MUSIC—With a springtime rash of perfect-weather days, Portland can be forgiven for jumping the gun on summer. And now that we’ve started, why stop? Here’s a beach-blanket rock ‘n’ roll show to kick off the holiday weekend, with Costa Mesa’s prolific patio-party rockers the Growlers, Portland surf-rock torchbearers Guantanamo Baywatch, and the righteous snarl of […]
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COMEDY—He’s a writer and performer on one of the funniest TV shows around (Inside Amy Schumer) and a co-host of one of the best comedy podcasts (Professor Blastoff, with the brilliant Tig Notaro). And, he sometimes does musical comedy and it isn’t annoying. Kyle Dunnigan is simply one of the most idiosyncratic comedic voices around […]
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Three Best Party Games: Nidhogg, Johann Sebastian Joust, and Towerfall
Mario Kart is so high school. (Especially now that Nintendo is losing money like crazy and Mario Kart 8 isn’t expected to get that many people to buy a Wii U). That’s okay though—we don’t have to remove games from our social equation! These days, all the cool kids are playing Nidhogg and other games […]
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MUSIC—Brilliant, underappreciated in his time, and dead too young: Discovering the work of songwriter/cellist Arthur Russell is like stumbling onto a secret you can’t believe everyone else doesn’t already know. Tonight, Portland’s finest, including Shaky Hands’ Nick Delffs and Parenthetical Girls’ Zac Pennington, justly celebrate the musician’s work with a tribute night. AHValentine’s, 232 SW […]
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Tonight in Music
Yum Yum (Via) Black Book–Yum Yum, Tre Slim, Har-1, 9 pm Blythe & Bennett Records–Slutty Hearts, 7:30 pm, free, all ages Bunk Bar–Wooden Indian Burial Ground, Old Light, Au AU, 9 pm, $6 Dig a Pony–Josh Spacek, 9 pmDoug Fir–Radiation City, Sama Dams, Wishyunu, 9 pm, $10-12 Gold Dust Meridian–Whiskey Wednesdays: Pete Krebs, Brent Martens, […]
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This Week’s Style Events
The week in engaging with your local economy: —So a little bird told me that Wildfang may be considering a move across the river from their current SE Grand fort, which one can’t imagine gets the best afternoon-shopper foot traffic. That’s where a good store party comes in handy, and these tomboys are always ready […]
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MUSIC—There’s much more to ’70s songbird Anne Murray than her anemic hits. Her 1968 debut album What About Me is a expertly crafted country classic—which makes it worthy of this month-long cover show, What About Us: An Anne Murray Tribute. Featuring members of Sallie Ford, Viva Voce, and Point Juncture, WA (and tonight’s guests Emily […]
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MUSIC—The string-laden, candy-colored wonderlands of music that violinist/looper Kishi Bashi creates in his intoxicating songs are full of pure, childlike delight. His new album, Lighght (it’s spelled that way on purpose), is a celestial orgy of sparkly, chirpy orchestral pop beamed straight down from the heavens. NLw/Plume Giant; Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell, 8:30 pm, […]
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What Are You Doing this Weekend?
Marjorie Skinner: “My weekend is a series of dangling maybes and half-commitments that mostly involve eating, but I am definitely going to a birthday party at Tiga, whose bar snacks I’ve been missing. Tomorrow I’m going to spend some time in the vegetable patch with a friend who’s actually good at gardening (I’m still pretty […]
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MUSIC—If you haven’t noticed, the rise of Compton-based rapper YG has been meteoric. Bouncing onto the scene in 2008, YG’s breakout really got hopping with “Toot It and Boot It” (with LA’s Ty Dolla Sign), and now Def Jam has released his debut album, My Krazy Life—whose lead single “My Nigga” is a bumping and […]
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Tonight in Music
The Secret Sisters (Via) Crystal Ballroom–Nickel Creek, The Secret Sisters, 8 pm, all ages Al’s Den–Sloan Martin, 7 pm, free Branx–Floor, Thrones, Hot Victory, Norska, 7:30 pm, $12, all ages Bunk Bar–Survival Knife, Hungry Ghost, 10 pm, $8-10 Doug Fir–Loop, Kinski, 9 pm, $15-17 Eagles Lodge–Shout!: DJ Hippie Joe, The Silver Fox, DJ Little Miss […]
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Win Tickets to Late Night Action w/Andy Baio, AppCamp for Girls’ Jean MacDonald, and Weinland’s Adam Shearer
The Mercury is proud to sponsor home-grown talk show Late Night Action with Alex Falcone, featuring Merc columnists Falcone and Bri Pruett. It’s a funny, well-balanced show, with music, comedy, and legitimately thoughtful interviews with interesting locals.* This Saturday’s installment of the show is technology themed: It features Andy Baio—we recently wrote about his already-successful […]