McMenamins, Pabst Blue Ribbon & XRAY FM Present: MIC CHECK
Mic Check is celebrating 2 years of bringing you some of the best hip-hop in the region. This year we're bring you an additional hour featuring beat sets from some of the regions best producers, continuing the open mic and live remixes from resident DJs Trox and O.G. One. Transitioning to a quarterly event, the Hip Hop Showcase is happening the last Thursday of the quarter at White Eagle, with Live performances, drink specials and good vibes!
Make sure you hit www.miccheckpdx.com
THURSDAY JUNE 28TH:
Special Guests...
SERGE SEVERE
WYNNE
YUNG MIL
QBALA
Beat Set by: Trox
Hosted by: DJ Klyph
Music by: Trox & DJ O.G. One
Dooors @ 8pm, Show starts at 9pm...
21 and over, Tickets: $8 @ the Door
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Join us at the Say Ciao Columbia River Taproom and Eatery from 4-7 pm on Saturday June 24th for a KXRW fundraiser. We'll have a meet and with the KXRW show hosts and board of directors, as well as a raffle for 3 nights at Prinevilla Resort Home. Tickets are $25 each or $40 for a pair, kids under 12 get in free. 2501 SE Columbia Way ste 270, Vancouver, WA.
HEAR TO BE HEARD: THE STORY OF THE SLITS
Director William E. Badgley in attendance!
A new documentary telling the tale of the formation, journey and end of the seminal Punk/Reggae band The Slits, the world's first all-girl punk band. Forming in London in 1976, they were contemporaries of The Clash & The Sex Pistols, and were the pioneering godmothers of the musical movement known as "Punky Reggae". The film tells the story of the band and the lives of the women involved, from the bands inception in 1976 to the bands end in 2010 coinciding at the death of lead vocalist Ari Up.
Sonic Cinema sponsored by Lagunitas, XRAY FM and Music Millennium
Bambi and Cole met on a basketball court, filming a music video for a band that didn’t have any music. After dating for six months, the two married under a blanket of smoke from the season’s forest fires.
Reptaliens quickly evolved from a conceptual collage of ideas into the bedroom recording project for the duo, captured with analog synthesizers, electric guitars, and melodic bass lines, and tape delayed vocals telling stories of science fiction, obsession, and transhumanism.
As long time, active participants in the Portland music scene, Bambi and Cole call on a number of talented musicians to guest on songs throughout the entirety of Reptaliens’ recordings and live performances. The band embraces the captivity of their audience with their sincere and theatrical performances.
Pay attention to the journey, from New Brigade, a juvenile delinquent take on post-punk, full of cold, distant condemnation, and onto the ecstasy of You’re Nothing, shedding the more aggressive hardcore influence and dragging in more light, a tendency followed on Plowing Into The Field Of Love. The intoxication is consistent, this has always been drunk music, but it’s less a stumbling confusion and more a sturdy heartfelt confession with each record. They have finally caught up with their ambition. Their entire charm has always rested in their running ahead of themselves with blind confidence, taunting you to follow and you follow because wherever they are going is vital, is alive; on Beyondless they are treading with an assurance that is disarming, but there is no loss of charm, you are arm in arm now, whispering intimacies.
TREEPEOPLE w/ THE PRIDS, THE DELUSIONS
Rock band from Boise, Idaho which was active from the late 80s to 1994. Treepeople shared its members with punk band State Of Confusion and The Halo Benders. Upon leaving the group in 1993, Doug Martsch formed Built To Spill.
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TREEPEOPLE w/ THE PRIDS, THE LONELY CHILDREN
Rock band from Boise, Idaho which was active from the late 80s to 1994. Treepeople shared its members with punk band State Of Confusion and The Halo Benders. Upon leaving the group in 1993, Doug Martsch formed Built To Spill.
FRI, JUNE 8, 2018
DOORS: 8:00 PM / SHOW: 9:00 PM
Holocene is turning 15 years old!!
To celebrate, we're throwing a FREE show for our community, headlined by the Northwest's own effervescent electronic producer Manatee Commune, and featuring support sets from celestial funk purveyors Tribe Mars, and soulful DJ sets for your dancing pleasure from Chanti Darling and XRAY.FM’s own Bobby D.
Space will be limited for this FREE event, so we recommend arriving early.
June 6th Instrument Drive (for immigrant & refugee youth with Portland meet Portland)
Portland Meet Portland welcomes and befriends immigrants and refugees, enriching community by creating mutually beneficial mentoring opportunities that promote cross-cultural learning, enhance work skills and build trust.
More information at: https://www.gofundme.com/immigrantrefugee-youth-rock-camp
Mic Check is a Hip Hop Showcase every last Thursday of the month at White Eagle, with Live performances, drink specials and good vibes!
Make sure you hit www.miccheckpdx.com
THURSDAY MAY 31st:
Special Guests...
SLEEP
of OLDOMINION
RAQUEL DIVAR
JxJURY
Hosted by DJ Klyph
Music by Trox
Dooors @ 9pm, Show starts at 10pm...
21 and over, Tickets: $8 @ the Door
Onion Music Fest, The Fixin' To, and XRAY.FM Present: A night of unique, soulful, and passionate expression, as we celebrate community and the upcoming OMF 2018.
Tribe Mars:
Tribe Mars is a guerrilla faction of freedom fighters combating against the forces of tyranny and systematic oppression through music, art, and spiritual practices learned from our extraterrestrial Martian brothers many lifetimes ago on the Red Planet.
Their expression through the use of their instruments channels these ancient practices and beliefs, which are then internalized and etched into the souls of those exposed to their tight grooves and soulful vocals
The Fur Coats:
The Fur Coats are a psych-soul-pop band from Portland, Oregon fronted by American sweethearts Chris Karl and Betty. Their lineup includes members of Wampire, Charlie Hilton and Reptaliens.
Onion The Man:
Psychedelic grooves ooze from the depths of their hot souls. Raw shallot force energy merges to create the layered vibrations that is Onion The Man. Residing in the northern realms of Oregon, four passionate artists birth, break, and surf the wave of contagious groove through melodic texture, rhythmic harmony, and musical empowerment. Riding the mothership upward and onward, the Onion family tours all over the west coast and organizes Onion Music Festival annually for the sake of bringing all paths of life together in the name of personal expression and humanity.
Tickets available here.
Carla dal Forno is an Australian singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, currently based in Berlin. She is a member of the groups F ingers and Tarcar, and formerly cult Melbourne outfit Mole House. Autumn 2016 sees the release of her debut solo album, You Know What It’s Like, on Blackest Ever Black.
Tickets available here: https://www.holocene.org/event/1640414-carla-dal-forno-portland/
Saturday, May 26th 9pm
Spare Room Restaurant & Lounge
4830 NE 42ND AVE
PDX OR 97218
$10 ADV/DOS tix at http://bit.ly/lithicstix
21+
Lithics
http://lithics.bandcamp.com/
Honey Bucket
https://honey-bucket.bandcamp.com/
Scorch
https://scorchusa.bandcamp.com/
Saturday, May 26
XRAY.FM, Sahel Sounds, & Multiflora Productions Present:
Mdou Moctar
http://mdoumoctar.bandcamp.com
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Secret Drum Band
https://secretdrumband.bandcamp.com/
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Amenta Abioto
https://soundcloud.com/amentaabioto/
TICKETS → https://tinyurl.com/ybtr77lt
Music for desert picnics. Tuareg guitarist Mdou Moctar delves into his more sensitive side with a minimal studio recording of dreamy ballads. Thumping calabash, droning guitars, and vocal overdubs evoke an imagined desert soundscape. All instruments and vocals performed by Mdou only, creating a very personal and auteur sessions. Emotive and introspective, exploring themes of religion, spirituality, and matters of the heart.
After his underground success on the pirate mp3 networks of West Africa with his first release, the psychedelic autotuned “Anar,” (2008) he was featured on the Sahel Sounds compilation “Music from Saharan Cellphones” (2011) and launched a successful touring career. In 2012, Mdou relocated from his village to Agadez, the center of Niger’s guitar scene, and formed his band. Over the past years, he has become well known on the international circuit, playing high energy electrified music in festivals and clubs across Europe and North America. In 2013, he released his first international album, “Afelan,” rocking and raw sessions recorded live in Niger. In 2015, he starred in the first ever Tuareg language film, “Rain the Color Blue with a Little Red In It,” a Nigerien remake of “Purple Rain.”
Jeff Rosenstock was an anxious kid who grew into an anxious adult and has also made a bunch of music along the way with a bunch of bands, most notably Bomb the Music Industry! who apparently pioneered giving shit away for free on the internet - or at least got some of the credit for it.
I hope. I don't know, that's what I was going for at least.
-- Jeff
Great Grandpa began in Seattle in 2014 when guitarist & vocalist Patrick Goodwin recruited bassist Carrie Miller, drummer Cam LaFlam, and vocalist Alex Menne to form a humble rock band. Inspired by the pop-sensible alternative rock of the 90's, and offset by a mutual love for noise and math rock, the group set forth to write and record their first EP.
During recording, guitarist Dylan Hanwright joined the group, solidifying the lineup. Great Grandpa began performing in the Seattle area in late 2014, frequenting the city's DIY venues. In March of 2015, their debut EP Can Opener was released on Broken World Media. The EP was met with considerable praise, and has been described as "warm, slightly off-kilter grunge pop", and "knotty, twisted, and warm rock music that's as melodically satisfying as it is, at times, confounding."
Great Grandpa began writing their debut LP soon after, and found themselves touring the western US and performing extensively in the Seattle area. Written in 2015 and 2016, Great Grandpa's debut LP Plastic Cough continues to explore the sonic territory visited in Can Opener, exhibiting infectious melodies across a range of backdrops, from quiet bedroom-pop to explosive, anthemic rock. Plastic Cough is out July 7th via Double Double Whammy.
QDoc is the only festival in the U.S. devoted exclusively to LGBTQ documentaries. Documentaries offer a unique vehicle to creatively engage core issues of queer identity – politics, history, culture, diversity, sexuality, family, aging, and coming-out issues.
Founded in 2007 by Russ Gage and David Weissman, and directed by Molly King and Deb Kemp since 2017, QDoc has shown award-winning films fresh from Sundance, Berlin, Hot Docs, Tribeca, Amsterdam and other top-tier festivals. We have shown historical films, personal stories, artist biographies, experimental work and topical films dealing with current controversies. Visiting artists have included prominent filmmakers from all over the U.S. and from as far as Italy and Australia, who have participated in lively discussions after the screenings. We have hosted emerging filmmakers as well as 3 Academy Award winning directors, enabling dynamic audience interaction with artists.
Documentary as a form of expression is as vital and energetic as it has ever been, and QDoc brings the highest caliber of films – and their makers – to share with Portland audiences.
Check out the complete lineup and get your tickets at qdocfilmfest.org
Rough Cut sneak preview documentary screening of 'Bushwick Bill: Geto Boy’, with Bushwick Bill and filmmaker Gregy Roman will be ther ein person for a live Q&A with the audience, hosted by Shane Bugbee. This is the legendary rappers first ever visit to Oregon.
Sunday, May 13th, 7pm
Clinton Street Theater ( 2522 SE Clinton Street, Portland, OR https://cstpdx.com/)
Rough-Cut Sneak Screening of the Documentary Bushwick Bill: Geto Boy
Live talk and performance from the one-and-only, Bushwick Bill
Plus rare Geto Boys and Bushwick Bill music videos
w/Filmmaker Greg Roman
Hosted by Shane Bugbee
Join us in celebrating the release of the 2018 PDX Pop Now! compilation, with tracks from over 30 Portland artists!
Featuring sets by deathlist, [bryson, the alien] Sumalienz , and RILLA
$8 Admission includes a copy of the 2018 compilation!
- - ALL AGES - -
Each year, the PDX Pop Now! listening committee —comprised of volunteers from across our community—listen to over 500 songs submitted for the annual compilation. After making it through the listening panel, final tracks are then selected with attention to diversity, representation and popularity. All proceeds of the compilation go towards funding the our annual free and all ages music festival on July 21-22.
Saturday MAY 12th — XRAY is proud to sponsor the SUPER: Women in Tech live storytelling show! Featuring true stories from women and binary folks about the sometimes poignant and mostly funny struggles and triumphs of life inside and outside of the tech world. In other words, you do not have to be in the tech world or know much about it because the stories are freakin' compelling. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll get effing fired up. Advance tickets at BackFencePDX.com.