Hurry Up
https://www.facebook.com/getweirder/
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Sad Horse
sadhorse.bandcamp.com/
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Pumping Iron
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Ghost Frog
ghostfrog.bandcamp.com/
$7 / 21+
MISS RAYON
missrayon.bandcamp.com/releases
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ADHERE TO FORM
sinisrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/departed
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SWEEPING EXITS
sweepingexits.bandcamp.com/
$5 / 21+
An All Ages evening with Nevada-based musician Nicholas Rattigan, of Surf Curse, The Nicholas Project, Tele/Visions etc.
Current Joys is the enigmatic solo project of 25-year-old Henderson, Nevada-born songwriter Nicholas Rattigan. In addition to his minimal two-piece band with Jacob Rubeck, Surf Curse, Rattigan has been releasing a prolific catalog of heart-wrenching no wave ballads via Bandcamp under a handful of names (including The Nicholas Project and Tele/Visions), eventually choosing Current Joys as the permanent moniker, based on a song by folk-artist Liam the Younger of the same name. His newest release, A Different Age, documents the process of making art and the desire to create it sincerely in an era fraught with extreme irony, apathy, and nostalgia. Ripe with many of the emotions and conflicts that have influenced Rattigan’s songwriting in the past, A Different Age contains some of his most poetic lyrics and thoughtful arrangements to date.
Join us in celebrating four whole years on-air at XRAY.fm's Birthday Bash, featuring the voices of XRAY, comedians, bands, DJs, and birthday goody bags.
FEATURING:
Maarquii
Máscaras
The Bedrooms
MCs Kirsten Kuppenbender & Erin Jean O’Regan
XRAY DJ Sets from DJ Serious Moonlight & DJ Palm Dat, and more!
Event sells out every year so get your tickets now here.
MAARQUII
Máscaras, comprised of three Portland music scene veterans is what happens when an off-the-cuff jam session between friends really, really works. Even in its recorded form, “it’s a jam with themes that live and breathe,” the band says, “leaving room for the unexpected.” The trio plays heavy, propellant psychedelic music with surf-rock twang and mathy sensibilities. They call it “maximalist indigenous psych”. These are urgent, intense songs, but they’re also playful. It’s the sound of three homies making exactly the music they want to make, for no one else but themselves. It just so happens that people love it.
THE BEDROOMS
New romantic tunes for non romantic times.
DJ Serious Moonlight & DJ Palm Dat
DJ Serious Moonlight is Holocene talent buyer / curator Gina Altamura. She hosts interdisciplinary arts programming, manages R&B and pop artists, and owns a cat named Žižek. DJ Palm Dat is local musician and photographer Akila Fields. He plays keys in Shy Girls, makes his own shoegazing R&B as Palm Dat, and shares his vision at akilafields.com. Every Saturday they host INTUITIVE NAVIGATION on XRAY.FM / 107.1 from 6-7pm, which focuses on new-R&B, UK Soul, and the latest in electronic pop. Feels-talk, moon-talk, and sultry jams.
Join XRAY as we ring in our fourth birthday with community, cupcakes, and conversation. XRAY in the Morning's Karol Collymore and Emily Gilliland will lead a panel discussion about radio’s role in democracy in 2018 featuring XRAY weekday morning mainstay Thom Hartmann. Tickets include cupcakes from Back to Eden Bakery (100% vegan and gluten-free) and a gift bag featuring goodies from Pike Road Wines,Secret Aardvark Trading Company, and other XRAY sponsors. We hope you’ll come out and show your support for community radio, and help us welcome Thom back home to Portland after many years away!
Want to stay for the Birthday Bash, immediately following the panel discussion at Mississippi Studios? Pay just $5 extra for entry to both events (regular price $15). (Info about the Birthday Bash can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/events/769441549915388/)
Tickets:
$30 Panel ($20 for XRAY members)
$35 Panel + Birthday Bash ($25 for XRAY members)
Advance tickets available here.
Thanks to sponsors Secret Aardvark Trading Company, Columbia Bank &Pike Road Wines for sponsoring this panel discussion!
Shop, listen to XRAY.FM DJs (Magic Beans and T-KRAY), and learn more about community radio at the same time! Did we mention that you can do all of this plus have a cocktail in your hand? It just keeps getting better.
XRAY.FM Presents - Pop Up: An Evening of Music & Shopping.
There will be vintage clothing, housewares, ceramics, art, accessories and 2 guys selling records. Shop and show your support both on and off the air. See you there! All ages welcome.
Omen Vintage https://www.omenvintage.com/
Shop Nu Nu https://inspicks.com/user/shop_nu_nu/324416824
Sami Gaston http://sami.design/
Mixed Needs https://mixedneeds.com/
Main & Grand https://www.mainandgrand.com/
Switchblade Sistas Vintage
Plus 2 guys selling records
On the occasion of Mark E. Smith's would-be 61st birthday, Mystic Crew Filth (a collective of XRAY.FM and Freeform Portland DJs) pay tribute to The Fall, spinning records from their 40-year career as well as side projects and bands who influenced their music.
Celebrating 10 years of live storytelling! Throwing back our price to 2008!! Only $10 for GA and $22 for VIP!! GET ON IT!
True never-been-told stories based on the theme TRANSPLANTS.
LAUREN WEEDMAN Star of two SOLD OUT Runs of People’s Republic of Portland at Portland Center Stage at The Armory, Doris from HBO’s LOOKING, JENNY BRUSO the amazing force behind UNLIKELY HIKERS, Check her and her 30k followers out on IG: @unlikelyhikers, CAITLIN WEIERHAUSER Voted WW’s Funniest Person 2017, Voted Portland’s Funniest Person 2017, Member of Lez Standup SHANNON BALCOM GRAVES 5-Time Back Fence PDX: RUSSIAN ROULETTE Winner, Co-Host of XRAY.FM’s Sex, Drugs and Basketball, CHRIS WILLIAMS Broke Gravy Improv, 3-Time Back Fence PDX RUSSIAN ROULETTE Winner and JEN FELDMAN & JONATHAN COHEN Kidney Donor/Donee telling in tandem. Jen is the Development Director for Congregation Beth Israel, Veteran of 40 Years of Marriage. Jonathan is a partner in Old Town’s Society Hotel, Founder of Solar Contracting Firm, Imagine Energy.
Hosted by B. FRAYN MASTERS with announcer JASON ROUSE
Music by DJ BOBBY D from XRAY
A portion of this show’s proceeds will go to Donate Life Northwest.
XRAY.FM PRESENTS: GOLD BRIX TAPE 01 RELEASE PARTY
Gold Brick Records will be releasing its first in a series of special mix tapes (on cassette tape) featuring rare /unreleased music from all 4 bands on this bill. We will also have tunes DJ'd from a reel to reel machine in between sets by the illustrious DJ Cat and Cone.
TICKET LINK: https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1636336"
The bands:
Night Heron (ft. members of Radiation City, Aan, Reptaliens, et al) :
http://soundcloud.com/nightheronmusic
Wet Dream (ft. members of Grandparents, Moon By You, et al):
http://wetdreamcommittee.com/
S.E.C.R.E.T.S. (ft. members of Nurses):
https://soundcloud.com/supersecretsongs
Martha Stax (ft. members of Star Club, Rare Diagram, Ancient Elk, No Aloha)
Get your tickets here: https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1636336
Doors at 8pm
Show at 9pm
21+
$8 advance / $10 day of show
XRAY FM, McMenamins, StarChile, & Pabst Blue Ribbon Presents: 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!
Make sure you hit www.miccheckpdx.com
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 22ND:
Special Guests...
HANiF
ANDRE WAYMOND
LISA VAZQUEZ
Hosted by StarChile
Music by Trox
Dooors @ 9pm, Show starts at 10pm...
21 and over, Tickets: $8 @ the Door
Timony’s fearless approach to her craft resulted in her forging a new path for the much-discussed “woman in rock,” one where a woman could nod to her femininity without hewing to outdated ideas of womanhood, and one where someone could not just play guitar, but could play with ideas of how the instrument should be approached. Timony simultaneously deconstructs and rebuilds riffs, searching for resolution but also savoring the journey toward it; with Helium, she pushed her technique and explored unconventional compositional ideas in-depth. The chug of “Pat’s Trick” was of a piece with the brand of ‘90s rock given the “indie rock” blessing, but Timony’s swallowing-itself solo and laconic vocal elevated the track, making it a head-rush of damaged beauty.
Helium’s first single, 1993’s “The American Jean,” announced a band that was as influenced by prog’s exploratory impulses as it was by punk’s willingness to speak its peace, its thrum anchored by Shawn King Devlin’s crashing drums and Brian Dunton’s loping basslines. The work that followed—the “Hole In The Ground”/“Lucy” 7-inch, the high-concept EP Pirate Prude—furthered the vision of Timony, whose guitar playing and lyrics hummed with the desire to build something new out of the world’s various rubbles, to grow a flower out of the apocalypse.
In 1995 Helium released The Dirt Of Luck, a stunning collection that revealed how Timony’s songwriting prowess had grown. Its lyrics were filled with heady feminist imagery that matched the restlessness of Timony’s playing, while new bassist Ash Bowie (Polvo) gave added heft to the music’s low end; “Superball” is a broadside from a small-but-mighty being that could demolish any comers, while the late-hour drawl “Honeycomb” paints a picture of a witchy woman who’s “a roll of the dice.” “Baby’s Going Underground,” meanwhile, is the highest point on an album full of them, its thundering drums and bad-dream drones creating a song that could conceivably stretch on for eons.
With 1997’s The Magic City, Timony shifted her lyrical focus to more escapist-minded concepts, and the music lightened up a bit as well. The album, co-produced by Mitch Easter, adds sitars and harpsichords to the mix; its blend of fantastic imagery and lighter textures caused Rolling Stone to proclaim that Helium had “discovered a strange new world where progressive isn’t always synonymous with pompous.” “Leon’s Space Song” buries power-pop oohs underneath its churning guitars; “Aging Astronauts” pairs Timony’s ventures into her upper register with slide guitar and keyboard filigrees, giving its anxious lyrics extra bite.
Timony has struck new-millennium gold with her power trio Ex Hex, but that band’s taut tracks are enlivened by the curiosity and drive to explode expectations that characterize her work with Helium, whose body of work is crucial to understanding where indie rock has been—and where it can go.
ALLISON CRUTCHFIELD
For now, you catch Allison Crutchfield and her band the Fizz on the road this October with several west coast dates supporting The Julie Ruin.
Bill Frissell: A Portrait
Bill Frisell in attendance for Q+A with local film composer Mark Orton!
A character portrait of anti-archetype guitar hero, Bill Frisell, this nuanced film traces the ideas and processes that shaped Frisell’s music, and provides rare insight into the mind and personality of one of the significant musicians of recent decades. Full of live music, revealing stories, and intimate access to the normally reclusive Frisell, various collaborations are followed from development to fruition, including the last ever performance of the Paul Motian Trio with Frisell and Joe Lovano. Also featuring Bonnie Raitt, Hal Willner, Paul Simon, Nels Cline, Joey Baron, Jim Hall, Jason Moran, Mike Gibbs, John Zorn, Jack DeJohnette, Ron Carter and John Abercrombie.
The Sabertooth festival returns February 16-18 in celebration of all things Psychedelic and Stoner Rock! Find the full event schedule and ticket information at https://www.sabertoothpdx.com/
While psychedelic music covers a range of styles and genres, it is inspired by psychedelic culture and the attempt to replicate the mind altering experiences that started in mid-'60s folk rock and blues. As such, Sabertooth celebrates the historical role the Crystal Ballroom played through previous half-century of psychedelic music.
February 15 – March 1, 2018
Featuring a cavalcade of visiting artists and the Portland premiere of over 130 films, the Portland International Film Festival returns for its forty-first year. Join more than 40,000 filmgoers in attendance this year at Oregon’s largest annual film event, and learn why PIFF is the best time of the year for movie fans living and watching in the Portland Metro Area. Portland Art Museum members receive discounts on Festival tickets. Explore the Festival.
For a full listing of all screenings visit https://nwfilm.org/festivals/piff41/
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!
Join us in the upstairs bar at Doug Fir Lounge for 2 more nights ofXRAY.FM DJs!
DJs from 8pm 'til Midnight!
Late Night Happy Hour starts at 10pm!
Monday, February 13th, 8pm-Midnight
DJ KM Fizzy of Strange Babes
Punk, Garage, Modern Underground
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Drink specials every night to raise money for our favorite community supported music organization XRAY.FM!
Back Fence PDX & OK Chorale PDX Present Love, Lies, and a Bit of Bleeding, a Valentines Day singalong and storytelling event. Love, Lies and a Bit of Bleeding celebrates love in all its twisted, splendid glory.
FEATURING stories and songs from STEPHANIE SCHNIEDERMAN, JOHN RODERICK, MARIA WEBSTER, MATT SHEEHY, with house band BEN LANDSVERK and the What’s Love Got To Do With It Allstars. More singers and songs announced soon!
Hosted and Produced by B. FRAYN MASTERS & KATE SOKOLOFF
MON FEBRUARY 12 | 21+
DOORS 6:30 | SHOW 7:30
MISSION THEATER |
1624 NW Glisan St
Music Business Forum: Social Media for Musicians
Sunday, February 11 at Doug Fir Lounge (1p)
Free Admission, All Ages Welcome
In association with Vortex Music Magazine and J-Fell Presents, MOGO Music Festival is hosting another FREE Music Business Forum for ANYONE IN THE PORTLAND MUSIC COMMUNITY who wishes to learn more about music business best practices. PLUS, you'll also be able to pick up a copy of the brand new issue of Vortex!
GOT QUESTIONS FOR OUR PANELISTS? Leave 'em here!
The panel will be moderated by Vortex Music Magazine founder Chris Young.
Panelists include:
- Tracey Gill Miller, Global Marketing Manager at CD Baby. She is responsible for the strategy, execution and management of all international campaigns in Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese through social media networks, email, digital advertising, and content management at CD Baby, the leader in music distribution for independent musicians. She holds an MBA from IE Business School in Madrid with a focus on international marketing. cdbaby.com
- Gil Assayas, aka Glasys, is a YouTuber, synth wizard, producer and vocalist located in Portland. GLASYS delivers impassioned vocals, intricate keyboard parts and electronic soundscapes in one package that combines his many influences including classical music, electronic, jazz and indie rock. Oh, and he kicks ass on social media—it got him into the studio with T-Pain last year... just wait till you hear some of his stories!glasys.com
- Daniel Bozyk, Radio Personality, Social Content & Marketing Specialist at Bozyk Digital Media. Bozyk is a longtime radio personality including Portland shows on CBS Radio's 101 KUFO rock station and iHeartRadio's 105.9 The Brew classic rock station. Bozyk was the director of digital programming for the iHeartRadio Portland group before going independent. His current client roster includes the J-Fell Presentsnetwork of bands and music festivals. bozykdigital.com
And if you can't make it in person, we're also excited to announce that the event will be live streamed thanks to our new partnership withAudioGlobe!
vrtxmag.com
j-fell.com
mogofest.com
1939 Ensemble
1939ensemble.net/
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Volcanic Pinnacles
volcanicpinnacles.bandcamp.com/music
$7 / 21+
White Owl Social Club and XRAY FM are very proud to welcome Shannon and the Clams back to the Portland stage, supported by L.A.'s Ivory Deville and XRAY's own DJ Honest John.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8TH, 2018
Doors @ 7PM
All tickets are $15 - but get them now because THEY WILL SELL OUT!
***PLEASE BE SURE TO HAVE MOBILE TICKETS READY TO PRESENT AT THE DOOR***
Shannon and the Clams
The American West. America’s America. It was here in three very different worlds that Shannon and the Clams were spawned. From the dark redwood forests of Oregon emerged Cody Blanchard: singer and guitarist. The dusty walnut orchards and vineyards of northern California gave us Shannon Shaw: singer and bassist. Out of the lonely dunes of California’s central coast shambled Nate Mayhem: drummer and keys. These three talented visual artists were drawn separately to Oakland, California and it was there that the Clams began playing house parties and grimy clubs.
The band was forged in the anachronistic remote communities of the west, in some strange mixture of computer show and country fair; their music is some odd alloy of The Last Picture Show and The Decline of Western Civilization. The pioneer spirit of western life is all over this band: pushing into the unknown, blazing their own trail, creating their own destiny, with the accompanying canyon-esque loneliness and untamed joy only truly known by those with the courage to pull up stakes and head off into the big empty sunset.
Gone by the Dawn, the newest Shannon and the Clams album, is their best work to date. The music is complex, the lyrical content is emotionally raw and honest, and the production is the strangest it’s ever been. The album was written as one member was recovering from a serious breakup and another was deep in one. The lyrics reflect it, and the entire album is dripping with sadness, pain, and introspection. Shannon and Cody have not written generic songs about love or the lack of it. Instead they have written about their very own specific heartbreak, mistreatment, and mental trials. The emotion is palpable. On Gone by the Dawn the Clams have DARED TO BE REAL. They’ve exposed their true emotions, which is what’s most moving about the album. People are scared to be so real. Society does not encourage it. Folks remain guarded to protect themselves from being mocked, punished, and becoming outcast . The Clams have opted to forgo the potential tongue-clucking finger-waggers, and have instead had the artistic courage and audacity to splay their pain and struggles out for all to hear. We are lucky to hear them get so damn real.
For Gone by the Dawn, the Oakland trio hooked up with studio wizard and renaissance man Sonny Smith to record the album at Tiny Telephone Recording in San Francisco. Best known as the driving force behind San Francisco’s beloved Sonny and the Sunsets, Smith uses his refreshing production techniques to create an engaging sonic landscape without compromising the Clams’ signature Lou Christie-meets-The Circle Jerks sound. The Clams have evolved: their skills are sharper, their chops are tighter and weirder and they’ve added new instruments to to the mix. A whole new dimension of the Clams has emerged.
In the West everything is big. The mountains are towering, the rivers broad, the deserts vast, the canyons deep, and the emotions huge. The Clams have painted themselves into a massive landscape of sound and desolation. Gone by the Dawn is monumental; immense, magnificent, and unforgettable. Shannon and the Clams have pioneered their way into a lonesome land where the past still lives in the long shadows of a hot afternoon, where whispering spirits follow high along canyon walls, and if you sink your fingers into the dusty hard-packed earth you pull out hands smeared with blood.
– Dan Shaw
Los Angeles band Ivory Deville produces an uncommon swagger and juxtaposition of sound that hits its stride at the intersection of honky tonk, glam rock, and mid-century rock and roll. Born out of the raucous beer joints and restless bones of the Plains, and warmly branded by soaring female harmonies from the California coast, Ivory Deville is an authentic roadhouse band for our time.
FEATURING* Winner from our December show, Member of That’s What She Said Queer Comedy Collective, Seasoned Performance Artist, Grandma in Training KATIE PIATT, Author of Turtleface and Dogwalker, Emmy Nominated Filmmaker, 2-Time Winner ARTHUR BRADFORD, Back Fence PDX Announcer, Writer/Actor JASON ROUSE, Singaporean, Dancer, Rat mom, Real life anime character, Deceivingly adorable but can fuck you up ELINA LIM, along with formidable first-timers: Named one of the Portland Mercury’s Geniuses of Comedy, Host of Earthquake Hurricane KATIE NGUYEN and Star of Fun Home The Musical, Children’s Choir Director, Cabaret Singer from Harlem, Rodeo Clown Wannabe ALLISON MICKELSON
Hosted by B. FRAYN MASTERS & MINDY NETTIFEE
Music DJ BOBBY D from XRAY
WED JANUARY 31 |21+
DOORS 6:30 | SHOW 7:30
CURIOUS COMEDY |5225 NE MLK Blvd
