There are so many nice people in Portland—and to those people, we say, “thank you.” However, there are some terrible, awful people as well, and if you’re one of them… YOU CAN WIN $300 CASH MONEY! And all you have to do is enter our “I’m the Worst Person in Portland” essay contest! Here’s how […]
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Win Tickets to Widmer’s Craft Brewers Conference Party with the Thermals!
The Craft Brewers Conference is coming to Portland next week. It’s a conference with thousands of craft brewers and professionals converging on Portland for several days of events, meetings, and parties, all centered around good ol’ beer. While it’s geared toward industry professionals, local breweries and pubs have scheduled a full slate of tastings and […]
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Yo! You Still Have Time to Win a HUGE Wildfang Prize Package
If you missed the memo on Wildfang‘s anniversary shenans this week, it’s not for lack of effort. The huge, free bash they’ve got planned easily made it into our weekly event picks, for one thing, and the tomboy-servicing clothing retailer also hit us up for a pretty amazing giveaway that you can still enter to […]
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Win Tickets to Twerps!
Benjamin Lichtenstein [UPDATE: This contest is closed and the winner has been notified.] Twerps! Even their name is fun to say. Twerps, Twerps, Twerps. The Australian band is playing at Mississippi Studios this Thursday, April 2, and while you’ll be able to read all about them in tomorrow’s Mercury, here’s something for RIGHT NOW: We’re […]
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Win a Pair of VIP Tickets to Saturday’s Back Fence PDX!
In a town that’s crawling with live storytelling events, Back Fence PDX is one of Portland’s warmest and funniest, and you could go this weekend! For free! And even better, you can impress your bookish date with VIP tickets, because we’re raffling off four pairs of ’em for Saturday’s show. The night’s theme is “Something […]
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Premiere! Watch Mimicking Birds’ Gorgeous New Video and Win Tickets!
[UPDATE: This contest is closed and the winner has been notified.] Here’s the gorgeous new video from Mimicking Birds, for their striking, meditative “Bloodlines,” a track from last year’s LP EONS. Directed by Spencer Gentz, the video follows a mysterious orb with otherworldly powers, coming into contact with humankind as a portal to other dimensions. […]
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Free Generationals Tickets AND Vinyl for You
Akasha Rabut New Orleans duo Generationals came to Oregon to record their new album, Alix, with Richard Swift. And now they’re returning to the Beaver State for two shows at the Doug Fir on Sunday! We’re giving away a pair of tickets to the late show PLUS a vinyl copy of Alix to a lucky […]
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Win Tickets to PSU’s Portland State of Mind Concert
PSU’s Portland State of Mind is a 10-day celebration of events and community that kicks off tomorrow. And on Saturday night, there’s a special all-ages show at the Smith Memorial Student Union Ballroom that’s been put together by the good folks at Banana Stand Media. The bill includes Radiation City, Hustle & Drone, TxE, and […]
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Win Tickets to Ex Hex
Jonah Takagi Ex Hex is the DC-based band of Mary Timony (Wild Flag, Helium), Laura Harris (the Aquarium), and Betsy Wright, and their first album Rips—which came out this week on Merge—is dy-no-mite. Take a listen to opening track “Don’t Wanna Lose” and hear for yourself. Hey, Ex Hex is playing on Thursday at Mississippi […]
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Win Tickets to Merchandise and Lower
Tomorrow night Tampa, Florida, and Copenhagen, Denmark, come together at last when the bands Merchandise (Tampa) and Lower (Copenhagen) perform at Mississippi Studios. With their lush, lovely new album After the End, Merchandise has honed the sharp, post-punk pop that stemmed from the unlikely place of the Tampa storage-unit hardcore scene. (For more on Merchandise’s […]
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Win Tickets to PAWS
Martin Barker The three gentlemen of Scottish band PAWS really know how to make good music—they’re so good that we dribbled all over ourselves about them in this week’s Mercury in multiple places. This was in addition to the longer article we ran back in April, just before the group’s splendid second album Youth Culture […]
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Win Tickets to Owen Pallett and Avi Buffalo
Peter Juhl (left); Renata Raksha (right) Owen Pallett, Avi Buffalo This Wednesday night, September 10, Owen Pallett and Avi Buffalo are gracing the Doug Fir stage. Pallett’s new album In Conflict marries digital sounds with natural classical-music timbres with highly emotive results, finding room for contributions from Brian Eno along the way. And Avi Buffalo’s […]