
They will be supported locally by Arlo Indigo and Tommy Alexander (both friendly).
There will most certainly be
-Free Pins
-Hand painted miscellanous clothes and music for sale
-Properly printed small run of T-Shirts (these are rad)
Friendly Males (Los Angeles - Lolipop Records)
www.facebook.com/friendlymalesCA
latest release:
https://soundcloud.com/friendly-males/bite-an-apple-1
The Big Gone (Los Angeles)
www.facebook.com/thebiggonemusic
latest release:
https://soundcloud.com/thebiggonemusic/sunsetgraveyard
Arlo Indigo
https://www.facebook.com/arloindigo
Tommy Alexander
https://www.facebook.com/Thomas-Joel-Alexander-131563066884648/
The OO-Ray
The OO-Ray is the alias of Ted Laderas, an improvisatory and experimental cellist from Portland, OR. A systems biologist by day, he extends his experimental attitude to exploring the outer possibilities of the cello, often distorting, looping, or pitchshifting his instrument beyond recognizability into waves of reverberation and extended drones. Inspired by the gauzy textures of My Bloody Valentine, he call his style “shoegazer cello” or “chamber drone”. His music explores the realms of electroacoustic, shoegazer, and ambient
Apartment Fox
Apartment Fox’s Alex Neerman was once the drummer of anarcho-art-punk band The Intima back in the early 2000′s. After that group’s demise he found a new outlet for his percussive mind building drum machines and synthesizers. Over the last 4 or 5 years he has refined his craft and emerged as one of Cascadia’s finest hardware techno producers, providing “off-center dance music that throws off all sorts of wonky textures while still delivering crushing grooves that make you feel indestructible” (The Stranger)
An evening dedicated to one of pop music's most enchanting and uncompromising stars. A bevy of Portland's most talented female musicians will take on Kate Bush's catalog for this Siren Nation Festival event.
Cover songs performed live by:
Sara Jackson-Holman
Johanna Warren
Unicorn Domination
Coco Columbia
Lynnae Gryffin
Patricia et Cameron
Moniker with LKN and Ali Clarys
Dance by: Lucy Lee Yim
$8.00 advance $10.00 day of show
21+
Set times:
10:30p Balto
9:30p tents
Check out both bands' music here:
https://balto.bandcamp.com/
tentsband.bandcamp.com
21+ / FREE
Amber Webber (Black Mountain, Lightning Dust) and Derek Fudesco (Cave Singers/Pretty Girls Make Graves) have joined forces for a new project Kodiak Deathbeds. The duo play Bunk Bar on Friday November 6th. All the info is right here.
LISTEN TO KODIAK DEATHBEDS HERE
XRAY will be there in full effect, listen to 107.1fm or online at xray.fm for chances to win tickets.
This special Back Fence PDX: Russian Roulette will feature the audience-voted winner from the October show and Wordstock-ers and returnees Author of the memoir collection Yokohama Threeway and Other Small Shames, the New York Times bestselling comic memoir Everybody Into the Pool, Beth Lisck (NY), Author of Turtleface and Beyond (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) + Emmy Nominated Filmmaker The Making of South Park: 6 Days to Air, Arthur Bradford (PDX), Drummer for Blitzen Trapper, Brian Koch (PDX), author of the poetry collection Often Go Awry (University of Hell Press) + Poetry Slam Champion, Brian S. Ellis (PDX) — along with first-timers: Author of Dark Sparkler (poems, Harper Perennial )+ Nominated for an Emmy, Golden Globe for her work in TV/Film, Amber Tamblyn (NY/LA), author of three novels including The Dead Lands (Grand Central/Hachette) + Screenwriter/Director + writing has appeared in Esquire, GQ, Time, Tin House, Benjamin Percy, and author of Girl at the Bottom of the Sea (McSweeney’s McMullens), sequel to A Mermaid in Chelsea Creek + Performed Internationally with Sister Spit/Editor of Sister Spit Books, Michelle Tea (SF).
Hosted by B. Frayn Masters & Mindy Nettifee
Music by Bobby D from XRAY
At the end of the night, the audience will select a winner who will receive 50 bucks and some other cool prizes, like bragging rights for life. The winner will be invited to come back to the next show!
*Storytellers subject to change without notice. Stories may contain explicit language and/or subject matter.
Molly 16's Rock n Roll Fantasy is a multimedia exhibit featuring animation, short films made by teenaged girls and artwork from Molly 16's zines.
XRAY FM is proud to sponsor Matt Pond PA, playing Dante's on November 4th with Laura Stevenson. The new york based band is touring in support of their newest album, The State of Gold. The show starts at 8pm and ticket information can be found at danteslive.com
Join Siren Nation for their bi-annual comedy show featuring some of the funniest ladies in the business!
Hosted by Caitlin Weierhauser
Featuring Karinda Dobbins, Dinah Foley, Amy Miller
It’s time for our Annual Day of the Dead dinner ¡Viva Milagro! Now in its 6th year, this event is a special time for celebration and stands as a premier opportunity to support Milagro and raise funds!
Amidst a festive setting in our Zócalo where Pepe Moscoso’s colorful and thematic Día de los Muertos altars line the walls and the beautiful voice of musician Susan Jacobo fill the air; where emcee Joaquin Lopez encourages friendly bidding wars over coveted handicrafts by artisans of Mexico and laughter abounds at the presentation of endearing Calaveras; where guests feast on a specially prepared family-style dinner catered by local favorite, Mayahuel, and where, most importantly, friends and supporters of Milagro come together for one special evening to revere the dearly departed and celebrate Milagro’s unique and enduring presence in the arts community.
A collaboration between The National's Matt Berninger and Menomena's Brent Knopf, El VY is playing two nights at Doug Fir. The debut EL VY album is called Return To The Moon, and will be out this October. It’s a project they’ve been thinking about for almost a decade since they first became friends, and during the winter and spring of ’14-15 they were finally able to find time to make it a reality.
Moorea Masa has been singing since she could talk. Her voice has the power to move mountains, or to move grown men to tears. Her songs can transport listeners from lush green forests to dimly-lit juke joints. An Oregonian native, Moorea has been performing professionally since the age of 15. She attended the Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts and studied with Flamenco musicians while living in the cave dwellings of Granada, Spain. Influenced by soulful folk music across generations and geography, including Etta James, Feist, and Iron and Wine. In her former project, The Ruby Pines, she performed at venues like The Blue Note in New York City and The Wonder Ballroom in their home of Portland, Oregon. Currently, she sings with Ural Thomas and The Pain (Willamette Week's Best New Artist in 2014), a throwback soul band fronted by a former collaborator of James Brown and Otis Redding. Moorea is completing work on her debut solo EP, due to be released later this year.
Hibou. Peter Michel is a 21 year old Seattleite who creates music under the alias Hibou. Michel toured North America and Europe as the drummer of Captured Tracks' band Craft Spells. After a year of non-stop touring, he felt his life with the band had run its course, and that it was time to begin creating his own music. In January of 2013, he released 2 songs, and soon after received positive press recognition. In June of 2013, Dunes EP was released, which was featured by NME, Pitchfork, Line of Best Fit, Noisey, and more. Hibou is set to release their debut LP in 2015.
Lost Lander. Before she died, Matt Sheehy’s mother used to tell him about a dream she had about Lost Land Lake—a place she spent part of her mid-western childhood. That dream inspired the name of the Juneau-born, Portland-based songwriter’s band, and her memory is imbued in Medallion, their second album. If DRRT, the group’s first independently released album, was about the confluence of nature and technology, Medallion, its latest, concerns dualities – experiences of love and loss, impermanence and longevity, death and rebirth.
The confrontation of these dualities resulted in a set of songs that explore “more human territory,” according to Sheehy, a professional forester who spend his days in Oregon’s immense wooded expanse – where he collects data while occasionally dodging 1,000-pound bull elks and the stray hunter’s bullet.
The coming-apart of Sheehy’s marriage engagement and nearly concurrent loss of his mother, followed closely by the blooming of a relationship with longtime friend and bandmate Sarah Fennell, heavily influenced the lyrics on Medallion.
“It was almost like a switch flipped,” Fennell says. “It took us a while to figure out what that meant.” The 80s British synth-pop influenced ““Gemini” deals very directly with the danger I felt in getting closer to Sarah,” says Sheehy, while Paul Simon-esque world folk number “Flinch” is a direct response to his mom’s passing.
Yet not all the songs are so directly autobiographical: “Feed the Fever” was based on a TV interview with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden; the lyrics are direct quotes from the transcript. The swirling world beat psychedelia of “Trailer Tracks” was written whilst secluded in an Airstream during a writers’ retreat. The wide-screen Blue Velvet epic “Alpine Street” is a cinematic dream of suburban domesticity, cut with an undercurrent of sadness and dread. “Nothing lasts forever,” Matt observes. “And the seeds are already planted for the change that’s inevitable.”
Sheehy took the seeds of the songs into “the idea factory/workshop that is Brent Knopf’s brain,” he relates, “where he spits out all the bells and whistles that we hang on those structures.”
The new songs, recorded with producer Knopf (Ramona Falls, Menomena), also owe their current form to Sheehy’s bandmates; keyboardist Fennell, drummer Patrick Hughes and ex-bassist Dave Lowensohn. Medallion also features Beirut trumpet player Kelly Pratt, Akron/Family’s Dana Jenssen, and new bass and guitar player, William Seiji Marsh.
After the 2011 release of DRRT, Lost Lander went on tour for almost two years, playing 140 shows in the US, Canada, Europe, and Russia, where their collective experience resulted in the camaraderie and tightness that went into the making of Medallion. “For me, this band has been a dream come true” says Sheehy. The music business in general may be pessimistic, but not everyone in it is. We’re excited to go towards enthusiasm.”
Medallion is all about wrenching joy from despair, of finding the permanent within the temporary. “This record is an exclamation of love and loss,” Fennell declares. “It’s emotional, dealing with life in an exuberant way, even if it’s sad, hard, wonderful, and crazy. We’re all just lucky to be here to experience it.”
Bollywood Horror XIII Costume Dance Party with DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid, featuring the US debut of Lil India (Vancouver, BC) and live percussion by dholi Malinder Tooray of Dholnation (Los Angeles).
The longest-running Bollywood Halloween party in the world is a Portland original, a wild dance party celebrating thirteen years of raucous costumed merriment hosted by DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid. The centerpiece of every Bollywood Horror is the costume contest hosted by Anjali with fabulous prizes from rad local businesses for the best costumes. Featuring only the wickedest beats from the subcontinent: cower at the thundering dhols, shiver at the piercing wails of Bollywood divas. The night features specially-commissioned psychedelic Bollywood Horror visuals remixed by Micah Schmelzer Deai from Anjali and The Kid's vault of South Asian horror.
LIL INDIA
A female Indo-Canadian DJ duo from Vancouver, BC whose "Strictly for My Jatts" mix was featured in the Mad Decent blog and reached nearly 100,000 listens on soundcloud before being taken down. They have performed with artists such as Heems, Spank Rock, Chippy Nonstop and DJ Rekha, After DJing for years in hip-hop and R&B contexts in 2014 they launched their "All Indian" Jaloos party and in 2015 performed at the Vancouver International Bhangra Celebration official after party.
https://soundcloud.com/lilindia
https://twitter.com/lilindia
https://instagram.com/lilindia_/
MALINDER TOORAY
Malinder Tooray was born and raised in LA. She started playing dhol at the age of 15, self taught alongside her two brothers. Together they are Dholnation. Malinder has performed for many artists such as Sukshinder Shinda, Sukbhir, B21, Jassi Sidhu, Lehmber Hussainpuri and Bollywood dance groups such as Blue 13 and Karmagraphy. She recently played at World of Dance accompanied by Waacking Choreographer Kumari Suraj.
DJ ANJALI AND THE INCREDIBLE KID
DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid have spent more than a decade igniting dance floors with cutting edge music not limited by borders or language. They host the longest-running Bhangra and Bollywood party on the West Coast, co-founded the Pacific Northwest’s first Global Bass dance party and host two weekly radio shows on XRAY.FM. Few DJs can be said to have changed the sound of their city but that is exactly what DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid have accomplished since they first introduced Portland, Oregon nightclub audiences to the many varied sounds of Global Bass at a raucous New Year’s Eve debut in 2000. They are most known for incinerating dance floors with the heavy dance floor artillery of South Asia, but the duo scour the globe for any hard-hitting music that combines local music traditions with window-rattling production. Anjali and The Kid regularly perform at festivals including five sets at the Sasquatch! Music Festival tenth anniversary where they headlined the dance tent opening night. They have performed at festivals such as Decibel, MusicfestNW, Vancouver International Bhangra Celebration, Beloved, Photosynthesis, Fairytale, Kaleidoscope and the Vancouver Queer Film Festival. The duo travel to perform in cities such as New York City, Chicago, Washington DC, San Francisco and Vancouver, BC to headline parties such as Basement Bhangra, iBomba, Bhangrateque, Ottomania and Non Stop Bhangra.
www.anjaliandthekid.com/
www.facebook.com/Anjaliandthekid
www.twitter.com/anjaliandthekid
www.twitter.com/incrediblekid23
https://soundcloud.com/djanjali
https://soundcloud.com/the-incredible-kid
$10 ($5 before 10pm)
21 and over
9pm-2am
Tickets
Little May is a dark tangle of raw lyrics, honest and haunting melodies and voices upon voices upon voices; Little May represent a new generation of songwriters. Undefinable and expansive, Little May's sound is created by age-old friends Annie Hamilton, Liz Drummond and Hannah Field, who in 18 short months have acquired almost two million Soundcloud plays, three million Spotify streams and whose debut EP has made its way into the ears of fans and tastemakers far beyond their Sydney home.