COVERS—Grab your cloves, a bouquet of gladioli, and your bummed-out heart for this evening of covers of the Smiths, Depeche Mode, and the Cure. Tribute bands This Charming Band, For the Masses, and the Xploding Boys are guaranteed to make you joyfully dance through every awkward teenage moment you cringed through the first time—don’t forget […]
Courtney Ferguson
Mercury copy chief and appreciator of the most sophisticated form of comedy: PUNS!
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Zebra Hunt (Via) Record Room–Zebra Hunt, Lubec, The Caps, 8 pm Alberta Street Public House–W.C. Beck & The Portland Country Underground, Barna Howard, 8 pm, $10 Ash Street Saloon–Rabbits, Drunk Dad, Same Sex Dictator, Prizehog, 9 pm Backspace–Dresses, Bevelers, Tess Dunn, 8:30 pm, $8 Dig a Pony–DJ Icarus, 5 pm; DJ Cooky Parker, 9 pmDisjecta–Evan […]
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It’s Happening Tonight!
DRUMS—Forget your strummy guitars and dum-dum singers and tootle-y flutes. Hot Victory has two drummers, and that’s all Hot Victory needs. Creating a booming, percussive ruckus over apocalyptic synthscapes, Caitlin Love and Ben Stoller’s weird, wild, 100 percent badass music is unlike anything you’ve ever heard. NLw/Lozen, Qui; Record Room, 8 NE Killingsworth, 8 pm, […]
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Raw Nerves (Via) Doug Fir–Nasalrod, Big Black Cloud, Raw Nerves, 9 pm, $5 Aladdin Theater–Son Volt, Colonel Ford, 8 pm, $25-30 Alberta Street Public House–Chervona, 10 pm, free Backspace–Myke Bogan, Stewart Villain, Serge Severe, 9 pm, $6, all ages Bunk Bar–Vin Blanc/White Wine, Your Rival, Wild Ones, 9 pm, $5 Hotel deLuxe–Top Down: Jour de […]
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Blogtown’s Poster of the Week
This stylish humdinger is by Thomas Bradley. Those little He-Man faces make me happy. Keep those poster recommendations coming!
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Wayward Vessel (Via) Ecotrust–Crystal Bowersox, Wayward Vessel, 5 pm Dig a Pony–Pussy Control: Nathan Detroit, DJ Freaky Outty, 9 pm East End–La Fin Absolute du Monde, Estocar, 9 pm Habesha–From The Petrified Forest, U Sco, Pardee Shorts, Gaime, 9 pm Holocene–Rigsketball Show and Tournament Finals: The Woolen Men, Wooden Indian Burial Ground, Minden, Grandparents, Gaytheist, […]
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Powerdove The Secret Society–Powerdove, Luke Wyland, Dragging an Ox Through Water, 8 pm, $7 Alhambra Theatre–Souvenir Driver, Froth, Corners, Tender Age, 9 pm, $1-3 Music Millennium–Fruition, 6 pm, free, all ages The Waypost–Grand Lake Islands, Dylan Pratt, Robin Bacior, 8 pm Egads! Scads more music listings over here!
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Writer (Via) Aladdin Theater–Heartless Bastards, Writer, 8 pm, $18.50-20 Andina–Pete Krebs, 7 pm LaurelThirst Public House–Portland Country Underground, 6 pm; Kung Pao Chickens, 9 pm, free Rose Garden–Bruno Mars, Ellie Goulding, 7:30 pm, $49.50-79.50, all ages Valentine’s–Paleo, CJ Boyd, Cairo, Wooden Indian Burial Ground, 9 pm, $3
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Seen in Portland
This podcast fan car was seen outside the Mercury office today. Courtney Ferguson I don’t know if you can read it, but the text on either side of the huge hood graphic says “Support Local Mental Health.” Which is kinda funny because I’m pretty sure none of those podcasts are local.
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Feelings (Via) Black Book–Feelings, Seance Crasher, 9 pm, free Alberta Street Public House–Brownish Black, 9 pm, free Ash Street Saloon–Danava, Lecherous Gaze, Long Knife, DJ Dennis Dread, 9 pm, $7Backspace–Joyce Manor, Merry Christmas, Lee Corey Oswald, 9 pm, $8-10, all ages Branx–Jai Ho: DJ Prashant, 9 pm, $5-10 Cathedral Park–Cathedral Park Jazz Festival: Lulu Lafever […]
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An Hour of Entertainment in 4.5 Minutes
I’m going to put this here, because I’m in love. And I can’t stop watching Janelle Monáe dance her butt off. I suspect you will share my opinion.
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Black Flag (Via) Hawthorne Theatre–Black Flag, Good For You, Piggy, 8 pm, $25-30, all ages Aladdin Theater–The GrandMothers of Invention, 8 pm, $22-25 Alberta Rose Theatre–Zinnie for Short, The Oarsman, Castle Town, 8 pm, $10 Bunk Bar–Houndstooth, Pearly Gate Music, 9 pm, $7 Crystal Ballroom–Portugal. The Man, Avi Buffalo, 9 pm, $21-23, all ages Holocene–Laid […]