Doors: 8:00 PM
Show: 9:00 PM
21 and over
Portland, OR
Mostly Standing / Limited Seated Balcony
Turn Turn Turn welcomes Dear Nora for her Reunion/Mountain Rock Reiusse show! With Dragging and Ox at Turn Turn Turn. XRAY is proud to co-Sponsor the show. More info on Turn Turn Turn's Website
Girl Fest presents
Girl Fest 2017
Hosted by Blossom
Coco Columbia
Karma Rivera
Neka + Kahlo
Haley Heynderickx
- LOLA'S ROOM at the Crystal Ballroom
- Saturday, January 14, 2017
- 6 p.m. doors, 7 p.m. show |
- $8 advance, $10 day of show |
- All ages welcome
Tickets on sale now!
About Girl Fest 2017
Girl Fest 2017 is proud to return to Lola's Room at the Crystal Ballroom for their 3rd annual event. This one day, festival-style event was founded in 2013 as a way to celebrate the talented, female artists currently making noise in the Northwest. Girl Fest 2017 will be hosted by Blossom, and will include performances by Coco Columbia, Karma Rivera, Neka & Kahlo, Haley Heyndrickx, Courtney Noe and students from My Voice Music's Student Mentorship Program. With a festival-style lineup, Girl Fest 2017 is excited to feature a wild array of genres; everything from hip hop, to alternative, singer songwriter, and pop infused modern jazz. The 2017 event is sponsored byXRAY.fm and Vortex Music Magazine.
About Coco Columbia
Music school dropout, Coco Columbia, burst onto the Portland music scene in 2014. Her music fuses infectious indie-pop melodies, off-kilter rhythmic feels, dreamy-eyed electro-soul soundscapes and jazzy harmony to create her own brand of bumpin' space-age future-pop. Coco has shared the stage with bands such as Hiatus Kaiyote, Goapele, Robert Glasper and Knower.
About Karma Rivera
Freshman to the NW hip hop scene, Karma Rivera has already made quite a name for herself. Since performing as headliner of November's "The Thesis" at Kelly's Olympian, Rivera has been making moves. She's ready to slay on the Girl Fest stage in January, with aggressive hip hop tracks and a style truly all her own.
About Neka + Kahlo
Veterans of Girl Fest 2014, Neka & Kahlo craft vibey music out of a red brick apartment in North Portland. Rather than pushing a limiting trend or sub-genre, the duo serve as an intersection - trafficking in multiple styles and sounds - thereby dispensing with the need for additional labels. What you hear is the expression of their unique experience as humans who refuse to conform to any one identity alone.
About Haley Heynderickx
The voice of Portland artist, Haley Heynderickx (pronounced Hendricks), is distinctly unique, with a sweet power and beauty that makes her music almost familiar to the ear. Her lyricism is raw and true. Reminiscent of the styles of Joni Mitchell, Joanna Newsom and Jessica Pratt, Heynderickx is not one to miss.
About Courtney Noe
"Courtney Noe, Grammy's 2017" is written in red lipstick on her bathroom mirror. "I literally envision myself rising out of the stage in Madison Square Garden before I go to sleep." Courtney's sound embraces the soul of Motown with the additive character of pop. Big band horns, orchestra strings and piano are heard throughout her music; the lyrics dripping with sass.
About My Voice Music
My Voice Music is a nonprofit organization based in Portland, Oregon that engages youth in music and performance in order to promote self-esteem, social skills and emotional expression. MVM's student band opened Girl Fest in 2016, and we are excited to welcome these extraordinarily talented girls back to our stage for the 2017 event!
DJ Anjali & The Incredible Kid New Year's Eve Dance Party Extravaganza at the Melody Ballroom.
Saturday, December 31st, 2016
Our biggest New Year's Eve party ever:
A Desi Latino Soundclash on 2 floors!!
Orquestra Pacifico Tropical (Featuring members of Sun Angle, Máscaras, Bitch'n, &&&, IOA, Point Juncture, Wa., Modernstate, Roselit Bone, Quiet Countries & Eagle Sun King.) Orquestra Pacifico Tropical’s wall of sound is dedicated to expanding the music of Central & South America to the people & dance floors of the Pacific Northwest.
Coast2c (Gran Ritmos)
Daniela Karina (Women's Beat League/Bed of Roses)
Michael Bruce (Gran Ritmos)
Suavecito (She Shreds Magazine & Savila)
Bollywood/Cumbia/Bhangra/Dembow/Urban Desi/Reggaeton/Desi Bass/Latin Trap/Tribal Guarachero
Featuring percussionist Adam McCollom on the Panjabi Dhol drum.
Bhangra dances by DJ Anjali and Gulabi Gang.
Two ballrooms on two levels.
Sound by One Wub
Sponsored by XRAY.FM.
21+ only w/ proper ID
This party marks the 16th anniversary of Anjali and The Kid playing in Portland clubs as a duo since their New Year's Eve debut in 2000.
www.anjaliandthekid.com
Quannum MCs!
Featuring Blackalicious, Latyrx, Gift of Gab, Lyrics Born, Lateef Daumont, and Chief Xcel. With specail guests Libretto, Blossom, and DJ Wicked.
Saturday December 31
Star Theater Portland
DOORS AT 8, SHOW AT 9pm / 21+
21+
Additional Info:
QUANNUM MC's (Blackalicious, Latyrx, Gift of Gab, Lyrics Born, Chief Xcel & Lateef) w/ special guests Libretto, Blossom & Dj WickedThis New Year's Eve, come celebrate with Quannum---one of the West Coast's most legendary Hip Hop collectives ever formed---and their long awaited reunion, exclusively at the Star Theater in PDX! Both a label (Quannum Projects) and a collaborative concern, Quannum brought together the brightest talents from the former SoleSides label: Lyrics Born and Lateef the Truth Speaker (from Latyrx), Chief Xcel and Gift of Gab (from Blackalicious), and DJ Shadow. An artist-run label, SoleSides was founded in 1992 at KDVS, the college radio station for the University of California-Davis, with most of the above artists involved, plus mentor DJ Zen (Jeff Chang). Its first release, DJ Shadow's 1993 slab "Entropy," gained a worldwide profile after tastemaker James Lavelle released it on his Mo' Wax label. SoleSides hit with further releases like Blackalicious' Melodica EP (also licensed to Mo' Wax) and the self-titled debut single by Latyrx. By 1997, SoleSides had become Quannum Projects, and the label debuted with a masterstroke, the brilliant collaborative Quannum Spectrum, including a bounty of West Coast underground talent -- Jurassic 5, Divine Styler, Souls of Mischief, and Poets of Rhythm. Quannum Projects continued releasing records, including full-lengths for Blackalicious (NIA) and Poets of Rhythm (Discern/Define), a single by Spectrum contributor Joyo Velarde, and most rewarding of all, the two-disc history lesson SoleSides Greatest Bumps. And now this New Years Eve is your once in a lifetime chance to catch the collective live and direct!
Tickets:
http://www.ticketweb.com/fb/6995585/dantes
Willamette Week, XRAY.FM and Holocene present: LOCAL CUT
Ft.
Mic Capes
with
Brown Alice
Ellis Pink
and sounds by Fritzwa
LOCAL CUT is a FREE quarterly music event curated by Willamette Week, showcasing the diverse and talented musicians and producers under the radar and on the rise within the Portland music scene.
Hosted by Holocene, LOCAL CUT shines a spotlight on an eclectic mix of hip-hop, R&B, soul and their extended genres. Expect up and coming MC’s and DJ’s, as well as rock bands with rhythm and creative individuals marching to the beat of their own drum machine.
Sponsored by MillerCoors.
Sunday, December 18
Holocene Portland
9 p.m. show / 8:30 p.m. doors
21+
FREE
An evening for a special EYRST and XRAY.FM event. It'll be EmVKush playing records as the PDX Mandem and Neill Von Tally doing his live beat thang. The event will fresh off an announcement for a PDX Mandem's release on Moonshine Recordings and Neill's most notably Bone Music with the The Last Artful, Dodgr, the first single of which was premiered on Sway. It's going to be a night of Hip Hop and dubwise vibes. Artwork by Ritzy Sheens
Come through and be a part of the audience for live broadcasts of The Groove Theory Mixshow & Welcome to the Neighborhood on XRAY.FM. All of your favorite segments of the shows live on stage!
Say farewell to the O.G.ONE hosted & produced Groove Theory Mixshow as he does his final show on XRAY.FM in front of a live audience.
After that it's the first ever remote brodcast of Welcome to the Neighborhod with great music, live verses from some of Portland's best emcees and giveaways from three7 LIMITED
Then witness the collaboration of three of Portlands best producers & emcees as These? Blacks change the game!
Live brodcast from 7-10pm
These? Blacks 10pm
21+
$5 at the door
New Orleans Louisiana born & raised, DaiN is the foundation of the crew. His production and influence creates the space for these emcees to do what emcees do - bring BARS!
Portland native Jon Belz-King is one of the hardest working emcees in the city. Recently featured on the Team Backpack Portland Cypher, his lyrical dexterity puts him in the catagory as one of the best in the NW!
Kentucky & Ohio is where he began his craft, now he's one of the most sought after producers from the Rose City. Theory Hazit is a monster on production and intense with is rhyme skills - Watch Out!
EIGHT BELLS was formed in 2010 by Melynda Jackson and is a songwriting collaboration with bassist Haley Westeiner and drummer Chris VanHuffel. Based in Portland, Oregon, Eight Bells explores dark sonic realms with a blackened dissonance combining anguished screams with ethereal, haunting female vocals. Debut album, The Captain’s Daughter, was recorded by Billy Anderson and released in 2013 by Seventh Rule and on vinyl by The Flenser. In support of the album’s release, Eight Bells toured in support of Agalloch and SubRosa, appeared on the Fall Into Darkness festival and also performed at Project Pabst and Crucial Fest. Press for The Captain’s Daughter: Iron Hops “A+. ... a complex and genre-bending masterpiece.” Echoes and Dust "...head-bang inducing, ethereal and gloriously unpredictable.”
EIGHT BELLS’ sophomore album, Landless, is to be released in February 2016. This effort sees Eight Bells experience a change in personnel with drummer Rae Amitay, but once again join forces with legendary producer/engineer Billy Anderson. The material offers a definitive evolution of their sound, and will be released on vinyl/digital formats via Battleground Records and on tape via Tartarus Records. Eight Bells has also been chosen as direct support for Voivod and Vektor this February, where they will tour the Northeastern United States.
Jamais Jamais had their humble beginnings when Melynda flew in for a visit to Portland, OR from Portland, ME to visit sister, Erin. This time together in late 2010 included a week long recording session that resulted in two unreleased demo songs, Nothing and Winter Skies. They decided to call them selves Jamais Jamais (Jhah-may Jhah-may), meaning Never Never in French. To them their name chosen was a funny play on words. Its a double negative which equals a positive, like happy in a sad way and sad in a happy way, not unlike their music.
Melynda made a big move to Portland, OR a year later to see where the music with Erin could take them. After having a couple musician friends, Dave Smits and Alex Roy, play with them live and writing many songs, they joined forces with NW classically trained musicians Donna Potts and Camelia Nine. Two sisters from New England and two friends from the Pacific NW became Jamais Jamais as it is today. Their combined influences of folk, classical, soul, pop, doom and rock have played an integral part in the musical identity and unification of Jamais Jamais.
For the second year in a row, in partnership with Literary Arts, Wordstock Edition Back Fence PDX present Russian Roulette.
Featuring returning crowd favorites: Four-Time Winner Shannon Balcom Graves (PDX), Poet/Performer, Comedian, Founder of Write Bloody Publishing Derrick Brown (LA), Author of Turtleface and Beyond: Stories, Emmy-Nominated Filmmaker, Past Winner Arthur Bradford (PDX), and Comedian, Member of Lez Standup, Past Winner Caitlin Weierhouser (PDX) — along with soon-to-be faves: Books Editor at Buzzfeed, Co-Author of Knives & Ink Isaac Fitzgerald (NY), Spoken Word Poet, Visual Artist, Musician Anis Mojgani (PDX), Memoirist, Therapist Specializing in Love & Sex Addiction Kerry Cohen (PDX) and Slam Poet, TEDX Speaker Alex Dang (PDX).
Hosted by B. Frayn Masters & Mindy Nettifee
Music by Bobby D from XRAY
More about Russian Roulette and how it works: Each show begins with a full wheel of juicy story prompts. One of our 8 seasoned storytellers will be randomly drawn. To determine the random prompt for their story, they’ll spin the giant game show wheel. 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 prizes.
* Storytellers subject to change without notice
* Stories will quite likely contain explicit language and/or subject matter
21+
Sonic Cinema presents Jim Jarmusch’s new film that chronicles the story of The Stooges, one of the greatest rock bands of all time. Emerging from Ann Arbor Michigan amidst a countercultural revolution, The Stooges’ powerful and aggressive style blew a crater in the musical landscape of the late 1960s. Assaulting audiences with a blend of rock, blues, R&B, and free jazz, the band planted the seeds for what would be called punk and alternative rock in the decades that followed. Gimme Danger presents the context of the Stooges emergence musically, culturally, politically, historically, and relates their adventures and misadventures while charting their inspirations and the reasons behind their initial commercial challenges, as well as their long-lasting legacy.
Part of our Sonic Cinema series which presents the best in new and classic music documentaries on the big screen (with big sound!) A feast for the eyes and ears, the festival explores a wide range of musical artists, genres and styles.
$9
Tony Conrad is one the great American artists of our time, yet to the world at large he remains criminally under appreciated. Since the early 1960s, Conrad’s films and compositions have been the stuff of legend for artists and musicians everywhere. His vast, inter-disciplinary repertoire has single-handedly created and influenced major film and compositional movements. He performed in and recorded the soundtrack to Jack Smith’s legendary Flaming Creatures; he turned the paradigms of cinema upside down with The Flicker, a film composed of only black and white frames; his development and practice of Just Intonation and Minimalism through his work with Stockhausen and La Monte Young still has the music establishment scratching their heads; his pivotal role in the formation of The Velvet Underground has directly or indirectly influenced everyone who has picked up a guitar since; as an early adopter of activist public access television he democratized the emerging medium of portable video. In his later years he has continued to perform and make work that pushes the boundaries of reason for which he has finally begun to receive worldwide attention.
Utilizing intimate footage of Tony and his collaborators shot over the last twenty-two years, as well as his own archive of recordings and films, Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present mirrors Conrad’s own playfully radical approach to art making. The non-linear structure Conrad to wildly free associate his streams of consciousness, revealing an honest and humane way of navigating a remarkable, creative life.
Part of our Sonic Cinema Festival which presents the best in new and classic music documentaries on the big screen (with big sound!) A feast for the eyes and ears, the festival explores a wide range of musical artists, genres and styles.
$10 | Buy advance tickets here
Following on from last year’s deluxe reissue of Partisan Records’ very first release, Decline of The West, Emil Amos is back for his 13th record as Holy Sons. Also a member of seminal west coast experimental rockers Om and Grails, Amos has has teamed up with the perfect producer, John Agnello (Dinosaur Jr., Kurt Vile, Phosphorescent, Sonic Youth), to steer the ship toward a purity of sound and vision that has eluded him in the past.
In Emil’s own words:
“In The Garden is essentially John Agnello and I out at Water Music in Hoboken, New Jersey carving out the sound of a classic 70’s record if it had been made by a band with all its players being very focused in the hey-day of their career… but we ‘faked’ that vibe using one player. That’s basically what I learned 4-tracking in the 90’s… how to replicate live-sounding recordings where a band is reacting and playing off of each other in real-time.”
“This album was originally aesthetically based on the joy of pulling out old 70’s American & British songwriting LPs at night while you’re pounding whiskeys by the fireplace. The way those albums look and feel like a lost pillar of classicism. The drums are so round and close they sound like you could eat them …and there’s that feeling of pure pleasure you get from hearing guitar solos that were done in one take and slightly flawed vocal harmonies recorded on the fly before Pro Tools existed. It came from a lust after that time when mixes and the relationship between all the instruments breathed beautifully at the height of analog equipment.”
In The Garden is Holy Sons in its most potent, crystalline form. It is Amos’ statement album thus far, his flawless song cycle. Once it sees the light of day, it seems an impossibility that he will continue to have the luxury of hanging out on the fringe.
The music is rich and inventive, with the bass and guitar frequently playing synchronized melodic lines.
Mic Check is a Hip Hop Showcase every last Thursday of the month at White Eagle, with Live performances, drink specials, and good vibes.
w/
ILLMAC, THEORY HAZIT & LANDON LARSON
and a very special, first ever Team Backpack Portland Cypher W/ ILLMAC, MIC CAPES & JON BELZ
Hosted by StarChile
Music by Trox
21 and over, Tickets: $7 @ the Door
Mic Check is a Hip Hop Showcase every last Thursday of the month at White Eagle, with Live performances, drink specials, and good vibes.
w/
ILLMAC, THEORY HAZIT & LANDON LARSON
and a very special, first ever Team Backpack Portland Cypher W/ ILLMAC, MIC CAPES & JON BELZ
Hosted by StarChile
Music by Trox
21 and over, Tickets: $7 @ the Door
Sub Rosa Curation and Boys & Girls Clubs of Portland Metropolitan Area announce "Rock For Rockwood," a fundraiser one day music festival featuring musical talents from Portland, featuring M. Ward, The Thermals, The Helio Sequence (Official), and Emily Wells.
All profits are going to the new Boys & Girls Club facility in Rockwood, OR.
This show is general admission & fully seated.
Sun Angle can be interpreted as tropical psych phase punk. Diamond Junk – the debut full-length from Sun Angle –creates, as the title suggests, exhilarating tension between beauty and chaos, propelled by artful, animalistic urgency.
The synergistic three-piece consists of Charlie Salas Humara on vocals & guitar (Panther), Marius Libman on bass (Copy) and Papi Fimbres on drums (Paper/Upper/Cuts). Central and South American footsteps traverse through Sun Angle's veins, blending SST punk, Cumbia, and pop in a wash of psychedelic filth. Sun Angle ride the line between chaos and pop, making music all its own.
Heavy Duty By Josiah Hughes/Exclaim Magazine (Canada) Portland's Mattress centres on the claustrophobic bedroom soul of weirdo Rex Marshall and his synthesiser. But on Heavy Duty, his debut full-length for Edmonton's Reluctant Recordings, his minimal, dark electro beats take a backseat to his sinister songwriting. Opener "Pollution" sets the tone with its eerie sounds and hopeless lyrics, while "Go Ahead and Litter" almost gets dance-y, with its dead funk guitar drone. The real gem is closing track "Bring It Down," with its heavy synths and melodic singing, showing a little heart amidst the creepiness. Limited to 300 and featuring shiny artwork courtesy of the Doers' Sean Maxey, this is a rare treat in outsider pop.
Debates! Debates! Join XRAY.FM, the Bus Project and Dig a Pony to laugh, gasp, point, cheer, or sit back in silence during all four of the 2016 Presidential Debates on the big screen. XRAY DJs will spin records before and after the debates and also during commercial breaks. Dig a Pony will offer drink specials, helping to keep spirits high during what is sure to be a very historic series of debates.
Join us for the following three debates, co-hosted by XRAY.FM, Dig a Pony and The Bus Project.
Tuesday, October 4th (Vice-President)
Sunday, October 9th (Pres)
Wednesday, October 19th (Pres)
All at Dig a Pony, all FREE and 21+
Andy Shauf is a storyteller, a singer of heartbreak and regrets, isolation and loneliness, reflecting his prairie surroundings in Regina, Canada. Meticulously written over four years, Shauf's The Bearer of Bad News is a warm and welcoming album, bathed in weathered piano, dampened drums, softly-strummed guitars and clarinet, which lends its unique timbre to frequently brighten – or hauntingly underscore – the songs' darker undercurrents. Fans of Elliott Smith, Nick Drake and Harry Nilsson, take note.
Scattered Clouds is a dark, experimental, post apocalyptic rock group, from Hull, QC. Since the project's inception in 2010 and the release of a self-titled EP on Hull based label E-Tron Records (www.etronrecords.com), Scattered Clouds has evolved from a solo home studio project to a performance act that creates a trance-inducing, orchestral and intense cinematic experience. Blending harsh yet controlled sounds, brooding rhythms, processed vocals, and unsettling analog synthesizer sounds with a strong sense of form and dynamics, Scattered Clouds' music can be described as industrial, dark-wave, post-rock and avant-pop. The First Empire is the group's first full-length release and was released on E-Tron Records April 21, 2015. Scattered Clouds is a three-piece band consisting of vocalist and bassist Philippe Charbonneau, keyboardist Mike Dubue and drummer Jamie Kronick.
$10 / $12, 21+