Revel in the sunny psych-pop of San Diego's The Donkeys.
Holocene and XRAY.fm Present The Donkeys, And And And, Bubble Cats!
California places a distinct sonic stamp upon the music born with in its boundaries. Owens had his Bakersfield, Parsons his Joshua Tree, and Malkmus his Stockton, and in their tunes you can hear dust, desert highways, and skateboards gliding over suburbia. The Donkeys have San Diego, and from that environment have woven a fundamental ease in their music - a rock, a roll, a sway, a slide - you could even call it a breeze. On Ride the Black Wave, The Donkeys continue their easy rolling, classic vibrations, but add a mystery and tension that make this record their most lyrically and instrumentally compelling.
Ride the Black Wave embodies what Jack Kerouac described of California's coast as having an "end of the land sadness." The Donkeys stare out at the ocean in a "fantastic drowse" - a kind of pensiveness towards their environs that summons the elements of sound and style that belong only to them. In "Blues In The Afternoon", a collective mantra, the band runs out of land and asks of the ocean to offer suggestions about their fate. It is songs like these that prove the Donkeys are a band in the true sense of the word, sharing each other's worry and wonder. With RTBW, The Donkeys have further caged their craft and have accomplished the delicate and artful challenge of taming the captured, while also letting it be wild.
$10.00 advance $10.00 day of show
21+
Join XRAY.fm at Mississippi Studios on March 21st for XRAY's 1st Birthday Bash! Minden, Holiday Friends, Secret Drum Band, and XRAY DJs will join together to celebrate year one with cake, balloons, and one hell of a line-up.
XRAY Members and their guest get 1/2 price tickets, and general admission is $10. (Members will receive email instructions).
Brought to you by PDX Pop Now!, Mississippi Studios, and XRAY.FM.
Facebook invite here!
All the fun & groundbreaking music of Portland, without the rain! Portland's best bands come to Austin for one day of absolutely free fun in the sun. RSVP now to hold your place!
Wild Ones / Natasha Kmeto / Summer Cannibals / Joseph / The Lonesome Billies / Grandparents / Swahili - band / Us Lights / Melville
Brought to you by Marmoset, Travel Portland, Mississippi Studios, Doug Fir Lounge, Tender Loving Empire, CD Baby & XRAY.FM
Make Money. Make Oregon.
Learn from the experts opening the door for Oregon’s new community “crowdfunding” law. Become a pioneer in the new wave of Oregon business.
On January 15, 2015, Oregon passed new securities crowdfunding law. The Jan. 22 event at Hatch Lab in northeast Portland kicked off a statewide Community Capital Initiative, an effort to educate small businesses and investors about the Community Public Offering rules. Now, join Hatch Innovation, the non-profit who initiated the law-making conversation, in creating the statewide ecosystem for success in this new realm of securities crowdfunding. Oregon legislators, thought-leaders, decision-makers, entrepreneurs, investors, students - anyone interested in investing both time and money into building stronger communities – is invited to participate.
ComCap Oregon tickets include Thursday night keynote, panel and reception, Friday's full day educational conference, lunch and evening reception, and Saturday's regional breakout session.
LOCATIONS:
Thursday, March 19th at Hatch Lab 2420 NE Sandy Blvd in Portland, OR
Friday, March 20th at Ambridge Event Center 1333 NE MLK Jr. Blvd. Portland, OR
Saturday, March 21st at Hatch Lab 2420 NE Sandy Blvd in Portland, OR
Read more at hatchoregon.com
It's a night of great hip hop, XRAY and Mike Thrasher Presents bring PRhyme, the new project from Royce da 5'9" and DJ Premier.
Tickets online at cascadetickets.com
Sat MARCH 7, 2015
Back Fence PDX: MAINSTAGE | Something I Cannot Unsee Or Undo
DOORS 6:30PM | SHOW 8:00PM | 21+
ALBERTA ROSE THEATRE
3000 NE Alberta St
Telling stories on the theme Something I Cannot Unsee or Undo: returning crowd favorite the Emmy Nominated Director of Six Days to Air: the Making of South Park, ARTHUR BRADFORD (PDX), Primetime Emmy Winner for Outstanding Writing — for Key & Peele, COLTON DUNN (LA), Tarot Card Reader and Spiritual Astrologer, MISS RENEE (PDX), Husband/Wife telling a story in tandem: Writer/Performer of 8 solo shows that traveled fromom the HBO/US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen to the 2014 Summer Nights Festival in Perth. BRIAN FINKELSTEIN+ Writer/Performer for Modern Family/30 Rock/The Office , JEAN VILLEPIQUE and and Oregonian Reporter + Documentary Filmmaker, CASEY PARKS (PDX).
$15—$22.50 ADVANCE | $18 DAY OF SHOW
For $22.50 there a limited number of VIP tickets available, reserved until 7:50pm, in the front rows of the main floor.
*Storytellers subject to change without notice. Stories may contain explicit language and/or subject matter.
XRAY.FM is proud to sponsor the showing of the music documentary Salad Days, showing February 27th thru March 3rd at King Street Theater in Vancouver.
More information at Kiggin's Street Theatre's website
It's Salad Days: 1980-1990: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC.
It's another wild dance party at the Spare Room brought to life by the fine folks at THE GET DOWN.
THE GET DOWN is a fun, monthly dance party that is always a night to remember. Come party Friday, February 27th with XRAY DJs and the fine folks of THE GET DOWN.
DJ KM Fizzy
DJ Jen O
DJ Montel SpinozzaDJ Nathan Detroit
It's another wild dance party at the Spare Room brought to life by the fine folks at THE GET DOWN.
THE GET DOWN is a fun, monthly dance party that is always a night to remember. Come party Friday, February 27th with XRAY DJs and the fine folks of THE GET DOWN.
DJ KM Fizzy
DJ Jen O
DJ Montel SpinozzaDJ Nathan Detroit
XRAY.fm Presents a winter's evening of gorgeous and haunting tunes from buzz-building songwriters
KEVIN MORBY
JESSICA PRATT
February, 22nd, 2015
Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm
$12.00
Harlem River features eight interweaving tales of tragedy and misfortune; a series of desperate characters playing out their dramas with the city as backdrop. A departure from some of the signature sounds of his better known projects, Morby’s songs glisten with a haunting intimacy and while he maintains that the songs are stories about other people, it’s hard not to feel a piece of him in each one; a half-imagined, half-painfully personal world of lost love, addiction, violence and prayers for the departed.
The album was recorded in Los Angeles in February and March of ’13 with producer Rob Barbato who recorded The Babies’ second album, Our House On The Hill, and whose guitar and bass work figure prominently on Harlem River. The album also features drummer Justin Sullivan (The Babies) as well as contributions from Will Canzoneri, Tim Presley (White Fence), Dan Lead, and Cate Le Bon.
We want scribes and songbirds to tell us so—and sometimes they do and then it is. They point their pens and focus their lens where they will and surprise us to our soul. On Your Own Love Again is a record that does it to us, with songs from a spine-thrilling new place and a gifted young singer with her own musical logic.
Jessica Pratt’s self-titled 2012 debut has been much-murmured about in the time between yesterday and today. People respond to the austere, pristine clarity of the performances, the gentle strength, marveling at how much comes from so little: just a voice and a guitar or two! They remark on the timeless nature of the songs and the voice, scrupulously informed by the folk-rock of ages past, but sung without bags (none in hand, nor beneath eyes). They speculate on just who is the personality behind this Jessica Pratt? It is hard not to respond to the sound of her music, not to want more right away.
Two years on, and Jessica’s very new On Your Own Love Again is here for us, playing her further adventures in different pastures. If they feel removed from the first songs, it may help to know that the recordings of the first album were made some years back with no expectation of making an album. They sat quiet on the shelf for a long time, appearing on the internet eventually. It all seemed harmless, but when Birth Records honcho Tim Presley rolled up in his long white limousine
and began to spin tales of folk rock glory, who was she to say no? Sure, Mr. Presley, fence me a record!
The nice part about learning that people dig your sound is that it gives you the chance to think of what else you’d do. After deep consideration, Jessica found new songs within her and an urgency to make another record, marked with a strong sense for rendering it exactly the way she heard it in her head, spending time with her tunes and crafting the smallest details. In this way, she truly was able to inhabit her own skin as a singer of her songs — and make On Your Own Love Again the first Jessica Pratt album constructed to be an album.
What makes On Your Own Love Again new? Everything, and yet everything woven so subtly into the presentation leaves you unaware that you have been modulated upon. The album was recorded entirely by Jessica in the fashion of “Night Faces” and “Dreams,” from her first album, and mixed in collaboration with Will Canzoneri. Touched lightly with additional instrumental and vocal parts, the songs ripple beneath the surface with lyrical details that morph almost subliminally from the personal
into fantasy. When Jessica’s playful nature bubbles up, she sends her voice traveling into strange places to see what it finds there. The music too is deceptively accomplished, providing subtle hallucinatory
nuances to the tunes. The orchestral organ stop working in the shadows of “Wrong Hand,” the reverberant percussion floating through “Game That I Play,” the clavinet panned out on the side in “Moon Dude,” Jessica’s sudden vocal dip into her lower register on “Greycedes”— all pull at the ears, highlighting her unique pop sensibilities with craft and humor, giving the album’s inherent romance a greater heft. Perhaps most significantly, On Your Own Love Again was recorded at home — at places in Los Angeles and San Francisco, over the past two years. This process sands the surface of her more active multi-tracking approach, allowing a sound as delicate and singular as her former recordings. On Your Own Love Again Jessica is fully alive in a space all her own; with isolation in the breeze, the sound resonant in the natural light and a gauze of clouds in the sky, under which she can relax, unwind and let herself be.
That’s everything we want from Jessica Pratt — On Your Own Love Again.
XRAY fm and HipHopDX are proud to sponsor The Rapture World Tour featuring Zion I with guests Los Rakas and LockSmith, on February 20th at the Doug Fir Lounge, The California indie hip-hop duo is touring in support of upcoming live album, The Rapture. Ticket info and more information at zionicrew dot com or xray dot fm slash events.
TIcket info can be found right here.
The Instigators Presents
An Evening of Roots Music
8635 N. Lombard Street · Free Admission
Meredith Axelrod
pre-1930s American pop music. She
plays guitar, ukulele, cello, and
other instruments. She’s performed
with Dan Hicks, Maria Muldaur,
Jim Kweskin, Ramblin’ Jack Eliot,
Cindy Cashdollar, David Grisman,
Robert Crumb, the Cheap Suit
Serenaders, and Craig Ventresco."
Frank Fairfield
"A player of down-home, old time
folk music on fiddle, guitar, banjo,
he supported Fleet Foxes on their
2008 tour, and moved on to play
with such acts as Charlie Louvin,
Pokey Lafarge, Charlie Parr and
Blind Boy Paxton. He has also
become a popular act at the annual
Pickathon festival and appeared on
NPR's Morning Edition."
“I remember my first bike—a little pink Schwinn ‘My Fair Lady’ spec’d with a banana seat and a bell! I had the training wheels for half a summer before I declared them useless and in one afternoon I had learned the art of the two-wheeler. Once I had a bike no television could keep me inside—the world was mine to discover. Today I ride a pink Sweet Pea bicycle spec’d with a brooks saddle, bell and no training wheels!”
-Jude Gerace, Owner Sugar Wheel Works
Get your ticket here. And one for your date.
What is Live the Revolution?
Live the Revolution is a collection of stories told live by your favorite Portland personalities. This year’s storytellers are (drumroll):
- Thomas Pikaart, American Coffee and Barista School
- Megan Schubel, elementary school teacher and new mama
- Laura Crawford, Bicycle Tourism Specialist
- Chris DiStefano, Communications Director for Rapha North America
Safe Routes to School For Every Kid. Support the revolution.
We know you love bikes. We also know you love being able to get to a date with your bike safely. We know that if you and your +1 end up with little ones, you’ll want them to be able to bike and walk to school safely. The BTA recently launched a campaign, For Every Kid, that aims to secure critical funding that will educate students and families, fix neighborhood streets, and increase access to transit for every kid in the metro area. Live the Revolution raises awareness for our Safe Routes to School efforts, and we encourage you to sign the petition today"
Show some love to our sponsors. They help make the stories happen.
This year, Live the Revolution is sponsored by XRAY.fm, Sugar Wheel Works, Portland Story Theater, Hopworks Urban Brewery, Bethany Bauman Design, Hotlips Pizza, Brink Communications, Abraham Fixes Bikes, and Visual Aid.
- Experts leading small groups on topics like running a label, legal issues for artists, and booking shows
- Veterans hosting a discussion on the urgent issues we're all facing as Portland music people
- Maybe most importantly, sometime shoot the breeze with our old and new pals
Happening! 2015 will be an exploratory conversation about how music works around here, and how artists, professionals, and supporters shape the scene. We'll focus on the issues we all deal with - how do you get paid for the work you love when everything's changing? How do get good music out to the most people? But we'll have plenty of time to address everyone's individual questions, too.
So bring your stories, questions, and ideas. Once again, we’ll bring snacks, beer, experts, and conversation. Let’s work together to make music happen.
Presenter: David Gluck is a Portlander, a musician, and music professional, probably in that order. Since coming home to Portland in 2010, he has performed and recorded with The Sorry Devils as a guitarist, bassist, and singer. He made music his day job for the first time at CD Baby, where he was a music publishing specialist, and now works with labels and artists at Rumblefish, a music licensing firm. He also volunteers as the Compilation Coordinator for PDX Pop Now! in his excessive free time. This is his second year working on RACC's Happening!
Happening 2015!: a homegrown music forum
Presenter: David Gluck is a Portlander, a musician, and music professional
Sunday, February 8, 2015; 3 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Location: Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St, Portland, OR 97214
Cost: $7-20
Tickets and more information here!
Thanks to A to Z Media for their generous sponsorship of this workshop.
SATURDAY JANUARY 31
THIS EVENT IS ALL AGES
$15.00 - $18.00
DOORS: 7:00 PMBOP4 is a benefit for Pride Foundation and PROWUS
Featuring a Special extended performance by Stephen Malkmus, plus:
Red Fang
Aan
Wild Ones
Musee Mecanique
Natasha Kmeto
Guantanamo Baywatch
1939 Ensemble
Gaytheist
The Shivas
Summer Cannibals
the body
Like A Villian
Tiburones
WL
Modern Kin
Bearcubbin'
Lee Corey Oswald
Ripley Snell
TxE
The Stops
The CRY!
Sama Dams
$10 advance, $12 day of show // Get tickets
9pm doors // 10pm show
Join XRAY for the THANKS show at Mississippi Studios this January 24th.
Show is at 9 and it's 21+
Listen to XRAY for chances to win tickets, or visit mississippistudios.com for more information
See our November champ, SHANNON BALCOM (PDX) take on returning storytellers: Mercury Editor and fresh from playing the Snowman in Rudolph-ON STAGE!, WM. STEVEN HUMPHREY (PDX), Co-Founder of Buy Olympia, PAT CASTALDO (PDX), Thingmaker and Comedian, EMMETT MONTGOMERY (SEA), and Poet, BRIAN S. ELLIS. Along with newcomers: Comedian and Co-host of Late Night with Alex Falcone, BRI PRUETT (PDX), Drummer for Blitzen Trapper, BRIAN KOCH (PDX) and Blogger and MC for SitUbuSit, SUMMER WALDRON (SEA)!
Hosted by B. FRAYN MASTERS & MINDY NETTIFEE
Music by BOBBY D from XRAY
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!
It's Gonna Blow: San Diego's Music Underground 1986-1996, screening in Portland. Director Bill Perrine will be in attendance for a post screening Q&A (along with special guests????!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?) and Physics will be playing a live set after the screening!
Buy tickets here: http://prod3.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=94025%7E5f969332-ec94-41af-822d-5c7ec8f2ca2b&epguid=81b7db1a-39a9-4ae1-99ac-2b415fbbae48
A feature length documentary film about San Diego's DIY music scene and its uneasy relationship with the mainstream. Featuring interviews and performances from Drive Like Jehu, Fishwife, Tanner, Rocket From The Crypt, Trumans Water, The Locust, Heavy Vegetable, Physics (band),Crash Worship, No Knife, Pitchfork, Heroin, Antioch Arrow, Creedle, Swing Kids, Sub Society, Neighborhood Watch, Inch, Funeral March, Clikatat Ikatowi, Tit Wrench and many others.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--FTU73CoUk