Date: Wednesday, August 21st
Time: 9pm - Midnight
Admission Price: $10
Location: Kelly’s Olympian 426 SW Washington St, Portland, OR 97204
Scheduled to perform:
Date: Wednesday, August 21st
Time: 9pm - Midnight
Admission Price: $10
Location: Kelly’s Olympian 426 SW Washington St, Portland, OR 97204
Scheduled to perform:
Presenting the Portland Shines Summer Concert Series featuring sets by: SA-ROC, Raquel Divar, Brown Calculus, KayelaJ, Lisa Vasquez, Amenta Abioto
Hosted by:
Vanessa Dawn
Doors at 8pm 21 +
$20 advance $25 door
Tasty's Potent Edibles and Nectar Cannabis have gathered a powerful all-female lineup for their second concert this summer in celebration of female empowerment and great music. Headlining is the goddess emcee herself Sa-Roc.
We aren’t the first to mix music, comedy, and cannabis, but with Sa-Roc in the building, a very special and diverse mix of top local talent, comedian Vanessa Dawn hosting and a weed bus parked outside of the venue free to use by attendees, we think Rose City will be blessed with unforgettable experiences.
All attendees will have a chance to win freebies and cash prizes by Coinlotto. DJ Mami Miami will begin and end the night out with a dance party in celebration of all goddesses.
Sa-Roc:
Sa-Roc has carved out her own lane through a combination of airtight wordplay and intelligent concepts. She made waves last year with the release of “Forever”, quickly racking up 400k streams on Spotify and over 2M views on YouTube. A voice Okayplayer.com proclaimed “one of the most formidable microphone mavens in the game.” She is scheduled to release her new album this year and word has it that she may be performing some of her new songs.
Now in its sixth year, Montavilla Jazz Festival is a two-day festival that showcases the freshest, most exciting original compositions from Portland’s eclectic and vibrant jazz scene.
Taking place annually at the nonprofit performing arts space, Portland Metro Arts, MJF offers Portlanders a unique and accessible way to join Portland’s finest musicians as they chart new frontiers in jazz.
Saturday Schedule:
1:30 – Kerry Politzer: Bossa PDX
2:50 – Bryan Smith: Let Me Take You There
4:10 – Dana Reason: Torque Songs
5:30 – Charlie Porter Quintet
6:50 – Mel Brown B3 Organ Group
8:10 – Saturday Headliner: Ezra Weiss Big Band - We Limit Not the Truth of God (tickets sold separately)
Sunday Schedule:
1:30 – Kathleen Hollingsworth: Mad Love
2:50 – Ian Christensen’s Rolling House
4:10 – Sherry Alves with George Colligan
5:30 – Bobby Torres Ensemble
6:50 – CMG Sound Foundry presents Wayne Horvitz
8:10 – Sunday Headliner: Mel Brown and Gordon Lee with the PJCE (tickets sold separately)
About Montavilla Jazz Festival:
The mission of Montavilla Jazz Festival is not only to bolster Portland’s dynamic jazz culture, but also to enrich the local community. Like the neighborhood that serves as its home, MJF is a progressive, diverse, locally minded event that offers Montavilla residents an opportunity to come together, form connections and plug into Portland jazz.
Montavilla Jazz Festival earmarks a portion of each ticket sold to support jazz education programming in Montavilla public schools. Montavilla Jazz Festival is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
It's getting hot out there, you know what that means!
Save the date for this year's HEATWAVE because we're gonna keep you going aaaaalllllll day long with live music, XRAY DJ sets, tasty treats, and the best summertime vibes. Bring your beach lewks 💦
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Special performances by:
Maarquii
The Dutchess (NinaXo)
Fountaine
Reptaliens
Cat Hoch - band
L.O.X. (See My Friends Records)
Soft Cheese (members of Moon Shy)
XRAY DJ sets from:
DJ Christopher Nakayama of Beaches
DJ Shi Shi of Everyday Mixtapes
DJ The Grand Yoni of The Impact Sound - Reggae Soundsystem
DJ Kyle-Reese of VCR TV
DJ Sundae Shoes of PDX Pop Now!
with mobile ink by Inkbus Tattoo, & more!
RSVP to follow the lineup updates!
21+ // Free entry // $5-$10 suggested donation ♥
Sponsored in part by Tito's Handmade Vodka.
Join a group of vinyl enthusiasts and crate diggers as we are escorted on a coach bus from record store to record store enjoying music, food, drinks and fun.
Night Heron and Martha Stax will be celebrating a split cassette release of previously unheard music at the Doug Fir Lounge on Wednesday August 7th. The show is $10 and 21 and over, and will feature a special collaborative portion of the set. Orkis opens the show!
Tickets available here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/night-heron-tickets-64445147170
The #VanportJazzFestival honors the city of Vanport and the voices that formed our jazz community.
We intend to transform Colwood Golf Course into a cultural revival, welcoming internationally renowned artists and breathing new life into Portland jazz.
Check out the complete schedule at https://vanportjazzfestival.com/
Pickathon 2019 takes place August 2-4, 2019!
With a diverse lineup, pioneering ways in zero-waste, celebration of Portland’s food-truck culture, local breweries and wineries, six stages all with unique environments, emphasis on quality over quantity with a 3500 paid attendance capacity, family-friendly environment, and plenty of trees to surround you while you camp!
Check out the full lineup, get tickets, and plan your weekend at https://pickathon.com!
The PDX Pop Now! Festival returns on Saturday & Sunday, July 20-21. Featuring all Portland artists, the festival is free, all ages, and inclusive to all!
-- Saturday, July 20 --
12-1:40 p.m. | Friends of Noise Youth Performances
2 p.m. | Body Shame
2:40 p.m. | NEYBUU
3:20 p.m. | CobraThief
4 p.m. | BRUCE
4:40 p.m. | Coast2c
5:20 p.m. | Mane Of The Cur
6 p.m. | Brown Calculus
6:40 p.m. | Nick Delffs
7:20 p.m. | Mo Troper
8 p.m. | Pleasure Curses
8:40 p.m. | Danny Sky
9:20 p.m. | Schaus
10 p.m. | S.E.C.R.E.T.S
10:40 p.m. | ePP
11:20 p.m. | HELP
--Sunday, July 21--
12-1:40 p.m. | My Voice Music Youth Performances
2 p.m. | Wes Youssi and The County Champs
2:40 p.m. | SSOLD
3:20 p.m. | Voodoo Dollz
4 p.m. | Adebisi
4:40 p.m. | Cry Babe
5:20 p.m. | Mope Grooves
6 p.m. | Vueltas
6:40 p.m. | Gaytheist
7:20 p.m. | Stevo The Weirdo
8 p.m. | Plastic Cactus
8:40 p.m. | Raquel Divar
9:20 p.m. | Federale
More info at: http://pdxpopnow.com/lineup2019/
Portland Queer Comedy Festival
Featuring 5 stages and over 40 comics, Portland Queer Comedy Festival aims to bring the best and brightest talent in international LGBTQ stand-up comedy to a beautiful, diverse and inclusive Portland, Oregon; while giving back to the local community that supports us through non-profit initiatives. The venues are conveniently located to one another creating a fun pub-crawl atmosphere!
They have invited some of their favorite comics including the legendary Scott Thompson!
Scott Thompson (Kids in The Hall, Reno 911)
Nico Santos (NBC Superstore, Crazy Rich Asians)
Sandra Valls (Showtime)
Erin Foley (Conan)
Jen Kober (NPR, Conan)
Dwayne Perkins (Comedy Central)
D’Lo (HBO’s Looking, Dis-Oriented Comedy Tour)
Jeffery Jay (Best Trans Comic-The Advocate)
A full line-up, show information, and ticketing is available on our website at www.portlandqueercomedyfestival.com
Famine Fest Presents.....
The Accused AD (Integral members of the Accused play the classics and some brand new rippers.): https://youtu.be/pyRf_8PKK2w
RKC(reunion show): https://roadkillcarnivore.bandcamp.com
Cliterati: https://youtu.be/8IWOkLQqL7g
Headless Pez: https://youtu.be/xNOSe8xB64s
8:30 doors, $13 cover, no minors
On SATURDAY JULY 13TH — XRAY is proud to sponsor Back Fence PDX: RUSSIAN ROULETTE at The Old Church! A live storytelling show where performers spin a giant game show wheel filled with mystery prompts. Storytellers have just 5 minutes to prepare and tell a true story -- AND you vote for the winner! With storytellers CHRIS WILLIAMS, KATIE PIATT, LEATHER STORRS, ALEX DANG and more! DJ BOBBY from XRAY will spin tunes!
AYBLA Food Truck will be there and the show is ASL interpreted by BLAKE WALES. Advance tickets at BackFencePDX.com
XRAY.FM joins forces with Tender Loving Empire for a in-store DJ on select Saturdays each month from 12-4PM!
Come hang out and listen to music:
5/4 - Christopher Nakayama
5/11 - DJ Theo Craig
6/1 - DJFGQBNYJ
7/6 - DJFGQBNYJ
7/13 - Christopher Nakayama
Join us for The Big Float, Portland’s splash hit of the summer – coming up Saturday, July 13th on the Willamette River downtown. A parade/float/beach party spectacle with music by Blitzen Trapper and Redray Frazier. Our river is revived. Join the revival and jump into The Big Float 9! Register at thebigfloat.com. A movement disguised as a party – a benefit for the Human Access Project.
WHEN: Saturday, July 13, 2019
10:00 am - 6:30 pm
WHERE: Tom McCall Bowl - Waterfront Park (SW Columbia & Naito)
COST: $5 through Sunday, July 7th, $10 after, $15 Day of event. Discounted pricing under age 18.
WHO: 5,000+ floaters, observers and after-partiers.
WHY: To give our Willamette River a community hug.
WHAT: THE Portland summer celebration benefiting Human Access Project. Featuring Blitzen Trapper, Redray Frazier and Perk! Portland Grooves on two floating stages and MORE!
More information is available at www.thebigfloat.com
Beach party here we come!
To get to this year’s Big Float, Go By Transit! TriMet can get you right by the waterfront and yes, you can bring your water wings on board. To plan your trip to Waterfront Park, visit trimet.org to use their Trip Planner!
The Big Float is open to all ages. All floaters must wear a life jacket. It's a safe voyage, not a race. Join the flotilla and attend the grandest pool party Portland has ever seen! The Big Float is the annual fundraiser for the Human Access Project. www.humanaccessproject.com
KayelaJ's debut album D.Y.K.E (Don't Yield, Keep Enduring) is an album she has waited to make her entire life. Throughout her life she's experienced battles with the world and within herself. The album is a autobiography and an emotional roller-coaster which starts in KayelaJ's deep depression, transitions into her rage, and ends in love (including her self-love and love for others). She hopes this experience will be as therapeutic for you as it was for her. Join her at her album release party at Kelly's Olympian where she will bare it all.
Performances by:
DJMyrie
Quinn Foster
Covi.
Shardea Booth
Lyric Ranea Branch
Short film premiere from KayelaJ mixtape "Homage"
Written by KayelaJ and shot and directed by Devin Boss from Kill Class Productions
Thanks to sponsors:
XRAY.FM
The Numberz
Green Hop
Karma Rivera
Event is 21+
Pay $10 at the door
XRAY.FM joins forces with Tender Loving Empire for a in-store DJ on select Saturdays each month from 12-4PM!
Come hang out and listen to music:
5/4 - Christopher Nakayama
5/11 - DJ Theo Craig
6/1 - DJFGQBNYJ
7/6 - DJFGQBNYJ
7/13 - Christopher Nakayama
Every first Tuesday from 9PM-1AM join XRAY.FM DJs spinning records live at one of the coziest bars in Portland, Beech Street Parlor! For a full schedule of events visit Beech Street Parlor here.
XRAY.FM presents the Lavender Flu, Woolen Men, and Michael O. performing live at The Spare Room on June 28th.
Lavender Flu
(https://intheredrecords.com/collections/lavender-flu)
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Woolen Men
(https://woolenmen.bandcamp.com/
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Michael O.
(https://fruitsandflowers.bandcamp.com/album/powers-out)
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Tacocat, The Black Tones, B.R.U.C.E.
Tickets
Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm
$18 Advance, $20 Day of Show
This event is all ages
When Seattle band Tacocat—vocalist Emily Nokes, bassist Bree McKenna, guitarist Eric Randall, and drummer Lelah Maupin—first started in 2007, the world they were responding to was vastly different from the current Seattle scene of diverse voices they’ve helped foster. It was a world of house shows, booking DIY tours on MySpace, and writing funny, deliriously catchy feminist pop-punk songs when feminism was the quickest way to alienate yourself from the then-en vogue garage-rock bros. Their lyrical honesty, humor, and hit-making sensibilities have built the band a fiercely devoted fanbase over the years, one that has followed them from basements to dive bars to sold-out shows at the Showbox. Every step along the way has been a seamless progression—from silly songs about Tonya Harding and psychic cats to calling out catcallers and poking fun at entitled weekend-warrior tech jerks on their last two records on Hardly Art, 2014’s NVM and 2016’s Lost Time.
This Mess is a Place, Tacocat’s fourth full-length and first on Sub Pop, finds the band waking up the morning after the 2016 election and figuring out how to respond to a new reality where evil isn’t hiding under the surface at all—it’s front and center, with new tragedies and civil rights assaults filling up the scroll of the newsfeed every day. “What a time to be barely alive,” laments “Crystal Ball,” a gem that examines the more intimate side of responding emotionally to the news cycle. How do you keep fighting when all you want to do is stay in bed all day? “Stupid computer stupor/Oh my kingdom for some better ads,” Nokes sings, throwing in some classic Tacocat snark, “Truth spread so thin/It stops existing.”
Despite current realities being depressing enough to make anyone want to crawl under the covers and sleep for a thousand years, Tacocat are doing what they’ve always done so well: mingling brightness, energy, and hope with political critique. This Mess is a Place is charged with a hopefulness that stands in stark contrast to music that celebrates apathy, despair, and numbness. Tacocat feels it all and cares, a lot, whether they’re singing odes to the magical connections we feel with our pets (“Little Friend”), imagining what a better earth might look like (“New World”), or trying to find humor in a wholly unfunny world (“The Joke of Life”).
Throughout the album, Tacocat questions power structures and the way we interact with them, recalling the feminist sci-fi of Ursula K. Le Guin in pop-music form. “Rose-Colored Sky” examines the privilege of people who have been able to skate through life without ever experiencing systemic disadvantage: “For all the years spent/Hot lava shaping me/For all the arguments/I wonder who else would I be?” Nokes sings. “If I wasn’t on the battleground/I bet I could’ve gone to space by now.” “Hologram” reminds us to step outside ourselves and try to see beyond imaginary structures that trap us: “Just close your eyes and think about the Milky Way/Just remember if you can, power is a hologram.”
The record is full of beautiful details, finding plastic beaded curtains catching light amidst feelings of despair. This Mess is A Place explores politics with more nuance than the topical songs of Tacocat’s past, inviting listeners in for more complicated exchanges and leaving space for introspection. “Grains of Salt” finds the band at the best they’ve ever sounded: Maupin’s spirited drums, McKenna’s bouncy walking bass, Randall’s catchy guitar and Nokes’ soaring melody combine to create a bonafide roller-rink hit that reminds us that it just takes some time, we’re in the middle of the ride, and to live for what matters to you. It’s a delightfully cathartic moment and the cornerstone of the record when they exclaim: “Don’t forget to remember who the fuck you are!”
Producer Erik Blood (who also produced Lost Time) brings the band into their full pop potential but still preserves what makes Tacocat so special: they’re four friends who met as young punks and have grown together into a truly collaborative band. Says Nokes: “We can examine some hard stuff, make fun of some evil stuff, feel some soft feelings, feel some rage feelings, feel some bitter-ass feelings, sift through memories, feel wavy-existential, and still go get a banana daiquiri at the end.”
—Robin Edwards