Onion Music Fest, The Fixin' To, and XRAY.FM Present: A night of unique, soulful, and passionate expression, as we celebrate community and the upcoming OMF 2018.
Tribe Mars:
Tribe Mars is a guerrilla faction of freedom fighters combating against the forces of tyranny and systematic oppression through music, art, and spiritual practices learned from our extraterrestrial Martian brothers many lifetimes ago on the Red Planet.
Their expression through the use of their instruments channels these ancient practices and beliefs, which are then internalized and etched into the souls of those exposed to their tight grooves and soulful vocals
The Fur Coats:
The Fur Coats are a psych-soul-pop band from Portland, Oregon fronted by American sweethearts Chris Karl and Betty. Their lineup includes members of Wampire, Charlie Hilton and Reptaliens.
Onion The Man:
Psychedelic grooves ooze from the depths of their hot souls. Raw shallot force energy merges to create the layered vibrations that is Onion The Man. Residing in the northern realms of Oregon, four passionate artists birth, break, and surf the wave of contagious groove through melodic texture, rhythmic harmony, and musical empowerment. Riding the mothership upward and onward, the Onion family tours all over the west coast and organizes Onion Music Festival annually for the sake of bringing all paths of life together in the name of personal expression and humanity.
Tickets available here.
Carla dal Forno is an Australian singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, currently based in Berlin. She is a member of the groups F ingers and Tarcar, and formerly cult Melbourne outfit Mole House. Autumn 2016 sees the release of her debut solo album, You Know What It’s Like, on Blackest Ever Black.
Tickets available here: https://www.holocene.org/event/1640414-carla-dal-forno-portland/
Saturday, May 26th 9pm
Spare Room Restaurant & Lounge
4830 NE 42ND AVE
PDX OR 97218
$10 ADV/DOS tix at http://bit.ly/lithicstix
21+
Lithics
http://lithics.bandcamp.com/
Honey Bucket
https://honey-bucket.bandcamp.com/
Scorch
https://scorchusa.bandcamp.com/
Saturday, May 26
XRAY.FM, Sahel Sounds, & Multiflora Productions Present:
Mdou Moctar
http://mdoumoctar.bandcamp.com
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Secret Drum Band
https://secretdrumband.bandcamp.com/
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Amenta Abioto
https://soundcloud.com/amentaabioto/
TICKETS → https://tinyurl.com/ybtr77lt
Music for desert picnics. Tuareg guitarist Mdou Moctar delves into his more sensitive side with a minimal studio recording of dreamy ballads. Thumping calabash, droning guitars, and vocal overdubs evoke an imagined desert soundscape. All instruments and vocals performed by Mdou only, creating a very personal and auteur sessions. Emotive and introspective, exploring themes of religion, spirituality, and matters of the heart.
After his underground success on the pirate mp3 networks of West Africa with his first release, the psychedelic autotuned “Anar,” (2008) he was featured on the Sahel Sounds compilation “Music from Saharan Cellphones” (2011) and launched a successful touring career. In 2012, Mdou relocated from his village to Agadez, the center of Niger’s guitar scene, and formed his band. Over the past years, he has become well known on the international circuit, playing high energy electrified music in festivals and clubs across Europe and North America. In 2013, he released his first international album, “Afelan,” rocking and raw sessions recorded live in Niger. In 2015, he starred in the first ever Tuareg language film, “Rain the Color Blue with a Little Red In It,” a Nigerien remake of “Purple Rain.”
QDoc is the only festival in the U.S. devoted exclusively to LGBTQ documentaries. Documentaries offer a unique vehicle to creatively engage core issues of queer identity – politics, history, culture, diversity, sexuality, family, aging, and coming-out issues.
Founded in 2007 by Russ Gage and David Weissman, and directed by Molly King and Deb Kemp since 2017, QDoc has shown award-winning films fresh from Sundance, Berlin, Hot Docs, Tribeca, Amsterdam and other top-tier festivals. We have shown historical films, personal stories, artist biographies, experimental work and topical films dealing with current controversies. Visiting artists have included prominent filmmakers from all over the U.S. and from as far as Italy and Australia, who have participated in lively discussions after the screenings. We have hosted emerging filmmakers as well as 3 Academy Award winning directors, enabling dynamic audience interaction with artists.
Documentary as a form of expression is as vital and energetic as it has ever been, and QDoc brings the highest caliber of films – and their makers – to share with Portland audiences.
Check out the complete lineup and get your tickets at qdocfilmfest.org
Join us in celebrating the release of the 2018 PDX Pop Now! compilation, with tracks from over 30 Portland artists!
Featuring sets by deathlist, [bryson, the alien] Sumalienz , and RILLA
$8 Admission includes a copy of the 2018 compilation!
- - ALL AGES - -
Each year, the PDX Pop Now! listening committee —comprised of volunteers from across our community—listen to over 500 songs submitted for the annual compilation. After making it through the listening panel, final tracks are then selected with attention to diversity, representation and popularity. All proceeds of the compilation go towards funding the our annual free and all ages music festival on July 21-22.
Saturday MAY 12th — XRAY is proud to sponsor the SUPER: Women in Tech live storytelling show! Featuring true stories from women and binary folks about the sometimes poignant and mostly funny struggles and triumphs of life inside and outside of the tech world. In other words, you do not have to be in the tech world or know much about it because the stories are freakin' compelling. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll get effing fired up. Advance tickets at BackFencePDX.com.
A Privacy Chat with XRAY.fm's Oh My Dollar and The Credentialed featuring World Privacy Forum
Join two of your favorite XRAY.fm podcast hosts, Lillian Karabaic of Oh My Dollar! and Kate Kaye of The Credentialed for an intimate evening chat with Pam Dixon, executive director of World Privacy Forum. We'll talk privacy in personal finance, digital and social media, self-quantification and more! Come say hello, meet Lillian, Kate and Pam, and have a snack or a great Red E beverage at this XRAY.fm podcast neighborhood event from 6:30 to 8pm!
The World’s Best Bike Movies!
May 4-6, 2018
Portland, Oregon
The 16th Annual Filmed by Bike is a film festival featuring the world’s best bike movies.
- 80 independent films
- 6 distinct movie programs
- Street party
- Filmmaker Saturday Chat
- Visiting filmmakers
- Awards ceremony
- Filmmaker Ride + Tour of Breadwinner Cycles
- After parties
- Speed raffle with $6,000 in prizes
Base Camp Opening Night Street Party
Friday, May 4 // 5:00-10:00 p.m.
With DJ sets from Jené of Everyday Mixtapes and DJ Serious Moonlight & DJ Palm Dat of Intuitive Navigation
21+ / 8:30PM / $10
Join us for a special screening of And And And & the Philosopher's Stoned, a short film comprised of five self-made, connected story-line, absurdist music videos that And And And has been working on since 2014. Screening at 8:30pm. DVD's for sale at event.
AND AND AND
https://andandand.bandcamp.com/
Thick Business
https://thickbusinessband.bandcamp.com/
Bryson Cone
https://brysoncone.bandcamp.com/releases
Ah God
https://ahgod.bandcamp.com/
Featuring Ron Funches, Judah Friedlander, Laurie Kilmartin, Jeff Dye, Shane Mauss, Ron Lynch, and many more. For three days, from April 26th through April 28th, over 25 hilarious comedians from across the nation will perform for you in three of Lincoln City’s beautiful, historic buildings.
More information at https://undertowcomedy.com
WEDS APRIL 25 | 21+
DOORS 6:30 | SHOW 7:30
CURIOUS COMEDY |
5225 NE MLK Blvd
FEATURING: JASON ROUSE The Winner From Our January Show Actor/Writer, Once Spoke To Mike Myers For 5-mins Before Realizing Who he was.
CAITLIN WEIERHAUSER Returning Two-Time Russian Roulette Winner, Portland’s Funniest Person 2017, Member of Lez Stand Up, Voted Most Opinionated in High School.
NICOLE J. GEORGES Author of the Award-Winning Graphic Novels Calling Dr. Laura and Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home, Teaches MFA In Comics Students at California College of the Arts, Hosts the Podcast Sagittarian Matters, Her Life Partner Is a Half-Blind Chomeranian Named Ponyo.
KIRSTEN KUPPENBENDER Finalist in Portland’s Funniest Person Competition, Founder of Lez Stand Up, Extreme Jigsaw Puzzler.
EUGENIE FONTANA works in the Creative and Arts Communities, Founder of Gather & Garner/Co-Founder of w(HERE), Loves Riding Quads AKA 4-Wheelers, SAMIRA SAHEBI Real Estate Broker, Snuck Into The US Before Her People Were Banned, Loves Every Aspect of Living in Portland Except How Often She’s Asked “Where She’s Really From?”, A Mean Cook.
Hosted by B. FRAYN MASTERS& MINDY NETTIFEE
Music by DJ BOBBY D from XRAY.FM
The LA based pop duo Chaos Chaos is made up of sisters Asy and Chloe Saavedra. Asy and Chloe began their careers as preteens in Seattle as the band Smoosh touring and performing with the likes of Bloc Party, Sleater Kinney and Cat Power. Now, as Chaos Chaos, the sisters have composed music for TV shows including Rick and Morty and Lucifer, released the charting single Terryfold in collaboration with Justin Roiland co-creator of Rick and Morty, and released their first single Dripping with Fireoff their debut LP to be released early 2018.
This show is all ages!
Tickets available at https://www.ticketfly.com/event/1650998-chaos-chaos-portland/
Join Bright Moments and the Camas High School Choir for an unforgettable concert that explores the exponential advancement of human technology and the notion of human progress.
This concert is a collaboration of the Camas High School Choir and choral director Ethan Chessin, indie-rock musician and composer Kelly Pratt, and Young Audiences of Oregon & SW Washington.
The choir will be performing new music composed by Bright Moments, Pratt’s solo project, specifically for this collaboration. The concert is an original, hour-long performance for a rock band, horns and 200 high school singers, blending together a wide array of styles and genres — from afrobeat to metal to more traditional choral music — into a compelling intergenerational musical experience.
The music will be accompanied by original video projections created by the Camas students working with director Alicia J. Rose. This is the only opportunity to experience this concert in Portland.
Supported by the Camas Educational Foundation, CD Baby, Oregon Arts Commission and the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA).KBOO Community Radio and XRAY.FM are media sponsors.
Tickets $10 in advance / $12 day of show
https://ya-or.ejoinme.org/April13
(Logistical and accessibility details coming soon.)
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About the Camas High School Choir: The Camas High School Choir program has earned praise around the Northwest for its engaging performances of unique, diverse repertoire, including collaborations with local musicians SAMA DAMS, Alan Singley, Point Juncture, WA, AU/Luke Wyland and more.
About Kelly Pratt: From 2006–2012 Kelly Pratt was a full-time member of indie-pop outfit Beirut, contributing arrangements, brass/woodwinds, and vocals. He has performed and recorded with hundreds of artists including Arcade Fire, LCD Soundsystem, Coldplay, The War on Drugs, and Passion Pit. In 2012 and 2013, he collaborated with David Byrne and St. Vincent, providing arrangements for their album “Love this Giant,” as well as serving as arranger and musical director for their world tour. He is currently touring with Father John Misty as an arranger, conductor, and multi-instrumentalist.
About Young Audiences of Oregon & SW Washington: Young Audiences offers a full range of educational arts programming in multiple disciplines and cultures. The organization connects a roster of talented teaching artists with schools for artist residencies, workshops and performances; and partners with local schools, arts organizations, artists and community members to inspire young people and expand their learning through the arts.
About the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art: PICA’s programming supports the experiments of vital and provocative artists. PICA is unique among institutions for working right alongside artists at the increasingly blurry boundaries between forms and at the edge of new ideas. Throughout the year, audiences have myriad opportunities to interact with artists, curators, critics, and cultural visionaries in a direct, in-depth way. From performances to exhibitions to lectures to the annual Time-Based Art Festival, PICA's programs catalyze conversations about contemporary culture.
On April 7th, join Portland Underground Grad School (PUGS) and explore a multitude of topics related to ENERGY at the third-annual PUGSfest! Local experts will speak on a variety of subjects, including hip hop and social justice activism, sexual connection, the maker movement, and digital accessibility. Come exercise your brain in a friendly, inclusive environment.
XRAY listeners can save 20% on PUGSfest: ENERGY! registration with the code: XRAY20. Sign up at PUGSpdx.com.
‘Criminal’, The Soft Moon's fourth studio album, is a confessional work. Through the stark lens of shame and guilt that has followed Luis Vasquez since a violent childhood growing up within the humming ambient sprawl of 80s Mojave Desert, here he documents the gut-wrenching sound of going to war with himself. Battling with his own sanity, self-hatred, insecurity, self-entitlement and grappling with the risk of these things transforming him into a person he despises, Vasquez has laid his feelings bare with this: his confession and most self-reflective work to date.
Tickets available at: https://www.ticketfly.com/event/1601829-sold-out-soft-moon-portland/
Some of Portland's finest dark synth artists join forces for an amazing evening with Austin-based artist Josh Mills aka Missions, signed to S U R V I V E's own Holodeck Records.
The fourth annual Out From the Shadows festival, featuring 24 post-punk and darkwave bands from around the US and Europe. Besides being a benefit for both XRAY.FM and the LBGTQ organization SMYRC (Sexual Minority Youth Resource Center), this year each night's festivities will be preceded by a mini-record show with vendors offering the finest in dark musics from a multitude of genres. In other words, OFTS 2018 is an utter dark music extravaganza. Accept no substitutes...Tickets here:
3-day pass: https://holdmyticket.com/event/307474
Day one: https://holdmyticket.com/event/307475
Day two: https://holdmyticket.com/event/307477
Day three: https://holdmyticket.com/event/307478
The music of Sama Dams steals from you most virtuously — it will rob your sense of time and leave you wondering how long you’ve been awash in sound, rhythm, and ether.
On their fourth release, “Say It” — released on Friendship Fever on April 6 — Lisa Adams emerges from the background to deliver commanding lead vocals in her clarion soprano alongside partner Sam and the highly textured drumming of Chris Hermsen.
Almost in answer to the muted ambivalence that marks movements from the band’s previous “Comfort in Doubt,” “Say It” features the trio striking boldly throughout, both musically and thematically. According to Sam, “It’s about being more honest about what we’re thinking and feeling.”
SAMA DAMS // https://samadams.bandcamp.com/
KELLI SCHAEFER // https://kellischaefer.bandcamp.com/
POOL BOYS
Loud guitars + pretty harmonies
https://www.facebook.com/poolboysband/
Genders
genderspdx.bandcamp.com
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Honcho Poncho
honchoponcho.bandcamp.com
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Plastic Cactus
plasticcactus.bandcamp.com
$7 / 21+
*photo by Todd Walberg