Together Pangea, Patsy's Rats
Recommended
This event is in the past
Fri., June 17, 6:30 p.m. 2016
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. (formerly the Analog Theater)
Hosford-Abernethy (Portland)
$10
Together Pangea emerged with the early 2010s resurgence of Southern California '90s skate punk alongside bands like FIDLAR and Wavves—bands with simple crunchy chord progressions, slurred sing-along anthems, and a stockpile of similar but nonetheless supremely catchy riffs. I first saw Together Pangea at the free all-ages festival Echo Park Rising (the LA equivalent to PDX Pop Now!), where the band filled an indoor stage with a swell of elbowing teenage bodies. Some asshole in a Thrasher magazine T-shirt stage-dove with skateboard in hand, hitting a woman in the front row in the head with the board's trucks. She started to bleed and looked faint, but couldn't get out through the crowd of people. Together Pangea stopped playing and a bouncer pulled her onstage and out the back door as frontman William Keegan told the skater boy to get the fuck out. While I don't think the band is to blame, it was a reminder that skate punk tends to attract some of the most entitled and toxic men to shows. CAMERON CROWELL