The LA based pop duo Chaos Chaos is made up of sisters Asy and Chloe Saavedra. Asy and Chloe began their careers as preteens in Seattle as the band Smoosh touring and performing with the likes of Bloc Party, Sleater Kinney and Cat Power. Now, as Chaos Chaos, the sisters have composed music for TV shows including Rick and Morty and Lucifer, released the charting single Terryfold in collaboration with Justin Roiland co-creator of Rick and Morty, and released their first single Dripping with Fireoff their debut LP to be released early 2018.
This show is all ages!
Tickets available at https://www.ticketfly.com/event/1650998-chaos-chaos-portland/
Join Bright Moments and the Camas High School Choir for an unforgettable concert that explores the exponential advancement of human technology and the notion of human progress.
This concert is a collaboration of the Camas High School Choir and choral director Ethan Chessin, indie-rock musician and composer Kelly Pratt, and Young Audiences of Oregon & SW Washington.
The choir will be performing new music composed by Bright Moments, Pratt’s solo project, specifically for this collaboration. The concert is an original, hour-long performance for a rock band, horns and 200 high school singers, blending together a wide array of styles and genres — from afrobeat to metal to more traditional choral music — into a compelling intergenerational musical experience.
The music will be accompanied by original video projections created by the Camas students working with director Alicia J. Rose. This is the only opportunity to experience this concert in Portland.
Supported by the Camas Educational Foundation, CD Baby, Oregon Arts Commission and the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA).KBOO Community Radio and XRAY.FM are media sponsors.
Tickets $10 in advance / $12 day of show
https://ya-or.ejoinme.org/April13
(Logistical and accessibility details coming soon.)
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About the Camas High School Choir: The Camas High School Choir program has earned praise around the Northwest for its engaging performances of unique, diverse repertoire, including collaborations with local musicians SAMA DAMS, Alan Singley, Point Juncture, WA, AU/Luke Wyland and more.
About Kelly Pratt: From 2006–2012 Kelly Pratt was a full-time member of indie-pop outfit Beirut, contributing arrangements, brass/woodwinds, and vocals. He has performed and recorded with hundreds of artists including Arcade Fire, LCD Soundsystem, Coldplay, The War on Drugs, and Passion Pit. In 2012 and 2013, he collaborated with David Byrne and St. Vincent, providing arrangements for their album “Love this Giant,” as well as serving as arranger and musical director for their world tour. He is currently touring with Father John Misty as an arranger, conductor, and multi-instrumentalist.
About Young Audiences of Oregon & SW Washington: Young Audiences offers a full range of educational arts programming in multiple disciplines and cultures. The organization connects a roster of talented teaching artists with schools for artist residencies, workshops and performances; and partners with local schools, arts organizations, artists and community members to inspire young people and expand their learning through the arts.
About the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art: PICA’s programming supports the experiments of vital and provocative artists. PICA is unique among institutions for working right alongside artists at the increasingly blurry boundaries between forms and at the edge of new ideas. Throughout the year, audiences have myriad opportunities to interact with artists, curators, critics, and cultural visionaries in a direct, in-depth way. From performances to exhibitions to lectures to the annual Time-Based Art Festival, PICA's programs catalyze conversations about contemporary culture.
The IMPACT! Hi-Fi, a hand built soundsystem inspired by the legendary systems of the 60's, is making its debut at Misdemeanor Meadows for an evening of ska, rocksteady, boss reggae, and roots. Two turntables and some big old speakers will be shaking the house for an early evening of reggae music. Start your evening off right with a trip through the Meadows and an ear full of reggae.
On April 7th, join Portland Underground Grad School (PUGS) and explore a multitude of topics related to ENERGY at the third-annual PUGSfest! Local experts will speak on a variety of subjects, including hip hop and social justice activism, sexual connection, the maker movement, and digital accessibility. Come exercise your brain in a friendly, inclusive environment.
XRAY listeners can save 20% on PUGSfest: ENERGY! registration with the code: XRAY20. Sign up at PUGSpdx.com.
‘Criminal’, The Soft Moon's fourth studio album, is a confessional work. Through the stark lens of shame and guilt that has followed Luis Vasquez since a violent childhood growing up within the humming ambient sprawl of 80s Mojave Desert, here he documents the gut-wrenching sound of going to war with himself. Battling with his own sanity, self-hatred, insecurity, self-entitlement and grappling with the risk of these things transforming him into a person he despises, Vasquez has laid his feelings bare with this: his confession and most self-reflective work to date.
Tickets available at: https://www.ticketfly.com/event/1601829-sold-out-soft-moon-portland/
Some of Portland's finest dark synth artists join forces for an amazing evening with Austin-based artist Josh Mills aka Missions, signed to S U R V I V E's own Holodeck Records.
The fourth annual Out From the Shadows festival, featuring 24 post-punk and darkwave bands from around the US and Europe. Besides being a benefit for both XRAY.FM and the LBGTQ organization SMYRC (Sexual Minority Youth Resource Center), this year each night's festivities will be preceded by a mini-record show with vendors offering the finest in dark musics from a multitude of genres. In other words, OFTS 2018 is an utter dark music extravaganza. Accept no substitutes...Tickets here:
3-day pass: https://holdmyticket.com/event/307474
Day one: https://holdmyticket.com/event/307475
Day two: https://holdmyticket.com/event/307477
Day three: https://holdmyticket.com/event/307478
The music of Sama Dams steals from you most virtuously — it will rob your sense of time and leave you wondering how long you’ve been awash in sound, rhythm, and ether.
On their fourth release, “Say It” — released on Friendship Fever on April 6 — Lisa Adams emerges from the background to deliver commanding lead vocals in her clarion soprano alongside partner Sam and the highly textured drumming of Chris Hermsen.
Almost in answer to the muted ambivalence that marks movements from the band’s previous “Comfort in Doubt,” “Say It” features the trio striking boldly throughout, both musically and thematically. According to Sam, “It’s about being more honest about what we’re thinking and feeling.”
SAMA DAMS // https://samadams.bandcamp.com/
KELLI SCHAEFER // https://kellischaefer.bandcamp.com/
POOL BOYS
Loud guitars + pretty harmonies
https://www.facebook.com/poolboysband/
Genders
genderspdx.bandcamp.com
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Honcho Poncho
honchoponcho.bandcamp.com
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Plastic Cactus
plasticcactus.bandcamp.com
$7 / 21+
*photo by Todd Walberg
Hurry Up
https://www.facebook.com/getweirder/
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Sad Horse
sadhorse.bandcamp.com/
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Pumping Iron
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Ghost Frog
ghostfrog.bandcamp.com/
$7 / 21+
MISS RAYON
missrayon.bandcamp.com/releases
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ADHERE TO FORM
sinisrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/departed
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SWEEPING EXITS
sweepingexits.bandcamp.com/
$5 / 21+
An All Ages evening with Nevada-based musician Nicholas Rattigan, of Surf Curse, The Nicholas Project, Tele/Visions etc.
Current Joys is the enigmatic solo project of 25-year-old Henderson, Nevada-born songwriter Nicholas Rattigan. In addition to his minimal two-piece band with Jacob Rubeck, Surf Curse, Rattigan has been releasing a prolific catalog of heart-wrenching no wave ballads via Bandcamp under a handful of names (including The Nicholas Project and Tele/Visions), eventually choosing Current Joys as the permanent moniker, based on a song by folk-artist Liam the Younger of the same name. His newest release, A Different Age, documents the process of making art and the desire to create it sincerely in an era fraught with extreme irony, apathy, and nostalgia. Ripe with many of the emotions and conflicts that have influenced Rattigan’s songwriting in the past, A Different Age contains some of his most poetic lyrics and thoughtful arrangements to date.
Portland's own Marriage + Cancer bring their distortion-driven indie grunge to The Fixin' To on March 20th!
Fucked & Bound (Seattle Hardcore)
http://fuckedandbound.bandcamp.com/
Marriage + Cancer (PDX Noise Rock)
https://marriageandcancer.bandcamp.com/
Stress Position (Post-hardcore)
https://stressposition.bandcamp.com/
Join us in celebrating four whole years on-air at XRAY.fm's Birthday Bash, featuring the voices of XRAY, comedians, bands, DJs, and birthday goody bags.
FEATURING:
Maarquii
Máscaras
The Bedrooms
MCs Kirsten Kuppenbender & Erin Jean O’Regan
XRAY DJ Sets from DJ Serious Moonlight & DJ Palm Dat, and more!
Event sells out every year so get your tickets now here.
MAARQUII
Máscaras, comprised of three Portland music scene veterans is what happens when an off-the-cuff jam session between friends really, really works. Even in its recorded form, “it’s a jam with themes that live and breathe,” the band says, “leaving room for the unexpected.” The trio plays heavy, propellant psychedelic music with surf-rock twang and mathy sensibilities. They call it “maximalist indigenous psych”. These are urgent, intense songs, but they’re also playful. It’s the sound of three homies making exactly the music they want to make, for no one else but themselves. It just so happens that people love it.
THE BEDROOMS
New romantic tunes for non romantic times.
DJ Serious Moonlight & DJ Palm Dat
DJ Serious Moonlight is Holocene talent buyer / curator Gina Altamura. She hosts interdisciplinary arts programming, manages R&B and pop artists, and owns a cat named Žižek. DJ Palm Dat is local musician and photographer Akila Fields. He plays keys in Shy Girls, makes his own shoegazing R&B as Palm Dat, and shares his vision at akilafields.com. Every Saturday they host INTUITIVE NAVIGATION on XRAY.FM / 107.1 from 6-7pm, which focuses on new-R&B, UK Soul, and the latest in electronic pop. Feels-talk, moon-talk, and sultry jams.
Join XRAY as we ring in our fourth birthday with community, cupcakes, and conversation. XRAY in the Morning's Karol Collymore and Emily Gilliland will lead a panel discussion about radio’s role in democracy in 2018 featuring XRAY weekday morning mainstay Thom Hartmann. Tickets include cupcakes from Back to Eden Bakery (100% vegan and gluten-free) and a gift bag featuring goodies from Pike Road Wines,Secret Aardvark Trading Company, and other XRAY sponsors. We hope you’ll come out and show your support for community radio, and help us welcome Thom back home to Portland after many years away!
Want to stay for the Birthday Bash, immediately following the panel discussion at Mississippi Studios? Pay just $5 extra for entry to both events (regular price $15). (Info about the Birthday Bash can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/events/769441549915388/)
Tickets:
$30 Panel ($20 for XRAY members)
$35 Panel + Birthday Bash ($25 for XRAY members)
Advance tickets available here.
Thanks to sponsors Secret Aardvark Trading Company, Columbia Bank &Pike Road Wines for sponsoring this panel discussion!
Shop, listen to XRAY.FM DJs (Magic Beans and T-KRAY), and learn more about community radio at the same time! Did we mention that you can do all of this plus have a cocktail in your hand? It just keeps getting better.
XRAY.FM Presents - Pop Up: An Evening of Music & Shopping.
There will be vintage clothing, housewares, ceramics, art, accessories and 2 guys selling records. Shop and show your support both on and off the air. See you there! All ages welcome.
Omen Vintage https://www.omenvintage.com/
Shop Nu Nu https://inspicks.com/user/shop_nu_nu/324416824
Sami Gaston http://sami.design/
Mixed Needs https://mixedneeds.com/
Main & Grand https://www.mainandgrand.com/
Switchblade Sistas Vintage
Plus 2 guys selling records
On the occasion of Mark E. Smith's would-be 61st birthday, Mystic Crew Filth (a collective of XRAY.FM and Freeform Portland DJs) pay tribute to The Fall, spinning records from their 40-year career as well as side projects and bands who influenced their music.
Celebrating 10 years of live storytelling! Throwing back our price to 2008!! Only $10 for GA and $22 for VIP!! GET ON IT!
True never-been-told stories based on the theme TRANSPLANTS.
LAUREN WEEDMAN Star of two SOLD OUT Runs of People’s Republic of Portland at Portland Center Stage at The Armory, Doris from HBO’s LOOKING, JENNY BRUSO the amazing force behind UNLIKELY HIKERS, Check her and her 30k followers out on IG: @unlikelyhikers, CAITLIN WEIERHAUSER Voted WW’s Funniest Person 2017, Voted Portland’s Funniest Person 2017, Member of Lez Standup SHANNON BALCOM GRAVES 5-Time Back Fence PDX: RUSSIAN ROULETTE Winner, Co-Host of XRAY.FM’s Sex, Drugs and Basketball, CHRIS WILLIAMS Broke Gravy Improv, 3-Time Back Fence PDX RUSSIAN ROULETTE Winner and JEN FELDMAN & JONATHAN COHEN Kidney Donor/Donee telling in tandem. Jen is the Development Director for Congregation Beth Israel, Veteran of 40 Years of Marriage. Jonathan is a partner in Old Town’s Society Hotel, Founder of Solar Contracting Firm, Imagine Energy.
Hosted by B. FRAYN MASTERS with announcer JASON ROUSE
Music by DJ BOBBY D from XRAY
A portion of this show’s proceeds will go to Donate Life Northwest.
XRAY.FM PRESENTS: GOLD BRIX TAPE 01 RELEASE PARTY
Gold Brick Records will be releasing its first in a series of special mix tapes (on cassette tape) featuring rare /unreleased music from all 4 bands on this bill. We will also have tunes DJ'd from a reel to reel machine in between sets by the illustrious DJ Cat and Cone.
TICKET LINK: https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1636336"
The bands:
Night Heron (ft. members of Radiation City, Aan, Reptaliens, et al) :
http://soundcloud.com/nightheronmusic
Wet Dream (ft. members of Grandparents, Moon By You, et al):
http://wetdreamcommittee.com/
S.E.C.R.E.T.S. (ft. members of Nurses):
https://soundcloud.com/supersecretsongs
Martha Stax (ft. members of Star Club, Rare Diagram, Ancient Elk, No Aloha)
Get your tickets here: https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1636336
Doors at 8pm
Show at 9pm
21+
$8 advance / $10 day of show
Everyday Mixtapes & KBOO Present:
ILL CAMILLE: http://www.illcamille.com/
After building her name up through LA’s underground, Ill Camille took a professional hiatus due to hardships that forced her to grow both personally and musically. Always stressing the importance of God and family before everything else, since finding the light at the end of the tunnel she has designed Heirloom as a collection of stories dedicated to keeping
her head on straight in the midst of turbulence.
Ill Camille’s divine mission to uplift the world through Heirloom is an extension of ancestry that includes musicians and fighters whose spirits make her art a necessity. Translating her tumultuous past few years through cathartic soulful Hip-Hop, creating this album was key to maintaining her sanity as she notes “I don’t think I had a choice in the
matter”.
Despite self-awareness being at the core of who Ill Camille is on and off of the mic, the bittersweet beauty of her most introspective release to date is the life struggle contained within her songs. Heirloom details all she’s experienced since 2012’s Illustrated, from losing relatives to incarceration and death, her own health complications and mistakes made diving headfirst into love and lust.
Evidenced by Heirloom’s lead single “Almost There” (which features recent TDE signee SiR), and her follow up “Home”, Ill Camille is able to shine by simply relaying her innermost truths for the world to relate to. Never overthinking the process in figuring out her path, she says “I let the spirit in my feeling guide me in everything, I didn’t plan anything out. Your music should reflect the mental space you’re in at the time, I have a moral
obligation to put that on my records.”
A window into Ill Camille’s upbringing, last four years and days to come, Heirloom represents a rebirth with her continuing to evolve as a woman before being a warrior. In the end, inner strength and communal support triumphed over her setbacks and obstacles, with Camille summing up the experience saying “I was inspired to finish this project because I owed it to myself and the people around me the respect to show my appreciation for them.” Having used pressure to form a diamond, this latest body of work
promises to speak for past, present and future generations of confused souls determined to become hopeful survivors.
Heirloom has received press on the blog of Solange’s label, Saint Heron, in Brooklyn Vegan, LA Weekly, and NPR's 21 Hip Hop Albums That Reflected The Politics of Race, Space, and Place in 2017.
FRITZWA: https://fritzwa.bandcamp.com/
This soul-drenched sound doesn’t quite sit in a neat box of influences Hailing from NYC’s Lower East Side, with West African heritage, Fritzwa’s lifelong experience has been constantly enveloped in artistic inspiration;
From Broadway to poetry, jazz to traditional, childhood dance classes and piano lessons, to balmy summers listening to Hot 97
She say’s, “I see art in everything,” and it’s something she translates into her music —
Including her latest, the self-written and produced Avenue |A|.
Whether she’s finding painful beauty in break-ups, or creating melodic soundscapes from NYC’s subway ambience, Fritzwa’s creativity and musical talent shine through in a beautiful way.
DJ sets by DJ Black Daria and DJ ShiShi of XRAY FM's Everyday Mixtapes.
8pm / 21+ / $10
Adv tix: https://holdmyticket.com/event/303597
Flyer by: Nagini Reddy
https://www.instagram.com/staceysnakes/
