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STAR THEATER
8:00pm Friday, February 24, 2017

Los Angeles’ own Latin soul/rock powerhouse

CHICANO BATMAN

w/ special guests 79.5 and SadGirl


STAR THEATER

PORTLAND, OREGON

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

8pm / 21+



Don’t miss this chance to experience the contagious energy of these musical iconoclasts.


Chicano Batman, a quartet from Los Angeles, embrace a kind of cultural ricochet effect, playing fuzzed-out soul with pan-Latin grooves and rhythms that reflect and demonstrate their Mexican, Central and South American heritage, but with musical roots pointing back to Curtis Mayfield and James Brown. If the music of the African diaspora boomerangs all over the world— picking up bits of regional flavor wherever locals develop a taste for jazz, blues, gospel, reggae and other styles—then certainly, Chicano Batman’s sound is steeped in Tropicália from Brazil, Peruvian psych-rock and Mexican garage jams, as well as American soul. The styles all reflect off each other in one way or another. The band makes excellent use of wah-wahs, overdriven organ and generally retro effects, playing dance-friendly music that is still totally 21st-century American.

Tickets available here:

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Wonder Ballroom
8:00pm Thursday, February 16, 2017

Stephen "Thundercat" Bruner spent the last part of the new millennium's first decade becoming the go-to bassist for practically every artist in black vanguard music. His nimble, syncopated, groove-heavy basslines were heard on albums by Erykah Badu, Sa-Ra, Flying Lotus, and others. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Bruner had the good fortune to be part of a music family. His father, Ronald Bruner Sr., was an accomplished drummer, working with artists like Diana Ross, the Temptations, and Gladys Knight. Bruner's older brother, Ronald Jr., a Grammy-winning drummer, has worked with esteemed artists such as Kenny Garrett and Stanley Clarke. The Bruner brothers were members of Young Jazz Giants, a quartet with Kamasi Washington and Cameron Graves, that released a self-titled album in 2004.

Bruner's first major work came as a teenager; while still in high school, he joined Ronald as part of the L.A.-based punk band Suicidal Tendencies, replacing Robert Trujillo, who moved on to play with Metallica. At live shows, the young Bruner displayed flair and dexterity, playing some of Trujillo's three-finger riffs with just his thumb. Possessing a kinship and interest in the L.A.-led movement of genre-mixing black music, Bruner began collaborating with some of its foremost creators. His basswork on "The Cell" was, perhaps, the standout musicianship on Badu's New Amerykah, Pt. 1. He appeared on J*Davey's version of Frank Zappa's "Dirty Love," Sa-Ra's "Love Czars," Shafiq Husayn's "Cheeba," and Bilal's "Levels," and even collaborated with bass legend Bootsy Collins on Snoop Dogg's "We Rest in Cali," among dozens of other cuts. During that time, he performed live with conductor Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, who led the Suite for Ma Dukes orchestra, a contemporary ensemble that revisited J Dilla's Donuts.

Bruner's most prolific and fruit-bearing musical relationship has been with DJ/producer/instrumentalist Flying Lotus, for whom he provided both bass and vocals for 2010's Cosmogramma. Lotus then served as executive producer for Bruner's 2011 debut, The Golden Age of Apocalypse, which he released under his Thundercat moniker on Brainfeeder. Golden Age received considerable acclaim, notably for Bruner's acrobatic bass and his repurposed take on '70s-inspired fusion from George Duke and Jaco Pastorius, the bassist to whom he's most compared. Bruner's darker second album, 2013's Apocalypse, was recorded in the wake of close friend and collaborator Austin Peralta's passing.

All Ages, tickets on sale  
Holocene
8:30pm Monday, February 13, 2017

AUSTRA  w/THE RANGE 

MON FEB 13

8:30 PM

$17.00 - $20.00

TICKETS

This event is 21 and over

We're thrilled to welcome Toronto based electronic pop artist Austra, touring on her new album FUTURE POLITICS on Domino.

AUSTRA
Austra
"People have always been good at imagining the end of the world," wrote Rebecca Solnit, "which is much easier to picture than the strange sidelong paths of change in a world without end."

The future won't look like the past: dystopian dread takes this for granted, but utopian imagination is just as valid. Future Politics, Austra's third, and most ambitious album to date, calls for radical hope: "a commitment to replace the approaching dystopia," says Katie Stelmanis, who leads Austra with the support of Maya Postepski (Princess Century, TR/ST), Dorian Wolf, and Ryan Wonsiak. "Not just hope in the future, but the idea that everyone is required to help write it, and the boundaries of what it can look like are both fascinating and endless. It's not about 'being political,' it's about reaching beyond boundaries, in every single field."

Future Politics, a collection of urgent, but disciplined anthems for dancefloor and headphones, asks each of us to remember that apocalypse is not an inevitability, but the product of human decision-making. It aims for a world without borders, where human compassion and curiosity drive technological innovation rather than profit, where the necessity of labor is replaced with time for creativity and personal growth, and the terror and destruction wrought by colonialism and white supremacy is recognized as a dark age in human history. The album is radicalism distilled: to galvanic beats, gorgeous, kinetic melodies, and the vulnerable majesty of Stelmanis's voice. "Future Politics," with its steady, propulsive beat and siren-like synth hook, is both anthem and ultimatum: we have a duty to imagine better, and to imagine big.

Stelmanis, wrote, produced and engineered the album, with Maya Postepski adding production on half the tracks. It was mixed by Alice Wilder, the band's live engineer, and mastered by Heba Kadry in New York. But its haunting first single, "Utopia," is heart-filling, irresistible pop that feels pulled from the air. "Freepower" deals with the paradox of a physical world in peril while our collective consciousness evolves—there is no denying our reliance on each other and the systems we invent. "To solve the problems of global capitalism," Stelmanis says, "you need to think on the level that global capitalists are thinking."

Making Future Politics was a process of starting from zero. Austra's debut, 2011's Feel It Break, and 2013's critically celebrated Olympia, were followed with five years of non-stop touring, and half a decade without a fixed address. Katie settled in Montreal, where she found herself alone, facing both a language barrier and the dissolution of a few faith-sustaining relationships, romantically and within the band. "I knew writing this record would have nothing to do with music at first," Stelmanis says. "It needed to have a purpose other than just my own ego." The album's center suite, "I'm a Monster" through "Angel in Your Eye," is about the intersection of personal depression and collective despair.

Despair can be paralyzing, but it can act as a compass—the less you can ignore, the more you have to act. "I had a process of overcoming my own cynicism," Stelmanis says. "I came to a whole bunch of philosophers and economists who were writing about real possibilities for reinventing society." Texts that took a realistic approach to climate change and economic disaster, while offering real alternatives: Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams; Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything; David Harvey's Rebel Cities. The album's opener, "We Were Alive," is about "overcoming apathy—becoming more political, and more earnest."

In 2015, Stelmanis moved to Mexico City, where the album was completed. (The cover art was photographed at the Cuadra San Cristóbal, Mexican architect Luis Barragán's famous equestrian estate.) "It was an invigorating, and creatively liberating time—I was entirely immersed in the culture, and in the magic realism of Mexico's rich and violent history," Stelmanis says. "Economic disparity is a huge topic of conversation every day in Mexico, as is colonialism and neoliberalism, and how NAFTA fucked over Latin America. Reading about this history and contrasting it with the white capitalist theory I had learned in school made the issues I was reading about in Montreal feel more global, and feel bigger." The album's final track, "43," is about the 43 students disappeared in Iguala, Guerrero in 2014, written from the perspective of a mother who is searching for her son.

In Mexico, Stelmanis was introduced "to a whole generation of Latin American producers who are mixing traditional folk music with techno beats. It's an underground revolution rooted in the preservation and celebration of Latin American indigenous cultures, and also Latin American independence from the USA—very similar to what A Tribe Called Red is doing in Canada." Inspiration also came from European club culture—Objekt, Peter Van Hoesen, Lena Willikens, and '90s legends like Massive Attack; in all, artists who understand the dancefloor as a source of radical ideas and radical joy.

Stelmanis's music has always had a political charge—after high school she performed in the riot grrrl band Galaxy, with Postepski and Emma McKenna—but this "has become more important as I've gotten older. I've experienced more sexism in my industry, I've witnessed the downfall of the middle class, I've lived through George W. Bush and Stephen Harper." (Her latest album credits only women as producers, mixing and mastering engineers.) This is a reversal of the cliché that radicals get more conservative with age. If you're old enough to have seen both the nightmarish and the fantastical become ordinary, but young enough to imagine the rest of your life, the more radicalism seems like common sense.

Change, Solnit writes, comes from "writers, scholars, public intellectuals, social activists, and participants in social media"—also "artists, club scenes, parties, teenagers, ghettoes," says Stelmanis. "Every single person's idea about the future is valid and relevant, especially the freaks and the queers and the outsiders." This is DIY on a global scale: the ethos of a self-made, self-determining culture, but with global imperatives. "To change the cultural landscape—which is what we do as artists—is to essentially change the mainstream."
THE RANGE
Potential is the new album from producer James Hinton under his alias of The Range.

Hinton made the computer his primary instrument after falling under the spell of Baltimore club, bringing in his broader sonic influences from early '90s jungle, early '00s grime and mid '00s electronica to a new sonic whole. The software was the thing at home, but what excited the young producer was the network, and where he spiraled was YouTube. Potential uses as its backbone a series of vocal samples that Hinton has found in the forgotten corners of the site, guiding us around the hinterlands of YouTube, introducing us to unknown artists expressing themselves unfettered by the constraints of industry, lost in the infinite potential of an audience unknown.

Potential is a record steeped in histories – of its characters, of its forebears – but is startlingly new and alive: the network may be ones and zeros but the circuitry here runs on blood, still.
Doug Fir Lounge
8:00pm Thursday, February 9, 2017
The Old Church
8:00pm Friday, February 3, 2017
Jazz Pianist LISA HILTON  
1422 SW 11th Ave, Portland, OR 97201 503.222.2031 


More Information and tickets here! 

LISA HILTON / SOLO PIANO /  DAY & NIGHT
Acclaimed composer/pianist Lisa Hilton debuts new compositions from her 2017 release, DAY & NIGHT, which was inspired by the lush melodies of Cole Porter, while connecting with the bluesy energy of Count Basie and Horace Silver.  Hilton’s expressive and impressionistic compositions continue to explore the soundscape of jazz and blues alongside classical, and modernist ideas. With her nineteenth release DAY & NIGHT echoes Hilton’s commitment to discover and savor every day moments and unexpected beauty from sunrise to sunset. DAY & NIGHT is out DECEMBER 16, 2016.


“Day & Night just might be the tonic this nation needs…everyday treasures that strengthen the bonds of humankind are intrinsic to the music of Lisa Hilton.”  AXS 
“Virtuosity aside, one is left simply awestruck and wonderfully paralyzed by beauty”.  KVNF Radio

Thank You,
Leigh Shane
Crystal Ballroom
6:30pm Friday, February 3, 201711:59pm Sunday, December 4, 2016

Sabertooth PsychedelicStonerRockMicrofest! Feb 2nd and 3rd at the Crystal Ballroom.

Featuring Black Lips, The Oh Sees, Moon Due, Skull Diver, Mascaras, Skulldiver and more. Full lineup and ticket information can be found here. 

Dante's
8:00pm Saturday, January 28, 2017
Doug Fir Lounge
8:00pm Wednesday, January 25, 2017
XRAY and Eyes + Edge Present SHY GIRLS and THE LAST ARTFUL, DODGR

January, 25th, 2017

Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm

$14.00 - $16.00

TICKETS

This event is 21 and over

Shy Girls
SHY GIRLS
Shy Girls
Vocalist and producer Dan Vidmar, a.k.a Shy Girls, first came to attention in 2013 with his slow burning, sax-tinged single "Under Attack." In the fall of 2013 he released his first EP, Timeshare, with boutique label Hit City USA, which featured seductive electronic pop jams such as "Second Heartbeat." Shy Girls quickly started garnering attention and acclaim from an array of artists, producers and tastemakers. Vidmar has since collaborated with dance music heavyweights like Cyril Hahn, ODESZA and Jagwar Ma. He's also toured clubs across the country in support of artists such as HAIM, Little Dragon and Grammy award­-winning R&B singer Maxwell. In winter of 2015, Vidmar self-released a mixtape,4WZ, featuring his favorite collaborators in the realms of R&B and hip-hop (Tei Shi, Rome Fortune, Antwon and Junglepussy).

Vidmar returns with "I Am Only A Man," an electrifying piece of cinematic avant-soul. The single offers a 4:10 glimpse into the next evolution of Shy Girls' material, much of which takes a detour towards the progressive. Crash cymbals, detuned pianos, guitar jams, and modulated passages mark a clear evolution from Vidmar's previous material. Shy Girls' newest body of work is as-of-yet unnamed but is expected to be released in 2016.
THE LAST ARTFUL, DODGR
The Last Artful Dodgr
Sometimes in life, you come across a voice so present and singular in its tone that it makes your entire world stop for a moment and all the hairs on your neck stand up. The Last Artful, Dodgr has proven to be one such phenomenon. 

Born in Los Angeles and currently inhabiting Portland, Oregon - her own unique brand of rap-singing, made up of casually delivered triple entendres, unforgettable melodies and an ever-changing stream of cadences, has begun to spread like a wildfire in recent months. From her noteworthy singles "Squadron" and "Oofda" topping Spotify charts, to her manifested-thru-song appearance on the legendary Sway In The Morning radio show, everything has been coming up Dodgr in 2016. And really, she's only just getting started - with all of this leading up to her forthcoming duo LP, Bone Music, a collaboration with producer Neill Von Tally, due out in early 2017. 

It's not too early to get in on the ground floor of this star on the rise.
Marmoset Music (2105 SE 7th Ave, Portland)
5:00pm11:59pm Saturday, January 21, 2017

THREE PARTIES, ONE BIG NIGHT! Tickets and more info RIGHT HERE!  

It's XRAY's biggest fundraiser of the year, and you're invited! 

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Join us for the second annual XRAY Awards, hosted by Marmoset Music. The XRAY community will gather to celebrate the winners of this year's Radio is Yours Contest and recognize some folks working to advance justice and equity in our hometown with food, drinks, and live music.


EVENT OVERVIEW:

5:00p Doors open for VIP-only cocktail hour featuring Lenore. Vikesh Kapoor, and DJ Tex Clark

6:30p Doors open for General Admission

7:30p Performance by Maggie Morris of Genders, DJ Klyph and DJ Bobby D

8:00p Awards ceremony begins

9:00p Doors open for After Party, featuring Fred and Toody Cole and Nocturnal Habits with DJ Bobby D

12:00a Party ends


TICKET PRICES: 

VIP Party: $200 for TWO tickets. (includes food, free drinks, a goodie bag and entry to Awards Ceremony and After Party)

Awards Ceremony: $60 each (Includes 2 drink tickets, and entry to the After Party)

After Party: $7 for XRAY Members, and $15 for General Admission (includes free Sizzle Pie Pizza!) 


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The night will begin with a VIP-only cocktail hour. Our VIP guests will enjoy unlimited drinks, an intimate musical performance from new folk duo Lenore., records from DJ Tex Clark of Circa Rad, heavy hors d'oeuvres from Chefstable¿Por Que No?, and Voodoo Doughnut, a goodie bag with XRAY swag and gifts from our event sponsors, and acknowledgement during the program.


The VIP cocktail hour will be followed by the main program. We'll kick off the night with a DJ set by XRAY's own Bobby D and a solo performance from Maggie Morris (of Genders) over drinks and finger foods, followed by the awards ceremony. We'll bring to the stage a handful of Portlanders whose work and activism over the past year is deserving of recognition. Then we'll announce the winners of the 2016 Radio is Yours Contest, each of whom will walk away with a cash prize along with a hand-made trophy courtesy of Bobfish Arts.


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The party will then continue from 9 pm - midnight with the after party, featuring live performances by Fred and Toody Cole of Dead Moon and Nocturnal Habits. There will be free pizza courtesy of Sizzle Pie and drinks available for purchase.


The event is also a fundraiser for XRAY, and there will be opportunities to contribute throughout the night. Thanks to the generosity of our food and beverage sponsors, all drink purchases will directly benefit XRAY. In addition to proceeds from ticket sales, we'll also work toward our fundraising goal with a raffle and paddle raise.


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Marmoset Music 2105 SE 7th Ave
5:00pm Saturday, January 21, 2017

 Join us for the second annual XRAY Awards, hosted by Marmoset Music. The XRAY community will gather to celebrate the winners of this year's Radio is Yours Contest and recognize some folks working to advance justice and equity in our hometown with food, drinks, and live music.

TICKETS AND MORE INFORMATION HERE!


EVENT OVERVIEW:

5:00p Doors open for VIP-only cocktail hour with intimate performance by Lenore.

6:30p Doors open for General Admission

7:30p Performance by TBA!!!

8:00p Awards ceremony begins

9:00p Doors open for After Party with  Nocturnal Habits and  Fred and Toody Cole of Dead Moon

12:00a Party ends


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The night will begin with a VIP-only cocktail hour. Our VIP guests will enjoy unlimited drinks, an intimate musical performance (performer TBA), heavy hors d'oeuvres from Chefstable¿Por Que No?, and Voodoo Doughnut, a goodie bag with XRAY swag and gifts from our event sponsors, and acknowledgement during the program.


The VIP cocktail hour will be followed by the main program. We'll kick off the night with a performance (musician/comedian TBA) over drinks and finger foods, followed by the awards ceremony. We'll bring to the stage a handful of Portlanders whose work and activism over the past year is deserving of recognition. Then we'll announce the winners of the 2016 Radio is Yours Contest, each of whom will walk away with a cash prize along with a hand-made trophy courtesy of Bobfish Arts.


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The party will then continue from 9 pm - midnight with the after party, featuring live performances by 2 bands and XRAY DJs (lineup TBA soon!). There will be free pizza courtesy ofSizzle Pie and drinks available for purchase.


The event is also a fundraiser for XRAY, and there will be opportunities to contribute throughout the night. Thanks to the generosity of our food and beverage sponsors, all drink purchases will directly benefit XRAY. In addition to proceeds from ticket sales, we'll also work toward our fundraising goal with a raffle and paddle raise.


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Mississippi Studios
8:00pm Wednesday, January 18, 2017
A co-headlined night of transcendent experimental pop songwriting
Cate Le Bon / Tim Presley
Wednesday Jan 18, 2017

Doors: 8:00 PM 
Show: 9:00 PM

21 and over

$12 ADV / $14 DOS

Mississippi Studios

3939 N. Mississippi Ave. 
Portland, OR

Mostly Standing / Limited Seated Balcony

Turn Turn Turn
8:00pm Sunday, January 15, 2017

Turn Turn Turn welcomes Dear Nora  for her Reunion/Mountain Rock Reiusse show! With Dragging and Ox at Turn Turn Turn. XRAY is proud to co-Sponsor the show. More info on Turn Turn Turn's Website



DEAR NORA ANNOUNCES MOUNTAIN ROCK REISSUE
OUT 1/13 ON ORINDAL RECORDS

ANNOUNCES WEST COAST WINTER TOUR

Photo Credit: Chris Lael Larson

Dear Nora, Katy Davidson's long-since-retired indie pop/folk project, has announced the reissue of their 2004 classic fan favorite, Mountain Rock, on vinyl for the first time ever. In recent years there has been a newfound interest in the music of Dear Nora, thanks in part to the Girlpool song titled "Dear Nora" and Joyce Manor name dropping the band as one of the influences for their new album, Cody. The Mountain Rock reissue is available for pre-order now and due out January 13thvia Orindal Records.

Dear Nora will also be reforming for a January west coast tour in support of the reissue. All dates below.

WATCH THE MOUNTAIN ROCK TEASER VIDEO

 
TOUR DATES:
1/13 - Olympia, WA @ Obsidian ^
1/14 - Seattle, WA @ Black Lodge ^
1/15 - Portland, OR @ Turn! Turn! Turn! ^
1/16 - Portland, OR @ Reed College ^
1/18 - Oakland, CA @ The Night Light ^
1/19 - Los Angeles, CA @ Bootleg Theater ^
1/21 - Las Vegas, NV @ 11th Street Records ^
1/22 - Flagstaff, AZ @ Firecreek Coffee ^
1/23 - Phoenix, AZ @ Trunk Space ^
1/25 - San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar ^
1/26 - Tijuana, MX @ Mous Tache ^
1/28 - San Francisco, CA @ Makeout Room ^

^ w/ Stephen Steinbrink

ABOUT 
MOUNTAIN ROCK:
Katy Davidson wrote the songs that appear on Dear Nora's album Mountain Rock during the time of George W. Bush's early presidency, the 9/11 attacks, and the beginning of the Iraq war. She recorded the majority of the songs during winter in rural Arizona at the end of 2003, after returning home from a Dear Nora tour of Sweden. "Hey Ya!" by Outkast had just been released and it was playing everywhere. Overall this album is about bliss and terror, and how interactions with wilderness and humanity can provoke those emotions.

ABOUT DEAR NORA:
Katy Davidson was born in 1977 in rural Arizona. Her first home was a geodesic dome her father built on the south side of a mountain in the Sonoran Desert. Every spring the mountain would turn orange when the poppies bloomed. As a child, Katy was obsessed with the albums Third Stage by Boston and Seven and The Ragged Tiger by Duran Duran. She taught herself guitar as a teenager by playing along with Liz Phair CDs on a nylon-string acoustic.

 

Katy's music represents a spectrum of styles encompassing melodic folk, experimental music, and ethereal pop. She writes lyrics with layered meanings that contemplate the vast realms and intersections of wilderness, humanity, morality, technology, late capitalism, and love.

 

   

DEAR NORA 
LOLA'S ROOM at the Crystal Ballroom
6:00pm Saturday, January 14, 2017

Girl Fest presents

Girl Fest 2017

Hosted by Blossom

Coco Columbia

Karma Rivera

Neka + Kahlo

Haley Heynderickx


  • LOLA'S ROOM at the Crystal Ballroom
  • Saturday, January 14, 2017
  • 6 p.m. doors, 7 p.m. show | 
  • $8 advance, $10 day of show | 
  • All ages welcome

Buy Tickets

Tickets on sale now!

About Girl Fest 2017

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Girl Fest 2017 is proud to return to Lola's Room at the Crystal Ballroom for their 3rd annual event. This one day, festival-style event was founded in 2013 as a way to celebrate the talented, female artists currently making noise in the Northwest. Girl Fest 2017 will be hosted by Blossom, and will include performances by Coco Columbia, Karma Rivera, Neka & Kahlo, Haley Heyndrickx, Courtney Noe and students from My Voice Music's Student Mentorship Program. With a festival-style lineup, Girl Fest 2017 is excited to feature a wild array of genres; everything from hip hop, to alternative, singer songwriter, and pop infused modern jazz. The 2017 event is sponsored byXRAY.fm and Vortex Music Magazine.
   

About Coco Columbia

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Music school dropout, Coco Columbia, burst onto the Portland music scene in 2014. Her music fuses infectious indie-pop melodies, off-kilter rhythmic feels, dreamy-eyed electro-soul soundscapes and jazzy harmony to create her own brand of bumpin' space-age future-pop. Coco has shared the stage with bands such as Hiatus Kaiyote, Goapele, Robert Glasper and Knower.

About Karma Rivera

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Freshman to the NW hip hop scene, Karma Rivera has already made quite a name for herself. Since performing as headliner of November's "The Thesis" at Kelly's Olympian, Rivera has been making moves. She's ready to slay on the Girl Fest stage in January, with aggressive hip hop tracks and a style truly all her own.

About Neka + Kahlo

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Veterans of Girl Fest 2014, Neka & Kahlo craft vibey music out of a red brick apartment in North Portland. Rather than pushing a limiting trend or sub-genre, the duo serve as an intersection - trafficking in multiple styles and sounds - thereby dispensing with the need for additional labels. What you hear is the expression of their unique experience as humans who refuse to conform to any one identity alone.

soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/we-out-here-magazine/neka-kahlo-7hirdwav3-alchemistress

About Haley Heynderickx

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The voice of Portland artist, Haley Heynderickx (pronounced Hendricks), is distinctly unique, with a sweet power and beauty that makes her music almost familiar to the ear. Her lyricism is raw and true. Reminiscent of the styles of Joni Mitchell, Joanna Newsom and Jessica Pratt, Heynderickx is not one to miss. 

About Courtney Noe

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"Courtney Noe, Grammy's 2017" is written in red lipstick on her bathroom mirror. "I literally envision myself rising out of the stage in Madison Square Garden before I go to sleep." Courtney's sound embraces the soul of Motown with the additive character of pop. Big band horns, orchestra strings and piano are heard throughout her music; the lyrics dripping with sass. 

About My Voice Music

My Voice Music is a nonprofit organization based in Portland, Oregon that engages youth in music and performance in order to promote self-esteem, social skills and emotional expression. MVM's student band opened Girl Fest in 2016, and we are excited to welcome these extraordinarily talented girls back to our stage for the 2017 event! 

 

Melody Ballroom
9:00pm Saturday, December 31, 2016

DJ Anjali & The Incredible Kid New Year's Eve Dance Party Extravaganza at the Melody Ballroom.

Saturday, December 31st, 2016

Our biggest New Year's Eve party ever:
A Desi Latino Soundclash on 2 floors!!

Orquestra Pacifico Tropical (Featuring members of Sun Angle, Máscaras, Bitch'n, &&&, IOA, Point Juncture, Wa., Modernstate, Roselit Bone, Quiet Countries & Eagle Sun King.) Orquestra Pacifico Tropical’s wall of sound is dedicated to expanding the music of Central & South America to the people & dance floors of the Pacific Northwest.

Coast2c (Gran Ritmos)
Daniela Karina (Women's Beat League/Bed of Roses)
Michael Bruce (Gran Ritmos)
Suavecito (She Shreds Magazine & Savila)

Bollywood/Cumbia/Bhangra/Dembow/Urban Desi/Reggaeton/Desi Bass/Latin Trap/Tribal Guarachero 

Featuring percussionist Adam McCollom on the Panjabi Dhol drum.
Bhangra dances by DJ Anjali and Gulabi Gang.

Two ballrooms on two levels. 

Sound by One Wub
Sponsored by XRAY.FM.
21+ only w/ proper ID

This party marks the 16th anniversary of Anjali and The Kid playing in Portland clubs as a duo since their New Year's Eve debut in 2000.

www.anjaliandthekid.com

Star Theater
8:00pm Saturday, December 31, 2016
Soul'd Out Productions and XRAY.FM proudly present the reunion of the legendary freestyle superstars 

Quannum MCs!

Featuring BlackaliciousLatyrxGift of GabLyrics BornLateef Daumont, and Chief Xcel. With specail guests Libretto, Blossom, and DJ Wicked.

Saturday December 31
Star Theater Portland
DOORS AT 8, SHOW AT 9pm / 21+

21+ 

Additional Info:
QUANNUM MC's (Blackalicious, Latyrx, Gift of Gab, Lyrics Born, Chief Xcel & Lateef) w/ special guests Libretto, Blossom & Dj WickedThis New Year's Eve, come celebrate with Quannum---one of the West Coast's most legendary Hip Hop collectives ever formed---and their long awaited reunion, exclusively at the Star Theater in PDX! Both a label (Quannum Projects) and a collaborative concern, Quannum brought together the brightest talents from the former SoleSides label: Lyrics Born and Lateef the Truth Speaker (from Latyrx), Chief Xcel and Gift of Gab (from Blackalicious), and DJ Shadow. An artist-run label, SoleSides was founded in 1992 at KDVS, the college radio station for the University of California-Davis, with most of the above artists involved, plus mentor DJ Zen (Jeff Chang). Its first release, DJ Shadow's 1993 slab "Entropy," gained a worldwide profile after tastemaker James Lavelle released it on his Mo' Wax label. SoleSides hit with further releases like Blackalicious' Melodica EP (also licensed to Mo' Wax) and the self-titled debut single by Latyrx. By 1997, SoleSides had become Quannum Projects, and the label debuted with a masterstroke, the brilliant collaborative Quannum Spectrum, including a bounty of West Coast underground talent -- Jurassic 5, Divine Styler, Souls of Mischief, and Poets of Rhythm. Quannum Projects continued releasing records, including full-lengths for Blackalicious (NIA) and Poets of Rhythm (Discern/Define), a single by Spectrum contributor Joyo Velarde, and most rewarding of all, the two-disc history lesson SoleSides Greatest Bumps. And now this New Years Eve is your once in a lifetime chance to catch the collective live and direct!
Tickets:
http://www.ticketweb.com/fb/6995585/dantes

The Liquor Store
7:00pm Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Earthquake Hurricane, is about to have our 100th show!


We started in the basement of a bike shop two years with the goal of bringing together Portland's best comics into a super-group and then inviting our favorite comics to showcase with us. We've been lucky enough to welcome some of the best comics in the country stop by our show: Greg Behrendt, Kurt Braunohler, Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist, Solomon Georgio, and many many more. We've played festivals and colleges, and at our new home underneath The Liquor Store, we've continued to showcased the absolute best standup the city has to offer every single week.


For our hundredth showiversary, we've got a jam packed lineup headlined by Gabe Dinger, making his triumphant return from his new home in Los Angeles. Also appearing: Dylan Jenkins (just named one of the Funniest 5), Stephanie Oberto (get to know her, she's going to be huge), and visiting from LA, Becky Robinson (Not Safe with Nikki Glaser).


December 21st

7pm

The Liquor Store (3341 SE Belmont)

$5 suggested


Holocene
8:30pm Sunday, December 18, 2016

Willamette Week, XRAY.FM  and Holocene present: LOCAL CUT

Ft. 
Mic Capes
with
Brown Alice
Ellis Pink
and sounds by Fritzwa

LOCAL CUT is a FREE quarterly music event curated by Willamette Week, showcasing the diverse and talented musicians and producers under the radar and on the rise within the Portland music scene.

Hosted by Holocene, LOCAL CUT shines a spotlight on an eclectic mix of hip-hop, R&B, soul and their extended genres. Expect up and coming MC’s and DJ’s, as well as rock bands with rhythm and creative individuals marching to the beat of their own drum machine.

Sponsored by MillerCoors.

Sunday, December 18 
Holocene Portland
9 p.m. show / 8:30 p.m. doors
21+
FREE

Alberta Abbey Ballroom
8:00pm Saturday, December 17, 2016

Tender Loving Empire Winter Formal 

Featuring music from:

Orquestra Pacifico Tropical

Maarquii

Rap Class

Dress to Impress! 
Photobooth!
Holiday Cheer!
Full Bar! 

Saturday December, 17th 
8pm - 1am / 21+

$10 with a toy donation for Toy & Joy Makers
$20 without a toy ($10 goes to Toy & Joy Makers)

Tickets - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tender-loving-empire-winter-formal-tickets-29263014464

Alberta Abbey Ballroom
126 NE Alberta St
Portland, OR 97211

More info and toy donation recommendations from Portland Fire & Rescue Toy & Joy Makers here: http://www.toynjoymakers.org/

The Clay Compound
11:00am6:00pm Saturday, December 10, 2016

The Clay Compound is a cooperative ceramics studio in NE Portland comprised of more than a dozen local ceramic artists!

The Clay Compound invites you to our Open Studio & Holiday Sale!

Share the holiday season with a dozen of Portland's ceramic artists in this three day event at our studio in NE Portland. We will be offering demonstrations throughout the weekend of the many different techniques used by our diverse group of members, as well as, refreshments and lots of welcoming vibrations.

Opening Night // Friday December 9th // 6pm - 9pm
Saturday September 10th // 11am - 6pm
Sunday September 11th // 11am - 6pm

This is an excellent opportunity to tour our facility and to meet our artists. Decorative and Functional Ceramic pieces will be available for purchase from our wide variety of artists.

All forms of payment accepted // Cash - Card - Check

Please pass on this invite to anyone you feel would be interested in checking out the scene down at The Clay Compound.

The Clay Compound
5849 NE Simpson Street
Portland, Oregon 97218

Entrance located up the driveway. Look for signs and twinkle lights!

Via Car -- Easiest to access via NE 60th Ave.
NE Simpson is halfway between Killingsworth and Portland Hwy.
Street parking available on NE Simpson and NE 59th Ave.

Via Trimet -- #72 Busline
From the East & Southeast Portland use STOP # 3210
From the West, North, and NE Portland use STOP # 3146
at NE 60th Ave.
We recommend walking up NE 59th (and not 60th) for safety.

All Are Welcome. 

Please note, our sales space and studio area are wheelchair accessible, but the kiln yard is not.

We hope to see you!

More information and demo schedule at https://www.facebook.com/events/1804841039789028/



The Clay Compound
6:00pm9:00pm Friday, December 9, 2016

The Clay Compound is a cooperative ceramics studio in NE Portland comprised of more than a dozen local ceramic artists!

The Clay Compound invites you to our Open Studio & Holiday Sale!

Share the holiday season with a dozen of Portland's ceramic artists in this three day event at our studio in NE Portland. We will be offering demonstrations throughout the weekend of the many different techniques used by our diverse group of members, as well as, refreshments and lots of welcoming vibrations.

Opening Night // Friday December 9th // 6pm - 9pm
Saturday September 10th // 11am - 6pm
Sunday September 11th // 11am - 6pm

This is an excellent opportunity to tour our facility and to meet our artists. Decorative and Functional Ceramic pieces will be available for purchase from our wide variety of artists.

All forms of payment accepted // Cash - Card - Check

Please pass on this invite to anyone you feel would be interested in checking out the scene down at The Clay Compound.

The Clay Compound
5849 NE Simpson Street
Portland, Oregon 97218

Entrance located up the driveway. Look for signs and twinkle lights!

Via Car -- Easiest to access via NE 60th Ave.
NE Simpson is halfway between Killingsworth and Portland Hwy.
Street parking available on NE Simpson and NE 59th Ave.

Via Trimet -- #72 Busline
From the East & Southeast Portland use STOP # 3210
From the West, North, and NE Portland use STOP # 3146
at NE 60th Ave.
We recommend walking up NE 59th (and not 60th) for safety.

All Are Welcome. 

Please note, our sales space and studio area are wheelchair accessible, but the kiln yard is not.

We hope to see you!

More information and demo schedule at https://www.facebook.com/events/1804841039789028/



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