Join us in the upstairs bar at Doug Fir Lounge for XRAY.FM DJs - Mondays in January!
Monday, January 29th, 6-10pm
Grand Yoni of The IMPACT! Sound
Sweet ska and rocksteady from the sixties, the deepest roots reggae from the seventies and the best dancehall from the eighties and beyond.
To celebrate the 500th episode of one of Portland's most beloved radio shows "Hello Cruel World" and its creator and host John Barrington Jones aka JBJ, local musician Ritchie Young (of Loch Lomond) has organized a very special evening of music.
John Barrington Jones' "Hello Cruel World" is known for its unique themes and playlists, interviews and live performances. “Hello Cruel World” is broadcast on the local radio station XRAY.FM which aims to hold a boom mic up to the best and most distinctive of Portland.
Ten plus years of weekly "Hello Cruel World" episodes featuring outstanding playlists, interviews and live performances by local and touring artists can be found in the archives at http://www.hellocruelworld.org/
Ritchie Young & the Dead Lovers (of Loch Lomond)
play selections from Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs
Robin Bacior http://robinbacior.com/
By The Wind Sailor
https://www.bythewindsailormusic.com/
TOC Concert Hall 1422 SW 11th Ave. Portland, OR 97201
theoldchurch.org
All Ages / Bar with ID
All proceeds benefit XRAY.FM radio
Ritchie Young (of Loch Lomond) and his band of Dead Lovers (Emily Overstreet, Kate O'Brien, Carmen Paradise, and Luke Valley) cover a selection of songs from the iconic Magnetic Fields' collection 69 Love Songs.
Multi-talented lead vocalist of Portland's adored Loch Lomond, Ritchie Young is known for his own ambitious production, so assembling a group of excellent musicians to perform a selection of songs from Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs is fitting.
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/5041-69-love-songs/
All things Loch Lomond here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/f89784af-5484-4937-80a1-fa1d9ff001df
Robin Bacior's songs come at you like a Viking ship sliding through a foggy dawn toward the light. Creating movement with her simple yet ballet-like piano, and accentuated by simple orchestral elements, singer/songwriter Bacior sets the pace in these quieter and fiery moments. Then she draws the listener back with soothing and reassuring vocals. JENI WREN STOTTRUP
http://robinbacior.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13ZarUCdnY0
By The Wind Sailor
https://www.bythewindsailormusic.com/
"Nice laidback folky pop. J. Wong’s songs have a nice -sincere sound that is most appealing…and they sound nothing like what you normally hear from your average up-and-coming underground rock band. Wong was a founding member of the band Rand-Univac and is now out on his own writing and recording music in a decidedly different genre. This guy has a great voice and writes what might best be described as classic folky pop. With the right marketing and luck…Wong could very easily find himself hugely famous…"
- LMNOP/BABYSUE
Join us in the upstairs bar at Doug Fir Lounge for XRAY.FM DJs - Mondays in January!
Monday, January 22nd, 6-10pm
DJs Cheyenne & Aaron of Reverse Couple-Skate
Spinning '60s and '70s Northern soul, garage/psych, space funk, sunshine pop!
Join us in the upstairs bar at Doug Fir Lounge for XRAY.FM DJs - Mondays in January!
Monday, January 15th, 6-10pm
DJ Bad Wizard of Inside the Wizard's Hat
Groove out to an eclectic mix of '50s and '60s rock 'n' roll, soul, and psych.
The NW Film Center & XRAY.FM present the 35th annual edition of Reel Music. Whether your passion is jazz, blues, folk, rock, electronic, world, classical—or anything between—we hope you find something to discover and inspire in this eclectic mix of films that celebrate great artists, sound, and image, and connect music and culture.
Find the full schedule of documentaries at https://nwfilm.org/festivals/reel-music-35/
The 4th Annual Girl Fest is coming to Holocene!
Founded in 2013 as an annual live music event, Girl Fest is dedicated to supporting talented women in music! Boasting a "festival style" line-up, bringing together artists of a variety of genres, Girl Fest offers a little something for every musical palate!
FEATURING:
Gifted Gab
Wynne
Paris Alexa
Fritzwa
Sheers
Dreckig
Hosted by Miss Casey Carter
$10 | All Ages
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Live Performances By:
Gifted Gab, Hip Hop (Seattle)
Seattle’s own Gifted Gab has the ability to create complex verses with variety in her sound, ranging from smooth melodies to strong lyrics. She grew up with constant exposure to music. From singing with her mother in the church choir to learning to play the piano at age 6, she quickly developed an affinity for memorizing and reciting rap lyrics.
Wynne, Hip Hop (Eugene)
At first glance, one would not expect this young, blonde to have achieved so much in the rap game. At age 20, Wynne has already garnered attention from a few of the most influential names in the industry, including Snoop Dogg and World Star, and when you hear her rap, it's no wonder why.
Fritzwa, R&B (Portland, by way of NYC)
Fritzwa's music is as unique as it is comfortably familiar. Groovy, funky and full of energy, pairing contemporary R&B beats with the vocalist's deep cutting, classic styling. Not a stranger to the stage, Fritzwa has opened for Ginuwine and Grammy Award Winner Anna Wise.
Paris Alexa, Pop / R&B (Seattle)
Paris Alexa's playful doo-wop pop is masterfully crafted using nothing more than a bit of technology and her voice. Many of her songs are done using no instruments, and indeed Paris Alexa’s strength comes from her complex vocal arrangements, ones with Motown and old-school soulful cues written all over them.
Sheers, Melodic Trip-Hop (Portland)
Melodicism and classical stylings converge in the brooding soundscapes of trip-hop trio Sheers from Portland, OR. Frontwoman Lily Breshears, a classical harpist and pianist, combines honest lyrics with tension-laden composition mixed with the grooves of Daniel Rossi on drums and the atmospheric textures of Aaron Stern on bass.
Dreckig, Kraut / Cumbia (Portland)
What started as drum lessons over ten years ago, between longtime partners Shana Lindbeck & Papi Fimbres, has culminated in this fun, two piece dance/club Cumbia infused, Krautrock band.
SAT 12/30
EXPLODE INTO COLORS / SAVILA / DANIELA KARINA
SAVILA
DANIELA KARINA
Chances With Wolves are an American treasure. They host a weekly two hour radio broadcast on East Village Radio and Portlands own XRAYFM. Every show is amazing and they never play the same song twice.
DJs Kenan Juska, Kray La Soul and Mikey Palms are obsessive music miners who specialize in artfully arranging rare and unusual tracks. Their tag-line sums it up nicely: “Repping hard for haunting beauty, magic, and the weird.”
This is their first time DJing in Portland in forever and it's guaranteed to be magic.
21+ // no cover // no static
XRAY is hosting a holiday extravaganza at The Spare Room with bands and DJs, encouraging attendees to glam or goth it up for the holidays. Or break out that ugly holiday sweater and pair it with some thigh high boots and eyeliner. Festivity will ensue, XRAY style!
Boys Keep Swinging (Bowie cover band), Vice Device, DJ Tobias Berblinger, and DDDJJJ666 of Hipsters Suck.
$10 for tickets pre-sale! (tickets may go up at the door.)
https://impactflow.com/event/xray-holiday-goth-glam-ball-6280
Half off for XRAY members--check your email for the secret code!
Chickfactor 25: a celebration of 25 years of music, friendship & community
with Rocketship, Kites At Night, and Lida Husik
Rocketship
Originally from Sacramento, Rocketship has been beloved among indie kids ever since releasing some early singles and A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness LP back in the early-mid-’90s. Currently based in Portland, Oregon, singer-guitarist-keyboardist Dusty Reske is still making music these days along with Ellen Osborn (vocals, keyboards). The lineup tonight also includes Adam Bayer (drums), Angie Fritz (bass) and John Jessee (keyboards). They will be playing a mixture of old and new songs from their new/forthcoming album, Thanks to You. Two of the songs, “Outer Otherness” and “I Just Can’t Get Enough of You“, from the new record have been released, with more to follow. The album is being mixed right now. This will be Rocketship’s first live show in Portland since 1996 (which Dusty thinks was with Boyracer, Henry’s Dress & the Softies), so it’s a huge deal and honor that they’re playing tonight.
Kites at Night
Formerly known as Imaginary Pants, the Vancouver, BC–based Kites at Night feature Rose Melberg of Tiger Trap & Softies fame and Lost Sound Tapes label boss Jon Manning, who have released an EP together already under the original name and played at some chickfactor parties. This will be their first official show in Portland. They’ll be joined by Jen Sbragia on bass. You guys know that everything Rose does is golden so do not miss this one!
Lida Husik
Originally from Washington, D.C., Lida has released eight full-length albums, and other EPs, singles, remixes and collaborations since the late 1980s. Her most recent release was an EP called Future Ghosts of America (2016), a collaboration with Danish cellist-vocalist-composer Soma Allpass. Lida was on the cover of chickfactor 9 back in the day and we can't wait to see her play! She currently lives in Portland, Oregon.
BACK FENCE PDX: RUSSIAN ROULETTE
WED DEC 6 | 21+
DOORS 6:30PM | SHOW 7:30PM
CURIOUS COMEDY THEATER |
5225 NE MLK Blvd
FEATURING* 3-Time Winner from our July show, Works at Portland Public Schools, Broke Gravy Improv, Ghost Made Him Sick in the Most Haunted Castle in Ireland, Rode a Train in N. Korea CHRIS WILLIAMS, High School Teacher, Camp Director, Camouflage Expert RENEE JENKINSON, Two-Time Winner, Chef at Noble Rot, Can Sing the Shit out of Bad Company, Dad Swam Against and Defeated JFK LEATHER STORRS, January Winner, Veterinary Technician KAHLIE TOWLE, going up against formidable new challengers: Finalist in Portland’s Funniest Person Competition, Founder of Lez Stand Up, Extreme Jigsaw Puzzler KIRSTEN KUPPENBENDER and Member of That’s What She Said Queer Comedy Collective, Seasoned Performance Artist + Grandma in Training KATIE PIATT.
Produced and Hosted by B. FRAYN MASTERS & MINDY NETTIFEE
Music by DJ BOBBY D from XRAY
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Laurel Halo has developed a unique take on electronic music, combining the machine pulse of hardware and software instruments (synthesizers, samplers, drum machines) with her own voice to address physical process, liminality and virtual violence.
Taking influence from the techno of her Midwest roots, Halo has developed a unique take on electronic music, combining the machine pulse of hardware and software instruments (synthesizers, samplers, drum machines) with her own voice to address physical process, liminality and virtual violence. Halo has also released more rhythm-focused music under the alias King Felix, also with clear lineage to the machine soul and dub techno sounds of the Motor City. Halo’s debut album “Quarantine”, was released on Hyperdub to critical acclaim in 2012, receiving such accolades as #10 Album of the Year in The Washington Post, and the #1 Album of the Year in The Wire Magazine.
Golden Retriever:
As the duo Golden Retriever, Matt Carlson and Jonathan Sielaff have explored an ocean’s worth of sound. Primarily working with the intersection of modular synthesis and amplified/effected bass clarinet, the duo has done eight releases for labels like Thrill Jockey, Root Strata, and NNA Tapes. Their music combines an intense emotional immediacy and meditative focus with strong melodicism and an organic, naturalistic approach to experimental electronic sound. Rotations features the duo expanding their sonic palette to incorporate a full chamber ensemble. The results of this stunning collaboration are meditative, lush, and emotionally arresting.
Strategy:
Multi-instrumentalist and programmer Paul Dickow has been making music as Strategy since 1999. From a musical family, as a youth he was exposed to everything from academic computer music to the synth pop and rap filling the airwaves at the time. A longtime participant in Portland's strange underground music community, (where it's not atypical for people to be participating in 3 or more projects which bear little resemblance to one another) he went on to play in a number of groups, most notably as drummer for agit-art-punk outfit Emergency and as keyboardist in Fontanelle. Currently, he is a member of Nudge and several other collaborative projects.
Sultry and fun, modern yet timeless: DeVito offers up a diverse array of music with a soulful backbone. This Portland, Oregon songstress pours heart, not only into her studio sessions, (recording with producers such as: Kaytranada, Com Truise, & B.Bravo etc.) but effortlessly displays a soulful and spellbinding live performance that leaves the audience feeling warm and fuzzy.
5:00 drinks / / DJ
6:30 Reva DeVito
21+
Stories that get under your skin like a KNIFE.
Featuring returning crowd favorite Writer for Arrested Development, Showrunner for I’m Sorry JOEY SLAMON, Marketing/Communications Director for ADX PDX, Consultant for Makers/Artists, Almost Killed by Dairy Cows — Twice, Tattoo Gun Exploded During a Tattoo Burning Him and the Artist MATTHEW PRESTON, Professional Actor, Spent 2017/2017 Acting in Various Productions for Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Won Best Smile in 6th grade, Beloved by Truckers and Toddlers Alike LAUREN MODICA, Event & Marketing Manager at Portland Monthly, Lived in 10 Cities in 10 Years/Had Just as Many Therapists, Child Idols were Ethel Merman & Pacey from Dawson’s Creek Rachel Ratner, along with true stories from two other fantastic storytellers announced soon!
Hosted by B. Frayn Masters + Mindy Nettifee
Music by Bobby D from XRAY
A portion of ticket proceeds will go to Oregon Food Bank. The Oregon Food Bank distributes food through a Statewide Network of 21 Regional Food Banks and approximately 970 partner agencies in Oregon & Clark County. Their mission: To eliminate hunger and its root causes… because no one should be hungry.
Wednesday, November 15 · Doors 8:00 PM / Show 9:00 PM at Mississippi Studios
Portland's campy, trampy trio Guantanamo Baywatch plays slimy surf-thrash punk in a sweaty, sleazy way; like going to a beach where you shouldn't be barefoot. Sometimes recalling obvious comparisons to surf pioneers like The Trashmen and The Ventures but laced up with Cramps like swagger and even a little Hasil Adkins and Johny Burnett style rock & roll R&B. A wildly popular live band known for their sexed up stage presence. Started in March 2009, Guantanamo Baywatch is comprised of Jason Powell, Chevelle Wiseman and Chris Scott." - Chris Uehlein
More show information and advance tickets available at Mississippi Studios.
Manatee Commune, a.k.a. Grant Eadie, began in the misty trees Bellingham, Washington. Combining textures of the rainy woods and the windy seas of the Pacific Northwest with the calming mood of clean surfy guitar licks and rolling arpeggiated sine waves, Manatee Commune seeks to capture the atmosphere of taking a thoughtful, self-reflecting stroll through the forest. Bright, down tempo percussion placed neatly under pleasant, classically influenced viola melodies make his music both easily listenable and complex.
More information and tickets available at Holocene.org
SON LITTLE
For Son Little, the genesis of a musical idea -- the magic -- remains largely a mystery. But his kinetic ability to summon that energy all the same, to command it, hold onto it, and set it in motion, is the stuff of alchemy.
"The magic is this well I can draw from; you can't necessarily see it, you just have to believe that it's there," he says. "If you believe, then you can reach your hand down in there and get it wet. But if you don't feel like it's there, it won't be."
Son Little, the singer and songwriter born Aaron Livingston, is the easygoing musical alchemist of our time. He is a conjurer, and much like those of his heroes Stevie Wonder and Jimi Hendrix, his songs are deconstructions of the diaspora of American R & B. Deftly he weaves different eras of the sound -- blues, soul, gospel, rock and roll -- through his own unique vision, never forced, always smooth, each note a tributary on the flowing river of rhythm and blues. The currents empty into an estuary, and into this well water Son dips his bucket -- trusting innately in the magic's existence. And now, with his second full-length album, New Magic, he has delivered a profound statement, a cohesive creation that captures the diverse spirit of American music in a fresh and modern way.
On the heels of his 2015 self-titled debut and the 5-song EP, Songs I Forgot, that came before it, Son Little found his reach steadily growing. His song "Lay Down" had been played over seven million times on Spotify, he had toured the world with artists as diverse as Leon Bridges, Kelis, Mumford & Sons, and Shakey Graves in addition to his own headlining runs, and also became a Grammy Award winning producer, earning a 2016 Best Roots Performance award for his work on Mavis Staples's "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean." But in the midst of all this success, so too did he find that the window for writing new songs was shrinking. Where his previous releases had been culled from various eras and scattered sessions early in his career, he now craved an opportunity to sit and write a new album in a distinct, unified direction, one that would establish his place in the world of black music. The only problems were: when, and how?
"I was on the road so much and found myself wanting to write, but I couldn't really find time or space to do it in the way I wanted," Son Little says. "I was playing around with beats or messing with chord changes; I had all these little fragments, thinking I would later piece them together. I kept the wheels turning by doing those exercises, but I knew it would feel really luxurious to be able to sit down by myself and write something from scratch. I was really hungry to get in that space and chisel out something new, without being interrupted by sound checks and rides in vans and radio. All that stuff is cool and I was having a blast touring, but a crucial part for me was missing. I wanted the writing to be broken up as little as possible."
In the meantime, all that motion was filling him with both confidence and inspiration for the next step. The limitations he encountered while performing a debut record with so much studio sorcery via a live band onstage each night were influential in terms of how he began thinking about a followup. "I've often been a guy who was somewhat hiding behind the guitar," he says. "Getting used to being out front and exposing the guitar and my voice, and leaving a lot of space in the material, all really inspired me and got the wheels turning for what I would do with the next group of songs."
Sometimes, in order to see the stars, you have to get far away from the city lights. Finally, in the fall of last year, Son Little found himself in such a place, and it was there at the end of a tour in the remote, tropical Northern Territory of Australia that he looked up in the sky and saw the perfect alignment. Benefitting from several hours free on a string of consecutive days as well as the excitement of alien terrain and the inherent magic in a borrowed instrument, he felt things starting to come together.
"The Northern Territory is a place where things are moving a little slower than anywhere else," he says. "There were these big crocodiles and enormous bats, just wild things I'd never seen. I found myself with a few hours to kill a couple days in a row, and I set up in the hotel and just kinda followed the process: I found a rhythmic idea I liked and then sang and played a little guitar over it. Like a tip jar in a cafe that fills up after the first dollar goes in, you need that first little piece to slide into place and then the whole thing comes together. I ran off five songs all in the same day." (Three of those songs, "Kimberly's Mine," Charging Bull," and "Mad About You," would make the album.)
That process to which he refers stems from an experience he encountered while writing a cornerstone of his early material, the soul-scorching, chanty-like "Your Love Will Blow Me Away When My Heart Aches," one of few moments of inspiration he can still visualize. The song came to him while standing in his bedroom; beginning with a couple of words and a tempo, Son Little started to pound his fist on the dresser and made up the song's melody on the spot. "I was banging on the dresser, and then I don't know what happened. There was no melody, no words...and now there is. I know now that if I get part of the melody, a phrase or two, and a tempo, then the rest will follow. So I wanted to follow that pattern for the new songs and let the idea grow from that without worrying about what the production would sound like or which guitar to use. I was more focused on finding the song and the arrangement."
But, as it happened, the guitar seemed to find him, too. "All those songs in Australia were written with one mic and an acoustic left-handed guitar I was playing upside-down," he says. "It was borrowed from the Australian singer Gurrumul, a blind Aboriginal musician with this angelic voice. I needed a guitar and he was nice enough to loan it to me; I took it upstairs and all those songs came out of it. You hear people say guitars have songs in them, and that one certainly did.
Whether or not Son Little was aware at the time of the overt connection to his pair of R & B heroes -- Stevie and Jimi -- that lending presented is unclear. Let's, again, chalk it up to the magic.
"Those two dudes are a little bit alone there; I can't see how there can be a higher level of musical genius after Stevie and Jimi," he says. "I do think of both of them as R & B guys, but neither was trying to contain themselves there in any way. They were letting themselves be influenced by other stuff, be it jazz or Latin music or whatever, but they were just making songs and musically doing what felt good. That's what I wanted to do here. I do see myself that way, in the branches of the R & B river."
(A quick but magical aside: In the winter of 2015, Son found himself invited to a reading a friend was giving at Electric Lady Studios in New York City, the legendary underground recording facility conceived and once owned by Jimi Hendrix himself. After the event he was invited to spin his debut album on the studio's speakers, and while it played an employee asked him if he would like to "see the river" -- a trickling branch of the seldom seen Minetta Creek that runs under parts of Manhattan. "I put my record on -- which was a trip, like I was playing it for Jimi -- and we went back in the corner behind where the amps are set up, and they pulled this panel up, and sure enough, there's running water right under the floor. You can stick your hand in there and get it wet.")
Flowing water is a recurring theme in Son Little's music, in addition to its symbolic inspiration. From his debut's hit "The River" to a lyric in "Mad About You" ("Now you say it's different, baby/ After I took you to the river"), his work tends to be thematically waterlogged. "My well is fed by the different tributaries, the other water sources that pour into it," he says. "When you dip your bucket into it, you're gonna get all kinds of different water. Water behaves that way underground, too; you can dig if you know where it's at, and there are people, like the Aboriginal water diviner, who can find the water. My music has a kind of magic in it, being connected to whatever those forces are."
Having been handed the divining rod in Australia, Son Little was able to connect the dots and finish New Magic by early spring. The trio written Down Under form the heart of the album's vibe, with "Kimberly's Mine" leading the record off with its Old Blues soap-operatic feel, and "Charging Bull"'s funky, fevered groove and the D'Angelo-inspired R & B minimalism of "Mad About You" -- a lovelorn, aching track Son Little claims found itself only when he stripped it down to its barest essentials -- holding anchor in the middle. But the song that serves as the album's true centerpiece is "Blue Magic," a Philly Soul inspired number deconstructed almost like a rap song or the best of production savants like J Dilla, Madlib, and Sparklehorse's Mark Linkous, complete with chiming glockenspiel bells and old school female backing vocals. With its origins predating the Australia trip, the song has the appeal of an instant classic, a feeling that did not escape its maker, either.
"I knew 'Blue Magic' would be my focal point from the second I made it up," Son Little says. "I was just goofing around before a show -- and I wish I could explain where something like this comes from but I have absolutely no idea -- and I was freestyling with the guitar. The thought occurred to me that people were characterizing my music as this new blues thing, even though I was never exactly trying to heroically 'save the blues' or anything like that, or even put myself in a place where everything had to be bluesy. But suddenly I'm telling you in the song I've got the 'blue magic,' and even though there are things called 'blue magic' I hadn't seen that phrase anywhere or heard anyone say it. But I said it, and then there's a pressure to back it up, to support that claim. I think I'm addicted to that pressure; this thing is hanging in the balance, and the whole thing can go up in smoke if I don't figure this out and put these pieces together in motion. I enjoy the feeling of not knowing what's gonna happen from there; it doesn't always end perfectly but I think you have to resolve that pressure, and not knowing how is really exciting to me. That feeling is somewhat hanging over this whole album: watch me make something out of thin air."
Following that lead are the pair of "Bread and Butter," a playful, modern take on James Brown, and "The Middle," a classic drinking-blues, both deconstructed through a filter of musical Cubism. "ASAP" is Son Little's fiery, direct take on a Hendrix rock and roll song, and "Letter Bound" reminds of a yearning, crooning Bobby Womack joint, with the "little cry" in Son Little's voice, as Mavis Staples calls it, taking the spotlight. The album ends with the ethereal, gospel-tinged number "Demon to the Dark," which serves as the singer's conversation with Washington Phillips, a little known blind musician and church deacon from early in the 20th century whose song "What Are They Doing in Heaven Today" utilized the dulceola, a novelty instrument comprised of two autoharps essentially stuck together. Phillips was a man of strong faith, a deacon in his church, and in his music Son Little found a source of forgiveness as well as an inspiration to carry on. As chiming strains of Omnichord take us out, the electricity in the air is palpable, the belief and trust in the spark at its peak.
What is the new magic? How did that deep well get there in the first place, and what is the source water of all these confluents pouring in? To Son Little, there is an attitude running through his makings and his music, a mighty river of superstition and Spanish castles that runneth over. And despite its murky and mysterious origins, the musician's divination ability is just that -- divine.
"There is this vein of the blues in it, and it can be distilled or boiled down just to the guitar and voice -- or even just the voice," he says. "And that process of me in my bedroom, making 'Your Love' with the dresser as the drum -- I did that same thing as I wrote these songs. It's that same scenario of making something out of nothing. And even if I am capable of doing that, I can't really explain it. That's the gist of the magic. I don't know where it comes from, but it's there, and I can call on it. I can call on it standing by the dresser, walking down the street, driving a car, on a train, a plane, in a hotel room, in the green room, during an interview...it's just there. I'm trying to pay tribute to that fact. It's had a really powerful and in some ways increasingly healing effect on my life. Hopefully other people have that experience with it as well. I'm just happy that it's there, wherever it comes from."
JADE BIRD
Working on her debut EP at the moment, Jade and her band (all at the young age of 18) are proving to be well beyond their years. With venues such as the National Portrait Gallery, The Museum Of London and St Pancras Church under her belt and gigs lined up around the country, we know it won't be long before Jade Bird is a household name.
XRAY.FM, Literary Arts, and the producers of Back Fence PDX present: LOFI @ WORDSTOCK! A variety show packed with Wordstock authors + Portland favorite performers in a highly entertaining variety show that features comedy, music, stories, poetry, video, raucous readings and weird stuff.
Featuring guest stars: Musician LAURA GIBSON (Empire Builder), DANIEL HANDLER(Lemony Snicket, All the Dirty Parts), MELISSA FEBOS (Whip Smart, Abandon Me), TOMMY PICO (Nature Poem), along with regular cast members ANDREW DICKSON (Moth Host), B. FRAYN MASTERS (Host of BackFencePDX), ARTHUR BRADFORD (Director of Six Days to Air: The Making of South Park), EMILY OVERSTREET (Bitch’n Band), MINDY NETTIFEE (Host of BackFencePDX/Moth)!
The bulk of the proceeds from this show will be donated to Literary Arts.
XRAY MEMBERS RSVP HERE FOR FREE ENTRY!!!!!
$5 AT THE DOOR and FREE FOR XRAY.FM MEMBERS!
TICKETS available at the door, Members must RSVP in advance for free entry here: RSVP LINK
This event is 21 and over21+ / $5 at the door / Free for XRAY members
KILL ROCK STARS, XRAY.FM AND HOLOCENE PRESENT: THE FUTURE OF WHAT 100TH EPISODE CELEBRATION: A LIVE TAPING + BENEFIT FOR XRAY.FM
Celebrate Portland’s music community with XRAY FM, Kill Rock Stars and The Future of What. Over the last few years, The Future of What has highlighted the people and organizations that make Portland a music destination. Join us for a live taping of their 100th episode, featuring your favorite local musicians, labels and innovators. Catch XRAY FM DJs spinning between interviews then turn it up for a dance party after the show.
This event is part of the XRAY.FM Fall Membership Drive
Schedule:
7:00 PM - Take Control of Your Business
Wade Metzler (SoundExchange)
Maggie Vail (CASH Music)
Sierra Haager (Public Display PR)
Ben Hubbird (CD Baby, Party Damage Records)
7:35 PM - Rock Camp
Katherine Paul (Black Belt Eagle Scout)
Kristi Balzer (Rock'n'Roll Camp for Girls)
8:00 PM - MusicPortland Movement
Chloe Eudaly Portland City Commissioner
Meara McLoughlin (MusicPortland)
Andre Middleton (Friends of Noise)
Chris Young (Vortex Music Magazine)
DJ Klyph
8:25 PM - Lifelong Musicians
Corin Tucker (Sleater-Kinney, Filthy Friends)
Peter Buck (R.E.M. , Filthy Friends)
Laura Veirs
Cool Nutz
9:00 PM on - Strange Babes!!
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The Future of What is a podcast and radio program about the music industry. Each week host Portia Sabin, president of Kill Rock Stars, delves into a topic of interest to music industry professionals, musicians, and regular people alike by discussing important issues with great people who work every day to help artists succeed (largely behind the scenes).
Kill Rock Stars is dedicated to putting out exceptional records by important artists. At KRS we believe in doing it yourself, and we see our job as helping bands to realize their visions. We feel lucky that we get to work with artists who challenge mediocrity on a regular basis.
XRAY.FM's mission is to hold a microphone up to the best and most distinctive of Portland. To build a culturally relevant center for ideas, music, and creativity in service of a more open media and a more just community.CORIN TUCKER
PETER BUCK
Guitarist for R.E.M..
DJ KLYPH
Klyph has been representing the under-represented since 2009 on the Portland FM radio dial and expanded outlets of podcasting and live shows. With a consistent goal of inclusion and building community with talented individuals presenting a positive message.