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Jenni Moore

Jenni Moore is a former music editor and hip-hop columnist and current freelancer at The Portland Mercury. She also writes about comedy, cannabis, movies, TV, and her hatred of taxidermy.
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House of Ada’s Janae Drops a Second Single, “Quit Playin”

This week’s Hear in Portland is focused on cozy shows with Night Heron and Seattle emcee Sol
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Rainy season is here. And like the springtime heat waves, it’s also gonna take a bit for our bodies to adjust to the cold, gray days. We will! But that’s why it’s so important to get cozy in the fall and hot toddy / cider our way through the transition. In this week’s Hear in […]

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Epp’s Excellence and Lollipop Shoppe’s New Life

The old Dig A Pony space has a new face, Jessie Reyez sells out the Roseland, and a MAITA show announcement!
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Portland-based Rapper Epp has an excellent new LP called “FOLD,” and after months of waiting to dance, Lollipop Shoppe opens up and shows off the new face of the old Dig A Pony space. Your favorite music columnist Jenni Moore lists all the coolest shows she wants you to Hear in Portland.

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Noche Libre DJs Spin Hey Love’s Fourth Anniversary

Hear in Portland this week: a hip-hop zine, a rooftop show for a good cause, and deets on the first ever Trap Kitchen Weekend
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In this week’s music column, Jenni Moore has all the deets Hey Love’s fourth anniversary, a new zine that profiles local rappers, a rooftop show for a good cause, and the first ever Trap Kitchen Weekend. It’s a good week to live Hear in Portland.
In this week’s music column Hear in Portland Jenni Moore has all the deets Hey Love’s fourth anniversary, a new zine that profiles local rappers, a rooftop show for a good cause, and the first ever Trap Kitchen Weekend.

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Dame D.O.L.L.A. on Fatherhood, Ural Thomas and the Pain on Mississippi

Here at HEAR IN PORTLAND, we wish you a very Harry Styles Harryween.
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Solo shows from indie folk heroes, back patio hip hop dance parties, and the heads up on a very Harry Styles Harryween Hear in Portland. You know you can rely on music columnist Jenni Moore to fill your calendar.

This week in Portland music news: Dame D.O.L.L.A. jumps on a track to discuss Fatherhood, in both a literal and figurative sense. We’ve got our eye on indie folk shows, back patio hip hop dance parties, and a very Harry Styles Harryween Hear in Portland—you know you can rely on music columnist Jenni Moore to fill your calendar.

Music columnist Jenni Moore has her eye on indie folk shows, back patio hip hop dance parties, and a very Harry Styles Harryween Hear in Portland.

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Kelly’s Olympian Launches an R&B Night, Sheer Mag Shines on Mississippi

Iamjordan and Rainezra at Kelly’s new monthly series and Milc’s Bandcamp exclusive EP are some of what you can HEAR IN PORTLAND this week.
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Get in on the post-smoke, pre-rain fall zone HEAR IN PORTLAND with a Sheer Mag show, a new monthly R&B Night series, and Milc’s brand new Bandcamp exclusive.

HEAR IN PORTLAND this week we’ve got Iamjordan and Rainezra kicking off a new monthly series at Kelly’s Olympian, Sheer Mag at Mississippi and a local rapper’s Bandcamp exclusive EP.

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Summer Cannibals Close Out the Summer, Along with Snugworth and the Dave Matthews Band

Don’t miss the best upcoming shows and great new music to put in your ears—it’s all HEAR IN PORTLAND!
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As fall draws closer, it’s time to buckle up and start looking forward to those darker, indoorsy vibes, because ’tis the season of playing club-ready anthems, pulling on your boots for rock shows, and nights-in listening to jazz and soul. Ready your mind for all of those things with this week’s Hear In Portland rundown.  […]

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Expanding the Lose Yr Mind Music Festival

Co-founder Elizabeth Elder worked to grow the music festival’s consciousness past psych rock and across multiple venues
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It’s a little bittersweet that this weekend’s Lose Yr Mind festival—which spans four venues and over 30 performances—won’t fill out a freshly renovated Lollipop Shoppe. However the festival’s longtime organizers Elizabeth Elder and Bryan Wollen (both Lollipop Shoppe co-owners) had already expanded this year’s programming to multiple venues. So, when it became apparent Lollipop (which […]

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Festival News from Lose Yr Mind and The Kidz Outside

The Last Artful, Dodgr’s debut album drops and everything else you should Hear In Portland!
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There’s only a month of summer left, and Portland is making the most of it, packing the final weeks with a bevy of music festivals: Last week, we wrote about PDX Pop Now!, which is still brightening indie venues across town. This week, we’ll catch you up on the first annual Kidz Outside Festival and […]

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