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Slint with Tropical Trash
Slint began in 1986. Before that, drummer Britt Walford, guitarist David Pajo, guitarist/vocalist Brian McMahan, and original bassist Ethan Buckler had played together in various bands within the tight-knit Louisville punk scene. Brian and Britt formed their first band - Languid and Flaccid - in middle school, when Britt was just eleven. The older punks collapsed in fits of laughter when Britt and Brian's dads carried in their amps and set them up on stage. Languid and Flaccid also featured Ned Oldham, later of the Anomoanon and older brother to Will Oldham a.k.a. Bonnie ‘Prince' Billy. Everyone in the band traded instruments from song to song. Brian and Britt also played in the beloved melodic hardcore band Squirrel Bait.
Slint's first show was during a service at the Unitarian Universalist church that Ethan's parents attended. Even the people who held their ears told the band afterward how much they enjoyed it. In 1987, Slint recorded their first album, Tweez, in Chicago with Steve Albini, who also produced albums for the Pixies, PJ Harvey, and Nirvana. Tweez was released on the minuscule Jennifer Hartman Records and Tapes label in 1989 and later reissued by Touch and Go Records in 1993. Ethan Buckler left the band after Tweez to pursue his own vision with his band King Kong and was replaced by Todd Brashear. In the fall of 1989, the members of Slint scattered to various colleges throughout the Midwest. Britt and Brian wound up at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Before the school year was out, both were invited not to return. Then, over four days in August of 1990, Slint recorded their second album, Spiderland, and the world would never again sound the same.
Produced by Brian Paulson at River North Recorders in Chicago and released by Touch and Go Records in April of 1991, the six songs on Spiderland methodically map a shadowy new continent of sound. The music is taut, menacing, and haunting - its structure built largely on absence and restraint, on the echoing space between the notes, but punctuated by sudden thrilling blasts of unfettered fury. It is a sound that no one had heard before and that no one will ever forget. The eerie, now-iconic black and white cover photo of the four band member's heads breaking the surface of the water was taken by their friend Will Oldham. PJ Harvey was among the respondents to the band's call for interested female vocalists on the back cover.
Spiderland spawned a whole new genre, frequently called Post-Rock, and came to be regarded as one of the most important and influential records of the past thirty years. The album was introduced to a wider audience when the song "Good Morning, Captain" appeared on the soundtrack for Larry Clark's controversial 1995 film Kids. In 2010, Spiderland was enthroned in the popular and acclaimed 33 ? series of books about seminal record albums. Slint broke up shortly before Spiderland was released. Band members went on to play in Tortoise, the Breeders, Palace, The For Carnation, Papa M, Evergreen, Interpol, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. In 2005, Slint reunited to headline the All Tomorrow's Parties festival in Camber Sands, England, followed by a subsequent eighteen date tour. In 2007, the band performed Spiderland in its entirety for a series of European shows and at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago. In late 2013, they co-headlined the final All Tomorrow's Parties weekend at Camber Sands.
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A group of three hippies on a road trip through the backwaters of 2013s rural music scene fall prey to a murderous cannibalistic dand making out of a leather-masked guitar wielding Avey Tare (Avey Tare/Himself, Animal Collective), his knife-wielding keyboard player Angel Deradoorian (Deradoorian, Dirty Projectors), and their cannibal chief drummer and decaying grandfather Jeremy Hyman (Ponytail, Boredoms, Dan Deacon)
Raleigh Moncrief is an electronic musician based in Sacramento, California who has already collaborated with Zach Hill, Dirty Projectors and Marnie Stern.
Sylvan Esso is a Durham, NC, USA duo of vocalist Amelia Meath and electronic musician Nick Sanborn. Their début was the double A-side 12” Hey Mami / Play It Right (16 Jul 2013), featuring acapella and instrumental versions of each song.
Meath’s powerful voice is front and center, unjoined by fellow harmonizers as it is in her folk group, Mountain Man. Sanborn, who plays bass in the genre-destroying Megafaun, creates intricate, pulsing grooves for Meath’s voice to inhabit.
Buoy began in 2009. After leaving NYC for the promise of high mystery, he found inspirations abound and decided to turn these into the art we know as song. Hand over hand the journey begins.
How To Dress Well is the stage name of songwriter and producer Tom Krell. Krell's burgeoning career began in 2009 when, having just moved from Brooklyn to Berlin, his songs began to emerge online via a hugely prolific string of free, digital EPs posted in anonymity on his blog. Combining a gorgeous falsetto with fractured R&B-influenced beats, an instinctive ear for subtly devastating melody and elements of noise, sound collage and avant-garde composition, Krell's debut album Love Remains offered a beautiful window into a startlingly realised artistic imagination. Praised for both its conceptual strength and immediate emotional resonance, Love Remains duly garnered vast critical acclaim and highlights such as "Ready For The World" saw Krell accredited with having given birth to a new, narcotized strain of R&B that has since spawned a host of imitators.
Arriving two years after the haunting, glacial neo-soul of 2012's follow up album to Love Remains, the much-loved Total Loss, "What Is This Heart?" is the next step in this most unique and searching artistic trajectory. "What Is This Heart?" is an ambitious 21st century pop album that creates and inhabits its very own hinterland album that creates and inhabits its very own hinterland of spiritual fragility, fearless love and sexuality, deep pain, and overwhelming joy. "Wha
It's one thing to make enduring records, another still to work with luminaries in multiple fields. Another thing still to treat the rhyme not only as a piece of poetry, but to play with the aesthetics of language in ways that represent the voice as a unique instrument in and of itself. Blackalicious do all of these things, and as evidenced by the reissue of 1993's Melodica, they have been doing these things for years. Originally released exclusively on cassette, Melodica is being reissued digitally for the first time. It's a vital document of the group's progression towards their eventual position as lords of the West Coast Underground, Gift of Gab twisting his words with aplomb, his lyrics more carefree than his later work. Chief Xcel's beats, meanwhile, tread the same funky, lighthearted waters as many of his left-field contemporaries, but everything on Melodica is coated in a murky scuzz that, somewhat conversely to logic, could place the EP alongside much of today's weird, lo-fi hip-hop. As an added treat, Melodica contains "Changes," an unreleased cut produced in part by one DJ Shadow, who joins forces withBlackalicious producer Chief Xcel to offer dusty drum loops and subtle, textured samples that would offer a glimpse into much of Shadow's later work. In an era where hip-hop devolves into half-baked facsimile with alarming regularity, Melodica serves as a reminder that the true school will always triumph over the bullshit.
A battle to the death between doom and grind!
Dropdead is an American hardcore punk band formed in 1990 in Providence, Rhode Island. Members of Dropdead also play/played in Snake Apartment, I, Destroyer, Battlesnake, Straight To Hell, Ulcer, Monster X, The Fucking Fuzz, Lolita Black. The band has been active in the punk scene since the early nineties. The guitarist, Ben, runs a Providence record store called Armageddon Shop, along with its record label Armageddon Label. Dropdead has proven highly influential to modern strains of hardcore, having staid true to its DIY and animal rights ethics. The band’s songs are generally short and extremely fast-paced, with few of their songs lasting longer than one minute.
From the ashes of Sod Hauler and Lethe comes Bell Witch, the newest heavy music project for Seattle based drummer Adrian Guerra and bassist Dylan Desmond (also of Samothrace). Bell Witch’s bass and drum only doom metal is extremely bleak and extremely heavy, just as it should be.
Know Your City is excited to begin offering our popular sing-along walking tour, Sing A Song of Portland! every month! Join our troubadour and tour leader, local musician Lukas Borsten, who will lead the group in song as we visit locations important to Portland’s musical past.
Portland is a city known for great music from The Kingsmen to Y La Bamba with some pretty great bands in between (Dead Moon, The Mel Brown Quartet, The Dandy Warhols, Richmond Fontaine, The Decemberists to name a few) and we want to sing about it, literally out loud on the street!! So come join us for a walking tour with a twist as we learn about the musical history of the Rose City, the issues effecting it today and then join together to sing some of the songs that have helped shape Portland’s music scene.
Sing A Song of Portland
A sing-a-long tour of Portland music history
Sunday, August 17th, 1pm
Tickets are $10
Tour Departs from Know Your City Kiosk, 200 SW Ankeny
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Spanning 4 Four Tet studio albums, remixing, and outstanding live shows amongst many other things, Kieran Hebden’s career remains rooted in all kinds of musical camps. In the past couple of years Four Tet has released his fourth album “Everything Ecstatic”, a DVD of music videos working with directors/artists such as Woof Wan Bau and Jason Evans, a DJ Kicks compilation as part of K7’s legendary series, a compilation of his remix work, and has toured the UK, Europe, US and Japan extensively.
Come hear XRAY's DJ AM Gold spin records at the official PDX Adult Soap Box Derby after party. Full bar! All ages!
Portland’s PDX Adult Soap Box Derby is a 100 + volunteer-fueled grass roots community event traditionally held the third Saturday in the month of August. This years derby field is made up for Saturday, August 16th at Mt. Tabor Park 10am-4pm.
Once a year a brave group of racers convene on the daunting slopes of Mt. Tabor to test their metal to their mettle. These pages are dedicated to all those who have spilled their blood, or even worse, spilled their BEER. We thank the community and our beloved volcano for allowing us to tickle her spine.
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Tara Jane ONeil is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and visual artist. She creates melodic and experimental music under her own name and in collaboration with her brilliant friends. Her recordings and live performances range from solo songing to noise improvisations. TJO has composed and performed music and sound for films, theater and dance performances, and written large and small ensemble experimental architectures.
As a solo artist, TJO has released 7 albums internationally. She was a founding member of Rodan and several other bands, and has collaborated on recordings and stages with musical artists such as the groups Ida, Mirah, Jackie O MF, Mount Eerie, Papa M, Come, the vocalist Nikaido Kazumi, and many more. In addition to rock clubs, galleries and DIY spaces all around north America, Europe, and Japan, she has performed at All Tomorrow’s Parties, the Centre de Pompidou, the Whitney Museum of American Art, TBA festival (portland), High Desert Test Sites and many many others. She has shown her visual art in galleries all over the northern hemisphere and had four monographs of her visual art published.
A night of rockin' riffage...ranging from urgent acid-washed skate-metal, to pulsing/hypnotic garage, and meandering/fuzzy psychedelia!!!
w/:Zig Zags (Los Angeles, CA - In the Red Records) - http://zigzags.bandcamp.com/
EX-CULT (Memphis, TN - Goner Records) - https://soundcloud.com/gonerrecords/ex-cult-ties-you-up-rsd
Eternal Tapestry (Thrill Jockey Records) - http://www.thrilljockey.com/thrill/Eternal-Tapestry/A-World-Out-of-Time#.U7nZsI1dWXQ
8pm // 21+ // $7 COVER
ARRINGTON DE DIONYSOS SONGS OF PSYCHIC FIRE
Panther is Charles Byron Salas Humara and Joe Faustin Kelly (Philip Glass Ensemble, Steve Reich ensemble) and occasionally Sara Welker on violin. With the release of their new record 14 kt God (Kill Rock Stars), they have blended hardcore, psych, dance and bop to create a new genre in what people have been describing as “caustic pop”. Panther has toured constantly and has built a reputation for often playing hectic and confusing live shows.
Portland, Oregon’s Marius Libman, otherwise known as Copy, combines dense harmonies with snap-tight digital beats to create an emotionally affecting style that doesn’t neglect the dance floor. Meshing the sounds of classic synth pop with electro, disco, 8 bit video-game soundtracks and hip hop, an instantly familiar yet unique sound emerges from each song Copy produces.
E*Rock is a producer, director, animator and designer from Portland, OR where he is heavily involved in the electronic music scene. He co-founded Audio Dregs, Fryk Beat and is involved with other collaborative art projects like Wyld File and the Collective Jyrk with Yellow Swans.
A tirelessly innovative performer, Beardyman has always pushed the boundaries of what people expect from human beatbox, merging phenomenal beatbox skills with his left-field sense of humour and incredible musicality. After winning the well renowned Lyric Pad Beatbox Battle twice in 2004, he went on to win the title of London’s best beatboxer in the 2005 Championships and the following year became UK Beatbox Champion 2006.
Beardyman’s first musical venture was composing a symphony for his school orchestra at the age of ten. At fifteen, an introduction to drum ‘n’ bass led to his long-standing obsession with music technology. Now, in his live shows, as well as baffllingly good solo human-beatbox, he utilzes cutting-edge sound-mangling technology to create dance-inducing layered rhythms, breath-taking soundscapes, fully produced songs and tunes, all improvised and created entirely from the human voice. No pre-recorded material is used, and everything is created live and in real time in front of the audience, who he takes on a mind-bending journey from dumbstruck to dancing and back again.
Please join Genders for a night of sweaty, shreddy, never-forgetty. xoxox
STUFF:
21 and over, $8 advance $10 day of show 8 PM doors!
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For a decade, Baltimore based composer Dan Deacon has been a fixture in the American underground music scene. Through relentless touring, Deacon built himself a devoted grassroots following. His breakthrough 2007 album 'Spiderman of the Rings' brought critical acclaim and exposed his work to an international audience. Since then, Deacon has begun expanding his output beyond indie/underground circles and has begun to emerge in the contemporary classical scene.
In addition to Deacon's solo work and composing for his own ensemble, he has worked on several acclaimed collaborations with So Percussion, including a 2012 performance at Zankel Hall, which Alex Ross of the New Yorker declared "one of the more entertaining and fulfilling evenings I've had in recent years." Deacon has also worked with the Calder Quartet, Now Ensemble, and the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony as well as composing for the score for Francis Ford Coppola's film 'Twixt.'
Deacon has performed his work at several leading music and art venues, including London's Barbican Centre, Carnegie Hall, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Getty Center in Los Angeles, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden at the Smithsonian. His latest album 'America' was released on Domino Records in August of 2012.