TICKETS | $15 Advanced
Doors 7 PM | Show 8 PM
All Ages | Proof of vaccination or negative PCR test taken within 72 hours of event.
New Constellations are Portland based duo Harlee Case (vocals) and Josh Smith (multi-instrumentalist and producer). As childhood best friends, Josh recorded Harlee’s first songs in his bedroom when she was 14. Josh spent the next decade playing and touring in bands around the northwest, while Harlee was spending her time building a large community around female empowerment and the legalization of plant medicine.
After 15 years of working on music separately, they have teamed up to form New Constellations. Blending powerful vocals, dancy beats, catchy guitar hooks, and energetic live shows, they have caught the attention of listeners with their debut single
“Hot Blooded’ earning over 2.5 million streams in its first year. With a combined force of killer songs and a thriving supportive community, New Constellations are set for success.
21+ // Doors 8 PM // Show 9 PM
OLD TIME RELIJUN
Old Time Relijun give sweaty, compulsively danceable performances that never fail to inflame their audience. Their songs are simple but no one else in the world could imitate them. Their albums are packed with sing-along hits, mixed with sonic experiments and inside jokes.
DESCENDING PHAROAHS
Half structure, half improvisation, they draw influence from Arabic/Anatolian electric music, eastern improvisation, spiritual jazz, gamelan, British psych, and the louder side of 70s krautrock. Harmonia, Omar Khorshid, Mogollar, Ash Ra Tempel, Hawkwind, Sandy Bull, Savage Republic are inspirations.
21+ // Doors 7PM // Show 8PM
TICKETS: $20 Advance & Day of Show
The Weather Station
Ignorance, the forthcoming album by The Weather Station, begins enigmatically; a hissing hi hat, a stuttering drum beat. A full minute passes before the entry of Tamara Lindeman’s voice, gentle, conversational, intoning; “I never believed in the robber”. A jagged music builds, with stabbing strings, saxophone, and several layers of percussion, and the song undulates through five minutes of growing tension, seesawing between just two chords. Once again, Toronto songwriter Tamara Lindeman has remade what The Weather Station sounds like; once again, she has used the occasion of a new record to create a new sonic landscape, tailor-made to express an emotional idea. Ignorance, Lindeman’s debut for Mississippi label Fat Possum Records, is sensuous, ravishing, as hi fi a record as Lindeman has ever made, breaking into pure pop at moments, at others a dense wilderness of notes; a deeply rhythmic, deeply painful record that feels more urgent, more clear than her work ever has.
MOSTLY STANDING / LIMITED BALCONY SEATING
THIS EVENT IS 21+
VALID U.S. ID OR PASSPORT REQUIRED FOR ENTRY
TICKETS | $12 Advanced
Doors 8PM | Show 9PM
21+ | Proof of COVID vaccination or Negative Test within 48 hours required for entry
Called “one of Mexico’s greatest young talents and vocalists” by KCRW’s José Galvan, Silvana, who is 23 years old, is the new voice of a movement of independent female artists who have characterized Latin Alternative music over the past decade.
21+ // Doors 7 PM // Show 8 PM
TICKETS: $20 Advance & Day of Show // Friday Tix // Saturday Tix
w/Jacob Jolliff Duo
Very few musicians of any stripe so personify a musical genre as completely as Tony Furtado embodies Americana roots music. A native of Pleasanton, California, he now makes his home in Portland, Oregon, where he’ll play back-to-back nights at Mississippi Studios! Don’t miss Tony Furtado’s 10th Annual Thanksgiving Bash and "Decembering" Album Release!
*Proof of COVID vaccination or negative COVID test required for entry. FREE onsite testing may be available - Details & testing schedule here*
ALL SALES ARE FINAL. PLEASE, DOUBLE CHECK YOUR ORDER BEFORE PURCHASING. NO REFUNDS.
GENERAL ADMISSION & FULLY SEATED
THIS EVENT IS 21+
VALID U.S. ID OR PASSPORT REQUIRED FOR ENTRY
21+ // Doors 7 PM // Show 8 PM
TICKETS: $20 Advance & Day of Show // Friday Tix // Saturday Tix
w/Jacob Jolliff Duo
Very few musicians of any stripe so personify a musical genre as completely as Tony Furtado embodies Americana roots music. A native of Pleasanton, California, he now makes his home in Portland, Oregon, where he’ll play back-to-back nights at Mississippi Studios! Don’t miss Tony Furtado’s 10th Annual Thanksgiving Bash and "Decembering" Album Release!
*Proof of COVID vaccination or negative COVID test required for entry. FREE onsite testing may be available - Details & testing schedule here*
ALL SALES ARE FINAL. PLEASE, DOUBLE CHECK YOUR ORDER BEFORE PURCHASING. NO REFUNDS.
GENERAL ADMISSION & FULLY SEATED
THIS EVENT IS 21+
VALID U.S. ID OR PASSPORT REQUIRED FOR ENTRY
TICKETS: $8 EventBrite, $10 @ Door
Join us for a hilarious evening with very funny comedians at a great new location - Dig A Pony located @736 SE Grand Ave, Portland, OR 97214
COMEDIANS
Ben Harkins
Pedro Andrade
Hyjinx
Bjorn RG
Imani Kent
HOSTS
Joyce Nance
Todd Basil
TICKETS: $8 EventBrite, $10 @ Door
Please join us @ Blind Ox Interstate for some hilarious Hi Octane Comedy.
COMEDIANS
Katie Nguyen
Lee Hinton
Michael Phelps
Noah Watson
Sabrena Contreras
HOSTS
Todd Basil
Joyce Nance
TICKETS: $15 advance, $20 day of
The Thesis (@TheThesisPDX) is a first Thursday hip hop showcase
A Portland institution!
Sour Deez
Wavy Josef
MADGESDIQCEG
Hinnessy Da Goon
Hosted by Verbz
21+ // Doors 7pm // Show 8pm
TICKETS // $15 Advance, $17 Day of Show
RATBOYS
10 years ago this April — April 1st to be exact — Chicago’s Ratboys put out their first collection of songs. The RATBOY EP, consisting of five indie-folk dorm room recordings, was free to download on Bandcamp and humbly passed around to friends on social media.
Cut to 2021, and Ratboys would normally be celebrating their 10-year anniversary on the road, playing a mix of songs from their very first release to their most recent, last year’s critically-acclaimed Printer’s Devil. Instead, just two weeks after the album’s February 2020 release and mere days before heading out on their first headline tour, the COVID-19 pandemic forced all touring to a halt. Despite not being able to play in-person shows for the past year, Ratboys has managed to stay busy by performing their music online via their own Virtual Tour series and by finding a different way to celebrate their first decade of being a band.
Lots of time at home last year gave Ratboys a chance to hit the studio, which has led to Happy Birthday, Ratboy, a surprise party of a new album featuring 10 brand new recordings of the band’s earliest songs + a newly-written bonus track entitled “Go Outside.”
WILD PINK
Wild Pink’s last album, 2018’s Yolk In The Fur, concluded with a song about the strange sense of relief that comes with “letting go of youth.” Frontman John Ross, then in his early thirties, was singing from a place of newfound comfort and wisdom, but it ended with a repetition of the line, “I don’t know what happens next.” The song, titled “All Some Frenchman’s Joke”, is a beautifully concise rendering of a universal milestone: leveling up from the wide-eyed naivety and self-destructive routines of our youth, only to realize that we’re as unprepared for the future as we were for the past.
On Wild Pink’s third album and first for Royal Mountain Records, A Billion Little Lights, Ross explores that dichotomy of finally achieving emotional security—of accepting the love and peace he deprived himself of in his twenties—while also feeling existentially smaller and more directionless than ever before. The record is a two-pronged triumph: an extraordinary reflection on the human condition presented through the sharpest, grandest, and most captivating songs Wild Pink have ever composed.
MOSTLY STANDING / LIMITED BALCONY SEATING
THIS EVENT IS 21+
VALID U.S. ID OR PASSPORT REQUIRED FOR ENTRY
WITH SPECIAL GUEST: OPEN MIKE EAGLE
21+ // Doors 8PM // Show 9PM
TICKETS: $20 Advance & Day of Show
"Armand Hammer raps from another dimension, it's on us to catch up" - NPR
"The rappers are superb foils for one another" - Pitchfork
Haram is a mercurial collaboration between incendiary rap duo Armand Hammer, and living legend The Alchemist. For the first time ELUCID and billy woods have crafted an album with a single producer and the result is extraordinary. With their unmatched penchant for stirring imagery and incisive storytelling, the two rappers dive into an ocean of Alchemist’s creation: warmly inviting on the surface, black and bonecrushingly cold at depth. Haram is a collection of the profane and the pure; a reminder that that which is forbidden is also sacrosanct.
The artists are joined by their friends and fellow travelers on this journey. KAYANA’s golden voice upps the wattage on “Black Sunlight,” while Fielded’s sultry alto gets chopped and screwed on “Aubergine”. Earl Sweatshirt makes a sun-soaked appearance, while Curly Castro and Amani mix like ice and salt on Brooklyn sidewalks and Quelle Chris, as always, finds a pocket all his own. Still, there is a natural rapport that belies the New York-to-Los Angeles-and-back nature of the project, allowing Haram to be more than the sum of its parts, however impressive those parts may be. This isn’t just the genre’s most insistent contemporary voices paired with arguably its best producer. This is when you buy a beautiful house only to discover, hidden behind a heavy bookcase, a stairway twisting up and away into the darkness.
Humor can conceal and alleviate the pain of trauma, but no joke will erase it. Even Wu-Tang Clan told you that tears come after laughter. Relief comes only from opening every emotional and psychological wound.
Open Mike Eagle spent the 2010s finding comedy in rap music and American nightmares. On albums like Brick Body Kids Still Daydream and Dark Comedy, he delivered hilarious socio-political insights via half-sung verses laid atop progressive production. Acclaim from publications like Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, and NPR coincided with headlining solo tours and top-billing at events like Adult Swim Festival. Between studio sessions, Eagle co-founded The New Negroes, a standup-meets-music variety show that explores perceptions of blackness. He and co-founder Baron Vaughn brought the show to Upright Citizens Brigade, Comedy Central, and venues around the U.S. Since founding his record label Auto Reverse Records, though, Eagle has scaled back the jokes. He’s finally unpacking his traumas and acknowledging their impact.
With over a dozen solo and collaborative projects to his name, Eagle has spent his career redefining and expanding the parameters of “art rap,” the term he coined as a shorthand for leftfield and avant-garde rap music. On Dark Comedy, which Pitchfork called “one of the most compelling indie-rap listens of [2014],” he chronicled everything from smartphone addiction to the realities of being an indie artist in the streaming era with self-deprecation and side-splitting absurdity. 2017’s Brick Body Kids Still Daydream (Mello Music Group) marked Eagle’s shift toward examining trauma. Here he waded through the rubble of Chicago’s demolished Robert Taylor Homes, where several family members once lived. Part documentary and part tribute, BBKSD b lended powerful fantasy and grim reality. It illustrated the strength and vulnerability of a community afflicted by institutional racism and the enduring pains of life in the projects. There were few jokes but decades of survival.
Anime, Trauma, and Divorce is Eagle’s first full-length album on Auto Reverse and the most personal project of his career. On the verge of middle age, reeling from the collapse of his marriage, he probes the darkness of his past and searches for lights to guide him forward. This is the sound of a broken man sifting through the pieces while trying to rebuild, the struggle to self-critique while practicing self-care. Do you disassociate by envisioning yourself as the lead in your favorite anime, or do you reflect on your headass behavior? Tattoos and beer or push-ups and smoothies? Executive produced by renowned rock producer Jacknife Lee (U2, R.E.M.), the album’s few features include Auto Reverse artist Video Dave and Eagle’s son. Anime, Trauma, and Divorce finds Eagle virtually alone, doing his best to reject the humor that will not cure his ills. All is not well, but he’s never been better.
THIS EVENT IS 21+
VALID U.S. ID OR PASSPORT REQUIRED FOR ENTRY
MOSTLY STANDING / LIMITED BALCONY SEATING
FREE, No Tickets Required | 6:30pm
Kickstand Comedy is proud to present Comedy in the Park, Bringing FREE live stand up shows back to Portland audiences all summer long. Featuring your favorite comics from Portland and beyond in one of the city's most beautiful spaces — Laurelhurst Park. Hundreds of Portlanders have been showing up each week to remember what laughter sounds like, so come early to claim your spot on the lawn! Bring your pup and whatever Summer bevvy you'd like to sip on. Blankets drop at 6pm, and the show starts at 6:30pm.
Comedy in the Park: Portland’s #1 Comedy Show of all time… in a public dog park
Kickstand Comedy is a 501c3 nonprofit dedicated to curating live comedy with a focus on quality, community, and unique voices. An all-inclusive space for Portland’s comedy scene to perform, collaborate and learn.
We'll see you there!
FREE, No Tickets Required | 6:30pm
Kickstand Comedy is proud to present Comedy in the Park, Bringing FREE live stand up shows back to Portland audiences all summer long. Featuring your favorite comics from Portland and beyond in one of the city's most beautiful spaces — Laurelhurst Park. Hundreds of Portlanders have been showing up each week to remember what laughter sounds like, so come early to claim your spot on the lawn! Bring your pup and whatever Summer bevvy you'd like to sip on. Blankets drop at 6pm, and the show starts at 6:30pm.
Comedy in the Park: Portland’s #1 Comedy Show of all time… in a public dog park
Kickstand Comedy is a 501c3 nonprofit dedicated to curating live comedy with a focus on quality, community, and unique voices. An all-inclusive space for Portland’s comedy scene to perform, collaborate and learn.
We'll see you there!
All Ages | 7pm Doors, 8pm Show | $15 Advance, $20 Day Of
Celebrated northwest crew Boom Bap Project headlines the return of Mic Check to a live audience. It's the Portland album release event for "Return Flight", their first project in 15 years. The night will feature performances from:
BOOM BAP PROJECT
JABEE
COOL NUTZ
HANiF
KUNU
Surprise special guests:
Mic Check is partnering with local non-profit Hip-Hop Fighting Cancer and is honored to donate a portion of proceeds of the event to them.
We'll be recognizing DJ Ambush for the work he's done for the scene providing platforms, support and encouragement through his work with XRAY FM and The Numberz FM.
Featuring sets by DJ OG One
Hosted by DJ Klyph, of Welcome to the Neighborhood Saturday Nights on XRAY
TICKETS // GA: $20 per person // VIP: $30 per person (includes VIP seating, parking, food & drink voucher)
Kids 5 & under are free.
Open Air CINEMA AT OMSI
Enjoy great movies, food, drinks (including beer, wine, cocktails) & spectacular waterfront sunsets!
Food and beverages available for purchase. Music from XRAY DJs begins once doors open and films begin at dusk. A limited number of chairs are available on a first-come basis, so feel free to bring a chair or blanket, along with a light sweater or jacket.
FAQS AND SUMMER MOVIE GUIDELINES
SCHEDULE:
Weekend 1 – The Deep Search
- July 1 Life Aquatic, DJ Bobby D of Night School
- July 2 Wonder Woman, DJ Emoji Heap of Radio UwU
- July 3 Nomadland, DJ Bob Ham of Double Bummer
Weekend 2 – Tiger Beat! The Heartthrobs of Gen X
- July 10 Beetlejuice, DJ Bob Ham of Double Bummer
- July 11 Say Anything..., DJ PHNM of Phenomenal Disco
Weekend 3 – ‘90s Slumber Party Weekend
- July 17 House Party, DJ Honest John of Savage Beat
- July 18 Clueless, DJ Honest John of Savage Beat
Weekend 4 – Shake It Dance-Along
- July 25 Zola, DJ Serious Moonlight of Intuitive Navigation
Weekend 5 –Solve The Mystery Movies!
- July 31 Knives Out, DJ Womb Service of Much Finer
- August 1 Sherlock Holmes, DJ Kyle Reese of VCR TV
The following events have been moved to the OMSI Bridge Lot.
Weekend 6
- Thu, September 9th, Valley Girl, DJ Bob Ham of Double Bummer
- Fri, September 10th, Dirty Dancing, DJ Nate C of Heavy Metal Sewing Circle
- Sat, September 11th, Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest, DJ Bob Ham of Double Bummer
Weekend 7
- Thu, September 16th, The Dark Crystal, DJ Nate C of Heavy Metal Sewing Circle
- Fri, September 17th, The Green Knight, DJ Ambush of Eastern Standard Time, The Numberz, & News with my Fiance
- Sat, September 18th, Shrek, DJ Chancie of Welcome to Your Good Day
Weekend 8
- Thu, September 23rd, Brokeback Mountain, DJ Ryan Bunao of Radio UwU
- Fri, September 24th, Selena, DJ James Dineen of Sessions from the Box
- Sat, September 25th, Mars Attacks, DJLX of DiaspoRADIO Show
The Numberz and XRAY present our 5th Annual Juneteenth Teach-In, once again taking over the airwaves on Saturday, June 19th from 7 am-7 pm!
In its 5th year, we're thrilled to see this teach-in return to the XRAY airwaves straight from its thriving home with many of the folks that made it happen on XRAY from 2016 on, through our sister station. The Numberz, 96.7 FM, is The Black Music Experience Curated by Black Portland and we couldn't be more proud to champion their voices on our airwaves. Tune in to hear community leaders, thinkers, activists, artists, and more take over the airwaves in celebration of their work towards a more equitable society and celebrating Black excellence in Portland.
*Detailed schedule forthcoming
ABOUT THIS EVENT:
Portland State University's Sonic Arts and Music Production's Laptop Ensemble will be live streaming several new compositions including Portland 2020, created in collaboration with PSU's School of Film Experimental Production. In addition to the group collaboration, individual filmmakers partnered with members of the ensemble to create original scores for their short films.
The Laptop Ensemble is an ensemble of humans, laptops, controllers, and speakers. Ensemble members both compose and perform in the ensemble, exploring computer-mediated instrument design, sound synthesis, programming, and live interactive performance. The Experimental Filmmakers work with archival found footage, 16mm direct animation, original live action digital and computer generated images to provide the visual elements of the program. The short films represent a range of approaches reflecting and responding to our present social and political conditions.
#psusample #laptopensemble
STREAM INFO:
Streaming on our Twitch and YouTube channels starting at 12 noon:
Twitch: twitch.tv/holoceneportland
YouTube: https://bit.ly/YoutubeHolocenePortland
DONATION INFO:
Donations encouraged and appreciated, with all donations split between Holocene staff and the local youth music advocacy non-profit Friends of Noise. You can make a donation at this Eventbrite link in advance, or during the stream on one of the following channels:
Venmo: @holoceneportland
Cash App: $holoceneportland
PayPal contact@holocene.org
Learn more about Friends of Noise at: friendsofnoise.org or in the Willamette Week Give!Guide.
