First Saturdays | ALL AGES | FREE | Outdoors under the arches of the Fremont Bridge (1631 NW Thurman St.)
A monthly Portland celebration of music, art & small business
Join us every 1st Saturday each month for art, local makers, food and music provided by XRAY DJs!
With 70+ vendors on display, you’ll be sure to find a wide variety of local hand-crafted goods, jewelry, textiles, ceramics, art, & countless rare treasures.
Learn more at www.bohemepdx.com and @boheme.pdx.event on Instagram.
All Ages | Thu Aug 3rd - Sun Aug 6th
Check out the full music lineup!
See the full Pickathon DJ Lineup!
As usual, this year's fest features several XRAY DJs including:
- Wayward Girls Soul Club of The 'IN' Crowd Saturdays 2-3pm.
- Tom Humphrey of Backroad to Nowhere Sundays 6-7pm
- Morning Remorse of Meaningful Connections with Morning Remorse Thursdays 8-9pm
- Bobby D of Night School (formerly 6pm Fridays) and content partner The Albina Music Trust
You'll also find several other friends of the station and XRAY DJs as part of the festival, including as performers, MCs, and behind-the-scenes staff. Look out for:
- Dave Fulton of 12 Steps Beyond Prog Thursdays 12-2am, performing with his band Motrik
- Friends of Noise of Friends of Noise Presents Mondays 2-3pm, hosting performances of teen bands at 4pm each day of the fest in the family-focused Coyote Neighborhood
- Ross Beach of Alive with Pleasure Fridays 2-4pm as an MC
- James Dineen of Sessions from the Box Saturdays 10am-12pm as an MC
We've almost certainly missed several XRAY folks in this list, and plenty of us will be around as attendees or doing press coverage. See you there!
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Every 4th Sunday @ White Eagle Saloon (836 N Russell St., Portland)
2 DJs x 4 Decks x Straight Boom Bap
An Evening of Golden Era & Inspired Hip Hop Music. 'It's not a party, it's a vibe.'
Featuring:
In collaboration with Mississippi Records,The Grand Yoni of The Impact Sound! (Saturdays 1-2PM) presents an all-day outdoor, All Ages DJ showcase!
Featuring Selections by:
- The Grand Yoni
- Rasclat
- Dead Steady
- DJ Provoke
- Nomad
- DJ Cuica
- Matt Wettig
- Golden Wilson
Joe Ball (Solar Powered Flight Thu 2-3AM) + Bryson Wallace host a live DJ night @ Donnie Vegas!
21+ | All Vinyl | No Cover
DJ MorningRemorse (of Meaningful Connections with Morning Remorse Thursdays 8-9pm), takes the decks live alongside Lazerwolf78 & Speck at the newly opened Dream House Bar. He's most known on XRAY for his all vinyl sets, and corresponding passion for 45s, and being a curator of great sounds from all over the world--often that listeners will be discovering for the very first time.
Located at 412 NE Beech St., Dream House is building on some of what former XRAY mainstay Beech Street Parlor did in the space--creating a casual neighborhood place that's more house party than just a regular bar.
Come hang with the Monday night DJ crew for a live broadcast event at the newly-opened Dream House, which has taken over the space of former XRAY mainstay Beech Street Parlor.
Broadcasting live to air, featuring the 8pm-midnight Monday lineup:
- Shawn Swagerty of Big City Radio Show
- DJ Alice Wonder & Red Lincoln of Down the Rabbit Hole
- DJ Wednesday of Six Beats Under
- DDDJJJ666 of Hipsters Suck
The Beaches Crew, of the aptly named show Beaches (Saturdays 12-1pm) takes the decks live at the newly opened Dream House Bar. They're most known for playing just what you'd expect from a trip to the beach--sweet soul, lost highway, beach tracks, lowrider oldies, and all the vibes to transport you to a place where sand is between your toes.
Located at 412 NE Beech St., Dream House is building on some of what former XRAY mainstay Beech Street Parlor did in the space--creating a casual neighborhood place that's more house party than just a regular bar.
DJ Kyle Reese of the VCR TV (Fridays 1-2 AM) takes the decks live at the newly opened Dream House Bar. He's most known on XRAY for video music, movie soundtracks, dark danse, and, in his own words "what John Carpenter listens to, late at night..."
Located at 412 NE Beech St., Dream House is building on some of what former XRAY mainstay Beech Street Parlor did in the space--creating a casual neighborhood place that's more house party than just a regular bar.
Featuring DJ Provoke & DJ Joe Ball--otherwise known on XRAY as DJ The Captain Speaking of Solar Powered Flight Thursdays 2-3 AM)
21+ | No Cover
DJ Alice Wonder of the duo behind Down the Rabbit Hole (Mondays 9-10pm) takes the decks live at the newly opened Dream House Bar. It's always an adventure with her behind the decks, but expect sounds from groups playing synth punk, minimal wave, mutant pop, and plenty more.
Located at 412 NE Beech St., Dream House is building on some of what former XRAY mainstay Beech Street Parlor did in the space--creating a casual neighborhood place that's more house party than just a regular bar.
First Saturdays | ALL AGES | FREE | Outdoors under the arches of the Fremont Bridge (1631 NW Thurman St.)
A monthly Portland celebration of music, art & small business
Join us every 1st Saturday each month for art, local makers, food and music provided by XRAY DJs!
With 70+ vendors on display, you’ll be sure to find a wide variety of local hand-crafted goods, jewelry, textiles, ceramics, art, & countless rare treasures.
Learn more at www.bohemepdx.com and @boheme.pdx.event on Instagram.
Free, Outdoors, & All Ages!
11AM - 7PM
In collaboration with the Impact Sound Hi-Fi Sound System Crew, presented by our friends and neighbors at Mississippi Records!
Featuring Selections by:
- The Impact! Sound (The Grand Yoni, Saturdays 1-2PM)
- DJ Cuica & Golden Wilson
- The Wayward Girls Soul Club (The "IN" Crowd, Saturdays 2-3PM)
- The Beaches Crew (Beaches, Saturdays 12-1PM)
Join Wayward Girls Soul Club (of The "IN" Crowd, Saturdays 2-3 PM on XRAY)
21+ | No Cover | Every First Friday @ Donnie Vegas
All Vinyl DJs playing Soul, R&B, + More!
DJ Barbarella (Flying Saucer Safari, Tuesdays 2-3 PM) takes the decks at Donnie Vegas for a night of French synth wave!
Every week on Flying Saucer Safari, join DJ Barbarella for an inside scoop on the local Portland music scene. Hear interviews from local artists about their upcoming releases, local shows, album releases, plus dive deeper into the music that inspires them as well.
FREE | 21+
Every 4th Sunday | 6-9PM
STRAIGHT BOOM BAP - 'It's not a party, it's a vibe'
DJ Ambush & DJ Klyph bring another evening of Golden Era & inspired Hip Hop music
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- DJ Ambush co-hosts News With My Fiancé with Morgan Jones (Thu 7:30-9 AM), Eastern Standard Time (Sun 12-1 AM), and is the Executive Director of XRAY's sister station The Numberz.
- DJ Klyph hosts Welcome to the Neighborhood (Sat 8-10 PM), the Klyph Notes podcast, curates the recurring Hip Hop showcase Mic Check PDX, and also hosts several shows on sister station The Numberz.
ALL AGES | $15 | ADVANCE TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE
Sir Richard Bishop and Descending Pharaohs present a special evening of conjuring and deviance for a rare live show w/ film accompaniment at the historic Clinton St. Theater on Friday, May 19th, 8pm sharp.
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Sir Richard Bishop is an American composer, guitarist and singer best known as a founding member of experimental rock Sun City Girls, who during their 26 years (1981–2007), produced an extensive discography of over 50 full length albums. He has toured with Will Oldham, Animal Collective, Bill Callahan, and many others. His solo work, along with his band Rangda, has released several albums on Drag City and other labels such as 2182 Recording Co., Southern Lord, Southern, Locust, Unrock, VDSQ, and Revenant Records.
Descending Pharaohs are an ethno-psych project, vibing fight scenes of near-eastern films and guided by Arabic/Anatolian electric, spiritual jazz, and heavy psych. Live, they are accompanied by a backdrop film collage that matches their heady Middle Eastern sounds made by the oud, saz, baglama, guitar, bass and drum kit.
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ALL AGES | FREE | FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
8th Vanport Mosaic Festival
Join us for two weeks of memory activism to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the flood that destroyed Vanport - and to honor the community that called Vanport home.
From May 18th to May 29th, the 8th Vanport Mosaic Festival will offer in-person, virtual, and self-paced memory activism opportunities to Remember, Repair, Reclaim, and Re-image our collective story.
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2023 marks the 75th anniversary of the flood that destroyed Vanport, once Oregon’s second-largest city and the largest WWII federal housing project in the United States. We will commemorate Oregon’s Katrina-like disaster with exhibits, art performances, a reunion/celebration of former Vanport residents, documentary screenings and oral history recordings, tours of the historic Vanport area, and community engagement activities.
Flood survivors are now in their 80s and 90s, so the Festival offers a long-overdue opportunity to honor and learn from their experience. The 75th anniversary of the flood, especially in light of the Covid pandemic and the ongoing devastating impact of climate change, will offer a timely opportunity to reflect on the state of emergency preparedness of our city, particularly on how disasters often replicate and deepen social inequalities.
For a taste of the Vanport Mosaic Festival and its impact, we invite you to watch these short documentaries:
- History from the Bottom Up: The Making of The Vanport Mosaic Festival 2016
- Legacy of A Forgotten City - The Vanport Mosaic Festival 2017
- Call For Memory Activism: The Vanport Mosaic Festival 2018
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BEATS & RHYMES II
First Saturdays | ALL AGES | FREE | Outdoors under the arches of the Fremont Bridge (1631 NW Thurman St.)
A monthly Portland celebration of music, art & small business
Join us every 1st Saturday each month for art, local makers, food and music provided by XRAY DJs!
With 70+ vendors on display, you’ll be sure to find a wide variety of local hand-crafted goods, jewelry, textiles, ceramics, art, & countless rare treasures.
Learn more at www.bohemepdx.com and @boheme.pdx.event on Instagram.