#OCCUPYPINKMARTINI—The 99 percent is severely lacking in jobs, health insurance, and patriotic sing-alongs. Local faves Pink Martini and Storm Large spearhead a noontime Occupy solidarity rally with performances of “This Land Is Your Land” and speeches from smart politicos like that commie pinko (bless his heart) Congressman Earl Blumenauer. SMPioneer Courthouse Square, SW 6th & […]
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Courtney Ferguson Vinny would like you to have a super bananas Halloween. Backspace—Kathryn Calder, Like a Villain, 9 pm, $10-12, all ages Club 21—Skitface, Motley Crude, The Two Tub Men, Drugs Party, 9 pm Doug Fir—Mr. Gnome, Boats, Paper Upper Cuts, 9 pm, $8 East End—King Tuff, The Suicide Notes, Guantanamo Baywatch, Still Caves, 9 […]
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ATTN Footies: Halloween Footnight Tonight!
Halloween Footnight—Not Skullnight I had a surprisingly pleasant and informative time at the foot-fetish night at Angels when I went to Footnight as part of our semi-successful summertime Discomfort Zone blog series. So let me throw Catherine de Sade & Co. a foot plug (not available at Fantasy for Adults) for their Halloween-costumed foot-fetish party […]
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Don’t Talk to the Cops (Via) Mt. Tabor Theater—Don’t Talk to the Cops, Big Digits, 9 pmBurgerville (SE Hawthorne)—Tango Alpha Tango, Tiger House, Hollywood Tans, 6 pm, free, all ages Dante’s—Dwarves, Zeke, American Friction, 9 pm Ella Street Social Club—Hey Lover, The Royals, Hoops, 8 pm, $5 Mississippi Studios—Grouper, Daniel Menche, Port St. Willow, 9 […]
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Friday: Ground Kontrol’s “Halloween Extravaganza”
Ground Kontrol What better way to celebrate Halloween than as the ancient pagan tribes did? With alcohol, nachos and Virtua Cop 2! This Friday, Ground Kontrol, Portland’s favorite purveyor of all things intoxicant and nostalgically pixelated, is hosting “Giga-Fright.” As usual the full press release is beyond the jump, but in short Giga-Fright is a […]
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Halloween Hauntings
We covered a lot of ground in our Destination Halloween column this week (coming to an internet near you today), but here’s a few perennial favorites for your Halloween hauntings: Baron Von Goolo What has become of Olive? FrightTown at the Rose Garden, daily through Oct. 31, 7 pm, $20. It’s three separate haunted exhibits […]
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LOCKOUT—Dry those tears, basketball fans. While it doesn’t look like the Trail Blazers are going back on the court anytime soon, you can smother that sadness with a screening of 1978’s Fast Break, a vérité-style documentary of the championship ’77 team, and remember the days that used to be. Rip… (sniff) City…? Sob. NLHollywood Theatre, […]
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Check Yo Ponytail, dawg Branx—Check Yo Ponytail: Spank Rock, The Death Set, Big Freedia, Pictureplane, Franki Chan, 7 pm, $20 $15, all ages Alberta Rose Theatre—Lindsay Clark, Ezza Rose, Duover, 8 pm, $10 Holocene—Shellac, Helen Money, 8:30 pm, $12 The Know—The Bi-marks, Tit Pig, Doom Patrol, DJ Ken Dirtnap, 8 pm LaurelThirst Public House—Black Prairie, […]
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BLUE SKIED AN’ CLEAR—Even as rock music constantly seems to reinvent itself, writers may never tire of Springsteen and Dylan comparisons. The War on Drugs take those expectations for a ride into shoegazer territory, and the results on their newest album, Slave Ambient, are inspired and anthemic. WEw/Purling Hiss, Carter Tanton; Bunk Bar, 1028 SE […]
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Purling Hiss (Via Stellar Four) Bunk Bar—The War on Drugs, Purling Hiss, Carter Tanton, 9 pm, $10-12 Ash Street Saloon—A Happy Death, The Lockouts, Outer Space Heaters, 9:30 pm, free Doug Fir—Felice Brothers, Gill Landry, 9 pm, $16 Holocene—Hello Electric, Sons of Huns, Steaming Satellites, Turbo Perfecto, 8:30 pm, free Mississippi Studios—Milagres, Lookbook, XDS, 9 […]
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TOMMY SR.—Rock legend and lead singer for the Who, Roger Daltrey, visits Portland to sing the songs of his band’s most famous work, the rock opera Tommy. Will the jaunty 67-year-old be swinging his mic stand around with reckless abandon, or scooting around on a Rascal croaking “Pinball Wizard”? Let’s assume the former. WSHRose Garden, […]
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Roger Daltrey (Via) Rose Garden—Roger Daltrey, 7:30 pm, $40.50-100, all ages Bunk Bar—Tyler Ramsey, Mbilly, 8 pm Mississippi Studios—Maria Taylor, Big Harp, Dead Fingers, 9 pm, $12 Valentine’s—John Heart Jackie, Duover, 9 pm