This li’l number is by Joshua Keith Vincent. Someone should tell that blotchy man to stop strangling himself. Send your recommendations for next week’s Poster of the Week here.
Courtney Ferguson
Mercury copy chief and appreciator of the most sophisticated form of comedy: PUNS!
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Adventurous Sleeping (Via) Holocene–Holocene Turns 10: Shy Girls, Magic Mouth, Minden, Adventurous Sleeping, DJ Zack, DJ Maxx Bass, DJ E*Rock, DJ Safi, 8:30 pm, free Doug Fir–Bike Thief, De La Warr, Rare Monk, 9 pm, $6 LaurelThirst Public House–Ezza Rose, 6 pm; Laura Meyer, The Fall to Pieces, Drew Grow, 9 pm, free Mississippi Studios–Hausu, […]
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Purge Overkill
Wash Yourself Clean with a Dystopian Blood Bath!
The Purge is the latest and greatest in home-invasion blood baths.
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Pianos Become the Teeth (Via) Backspace–Tigers Jaw, Pianos Become the Teeth, Sainthood Reps, Lee Corey Oswald, 7 pm, $12, all ages Alberta Rose Theatre–Tom Brosseau, Sean Watkins, Ritchie Young, Shelly Short, 8 pm, $10 Bunk Bar–The Morals, Sam Humans, 9 pm, $3 Doug Fir–The Parson Red Heads, Desert Noises, Said The Whale, 9 pm, $8-10 […]
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!!! (Via) Bunk Bar–!!!, White Arrows, 9 pm, $15 Doug Fir–Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus Three, Peter Buck, 9 pm, $22-23 Hollywood Theatre–Fantastic Baby: The Opulent Kingdom of Contemporary K-Pop, 7 pm, $5 The Know–Young Dad, Plant Parenthood, Fake Beach, DJ Just Dave, 8 pm LaurelThirst Public House–Portland Country Underground, 6 pm; Kung Pao Chickens, […]
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Comaserfs (Via) Blue Monk–Pheasant, Comaserfs, Just Lions, 9 pm Al’s Den–Widower, 7 pm, free Club 21–DJ Hwy 7, DJ Joey, 10 pm, free Devils Point–DJ Kenoy, 9 pm, free Disjecta–Quiet Music Festival: Lori Goldston, Money Mark, Heidi Alexander, Tara Jane O’Neil, Dragging an Ox Through Water, Michael Henrickson, 7 pm, $8-18Doug Fir–Blitzen Trapper, Denver, 9 […]
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Tuxedo Gleam (Via) Rotture–Light House, Matthias Schuster, You, Tuxedo Gleam, Shadowhouse, 9 pm, $5 Al’s Den–Widower, 7 pm, free Blue Monk–Los Chicharones, 8 pm Doug Fir–Asher Fulero, Halo Refuser, Melting Pot Soundsystem, 9:30 pm, $7 Hollywood Theatre–Portland Music Video Festival, 6 pm, $7Holocene–Laid Out: Gossip Cat, Pocket Rock-it, Misti Miller, SPF666, 9 pm, $3 Valentine’s–Sublime […]
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Blogtown’s Poster of the Week
Oh, Diego Bañuelos, once again you’ve stolen Poster of the Week away from so many poster-making artists. Maybe because I’m rereading Stephen King’sThe Tommyknockers, but his Generationals piece reminds of possessed pod people, Donna Reed, and intergalactic referees. Love to see your suggestions for next week’s pick. Email ’em!
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Your Rival (Via) The Know–Divers, Big Eyes, Your Rival, 8 pm Alhambra Theatre–The Weather Machine, Sam Cooper, The Sarcastic Dharma Society, 8 pm, free Al’s Den–Widower, 7 pm, free Crystal Ballroom–Foals, Surfer Blood, Blondfire, 9 pm, $18-20, all agesDante’s–Willy Moon, Magic Mouth, 8:30 pm, $10 Hawthorne Theatre–Capital Cities, Gold Fields, DWNTWN, 7 pm, $13-15, all […]
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Cake (Via) Doug Fir–Cake, 9 pm, $39.50 Al’s Den–Widower, 7 pm, free Backspace–Eternal Summers, Dirty Looks, Atlas & the Astronaut, 7:30 pm, $8, all ages Bunk Bar–Ghost to Falco, Ghosties, 9 pm, $3 Edgefield–Caleb Klauder, Sammy Lind, 7 pm, free Mississippi Studios–Peace, Team Spirit, 9 pm, $12 Record Room–Dracula & the Cruisers, The Dad, Youthbitch, […]
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Partydogg (Via) East End–Rabbits, Big Black Cloud, Humours, Partydogg, 9 pm, free 4th Dimension–KPSU’s Spring Fling, 8 pm, $5, all ages Crystal Ballroom–Bloc Party, Bear Mountain, 9 pm, $25-28, all ages Doug Fir–Holy Ghost, Classixx, 9 pm, $15-17 Hawthorne Theatre–Danny Brown, OverDoz, TxE, 7 pm, $16-20, all ages Holocene–DJ Honey O, 5 pm, free; Damien […]
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Cars III on DVD: Get Out Your Fuckin’ Checkbook!
“Sorry it’s so fucking stupid.”—Richard Bain, co-star of Cars III, comedian, former Portlander I wasn’t sorry Cars III was so stupid. I loved how stupid Cars III was. It’s a glorious melange of yelling, nunchucks, lasers, gunfights, dead burned lesbians, and blood-spurting belly buttons. So pretty much the most inane and hysterical half hour this […]