We Out Here Magazine and XRAY.FM present
THE THESIS | June 2nd, 2016
celebrating our photographer Renée Lopez's birthday
our line-up this month features...
Mic Capes Music
Maze Koroma
STRAY
SamuelThe1st
with guest DJ TROX Diesel
+ a special guest
$5 at Kelly's Olympian in Portland, OR for First Thursday. 21+. Make sure to get out there early, as The Thesis tends to sell out quickly!
Full schedule at www.creativemusicguild.org/isp
June 2-4, 2016
Presenting:
Ava Mendoza (solo and with Halfbird)
Vinny Golia (solo)
Tahni Holt and Luke Wyland (Performance)
Vinny Golia/Ava Mendoza/Thollem McDonas Trio
Rich Halley 4 w. Vinny Golia - CD release!
John Gross Trio
Catherine Egan and Doug Theriault (Performance)
Pebble Trio
Stephanie Trotter (Performance)
PJCE with Holland Andrews
Jesse Mejia and Taka Yamamoto (Performance)
Battle Hymns & Gamble
Pure Surface: A Tonal Service (large ensemble of movement and voice curated by Pure Surface)
Juniana Lanning
Thick in the Throat Honey
Danielle Ross (Performance)
Golden Retriever
I’d Rather Not Talk About it
Consumer
CHOIR
With workshops by Vinny Golia and Thollem McDonas!
Panel Discussion with Reed Wallsmith, Matt Hannafin, Ava Mendoza, Claudia Savage, Ben Kates, more.
Course Description
This 3-part workshop will focus on the basic understandings of operating and manipulating turntables, mixers, and a power amplifier (PA) in the context of creating a live DJ mix.
We will begin by introducing the basics behind these pieces of gear, both individually and their relationship to each other. Next, our focus will turn to practical listening as we work to comprehend rhythms and the ways our records work together to create a momentum of sound. These two basic tools of DJing – electronic hardware and human intuition – will be reconciled in the final session as we identify systems for sequencing records in a live setting.
We will discuss ways of training our bodies to react to our ears and translate those reactions to the turntable & mixer. Core concepts touched on include beat-matching, identifying tempos, and developing an identity as a dj based on each individual’s tastes and strengths.
Each week, in addition to the guided session, there will be a day of open equipment hours to practice the concepts that were taught in each class.
Bio
John Kammerle is a DJ and producer based in Portland, Oregon. John received a BA in Audio Engineering from the Evergreen State College in 2009. He currently works as a teacher at Ethos Music Center in North Portland with a focus on digital music composition and beat making for middle school students. John performs regularly in and around the Pacific Northwest under the moniker, Rap Class.
Enrollment
Introduction to DJing is a 3 part series with open deck nights included in cost of class. There will be 3 different sessions, June, July, and August. Students are not required to bring any material, but are encouraged to bring their own music on vinyl. You must be at least 16 years old to enroll. If you are a minor, please contact us for further instructions: s1portlandinfo@gmail.com
June Session
Monday June 6
Monday June 13
Monday June 20
Open Deck Nights: Wednesday June 8th, 15th, and 22nd
All Classes are from 6:30pm-8:30pm & Open Deck nights 6:30-8:00pm
July & August Sessions also available
Visit our website for more details www.s1portland.com/workshops
Performers and Shows Announced!
"We’re proud to present the preliminary lineup for the ninth installment of the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, taking place June 1-5, 2016. With performances from recent Golden Globe and Critics’ Choice Award-winner Rachel Bloom of CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Oscar nominee Aimee Mann, rock legend Ted Leo, long-form improv from alums of SNL, Best in Show and The Office, and standup from greats including Eddie Pepitone, Martha Kelly, Matt Braunger, Baron Vaughn and Karen Kilgariff, this year’s fest is not to be missed. Tickets go on sale soon, with festival passes and select individual show tickets available for purchase.
Stay tuned for more lineup announcements over the coming weeks, and in the meantime browse our list of performers and shows to see what’s in store for this year’s Bridgetown, and we’ll see you in June!" -Bridgetown
The sound of summer is coming to Midtown Ballroom on June 1st in the form of eight-time Grammy winning Reggae producer, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Stephen Marley. Marley is hitting the road for his 30-city tour which begins next weekend (May 26-July 24) in support of his fourth studio album, Revelation Part II: The Fruit of Life, releasing July 22.
Stephen "Ragga" Marley is the second eldest son of reggae legend Bob Marley and Rita Marley. He was raised in Kingston, Jamaica and started singing professionally at seven-years old with his elder siblings Ziggy, Sharon and Cedella as The Melody Makers. The singer, songwriter, musician and producer has consecutively landed #1 on the U.S. Billboard Reggae Album Chart for all of his solo albums and has earned a total of eight Grammys for Best Reggae Album. He won this accolade as a solo artist for Mind Control, Mind Control Acoustic and Revelation Part I: The Root of Life, as producer for Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley’s Half Way Tree and Welcome To Jamrock and as a member of Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers for Conscious Party, One Bright Day and Fallen Is Babylon. The multi-talented artist has been steadily releasing music since his last album Revelation Part I: The Root of Life (2011) and is gearing up for his Spring 2016 album Revelation Part II: The Fruit of Life. Off the album, he has two new songs available on iTunes, including "Rock Stone" ft. Capleton & Sizzla and "Ghetto Boy " ft. Bounty Killer & Cobra (which captures the perpetuating cycle of violence and crime that can start from an early age). Marley shines as a live performer, beaming with the color and spirit of modern Reggae.
"Ghetto Boy" by Stephen "Ragga" Marley ft. Bounty Killer & COBRA; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyP3cojSe1w
“Rock Stone” ft. Sizzla and Capleton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laMMLQfnySw
It's the 1st Annual Portland Horror Film Festival, featuring the very best independent horror from all genres of cinematic terror, from the folks behind the Portland H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival and Zompire: The Undead Film Festival. From supernatural horror to dark fantasy and everything in between. You might see some Cosmic Horror, you might see some Zombies and Vampires, but you’ll also probably see monsters from outer space, demons, devils, cabins in the woods, possession, cannibals, parallel dimensions, and anything else that might go bump in the aisles.
More importantly, you’ll get a look at terror you won’t likely ever see elsewhere, made by the new faces of horror from across the planet. How would you like to be there to see the newest horrors from not only Europe, but from Asia and the Middle East? This is stuff you’re not going to see at the multiplex.
Having been the subject and willing conspirator of many intentional lies planted in Sonic Youth bios over the years, I know first hand the way album lore can bend reality to its truth. After the infamous Byron Coley originated the SY "Trilogy" myth in the Murray Street bio, we had no choice but to fulfill those expectations with Sonic Nurse. "Why did you decide to make a trilogy?" was always the first question asked in interviews around that time.
b'lieve i'm goin down.
Tim Heidecker was born and raised in Allentown, PA. As a freshman film student at Temple University he met Eric Wareheim. After graduation they continued to work together on short films and strange bits of comedic nonsense. One of their first pieces was Tom Goes to The Mayor, which made its way into various film festivals. Fueled by Tom’s success Tim and Eric began sending their tapes to their comedic heroes in Hollywood. One of those recipient’s being Bob Odenkirk who loved what he saw and helped to develop their ideas into a TV show. Through a chance meeting they were able to get their tapes to the senior vice president of Adult Swim, Mike Lazzo. He loved the stuff and they were immediately given the funds for development. Tim and Eric used some of the money to move to Hollywood where they worked on the show for a two season, 30 episode run. Tim later went on to again collaborate with Eric Wareheim on their next show, the Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Which aired five seasons on Cartoon Network. Tim and Eric also created a spin off show starring John C. Reilly called Check It Out! With Dr. Steve Brule, which has run for two seasons. Tim has also collaborated with Eric on big budget commercials for brands like Old Spice, Red Stripe, and Boost Mobile. In 2012 Tim co-wrote, directed, and starred in his first feature film, Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie, which was produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay. Tim’s most recent collaboration with Eric was for an anthology series, Tim and Eric’s Bedtime Stories. Season two premiered in November of 2015 with two new half hour specials for Adult Swim. The series included guest stars such as John C. Reilly, Jason Schwartzman, and Zach Galifianakis in a dark stylistic departure from their usual comedy shows. Tim also has a musical side project Heidecker & Wood with Davin Wood, the composer of all things Tim and Eric. Heidecker & Wood's second album "Some Things Never Stay The Same" was released in November of 2013 and they continue to play live shows and work on new music together.
Galaxy My Dear & Beacon Sound present Finnish Songstress/Composer Lau Nau. with support from (Visible) Cloaks and DJ Galaxy My Dear.
Laura Naukkarinen, aka Lau Nau is one of the more interesting names in the Finnish music scene - a singer-songwriter, producer and film music composer. Her songs are imbued with a cinematic breadth of vision and her idiosyncratic, finely honed soundworld builds on fragile, spectral otherness. Her fourth album ”HEM. Någonstans” (Fonal records 2015) takes us to the fleeting borderline between contemporary classical and experimental music.
Lau Nau’s first solo albums were released in the US (Locust music 2005 & 2008). She has been touring around world ever since both solo and withher band that includes such Finnish musicians as Pekko Käppi, Jaakko & Antti Tolvi and Niko Karlsson. Lau Nau has opened for Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Lee Ranaldo in Helsinki on the bands' request, and played dates in New York and San Francisco, Super Deluxe in Tokyo, and Shanghai Expo in China to name a few.
The debut album, ‘Kuutarha’, won acclaim from the likes of Pitchfork and Dusted, with The Wire naming the LP in their top 50 albums of 2005, and citing her Philadelphia show of that year amongst “60 concerts that shook the world”. Lau Nau’s third album ‘Valohiukkanen’ (Fonal records 2012), was nominated for a series of prestigious music prizes in Finland like the Teosto prize.
During the past years, Naukkarinen has been composing music for films, theatre, dance and sound installations. She accompanies silent films live and composes music for feature films. Her original music score for Jan Forsström’s feature film ”Princess of Egypt” was nominated for the Jussi movie prize in Finland 2014.
A.E.P. Presents:
TORO Y MOI (dj)
B2B
NOSAJ THING (dj)
+ Nathan Detroit
9pm / 21+ / $15
Tickets
http://abstractearthproject.com/
Pulsar and The Hollywood Theatre present Jesse Sugarmann as part of our free public artist talk series at the theatre, FutureForum.
Jesse Sugarmann is an interdisciplinary artist working in video, photography, performance, and sculpture. His work engages the automotive industry as a manufacturer of human identity, accessing automotive history as an index of both cultural progress and social development. Sugarmann has exhibited work both nationally and internationally in venues such as the Getty Institute, Los Angeles; el Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Oregon; the Banff Center, Canada; Filmbase, Ireland; Human Resources, Los Angeles; Michael Strogoff, Marfa; el Museo de Arte Moderno de Santander, Spain; Drift Station, Omaha; Spirit Abuse, Albuquerque; Fugitive Projects, Nashville; the Bakersfield Museum of Art, California; the 21c Museum, Louisville; the Knockdown Center, New York; High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree; Space 538, Maine; Southern Exposure, San Francisco; the True/False Festival, Missouri; and both the Paris and Berlin exhibitions of Les Recontres Internationales. Sugarmann’s work has been written about in publications including ArtForum, Art Papers, the Atlantic, Hyperallergic, Art Fag City, Frieze Magazine, the Huffington Post and The New York Times. He lives and works in Bakersfield, CA and is represented in Portland by Fourteen30 Contemporary.
Red Cube & AEP present Kaytranada.
Born in Haiti and raised in the city of Montreal, Canadian artist Kaytranada has experienced an explosive rise in the past couple of years with his irresistible production and live sets. Before touring the globe and amassing millions of hits online with his series of beloved tracks and mixes, the young man came up as a true disciple, absorbing hip hop and RnB culture since his childhood and finding ways to make the music his own.
Doors Open @ 10pm
21+ w/ Valid I.D.
À reading is a reading.
Let's all hang out at Valentine's on the last Sunday of May to enjoy performances by Amy Lam, Jamondria Marnice Harris, A.M. O'Malley, Elizabeth Hall, and Robert Torres.
a standard uptown toodeloo
Post Moves is releasing new tunage to unsuspecting groovers - join 4 fun times; either in a basement setting or backyard BBQ jamboree...confirmed locale will be confirmed closer to date
joined by homies providing success to eardrums, Philip Grass --->> https://droppinggems.bandcamp.com/album/find
Mystery World Science Show, said album, will be available in following legitimate, commercial formats :
TAPE CASSETTE
12" VINYL RECORD
For more information + updates: https://www.facebook.com/events/567492913414138/
The river of soul music flows on deep and strong, and 25-year-old Leon Bridges is immersed in its life-giving current. The Forth Worth, Texas native and Columbia Records artist released his debut album, Coming Home, in the summer of 2015. "I'm not saying I can hold a candle to any soul musician from the '50s and '60s," Bridges says, "but I want to carry the torch."
Humility aside, Bridges' light is burning bright. Following the October 2014 release of two tunes that set the on-line world aflame, and accompanied by intimate solo shows from London to Los Angeles and Nashville to New York, the singer and songwriter has proved himself a rare talent who can do smoldering ballads and elemental rock'n'roll with equal aplomb. While he appears to have emerged cut from the cloth and fully formed, Bridges explains in his dulcet voice how he came to be here now.
"As a kid I grew fascinated with modern R&B. In high school I'd try singing songs by Ginuwine and Usher," he explains, "and I thought well, maybe they weren't in my range." Instead, a lithe, nimble physicality led Leon to study dance at Tarrant County College in Fort Worth. "I'd been doing hip-hop dance since I was 11 years old," he says. "I knew there was a dance program there, and I started diving into ballet and jazz and modern technique and learning choreography. I thought that's what I wanted to do."
Native inspiration soon diverted his path. "A friend of mine brought his keyboard to school every day, and we'd have these little jam sessions, improvising, and I started to find my voice." One day a female friend asked Bridges to look after her guitar while she went to class. "I asked her to show me a couple chords first. And she did: A-minor and E-minor. I fell in love with their sound, and that's when I started writing songs, from those two chords."
That Bridges compositional bedrock began in a minor mode is revealing. At a moment when popular music seems in thrall to major chord sing-alongs, the blue hues of Bridges' tunes embrace a subtlety that feels wholly refreshing. "Based on my innocence on guitar and my lack of knowledge of the technical side, my songwriting is something I have to make on-point with melody and delivery to make it shine," he explains.
With a few early compositions tucked under his belt, a seeming dichotomy surfaced: Bridges’ tunes sounded less like the modern R&B he’d grown up loving than a style he was, in fact, not very familiar with: classic soul. Furthermore, Bridges’ sleek, fastidious fashion sensibility dovetailed with the songs he was writing. He began a tenderfoot period of apprenticeship playing coffeehouses in and around Fort Worth, slowly finding and refining his voice.
A turning point soon came via a pair of selvedge trousers. One night at an Austin bar Bridges was approached by a young woman who complimented him on his snazzy Wrangler's and said that he should meet her boyfriend, a fellow with a comparable sense of style. Her boyfriend turned out to be Austin Jenkins of the band White Denim. "I hadn't heard of White Denim at the time," Bridges says, "but I went and looked them up and thought yeah, that's interesting music." After Jenkins and his bandmate Joshua Block subsequently peeped Bridges perform at a low-key local show, they insisted Leon enter the studio to cut a few tracks on their burgeoning bank of vintage equipment.
That initial three-day session, with Jenkins and Block producing, yielded the recordings that set Bridges at the center of rapturous attention from aficionados and labels alike. The buttery, seductive "Coming Home" and the piston-driven, doo-wop flavored "Better Man" demonstrated Bridges' versatility. Inking with Columbia Records, whose roster includes a certain hero named Bob Dylan, was the outcome of courtship and deliberation. "Columbia has artists I look up to like Adele and Pharrell, as well as Raphael Saadiq and John Legend," says Bridges. "They way they value artistry makes it feel like home."
The early 2015 release of another new song, "Lisa Sawyer," has further burnished Bridges' promise. With its brushed snares and glowing brass, "Lisa Sawyer" is a remarkably assured offering from so young a talent. The song, about Bridges' mother, a woman "with the complexion of a sweet praline," has the flavor of one of Allen Toussaint's productions for the great Lee Dorsey. Connecting the sacred and the secular, "Lisa Sawyer" feels natural considering Bridges' churchgoing childhood. And by writing with specificity about his own family, Bridges is creating resonant work about the African-American experience.
"I have a lot of insecurities because I don't have a big powerhouse voice," he admits. "I'm not a shouter. I rely on phrasing to get my feeling across." Bridges' delivery exudes strength through tenderness. "I guess that's why I connected with Sam Cooke."
The name Sam Cooke has appeared frequently in Bridges' early notices in the press. The point of comparison is apt, but not initially intentional. "When I wrote 'Lisa Sawyer' I didn't know anything about old soul music," Leon says. "I was asked 'Is Sam Cooke one of your inspirations?' I had to say no, because I only knew Sam Cooke's 'A Change Is Gonna Come' from the movie Malcolm X, which I'd watched with my father. But from being asked about Sam Cooke and Otis Redding I started digging deeper into soul music from the '50 and '60s and realizing this is really the root of what I'm doing."
What to make of the fact that Bridges is working in a tradition whose existence he was initially only vaguely aware of? "It speaks to the gift God placed in me," Leon says, choosing his words carefully. "It humbles and wows me to think I was pulling from something I didn't really know about."
In the striking black-and-white images that have accompanied Leon's emergence, one photograph stands out. It depicts Bridges sauntering down a sunlit sidewalk, his shadow falling not behind him but stretching out in the direction of his forward stride. The implication is that Bridges is not walking away from the past, but moving forward with both family history and the tradition of soul music in full view. His ancestors and antecedents walk with him. "They're with me at all times," affirms Bridges. Steeped in tradition, drenched with intention and desire, Leon Bridges' soul music is happening here and now.
Sleep paralysis plagues singer/songwriter Chelsea Wolfe, and that strange intersection of the conscious and the unconscious has inadvertently manifested itself within her work. Across the span of her first four albums, there is an underlying tension, a distorted and nebulous territory where dark shadows hover along the edges of the sublime and the graceful. But until now, Wolfe’s trials and tribulations with the boundaries between dreams and reality have only been a subconscious influence on her work. With her fifth album, Abyss, she deliberately confronts those boundaries and crafts a score to that realm she describes as the “hazy afterlife… an inverted thunderstorm… the dark backward… the abyss of time.”
Get tickets: http://bit.ly/CWolfePORT2016
QUEER HIP HOP DANCE PARTY EST. 2012
SPECIAL GUEST : Daniela Karina (Women's Beat League)
https://soundcloud.com/danielakarina
Club Secretary: KiKi
USUAL SUSPECTS:
II TRILL ( https://soundcloud.com/iitrill )
ILL CAMINO ( https://www.mixcloud.com/ill666camino/ )
H/IPH/OP/R/NB/T/RAP/B/OOTY/B/OUNCE
SAFER SPACE ENFORCED
Wheel Chair Accessible Entrance & Bathrooms (No Stairs)
21+ $5
Join an evening of discourse, observations & explorations surrounding Takahiro Yamamoto's piece, Rules of Engagement. Rules of Engagement explores the combination of physical reality in the space and fictional reality in the mind. Taka asks: Can I allow my body and mind to be open to the effect of fictional narrative? What is the line between reaction and consequence?
The Critical Engagement Series brings together audiences & choreographers in hopes to reveal some of the mystery surrounding the languages around dance & the unique practices of individual choreographers. We start with the question: What does the choreographer need at this particular moment in their process & how might this also serve the wider community?
A 20 minute video of Taka's work, followed by a discussion with Taka about what we saw and experienced.
Drinks and light snacks provided.
http://flockpdx.squarespace.com/new-events/2016/5/27/critical-engagement-series-taka-yamamoto
$5-10 sliding scale
Purity Ring is a Canadian electronic music duo formed in 2010 and originally from Edmonton, Alberta. The band consists of Megan James (vocals) and Corin Roddick (instrumentals).