It's time to debate rent control in Portland!
In response to the housing crisis, the state legislature is considering lifting the statewide ban on rent control, and members of Portland's City Council are openly discussing what rent control might look like in our city. We need more public discussion of this important and controversial set of policies that will shape housing in the city and the state for decades to come.
XRAY.FM and the advocacy group Portland Forward are hosting a spirited debate between advocates on both sides of the issue: Economist Dr. Gerard Mildner of the PSU School of Business Administration and Margot Black, an organizer with Portland Tenants United. Jefferson Smith of XRAY in the Morning will be moderating the debate and the whole conversation will be recorded live for future airing on XRAY.FM and KXRW Vancouver.
Come participate in democracy!
This event is ALL AGES (alcohol will still be sold, don't worry)
Tickets are $7 (all fees included) and proceeds go to XRAY.FM
In 19-some years, Califone haven't really changed. Which is to say they've had no need for reinvention. Unlike surfers of the stylistic zeitgeist, Tim Rutili's rusty, warm, tactile, vagabond folk continues to crack with the utmost distinction. Like a hobo's fire, the Chicago group's vast catalog warms and warbles, flickering in haunted harmony.
Record Store Day was conceived in 2007 at a gathering of independent record store owners and employees as a way to celebrate and spread the word about the unique culture surrounding nearly 1400 independently owned record stores in the US and thousands of similar stores internationally. The first Record Store Day took place on April 19, 2008. Today there are Record Store Day participating stores on every continent except Antarctica.
This is a day for the people who make up the world of the record store—the staff, the customers, and the artists—to come together and celebrate the unique culture of a record store and the special role these independently owned stores play in their communities. Special vinyl and CD releases and various promotional products are made exclusively for the day. Festivities include performances, cook-outs, body painting, meet & greets with artists, parades, DJs spinning records, and on and on. In 2008 a small list of titles was released on Record Store Day and that list has grown to include artists and labels both large and small, in every genre and price point. In 2015, 60% of the Record Store Day Official Release List came from independent labels and distributors. The list continues to include a wide range of artists, covering the diverse taste of record stores and their customers.
While there’s only one Record Store Day a year, the organization works with both independent and and major labels throughout the year to create contests, special releases and promotions in order to spotlight the benefits of supporting these independent, locally owned stores with music purchases throughout the year. In 2010, Record Store Day coodinated its first Black Friday event, which gives record stores exclusive releases as part of the attempt to redirect the focus of the biggest shopping day of the year to the desirable, special things to be found at local stores.
Come join XRAY's own Sex, Drugs and Basketball at the excellent Lost and Found bar for their first ever live broadcast in front of a audience! Join co-hosts Shannon Balcom and Arthur Bradford as they discuss the three titular topics and take live questions and texts from the audience. The show begins broadcasting at 8pm onXRAY.FM (107.1 fm and streaming at xray.fm) but come early to get a drink and practice heckling your hosts! What better way to start of your 4/20 evening?
• Preservation Hall Jazz Band- Crystal Ball Room 4/7: 8PM, 21+
• Giant Panda Gorilla Dub Squad w/ Kevin Kinsella- Mississippi Studios 4/7: 9PM, 21+
• Ice Cube- Roseland Theater 4/8: 8:30PM, 21+
• President Brown w/ Jahdan Blakkamoore- Mt. Tabor Theater 4/8: 10PM, 21+
• Donald Harrison- Jimmy Mak’s 4/9: 8PM, All Ages
• Ms. Lauryn Hill- Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 4/9: 8PM, All Ages
• Afro Cuban All Stars- Wonder Ballroom 4/10: 7PM, 21+
• Black Joe Lewis & The Honey Bears – Dante’s 4/10: 9PM, 21+
• Rafael Saadiq- Wonder Ballroom 4/11: 8PM, 21+
• Louis Hayes- Jimmy Mak’s 4/11: 8PM, 21+
• Francis & The Lights- Peter’s Room 4/12: 8PM, All Ages
• Dr. Lonnie Smith- Mississippi Studios 4/14: 9PM, 21+
• Rusko- Roseland theater 4/15: 8:30, All Ages
• Trent Mollar- Refuge 4/15: “Late Night,” 21+
• The Motet- Mt/ Tabor Theater 4/15 & 4/16: 9PM, 21+
• Mos Def w/ Hot 8 Brass Band- Roseland Theater 4/16: 9PM, All Ages
• Ellis Marsalis- Aladdin Theater 4/16: 7PM, All Ages
A percentage of Dig a Pony's proceeds ALL NIGHT will go to XRAY.FM's Spring Fund Drive.
4-6pm The Path is the Destination w/ DJ D'Jon Mustard
6-7pm Chor Bazaar w/ DJs Anjali & The Incredible Kid
7-8pm Circa Rad w/ DJ Tex
8-9pm The Denim Dinner Party w/ DJ Ramophone
9-10pm Songs From Under the Floorboard w/ DJ Dave Cantrell
Then a mix of XRAY DJs for the rest of the night!
An eclectic lineup featuring a range of mostly vinyl Lo-fi, Portland-centric, Global Bass, Post-Punk, Darkwave, Psych, Funk & Soul, Metal, Rock, Indie Cuts and International Jams.
Blazers game on the big screen, of course!!!!
The Thesis is a monthly hip hop night at Kelly's Olympian.
In April, The Thesis welcomes Dead Phone Dummiez, Mothra, D3, Verbz.
The third annual Out From The Shadows post-punk/darkwave festival, brought to you by XRAY's Songs From Under the Floorboard radio show and Soundcontrol PDX, arrives once again during the first full week of April. Running Thursday April 6 through Saturday April 8th, we as always present a stunning array of bands from near and far. Tickets are $10 adv per day, $13 at the door per day, and $29 adv for all three days!!
This year's line-up features:
The Secret Light (PDX)
Shadowlands (PDX)
Otzi (Oakland)
Echolust (LA)
Mortal Boy (LA)
Vice Device (PDX)
Bellicose Minds (PDX)
DAY 1 ADV TIX: http://holdmyticket.com/event/278143
Sex Park (PDX)
The Electric West (LA)
Winkie (Brooklyn)
Second Still (LA)
Sculpture Club (Salt Lake City)
Mayflower Madame (Oslo, Norway)
Shadowhouse (PDX)
DAY 2 ADV TIX: http://holdmyticket.com/event/278144
Arcane (Seattle)
Band Aparte (LA)
Lust Era (Puerto Rico)
LUNCH (PDX)
Silence (Pittsburgh, PA)
Koban (Vancouver BC)
All Your Sisters (SF)
DAY 3 ADV TIX: http://holdmyticket.com/event/278145
3 DAY PASS!!! - http://holdmyticket.com/event/278155
McMenamins, StarChile, WE 96.3, Pabst Blue Ribbon & XRAY FM Present: 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!
WE 96.3 we be in the building filming the event and you can watch it on their website www.we963pdx.com as well as the Mic Check
Youtube page:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2cHeUlJhhCirZI1rTHGRnw
THURSDAY MARCH 30TH:
Special Guests...
TOPE and RARE VIBE
Hosted by StarChile
Music by Trox
Dooors @ 9pm, Show starts at 10pm...
21 and over, Tickets: $7 @ the Door
Blossom
https://soundcloud.com/whoisblossom
Blossom is an artist who has released with the EYRST Label over the past few years. She is just starting a new show on XRAY.FM so we figured what better way to celebrate this union than to have her as our guest!
Neill Von Tally, the co-founder of EYRST does live beats, remixes and general ambiance while Skelli Skel and Ian Millhollen (EmVKush) of the PDX Mandem crew play records and have guest MCs in the style of their radio show on XRAY.FM
This is an all ages event til 9 PM and entry is free so don't miss it!”
XRAY's Dave Cantrell from Songs from Under the Floorboard is raising money for his incredible post punk festival Out From The Shadow III by throwing a fundraiser/show. Besides featuring three of Portland's finest new bands (OK, new-ish so far as Murderbait is concerned), this is also a benefit to help raise funds for the Out From The Shadow III festival, so you can feel DOUBLY good attending! As with the showcases, three bands for five bucks. That's the deal.
https://murderbait.bandcamp.com/releases
https://fleshhpdx.bandcamp.com/releases
https://atomiccandles.bandcamp.com/album/eyez-ep
XRAY.FM is 3! Let's celebrate with our biggest bash yet!
CHANTI DARLING :: KARL BLAU
w/ Women's Beat League
+ XRAY DJs in Bar Bar all night and a sneak peak at "XRAY TV"
8:00 Doors, 9:00 Show
$12 ADV or DOS, $5 FOR XRAY MEMBERS
Hosted by hilarious comedian Caitlin Weierhauser and DJ Klyph of Welcome to the Neighborhood
Thanks to our generous sponsors:
Wieden + Kennedy
Hammer and Hand Seattle
Hifi Farms
Potato Champion
Rerun
Rudy's
-----XRAY DJs in Bar Bar all night long:-----------------
Encyclopedia Sound's DJ Detective, Honest John of Savage Beat Radio, DJ Kiki of Music for Neighbors, PDX Mandem, DJ Yoni
and DJon Mustard!
AND THAT'S NOT ALL:
You are invited to a pre-party! XRAY TV will premiere on the big screen at Mississippi Studios from 6pm-8pm RSVP and find more information here:https://blog.xray.fm/2017/02/20/xray-fm-presents-xray-tv/
AUSTRA w/THE RANGE
MON FEB 13
8:30 PM
$17.00 - $20.00
TICKETS
This event is 21 and over
We're thrilled to welcome Toronto based electronic pop artist Austra, touring on her new album FUTURE POLITICS on Domino.
The future won't look like the past: dystopian dread takes this for granted, but utopian imagination is just as valid. Future Politics, Austra's third, and most ambitious album to date, calls for radical hope: "a commitment to replace the approaching dystopia," says Katie Stelmanis, who leads Austra with the support of Maya Postepski (Princess Century, TR/ST), Dorian Wolf, and Ryan Wonsiak. "Not just hope in the future, but the idea that everyone is required to help write it, and the boundaries of what it can look like are both fascinating and endless. It's not about 'being political,' it's about reaching beyond boundaries, in every single field."
Future Politics, a collection of urgent, but disciplined anthems for dancefloor and headphones, asks each of us to remember that apocalypse is not an inevitability, but the product of human decision-making. It aims for a world without borders, where human compassion and curiosity drive technological innovation rather than profit, where the necessity of labor is replaced with time for creativity and personal growth, and the terror and destruction wrought by colonialism and white supremacy is recognized as a dark age in human history. The album is radicalism distilled: to galvanic beats, gorgeous, kinetic melodies, and the vulnerable majesty of Stelmanis's voice. "Future Politics," with its steady, propulsive beat and siren-like synth hook, is both anthem and ultimatum: we have a duty to imagine better, and to imagine big.
Stelmanis, wrote, produced and engineered the album, with Maya Postepski adding production on half the tracks. It was mixed by Alice Wilder, the band's live engineer, and mastered by Heba Kadry in New York. But its haunting first single, "Utopia," is heart-filling, irresistible pop that feels pulled from the air. "Freepower" deals with the paradox of a physical world in peril while our collective consciousness evolves—there is no denying our reliance on each other and the systems we invent. "To solve the problems of global capitalism," Stelmanis says, "you need to think on the level that global capitalists are thinking."
Making Future Politics was a process of starting from zero. Austra's debut, 2011's Feel It Break, and 2013's critically celebrated Olympia, were followed with five years of non-stop touring, and half a decade without a fixed address. Katie settled in Montreal, where she found herself alone, facing both a language barrier and the dissolution of a few faith-sustaining relationships, romantically and within the band. "I knew writing this record would have nothing to do with music at first," Stelmanis says. "It needed to have a purpose other than just my own ego." The album's center suite, "I'm a Monster" through "Angel in Your Eye," is about the intersection of personal depression and collective despair.
Despair can be paralyzing, but it can act as a compass—the less you can ignore, the more you have to act. "I had a process of overcoming my own cynicism," Stelmanis says. "I came to a whole bunch of philosophers and economists who were writing about real possibilities for reinventing society." Texts that took a realistic approach to climate change and economic disaster, while offering real alternatives: Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams; Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything; David Harvey's Rebel Cities. The album's opener, "We Were Alive," is about "overcoming apathy—becoming more political, and more earnest."
In 2015, Stelmanis moved to Mexico City, where the album was completed. (The cover art was photographed at the Cuadra San Cristóbal, Mexican architect Luis Barragán's famous equestrian estate.) "It was an invigorating, and creatively liberating time—I was entirely immersed in the culture, and in the magic realism of Mexico's rich and violent history," Stelmanis says. "Economic disparity is a huge topic of conversation every day in Mexico, as is colonialism and neoliberalism, and how NAFTA fucked over Latin America. Reading about this history and contrasting it with the white capitalist theory I had learned in school made the issues I was reading about in Montreal feel more global, and feel bigger." The album's final track, "43," is about the 43 students disappeared in Iguala, Guerrero in 2014, written from the perspective of a mother who is searching for her son.
In Mexico, Stelmanis was introduced "to a whole generation of Latin American producers who are mixing traditional folk music with techno beats. It's an underground revolution rooted in the preservation and celebration of Latin American indigenous cultures, and also Latin American independence from the USA—very similar to what A Tribe Called Red is doing in Canada." Inspiration also came from European club culture—Objekt, Peter Van Hoesen, Lena Willikens, and '90s legends like Massive Attack; in all, artists who understand the dancefloor as a source of radical ideas and radical joy.
Stelmanis's music has always had a political charge—after high school she performed in the riot grrrl band Galaxy, with Postepski and Emma McKenna—but this "has become more important as I've gotten older. I've experienced more sexism in my industry, I've witnessed the downfall of the middle class, I've lived through George W. Bush and Stephen Harper." (Her latest album credits only women as producers, mixing and mastering engineers.) This is a reversal of the cliché that radicals get more conservative with age. If you're old enough to have seen both the nightmarish and the fantastical become ordinary, but young enough to imagine the rest of your life, the more radicalism seems like common sense.
Change, Solnit writes, comes from "writers, scholars, public intellectuals, social activists, and participants in social media"—also "artists, club scenes, parties, teenagers, ghettoes," says Stelmanis. "Every single person's idea about the future is valid and relevant, especially the freaks and the queers and the outsiders." This is DIY on a global scale: the ethos of a self-made, self-determining culture, but with global imperatives. "To change the cultural landscape—which is what we do as artists—is to essentially change the mainstream."
Hinton made the computer his primary instrument after falling under the spell of Baltimore club, bringing in his broader sonic influences from early '90s jungle, early '00s grime and mid '00s electronica to a new sonic whole. The software was the thing at home, but what excited the young producer was the network, and where he spiraled was YouTube. Potential uses as its backbone a series of vocal samples that Hinton has found in the forgotten corners of the site, guiding us around the hinterlands of YouTube, introducing us to unknown artists expressing themselves unfettered by the constraints of industry, lost in the infinite potential of an audience unknown.
Potential is a record steeped in histories – of its characters, of its forebears – but is startlingly new and alive: the network may be ones and zeros but the circuitry here runs on blood, still.
Sabertooth PsychedelicStonerRockMicrofest! Feb 2nd and 3rd at the Crystal Ballroom.
Featuring Black Lips, The Oh Sees, Moon Due, Skull Diver, Mascaras, Skulldiver and more. Full lineup and ticket information can be found here.
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Vidmar returns with "I Am Only A Man," an electrifying piece of cinematic avant-soul. The single offers a 4:10 glimpse into the next evolution of Shy Girls' material, much of which takes a detour towards the progressive. Crash cymbals, detuned pianos, guitar jams, and modulated passages mark a clear evolution from Vidmar's previous material. Shy Girls' newest body of work is as-of-yet unnamed but is expected to be released in 2016.
Born in Los Angeles and currently inhabiting Portland, Oregon - her own unique brand of rap-singing, made up of casually delivered triple entendres, unforgettable melodies and an ever-changing stream of cadences, has begun to spread like a wildfire in recent months. From her noteworthy singles "Squadron" and "Oofda" topping Spotify charts, to her manifested-thru-song appearance on the legendary Sway In The Morning radio show, everything has been coming up Dodgr in 2016. And really, she's only just getting started - with all of this leading up to her forthcoming duo LP, Bone Music, a collaboration with producer Neill Von Tally, due out in early 2017.
It's not too early to get in on the ground floor of this star on the rise.
THREE PARTIES, ONE BIG NIGHT! Tickets and more info RIGHT HERE!
It's XRAY's biggest fundraiser of the year, and you're invited!
Join us for the second annual XRAY Awards, hosted by Marmoset Music. The XRAY community will gather to celebrate the winners of this year's Radio is Yours Contest and recognize some folks working to advance justice and equity in our hometown with food, drinks, and live music.
EVENT OVERVIEW:
5:00p Doors open for VIP-only cocktail hour featuring Lenore. Vikesh Kapoor, and DJ Tex Clark
6:30p Doors open for General Admission
7:30p Performance by Maggie Morris of Genders, DJ Klyph and DJ Bobby D
8:00p Awards ceremony begins
9:00p Doors open for After Party, featuring Fred and Toody Cole and Nocturnal Habits with DJ Bobby D
12:00a Party ends
VIP Party: $200 for TWO tickets. (includes food, free drinks, a goodie bag and entry to Awards Ceremony and After Party)
Awards Ceremony: $60 each (Includes 2 drink tickets, and entry to the After Party)
After Party: $7 for XRAY Members, and $15 for General Admission (includes free Sizzle Pie Pizza!)
The night will begin with a VIP-only cocktail hour. Our VIP guests will enjoy unlimited drinks, an intimate musical performance from new folk duo Lenore., records from DJ Tex Clark of Circa Rad, heavy hors d'oeuvres from Chefstable, ¿Por Que No?, and Voodoo Doughnut, a goodie bag with XRAY swag and gifts from our event sponsors, and acknowledgement during the program.
The VIP cocktail hour will be followed by the main program. We'll kick off the night with a DJ set by XRAY's own Bobby D and a solo performance from Maggie Morris (of Genders) over drinks and finger foods, followed by the awards ceremony. We'll bring to the stage a handful of Portlanders whose work and activism over the past year is deserving of recognition. Then we'll announce the winners of the 2016 Radio is Yours Contest, each of whom will walk away with a cash prize along with a hand-made trophy courtesy of Bobfish Arts.
The party will then continue from 9 pm - midnight with the after party, featuring live performances by Fred and Toody Cole of Dead Moon and Nocturnal Habits. There will be free pizza courtesy of Sizzle Pie and drinks available for purchase.
The event is also a fundraiser for XRAY, and there will be opportunities to contribute throughout the night. Thanks to the generosity of our food and beverage sponsors, all drink purchases will directly benefit XRAY. In addition to proceeds from ticket sales, we'll also work toward our fundraising goal with a raffle and paddle raise.
Join us for the second annual XRAY Awards, hosted by Marmoset Music. The XRAY community will gather to celebrate the winners of this year's Radio is Yours Contest and recognize some folks working to advance justice and equity in our hometown with food, drinks, and live music.
TICKETS AND MORE INFORMATION HERE!
EVENT OVERVIEW:
5:00p Doors open for VIP-only cocktail hour with intimate performance by Lenore.
6:30p Doors open for General Admission
7:30p Performance by TBA!!!
8:00p Awards ceremony begins
9:00p Doors open for After Party with Nocturnal Habits and Fred and Toody Cole of Dead Moon
12:00a Party ends
The night will begin with a VIP-only cocktail hour. Our VIP guests will enjoy unlimited drinks, an intimate musical performance (performer TBA), heavy hors d'oeuvres from Chefstable, ¿Por Que No?, and Voodoo Doughnut, a goodie bag with XRAY swag and gifts from our event sponsors, and acknowledgement during the program.
The VIP cocktail hour will be followed by the main program. We'll kick off the night with a performance (musician/comedian TBA) over drinks and finger foods, followed by the awards ceremony. We'll bring to the stage a handful of Portlanders whose work and activism over the past year is deserving of recognition. Then we'll announce the winners of the 2016 Radio is Yours Contest, each of whom will walk away with a cash prize along with a hand-made trophy courtesy of Bobfish Arts.
The party will then continue from 9 pm - midnight with the after party, featuring live performances by 2 bands and XRAY DJs (lineup TBA soon!). There will be free pizza courtesy ofSizzle Pie and drinks available for purchase.
The event is also a fundraiser for XRAY, and there will be opportunities to contribute throughout the night. Thanks to the generosity of our food and beverage sponsors, all drink purchases will directly benefit XRAY. In addition to proceeds from ticket sales, we'll also work toward our fundraising goal with a raffle and paddle raise.