TICKETS | $13
AN IMMERSIVE ONE-NIGHT, THREE-BAND LIVE CONCERT THAT DARES ASK THE QUESTION:
BUT WHAT IF THERE WERE PUPPETS?
Salo Panto performing with puppeteers: Matt Hopkins, Matt Laird, Liz Ghiz
Holocene and Bogmonster Events present the 7th edition of POP + PUPPETRY, an interdisciplinary extravaganza for the eyes and ears! 3 puppeteer teams of diverse styles will be paired with 3 inventive Portland-based pop/rock groups. Each puppeteer will present an original puppet show created especially for this event and synced to the band’s music. The results should be dazzling, and help to elevate the experience of both artistic mediums when combined.
Proof of full COVID vaccination (or negative rapid COVID test) required to enter
FREE
TICKETS | $10 advance, $12 day of show
Doors 8 PM | Show 9 PM
21+ Only | Proof of COVID vaccination or Negative Test within 72 hours required for entry
Rose Tinted is the hip-hop project you didn’t know you needed. The Portland-based band is back at Holocene on Thursday, April 28th. This show is part of their Spring residency, celebrating the very best hip-hop artists in the PDX scene. Through their residency with Holocene and co-presented by XRAY.FM, Rose Tinted strives to showcase and collaborate with Portland’s finest MC’s, beat producers, DJ’s, and R&B artists. This month’s edition features Fountaine!
TICKETS | $10 pre-order, $12 at the door
Doors 8 PM
Penny Wishes are a three-piece indie/alternative rock band out of Portland, OR. The music these three create is thick with urgency and buzzing guitar jangle. RIYL Throwing Muses, Dinosaur Jr, The Breeders, and Bikini Kill.
Venues require proof of full COVID vaccination (or negative rapid COVID test), to enter the venue until further notice. More details at holocene.org/vaccine
TICKETS | $12
Doors 7 PM | Show 8 PM
21+ | Required COVID-19 vaccination proof, or proof of a negative Covid-19 test result, taken within 48 hours prior to entry.
Goon’s latest EP Paint By Numbers, Vol. 1 expands the band’s sound immensely, bringing it in a lush, freer direction, hinting at wilder things to come. Paint by Numbers 1 is the first of two EPs, done in a similar manner to founder Kenny Becker’s early Bandcamp days. Forgoing a traditional studio, Becker recorded Paint by Numbers 1 entirely at his apartment and the band’s rehearsal space, alternating between a used four track tape recorder and plugging straight into his computer interface. The songs were recorded quickly, capturing the urgency and energy with which they were written. Becker compares the songs to “sculptures or collages,” but “no less significant” to him.
Caleb Nichols is a queer writer and musician from San Luis Obispo, CA. Since 2005, Caleb's played guitar, bass, and sang in bands as disparate as DIY folk-punks the Bloody Heads, mid-2000's Pitchfork buzz band Port O'Brien, and Rogue Wave side project Release the Sunbird, not to mention his own projects, Grand Lake, CHURCHES and Soft People.
TICKETS | $16 advance, $18 day of show
TICKETS | $10 advanced, $12 day of showCalling all hip-hop fans and beat heads! Rose Tinted is the hip-hop project you didn't know you needed. The Portland-based band is back at Holocene on Thursday, March 24th. This show is part of their monthly residency, celebrating the very best hip-hop artists in the PDX scene. Through their residency with Holocene, Rose Tinted strives to showcase and collaborate with Portland's finest MC's, beat producers, DJ's, and R&B artists. Opening up the night on this one-time showcase is beat producer Calvin Valentine and Portland MC, Milc. The two will be performing tracks from their most recent album, "Tiger Milc," for the first time live!Rose Tinted is dedicated to producing live-sampled beats, flipping classic hip-hop joints to pay tribute to the classic boom-bap sound. Rose Tinted provides hip-hop lovers with the nostalgia of their favorite DJ set combined with the incredible musicianship and creativity. If you consider yourself a hip-hop fan, you should get used to making their monthly residency a regular hang.
TICKETS | $13
Aaron Space & his Terrestrial Underlings is the musical moniker of composer/producer/multi-instrumentalist Elihu Knowles. Based in Berkeley, CA, Knowles's background as a jazz drummer deeply influences his soulful and experimental tunes. His work has often been compared to a variety of artists including Jon Bap, Sun Ra, Radiohead, King Krule, Standing on the Corner, and Rufus Wainwright.
Now, following a brief sojourn playing traditional jazz in Berlin, Germany, Knowles has returned to the states for another west coast tour. With a smaller band, he hopes to shed light on a different aspect of Aaron Space's musical universe, emphasizing its improvisatory elements to create a more captivating and continually evolving performance. He has begun production on his second full length studio album, which is expected to be completed around the end of the year.
PROOF OF COVID-19 VACCINATION OR NEGATIVE TEST REQUIRED FOR ENTRY
Doug Fir is currently requiring COVID-19 vaccination proof, or proof of a negative Covid-19 test result, taken within 48 hours prior to entry.
For full, up to date information, please visit dougfirlounge.com/covid
THIS EVENT IS 21+
TICKETS | $18 Advanced
Doors 8PM | Show 9PM
21+ | Proof of COVID vaccination or Negative Test within 48 hours required for entry
with Su Lee
Since breaking out in 2018, CHAI have been associated with explosive joy. At their live shows, the Japanese four-piece of identical twins MANA (lead vocals and keys) and KANA (guitar), drummer YUNA, and bassist-lyricist YUUKI have become known for buoyant displays of eclectic and clever songwriting, impressive musicianship, matching outfits, delightful choreography, and sheer relief.
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