PDX Pop Now! and XRAY.fm presents the 2nd annual PDX Pop Later! after party, happening from midnight to 2am at Bunk Bar on Sunday, right after the PDX Pop Now! festival. XRAY's own DJ Bad Wizard spins, and the event is free. It's the official PDX Pop Later! after party, brought to you by XRAY.fm
Join XRAY and PDX Pop Now! for the best in local music under the sun!
In keeping with our legacy as one of the nations few free, all ages, and all-volunteer music festivals, the PDX Pop Now! festival returns July 24-26 with 45 genres-spanning sets from Portland musicians. Set amid the Southeast industrial district at AudioCinema, the festival will feature two stages, food carts, a street fair, and Portland’s renowned band basketball tournament Rigsketball.
Additionally, we are excited to continue our partnership with Music in The Schools, who will be curating a second year of festival sets from high school bands across Portland!
As an all volunteer, non-profit organization, PDX Pop Now! is dedicated to stimulating and expanding community participation in Portland music. Through the annual three day festival, yearly classroom events, and two-disc compilation, we strive to actively engage the community while highlighting Portland’s diverse and vibrant musical talent.
PDX Pop Now! works to fulfill our mission in a democratic and accessible way. The festival is curated through a public nomination process and a volunteer voting committee that is focused on being inclusive to all genres and age groups.
Expect more news to come this spring when we announce the full 2015 lineup and release our annual two-disc compilation!
Interested in suggesting a band to play for the 2015 festival? Recommend an artist for the 2015 festival here.
Come see Australian indie-pop 4 piece Dick Diver!
Dick Diver are a four-piece from Melbourne Australia renowned for their catchy songs, onstage charm and wry humour. Formed in 2008 with guitarists Rupert Edwards and Alistair McKay, drummer Steph Hughes (Boomgates) and bassist Al Montfort (Total Control, UV Race, Lower Plenty et al) they’re finally bringing their songs to the USA and Canada this July in the wake of their new album Melbourne, Florida.
A wide-ranging and diverse album, Melbourne, Florida is simultaneously smoother and more eccentric than their previous world-conquering efforts Calendar Days (2013) and New Start Again (2011). Recorded in an old barn on Australia's shipwreck coast with long-time collaborator Mikey Young, the man-myth behind such rock juggernauts as Total Control and Eddy Current Suppression Ring, the atmosphere and intoxication shine through in warm horn sections, aching melodies, and such memorable lines as ‘Europe’s fucked probably’, ‘there’s sick on your lapel, Daddy-o’, or ‘don’t get a gun / talk to a counsellor’. Come down and boogie people.
Melbourne, Florida, is out now on US label Trouble In Mind and in Australia, New Zealand and Japan by Chapter Music.
The 3rd annual LagerFest, a benefit for XRAY.fm takes over the White Owl Social Club's spacious bar and back patio on Saturday July 11th with the largest selection of lagers in the state, perhaps the country!
The White Owl is excited to host the third annual giant patio party that celebrates the almighty but often overlooked LAGER! 50+ international and craft brews will be out on the legendary White Owl patio, and the beers will be flowing harder than Aesop Rock while riding the back of Damian Lillard dunking over Dwight Howard from the top Multinomah Falls during a Red Fang versus Lord Dying heavy metal deathmatch battle royale extravaganza!
Come visit us at the Mississippi Street Fair!
Free Admission, Family Friendly
200 Vendors & Crafts
6 Stages & 40 plus bands
Grandfather’s Rib off Competition, Dunk Tank, Shops, Beer Gardens, Restaurants, Food Carts and so much more…
Proceeds benefit: SEI & Boise Elliot School
Find a schedule of bands and other staged events here: http://mississippiave.com/streetfair/
Trust is the alter ego of Toronto artist Robert Alfons.
Formed in 2009 along with collaborator Maya Postepski, Trust released its first singles, "Candy Walls" and "Bulbform," on Brooklyn-based Sacred Bones Records in 2011 before signing with Arts & Crafts for the 2012 release of debut full length, TRST.
Since 2011, Trust has performed with DFA1979, Crystal Castles, Austra, Balam Acab, Glass Candy and Hercules and Love Affair and garnered glowing praise from top international critics at Pitchfork, VICE, The Guardian UK and many more.
Trust's Tales of lust, wax, and erotomania carry along on a dense black vapor of speed, space and tears.
http://www.mississippistudios.com/event/873633-tr-st-portland/
The Hour That Stretches at the Jade Lounge is pleased to feature SF/F/H author and editorial powerhouse Wendy Wagner, Tor BooksEraserhead Press author Douglas Lain, folk storytelling phenomenon Ilana Hamilton, Witch Mountain drummer and Cosmic Horror author Nathan Carson, memoirist and author Jaime Dunkle...and in his first performance at the Hour, talking-bluesman Maxwell Williams.
SIX PERFORMERS. HALF AN HOUR EACH. NO FOURTH WALL. UNCENSORED.
NO GENRE OR EXPERIENCE RESTRICTIONS. POETRY. LITFIC. HORROR. BIZARRO.
STAND-UP COMEDY. RAPPERS. INSTRUMENTAL ACCOMPANIMENT. ALL FORMS OF SPOKEN WORD.
21+. FREE. CHEAP DRINKS, HAPPY HOUR MENU SERVED ALL NIGHT. SEATS ARE FILLING UP FAST. COME SNAG ONE...
A Wonderful Small Town Parade, Fun Festival, Live Music, Fireworks and So Much More!
http://www.corbettfunfest.com/
https://www.facebook.com/CorbettFunFest
SUPERGROUP FEATURING MEMBERS OF THE YEAH YEAH YEAHS, THE LOCUST AND THE BLOOD BROTHERS
HEAD WOUND CITY
GRAVE BABIES, VICE DEVICE
MONDAY, JUNE 29TH
DOORS: 8:00 PM / SHOW: 9:00 PM
Metropolitan Youth Symphony & School Of Rock Team Up!
Proceeds will go towards the benefit of Metropolitan Youth Orchestra's tuition assistance program as well as PROWUS grants for young musicians in need!
Ninkasi Brewing and XRAY.FM presents Hot Mass, a daytime parking lot party at Church bar, on June 27th. Live music provided by Pearles, Rio Grands, Thanks and Doubleplusgood. Music starts at 5, Church is located on the corner of NE Sandy and 26th.
XRAY's own Jeremy Peterson is DJing!
FIVE BUCKS!
Come dig through the crates of 25 Venders, (buy a record from your favorite DJ!)
XRAY.FM DJs playing the whole time. Happy hour specials and a percentage of proceeds go to XRAY.FM
3-4pm- XRAY DJs ONLY
4-7pm Open to the public
THIS IS A RAD BENEFIT FOR THE STATION XRAY.
EYELIDS record release show with PHANTOM SHIPS AND WIMPS!
Show is $10 and listeners will find chances to win pairs of tickets right here on some fine XRAY.FM radio shows
Eyelids say:
Hey everyone... if you are in Portland on Friday June 26th come on down to celebrate the release of our new 12" EP along with the mighty Phantom Ships and the always amazing power that be Wimps (they hail from Seattle). We're looking forward to playing some new songs and also some of those five month old "classics" as well... Hope to see you there!
“Scholars of sunshine pop” - Keith Cameron, Mojo
"A whirlwind of tangled acoustic and electric guitars that gets stuck in your head and continues to spin long after the tune is over" – NPR Heavy Rotation
Portland band Eyelids have a collective history creating music for some of the most legendary indie songwriters. Longtime friends and principle songwriters John Moen (Decemberists) and Chris Slusarenko (Guided by Voices, Boston Spaceships) channel their teenage Paisley Underground obsession and love of New Zealand / Flying Nun guitar buzz into a sound they describe as, “sweet melodies and bummer vibes.”
Immediately following sold-out pressings of three 7” and the 2014 full length 854, Eyelids will release a new self-titled EP on June 23 (Jealous Butcher / Schizophonic Records). Produced by Peter Buck, Eyelids will be available digitally and limited edition colored vinyl with a download card featuring three exclusive live videos (including Stephen Malkmus performing “Hey Joe” w/ Eyelids).
GET YOUR TICKETS BY CLICKING HERE!
FOODWARS 8 annual music & comedy festival + food drive to benefit hungry children
Bring a can of food!
Join us as we showcase a collection of the best local musicians and comics
to raise non-perishable food items for children via ImpactNW and the SUN School program, which targets childhood hunger in the classroom.
Our annual event pits artists of varying disciplines against each other to see who’s fanbase can generate the most generous response to the very serious realities of childhood food insecurities.
The winner will be named 2015 King/Queen of the Hungry in a lavish ceremony.
This is our eighth year hosting this wonderful event and we are proud to say we have raised over 50,000 cans of food during that time.
The Chicharones
The Sexbots
Bad Habitat
Proper KnocksKing GhidoraAugust in Blue (featuring Naomi T)
Tragedy
Ice Water Recordz
and comics:
Adam PasiBelinda Carroll
BoomerRissa Riss
Lance Edwards
Scott Von Wald
June 19-22nd It's WTF!
XRAY FM is proud to be a sponsor of this year's What the Festival. What The Festival features a giant splash pool, an illuminated forest art work, hookah lounge, spa oasis and live performances on 5 stages from over 80 electronic musicians including Big Gigantic, Odesza, Griz, Keys N Crates and more.
The rest of the line-up and ticket information can be found here!
“BURLESQUE ON MARS” COMBINES THE GLAM OF DAVID BOWIE WITH THE GLAMOUR OF THE MODERN
STRIPTEASE
The Infamous Nina Nightshade and Sophie Maltease are excited to announce "Burlesque on Mars," a tribute to the works of music and style legend, David Bowie. With a career that spans six decades, Bowie is arguably one of the most influential personae in modern pop culture. A master of reinvention and experimentation, his influence can be felt in not only music, but also film and fashion. His voice and personae ooze sexual confidence, and he helped create a new brand of theatricality with characters such as Ziggy Stardust and the Thin White Duke.
“Burlesque on Mars” will be an evening in tribute to that influence and reach. Headlined by Seattle's Iva Handfull and Ernie Von Schmaltz, this two-show extravaganza will also feature a variety of burlesque, bellydance, and singing performances by Portland and Seattle performers, including:
Baby Le'Strange
Scarlett O'Hairdye
Layne Fawkes
Nikki Lev
Sophie Maltease
Nina Nightshade
Bella Luna
Kit Katastrophic
Maggie McMuffin
and Bettie Velo
The evening will be emceed by Rebecca M Davis.
SHOW DETAILS:
Saturday, June 13, 2015 at the Funhouse Lounge
2432 SE 11th Ave, Portland, OR 97214
Early show at 7:00pm Late Show at 10:00pm
Doors to open 30 minutes before show time
Tickets available at: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1480603
$15 General Admission
$40 VIP reserved seating side tables for 2
$100 VIP reserved seating back booth tables for up to 5
XRAY FM is proud to sponsor Velvet Mood featuring Reva DeVito and Solestruck, and fundraiser for Girls Inc. Come to the night where style meets sound, a free event, June 6th at White Owl Social Club. Artists performing are Reva DeVito, Savings featuring Heartspace plus Cool Trips, Blossom, DJ Deena Bee, and DJ Roane. Fashion will be brought to you by Solestruck. And a top notch raffle to benefit Girls Inc. Find more info athttps://www.facebook.com/events/1426719084297676/
Doors at 6:30 show at 8!
On Friday June 5th -- XRAY is proud to sponsor the BACK FENCE PDX Mainstage show at Alberta Rose Theatre! True, never-been-told 7 Deadly Sins stories from returning crowd favorite LAUREN WEEDMAN -- Doris from HBOs Looking and creator and star of two sold out runs of People's Republic of Portland. JASON ROUSE -- Announcer for Live Wire Radio! Former nun MAURA DOUGHERTY, Moth GrandSLAM winner DAVID ALEXANDER and more! Advance tickets and more info at Back Fence PDX dot-com.
Featuring live performances from Modern Funk powerhouses: K-MAXX (Sweater Funk), TURQUOISE SUMMERS (Omega Supreme Records), BRIAN ELLIS (Voltaire Records)
ALL VINYL DJ SETS BY
GWIZSKI
REV. SHINES
MAXX BASS
BOBBY D
KING TIM 33
SEOUL BROTHER #1
DJs IN TWO ROOMS ALL NIGHT
Sat, MAY 30th 2015
The Liquor Store
3341 SE Belmont
DOORS AT 9PM
$7.50 PRE-SALE $10 DOOR