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XRAY.FM PRESENTS DANGEROUS DREAMS TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY WITH THE MOVING UNITS: THEIR DEBUT LP PERFORMED IN ITS ENTIRETY

MOVING UNITS, ADVENTURE GALLEY, ADVENTUROUS SLEEPING

SAT, APRIL 18, 2015

DOORS: 8:00 PM / SHOW: 9:00 PM

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XRAY is teaming up with KPSU as part of KPSU's 30 shows in 30 days series:

It's another $3 Sound Select show curated by XRAY.fm!

RSVP for $3 entry. 

Gardens and Villa, Helvetia and Grandparents at Bunk Bar. 

Important: Entry is not guaranteed. Events are first come first served based on venue’s capacity. Arrive early for a better chance of admission.

The Prids, Soft Kill, The Estranged, Arctic Flowers, Shadowhouse, Underpass, Lunch, Vice Device, VATS, Dead Cult and COMM. 

Presented by Songs from Under the Floorboard radio show andSoundcontrol PDX as a benefit for XRAY fm 

$8.00 in advance/$10.00 day of show; ticket purchase details to be announced

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XRAY says THANK you to Dave Cantrell for organizing this fundraiser for XRAY.FM! 

Featuring Soft Kill, The Estranged, Arctic Flowers, Shadowhouse, Underpass, Lunch, Vice Device, VATS, Spirit Host and COMM. 

Presented by Songs from Under the Floorboard radio show and Soundcontrol PDX as a benefit for XRAY fm 
 

$8.00 in advance/$10.00 day of show; ticket link: http://holdmyticket.com/event/198035 

8pm (doors open at 7pm). .
$18.00 advance tix from Cascade Tickets.
$20.00 at the door.

1507 SE 39th Ave, Portland, OR (MapQuest)

"Peter Phillips (born June 21, 1970), better known by his stage name Pete Rock, is an American record producer, DJ and rapper. He rose to prominence in the early 1990s as one half of the critically acclaimed group Pete Rock & CL Smooth. After the duo went their separate ways, Rock continued with a solo career that has garnered him worldwide respect, though little in the way of mainstream success. Along with groups such as Stetsasonic, A Tribe Called Quest, The Roots and Gang Starr, Rock played a major role in the merging of elements from jazz into hip hop music (also known as jazz rap). He is widely recognized as one of the greatest hip hop producers of all time, and is often mentioned alongside DJ Premier, the RZA, and J Dilla as one of the mainstays of 1990s East Coast hip hop production. Pete Rock is also the older brother and younger cousin, respectively, of rappers Grap Luva and the late Heavy D.

ABOUT SLUM VILLAGE -
When Slum Village emerged in the late 1990s, the highly regarded Detroit trio of T3, Baatin and Jay Dee made a startling admission: their group was a liquid association with members coming and going during the group's evolution. True to their word, Slum Village has already gone through a number of line-up changes.

Rapper-producer Jay Dee left after the group's first national album, 2000's Fantastic, vol. 2 (Barak) and rhymer Elzhi was added to the mix for 2002's Trinity: Past, Present and Future (Barak/Capitol). Now, with the release of Slum Village's new and best album, the stunningly impressive Detroit Deli (Barak/Capitol), the group consists of just T3 and Elzhi. Throughout the changes, Slum Village's musical mission has remained constant: to deliver soul-stirring sonics that represent Detroit to the fullest. That vision is fully realized on Detroit Deli. Throughout the sensational 15-cut collection, T3 and Elzhi give listeners an intimate look at life in The D, from where they shop, hang with friends and eat to the type of cars they drive (check "Zoom") and what clothes they wear.

Slum Village represents the Midwest's funk heritage on the inspirational "Do You," which was produced by Jay Dee, and teams with Chicago's Kanye West on lead single "Selfish," a sly, piano-driven song where T3, Elzhi and West rap about their desire to have a monopoly with women. They then team with Ol' Dirty Bastard on the riotous "Dirty" about having to battle for a woman and deliver a Player's Hand Guide of sorts on the sensuous "Count The Ways," Both produced by BR. Gunna.

Even though Slum Village excels at making this type of lighthearted music, they show on Detroit Deli that they also hit hard with more serious subject matter. On the moving, guitar-driven "Keep Holding On," they rap about people not losing faith in their lives, while on the stirring "Old Girl/Shining Star," T3 and Elzhi send a open letter of hope and support to single mothers working hard to survive.

"The inspiration came from my boy's niece who has a gang of kids and is out here struggling," Elzhi says. "She's stringing her kids around on the bus, just to get by. By me just looking at that, I'm like, 'I need to write a song because I know she's not the only one going through it.' Slum Village has never touched on ladies like that and everybody is calling girls hoes and Bs, dissing these ladies, so we wanted to touch the ladies in a different way."

The group also takes a different route on "The Reunion." Jay Dee joins T3 and Elzhi on the insightful cut, which offers three different takes on the group's status. "It's like you're going through three state of minds at one time kind of in reverse," T3 says. "What we're trying to say is that we wish we were together, we might be together and then we're not together at all. We're trying to give you all the aspects of how people are coming at us, the type of stuff we're dealing with and kind of give you a glimpse of the stuff we're dealing with in the group."

Indeed, songs such as "Keep Holding On," "Old Girl/Shining Star" and "The Reunion" signal Slum Village's evolution; they mark the first time the group has let listeners in on their personal feelings. "I don't think people really know us and we never really touched on our emotions like that," T3 says. "We wanted to bring some realness, besides just the soul music. Elzhi, as a guy that saw Slum Village on the outside, he brought it to my attention that we never touched on serious topics and that we should try to touch on them more. I was with that and I have a lot to say, so why not?"

Detroit Deli also stands as Slum Village's most musically rich album to date. BR Gunna producers Black and Young RJ, both 20 years old, handled the majority of the beats, while Kanye West produced "Selfish," Jay Dee handled "Do You" and T3 along with young RJ produced "Closer" and "Count The Ways." The beats are as divergent as the album's subject matter, ranging from soulful to futuristic, but they always remain powerful and innovative.

The same can be said for Slum Village's storied career. After releasing Fantastic Volume One independently, Slum Village became one of hip-hop's hottest groups. While working on Fantastic, vol. 2, they were joined in the studio by such luminaries as D'Angelo, Busta Rhymes, Kurupt, Pete Rock and A Tribe Called Quest's Q-Tip, among others. The resulting album became an underground classic and Slum Village was seen as the second coming of the Native Tongues (A Tribe Called Quest, Jungle Brothers, De La Soul) by member Q-Tip, as well as fans and journalists alike.

Jay Dee left the group after Fantastic, vol. 2 in order to work on his solo career, but Slum Village pressed on, releasing in 2002 the Dirty District mix tape and later that year its third album and first with new member Elzhi, Trinity. Many fans looked at rapper-producer Jay Dee as the group's backbone, but Trinity proved that Slum Village could provide without its sonic architect, as that album's single "Tainted" became the group's biggest hit.

"We've always stuck to our guns," T3 says. "We've never tried to change to get commercial success. We always just did what we did and when you do what you do, eventually somebody's going to have to give you your respect for having the courage to do what you do."

With Detroit Deli, Slum Village earns the respect it craves and deserves.

ABOUT TOPE--

Born in Portland, Oregon in 1985, Anthony Anderson, better known as Tope, always maintained an air of worldly soul. At a young age, he absorbed the jazz, funk and soul records that his mother would play, ingraining in his being a visceral sense of what's been done before. 

Tope is most recognizable for his contributions to N.W. hip hop culture through his releases with Living Proof (Roots To Branches '07 & Full Speed '11), his first solo effort Soul Music, and as part of town-famous TxE; but as a true artist and musician, Tope is never satisfied with the expected, or the easy. He hates when producers say, "I got this joint for you, it's a 'Tope' track" -- or whatever. He hates to look back, and by the time you've heard his music, he likely doesn't like it anymore, and is on to the next one. 

Tope has worked with distinguished hip hop heavyweights such as Wajeed, Abstract Rude, TiRon, Scarub, Myka 9, Phil Da Agony, and Planet Asia; and opening for artists including Talib Kweli, Mac Miller, Blu, Nappy Roots, Joel Ortiz, The Coup, Mistah FAB; to name very few, and while others in the region, merely hop from trend to trend; Tope refuses to change with expectations while constantly reinventing himself through his art.

Always looking for new angles, Tope has gained universal town appeal by opening himself up to other genres and mediums (*see The Angry Orts, Tony Ozier, Kelli Shaefer, Liv Warfield), while staying true to his vision.

With a new solo effort, Until the Next Time We Meet and instrumental album Free Lemonade, a new Living Proof EP produced exclusively by Stewart Villain, and a full-length produced exclusively by Calvin Valentine, and the long-anticipated TxE full-length all due out in the next 12 months, Tope remains a workaholic; unsatisfied and unrelenting, while always looking...on to the next."

Join XRAY.fm for Salad Days, a documentary film that examines the early DIY punk scene in the Nation’s Capital. 

It was a decade when seminal bands like Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Government Issue, Scream, Void, Faith, Rites of Spring, Marginal Man, Fugazi, and others released their own records and booked their own shows—without major record label constraints or mainstream media scrutiny. Contextually, it was a cultural watershed that predated the alternative music explosion of the 1990s (and the industry’s subsequent implosion). Thirty years later, DC’s original DIY punk spirit serves as a reminder of the hopefulness of youth, the power of community and the strength of conviction. - See more at:  

Join XRAY.fm for Salad Days, a documentary film that examines the early DIY punk scene in the Nation’s Capital. 

It was a decade when seminal bands like Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Government Issue, Scream, Void, Faith, Rites of Spring, Marginal Man, Fugazi, and others released their own records and booked their own shows—without major record label constraints or mainstream media scrutiny. Contextually, it was a cultural watershed that predated the alternative music explosion of the 1990s (and the industry’s subsequent implosion). Thirty years later, DC’s original DIY punk spirit serves as a reminder of the hopefulness of youth, the power of community and the strength of conviction. - See more at:  

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

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

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

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