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July 10
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Friday, July 10. 8:30pm. $6.00 Road Race CD Release! Miss Massive Snowflake Road Race Nextdoor Neighbors Rainstick Cowbell |
July 11
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Saturday, July 11. $3.00 Don Hellions Record Release! Don Hellions Mattress DINNER & The Maincourse |
July 12
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Sunday, July 12. FREE! Portland Makes Music! |
July 14
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Tuesday, July 14. 9pm. $8.00 Advance tickets available at www.brownpapertickets.com So Many Dynamos Cast Spells SO MANY DYNAMOS This is a band to enjoy with giant, cushy headphones and a mission in mind. The Loud Wars, released on Vagrant Records, is the third release from a dedicated band whose relentless touring has been a major figure not only their success, but their seemingly effortless tight sound. This time around, in the midst of a fierce cross-country tour, their songs have bragging rights, with production credited to Chris Walla of Death Cab for Cutie and mixed by Alex Newport of The Mars Volta. At once dancy and aggressive, the drums swirl and crash, holding up lyrical prose of taking charge of your destiny. It is a sound reminiscent of the late 90's electro-dance screamo phase without coming off as trite. Instead, its intricacies are what makes So Many Dynamos worth listening to and most definitely needs to be seen live. "With ill-tuned guitars and Midwestern angst, So Many Dynamos craft woozy angular noise punk" - Spin CAST SPELLS Providing a link from Cast Spells' MySpace page to a website instructing the novice on spell casting, one wonders what pranks Dave Davidson of Maps & Atlases is capable of. So far, keeping these feather-light songs from floating out the window is one spell from which its listener can be in awe of. Davidson's band, Maps & Atlases is on tour with So Many Dynamos until he branches off on a solo jaunt. While Maps & Atlases holds the intrigue of traditional dance numbers your grandparents can get down to, paired with Davidson's captivating voice and an army of instrumentation equally as danceable as the first layer, Cast Spells is a stripped down folky version of the band you know and love. Just watch out if he asks the crowd to form a circle around him. |
July 16
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Thursday, July 16. 9pm. $6.00 Soft Paws Summer Cats Tartan |
July 17
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Friday, July 17. $5.00 PSYCHE PRAGUE FUNKY FREAKOUT NIGHT!! with PINK MOUNTAIN and psychadelia straight from San Francisco - Eyes also Portland's very hot new freak out band Trawler Bycatch ABOUT PINK MOUNTAIN: Featuring Portland's buddy SAM COOMES from QUASI... "Pink Mountain may be a relatively new project, but the members are hardly new to the music scene. With members who have either recorded/played with the likes of Built to Spill, Tom Waits, Oxbow, and Fred Frith, they have plenty of experience. Their self-titled release Pink Mountain is intriguingly wild to say the least. With Pink Mountain's sound stemming from the grungiest Butthole Surfers moments to the meticulous nature of any Shellac or Zu album, they are uniquely defined. Their Avant-Garde/noise-rock style is rather eclectic and haphazardly created into a twisted haze of sound that may take some time to ease in to." "Pink Mountain are certainly appealing for anyone looking for a uncanny listen. Consider your mind to be fucked." -- By Ryan Flatley, Sputnik Music ABOUT EYES: Psychadelic deliciousness from San Francisco! ABOUT TRAWLER BYCATCH: [PROG-ROCK FREAK-OUTS] "There's no new band in Portland I'm more excited about than Trawler Bycatch. The name is a mouthfull, and so is the lineup. Led by Danava bassist Zach Dellorto-Blackwell (he sings and plays guitar in Trawler), the group spasms it's way through prog-rock workouts that end up sounding like Captain beefheart fronting Magma. No shit. Little Zac Nelson plays the skins with jungle fever, and bassist Russel Archer looks genuinely demonic, despite having been raised as a prophet in a Christian cult (this I know!). Late breaking news: Jonnie Ray Monroe of Fist Fite is the new vocalist. Watch this band grow like one of those unnerving parasitic worms that gets under your skin and has to be burned out." -WILLAMETTE WEEK |
July 18
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Saturday, July 18. 9pm. $6.00 We're From Japan Gifts From Enola Nanda Devi We're from Japan! Actually they're from right here in Portland, but their sonic blasts could surely jolt across the Pacific. Fittingly, their latest album, Now Breathe, was first released in Japan in 2008 through Zankyo records. Their celebrated contemporaries, and also influences, Explosions in the Sky, Mogwai, Mono, and Godspeed You Black Emperor have repeatedly perfected the art of the crescendo and We're From Japan! is, to quote Hunter S. Thomson, riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. All of these bands, stripped of lyrics, use an expanse of crashing guitars and drums that refuse to be confined to three and a half minutes. Where feedback and distortion is key one minute, the next unwinds into the softest, heart-wrenching melody. Gifts from Enola The music of Gifts from Enola is like a typical story. With songs in excess of seven minutes, it becomes clear that two and a half minutes of eerie and hushed atmospheric guitar is the initial character development. Clocking in at three minutes, where the first conflict between these characters arise, we hear a crashing assault of guitars and drums and, as storytelling goes, the conflict is resolved with a gentle hum. Repeat. Gifts from Enola, of Harrisonburg, Virginia, are in the midst of a grueling summer tour, showcasing their latest release, From Fathoms. "Gifts From Enola didn't simply type their formula into the Almighty Post-Rock Calculator. They took brooding atmospheres and injected them with ghastly screams, driving beats and more than enough enigmatic head-scratching." -absolutepunk.net Nanda Devi If you like hardcore, metal, and oddly enough, ambient music, Nanda Devi has assembled these in a sort of all in one crash course in genre-melding. Call it Atmospheric Metal 101. Nanda Devi switch between aggressive, incomprehensible and growling lyrics, to sparse instrumentation and shred every chord in between. Furthermore, they take eight or so minutes to seamlessly lay it all down. Their three releases on Cavity Records explore these expansive genres, which is no small feat. |
July 20
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Monday, July 20. DORKBOT |
July 23
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Thursday, July 23. $10.00 Advance tickets available at http://www.brownpapertickets.com The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Girls Champagne Socialists |
July 24 New Event!
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Friday, July 24. 7pm. Old Town Computers LAN PARTY! OLD TOWN COMPUTERS PRESENTS: HELIOPHOBIA - A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S LAN PARTY It may appear that all is well in PDX now that the winter doldrums are gone. Ladies are looking good, and knowing it. Barbeques are smoking. Bar patios are brimming with soused revelers. But not everyone is glad for the return of Mr. Sunshine. Namely, the gamers. IT BURRRNSSS USSSSSS! STAY INSIDE AND GUARD YOUR PRECIOUS! And so, to provide an escape from all the softball games, backyard BBQ's, and Vitamin D, Old Town Computers is hosting a summertime LAN party/All-around geekfest at PDX's gaming mecca, Backspace. Caffeine will be consumed in excessive quantities, bitches will be pwned, arguments over JJ Abrams and Star Trek canon will flare, and maybe, just maybe, someone will spring for pizza around 12:30 am. The party will start @ 7:00PM on July 24th, and go till exhaustion sets in. Pricing is $25 to rent a Backspace gaming computer for the night, $15 for BYOC (laptops too). Backspace member pricing is $15 rental/$10 BYOC. Stephouse Networks will be providing an ungodly amount of bandwidth (can you say 25mbps symmetrical?).LAN party attendees will get completely tweaked on free Stumptown coffee all night, and then try to level out the shakes with $1 off microbrews. Anyone who wants to purchase a 1 year Backspace membership for $45 will receive free admission. Games played will include: All Valve games (TF2, Left 4 Dead, Counter Strike, HL2 Deathmatch, etc) Call of Duty 4 Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War Battlefield 2 Starcraft Quake III Rocket Arena In addition, Backspace will also be hosting a gaggle of free events open to LAN party attendees as well as the general public, including screenings of the classic gaming movies eXistenZ and Tron, PS2 and Wii freeplay, and geeky entertainment that PDX has come to expect from the best all-ages venue in town. Old Town Computers is a full service computer shop located inside of Backspace at 115 NW 5th Ave. |
July 27
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Monday, July 27. (doors open at 7:30pm). $6.00 Panther Casy & Brian Total Bros |
July 31
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Friday, July 31. Agent Ribbons Sister Crayon |
August 1
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Saturday, August 1. Atole Jeffery Jerusalem Pan de Sal Kid Meets Cougar |
August 3
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Monday, August 3. DORKBOT |