My, What A Busy Week!

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10

1977—Think 1977 was all about disco? Get ready to have
that illusion shattered with another of PBR’s insanely entertaining
all-star tribute shows. Jim Brunberg, Blue Skies for Black Hearts, Sean
Croghan, Portland Punk Rock Collective, and many more—including
surprise guests!—will be performing 1977’s best punk, pop, and,
yes, even disco! WSH
Doug Fir, 830 E Burnside, 9 pm, FREE

BLIND BULLETS—DJ Beyonda’s I’ve Got a Hole in My Soul
night is aces on a regular night, but this “Bullets Don’t Have Eyes
Edition” swings for the fences with guest experts Chad Weekly and Tony
Janda digging deep into their collections of dance-crashing rarities.
MS
Rotture, 315 SE 3rd, 9 pm, $3

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11

CHINESE ROCK—China owns our debt, stocks our stores,
and makes the tallest basketball players, so it only makes sense that
they’re getting into the rock music game. The Sing for China tour
features some of the country’s best bands—Hedgehog, Queen Sea Big
Shark, and Casino Demon—and raises money for the China AIDS
Orphan Fund. EAC
w/Panther; Artistery, 4315 SE Division, 8 pm, $6, all
ages

KINDA LIKE A BIG DEAL—Holy shit, Rotture! I realize
it’s your three-year anniversary and all, but goddamn, lining up a
Clipse show to help celebrate? I mean, Clipse! As in, one of the best
hiphop duos working today? As in, the dudes behind Hell Hath No
Fury, one of the sharpest albums of the past few years? As in, the
guys whose diamond-edged beats get stuck in your head for hours? As
in… Clipse? Holy shit. EH

w/Rev. Shines, Tre Hardson, DJ Nature, Starchile; Rotture, 315 SE
3rd, 9 pm, $25-30

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12

BLOCK PARTY—Old Town is going to be so off the hook,
the crackheads are going to think it’s the end of the world! Come down
for music (YACHT, M64, May Ling, and more) and food and retail vendors,
with proceeds going to re-erect the landmark Hung Far Low sign!
MS

NW 4th & Davis, 3-11 pm, FREE, all ages

SUNRISE—Theater season is finally starting again,
including shows at Artists Repertory Theatre and Our Shoes Are Red/the
Performance Lab. Our money, though, is on Theatre Vertigo’s The Ruby
Sunrise—a play about stories and how they are told,
from one of Portland’s finest companies. AH

Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont, Thurs-Sat 8 pm, $15, through
Oct 10

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13

LUNCH GUN—One of the most talented stand-up comics
around is the hilarious Patton Oswalt, and today is a two-pronged
Oswalt assault, with the man appearing at this afternoon’s screening of
his eagerly anticipated new film, Big Fan, at Cinema 21, before
performing one of his can’t-miss stand-up sets at the Newmark Theatre. EH
Patton Oswalt in attendance for Big Fan at
Cinema 21, 616 NW 21st, 4:30 pm, $5-6; Patton Oswalt at Newmark
Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 7:30 pm, $31

START YOUR WIENERS!—It’s time for the Summer’s End Dog
Fest, where you can watch the documentary Wiener Takes All or,
even better, watch live wiener dog races! You can even join a hot dog
eating contest (I just hate how they squirm in the bun)—plenty of
playful wieners to stroke, so what are you waiting for? PG

Grant Park Track, NE 33rd & US Grant Pl, 5-9 pm, FREE, all
ages

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14

YEAH, I’D DO THAT—Sexy, boyfriend-stealing teen queen
Miley Cyrus—not to be confused with innocent, virginal
teen queen Hannah Montana—plays the Rose Garden tonight! There
are only two kinds of people in this world: people who like Miley Cyrus
thiiiiis much (hands spread wide), and “other” people. You know who you
are. JC

w/Metro Station; Rose Garden, 1 Center Court, 7 pm, $39.50-79.50,
all ages

BIRD MAGIC—Portland’s most astounding show of the
season doesn’t have any bands or bikes or burlesque dancers—it’s
the annual nesting of the Vaux’s Swifts. Every sunset for a few weeks
during September, the massive flock of tiny birds swarm and spiral into
one brick chimney at Chapman Elementary School. Bring a picnic and a
date. SM
Chapman Elementary School, 1445 NW 26th, dusk, FREE, nightly
through Sept 30

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15

PRETTY IN PINK—Forget all these new bands trying to
sound like bands from the ’80s. Here’s the real deal: the classic
post-punk of the Psychedelic Furs and the rave-tastic Happy Mondays!
These English bands soundtracked at least some part of your life,
whether you’d care to admit it or not. NL

w/Amusement Parks on Fire; Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside, 8
pm, $25-30, all ages

EVEN HITLER HAD A GIRLFRIEND—Frank Portman spent years
lyrically cataloguing romantic mishaps as frontman of the sharp-witted
pop-punk outfit the Mr. T Experience, so his second career as a YA
author makes perfect sense. On the heels of successful debut King
Dork, Dr. Frank returns with Andromeda Klein, and a special
late-night show for his grown-up fans, where he’ll perform songs from
his new 7-inch. AH

w/Pat Kearns, Eric Peabody; Plan B, 1305 SE 8th, 9 pm, $6

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16

BLACK SHEEP BOY—Snap on that wristband and pop in those
earplugs, for tonight is the kickoff of the annual MusicfestNW
festival. No better way to start things off than a performance from one
of the best songwriters around, Okkervil River frontman Will Sheff
performing on something called the “Pearl Vodka Stage,” whatever that
is. EAC
w/Damien Jurado, Portland Cello Project, Fences; Berbati’s Pan,
10 SW 3rd, 8 pm, $15 (FREE with wristband)

STOP THAT DAMN RACKET!—Sometimes musicians just have to
put down their instruments, and tonight’s opening of the Two-Timer
exhibit features visual art by those whose work you probably hear more
often than you see. Artists include Rachel Blumberg of Norfolk &
Western, Sarah Winchester of A Weather, and Julianna Bright of the
Golden Bears. SB
w/Portland Ukulele Project; Mississippi Studios, 3939 N
Mississippi, 6-8 pm, FREE