For over a decade, Nika Roza Danilova has been recording music as Zola Jesus. She's been on Sacred Bones Records for most of that time, and Okovi marks her reunion with the label.
Fittingly, the 11 electronics-driven songs on Okovi share musical DNA with her early work on Sacred Bones. The music was written in pure catharsis, and as a result, the sonics are heavy, dark, and exploratory. In addition to the contributions of Danilova's longtime live bandmate Alex DeGroot, producer/musician WIFE, cellist/noise-maker Shannon Kennedy from Pedestrian Deposit, and percussionist Ted Byrnes all helped build Okovi's textural universe.
With Okovi, Zola Jesus has crafted a profound meditation on loss and reconciliation that stands tall alongside the major works of its genre. The album peaks of tragedy with great wisdom and clarity. Its songs plumb dark depths, but they reflect light as well.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
Last year, I moved back to the woods in Wisconsin where I was raised. I built a little house just steps away from where my dilapidated childhood tree fort is slowly recombining into earth. Okovi was fed by this return to roots and several very personal traumas.
While writing Okovi, I endured people very close to me trying to die, and others trying desperately not to. Meanwhile, I was fighting through a haze so thick I wasn't sure I'd find my way to the other side. Death, in all of its masks, has been encircling everyone I love, and with it the questions of legacy, worth, and will.
Okovi is a Slavic word for shackles. We're all shackled to something -- to life, to death, to bodies, to minds, to illness, to people, to birthright, to duty. Each of us born with a unique debt, and we have until we die to pay it back. Without this cost, what gives us the right to live? And moreover, what gives us the right to die? Are we really even free to choose?
This album is a deeply personal snapshot of loss, reconciliation, and a sympathy for the chains that keep us all grounded to the unforgiving laws of nature. To bring it to life, I decided to enlist the help of Alex DeGroot, who has been the only constant in my live band and helped mix the Stridulum EP back in 2010. It will be released on Sacred Bones, the closest group of people I'll ever have to blood-bound family.
Lose Yr Mind is a two day independent warehouse festival that has a tendency to focus on garage, punk and psych music. Join us as we celebrate our 4th and biggest year at The North Warehouse (N. Interstate + N. Tillamook) with musical performaces by:
+ FRIDAY OCTOBER 20 +
Wand 11:50-12:40pm
Chastity Belt 10:45-11:30pm
The Ghost Ease 9:50-10:25pm
Lithics 9:00-9:30pm
Darto 8:15-8:45pm
Late night set by: Frankie & The Witch Fingers 1:00-1:35am
+ SATURDAY OCTOBER 21 +
Twin Peaks 12:10-late
Tacocat 11:05-11:50pm
Public Eye 10:10-10:45pm
BlackWater HolyLight 9:20-9:50pm
Night Heron 8:30-9:00pm
Both nights are 21+ and doors open at 8pm. Light projections, local sponsors, DJs, outdoor arcade + more!
Visit www.loseyrmind.com for full details and stay up to date by RVSPing to the Facebook event here.
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Union Wine Company
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JAWBREAKER: DON'T BREAK DOWN
Bassist Chris Bauermeister in attendance for a Q&A!
In 2007, 11 years after one of the most influential American punk bands, Jawbreaker, called it quits; the three members Blake Schwarzenbach, Chris Bauermeister, and Adam Pfahler reconnected in a San Francisco recording studio to listen back to their albums, reminisce and even perform together. Follow the band as they retell their “rags to riches to rags” story writhe with inner band turmoil, health issues, and the aftermath of signing to a major label. Featuring interviews with Billy Joe Armstrong, Steve Albini, Jessica Hopper, Graham Elliot, Chris Shifflet, Josh Caterer and more.
Passes Accepted: Guest Pass and Member Guest Pass.
Sponsored by Music Millenium, XRAYFM, and Lagunitas Brewing.
JAWBREAKER: DON'T BREAK DOWN
Bassist Chris Bauermeister in attendance for a Q&A!
In 2007, 11 years after one of the most influential American punk bands, Jawbreaker, called it quits; the three members Blake Schwarzenbach, Chris Bauermeister, and Adam Pfahler reconnected in a San Francisco recording studio to listen back to their albums, reminisce and even perform together. Follow the band as they retell their “rags to riches to rags” story writhe with inner band turmoil, health issues, and the aftermath of signing to a major label. Featuring interviews with Billy Joe Armstrong, Steve Albini, Jessica Hopper, Graham Elliot, Chris Shifflet, Josh Caterer and more.
Passes Accepted: Guest Pass and Member Guest Pass.
Sponsored by Music Millenium, XRAYFM, and Lagunitas Brewing.
Iron & Wine
I must confess that I’ve always shied away from album introductions citing
the usual "dancing to architecture" cop out. Speaking to their own work is
uncomfortable for many artists, but I’ve made a new album called Beast Epic
which is important to me and I wanted to take a moment to talk about why. I’ve
been releasing music for about fifteen years now and I feel very blessed to have
put out five other full lengths, many EPs and singles, a few collaborations with
people much more talented than myself, and made contributions to numerous
movie scores and soundtracks. This is my sixth collection of new Iron & Wine
material and I’m happy to say that it’s my fourth for Sub Pop Records.
It’s a warm and serendipitous time to be reuniting with my Seattle friends
because I feel there’s a certain kinship between this new collection of songs and
my earliest material, which Sub Pop was kind enough to release. In hindsight,
both The Creek Drank the Cradle (2002) and Our Endless Numbered Days
(2004) epitomize a reflective and confessional songwriting style (although done
with my own ferocious commitment to understatement, of course). I have been
and always will be fascinated by the way time asserts itself on our bodies and our
hearts. The ferris wheel keeps spinning and we’re constantly approaching,
leaving or returning to something totally unexpected or startlingly familiar. The
rite of passage is an image I've returned to often because I feel we’re all
constantly in some stage of transition. Beast Epic is saturated with this idea but
in a different way simply because each time I return to the theme, I’ve collected
new experiences to draw from. Where the older songs painted a picture of youth
moving wide-eyed into adulthood’s violent pleasures and disappointments, this
collection speaks to the beauty and pain of growing up after you’ve already
grown up. For me, that experience has been more generous in its gifts and
darker in its tragedies.
The sound of Beast Epic harks back to previous work, in a way, as well.
By employing the old discipline of recording everything live and doing minimal
overdubbing, I feel like it wears both its achievements and its imperfections on its
sleeve. Over the years, I’ve enjoyed experimenting with different genres, sonics
and songwriting styles and all that traveled distance is evident in the feel and the
arrangements here, but the muscles seemed to have relaxed and been allowed
to effortlessly do what they do best.
I’ve been fortunate to get to play with some very talented musicians over the
years who are both uniquely intuitive and also expressive in exciting ways. This
group was no different. We spent about two weeks recording and mixing but
mostly laughing at The Loft in Chicago.
To be honest, I’ve named this record BEAST EPIC mostly because it
sounds really fucking cool! However, with that said and perhaps to be completely
honest, “a story where animals talk and act like people” sounds like the perfect
description for the life of any of us. If not that, then it’s at least perfect for any
group of songs I’ve ever tried to make. I hope you enjoy it. — Sam Beam, Iron
& Wine.
Annie Hart (of Au Revoir Simone)
Annie Hart is best known as one-third of Au Revoir Simone, the beloved all-female synth trio that counts David Lynch as a superfan (& also recently appeared on Twin Peaks). But with the eight tracks on her solo debut, Impossible Accomplice (Uninhabitable Mansions, July 28), Annie will emerge as an electrifying artist and producer in her own right.
During the band's hiatus, she has been crafting pop songs on classic synthesizers, with a less-is-more approach, writing and engineering the record on her own in the basement of her Brooklyn home, sneaking sessions in while her children were sleeping. Greatly influenced by the spare synthesizer sounds of Laurie Spiegel and the post-punk sensibility of artists like Tubeway Army, Annie has embraced her love of meticulously crafting the perfect tone to match the emotion of a song. "Be it melancholy, longing, happiness or simple desire, there is no better way to explain my innermost world than by going past words and into the intuitive and visceral feeling that a particular sound can evoke.”
In songs such as the first single, "Hard To Be Still" (featured on an upcoming episode of Netflix series, Gypsy, starring Naomi Watts), Annie cuts back the layers to reveal a rawer version of the dreamy synth pop her band was famous for forging. Solo, Annie has opened for artists such as M. Ward and Neko Case, and will be playing a handful of shows this summer in support of the new record.
Madeline Kenney
Raised in the Pacific Northwest, the nature of the region is important to songwriter Madeline Kenney. A soil-tethered root to the natural world is subtly noticeable in Kenney’s art. Bare feet, fresh fruit, the brilliant moon. Despite her affinity for the green leaves and the black grass, Kenney has lived rather nomadically, transferring her being and belongings for long stays in the mountains of British Columbia, the islands of Hawaii, and around the globe. She moved to the Bay Area in 2013 to pursue a career in baking. In Oakland, a supportive arts community inspired great growth as a musician. A chance encounter with Company Records label head Chaz Bundick (Toro Y Moi) led to them recording the Signals EP together, along with Kenney’s brand-new album, set to come out in fall 2017. Kenney’s huge voice delivers emotional brushstrokes and unexpected lyrical knots.
An intuitively self-taught guitarist, Johanna Warren channels powerful songs in weird time signatures and melancholic open tunings, weaving adept finger-picking with acrobatic vocal lines and carefully crafted poetry in reverence of her patron songwriting saints Elliott Smith, Joni Mitchell and Nick Drake. Approaching music as a potent healing modality, Warren cultivates and honors the physically healing properties of sound and the spiritually healing powers of artistic expression.
Los Angeles’s prodigal songwriting son Ariel Pink shares his eleventh studio album, Dedicated to Bobby Jameson, September 15.
The album’s title makes a direct and heartfelt reference to a real-life L.A. musician, long presumed dead, who resurfaced online in 2007 after 35 reclusive years to pen his autobiography and tragic life story in a series of blogs and YouTube tirades. “His book and life resonated with me to such a degree,” Pink states, “that I felt a need to dedicate my latest record to him.”
Dedicated to Bobby Jameson begins at the end and ends at the beginning. “We follow the protagonist through a battery of tests and milestones, the first of which sees him reborn into life out of death,” Pink explains, referencing the opening track “Time To Meet Your God.” “From there, he seesaws his way between the innocent love and the rock- solid edifice of childhood-worn trauma that together constitute his lifelong initiation into the realm of artifice and theatrical disposability.”
Building upon his singular vision of pop songcraft, established by such seminal records as The Doldrums, Worn Copy, House Arrest, Loverboy, Before Today, Mature Themes, and pom pom, Pink revisits themes that have haunted his sonic cinemascapes since the late 1990s: mismanaged dreams, west coast mythologies, itinerant criminals, haunted boulevards, Hollywood legends, the impermanence of romance, bubblegum artifice, movie stardom, childhood terror, acceptance of self, and narcissism projected through a celluloid filter of controversion.
Raised in Beverly Hills, Ariel Pink (born Ariel Marcus Rosenberg) started out as a visual artist before becoming a recording artist in the late ‘90s while attending Cal Arts. Between 1996 and 2004, he honed his craft writing, performing, recording, and producing a body of work that was experimental, impressionistic, and improvisational— often creating melodic accompaniments and percussive elements with his voice, as opposed to traditional drums or drum machines.
In 2003, Pink attracted the attention of Animal Collective’s Paw Tracks label, earning his home recordings a small and devoted fan base through a series of limited edition reissues. Drawing upon a list of long-forgotten iconoclasts and trailblazers like the Shaggs, the Cure, the Velvet Underground, Destroy All Monsters, the Godz, Cabaret Voltaire, and R. Stevie Moore, Pink set himself to the task of redefining the musical lexicon for himself and others. “This mission,” he says, “remains mine to this day.”
Though critically misunderstood at the time, Pink’s lo-fi recordings wielded an enormous influence with insiders and outsiders, earning him the unsolicited distinction as “the godfather of chillwave” and the face of the emergent genre of Hypnagogic Pop. Upon signing to the landmark record label 4AD in 2009, Pink’s fortunes with critics began to reverse, and his resulting first single, “Round and Round,” was named the #1 Record of 2010 by Pitchfork.
Since that period, Pink’s influence has grown, even as he and his work have waxed and waned within the popular political conversation. His music, in its earnest genre drag, continues to polarize. His embrace of the dark edges of human folly and despair is juxtaposed with superficial joy, touching on aspects normally avoided in pop music like sarcasm, suspicion, nihilism, self-loathing, and denial. These shadows of the self make their brighter counterparts—love, desire, nostalgia, dreams, acceptance, and epiphany—all the more transcendent, striking deep chords of emotion with fans. In his frenzied portrayals of humanity’s baseness and beauty, Ariel Pink spins pathos into paradise.
Standout tracks from Dedicated to Bobby Jameson include “Feels Like Heaven,” a lovelorn insta-classic paying tribute to the promise of romance, “Another Weekend,” which encapsulates the lingering euphoria of a regrettable weekend over the edge, “Dedicated to Bobby Jameson,” a rah-rah psych romp paying homage to L.A.’s punk history, and “Time to Live,” an ironic anti-suicide anthem that promotes survival as a form of resistance before devolving into a grungy, “Video Killed the Radio Star”-style breakdown that supposes life and death as being more or less the same fate and embraces the immortal anarchy of a rock song as an alternative to the prison of reality.
Alternately contained and sprawling, Dedicated to Bobby Jameson is a shimmering pop odyssey that represents more astonishing peaks and menacing valleys in the career of a man who, through sheer originality and nerve, has become an American rock and roll institution. The album marks his first full-length release with the Brooklyn-based independent label Mexican Summer.
Valerie Teicher (born Buenos Aires, Argentina), best known by her stage name Tei Shi, is a singer-songwriter and producer currently based in Brooklyn. Incorporating the genres of shoegaze, indie pop, and R&B, she released her first singles and music videos in 2013.
Tickets are $17
21+
PDX Hip Hop Day is a celebration of Hip Hop cuture in the city of Portland. This will be the 3rd annual Portland Hip Hop Day. Come enjoy great performances from Portland artists and artists that have contributed to the Portland Hip Hop sceen. Have some food and get a taste of Hip Hop culture at this all ages event.
Performers:
Rasheed Jamal
WYNNE
Brookfield Duece & Friends
Fountaine
Hosted by StarChile
Music provided by Dj O.G. One
Food provided by Hana's & Stoopid Burger
NO COVER // ALL AGES
Green Empowerment partners with rural communities and NGOs in developing countries to improve access to affordable and renewable energy, safe drinking water, sanitation systems, and fuel efficient cook stoves. Combined with community organizing, these technologies enable individuals and families to dramatically improve their quality of life by reducing disease, improving developmental outcomes, and freeing up time to focus on income generation. Rooted in our core values of social justice, sustainability and local leadership, Green Empowerment is building a pathway to prosperity by providing individuals and families with consistent access to basic resources.
Public Expo: 1-4pm - Free Admittance and Family Friendly
VIP Expo: 5-7pm - Includes VIP Tour, Food, Cocktails, Speakers, Entry To Party ($100)
Party: 7-11pm - Includes Snacks, Drinks, Live Entertainment, Raffles ($40)
For More Info: https://www.greenempowerment.org/passport/
Palehound
Since forming in 2014, Palehound — fronted by singer / songwriter Ellen Kempner – has taken their plainspoken, technique-heavy indie rock from the basements of Boston to festivals around the world.
The band’s critically acclaimed 2015 debut album, Dry Food, landed them on numerous “Best Of 2015” lists with NPR, VICE’s Noisey, Paste Magazine, The Observer, Consequence Of Sound, The Boston Globe, The Austin Chronicle + many more. Since then the band has toured virtually non-stop, headlining club tours in both the US and the UK, as well as going out with Torres, Bully, Mitski, PWRBTTM and a variety of other bands, developing a ferocious live set in the process.
The band’s sophomore album, A Place I'll Always Go, is out June 16, 2017 on Polyvinyl Record Company.
Hoop
Soft rock band expressing the feelings we get from knowing people, learning about the world we
live in, and making our own worlds. Quiet distortion, anti-metallica, alt-rock gold.
Tim Grimm is a Rennaisance man in the performing arts world. He has for the past 15 years blended his love for songwriting, travel, and the storytelling of acting (theatre, film and television). His most recent recording, The Turning Point, produced the #1 song on folk radio in 2014-- King of the Folksingers. It was a particularly gratifying honor, given the song is a tribute to Tim's friend and musical icon, Ramblin' Jack Elliott. Tim's history with Ramblin' Jack goes back 30 years-- beginning with a bicycle ride that led to The Newport Folk Festival….
Marc Broussard
Marc’s song “Home” was successful at radio and catapulted him onto the national touring stage. His music has been placed in many TV shows and movies. The timeless, soulful nature of Marc’s vocal lends well to Film and TV, and will continue to do so for years to come.
Most recently, Marc released an independent Christmas Album titled, “Magnolias & Mistletoe”. The original song, “Almost Christmas” received radio play word wide. Marc’s next project is a charitable rhythm and blues covers record to be released summer 2016. He will be donating fifty percent of the proceeds to City of Refuge.
Carsie Blanton
“Her sly wit and urbane imagery reminds me of a female Cole Porter.” -John Oates (of Hall & Oates)
Carsie Blanton is a singer/songwriter based in New Orleans. Her newest record, So Ferocious, is “a playful indie-pop record for smart, ferocious libertines”. Her albums range from folk and pop (Buoy, 2009) through Americana and rock (Idiot Heart, 2012; Rude Remarks, 2013), to classic jazz (Not Old, Not New, 2014).
When asked about the genre of So Ferocious, Carsie told DIME Magazine, “making music is like making love; if you only know one way to do it, you’re not very good at it.”
So Ferocious was released on August 2nd, along with three music videos, all of which explore the album’s themes of pleasure, ferocity, and female empowerment. Carsie will be touring to promote the record throughout the fall in the US and Europe.
Carsie has toured extensively throughout North America and Europe since 2006, as a headliner and as support for Paul Simon, The Wood Brothers, The Weepies, Shawn Colvin and many more.
Her live performances, which include material from every album, have been praised for their wit, humor, and captivating charm. In addition to her four full-length albums and two EPs, Carsie has gained popularity for her blog (which tackles questions of love and sexuality) and music videos (including “So Ferocious” and “Baby Can Dance”).
Call of the Wild is an event like no other to benefit the work of Oregon Wild, our state’s premier conservation group for over 40 years. This event features casual flannel instead of black ties, campfire circles instead of white tablecloths, and custom local bites galore instead of pre-selected entrees. Guests will enjoy a silent auction, local food and drink, live music, and more. Be part of the celebration by purchasing your advance ticket. We hope you’ll join us! A camp-inspired night of festivities, Call of the Wild is a chance to see stunning photography from our 13th annual Outdoor Photo Contest, mingle with wilderness and wildlife lovers from across the state, and celebrate everything you love about Oregon. This year’s benefit will feature:
- The unveiling of the winning photographs from our 13th annual Outdoor Photo Contest;
- A silent auction featuring framed prints of the Photo Contest finalists, rafting and adventure trips, outdoor gear and apparel, packages for hikers, photographers, climbers, fishing enthusiasts, kayakers, beer lovers, foodies, and more;
- Tasty local food, local wine, and beer from Oregon Brewshed® Alliance partners;
- Wild-crafted cocktails made with local ingredients;
- Live music from Oregon's own Anna Hoone;
- and more!
The Oregon Bluegrass Association's Bluegrass Special is proud to present Jeff Scroggins and Colorado, a high-energy five-piece bluegrass band based in the Western frontier state of Colorado. Their distinctive sound showcases an eclectic range of influences that marry second -and third-generation bluegrass, delivering a unique experience that captivates audiences and keeps them guessing. Its a powerful, high mountain bluegrass explosion that features world-class banjo, fiddle, and mandolin playing, incredible vocals, a solid and energetic rhythm and an easy stage banter that has delighted listeners all over the world.http://www.jeffscrogginsandcolorado.com/
THE WAR ON DRUGS
Philadelphia’s The War on Drugs reside at the blurred edges of American music: overexposing studio limitations, piling tape upon tape to maximum density, and the —with each song—they pull off the scaffolding to reveal what sticks, keeping only what’s absolutely necessary and dig into what sounds like the best kind of f****d up. As on their 2008 debut, Wagonwheel Blues, central member Adam Granduciel takes small moments occurring over multiple tapes and multiple song versions, and puts every last drop of trust in his own keen instinct of momentum.
That’s not to overshadow the sharp, personal songwriting at play here. There are certainly cues taken from our very best American bards (Dylan, Petty, Springsteen). Yet, The War on Drugs are wise enough to also implode those cues or send themselves into outer space when the moment calls for it. The driving organ riff that pushes “Baby Missiles,” from the band’s 2010 epic EP Future Weather, may well be inspired by a fever dream of Springsteen rather than any particular song in his catalogue. And the endless layers of guitar melody and atmospherics of “Comin’ Through,” also from Future Weather, rather than add weight to the vessel, only work to fill its sails with warmer and warmer winds.
Hope Sandoval was born June 24, 1966 and grew up in east L.A. with her Mexican-American family. She started her career together with her friend Sylvia Gomez in a band called "Going Home", a folk duo formed in 1986.
Hope had admired Kendra Smith as a teen-age Dream Syndicate fan. Sylvia Gomez handed Kendra Smith a demo tape which was comprised of Hope Sandoval on vocals and Sylvia on guitar. David Roback offered to produce some recordings for them and they went into the studio and recorded an album that to this day is yet to be released.
Hope and Sylvia played gigs in California throughout the mid '80s, and stayed friends with both Kendra and David. During the Opal tour in December '87, Kendra left the band and disappeared. David called Hope to see if she would be interested to take Kendra's place in Opal. They found Kendra and had some discussions. They did two more shows together but then she flew home. Keith Mitchell flew home and the next day he flew back with Hope. After that tour Opal became Mazzy Star.
Mazzy Star has released 4 albums: She Hangs Brightly (1990), So Tonight That I Might See (1993), Among My Swan (1996), and Seasons Of Your Day (2013).
Hope writes almost all the lyrics for Mazzy Star. Hope is a very shy and private person. "For me recording is better," says Sandoval. "Live, I just get really nervous. Once you're onstage, you're expected to perform. I don't do that. I always feel awkward about just standing there and not speaking to the audience. It's difficult for me."
In 2001, Hope Sandoval and The Warm Inventions released Bavarian Fruit Bread and toured the US and Europe in the fall of 2002. Two EPs were also released: At The Doorway Again and Suzanne.
In addition to Mazzy Star and The Warm Inventions, Hope has collaborated with a variety of artists including The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Chemical Brothers, Death In Vegas, Bert Jansch, Richard X, Air, Vetiver, and Le Volume Courbe. In 2008, Hope had a song, "Wild Roses", on a compilation CD from Air France titled In The Air.
Hope Sandoval and The Warm Inventions released Through The Devil Softly on September 29, 2009 and Until the Hunter on November 4, 2016.
Daydream Machine
Portland, Oregon psychedelic/shoegaze group featuring members of Music For Headphones, The Upsidedown, The Warlocks and others.
Live Nation and Monqui Presents present English indie-rock band alt-J at the Portland'5 Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall Monday, October 9, 2017 and Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 8pm. Tickets are available portland5.com, the Portland'5 Box Office and TickestWest outlets, and by phone: 800-273-1530.
"The new sonic territory they've staked out here and the mystery in their lyrics just reminds me of why I love this band so much."– NPR
"'3WW' showcases how much alt-J has matured musically since their debut five years ago and their ability to go platinum despite their non-traditional song structure."– Rolling Stone
alt-J have released a new video for "3WW," the first song released from their upcoming album, RELAXER. The video was directed by Young Replicant. Watch it here.
The video for "3WW" follows the lead single, "In Cold Blood," which was released last month. "3WW" and "In Cold Blood" are now available for stream, download, and as instant grats with album pre-order now. The band have set June 2 as the release date for their third album, which will be available in North America via Canvasback Music. RELAXER is the follow up to the band's Grammy-nominated album This Is All Yours, and finds the band working with producer Charlie Andrew for the third time.
Additionally, the band has announced an extensive fall tour. Fans who pre-order RELAXER from the band's web store will receive first access to tickets. Fan pre-sale begins Sunday, April 16 at 10am local.
AT&T brings you to the front of the line for alt-J's fall tour. AT&T priority presale ticket access begins Monday, April 17 at 10am local time through AT&T THANKS program. For complete presale details, visit att.com/frontoftheline.
As the official presale credit card for alt-J 2017 tour, Citi® cardmembers will have access to purchase presale tickets beginning Wednesday at 10am through Thursday at 10pm. For complete details, please visit www.CitiPrivatePass.com.
The band will also be selling an exclusive merch item on tour to benefit the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), powered by Revolutions Per Minute. The National Alliance on Mental Illness is the nation's largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness. NAMI provides advocacy, education, support, and public awareness so all people can experience resiliency, recovery, and wellness.
alt-J are Joe Newman, Gus Unger-Hamilton, and Thom Green. Their first album, An Awesome Wave, won the prestigious Mercury Prize in the UK and sold Gold in the US and Canada. The band have headlined festivals across the globe and sold out London's O2 arena and New York's Madison Square Garden on their last tour.
alt-J are an alternative band from the UK, formed in 2008 by four friends who met at Leeds University. Having forged their own unique sound combining elements of electronic, folk and guitar music, the band recorded and released their debut album An Awesome Wave in 2012. Critically lauded, An Awesome Wave won the Mercury Music Prize, an Ivor Novello 'Album Award' for songwriting and three BRIT award nominations. The album has now gone platinum in the UK and sold over 1,000,000 albums worldwide.
Their second album This Is All Yours was released in September 2014 to rapturous acclaim, heading straight to no.1 in UK chart, no.4 in the US Billboard chart and subsequent top 10 positions in the majority of Europe. Now a three-piece, the band continue to excel as a genre-defying act, receiving nominations for 'Best Alternative Album' at The Grammys 2015 and 'Best British Group' and 'Best Album' at The BRIT Awards 2015, as well as selling out the 02 and Madison Square Garden Arenas.
The band's third album, Relaxer, is set for release June 2, 2017.
This revelatory documentary brings to light the profound and overlooked influence of Indigenous people on popular music in North America. Focusing on music icons like Link Wray , Jimi Hendrix, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Charley Patton, Mildred Bailey, Jesse Ed Davis, Robbie Robertson, and Randy Castillo, RUMBLE shows how these pioneering Native American musicians helped shape the soundtracks of our lives.
This fall, from October 9-14, your pals at the Mercury are teaming up with Portland VegFest to present Veg Week—6 days when some of Portland's greatest vegetarian and vegan-friendly restaurants will provide signature vegan entrees... at HALF-PRICE!
Portland's already one of the best cities to live in (and eat in!) for those who enjoy the ethical, physical, and environmental benefits of a healthy diet—and, for one week, it's about to get EVEN BETTER. That goes for vegetarians and vegans, sure—but also for everybody who wants to check out some of the best and most inventive dishes Portland restaurants have to offer!
Veg Week is brought to you in part by Portland VegFest, Wildwood Farm Sanctuary, Twist Yoga, Farm Spirit, and Peace Seed Organic.
Here are all the places you can get half-price vegan entrees October 9-14:
Aviv
Bar Maven
Biwa
Brass Tacks Sandwiches
Ground Breaker Gastropub
Ichiza Kitchen & Tea House
Laughing Planet (select locations)
Loyal Legion
Mississippi Pizza
Next Level Burger
Night Light Lounge
No Bones Beach Club
Noraneko
Off The Griddle
Papa G’s Deli
Rad Fare
Revelry
Sasquatch Brewing Co.
Stacked Sandwich Shop
The Sudra
Virtuous Pie
Water Avenue Coffee
Wolf & Bear's
Xico
Stay tuned to the Mercury's social media channels for the announcements of the delicious dishes these restaurants will be serving up as well as our Veg Week map and other updates!