FREE | All Ages until 7pm, 21+ 7pm on
It’s an endless sunny day. Eclectic music is pulsing through the air. Delicious eats and libations are being enjoyed by all. After all that time in quarantine and after that long, record-breaking winter, the whole community is coming together to celebrate. Music is vibing, records are being swapped, there are workshops and activities the whole fam can enjoy, and everyone you love is there having fun at your side…
This is the Portland July of your rainy winter dreams. Complete with XRAY favorites from the Saturday schedule--it'll be a day with XRAY you won't want to miss.
Come thirsty. Bring your friends and neighbors. And get ready to dance.
Find a full press release for the event here.
Live DJ Lineup:
- 12-1 PM: Beaches w/ Beaches Crew
- 1-2 PM: The Impact Sound! w/ The Grand Yoni
- 2-4 PM: Sessions from the Box with James Dineen
- 4-5 PM: Friends of Noise Presents w/ DJ Harry
- 4-6 PM: Friends of Noise Presents w/ DJ Ayler
- 6-7 PM: Intuitive Navigation w/ DJ Serious Moonlight & DJ Palm Dat
- 7-8 PM: Kevin Berry's Old School Show w/ Kevin Berry
- 8-10 PM: Welcome to the Neighborhood w/ DJ Klyph
Vinyl Fair:
As part of this event, we'll be hosting a Vinyl Fair complete with hidden treasures and longtime favorites from local collectors--including several longtime XRAY DJs. Vendors span all genres and, while prioritizing vinyl, will also have CDs and Tapes available. Expect to see music as wide-ranging as XRAY including Classic Rock, Jazz, Hip Hop, Soul, Funk, Psych, Punk, Industrial, Experimental, Folk, Goth, Acoustic, Pop, World, Soundtracks, Dance, and more.
Vendor Lineup:
Vendor Business Name // Vendor Name // Genre Specialties
*Links provided to shows on XRAY for those vendors who are station DJs.
- Too Many Records // Matt Kessler // Classic essentials from rock/jazz/soul/funk, modern rarities from hip-hop, video game soundtracks, indie, Brazilian, and blue note jazz
- DJ Morning Remorse // Carlos Block-Almanzan // All Genres
- Prospector Records // Patrick Gordy // Funk, soul, psych, jazz, rock, outsider
- Fragile Records // Randy Foss // Classic Rock
- Produce Records // Dan Bryant // All Genres
- Pleuracanthas Records // Thom Jones // Post-punk, experimental, goth, industrial
- DJ Bob Ham // Bob Ham // Indie Rock
- 3 Hand Stephen // Stephen Cohen // Freak folk, psych folk, poetic acoustic, creative acoustic, experimental
- David Wagstaff // David Wagstaff // Rock, Pop, World, Jazz, & Dance
- Fluff & Gravy Records // John Shepski // Indie Folk, Rock
- Discourage Records // Paul Montone // Indie
- Vinyl Crush // Mark Wald // Jazz & Rock/Pop
Volunteer at the Event
Want to help out with the event? Let us know by sending us an email at info@xray.fm. We could use folks to help with set up and clean up, recording shoutouts, merch sales, raffle/giveaway tickets, social media, photography, and all the things that go into a great summer party!
COVID-19 Precautions & More Information
TICKETS | $13 Advance, $15 at the Door
21+ Only
TICKETS | $13
21+ /// Proof of COVID-19 vaccination or proof of a negative COVID-19 test taken in the prior 72 hours required
w/ Kelli Schaefer & Field Drums
Slang’s debut COCKROACH IN A GHOST TOWN is a force of nature that came, seemingly, out of nowhere. Lyricist/singer/guitarist Drew Grow and drummer/singer Janet Weiss started the band over a decade ago in Portland, OR—both having spent more than half their lives dedicated to making and performing music. Through the years, Weiss has played with everyone from her bands Quasi, Wild Flag, and Sleater-Kinney, to collaborators like Elliott Smith, Stephen Malkmus, and others.; Grow has fronted his own groups Modern Kin and the Pastors’ Wives, producing other bands along the way. Starting as a moonlighting collaboration, the meeting of this particular group was kismet if not totally cosmic.
TICKETS | $13
AN IMMERSIVE ONE-NIGHT, THREE-BAND LIVE CONCERT THAT DARES ASK THE QUESTION:
BUT WHAT IF THERE WERE PUPPETS?
Salo Panto performing with puppeteers: Matt Hopkins, Matt Laird, Liz Ghiz
Holocene and Bogmonster Events present the 7th edition of POP + PUPPETRY, an interdisciplinary extravaganza for the eyes and ears! 3 puppeteer teams of diverse styles will be paired with 3 inventive Portland-based pop/rock groups. Each puppeteer will present an original puppet show created especially for this event and synced to the band’s music. The results should be dazzling, and help to elevate the experience of both artistic mediums when combined.
Proof of full COVID vaccination (or negative rapid COVID test) required to enter
FREE
TICKETS | $10 advanced, $12 day of showCalling all hip-hop fans and beat heads! Rose Tinted is the hip-hop project you didn't know you needed. The Portland-based band is back at Holocene on Thursday, March 24th. This show is part of their monthly residency, celebrating the very best hip-hop artists in the PDX scene. Through their residency with Holocene, Rose Tinted strives to showcase and collaborate with Portland's finest MC's, beat producers, DJ's, and R&B artists. Opening up the night on this one-time showcase is beat producer Calvin Valentine and Portland MC, Milc. The two will be performing tracks from their most recent album, "Tiger Milc," for the first time live!Rose Tinted is dedicated to producing live-sampled beats, flipping classic hip-hop joints to pay tribute to the classic boom-bap sound. Rose Tinted provides hip-hop lovers with the nostalgia of their favorite DJ set combined with the incredible musicianship and creativity. If you consider yourself a hip-hop fan, you should get used to making their monthly residency a regular hang.
TICKETS | $13
Aaron Space & his Terrestrial Underlings is the musical moniker of composer/producer/multi-instrumentalist Elihu Knowles. Based in Berkeley, CA, Knowles's background as a jazz drummer deeply influences his soulful and experimental tunes. His work has often been compared to a variety of artists including Jon Bap, Sun Ra, Radiohead, King Krule, Standing on the Corner, and Rufus Wainwright.
Now, following a brief sojourn playing traditional jazz in Berlin, Germany, Knowles has returned to the states for another west coast tour. With a smaller band, he hopes to shed light on a different aspect of Aaron Space's musical universe, emphasizing its improvisatory elements to create a more captivating and continually evolving performance. He has begun production on his second full length studio album, which is expected to be completed around the end of the year.
PROOF OF COVID-19 VACCINATION OR NEGATIVE TEST REQUIRED FOR ENTRY
Doug Fir is currently requiring COVID-19 vaccination proof, or proof of a negative Covid-19 test result, taken within 48 hours prior to entry.
For full, up to date information, please visit dougfirlounge.com/covid
THIS EVENT IS 21+
TICKETS | $18 Advanced
Doors 8PM | Show 9PM
21+ | Proof of COVID vaccination or Negative Test within 48 hours required for entry
with Su Lee
Since breaking out in 2018, CHAI have been associated with explosive joy. At their live shows, the Japanese four-piece of identical twins MANA (lead vocals and keys) and KANA (guitar), drummer YUNA, and bassist-lyricist YUUKI have become known for buoyant displays of eclectic and clever songwriting, impressive musicianship, matching outfits, delightful choreography, and sheer relief.
21+ // Doors 8 PM // Show 9 PM
OLD TIME RELIJUN
Old Time Relijun give sweaty, compulsively danceable performances that never fail to inflame their audience. Their songs are simple but no one else in the world could imitate them. Their albums are packed with sing-along hits, mixed with sonic experiments and inside jokes.
DESCENDING PHAROAHS
Half structure, half improvisation, they draw influence from Arabic/Anatolian electric music, eastern improvisation, spiritual jazz, gamelan, British psych, and the louder side of 70s krautrock. Harmonia, Omar Khorshid, Mogollar, Ash Ra Tempel, Hawkwind, Sandy Bull, Savage Republic are inspirations.
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.
An event to connect local Black and Brown farmers with local buyersBuy your CSA share!
Meet BIPOC farmers and learn about local agriculture!
Are you a chef? Market manager? Come meet your farmers! Join the movement that's changing the face of farming!
Free to attend! Food trucks on site! Live music and DJ!
LOCATION: CORE PDX, 3612 SE 82ND AVE, PORTLAND, OR 97266
Please RSVP to enter a raffle filled with goodies from farmers! Otherwise just show up day of!
Email sitafalfarm@gmail.com if you have questions!
An event to connect local Black and Brown farmers with local buyersBuy your CSA share!
Meet BIPOC farmers and learn about local agriculture!
Are you a chef? Market manager? Come meet your farmers! Join the movement that's changing the face of farming!
Free to attend! Food trucks on site! Live music and DJ!
LOCATION: CORE PDX, 3612 SE 82ND AVE, PORTLAND, OR 97266
Please RSVP to enter a raffle filled with goodies from farmers! Otherwise just show up day of!
Email sitafalfarm@gmail.com if you have questions!
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.