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Healing Through Dance at Process PDX

The new-ish club and rave space in a SE Portland warehouse focuses on intentionality, harm reduction, and specialty sound.
Avatar photo by Kendall Porter

Stepping into Process, an underground rave club in the Watershed PDX building on SE Milwaukie Avenue, is a portal into a utopian vision of the future. The bar, tucked behind the ticket stand, faces cubic wooden benches and tables, custom-built for the space and its needs. Illuminated shapes cut out of the walls act as […]

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Turn! Turn! Turn! Lives! Lives! Lives!

After months of uncertainty, new owners take over the venerated North Portland venue.
Avatar photo by Nolan Parker

Christmas came way early yesterday, April 1, when it was announced via Instagram that the longtime venue on the corner of North Killingsworth and Williams, Turn! Turn! Turn!, has found new owners to carry on the space’s storied legacy of providing Portland with a music living room.  The news comes at a pivotal juncture in […]

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Mercury Music Picks: Homos Rejoice—Cobrah, Only Fire, Darkswoon, FKA twigs, Six Sex, and HIRS Collective Are All in Town!

Plus Portland Music News and New Music Portland!
Avatar photo by Nolan Parker

This week is big time for the homosexuals… and it’s not even June! If you a gay and like dancing, Cobrah, Only Fire, and Six Sex are your best bets. If you gay but a more alternative gay, Darkswoon’s album release and FKA twigs will scratch all your itches. If you gay but really not […]

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Spin Cycle: Three Albums of Transition and Calm in the Face of Oppression

Recent releases from The Delines, Anjimile, and Ora Cogan offer a salve in these changing times.
Avatar photo by Ryan J. Prado

If music truly is a salve for the weary heart, then I hope we’ve all been slathering it on nice and thick the past couple weeks. With the onrush of spring blossoms and the doldrums of wintertime peacing out in the rearview, it’s a time for transition, and for emphasizing the importance of breathing, of […]

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Portland Hip-Hop Fixture Idris “StarChile” O’Ferrall Has Died

Avatar photo Jenni Moore

“StarChile” Miss Lopez Media Idris “StarChile” O’Ferrall, a longtime organizer and promoter in Portland’s hip-hop scene, died today at the age of 42. O’Ferrall had been diagnosed with central nervous system lymphoma last month and underwent emergency surgery. Soon after, friend and fellow scene leader David “DJ OG One” Jackson launched a crowdsourcing campaign to […]

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Cavity Search Records Co-Founder Christopher Cooper Dead at 52

Avatar photo Robert Ham

Christopher Cooper via YouCaring Christopher Cooper, an early and active supporter of Portland’s underground rock and experimental music scenes through his independent label Cavity Search Records, died today at 52. The news comes from a press release from Denny Swofford, the co-founder of the label. Says Swofford: “The Portland music community has lost an irreplaceable […]

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