VCR TV at the lovecraft
Dj Kyle Reese & Acid Rick
Sunday April 28th
9pm-2am
DJ Kyle Reese & special guest Billy Knight
Monday April 22nd
9pm-1am
Meine Damen und Herren; Magnolia Bouvier and DDDJJJ666 have a LOT of German, Swiss and Austrian new wave, cold wave, synth pop, post punk, kraut and whatever records TO PLAY FOR YOU at The Red Fox. Please join us for Gute Nacht on 4/20 (Vier Zwanzig, dudes). Come get krauted out of your Kopf!
Shirley Nanette performing the Never Coming Back LP live! With support from DJs Jon Kirby (Numero Group) and Bobby D (Albina Music Trust).
A World Arts Foundation Production
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Shirley Nanette:
Shirley Nanette has long been recognized by the regional music community for her dynamic vocal sensibility—performing jazz and classical works at festivals, on television, and with the Oregon Symphony as well as earning her a place in the Oregon Music Hall Of Fame. Less is known, however, about the degree to which her vocal work pulls from the roots of soul music. In 1973, Nanette released an LP entitled Never Coming Back. Featuring a cast of Albina area musicians, the record has been lauded by some as a critical piece of Portland soul music history. Tonight’s program will feature Shirley Nanette performing her seminal LP Never Coming Back in its entirety.
Albina Soul Revue Band:
The Albina Soul Revue Band is an intergenerational group of Portland musicians under the direction of Tony Ozier. Since 2009, Ozier's "Dookie Jam" has served as an open forum for rappers, producers, and jazz musicians alike. With the Albina Soul Revue Band, Ozier has enlisted a veritable dream team of local heavies to perform original Albina soul music from the 1960s-80s. The group features Kenney Polson (Gil Scott-Heron, Jimmy Heath, Wynton Marsalis), Danny Osborne (Billy Graham, Shirley Nanette), Marquay Seamster (Prince), Kyle Molitor (Bootsy Collins), Noah Simpson (Noah Simpson Group), Dennis Dove (World Beat Collective), Ben "Snacks" Turner (KMHD, Dirty Revival), and Colin Jenkins (Ages and Ages).
Jon Kirby:
Jonathan Kirby is a record collector, author, and producer with the esteemed reissue label, the Numero Group. From 2007 to 2010, he served as the Associate Editor for the Brooklyn-based music journal, Wax Poetics, before joining the Numero Group in 2011. He has been nominated for two Grammys in relation to his archival work—in 2014 for his expansive liner notes for Purple Snow: Forecasting the Minneapolis Sound and again in 2017 for producing Bobo Yeye: Belle Epoque in Upper Volta. He has recently returned to his home in Winston-Salem to intensify research and preservation of the underrated, unknown, and marginalized musicians of North Carolina.
www.numerogroup.com
Bobby D:
An elementary school teacher by day, Bobby Smith is a writer, disc jockey, and local media archivist by night. His Night School program on XRAY FM has served the Albina musician community since 2014. In partnership with Portland arts and education non-profit, World Arts Foundation, he founded the Albina Music Trust––an initiative to elevate 20th century Albina musicians through storytelling, performance, and releasing unissued local soul records. He has been a contributing writer for Wax Poetics, Hot Stuff Magazine, and Portland Mercury.
www.nightschool.us
www.instagram.com/albinamusictrust
Shirley Nanette performing the Never Coming Back LP live! With support from DJs Jon Kirby (Numero Group) and Bobby D (Albina Music Trust).
A World Arts Foundation Production
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Shirley Nanette:
Shirley Nanette has long been recognized by the regional music community for her dynamic vocal sensibility—performing jazz and classical works at festivals, on television, and with the Oregon Symphony as well as earning her a place in the Oregon Music Hall Of Fame. Less is known, however, about the degree to which her vocal work pulls from the roots of soul music. In 1973, Nanette released an LP entitled Never Coming Back. Featuring a cast of Albina area musicians, the record has been lauded by some as a critical piece of Portland soul music history. Tonight’s program will feature Shirley Nanette performing her seminal LP Never Coming Back in its entirety.
Albina Soul Revue Band:
The Albina Soul Revue Band is an intergenerational group of Portland musicians under the direction of Tony Ozier. Since 2009, Ozier's "Dookie Jam" has served as an open forum for rappers, producers, and jazz musicians alike. With the Albina Soul Revue Band, Ozier has enlisted a veritable dream team of local heavies to perform original Albina soul music from the 1960s-80s. The group features Kenney Polson (Gil Scott-Heron, Jimmy Heath, Wynton Marsalis), Danny Osborne (Billy Graham, Shirley Nanette), Marquay Seamster (Prince), Kyle Molitor (Bootsy Collins), Noah Simpson (Noah Simpson Group), Dennis Dove (World Beat Collective), Ben "Snacks" Turner (KMHD, Dirty Revival), and Colin Jenkins (Ages and Ages).
Jon Kirby:
Jonathan Kirby is a record collector, author, and producer with the esteemed reissue label, the Numero Group. From 2007 to 2010, he served as the Associate Editor for the Brooklyn-based music journal, Wax Poetics, before joining the Numero Group in 2011. He has been nominated for two Grammys in relation to his archival work—in 2014 for his expansive liner notes for Purple Snow: Forecasting the Minneapolis Sound and again in 2017 for producing Bobo Yeye: Belle Epoque in Upper Volta. He has recently returned to his home in Winston-Salem to intensify research and preservation of the underrated, unknown, and marginalized musicians of North Carolina.
www.numerogroup.com
Bobby D:
An elementary school teacher by day, Bobby Smith is a writer, disc jockey, and local media archivist by night. His Night School program on XRAY FM has served the Albina musician community since 2014. In partnership with Portland arts and education non-profit, World Arts Foundation, he founded the Albina Music Trust––an initiative to elevate 20th century Albina musicians through storytelling, performance, and releasing unissued local soul records. He has been a contributing writer for Wax Poetics, Hot Stuff Magazine, and Portland Mercury.
www.nightschool.us
www.instagram.com/albinamusictrust
We’re a locally-made, multi-venue music festival coming to Portland on Valentine’s weekend 2019. We bring you a new fest in the form of a large-scale benefit at Star Theater Portland, Dante's, Kelly's Olympian and Valentines.
We're a benefit for vital nonprofits. Wristbands for the inaugural event help Outside In, Q Center, p:ear, Right 2 Survive, Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette, and Portland NAACP 1120 Branch.
We fully embrace and celebrate that this is a revival of our multi-venue festival history in Portland, tapping prior incarnations of NXNW and MusicfestNW, to carry the contemporary torch. What we are ultimately doing is creating an opportunity for our community to come together, to together help ensure the vitality and viability of vital institutions while dually celebrating and supporting our wealth of incredible local music.
Thanks to these rad folks who have helped make everything possible: XRAY.FM, Eleven PDX Magazine, Sizzle Pie, Songkick.com, Vortex Music Magazine, Voodoo Doughnut, MusicPortland, Music Millennium, Phoenix Media, Pabst Blue Ribbon, and Ecliptic Brewing.
We invite you to join us for our first year as we build slowly and get our feet wet (figuratively and likely literally). We look forward with enthusiasm and excitement to presenting the event for many Februarys to follow.
FRIDAY FEB 15th
Star Theater Portland
8:00 PM Rat Brash & 1 Young Micah
9:00 PM Morher
10:00 PM Bridal Veil
11:00 PM Bombay Beach
12:00 AM Kulululu
1:00 AM Yardsss
SATURDAY FEB 16th
Valentines
Local Loadies Showcase
5:00 PM NEW INJURIES
6:00 PM Dirty Princess
7:00 PM YUVEES
8:00 PM KING WHO
Kelly's Olympian
NW Post-Rock Collective Showcase
8:00 PM Pulse Emitter
9:00 PM Withered Winds
10:00 PM Elcia
11:00 PM A Collective Subconscious
12:00 AM Sol
Star Theater Portland
9:00 PM C^VES & Kevin Holden
10:00 PM D O L P H I N M I D W I V E S
11:00 PM Instant Anxiety(Hutch Harris)
12:00 AM TBA
Dante's
9:00 PM Ellipsism
10:00 PM Sun Blood Stories
11:00 PM Roselit Bone
SUNDAY FEB 17th
Dante's
6:00 PM deathlist
7:00 PM Pool Boys
8:00 PM TBA
Valentines
8:00 PM Rebecca Rasmussen
9:00 PM The Sun and the Mirror
10:00 PM FLOOM
11:00 PM Small Skies
Star Theater Portland
7:00 PM New Modern Warfare
8:00 PM Longclaw
9:00 PM MoonShy
10:00 PM TENTS
11:00 PM Church of Hive (afterparty)
February 14, 9PM-12AM, Free, 21+
Movie soundtracks, Heavy Synth & Dark Dance music. The cross over between movies & music is where VCR TV will take you. Dj Kyle-Reese is your guide.
Come help celebrate XRAY.FM's Songs From Under the Floorboard's 300th show with a live presentation of the first three bands to appear on the air for an interview with DJ Dave Cantrell. First up, from We Are Like The Spider, lead singer Lucia Luna will present a set of ethereal darkwave, followed by brilliant, eternal local favorites Vice Device, then finished off with interviewees #3 Arctic Flowers, who we have to assume will still - most deservedly - be in their own celebrating mood after the recent release of new album "Straight to the Hunter." All proceeds will flow to the bands and to the Out From the Shadows V festival occurring April 4/5/6 at Tonic Lounge. The new year, off with a brilliant bang...
Movie soundtracks, Heavy Synth & Dark Dance music. The cross over between movies & music is where VCR TV will take you. DJ Kyle-Reese is your guide.
GirlFest, the annual All Ages music festival featuring an all-femme line-up!
Founded in 2014, as a celebration of women in music, the Girl Fest organization works to bring together female artists of all genres, to create community by spotlighting their talents through various live music events.
With performances by:
DIRTY PRINCESS, WHATEVERYN, KAYELAJ, SCOOTY, CRY BABE, KWEEN KAY$H
THU JAN 10
DOORS: 7:00 PM / SHOW: 8:00 PM
$10 ADV / $12 DOS
21st Amendment Party -- Celebrate the 85th anniversary of the end of alcohol prohibition!
VIP Reception at 5PM -- Party At 6:30
ELECTRO-SWING BY HIGH STEP SOCIETY
SIGNATURE COCKTAILS BY ROSE CITY DISTiLLING
BEER SPECIALS FROM COALITION BREWING
VIP RECEPTION
HOSTED BAR
CATERING BY - ART DE CUISINE
MUSIC BY - WHITAKER HOT CLUB
Co-hosted by Craft Cannabis Alliance, Oregon Retailers of Cannabis Association, Caputo Group, and Odyssey Oregon.
Early Bird Pricing Ends 11/30.
All proceeds go to ONE Fix Cannabis campaign, a project of the Craft Cannabis Alliance
This month Impact! Monthly is focusing on HEAVY BASS so let's make the room shake! Bring your roots, dancehall, dub and step up to the tables! It's going to be a reggae family affair while we drive those drivers and tweet those tweeters!
The monthly IMPACT! Hi-Fi gathering is coming back to Misdemeanor Meadows. The is a COMMUNITY DJ event so come through and bring your records! Take a turn on the tables and dance, dance, dance! Never a cover, always fire! Presented by The Impact Sound.
More details on the event page here.
We're back! Every first Saturday Misdemeanor Meadows hosts the IMPACT! Hi-Fi for an evening of reggae, rocksteady, boss sounds, ska, and roots! Come down to to the toned down Felony Flats for the night of a lifetime. It's an early show so perfect for getting your night started right or just poking your head out before the babysitter has to leave. Guaranteed good music, good food, good beer, and good times!
More information at https://www.facebook.com/events/325819091281104/
Kittybot plays a sort of variety of post punk, electronic, minimal, experimental, and stuff that fits even though it may not seem like it.
Catch DJ Kittybot on XRAY.FM Mondays from 3-5 AM!
Join DJ Yoni of XRAY's The Impact Sound, DJing at The Secret Society along with sets from The Bandulus, and Buddy Jay's Jamaican Jazz Band!
The Bandulus are the brainchild of Jeremy Peña, formerly of Los Skarnales and The Trenchtown Texans. After the 2006 break-up of Los Skarnales and leaving Trenchtown Texans in 2010, Jeremy decided to venture out on his own and create the traditional ska, reggae, and soul sensation that is The Bandulus.
Buddy Jay's Jamaican Jazz Band was formed in 2012 by Saxophonist Buddy Jay Kieffer and Trumpeter John England Fisher. A deep respect for all music Jamaican brought them together. After amassing an all star line up of Portland based musicians, they set out to do the ska. Writing original Jamaican jazz and rocksteady tunes designed for dancing has been the delight of both band members and audiences.
The IMPACT! Hi-Fi, a hand built soundsystem inspired by the legendary systems of the 60's, is making its debut at Misdemeanor Meadows for an evening of ska, rocksteady, boss reggae, and roots. Two turntables and some big old speakers will be shaking the house for an early evening of reggae music. Start your evening off right with a trip through the Meadows and an ear full of reggae.
Everyday Mixtapes & KBOO Present:
ILL CAMILLE: http://www.illcamille.com/
After building her name up through LA’s underground, Ill Camille took a professional hiatus due to hardships that forced her to grow both personally and musically. Always stressing the importance of God and family before everything else, since finding the light at the end of the tunnel she has designed Heirloom as a collection of stories dedicated to keeping
her head on straight in the midst of turbulence.
Ill Camille’s divine mission to uplift the world through Heirloom is an extension of ancestry that includes musicians and fighters whose spirits make her art a necessity. Translating her tumultuous past few years through cathartic soulful Hip-Hop, creating this album was key to maintaining her sanity as she notes “I don’t think I had a choice in the
matter”.
Despite self-awareness being at the core of who Ill Camille is on and off of the mic, the bittersweet beauty of her most introspective release to date is the life struggle contained within her songs. Heirloom details all she’s experienced since 2012’s Illustrated, from losing relatives to incarceration and death, her own health complications and mistakes made diving headfirst into love and lust.
Evidenced by Heirloom’s lead single “Almost There” (which features recent TDE signee SiR), and her follow up “Home”, Ill Camille is able to shine by simply relaying her innermost truths for the world to relate to. Never overthinking the process in figuring out her path, she says “I let the spirit in my feeling guide me in everything, I didn’t plan anything out. Your music should reflect the mental space you’re in at the time, I have a moral
obligation to put that on my records.”
A window into Ill Camille’s upbringing, last four years and days to come, Heirloom represents a rebirth with her continuing to evolve as a woman before being a warrior. In the end, inner strength and communal support triumphed over her setbacks and obstacles, with Camille summing up the experience saying “I was inspired to finish this project because I owed it to myself and the people around me the respect to show my appreciation for them.” Having used pressure to form a diamond, this latest body of work
promises to speak for past, present and future generations of confused souls determined to become hopeful survivors.
Heirloom has received press on the blog of Solange’s label, Saint Heron, in Brooklyn Vegan, LA Weekly, and NPR's 21 Hip Hop Albums That Reflected The Politics of Race, Space, and Place in 2017.
FRITZWA: https://fritzwa.bandcamp.com/
This soul-drenched sound doesn’t quite sit in a neat box of influences Hailing from NYC’s Lower East Side, with West African heritage, Fritzwa’s lifelong experience has been constantly enveloped in artistic inspiration;
From Broadway to poetry, jazz to traditional, childhood dance classes and piano lessons, to balmy summers listening to Hot 97
She say’s, “I see art in everything,” and it’s something she translates into her music —
Including her latest, the self-written and produced Avenue |A|.
Whether she’s finding painful beauty in break-ups, or creating melodic soundscapes from NYC’s subway ambience, Fritzwa’s creativity and musical talent shine through in a beautiful way.
DJ sets by DJ Black Daria and DJ ShiShi of XRAY FM's Everyday Mixtapes.
8pm / 21+ / $10
Adv tix: https://holdmyticket.com/event/303597
Flyer by: Nagini Reddy
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