COMEDY—Comedian TJ Miller is one of the best parts of Mike Judge’s great HBO series Silicon Valley—and he did an amazing job getting melted into molten lava in Michael Bay’s Trans4mers: Dinopocalypse. This weekend he comes to Portland, both with his stand-up and to do a live taping of his podcast Cashing In. EHHelium Comedy […]
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Mag-Big Lecture at MoCC Tonight (and the Explorers Club Launches Tomorrow)
The Museum of Contemporary Craft is doing a bang-up job of keeping attention trained on its ongoing Fashioning Cascadia exhibit, maintaining activity with artist residencies and lectures throughout its run (it’s set to close Oct 11). Mag-Big’s Cassie Ridgway took up the residency mantle this week (a dispatch from which you can read on MOD, […]
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Tough Love Pyle (Via) Duff’s Garage–Tough Love Pyle, 6 pm, $2; Frank Fairfield, 9 pm Al’s Den–Shelby Earl, Joseph, 7 pm, free Ash Street Saloon–Ill Lucid Onset, Matthew Heller & the Clever, Sungold, 9:30 pm, $5 Bunk Bar–Aaron Embry, 10 pm, $10Camellia Lounge–Brenda Xu, Anne-Marie Sanderson, 8 pm, $6 Ecotrust Building–Sundown Concert Series: Magic Mouth, […]
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It’s Happening Tonight!
MUSIC—The mudflap country-rock of Natural Child is perfect for kickin’ back, boozin’, tokin’, or whatever sort of trouble you feel like getting into. If your musical heart lies somewhere between the cow pastures and the punk-rock basement—but cowpunk never made a lick o’ sense to you—this Nashville trio is exactly what you’ve been looking for. […]
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Funeral Cone (Via) The Know–Terokal, Funeral Cone, Ancient Filth, Vivid Sekt, 8 pm Al’s Den–Shelby Earl, Fernando, 7 pm, free Bunk Bar–Extra Classic, Bart Davenport, 10 pm, $8 Hawthorne Theatre–Filter, Helmet, Local H, Demure, 7 pm, $22.50-25Holocene–Ladi6, Laura Ivancie, Sex Life DJs, 8 pm, $12-15 Kenton Club–Globelamp, Jeremy Burton, Whorehound, 9 pm Red & Black […]
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MUSIC—Baltimore two-piece Wye Oak have reinvented themselves with Shriek, a synth-heavy album created while drummer Andy Stack was living here in Portland. Singer Jenn Wasner ditched her guitar in favor of bass, creating an altogether new sound for her songs, which’ll no doubt take on Wye Oak’s customary live magnetism. NLw/Pattern Is Movement; Doug Fir, […]
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Prides (Via) Mississippi Studios–Magic Man, Night Terrors of 1927, Prides, 8 pm, $12 Al’s Den–Shelby Earl, Kyle O’Quin, 7 pm, free Double Dragon–Banana Stand Secret Show, 8 pm, freeDoug Fir–Wye Oak, Pattern Is Movement, 9 pm, $16-18 The Know–Mufassa, Couches, Lubec, 8 pm
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What Are You Doing this Weekend?
Alison Hallett: “Tonight I’m seeing David Huntsberger at Curious Comedy and on Sunday I’m embarrassing myself for the amusement of the internet. And I’m going to read Scott Pilgrim creator Bryan Lee O’Malley’s new graphic novel Seconds. (He’ll be at Powell’s signing copies next Friday.)” Courtney Ferguson: “Not much to report this weekend… except that […]
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TIKI MUSIC—The annual Tiki Kon is a weekend-long festival celebrating everything Polynesian kitsch—including pig roasting, pool swimming, but mostly fancy cocktail drinking. And it all starts tonight at the Tiki Kon Kickoff Party, starring surf rock legends Satan’s Pilgrims, Seattle’s Lushy, burlesque by Meghan Mayhem and Tana the Tattooed Lady… and tropical cocktails, of course! […]
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Ultra Goat (Via) Kenton Club–Black Pussy, Mothership, Ultra Goat, Disenchanter, 9 pm Bunk Bar–Amen Dunes, Axxa/Abraxas, 10 pm, $8-10 Dante’s–Dwarves, The Queers, Masked Intruder, Atom Age, 9 pm, $15 Dig a Pony–DJ Survival Skillz, Cali Mike, 5 pm; Sex Life DJs, Maxx Bass, 9 pmDoug Fir–Portland Cello Project, 9 pm, $15-17 Firkin Tavern–Prizehog, Humours, Cornered […]
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MUSIC—Ecotrust kicks off a series of four free summer sundown concerts tonight with an “all-ages dance party” from the popular Portland Cello Project. The PCP’s similar “extreme” dance parties are known to sell out quickly (shows on Friday and Saturday at Doug Fir are already full), so here’s your chance to skip the scalper’s punishing […]
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Oregon Trails (Via) Alberta Street Pub–Copper & Coal, Oregon Trails, 8 pm, $7 Black Book–Modern(-ist): DJ Troubled Youth, Ryan Biornstad, 10 pm, free Doug Fir–Small Skies, Foreign Orange, Amenta Abioto, 9 pm, $7-9 Ecotrust Building–Sundown Concert Series: Portland Cello Project, 5:30 pm, free, all ages Firkin Tavern–Astro Tan, Sam Densmore, 8 pm, free Kenton Club–Fernando, […]