The third annual Out From The Shadows post-punk/darkwave festival, brought to you by XRAY's Songs From Under the Floorboard radio show and Soundcontrol PDX, arrives once again during the first full week of April. Running Thursday April 6 through Saturday April 8th, we as always present a stunning array of bands from near and far. Tickets are $10 adv per day, $13 at the door per day, and $29 adv for all three days!!
This year's line-up features:
The Secret Light (PDX)
Shadowlands (PDX)
Otzi (Oakland)
Echolust (LA)
Mortal Boy (LA)
Vice Device (PDX)
Bellicose Minds (PDX)
DAY 1 ADV TIX: http://holdmyticket.com/event/278143
Sex Park (PDX)
The Electric West (LA)
Winkie (Brooklyn)
Second Still (LA)
Sculpture Club (Salt Lake City)
Mayflower Madame (Oslo, Norway)
Shadowhouse (PDX)
DAY 2 ADV TIX: http://holdmyticket.com/event/278144
Arcane (Seattle)
Band Aparte (LA)
Lust Era (Puerto Rico)
LUNCH (PDX)
Silence (Pittsburgh, PA)
Koban (Vancouver BC)
All Your Sisters (SF)
DAY 3 ADV TIX: http://holdmyticket.com/event/278145
3 DAY PASS!!! - http://holdmyticket.com/event/278155
McMenamins, StarChile, WE 96.3, Pabst Blue Ribbon & XRAY FM Present: MIC CHECK
Mic Check is a Hip Hop Showcase every last Thursday of the month at White Eagle, with Live performances, drink specials and good vibes!
WE 96.3 we be in the building filming the event and you can watch it on their website www.we963pdx.com as well as the Mic Check
Youtube page:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2cHeUlJhhCirZI1rTHGRnw
THURSDAY MARCH 30TH:
Special Guests...
TOPE and RARE VIBE
Hosted by StarChile
Music by Trox
Dooors @ 9pm, Show starts at 10pm...
21 and over, Tickets: $7 @ the Door
Blossom
https://soundcloud.com/whoisblossom
Blossom is an artist who has released with the EYRST Label over the past few years. She is just starting a new show on XRAY.FM so we figured what better way to celebrate this union than to have her as our guest!
Neill Von Tally, the co-founder of EYRST does live beats, remixes and general ambiance while Skelli Skel and Ian Millhollen (EmVKush) of the PDX Mandem crew play records and have guest MCs in the style of their radio show on XRAY.FM
This is an all ages event til 9 PM and entry is free so don't miss it!”
XRAY's Dave Cantrell from Songs from Under the Floorboard is raising money for his incredible post punk festival Out From The Shadow III by throwing a fundraiser/show. Besides featuring three of Portland's finest new bands (OK, new-ish so far as Murderbait is concerned), this is also a benefit to help raise funds for the Out From The Shadow III festival, so you can feel DOUBLY good attending! As with the showcases, three bands for five bucks. That's the deal.
https://murderbait.bandcamp.com/releases
https://fleshhpdx.bandcamp.com/releases
https://atomiccandles.bandcamp.com/album/eyez-ep
XRAY.FM is 3! Let's celebrate with our biggest bash yet!
CHANTI DARLING :: KARL BLAU
w/ Women's Beat League
+ XRAY DJs in Bar Bar all night and a sneak peak at "XRAY TV"
8:00 Doors, 9:00 Show
$12 ADV or DOS, $5 FOR XRAY MEMBERS
Hosted by hilarious comedian Caitlin Weierhauser and DJ Klyph of Welcome to the Neighborhood
Thanks to our generous sponsors:
Wieden + Kennedy
Hammer and Hand Seattle
Hifi Farms
Potato Champion
Rerun
Rudy's
-----XRAY DJs in Bar Bar all night long:-----------------
Encyclopedia Sound's DJ Detective, Honest John of Savage Beat Radio, DJ Kiki of Music for Neighbors, PDX Mandem, DJ Yoni
and DJon Mustard!
AND THAT'S NOT ALL:
You are invited to a pre-party! XRAY TV will premiere on the big screen at Mississippi Studios from 6pm-8pm RSVP and find more information here:https://blog.xray.fm/2017/02/20/xray-fm-presents-xray-tv/
AUSTRA w/THE RANGE
MON FEB 13
8:30 PM
$17.00 - $20.00
TICKETS
This event is 21 and over
We're thrilled to welcome Toronto based electronic pop artist Austra, touring on her new album FUTURE POLITICS on Domino.
The future won't look like the past: dystopian dread takes this for granted, but utopian imagination is just as valid. Future Politics, Austra's third, and most ambitious album to date, calls for radical hope: "a commitment to replace the approaching dystopia," says Katie Stelmanis, who leads Austra with the support of Maya Postepski (Princess Century, TR/ST), Dorian Wolf, and Ryan Wonsiak. "Not just hope in the future, but the idea that everyone is required to help write it, and the boundaries of what it can look like are both fascinating and endless. It's not about 'being political,' it's about reaching beyond boundaries, in every single field."
Future Politics, a collection of urgent, but disciplined anthems for dancefloor and headphones, asks each of us to remember that apocalypse is not an inevitability, but the product of human decision-making. It aims for a world without borders, where human compassion and curiosity drive technological innovation rather than profit, where the necessity of labor is replaced with time for creativity and personal growth, and the terror and destruction wrought by colonialism and white supremacy is recognized as a dark age in human history. The album is radicalism distilled: to galvanic beats, gorgeous, kinetic melodies, and the vulnerable majesty of Stelmanis's voice. "Future Politics," with its steady, propulsive beat and siren-like synth hook, is both anthem and ultimatum: we have a duty to imagine better, and to imagine big.
Stelmanis, wrote, produced and engineered the album, with Maya Postepski adding production on half the tracks. It was mixed by Alice Wilder, the band's live engineer, and mastered by Heba Kadry in New York. But its haunting first single, "Utopia," is heart-filling, irresistible pop that feels pulled from the air. "Freepower" deals with the paradox of a physical world in peril while our collective consciousness evolves—there is no denying our reliance on each other and the systems we invent. "To solve the problems of global capitalism," Stelmanis says, "you need to think on the level that global capitalists are thinking."
Making Future Politics was a process of starting from zero. Austra's debut, 2011's Feel It Break, and 2013's critically celebrated Olympia, were followed with five years of non-stop touring, and half a decade without a fixed address. Katie settled in Montreal, where she found herself alone, facing both a language barrier and the dissolution of a few faith-sustaining relationships, romantically and within the band. "I knew writing this record would have nothing to do with music at first," Stelmanis says. "It needed to have a purpose other than just my own ego." The album's center suite, "I'm a Monster" through "Angel in Your Eye," is about the intersection of personal depression and collective despair.
Despair can be paralyzing, but it can act as a compass—the less you can ignore, the more you have to act. "I had a process of overcoming my own cynicism," Stelmanis says. "I came to a whole bunch of philosophers and economists who were writing about real possibilities for reinventing society." Texts that took a realistic approach to climate change and economic disaster, while offering real alternatives: Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams; Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything; David Harvey's Rebel Cities. The album's opener, "We Were Alive," is about "overcoming apathy—becoming more political, and more earnest."
In 2015, Stelmanis moved to Mexico City, where the album was completed. (The cover art was photographed at the Cuadra San Cristóbal, Mexican architect Luis Barragán's famous equestrian estate.) "It was an invigorating, and creatively liberating time—I was entirely immersed in the culture, and in the magic realism of Mexico's rich and violent history," Stelmanis says. "Economic disparity is a huge topic of conversation every day in Mexico, as is colonialism and neoliberalism, and how NAFTA fucked over Latin America. Reading about this history and contrasting it with the white capitalist theory I had learned in school made the issues I was reading about in Montreal feel more global, and feel bigger." The album's final track, "43," is about the 43 students disappeared in Iguala, Guerrero in 2014, written from the perspective of a mother who is searching for her son.
In Mexico, Stelmanis was introduced "to a whole generation of Latin American producers who are mixing traditional folk music with techno beats. It's an underground revolution rooted in the preservation and celebration of Latin American indigenous cultures, and also Latin American independence from the USA—very similar to what A Tribe Called Red is doing in Canada." Inspiration also came from European club culture—Objekt, Peter Van Hoesen, Lena Willikens, and '90s legends like Massive Attack; in all, artists who understand the dancefloor as a source of radical ideas and radical joy.
Stelmanis's music has always had a political charge—after high school she performed in the riot grrrl band Galaxy, with Postepski and Emma McKenna—but this "has become more important as I've gotten older. I've experienced more sexism in my industry, I've witnessed the downfall of the middle class, I've lived through George W. Bush and Stephen Harper." (Her latest album credits only women as producers, mixing and mastering engineers.) This is a reversal of the cliché that radicals get more conservative with age. If you're old enough to have seen both the nightmarish and the fantastical become ordinary, but young enough to imagine the rest of your life, the more radicalism seems like common sense.
Change, Solnit writes, comes from "writers, scholars, public intellectuals, social activists, and participants in social media"—also "artists, club scenes, parties, teenagers, ghettoes," says Stelmanis. "Every single person's idea about the future is valid and relevant, especially the freaks and the queers and the outsiders." This is DIY on a global scale: the ethos of a self-made, self-determining culture, but with global imperatives. "To change the cultural landscape—which is what we do as artists—is to essentially change the mainstream."
Hinton made the computer his primary instrument after falling under the spell of Baltimore club, bringing in his broader sonic influences from early '90s jungle, early '00s grime and mid '00s electronica to a new sonic whole. The software was the thing at home, but what excited the young producer was the network, and where he spiraled was YouTube. Potential uses as its backbone a series of vocal samples that Hinton has found in the forgotten corners of the site, guiding us around the hinterlands of YouTube, introducing us to unknown artists expressing themselves unfettered by the constraints of industry, lost in the infinite potential of an audience unknown.
Potential is a record steeped in histories – of its characters, of its forebears – but is startlingly new and alive: the network may be ones and zeros but the circuitry here runs on blood, still.
Sabertooth PsychedelicStonerRockMicrofest! Feb 2nd and 3rd at the Crystal Ballroom.
Featuring Black Lips, The Oh Sees, Moon Due, Skull Diver, Mascaras, Skulldiver and more. Full lineup and ticket information can be found here.
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Vidmar returns with "I Am Only A Man," an electrifying piece of cinematic avant-soul. The single offers a 4:10 glimpse into the next evolution of Shy Girls' material, much of which takes a detour towards the progressive. Crash cymbals, detuned pianos, guitar jams, and modulated passages mark a clear evolution from Vidmar's previous material. Shy Girls' newest body of work is as-of-yet unnamed but is expected to be released in 2016.
Born in Los Angeles and currently inhabiting Portland, Oregon - her own unique brand of rap-singing, made up of casually delivered triple entendres, unforgettable melodies and an ever-changing stream of cadences, has begun to spread like a wildfire in recent months. From her noteworthy singles "Squadron" and "Oofda" topping Spotify charts, to her manifested-thru-song appearance on the legendary Sway In The Morning radio show, everything has been coming up Dodgr in 2016. And really, she's only just getting started - with all of this leading up to her forthcoming duo LP, Bone Music, a collaboration with producer Neill Von Tally, due out in early 2017.
It's not too early to get in on the ground floor of this star on the rise.
THREE PARTIES, ONE BIG NIGHT! Tickets and more info RIGHT HERE!
It's XRAY's biggest fundraiser of the year, and you're invited!
Join us for the second annual XRAY Awards, hosted by Marmoset Music. The XRAY community will gather to celebrate the winners of this year's Radio is Yours Contest and recognize some folks working to advance justice and equity in our hometown with food, drinks, and live music.
EVENT OVERVIEW:
5:00p Doors open for VIP-only cocktail hour featuring Lenore. Vikesh Kapoor, and DJ Tex Clark
6:30p Doors open for General Admission
7:30p Performance by Maggie Morris of Genders, DJ Klyph and DJ Bobby D
8:00p Awards ceremony begins
9:00p Doors open for After Party, featuring Fred and Toody Cole and Nocturnal Habits with DJ Bobby D
12:00a Party ends
VIP Party: $200 for TWO tickets. (includes food, free drinks, a goodie bag and entry to Awards Ceremony and After Party)
Awards Ceremony: $60 each (Includes 2 drink tickets, and entry to the After Party)
After Party: $7 for XRAY Members, and $15 for General Admission (includes free Sizzle Pie Pizza!)
The night will begin with a VIP-only cocktail hour. Our VIP guests will enjoy unlimited drinks, an intimate musical performance from new folk duo Lenore., records from DJ Tex Clark of Circa Rad, heavy hors d'oeuvres from Chefstable, ¿Por Que No?, and Voodoo Doughnut, a goodie bag with XRAY swag and gifts from our event sponsors, and acknowledgement during the program.
The VIP cocktail hour will be followed by the main program. We'll kick off the night with a DJ set by XRAY's own Bobby D and a solo performance from Maggie Morris (of Genders) over drinks and finger foods, followed by the awards ceremony. We'll bring to the stage a handful of Portlanders whose work and activism over the past year is deserving of recognition. Then we'll announce the winners of the 2016 Radio is Yours Contest, each of whom will walk away with a cash prize along with a hand-made trophy courtesy of Bobfish Arts.
The party will then continue from 9 pm - midnight with the after party, featuring live performances by Fred and Toody Cole of Dead Moon and Nocturnal Habits. There will be free pizza courtesy of Sizzle Pie and drinks available for purchase.
The event is also a fundraiser for XRAY, and there will be opportunities to contribute throughout the night. Thanks to the generosity of our food and beverage sponsors, all drink purchases will directly benefit XRAY. In addition to proceeds from ticket sales, we'll also work toward our fundraising goal with a raffle and paddle raise.
Join us for the second annual XRAY Awards, hosted by Marmoset Music. The XRAY community will gather to celebrate the winners of this year's Radio is Yours Contest and recognize some folks working to advance justice and equity in our hometown with food, drinks, and live music.
TICKETS AND MORE INFORMATION HERE!
EVENT OVERVIEW:
5:00p Doors open for VIP-only cocktail hour with intimate performance by Lenore.
6:30p Doors open for General Admission
7:30p Performance by TBA!!!
8:00p Awards ceremony begins
9:00p Doors open for After Party with Nocturnal Habits and Fred and Toody Cole of Dead Moon
12:00a Party ends
The night will begin with a VIP-only cocktail hour. Our VIP guests will enjoy unlimited drinks, an intimate musical performance (performer TBA), heavy hors d'oeuvres from Chefstable, ¿Por Que No?, and Voodoo Doughnut, a goodie bag with XRAY swag and gifts from our event sponsors, and acknowledgement during the program.
The VIP cocktail hour will be followed by the main program. We'll kick off the night with a performance (musician/comedian TBA) over drinks and finger foods, followed by the awards ceremony. We'll bring to the stage a handful of Portlanders whose work and activism over the past year is deserving of recognition. Then we'll announce the winners of the 2016 Radio is Yours Contest, each of whom will walk away with a cash prize along with a hand-made trophy courtesy of Bobfish Arts.
The party will then continue from 9 pm - midnight with the after party, featuring live performances by 2 bands and XRAY DJs (lineup TBA soon!). There will be free pizza courtesy ofSizzle Pie and drinks available for purchase.
The event is also a fundraiser for XRAY, and there will be opportunities to contribute throughout the night. Thanks to the generosity of our food and beverage sponsors, all drink purchases will directly benefit XRAY. In addition to proceeds from ticket sales, we'll also work toward our fundraising goal with a raffle and paddle raise.
Doors: 8:00 PM
Show: 9:00 PM
21 and over
Portland, OR
Mostly Standing / Limited Seated Balcony
Turn Turn Turn welcomes Dear Nora for her Reunion/Mountain Rock Reiusse show! With Dragging and Ox at Turn Turn Turn. XRAY is proud to co-Sponsor the show. More info on Turn Turn Turn's Website
Girl Fest presents
Girl Fest 2017
Hosted by Blossom
Coco Columbia
Karma Rivera
Neka + Kahlo
Haley Heynderickx
- LOLA'S ROOM at the Crystal Ballroom
- Saturday, January 14, 2017
- 6 p.m. doors, 7 p.m. show |
- $8 advance, $10 day of show |
- All ages welcome
Tickets on sale now!
About Girl Fest 2017
Girl Fest 2017 is proud to return to Lola's Room at the Crystal Ballroom for their 3rd annual event. This one day, festival-style event was founded in 2013 as a way to celebrate the talented, female artists currently making noise in the Northwest. Girl Fest 2017 will be hosted by Blossom, and will include performances by Coco Columbia, Karma Rivera, Neka & Kahlo, Haley Heyndrickx, Courtney Noe and students from My Voice Music's Student Mentorship Program. With a festival-style lineup, Girl Fest 2017 is excited to feature a wild array of genres; everything from hip hop, to alternative, singer songwriter, and pop infused modern jazz. The 2017 event is sponsored byXRAY.fm and Vortex Music Magazine.
About Coco Columbia
Music school dropout, Coco Columbia, burst onto the Portland music scene in 2014. Her music fuses infectious indie-pop melodies, off-kilter rhythmic feels, dreamy-eyed electro-soul soundscapes and jazzy harmony to create her own brand of bumpin' space-age future-pop. Coco has shared the stage with bands such as Hiatus Kaiyote, Goapele, Robert Glasper and Knower.
About Karma Rivera
Freshman to the NW hip hop scene, Karma Rivera has already made quite a name for herself. Since performing as headliner of November's "The Thesis" at Kelly's Olympian, Rivera has been making moves. She's ready to slay on the Girl Fest stage in January, with aggressive hip hop tracks and a style truly all her own.
About Neka + Kahlo
Veterans of Girl Fest 2014, Neka & Kahlo craft vibey music out of a red brick apartment in North Portland. Rather than pushing a limiting trend or sub-genre, the duo serve as an intersection - trafficking in multiple styles and sounds - thereby dispensing with the need for additional labels. What you hear is the expression of their unique experience as humans who refuse to conform to any one identity alone.
About Haley Heynderickx
The voice of Portland artist, Haley Heynderickx (pronounced Hendricks), is distinctly unique, with a sweet power and beauty that makes her music almost familiar to the ear. Her lyricism is raw and true. Reminiscent of the styles of Joni Mitchell, Joanna Newsom and Jessica Pratt, Heynderickx is not one to miss.
About Courtney Noe
"Courtney Noe, Grammy's 2017" is written in red lipstick on her bathroom mirror. "I literally envision myself rising out of the stage in Madison Square Garden before I go to sleep." Courtney's sound embraces the soul of Motown with the additive character of pop. Big band horns, orchestra strings and piano are heard throughout her music; the lyrics dripping with sass.
About My Voice Music
My Voice Music is a nonprofit organization based in Portland, Oregon that engages youth in music and performance in order to promote self-esteem, social skills and emotional expression. MVM's student band opened Girl Fest in 2016, and we are excited to welcome these extraordinarily talented girls back to our stage for the 2017 event!
DJ Anjali & The Incredible Kid New Year's Eve Dance Party Extravaganza at the Melody Ballroom.
Saturday, December 31st, 2016
Our biggest New Year's Eve party ever:
A Desi Latino Soundclash on 2 floors!!
Orquestra Pacifico Tropical (Featuring members of Sun Angle, Máscaras, Bitch'n, &&&, IOA, Point Juncture, Wa., Modernstate, Roselit Bone, Quiet Countries & Eagle Sun King.) Orquestra Pacifico Tropical’s wall of sound is dedicated to expanding the music of Central & South America to the people & dance floors of the Pacific Northwest.
Coast2c (Gran Ritmos)
Daniela Karina (Women's Beat League/Bed of Roses)
Michael Bruce (Gran Ritmos)
Suavecito (She Shreds Magazine & Savila)
Bollywood/Cumbia/Bhangra/Dembow/Urban Desi/Reggaeton/Desi Bass/Latin Trap/Tribal Guarachero
Featuring percussionist Adam McCollom on the Panjabi Dhol drum.
Bhangra dances by DJ Anjali and Gulabi Gang.
Two ballrooms on two levels.
Sound by One Wub
Sponsored by XRAY.FM.
21+ only w/ proper ID
This party marks the 16th anniversary of Anjali and The Kid playing in Portland clubs as a duo since their New Year's Eve debut in 2000.
www.anjaliandthekid.com
Quannum MCs!
Featuring Blackalicious, Latyrx, Gift of Gab, Lyrics Born, Lateef Daumont, and Chief Xcel. With specail guests Libretto, Blossom, and DJ Wicked.
Saturday December 31
Star Theater Portland
DOORS AT 8, SHOW AT 9pm / 21+
21+
Additional Info:
QUANNUM MC's (Blackalicious, Latyrx, Gift of Gab, Lyrics Born, Chief Xcel & Lateef) w/ special guests Libretto, Blossom & Dj WickedThis New Year's Eve, come celebrate with Quannum---one of the West Coast's most legendary Hip Hop collectives ever formed---and their long awaited reunion, exclusively at the Star Theater in PDX! Both a label (Quannum Projects) and a collaborative concern, Quannum brought together the brightest talents from the former SoleSides label: Lyrics Born and Lateef the Truth Speaker (from Latyrx), Chief Xcel and Gift of Gab (from Blackalicious), and DJ Shadow. An artist-run label, SoleSides was founded in 1992 at KDVS, the college radio station for the University of California-Davis, with most of the above artists involved, plus mentor DJ Zen (Jeff Chang). Its first release, DJ Shadow's 1993 slab "Entropy," gained a worldwide profile after tastemaker James Lavelle released it on his Mo' Wax label. SoleSides hit with further releases like Blackalicious' Melodica EP (also licensed to Mo' Wax) and the self-titled debut single by Latyrx. By 1997, SoleSides had become Quannum Projects, and the label debuted with a masterstroke, the brilliant collaborative Quannum Spectrum, including a bounty of West Coast underground talent -- Jurassic 5, Divine Styler, Souls of Mischief, and Poets of Rhythm. Quannum Projects continued releasing records, including full-lengths for Blackalicious (NIA) and Poets of Rhythm (Discern/Define), a single by Spectrum contributor Joyo Velarde, and most rewarding of all, the two-disc history lesson SoleSides Greatest Bumps. And now this New Years Eve is your once in a lifetime chance to catch the collective live and direct!
Tickets:
http://www.ticketweb.com/fb/6995585/dantes
Willamette Week, XRAY.FM and Holocene present: LOCAL CUT
Ft.
Mic Capes
with
Brown Alice
Ellis Pink
and sounds by Fritzwa
LOCAL CUT is a FREE quarterly music event curated by Willamette Week, showcasing the diverse and talented musicians and producers under the radar and on the rise within the Portland music scene.
Hosted by Holocene, LOCAL CUT shines a spotlight on an eclectic mix of hip-hop, R&B, soul and their extended genres. Expect up and coming MC’s and DJ’s, as well as rock bands with rhythm and creative individuals marching to the beat of their own drum machine.
Sponsored by MillerCoors.
Sunday, December 18
Holocene Portland
9 p.m. show / 8:30 p.m. doors
21+
FREE
An evening for a special EYRST and XRAY.FM event. It'll be EmVKush playing records as the PDX Mandem and Neill Von Tally doing his live beat thang. The event will fresh off an announcement for a PDX Mandem's release on Moonshine Recordings and Neill's most notably Bone Music with the The Last Artful, Dodgr, the first single of which was premiered on Sway. It's going to be a night of Hip Hop and dubwise vibes. Artwork by Ritzy Sheens
