A collaboration between The National's Matt Berninger and Menomena's Brent Knopf, El VY is playing two nights at Doug Fir. The debut EL VY album is called Return To The Moon, and will be out this October. It’s a project they’ve been thinking about for almost a decade since they first became friends, and during the winter and spring of ’14-15 they were finally able to find time to make it a reality.
Moorea Masa has been singing since she could talk. Her voice has the power to move mountains, or to move grown men to tears. Her songs can transport listeners from lush green forests to dimly-lit juke joints. An Oregonian native, Moorea has been performing professionally since the age of 15. She attended the Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts and studied with Flamenco musicians while living in the cave dwellings of Granada, Spain. Influenced by soulful folk music across generations and geography, including Etta James, Feist, and Iron and Wine. In her former project, The Ruby Pines, she performed at venues like The Blue Note in New York City and The Wonder Ballroom in their home of Portland, Oregon. Currently, she sings with Ural Thomas and The Pain (Willamette Week's Best New Artist in 2014), a throwback soul band fronted by a former collaborator of James Brown and Otis Redding. Moorea is completing work on her debut solo EP, due to be released later this year.
Hibou. Peter Michel is a 21 year old Seattleite who creates music under the alias Hibou. Michel toured North America and Europe as the drummer of Captured Tracks' band Craft Spells. After a year of non-stop touring, he felt his life with the band had run its course, and that it was time to begin creating his own music. In January of 2013, he released 2 songs, and soon after received positive press recognition. In June of 2013, Dunes EP was released, which was featured by NME, Pitchfork, Line of Best Fit, Noisey, and more. Hibou is set to release their debut LP in 2015.
Lost Lander. Before she died, Matt Sheehy’s mother used to tell him about a dream she had about Lost Land Lake—a place she spent part of her mid-western childhood. That dream inspired the name of the Juneau-born, Portland-based songwriter’s band, and her memory is imbued in Medallion, their second album. If DRRT, the group’s first independently released album, was about the confluence of nature and technology, Medallion, its latest, concerns dualities – experiences of love and loss, impermanence and longevity, death and rebirth.
The confrontation of these dualities resulted in a set of songs that explore “more human territory,” according to Sheehy, a professional forester who spend his days in Oregon’s immense wooded expanse – where he collects data while occasionally dodging 1,000-pound bull elks and the stray hunter’s bullet.
The coming-apart of Sheehy’s marriage engagement and nearly concurrent loss of his mother, followed closely by the blooming of a relationship with longtime friend and bandmate Sarah Fennell, heavily influenced the lyrics on Medallion.
“It was almost like a switch flipped,” Fennell says. “It took us a while to figure out what that meant.” The 80s British synth-pop influenced ““Gemini” deals very directly with the danger I felt in getting closer to Sarah,” says Sheehy, while Paul Simon-esque world folk number “Flinch” is a direct response to his mom’s passing.
Yet not all the songs are so directly autobiographical: “Feed the Fever” was based on a TV interview with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden; the lyrics are direct quotes from the transcript. The swirling world beat psychedelia of “Trailer Tracks” was written whilst secluded in an Airstream during a writers’ retreat. The wide-screen Blue Velvet epic “Alpine Street” is a cinematic dream of suburban domesticity, cut with an undercurrent of sadness and dread. “Nothing lasts forever,” Matt observes. “And the seeds are already planted for the change that’s inevitable.”
Sheehy took the seeds of the songs into “the idea factory/workshop that is Brent Knopf’s brain,” he relates, “where he spits out all the bells and whistles that we hang on those structures.”
The new songs, recorded with producer Knopf (Ramona Falls, Menomena), also owe their current form to Sheehy’s bandmates; keyboardist Fennell, drummer Patrick Hughes and ex-bassist Dave Lowensohn. Medallion also features Beirut trumpet player Kelly Pratt, Akron/Family’s Dana Jenssen, and new bass and guitar player, William Seiji Marsh.
After the 2011 release of DRRT, Lost Lander went on tour for almost two years, playing 140 shows in the US, Canada, Europe, and Russia, where their collective experience resulted in the camaraderie and tightness that went into the making of Medallion. “For me, this band has been a dream come true” says Sheehy. The music business in general may be pessimistic, but not everyone in it is. We’re excited to go towards enthusiasm.”
Medallion is all about wrenching joy from despair, of finding the permanent within the temporary. “This record is an exclamation of love and loss,” Fennell declares. “It’s emotional, dealing with life in an exuberant way, even if it’s sad, hard, wonderful, and crazy. We’re all just lucky to be here to experience it.”
Bollywood Horror XIII Costume Dance Party with DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid, featuring the US debut of Lil India (Vancouver, BC) and live percussion by dholi Malinder Tooray of Dholnation (Los Angeles).
The longest-running Bollywood Halloween party in the world is a Portland original, a wild dance party celebrating thirteen years of raucous costumed merriment hosted by DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid. The centerpiece of every Bollywood Horror is the costume contest hosted by Anjali with fabulous prizes from rad local businesses for the best costumes. Featuring only the wickedest beats from the subcontinent: cower at the thundering dhols, shiver at the piercing wails of Bollywood divas. The night features specially-commissioned psychedelic Bollywood Horror visuals remixed by Micah Schmelzer Deai from Anjali and The Kid's vault of South Asian horror.
LIL INDIA
A female Indo-Canadian DJ duo from Vancouver, BC whose "Strictly for My Jatts" mix was featured in the Mad Decent blog and reached nearly 100,000 listens on soundcloud before being taken down. They have performed with artists such as Heems, Spank Rock, Chippy Nonstop and DJ Rekha, After DJing for years in hip-hop and R&B contexts in 2014 they launched their "All Indian" Jaloos party and in 2015 performed at the Vancouver International Bhangra Celebration official after party.
https://soundcloud.com/lilindia
https://twitter.com/lilindia
https://instagram.com/lilindia_/
MALINDER TOORAY
Malinder Tooray was born and raised in LA. She started playing dhol at the age of 15, self taught alongside her two brothers. Together they are Dholnation. Malinder has performed for many artists such as Sukshinder Shinda, Sukbhir, B21, Jassi Sidhu, Lehmber Hussainpuri and Bollywood dance groups such as Blue 13 and Karmagraphy. She recently played at World of Dance accompanied by Waacking Choreographer Kumari Suraj.
DJ ANJALI AND THE INCREDIBLE KID
DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid have spent more than a decade igniting dance floors with cutting edge music not limited by borders or language. They host the longest-running Bhangra and Bollywood party on the West Coast, co-founded the Pacific Northwest’s first Global Bass dance party and host two weekly radio shows on XRAY.FM. Few DJs can be said to have changed the sound of their city but that is exactly what DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid have accomplished since they first introduced Portland, Oregon nightclub audiences to the many varied sounds of Global Bass at a raucous New Year’s Eve debut in 2000. They are most known for incinerating dance floors with the heavy dance floor artillery of South Asia, but the duo scour the globe for any hard-hitting music that combines local music traditions with window-rattling production. Anjali and The Kid regularly perform at festivals including five sets at the Sasquatch! Music Festival tenth anniversary where they headlined the dance tent opening night. They have performed at festivals such as Decibel, MusicfestNW, Vancouver International Bhangra Celebration, Beloved, Photosynthesis, Fairytale, Kaleidoscope and the Vancouver Queer Film Festival. The duo travel to perform in cities such as New York City, Chicago, Washington DC, San Francisco and Vancouver, BC to headline parties such as Basement Bhangra, iBomba, Bhangrateque, Ottomania and Non Stop Bhangra.
www.anjaliandthekid.com/
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www.twitter.com/incrediblekid23
https://soundcloud.com/djanjali
https://soundcloud.com/the-incredible-kid
$10 ($5 before 10pm)
21 and over
9pm-2am
Tickets
Little May is a dark tangle of raw lyrics, honest and haunting melodies and voices upon voices upon voices; Little May represent a new generation of songwriters. Undefinable and expansive, Little May's sound is created by age-old friends Annie Hamilton, Liz Drummond and Hannah Field, who in 18 short months have acquired almost two million Soundcloud plays, three million Spotify streams and whose debut EP has made its way into the ears of fans and tastemakers far beyond their Sydney home.
Historian David McCullough has been widely acclaimed as a “master of the art of narrative history.” He has won two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award. His work 1776 has been acclaimed “a classic,” while John Adams, published in 2001, remains one of the most praised and widely read American biographies of all time. Mr. McCullough’s other books includeThe Johnstown Flood, The Great Bridge, The Path between the Seas, Mornings on Horseback,Brave Companions, and Truman. As may be said of few writers, none of his books have ever been out of print.
In a crowded, productive career, he has been an editor, teacher, lecturer, and familiar presence on public television. John Adams, the seven-part mini-series on HBO produced by Tom Hanks, was one of the most acclaimed television events of recent years. A gifted speaker, Mr. McCullough has lectured in all parts of the country and abroad, as well as at the White House. He is also one of the few private citizens to speak before a joint session of Congress.
Born in Pittsburgh in 1933, he was educated there and at Yale. He is an avid reader, traveler, and has enjoyed a lifelong interest in art and architecture. He is as well a devoted painter. He and his wife Rosalee Barnes McCullough have five children and nineteen grandchildren.
About The Wright Brothers
On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown brothers from Ohio changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe what had happened: the age of flight had begun, with the first heavier-than-air, powered machine carrying a pilot. Who were these men and how was it that they achieved what they did?
David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, tells the surprising, profoundly American story of Wilbur and Orville Wright. Far more than a couple of unschooled Dayton bicycle mechanics who happened to hit on success, they were men of exceptional courage and determination, and of far-ranging intellectual interests and ceaseless curiosity, much of which they attributed to their upbringing. The house they lived in had no electricity or indoor plumbing, but there were books aplenty, supplied mainly by their preacher father, and they never stopped reading.
When they worked together, no problem seemed to be insurmountable. Wilbur was unquestionably a genius. Orville had such mechanical ingenuity as few had ever seen. That they had no more than a public high school education, little money, and no contacts in high places never stopped them in their “mission” to take to the air. Nothing did, not even the self-evident reality that every time they took off in one of their contrivances, they risked being killed.
In this thrilling book, master historian David McCullough draws on the immense riches of the Wright Papers, including private diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks, and more than a thousand letters from private family correspondence to tell the human side of the Wright Brothers’ story, including the little-known contributions of their sister, Katharine, without whom things might well have gone differently for them.
Under the Artistic Direction of Travis Wall, and co-created with Nick Lazzarini, Teddy Forance and Kyle Robinson, Shaping Sound is an electrifying mash-up of dance styles and musical genres brought fully to life on stage by a dynamic company of contemporary dancers.
Audiences of all ages will experience the exhilarating collaboration of these visual musicians whose explosive choreography, dynamic rhythm, speed and physical strength give shape and form to sound.
This fall, Warren Miller Entertainment introduces its 66th snowsports film, Chasing Shadows. Watch JT Holmes, Seth Wescott, Caroline Gleich, Steven Nyman and more as they pursue turns on the mountains of our dreams: Chamonix, Alaska’s Chugach, Utah’s Wasatch and the mightiest range of them all: the Himalaya.
These athletes are masters in their element, and with every cliff drop, perfect line and knee-deep powder turn, they motivate us. Warren Miller once said, “A pair of skis are the ultimate transportation to freedom,” and this year, we’re chasing storms, snow, lines and the freedom they grant us. Take a glimpse into the world of the U.S. freestyle team and the dynamics of snowsports that live on the fringe, like monoskiing, powsurfing and speed riding.
Explore what it means to be inspired, and what it is about exotic locations and snow-covered summits that keep us searching for more. As skiers and snowboarders we chase a feeling, a memory, a storm, a turn — we’ve been chasing it our whole lives and we’ll keep chasing it a lifetime more. Winter starts with Warren Miller. Find tickets, showtimes, go behind-the-scenes and more at warrenmiller.com.
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Time to break out your party hats and favorite flannel – Oregon Wild is celebrating 40 years protecting Oregon’s wildlands, wildlife, and waters and we want you to celebrate with us!
A camp-inspired night of festivities, Call of the Wild is a chance to see stunning photography from our 10th annual Outdoor Photo Contest, mingle with wilderness and wildlife lovers from across the state, and celebrate everything you love about Oregon. In honor of Oregon Wild’s 40th anniversary and the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act, this year’s benefit features:
- A special brew from Migration Brewing Co., crafted just for Oregon Wild!
- Local wine and specialty ‘Wild’ cocktails served in signature camp mugs featuring spirits from Big Bottom Whiskey and Bendistillery
- Delicious bites from Simpatica Catering & Dining Hall, Pacific Pie Co., Tastebud, Papa G’s,Thrive Pacific NW, & more!
- Live music from local blues/roots guitarist Joe McMurrian!
- Trail mix station
- Photobooth
- Silent auction featuring framed prints of the finalists of the 10th annual Outdoor Photo Contest, rafting and adventure trips, outdoor gear and apparel, packages for hikes, photographers, climbers, fishing enthusiasts, kayakers, beer lovers, foodies, and more (click here for the growing list of great prizes)
Entry, beer, wine, food, and entertainment are all included with your $40 ticket!
Fri OCTOBER 16, 2015
Back Fence PDX: RUSSIAN ROULETTE
DOORS 7:00PM | SHOW 8:00PM | 21+
DISJECTA 8371 N INTERSTATE Ave
Featuring the audience-voted winner from the August show + Writer/Director of Bath Night Sketch Comedy, SEAN McGRATH (PDX), along with returnees, Award-Winning News Producer + Teacher, COLE KAZDIN (LA), Two-Time Russian Roulette Winner + Office Manager, SHANNON BALCOM (PDX), Comics Professor + Author of Calling Dr. Laura, NICOLE J. GEORGES (PDX, past runner-up), Winner of Samuel French Short Play Off Off Broadway NY Play Festival + Squirrel Loving Nudist, JENNIFER JASPER (SEA) — taking on first-timers, Adman + Once Had a Sweet Rat-Tail, BRITTON TAYLOR (PDX), Holistic Health Coach + Master Cake Baker, REBA SPARROW (PDX), and Co-Founder Kickstand Comedy Space + Former Professional Video Game Emcee, DYLAN REIFF (PDX)!
$15 – $20 ADVANCE | $18 DOOR
At the end of the night, the audience will select a winner who will receive 50 bucks and some other cool prizes, like bragging rights for life. The winner will be invited to come back to the next show!
*Storytellers subject to change without notice. Stories may contain explicit language and/or subject matter.
Thursday October 15th at Holocene // SMART (Start Making a Reader Today) is presenting FORWARD: a concert benefiting Children's Literacy. The fundraiser will feature stand up comic Alex Falcone, and Music by DJ Anton and XRAY's own DJ Ronin Roc (heard on XRAY Saturdays at 10pm)
More information about SMART can be found at http://getsmartoregon.org/, and event details can be found at holocene.org
October 15th is now officially the Hip-Hop Day in Portland! After the event at City Hall, which will include Vinnie Dewayne, Mic Capes, Jon Belz, DJ Juggernaut, Lady X and Oz Rock, with StarChile and DJ O.G. One, the Portland Trail Blazers' resident DJ, hosting the show, come peep the After Party with DJ Shortkut, DJ Rev Shines, DJ O.G. One, and DJ Ronin Roc.
Free before 10pm/ $5 before 11pm
The world’s best-known pianist takes on Grieg’s powerful piano concerto. With its explosive opening, it’s a perfect fit for the fiery Lang Lang.
His first inspirations are artists and composers – Liszt, Chopin and the others – whose music he now delights in bringing to others. Even that famous old Tom and Jerry cartoon “The Cat Concerto” which introduced him, as a delighted child, to the music of Liszt – and that childlike excitement at the discovery of music now surely stays with him and propels him to what he calls “his second career”, bringing music into the lives of children around the world, both through his work for the United Nations and through his own Lang Lang International Music Foundation.Lang Lang enjoys reaching audiences of all sizes and few come bigger than that of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra, of which Lang Lang was the first official Ambassador – a role, created by YouTube and Google that combined two of his great loves, music and outreach through technology. More traditionally, tens of thousands of people have enjoyed Lang Lang’s performances in open-air concerts in parks and venues around the globe, including Central Park in New York City, Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, Ravinia Festival in Chicago, Theaterplatz in Dresden and Derby Park in Hamburg.
Paul Ghun Kim, conductor
Lang Lang, piano
Portland will honor its hip-hop community for the first time on Oct. 15, with a Hip-Hop Day celebration and live concert at City Hall, with the help of StarChile and DJ O.G.ONE, honoring hip-hop as an important piece of the identity as a city. The event will include Vinnie Dewayne, Mic Capes, Jon Belz, DJ Juggernaut, Lady X and Oz Rock, with StarChile and DJ O.G. One, the Portland Trail Blazers' resident DJ, hosting the show.
Acoustic artist with a global perspective, Daby Toure, now on tour promoting his new album, Amonafi, out September 18th.
Amonafi, the title of Daby Touré’s new album, means "once upon a time" in the West African language Wolof, and reflects Touré's desire to weave stories with a fresh perspective on the past, present and future of Africa. "I wanted to present my vision of Africa’s history," says Touré, "Its relationship to the world, what really happened, not peddle the same old platitudes and non-truths." Beyond a tribute to Mother Africa, where Touré was born in 1975, one can hear in this assertion a wish to break free from the aesthetics of another era.
Touré refuses to embrace the mantle of the "traditional" musician, a role that many would like him to play. The singer has always shown a love for pop: Stevie Wonder, The Police, Michael Jackson, artists who first triggered his desire to become a musician. Touré chooses to speak with his own voice, follow his instincts, and allow his work to honestly reflect the multiple influences that irrigate his identity. On Amonafi, which will be released in North America on September 18th, Touré's singular vision reveals a complex yet approachable sound, one that defies expectations and stereotypes of what it means to be an African artist today.
Born in Mauritania and raised in Senegal, Daby Touré has now lived more than half his life in Paris. Raised between two cultures, this "Afropean" fully embraces his dual nationality. Neither one nor the other, Daby Touré is a citizen of the world in perpetual reconfiguration.Touré Touré, the group he founded in the late 1990s with his cousin Omar, was already a first step towards his goal to build bridges between Africa and the world. In the early 2000s, he was on the roster of Peter Gabriel's label, Real World before perceiving that the label's well-defined sound and image became a straitjacket for a musician eager for artistic freedom. It was time for a change. "Of course I carry Africa inside me, I sing in languages of West Africa: Fulani, Soninke, Wolof. But with this new album, I approach what I like most: soul, pop, music we can sing beyond borders."
$22 in advance//$26 at the door
INNOVATIVE. PROVOCATIVE. HILARIOUS. WOMEN.
All Jane (formerly All Jane No Dick) Comedy Festival is an all-female comedy festival devoted to inspiring, encouraging, discovering and promoting the quality and diversity of women in comedy.
This curated festival focuses on selecting the very best women stand up, improv and sketch comedians working in comedy today. Curious Comedy Theater, a non-profit comedy theater in Portland, Oregon, produces this all-women comedy festival.
Today, women still represent only 17-19% of the comedy industry. Women are sorely under-represented in high profile comedy festivals, in writing rooms and in television appearances. Industry representatives explain this discrepancy by claiming quality women comedians are hard to find. All Jane was created to help bridge the gap between women comedians, audiences and industry decision-makers.
This year’s All Jane women’s comedy festival will take place October 15-18, 2015, at Curious Comedy Theater and other venues in Portland, Oregon.
The line-up includes nationally and internationally recognized stand up comics, improvisers and sketch groups as well as extraordinary local talent. Women comedians also have an opportunity to meet and work with each other, share stories of their challenges and successes, and trade ideas on how to navigate this tricky business.
For more about Curious Comedy Theater, visit www.curiouscomedy.org
Sunday, Oct 11th, 2015
9pm / 21+ / $8 at the door
adv tix: http://holdmyticket.com/event/222026
XRAY FM, Sound and Salt, Dirtnap Records, and Soundcontrol PDX Present:
RADIOACTIVITY!
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Radioactivity is a continuation of The Novice, Jeff Burke's band while living in Japan. Jeff has since moved back to Texas, and out of respect to the Japanese lineup of the band, has changed the name to Radioactivity. Some of these songs are re-purposed Novice tracks, while others are brand new. Jeff is one of the most distinctive songwriters in the punk rock underground, and these songs will sound instantly familiar to any fans of The Marked Men or Potential Johns. Band members include Jeff Burke, Mark Ryan, and Gregory Rutherford, whose credits read like an all-star lineup of Texas punk and garage rock royalty, including members of The Marked Men, Mind Spiders, Bad Sports, Wax Museums, The Reds, VIDEO, and The Novice.
Low Culture - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Low-Culture/292105234150979
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