If there’s one real regret I can report from 2016, it’s that I inexplicably missed Sleeping Beauties’ set at PDX Pop Now! Dispatches from beneath the Hawthorne Bridge were equal parts dumbfounded and horrified, as vocalist Hart Gledhill’s nihilistic performance purportedly shocked the happy-go-lucky all-ages audience. Sleeping Beauties press full-throttle through their thrashy punk paradigm, typified by the band’s self-titled debut, released earlier this year on In the Red Records. The band is comprised of members from local underground legends like the Hunches and Eat Skull, but the Beauties themselves have in a short time forged their own unpredictable niche of unabashed rock ’n’ roll filth. Don’t be like me and miss them that one time. See them play every time. RYAN J. PRADO