They're called PUP. They're from Toronto. They play loud music. You'll like it. Or maybe you won't.
Screaming Females' seven years as a band, four full-length albums and 700 globe-spanning live shows has made them difficult to miss. Through it all, the New Brunswick, New Jersey trio have continued to exude a frenetic energy which is built upon the zeitgeist of America's punk and indie underground yet has always remained forward-looking. Fittingly, for Screaming Females' 5th album Ugly, the band enlisted legendary recording engineer Steve Albini, famed for his unique ability to capture the ferociousness of a live performance while delivering gorgeous sonic clarity. The album's 14 tracks reaffirm the touchstones of the band; they can still shred and front-woman Marissa Paternoster can still unleash a powerful howl. But it doesn't end there. The album ushers in new explorations for the band, a truly remarkable feat considering their already prolific output. Ugly has the perfect combination of raw energy and honed musicianship that produces the type of rock & roll which is still a force to be reckoned with.
Backfence and XRAY are excited to be a part of Design Week Portland! This show will feature all kinds of designers and others telling stories based off of an array of prompt, largely focused on design.
Storytellers include: The winner from our August show from 105.1 The Buzz, DARIA ELIUK (PDX), along with returning storytellers Write Bloody Publisher, DERRICK BROWN (AUS), New York Times Bestselling Author, BETH LISICK (NY), Owner and Chef at Noble Rot plus two time past Russian Roulette winner, LEATHER STORRS (PDX) Nationally Acclaimed Fashion Designer, ADAM ARNOLD (PDX) along with newcomers — the Designer Behind Much Adored betsy + iya Jewelery, BETSY CROSS (PDX), Graphic Designer + Songwriter, EMILY OVERSTREET (PDX), and Co-Founder of Buy Olympia + Curator of Land Gallery, PAT CASTALDO (PDX)!
Hosted by B. FRAYN MASTERS & MINDY NETTIFEE
Music by BOBBY from Sex Life DJs
SAINT CUPCAKES are back and will be served at intermission!
$15 ADVANCE | $18 DOOR
More about RUSSIAN ROULETTE…
How it works: each show begins with a full wheel of juicy story prompts. One of the 8 storytellers will be randomly drawn. They spin the wheel to decide the prompt for their story. They can play or pass. If they pass another teller can steal their prompt. Then the risky part…each storyteller has only 5 minutes to come up with a true 5-minute story based on that prompt! It’s like we invented a new game called truth AND dare.
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! And one lucky audience member will also win some prizes!
*Storytellers subject to change without notice. Stories may contain explicit language and/or subject matter.
Sat OCTOBER 11, 2014
DOORS 7:00PM | SHOW 8:00PM 21+
Back Fence PDX: RUSSIAN ROULETTE
DISJECTA
8371 N INTERSTATE AVE
Friday, October 10! Nasalrod, Die Robot, Needles and Pizza and Kim DeLacy will be there to make you dance and blow your mind! The event is free, but they will be accepting donations for Ethos, a local non-profit that organizes music lessons, classes, camps and workshops for children as young as two.
Both BBQ and King Khan had previously collaborated together while the two were members of the Montreal-based Spaceshits, however, following a European tour, Blacksnake (the then-current alias of King Khan) opted to remain in Germany on a permanent basis, resulting in the ultimate breakup of the Spaceshits, who chose not to continue without Blacksnake. Following the breakup of the Spaceshits, Mark Sultan started another Montreal-based band, Les Sexareenos, before venturing off on his own as a one-man band under the pseudonym BBQ. It was as BBQ that Mark Sultan re-established contact with Blacksnake, playing alongside Blacksnake’s new band, King Khan & The Shrines. The two began writing songs together at Blacksnake’s apartment in Germany, playing them live at sporadic shows around Germany and Spain.
GENDERS
Genders is a four-piece casual rock and roll band from Portland, Ore. Finding a balance between shredding your clothes off and weeping softly in the corner, Genders’ performance will move you…be it physically or emotionally. Want your face melted? Want your toes tapping? Want to hold hands with your sweetie? Come to a Genders show and have the night of your life.
Genders is comprised of Stephen Leisy on guitar, Matt Hall on bass, Katherine Paul on drums, and Maggie Morris on guitar and vocals.
GRANDPARENTS
THE DOMESTICS
XRAY is loving the amazing S (Jenn Ghetto) brand new album, Cool Choices.
S plays Valentine's with Raymond Byron (Castanets/White Freighter) x Satsuma. Come early to ensure entry!
Jenn Ghetto decided to name her band S long before Internet searching had become the dominant means of information-gathering. By the time she realized the simple name she’d chosen could be troublesome, it was too late. She’d unintentionally selected an un-Googleable band name. “You can’t even put S into iTunes,” she says with a laugh.
But a lot has changed since the late ’90s, and not just with the Internet. S, which started as a bedroom side project while Ghetto was fronting Seattle sadcore stalwarts Carissa’s Wierd, has become her main musical focus now that that group’s breakup is more than 10 years in the rearview. Cool Choices, out this week, is the first S record to feature a full band and the first to be produced outside her bedroom.
Though the songwriting for the album began after a breakup, Ghetto decided she wanted to make a big record. She started playing with a drummer and began e-mailing her old friend Chris Walla (of Death Cab for Cutie) to produce it. “I think I was in a manic state for a while,” she explains, which sparked her enthusiasm to collaborate, especially with Walla, whom she deemed the ideal candidate to keep things intimate while increasing the scope. She was right.
Crisp, clear guitar tones provide the perfect foundation for Ghetto’s vocals on Choices, with the rest of the band given plenty of room to breathe. Despite its overall somberness, the album is beautiful. “Pacific”—just Ghetto and a piano—is the kind of delicate heartbreaker Cat Power does so well, while “Vampires” is a jangly rocker that makes her melancholy downright danceable. Ghetto, it seems, relishes such dichotomies, like with the title Cool Choices. “You can say it in any circumstance,” she offers, “Good or bad. ‘You’re making a lot of cool choices there, I see.’ Or it could be like, ‘Oh, cool choices!’ ” Out now via Hardly Art Records, hardlyart.com.
Wednesday, October 8
The New Pornographers featuring A.C. Newman, Neko Case and Dan Bejar (Destroyer)The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
7 p.m. doors, 8 p.m. show
All ages welcome
$26.50 advance, $30 day of show
Presented By: True West presents
Red Bull Sound Select x Portugal. The Man Present:
Shaprece x SZA x Magic Fades
October 7th // Holocene Portland
21+ // $3 (w/ RSVP)
Oakland poet Hollie Hardy joins Portland writers Lizzy Acker, Maria DeLorenzo, and Martha Grover for an evening of sharp poetry, wicked prose, and cheap margaritas.
Monday, October 6, 2014
7PM
The Waypost
3120 N Williams Ave
Portland, OR
BIOS
LIZZY ACKER's work has been published in The Rumpus, Nano Fiction, We Who Are About To Die,sPARKLE & bLINK, PolicyMic and elsewhere. She was a blogger for KQED Arts and the co-creator and former co-editor and writer for KQED Pop and is currently a co-editor and writer for The Tusk. She was the co-creator/curator, with Amira Pierce, of the popular San Francisco reading series Funny/Sexy/Sad and she has read with Bang Out,RADAR, Quiet Lightening and others. Her first book, Monster Party, was released in December of 2010 by Small Desk Press.
She was born in Oregon, lived in San Francisco for almost 8 years and then moved back to Oregon, just like everyone always knew she would.
MARIA DELORENZO is a writer, editor, and pretend detective. She works in a big tall building in downtown Portland doing things on computers (for money). She is working on a futuristic coming-of-age novel which aims to combine nostalgia for the 80’s and the romance of Judy Blume paperbacks, called “The Margarets.” We will see if this novel ever comes of age. She has written many things published in her journal and inside her computer and consumed by a select few. She sometimes does stand-up comedy in her kitchen with no pants on.
MARTHA GROVER was raised in Corbett Oregon with her six siblings. She is the author of the memoir One More for the People and has been publishing her zine, Somnambulist for ten years.
martha grover somnambulistzine.com po box 14871 portland oregon 97293
HOLLIE HARDY is the author of How to Take a Bullet, And Other Survival Poems (Punk Hostage Press, 2014) available now at: https://www.createspace.com/4836108.
She holds an MFA in Poetry and teaches writing classes at San Francisco State and Berkeley City College. An active participant in the Bay Area literary scene, Hardy is co-host of Saturday Night Special, venue coordinator for Oakland’s Beast Crawl Literary Festival, and curator of Litquake's Flight of Poets. Her work has appeared in lots of journals you've probably never heard of. Her website is www.holliehardy.com
Carl Wolfston, who holds a M.A. in political science from UCLA, began collecting buttons while volunteering for Jimmy Carter's presidental bid in 1976. "Carl in the Morning" can be heard on XRAY.fm. On air, Wolfson covers national and local politics and conducts in-depth interviw with A-list guests. Prior to his radio career, Wolfson was one of the country's top headlining comedians, specializing in current-events humor.
Bounce dat ass with Ill Camino & II TRILL
Expect plenty of NOLA Bounce, Baltimore Club, Miami Bootie Bass, Bootie House, Chicago Juke, Hip Hop, Party Jamz, Reggae and Reggaton all night long
IITRILL SoundCloud ->
https://soundcloud.com/iitrill
Ill Camino SoundCloud -> https://soundcloud.com/ill666camino
$5 to get it poppin. 21+.
XRAY's own Carl Wolfson Presents the history of political buttons and some of his anecdotal stories. A selection of buttons described as "a pop art panorama of American History and political marketing" from Carl's more than 18,000-button collection will be on display in the building lobby.
Free and open to the public. More information here.
Carl Wolfston, who holds a M.A. in political science from UCLA, began collecting buttons while volunteering for Jimmy Carter's presidental bid in 1976. "Carl in the Morning" can be heard on XRAY.fm. On air, Wolfson covers national and local politics and conducts in-depth interviw with A-list guests. Prior to his radio career, Wolfson was one of the country's top headlining comedians, specializing in current-events humor.
XRAY is proud to sponsor the Sonics show on Saturday October 4th at the Hawthorne Theater.
Mike Thrasher Presents THE SONICS with the Suicide Notes, The Pynnacles and Thee Headliners
Listen to XRAY.fm to win tickets to see one of the best garage bands of all time!
Portland heaviness at it's finest!
21+ $5 This show will start promptly at 8:30pm.
ZMOKE
Lamprey
Right Hand of Doom (Salem)
Old Lie
*L*I*V*E* *A*T* *F*O*G*G*Y* *N*O*T*I*O*N*
21+
8pm
$5
SALLO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Tc7ZwG3sA
LKN
GMNI:
https://soundcloud.com/geoffreyvictor
MODEST MOUSE, TEARS FOR FEARS, THE VIOLENT FEMMES, GZA (PERFORMING LIQUID SWORDS), LORD HURON, ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT, PHOSPHORESCENT, RED FANG, SHABAZZ PALACES AND MORE
NIGHT SHOWS WILL FEATURE:
GUIDED BY VOICES, CONSTANTINES, HIGH ON FIRE, MENOMENA,
SURFER BLOOD, PURE COUNTRY GOLD, SMALL BLACK AND MORE
TICKETS TO GO ON SALE TODAY JULY 29th VIA PROJECTPABST.COM
ANNOUNCE THE INAUGURAL
“PROJECT PABST”
MAJOR WEEKEND-LONG EVENT TO TAKE PLACE
SEPTEMBER 26 - 28 IN PORTLAND, OREGON
MAIN EVENT TO TAKE PLACE AT ZIDELL YARDS
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 27th AND 28th
NIGHT TIME SHOWS TO TAKE PLACE
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 26th AND 27th
Pabst Brewing Company and Superfly are proud to introduce Project Pabst, an innovative celebration of Pabst and the city of Portland, OR, featuring a main festival and night shows comprised of music, entertainment, food and drink. The inaugural main event will take place September 27th and 28th on two stages over 10 acres in the restored Zidell Yards in the heart of the South Waterfront District. Modest Mouse, Tears For Fears, The Violent Femmes, GZA and Rocket From the Crypt are among the many artists who will perform. Fans must be over 21 to attend. The late-night show component of the festival will take place September 26th and 27th at venues to be announced soon. The night shows will feature: Guided By Voices, Constantines, High On Fire, Menomena, Surfer Blood, Pure Country Gold, Small Black and more. A complete list of the Project Pabst Festival lineup is below
Tickets will go on sale today July 29th via projectpabst.com. One dollar from every ticket will go to help the Jeremy Wilson Foundation, dedicated to providing financial assistance in times of medical crisis and to improving the overall well-being of individual musicians and their families.
“We wanted to create a festival as uniquely original as the city itself,” says Pabst Brewing Company’s CMO Dan McHugh. “Project Pabst is a love letter to Portland. The company wanted to do something for the city that has embraced it and has never wavered in its support.”
Project Pabst has found an ideal site at the Zidell Yards in Portland, where the Zidell family is building the city's next great neighborhood in the once-industrial South Waterfront district on the Willamette River. Says Matt French, Managing Director, “In hosting Project Pabst as part of a series of exceptional outdoor events, the Zidell family continues to seed a dynamic neighborhood culture that will thrive as the Zidell Yards are redeveloped.”
To help them create the ideal multi-faceted festival experience Portland deserves, Pabst brought in Superfly, the renowned producers of such culture-defining events as Bonnaroo and Outside Lands. Superfly’s history of designing groundbreaking properties and cultivating them into becoming incomparable global phenomenons, coincided perfectly with Pabst’s remarkable vision as the largest American-owned brewer, which was subsequently established in 1844.
“We are very excited to be working with Pabst,” said Superfly’s Richard Goodstone. “They have a very unique approach to all they do, and their culture is very much aligned with how Superfly operates. We focus on adding dimension and tangibility to brand presence at our festivals, and Pabst has empowered us to bring that specific sensibility to Project Pabst.”
The unique strengths of these two companies using the backdrop of the beautiful waterfront in one of the greatest musical cities in the country is certain to make for an unforgettable weekend. The music programming will represent a wide range of genres, with major national headliners performing alongside exceptional emerging talent, making the event a substantial celebration of the established and the cutting edge. Local acts will also be featured prominently as the festival will represent Portland’s vibrant cultural community. The Portland flavor will also be seen in the festival’s concessions, featuring foods from local eateries.
McHugh concludes: “We wanted to treat this festival like a jukebox at midnight in some of our favorite Portland bars.”
With a seemingly endless selection of music and activities, Project Pabst is certain to provide a singular festival experience that will also serve as a beacon as it shines a light on the wonders of the Portland community.
Getting to Project Pabst
Project Pabst will take place in Portland’s South Waterfront District at the historic Zidell Yards located between the new Tilikum Crossing and the Ross Island Bridge. Zidell Yards is just 1.2 miles from downtown Portland and is easy to get to by walking, biking, and other public transportation options. Parking is limited, so we encourage the use of public transportation. If you do drive, please carpool to reduce traffic in the area and always choose a Designated Driver. Designated drivers will receive complimentary soda and water at Project Pabst.
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Inaugural edition of a new monthly comedy series. For a mere $5 admission fee, you get to enjoy some hilarious standup featuring an all-local lineup of performers.
Amy Miller (http://amymillercomedy.com/)
Bri Pruett (http://bripruett.com/)
Jason Traeger (http://portlandstandupphotoalbum.tumblr.com/)
Katie Nguyen (http://katie-nguyen.com/)
8:30pm | $15.00 advance $15.00 day of show
Tickets: Stranger Tickets
Enchanting and sinister pop from celebrated multi-instrumentalist/composer
SON LUX
HELADO NEGRO
September, 22nd, 2014
Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm