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DJ Paypal - (TEKLIFE// MALL MUSIC// BRAINFEEDER, LUCKY ME)
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DJ Mastercard - (MALL MUSIC)
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Bukkha- (Moonshine Recordings, Dubs Alive Records, Foundation Channel)
https://soundcloud.com/bukkhaspace
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Local Support:
AlbinoGorilla - (Tenth Degree)
Dan Halen - (Amiti Group, Tenth Degree)
Skelli Skel - (PDX Mandem, Tenth Degree)
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Visuals by Ritzy Sheens
Sound by One Wub
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☞As capacity is very small, we recommend showing up early to guarantee entry. ☜
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XRAY DJ Dave Cantrell's 60th Birthday Party
Friday, January 15, 2016
8:00 pm - 11:30 pm
Black Water Bar
Portland, OR
Price: $8.00
Note: All Ages.
XRAY DJ Dave Cantrell, host of post-punk/darkwave show Songs From Under the Floorboard, celebrates his 60th birthday by hosting a show at Black Water with four bands that have played a crucial role in the Portland post-punk scene: Vice Device, Spirit Host, LUNCH, and Shadowhouse. The all-ages event is a benefit to help pay traveling costs of out-of-state bands appearing at the 2-night XRAY-sponsored Out From The Shadows II festival happening April 1-2, 2016.
Deep Under Ground will be presenting its first annual celebration at Disjecta Contemporary Art Center.
7pm A jam from a surprise band TBA
Spins by Soopah Eype
8pm Open Mic
9pm Ripley Snell
(www.ripleysnell.com)
10pm Open Mic ||| Cypher
11pm Jonny Cool and The Moons
https://www.reverbnation.com/jonnycoolsg
12am celebration
All Ages (bar w/ID) + Food
Blog: deepundergroundpdx.tumblr.com
Instagram: @deep_under_ground
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Welcome to our 33rd annual edition of Reel Music. We’ve been on the lookout all year for new works—and timely classics—to feature in our annual celebration of sound, music, and image. Whether your passion is jazz, blues, rock, soul, opera, classical, avant-garde—or anything in between—we hope you find something to discover and inspire you in this eclectic mix of the familiar and unknown.
As always, our special thanks go to Music Millennium, Willamette Week, Walker, Kink.fm, MusicFestNW, All Classical Portland, PDX Jazz and Portland Jazz Festival, XRAY.FM, KMHD Jazz Radio, KBOO Community Radio, PDX PIPELINE, Oregon Music News, and Marmoset.
Mike Bray
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January 15 - March 5, 2016
Opening Reception
Friday, January 15
6 - 8 PM
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Join Portlanders calling to close down the prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, exactly 14 years to the day after it opened, with a visibility action at the east end of the Hawthorne bridge, SE Hawthorne and Grand on Monday, January 11 from 3:30 to 5:30 PM. Peace and Justice Works Iraq Affinity Group will use its 12-foot-tall "tower of peace" to call attention to the notorious prison where over 100 people still languish in a facility that undermines the supposed rule of law that separates our country from chaos.
Despite a strong signing statement indicating he still desires to close Guantanamo and vetoing the first version of the legislation, President Obama signed the 2016 defense authorization bill which continues to restrict his ability to transfer prisoners out of the facility. While the prison population has been reduced from 775 to 107, Obama has not been successful in closing down the prison in seven years in office, despite campaign pledges to do so.
Most held at the facility have been denied access to legal help; many have been exposed to harsh conditions that have been described as torture. In 2014, dozens of prisoners participated in a hunger strike which drew international attention. The US responded in part by force-feeding the protesting prisoners, then deciding to stop reporting on the prisoners' actions. Forty-eight of the detainees have been cleared for release. Only three who are there were convicted of crimes (Human Rights First, 11/16/15).
Guantanamo has been referred to as "the most expensive prison on earth," with the Miami Herald reporting in 2011 that it then cost $800,000 per year per inmate, climbing to an estimated $2.6 million per person in 2014 (Politifact, 12/21/14). Overall, the costs from 2002 to today are well over $3 billion.
Organizers of the event believe that continuing to hold people in an off-shore prison without prosecution is an unacceptable violation of human rights, which is inspiring people to take action against the United States in acts of so-called "terrorism." It is time to shut it down.
Local groups organizing the action include the Peace and Justice Works Iraq Affinity Group, Amnesty International Group 48 and the Portland Close Guantanamo Coalition. For more information, to get involved or to cosponsor/endorse the event contact Peace and Justice Works at 503-236-3065.
- Hart & Hare
- Blossom
- The Last Artful, Dodgr
The event will also feature the debut of local artist Lex Casciato's "Free To Form" mixed media mannequin series.
Sponsors: XRAY.FM, Chapters Alumni, Vortex Music Mag, EYRST, and My Voice Music*.
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Portland, OR
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Portland, OR
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Portland, OR
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21+ • $13 Advance • $15 Door
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Celebrate the publication of Avalon Kalin's One Hundred and Four Digitally Printed Color Photographs of Graffiti Removal and a screening of the seminal film The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal by Matt McCormick at Ampersand!
About the book:
The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal, a film produced by Matt McCormick and based on the work of Avalon Kalin, won Grand Prize for Short Film at the San Francisco International Film Festival in 2002. Narrated by Miranda July, it was heralded by Matthew Higgs of White Columns as one of the best artworks of the year in ARTFORUM magazine. For the first time, Kalin’s original research and photographs of what he calls “graffiti-masking”, and his writings on the aesthetics and context of this ever expanding art-form, are available to the general public. It includes his original zine of photographs as well as 104 more of his recent images in full color – giving us an invaluable glimpse into one of the most important “subconscious-art” movements of our time.
About the artist:
Avalon Kalin is an interdisciplinary artist who makes documentary and social art connected to everyday life. He was the coauthor of The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal film produced by Matt McCormick and he studied under the first Social Practice MFA program with Harrell Fletcher at Portland State University. His work has shown in large institutions and perhaps more importantly between friends. Recently, he has begun collaborating with his wife Posie Kalin designing installations and products. He lives and works in the Portland, OR Cascadia.
Black Lives Matter Portland presents the Black Radical Film Series. Once every month, it will be hosted a screening and group discussion of a film exploring the Black Radical tradition.
The first film is The Murder of Fred Hampton, a two part documentary which describes the life and political assasination of iconic Black Panther Party Illinois Chapter Chairman and founding member of the Rainbow Coalition, Fred Hampton.
Light food and beverages will be provided. This space will center the voices of Black and Indigenous folks. Allies are welcome.
A sliding scale donation of $5-10 to support the work of Black Lives Matter Portland and In Other Words is appreciated but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Wendy Given and Ryan Pierce present Eyeshine, at PSU’s Autzen Gallery from January 7 through January 29th. In Eyeshine, the first of a series of two-person shows, the Portland artists present new sculptures, paintings, and photographs drawn from the intersection of their creative visions: the nocturnal, the nonhuman, and the wildness that resides in each of us.
For this exhibition, Given has produced vivid, uncanny photographs and sculptures that resonate in the dark, unstable ground between consciousness and collective memory. Her practice stems from a profound interest guided by the natural world, folklore, myth and magic—magic as a term meant to conjure the notion of the interconnectedness of all life forces. Nature is prescribed as a foundation of verity, power, and mystery in the work—both intelligible and arcane. While Given’s subject matter dwells on primeval belief systems, the resulting work is distinctively contemporary—reflective of modern culture’s mode of assimilating and processing myth.
Pierce will exhibit mixed-media sculptures and paintings inspired by his visit to a mask museum in Zacatecas, Mexico. As a continuation of his series Terra Incognita, Pierce looks to the historical parallels between the search for knowledge and the conquest of land and people. In the styles of botanical illustration, surrealism, and folk art, his objects and images evoke the confluence of the Age of Discovery with present and near-future uncertainty about climate change, speaking to a simmering dread that we are desecrating the natural world just as we come to know it.
Eyeshine was devised while Given and Pierce spent two weeks camping together as hosts of Signal Fire’s Outpost Residency this past Summer. Given and Pierce both convey an intense yearning to honor and utilize our inherent awareness through their respective visual crafts—to regain unspoken understanding and to be conscientious of the fact that we are all, and always will be (as humans), integral to and dependent on the natural world.
About the artist:
Wendy Given studied fine art and was trained in painting, printmaking, photography and sculpture during her BFA undergraduate work at Atlanta College of Art in Atlanta, Georgia. She received her MFA from Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, California. and has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her work is represented by whitespace in Atlanta, Georgia where she and Ryan Pierce will showcase their second collaborative exhibition; Spellbinder, opening April 1st, 2016. Wendy is an Assistant Trip Leader with Signal Fire and works as a Studio Artist with Wieden + Kennedy in Portland. www.wendygiven.com
Ryan Pierce makes paintings, texts, and journeys inspired by the resilience of the natural world. He has exhibited internationally and his work has been recognized by grants from the Joan Mitchell and San Francisco Foundations, and by reviews in Art in America, Art Papers, and The Oregonian. Pierce has is currently Artist-in-Residence at Portland State University’s School of Art and Design. He is co-founder of Signal Fire, an organization that provides wilderness residencies and retreats for artists of all disciplines. He is represented by Elizabeth Leach Gallery in Portland. www.ryanpierce.net
Reception: Thursday January 7, 4-7pm
In the fall of 1975, Patti Smith gathered her band in Electric Lady Studios in New York City to record her debut album, Horses. Released on November 10 of that year by Arista Records, it has come to be regarded as a seminal and landmark recording that continues to have resonance and relevance for succeeding generations of musicians and artists.
Now, forty years later, Smith will honor the longevity and lasting influence of the album with a series of special shows centered around the album.
“It will be a true, proud celebration,” Patti says of her intent to perform Horses in its entirety. She will be accompanied by two members of the original group, Lenny Kaye and Jay Dee Daugherty, along with bassist / keyboardist Tony Shanahan, who has been a part of Her Band for twenty years.
The opening reception of "The Emotional Life Objects," featuring work by Silvia Levenson, Dante Marioni, and Heidi Schwegler.
Heidi Schwegler will discuss her 2015 residency at the Bullseye Studio and the ideas behind her work included in "The Emotional Life of Objects." on Saturday, February 27th at 1pm-3pm.
This 4 part series will introduce beginners to the process of creating an electronic based dance track. Students will gain insight into computer-based music production through the use of Ableton Live. Students will learn the basic principles behind synthesis, looping, sampling, and more. At the end of the 4 part series, participants will have gained the skills necessary to feel comfortable composing music in Ableton, and will leave the workshop having created their own song. SciFiSol (Christina Broussard) has been working in Ableton Live and Apple Logic for over 8 years producing complex song arrangements and live performance sets with attention to detail and sound design
Workshop Schedule - Tuesdays from 6:30-9:00pm:
January 5 I Ableton Basics and Beat-making
January 12 II Sound Design Basics: Creating Sound Palettes and Synth Lines
January 19 III Working with Effects, Loops, and Resampling in Session View
January 26 IV Arrangement and Composition
This course is open to female-identified students. Space is limited to 12 people and is offered on a first come, first served basis. Admission to the course is $35 – $45 sliding scale for all 4 nights.
For more information and to register: http://s1portland.com/workshops/
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Celebrate NYE with Wild Ones, brand of pop lives in humid nights in big cities on the coast. Set between youth and adulthood, their most recent Heatwave EP centers on young lust and isolation. Hailing from Portland, Oregon, Wild Ones' music is both ethereal and R&B. Combining heavy synths, locking drums, and melancholy vocals, they build their singular style of dream pop.
Their EP "Heatwave" was released on Topshelf Records this past August, and have been touring the country with Pure Bathing Culture this fall. Today they're premiering the video for the warm, sweet track "They Said." The video follows four teenagers as they hide from grownups, drive toward the sunset, run through corn fields, eat peaches, and all sorts of other nice things. It's a song full of glimmering synths and keyboard, and singer Danielle Sullivan's vocals fill the track with a cinematic quality that matches this visually pleasing video.
Sallie Ford
Plenty a future has been pondered in a French café, and so it was for Sallie Ford. During a tiring tour of Europe last winter Ford's then-bandmate Jeff Munger mentioned he was ready for a break from the tours Ford and her band, The Sound Outside, had logged. She said she too was ready for something new. "And I said, 'I wish I could have an all-girl band,'" Ford says.
She wanted to play more guitar, so she made herself the guitar player. She wanted to play in a band with keyboards, so she signed up Cristina Cano (Albatross, Siren & the Sea) on keys. She added Anita Lee Elliott, who's been in Viva Voce and Blue Giant, on bass, and Amanda Spring (Point Juncture, WA.) on drums. Like that, Ford had the band she hoped for.
Ford wanted to distance herself some from the rockabilly tag she and the Sound Outside picked up over the course of two albums bookended by two EPs. So she wrote garage rock, surf rock, and straight up rock songs. "I wanted to blend different eras of music–the 80s, 90s, 60s, 70s–maybe some 50s," she said, before pausing. "I was kind of over the 50s."
She turned her room into a studio and sat for hours with a notebook, her guitar, a friend's Nord Electro keyboard, and a four-track recorder. She downloaded drum loop apps with basically named rhythms like Rock Beat 1 and wrote to those. She tracked vocals on top of vocals. Slap Back's opening song, the appropriately titled "Intro," finds Ford alone in that room, building an a capella gospel tune that ends with the assertion, "I'm happy, I'm spoiled, I'm fine."
"When I was coming up with the idea of having a new band, I knew I wanted Chris involved," Ford says. "He was kind of the silent collaborator I knew was going to come into the picture."
That'd be Chris Funk, who's produced albums by Red Fang and Langhorne Slim. Funk is best known for his multi-instrumental work in the Decemberists and Black Prairie. If you play music in Portland and you're any good, you know Funk. Ford and the Sound Outside had opened for the Decemberists, and Tornfelt's sister, Annalisa, sings in Black Prairie. The group also worked with Funk on projects for Walker, the music supervision company where he is also employed.
In February of 2014, Ford and her new group went into a Portland, OR studio called Destination: Universe! and went to work on all the songs Ford had ready–a collection full of "simple lyrics about raw emotions," Ford says, played with the urgency exemplified in the fuzzed-out, missed-love-by-just-that-much lead single, "Coulda Been."
What interested her on the last Sound Outside record, Untamed Beast, interests her here–relationships. "Lucky to Miss" is about being in one and on the road. "Gimme Your Lovin'" and "You Bet Your Ass" are pick-up lines, and not exactly subtle. But then, why should they be? As she sings on "So Damn Low": "Gonna start up fresh, gonna start up clean, gonna learn to say what I really mean."
Slap Back is that, too–a new start for a singer and songwriter who had plenty of success after moving from her native North Carolina to Portland.
"Oregon" is a power-riff ode to her affinity for her adopted home state. "An Ending" covers the relationship with her former band mates, and it makes two things clear: "I hope this friendship never ends," and, "I think this is how things are supposed to be."
In 2010, Ford and the Sound Outside were voted Portland's best new band by Willamette Week. Even in a town where everything old is stylized there was something classic in her voice, something no one else had. Comparisons came back: Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald. NPR would throw Cat Power into the mix. Ford could purr and howl and even managed to hold her own in awkward banter about glasses with David Letterman after blistering his stage.
"Slap Back has a new sound on purpose," states Ford "'cause music should be about taking risks, doing something new and being inspired to change it up."
Cat Hoch
DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid are returning to the spacious and elegant Bossanova Ballroom for their second New Year’s Eve party in a row.
This party marks the twelfth anniversary of Anjali and The Kid playing in Portland clubs as a duo since their New Year’s Eve debut in 2000. Expect some banging Bhangra and Bollywood tracks along with Giddha
Bounce, Tamil and Telugu percussion riots, the best in Urban Desi, and maybe even some forays into other international club bangers, depending on the mood of the DJs and the crowd.
21 and over only
$15 advance / $20 at the door
NYE Extravaganza w/The Lavender Flu, Hornet Leg, Dusty Santamaria and more! 8pm-later
We are extremely jazzed to close out '15 with an absolutely killer night of music. Hornet Leg is one of Portland mightiest creators of psychsoaked scuzz. The Lavender Flu is Chris Gunn's (Hunches) new band. They played their first show at TTT and immediately jumped to the head of the pack of must-see Portland bands. Dusty Santamaria is one of Portland's best songwriters and never fails to tear it up.
It's the return of one of Portland's best DJ nights, the Fix. After years at the now defunct Someday Lounge, the FIX returns for one night only on New Years Eve at Dig a Pony.