“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
XRAY is a curator for the 2015 Red Bull Sound Select series! Our first show is only THREE DOLLARS if you RSVP using this link:
https://www.redbullsoundselect.com/events/2015/01/red-bull-sound-select-presents-portland
XRAY.FM PRESENTS LOCAL SOUL LEGEND KNOWN FOR HIS FUN-PACKED SHOWS JOINING US FOR A NYE TO REMEMBER
URAL THOMAS & THE PAINHOUNDSTOOTH, DJ COOKY PARKER, DJ BOBBY D
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31ST
DOORS: 8:00 PM / SHOW: 9:00 PM
THIS EVENT IS 21 AND OVER
Coming to the Star Theater on December 19th and 21st, XRAY is proud to sponsor punk legends X!
Opening band is the Blasters and doors are at 9pm.
With performances by Modern Kin and Vinnie Dewayne, along with some of XRAY's best party DJs.
The people have spoken, and the people want to DANCE! Ring in the holidays with XRAY.FM and HEAVY Breather Friday, December 12th at Rotture. There will be bands, a raffle, and XRAY DJs bringing the news you can use. This historically festive event will have a photo booth for your enjoyment.
The XRAY.fm Holiday Dance Party
hosted by Heavy Breather
Special musical performances by Vinnie Dewayne and Modern Kin.
Dance Party DJs
Cooky Parker
Ronin Roc
Holla 'N Oates
Bobby D
Montel Spinozza
Friday December 12th 8pm
Rotture
$5 for XRAY Members / $10 General Admission
(Free for XRAY.fm DJs)
this is an XRAY.fm Fundraiser.
Photo Booth
Raffle prizes from Jupiter Hotel, Poler Stuff, The Sou'wester Loyly Sauna & Steam and more.
Poster by Showdeer More information can be found here!
Tender Loving Empire's Hawthorne store's grand opening celebration on December 4th, starts at 6pm! They'll be celebrating the release of the local Christmas compilation PDXMAS with live christmas tunes from...
Ritchie Young of Loch Lomond
Lots of delicious beer compliments of Fort George Brewery, and a food truck. They'll be raffles every 1/2 hour from 6:30-9:30 giving away...
TONS MORE RAFFLES!
About Tender Loving Empire:
Tender Loving Empire is a record label and Handmade goods store based in Portland, Oregon. Conceived in 2006 by Jared and Brianne Mees as a vehicle for releasing the art of friends and family, TLE has grown over the last eight years to release over 50 different albums on its record label by bands such as Typhoon, Radiation City, Y La Bamba, Finn Riggins and The Family Crest. In November 2014 TLE will open its second brick and mortar retail location at 3541 SE Hawthorne Blvd in Portland.
Alvvays are two women, three men, a crate of C-86 tapes and a love of jingle-jangle. Convening in Toronto, the group have been making music since since dusk or maybe dawn, when stars were appearing or fading off. As a result, their debut self-titled album is both sun-splashed and twilit—nine songs concealing drunkenness, defeat and death in tungsten-tinted pop that glitters like sea glass. The resultant album is loud and clear and sure. Flood your ears.
Release Date: August 25th in Europe & August 26th
in North America via Sub Pop.
It makes perfect sense that I was asked to write abio for J Mascis. Let's face it, he and I have a long history. It all started the first time I saw him live. It was in New York City. I don't remember when or where, but I think he was walking around. I was probably walking around, too. The second time was also in New York, at a Mexican restaurant in the East Village (the one that takes credit cards now,but didn't used to). Years later I actually met him at the SXSW festival though a friend who works at Sub Pop. I guess that meeting went well, because when that friend from Sub Pop got married, she sat me at the same table as J. Sounds unbelievable? I suggest you look at the picture below. Nowkeep staring at that picture until August 26th. That's when J'snew acoustic album Tied to a Star comes out on Sub Pop Records. It features appearances by Ken Maiuri, Pall Jenkins , Mark Mulcahy, and Chan Marshall. Had I been in the area, I'm sure I would've been asked to play on
it, too. - Todd Barry more >>>
XRAY.fm Presents Modern Kin at Mississippi Studios
"Following a busy festival summer, and fresh off of a US tour this September and October, Modern Kin is closing out the year with a few headlining shows in the NW. This promises to be a special weekend of music - we hope you'll join us as we stretch out a little and weave some new songs in between the album tracks you already know.
Shows are best with friends...
Joining the bill is Portland band The Ghost Ease, and Seattle's Kithkin will open the show."
Where the rubber meets the dance floor!
A bicycle-themed fundraiser that highlights 20 years of work of the Community Cycling Center in Portland while celebrating in true style. Inspire our supporters to deepen their connections with us through storytelling and personal testimonials.
This event is 21 and over
The Bicycle Ball is a fundraiser for the Community Cycling Center celebrating 20 years of broadening access to bicycles in Portland. Join for vintage-style live music from the Swingtown Vipers, prohibition-era cocktails, dancing, a vintage photobooth, silent auction for one-of-a-kind balance bikes and more! Bring your dancing shoes for where the rubber meets the dance floor.
Fundraising goal: $15,000 More information can be found here.
Food & Beverage: 1 drink ticket for a custom cocktail with local Dystopia Vodka included with $15 entry. Secret Society’s food & addditonal drinks is available for purchase.
Music sponsor/partner: roaring 20's music by XRAY.FM DJs (will be live music- the “Stumptown Vipers” to start off, DJ at end)
Nov 8Th - K Records, Runaway Productions, and Dante's Present - "ALL YOUR FRIEND'S FRIENDS" NW HipHop Compilation Album Release Party with
The Chicharones (Sleep & Josh Martinez), IAME (of Sandpeople/Oldominion) & Goldini Bagwell
Xperience (XP) - Poeina - Karl Blau (K Records) @
Dantes - 350 W Burnside St. Portland Or
ADVANCE TICKET LINK
http://clients.ticketbiscuit.com/DantesLive/EventPage.aspx?EID=218564
ALL YOUR FRIEND'S FRIENDS is a seminal Northwest Hip-Hop Compilation album produced entirely off of samples pulled from the K Catalogue. Featuring over 30 of the most unique MCs from the region including members of mega-crews OLDOMINION and the SANDPEOPLE,
the album also introduces a host of hidden talent from OLYMPIA, WA. K’s sonic stomping ground.
This decades spanning compilation is a creative celebration of the Northwest sound and scene in some of its most striking masks and manifestations. The energy of the album moves fluidly between dark, angsty, and self-reflective to upbeat, nostalgic, and carefree, taking the listener on an underground rap odyssey through the overcast streets, anarchist basements, cramped performance spaces, and stoned-out suburbs of this moody and musical part of the world.
Through kaleidoscopic counter-cultural mashups and topsecret sampling styles, producer Smoke M2D6 has mercilessly deconstructed the classic lo-fi garage soul sound of the iconic indy label, artfully rearranging it all over a thick foundation of classic breaks, 808’s, and of course some heavy bass, allowing old heads to hear this music in a totally different way, while introducing a new generation of fans to a classic treasure trove of northwest creative history.
ALL YOUR FRIEND’S FRIENDS is sample-based Hip-Hop culture at its best, taking something dope from the past and making something fresh for the future.