Holocene Calendar

TUE MAY 21

We're looking forward to a hometown visit from White Rainbow, the currently LA-based sonic experimentalist.

9:30pm | $5.00 day of show

WED MAY 22

READING FRENZY BENEFIT

Gulls

Join us for a benefit show to help Reading Frenzy RELAUNCH & EXPAND in a new location. Reading Frenzy is a Portland institution and a rare outlet for indie media, small press, zines, and D.I.Y. culture!

8:30pm | $5.00 day of show

Reading Frenzy was founded in 1994 and is devoted to independent, small press, and self-published titles. With a start-up fund of $4000 and a lot of gumption and support we've managed to bring the best of the independent press to Portland and beyond for 18+ years, producing over 500 literary and art events, launching our own publishing venture -- ... | more info

THU MAY 23

Abstract Earth Project presents...

Baths (Anticon)

Houses

D33J

Revel in the lush, immersive compositions of dazzling young producer Baths.

9pm | $12.00 advance
Tickets:

Brown Paper Tickets

For mercurial L.A. music-maker Will Wiesenfeld, Baths has been a long time coming. The 21-year-old has spent the better part of his days living amidst "pleasant" and "unremarkable" in the suburbs of the San Fernando Valley, so perhaps it's due to a general lack of local inspiration that Wiesenfeld's own work has never fit into a prefab box of its ... | more info

FRI MAY 24

APERITIVO HAPPY HOUR

DJ Honey O

Please join us from 5-8pm for our weekly Aperitivo Happy Hour, which--in European style--features an impressive array of free appetizers straight from the Holocene kitchen (while they last). We'll also have great (and cheap!) Cava, and delightful Continental cocktails! DJ duties are taken up by Honey O of the Miracles Club, playing perfect summery selections.

5pm | FREE!

FRI MAY 24

Damien Jurado

Tiburon (Luz Elena of Y La Bamba + Nick of Death Songs)

We're honored to host the legendary singer-songwriter Damien Jurado, whose 15-year career has been marked by incredibly innovative songcraft. EARLY SHOW: Doors at 7:30, show at 8.

7:30pm | $13.00 advance $15.00 day of show
Tickets:

Stranger Tickets

Last year, Damien Jurado released "Maraqopa," his latest collaboration with producer Richard Swift, dropping us into a brutal and benevolent landscape. The bold strokes and new turns the pair made with 2010's Saint Bartlett are taken even further. He throws open the gate on his oft insular dirges and allows them do some real wilding out in the ... | more info

FRI MAY 24

8 1/2 DJs: Future Club Edition

Wampire DJs

We've assembled an epic crew of our favorite DJs for an all-star dance party, exploring future club sounds!

10pm | $3.00 day of show

SAT MAY 25

EFFPortland Closing Party!

Early performance piece by:
Lori Felker

Live sets from
Regular Music

BRUMES

Darkwave dance party with:
DJ Ill Camino

DJ Copy

DJ Musique Plastique

DJ Cenobites

Join Holocene and ELEVEN Magazine in celebrating EFF (Experimental Film Festival) Portland! FREE BEFORE 11pm!

9pm | $3.00 day of show

EFFPortland erupted in 2012 in the fair City of Roses, in response to the need for a Portland-based experimental media showcase. It filled that void with a lava-hot amalgam of shorts, installations, performances, and collaborations. With a week of solid programming, some of which lasted for months beyond the official festival, across seven venues ... | more info

WED MAY 29

Ancient Heat EP RELEASE!

Foreign Orange

Phone Call

1980sprince (Ryan of Beisbol)

Come celebrate the release of Ancient Heat's new covers EP, Under the Covers.

8:30pm | $6.00 day of show

Ancient Heat is a large ensemble dance band, formed in 2010 by frontman and mastermind producer Brendan Grubb. The 11-piece powerhouse revels in an exhilarating mixture of west coast funk, disco, and R&B, merged with the infectious polyrhythms of African and Brazilian pop and a healthy dose of psychedelia. While Grubb will confess major affection ... | more info Ancient Heat is a large ensemble dance band, formed in 2010 by frontman and mastermind producer Brendan Grubb. The 11-piece powerhouse revels in an exhilarating mixture of west coast funk, disco, and R&B, merged with the infectious polyrhythms of African and Brazilian pop and a healthy dose of psychedelia. While Grubb will confess major affection for more mainstream disco divas (mention Donna Summer's recent passing and he'll still shed a tear!), his orchestration in Ancient Heat is decidedly experimental and daring.

Welcome to the world of Ancient Heat, where disco is not a genre but a force of nature. As their name suggests, the band seems to have tapped into a secret primordial well of funky sensualism, working their alchemical magic for the dancefloor and making all that glitters into gold.

"Is it All Over My Face?" is one of four cover songs to be released as Under the Covers, the first in a series of tribute EPs by Ancient Heat celebrating disco's rich history. The EP was recorded this past winter at Revolver Studios in the band's hometown of Portland, Ore., and is set to be released digitally next month along with a limited run of 100 cassettes. With this EP, Ancient Heat are bringing new vivacity and inventiveness to some deeply soulful cuts, while still conveying a great sense of respect, admiration and even indebtedness to those who came before.

If there is anything substantial to be gleaned by tossing out a cute genre moniker for Ancient Heat like "Portland Disco", we will find that substance in this EP. Their exuberant re-contextualization of classic works conveys an unpretentious style and a deep sincerity. This is a group with their feet on the ground, ditching the irony, egos, and iciness of more slick Italo disco. Instead, they bring us a west coast approach, with an earthy harmony about them that recalls the deep awe of the forest more so than the glitz of the club. The group dresses in all white for their compelling live performances, leading the local press to label these magic-makers: "a cross between Abba and The Children of God." It's a spectacle of skilled musicianship and ecstatic theatrics that you'll need to see to believe....
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THU MAY 30

LAID OUT

featuring resident DJs:
Gossip Cat

DJ Pocket Rock-It

Misti Miller

Plus guest DJ: DJ Riff-Raff (Bottom Forty/ SEA)

Calling all queens and queers: LAID OUT is a gay dance party held every last Thursday.

9pm | $3.00 day of show

Roll calling: fags, qweens, queers, gay boiz, gay grrlz, gay peoplez, baby dykes, dudebabes, twinks, bears, otters and wolves (oh, MAN), models, self-identified sexy people, homos (no homo), fiercers, partiers, and anybody who wants to get sweaty on a dance floor!

FRI MAY 31

APERITIVO HAPPY HOUR

DJ Cooky Parker

Please join us from 5-8pm for our weekly Aperitivo Happy Hour, which--in European style--features an impressive array of free appetizers straight from the Holocene kitchen (while they last). We'll also have great (and cheap!) Cava, and delightful Continental cocktails! We have DJ Cooky Parker providing a sexy soundtrack of boogie and modern soul jams.

5pm | FREE!

FRI MAY 31

Holocene and Coco B present...

SNAP! '90s Dance Party

with resident DJs:
Dr. Adam

Colin Jones

Freaky Outty

9pm | $5.00 day of show

SNAP! Is a monthly party that happens every last Friday of the month at Holocene in Portland, Oregon. This DANCE PARTY is held down by resident DJs Doc Adam and Colin Jones, and hosted by Ms Coco B. The vision behind the party is to offer a slice of nostalgia that will bring booty-shaking, head-nodding and memories of all those awesome middle ... | more info

SAT JUN 1

Bass is our biz, and our biz be boomin'!

9pm | $5.00 day of show

World domination, butts, drank, money, records, but mostly butts. From its humble beginnings in 2002 as a small birthday party for a few friends, Booty Bassment has grown to one of California's best rap-based dance clubs. Veteran DJs Dimitri Dickinson and Ryan Poulsen have turned this night into a success with monthly installments in San Diego, San... | more info

SUN JUN 2

Mice Parade

Alameda

Join us for the adventurous folk-pop of NYC's Mice Parade, incorporating world influences in an effortless and enchanting way.

8pm | $10.00 advance $10.00 day of show
Tickets:

Stranger Tickets

Mice Parade was originally the solo project of New Yorker Adam Pierce, who has also played in Swirlies, The Dylan Group, HiM, múm, and Philistines Jr.

From its outset, Mice Parade showed a boldly inventive, highly individual take on instrumental music / electronica. Following 1998's Bubble Core album, 'The True Meaning Of BoddleyBaye', their first ... | more info Mice Parade was originally the solo project of New Yorker Adam Pierce, who has also played in Swirlies, The Dylan Group, HiM, múm, and Philistines Jr.

From its outset, Mice Parade showed a boldly inventive, highly individual take on instrumental music / electronica. Following 1998's Bubble Core album, 'The True Meaning Of BoddleyBaye', their first FatCat album, 'Ramda' ('99), forged a distinctive, immersive audio space of piled-up percussion and atmospheric, hook-laden melodics.

2001 saw the release of a third album, 'Mokoondi', which marked a shift in the Mice Parade sound, including the increased influence of Eastern harmonics and African beats, and the formation of a proper band of musicians. What started out as a studio project has since developed into a full touring band, based around a two-drumkit rhythm section, with HiM's Doug Scharin on the other kit. Also in accompaniment are vibes, violin, classical guitar, rhodes piano and old synths, and a variety of acoustic / world instruments, forging Mice Parade into a seriously talented, energetic live unit.

'Focus On The Rollercoaster' was released in December 2003, followed sharply by the LP, 'Obrigado Suadade', the following month. This album, Mice Parade's third for FatCat, saw the band moving into poppier, more accessible terrain, with Pierce introducing full vocals for the first time, including contributions on several tracks by Kristin from múm. The subsequent LP, 'Bem-Vinda Vontade' expanded this theme, albeit with more sonic emphasis on FX driven indie-rock guitars.

Featuring guest vocals from Letitia Sadier and Kristin Valtisdóttir, Mice Parade's June 2007 eponymous offering, could be seen as a refined take on the ground made over the previous two, merging folk-tinged electronica with the 'Loveless' era swoon of My Bloody Valentine, the rhythmic subtlety of Can, and the opaque melodic experiments of Brian Eno. Yet as ever, Mice Parade's sound is essentially modern, informed by an esoteric palette, retaining a familiar acoustic presence via an uncliched take on folk/world influences.

Mice Parade's new album - an omnivorous record that represents at once the band's most adventurous release and its closest to pure pop music - is titled Candela, and was released through FatCat in early 2013.

"an array of catchy song-based tunes and experimental arrangements highlighting a stylized sense of craft and musicianship" - Modern Drummer Review
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MON JUN 3

HOLOCENE PRESENTS AN EVENT AT HOLLYWOOD THEATRE...

FANTASTIC BABY: The Opulent Kingdom of K-Pop

Music video screening & discussion panel with:
Ingmar Carlson (Shy Girls)

Allen Huang (J/K Pop! - Seattle, SSG Music)

Jordan Becke (J/K Pop! - Seattle)

Reese Umbaugh (J/K Pop! - Seattle)

We've teamed up with Redefine Magazine to present a music video screening and discussion panel exploring contemporary k-pop, at HOLLYWOOD THEATRE.

7:30pm | $5.00 day of show

We'll be screening delectable eye candy in the form of music videos from BIGBANG, Shinee, 2NE1, EXO, Girls' Generation and more

Topics of discussion:
* Repeated motifs and common techniques in filming contemporary K-pop videos: a technical analysis
* Strength In Numbers: the rise of colossally sized K-pop idol groups with 10+ members
* Eroding social ... | more info

TUE JUN 4

Sam Amidon

Alessi's Ark

Barna Howard

An evening with Sam Amidon, the compelling folk songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

8:30pm | $8.00 advance $10.00 day of show
Tickets:

Stranger Tickets

Nonesuch Records releases Sam Amidon's label debut, Bright Sunny South, on May 14. Produced by Amidon with his childhood friend and longtime collaborator Thomas Bartlett (a.k.a. Doveman) and legendary English engineer Jerry Boys (Buena Vista Social Club, Vashti Bunyan, R.E.M.) and recorded in London, the record features a band made up of Bartlett ... | more info

WED JUN 5

HOLOCENE TURNS 10!

Shy Girls

Magic Mouth

Minden

Adventurous Sleeping
(John Bowers solo + live visuals by Aaron Chapman - members of Nurses)

DJ Zack

DJ Maxx Bass

DJ E*Rock

DJ Safi

Video art by Four Eels

We are extraordinarily excited to let you know of a milestone here at Holocene - come June, we'll be turning 10 years old!

8:30pm | FREE!

Our decade of being embedded in Portland's vibrant artistic community has been a total thrill and absolute pleasure. What started as "a lone techno bastion" in a town of indie rock clubs (to quote XLR8R) has developed over the years into a destination for parties of all kinds. We've had the joy of hosting some incredible talents over the years, ... | more info

THU JUN 6

HOLOCENE TURNS 10!

Roman Flugel (Frankfurt - Ongaku/Klang/Playhouse)

Gulls

Community Library DJs

Video art by E*Rock

We are extraordinarily excited to let you know of a milestone here at Holocene - come June, we'll be turning 10 years old!

8:30pm | FREE!

Our decade of being embedded in Portland's vibrant artistic community has been a total thrill and absolute pleasure. What started as "a lone techno bastion" in a town of indie rock clubs (to quote XLR8R) has developed over the years into a destination for parties of all kinds. We've had the joy of hosting some incredible talents over the years, ... | more info Our decade of being embedded in Portland's vibrant artistic community has been a total thrill and absolute pleasure. What started as "a lone techno bastion" in a town of indie rock clubs (to quote XLR8R) has developed over the years into a destination for parties of all kinds. We've had the joy of hosting some incredible talents over the years, including Beach House, Justice, Yeasayer, Bon Iver (you might've heard a little tune called "Holocene"), MGMT, Dirty Projectors, M83, Iron & Wine, Deerhunter, Best Coast, Thomas Fehlmann, Plaid, Luomo, The Raincoats, Fleet Foxes, Grizzly Bear, and Lightning Bolt. We love to do it up on the dancefloor every weekend with you. We delight in bringing you touring pop bands and boundary-pushing producers and DJs. We revel in crafting unconventional interdisciplinary experiences within our space, hosting everything from pop-up mini-golf tournaments to charity ping-pong to live film score nights. Most of all, we love you, our Holocene family, for bringing your beautiful selves out to the club time and again. Please join us for two spectacular nights of FREE birthday festivities on June 5th and 6th. Expect some of our most beloved live acts - whether wielding synths or guitars - from near and far, plus DJs to keep you moving. We've aimed to include some longstanding Holo-favorites alongside some promising up and comers, in hopes of expressing, with exhilaration, just where we've been and where we'd like to go next. Stay tuned as details develop, and save the dates for this crazy Voltron birthday party, the result of ten years of practice in faithful service to the good vibes.

The electronic intellectual's productivity is virtually unparalleled and Roman Flugel, the producer, DJ and label co-owner of Ongaku/Klang/Playhouse has meanwhile become a gentle giant in the German electro scene. With his own personal style and the privilege of being independent from the usual constraints of the music industry. A free spirit instead of a sheep. His solo project as Soylent Green (see the latest "La Forca Del Destino" compendium) is just as much of a must as his Alter Ego project with Wuttke, rigorously affirming techno down to the very last detail. He and Wuttke also count as techno Teuton Sven Väth's favourite producers, who booked the team to produce a series of his own music. Roman's work as Eight Miles High and Ro 70 show his quieter side, while the remixes (e.g. for Daft Punk, The Human League, Primal Scream, Pet Shop Boys, Kylie Minogue) and tracks under his own name (just think of the Arcade rave of "Geht's Noch") are light dancefloor affirmations.
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FRI JUN 7

Holocene and Abstract Earth Project present...

FRESH.

Crystal Fighters

Alpine

Chrome Sparks (DJ set)

FRESH is an innovative electronic dance party, every first Friday. This month's special guest is Crystal Fighters, the London-via-Navarre trio bringing Basque instruments to frantic dance music.

9pm | $12.00 advance
Tickets:

Brown Paper Tickets

If you'd spent the last few years of your life wrapped up in an album like Star Of Love, you'd go looking for a little respite, too. Crystal Fighters' debut was the product of minds made manic by a deluge of fresh experience, both in the studio and on the road. It was inspired by an opera written by a man whose sanity disintegrated before he could ... | more info If you'd spent the last few years of your life wrapped up in an album like Star Of Love, you'd go looking for a little respite, too. Crystal Fighters' debut was the product of minds made manic by a deluge of fresh experience, both in the studio and on the road. It was inspired by an opera written by a man whose sanity disintegrated before he could finish it. It seemed to be influenced just as much by traditional Basque music from the 18th century as it was modern-day clubland, and contained residual traces of every genre, scene, style or party that had existed in-between.

But if album one was the sound of haywire electronic loops frantically kept spinning like plates on sticks, then album two is the story of Crystal Fighters mastering control of those rave repetitions, withdrawing from the chaos of the club to carve their music into the shape of songs.

To write the album, Crystal Fighters retreated to the Basque hills that they consider to be their spiritual home. Their music has always born traces of the local sound --traditional instruments like txalapartas and txistus vying in the mix with razor's edge guitars and percolating techno synths -- but the purpose of this mission was different. Immersed in their creative cradle, they wanted to tap into something beyond their immediate experience, to uproot themselves from temporal bounds in order to write timeless songs.

These methods proved to be spectacularly successful -- Crystal Fighters wrote Cave Rave in its entirety during this two-month spell. There followed a quick detour to Los Angeles to produce the tracks, but after this it was still the songs written in the Basque country that remained most audible -- only now the melodies found there had been sharpened into hooks, songs exploded into towering anthems. This revelatory process also exposed the band to a new way of thinking: a realisation that even the cultures they considered traditional are comparatively new. The album draws deeper into universal, history-permeating themes of love, death, insanity and hope; using Basque culture as a stepping stone backward to the spiritual and primal.

The musical influences have widened too. Star Of Love was a manic, genre picking rush yet Cave Rave expands the sound palette even further. The beating hearts of Hispanic and African dance and Mexican electronic music 3bal now sit alongside folk and psychedelia, each artfully interpreted and united by the band's unconfined vision.

If Crystal Fighters have surrendered to the power of the song, they haven't run up the white flag in terms of energy. What's here is still an adrenal rush, and there is an awful lot here: the grandstanding of American road rock, the sweat of disco, the fervent initiative of punk, the house of Iberian twilights that anticipates everything coming very soon, all at once. What's changed is Crystal Fighters' ability to control those surges -- and as such Cave Rave feels a considerably more thoughtful and contemplative album than its predecessor.

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SAT JUN 8

SILENT DISCO PDX

A dance party in wireless headphones, powered by Silent Storm!

8pm |

In a Silent Disco, participants dance to beats wearing wireless headphones that are synced up to a live DJ. The experience provides perfect acoustics and an environment where having a conversation is as easy as removing your headphones. The dance-floor anonymity of no talking is strangely unifying and uplifting.

We'll be featuring 2 DJs playing ... | more info

SUN JUN 9

FUTRO KIT 2.0 ALBUM RELEASE PARTY

Performances by:
Dual Mode

Sexbots

Futro Fam
(Winston Lane, Abyss Infinite, Neill Von Tally, Neo G Yo, Ripley Snell, Yum Yum and Das Leune)

DJ sets by:
Har-1

Rap Class

Live visuals by Alex Boyce

FUTRO are a collection of artists mixing future party with retro party. Futro is the representation of watts,, a crew doing multimedia action in Portland, OR. Come celebrate the release of their latest comp showcasing their own roster as well as friends - Futro Kit 2.0!

9pm | FREE!

TUE JUN 11

InFARMation (and Beer!)

ALL AGES WELCOME! Since January 2009, Friends of Family Farmers has hosted InFARMation (and Beer!) each month in Portland. This is an opportunity to bring the issues that Oregon family farmers face onto the radar of urban consumers, and the community in general. The topic changes each month, but always focuses on the larger picture of the connection between food and farms in our state. When eaters connect with farmers, it makes our food web stronger, and real changes in our local food system are possible. InFARMation (and Beer!) is always free and open to the public, on the 2nd Tuesday of each month from 5:30-8:30pm.

5:30pm | FREE!

WED JUN 12

XRAY.FM FESTIVAL

Made for TV Movie reunion set!

E*Rock (live A/V set)
Plus more super special guests TBA!

Join us for an event curated by Chantelle Hylton Simmons of Blackbird Presents / Blackbird Farm.

9pm | $5.00 day of show

During a groundbreaking week in Portland radio history, filmmakers, musicians, DJs and patrons will unite at a variety of the city's most influential venues to celebrate innovative art and culture of Portland past, present and future.

THU JUN 13

I'VE GOT A HOLE IN MY SOUL

DJ Beyondadoubt

I'VE GOT A HOLE IN MY SOUL is Portland's original Soul and RnB dance party.

9pm | $5.00 day of show

The stomping, storming sounds of American roots music are laid down at 45rpm, all night until the sweaty end. Six years strong, this truly legendary dancefloor institution has moved to Holocene and takes place every second Thursday. Expect the same jubilant ruckus you've come to know and love, refreshingly reinvented within Holocene's walls. Our ... | more info

FRI JUN 14

GAYCATION

Mr. Charming

DJ Snowtiger

9pm | $5.00 day of show

Gaycation is a monthly queer dance party. Currently in its 7th year of fierceness, Gaycation showcases local & international queer performers and strives to create a super hot, inclusive, homo dance party.

SAT JUN 15

WHAT THE FESTIVAL - KICK-OFF PARTY!

Nasty Nasty

Most Custom

KELLAN

Please welcome San Francisco's prolific producer NastyNasty, for a party anticipating this summer's WHAT THE FESTIVAL!

9pm | $10.00 advance

In a scene dominated by chainsaw basslines and cliche rave sounds, NastyNasty opts to delve into roads less traveled. Using his sound design skills to layer sentimental vocals over futuristic synths and modern bass abstractions he concocts a dance-floor vibe that is both alien and familiar at the same time. He has carved out his following by ... | more info

WED JUN 19

Mattress TAPE RELEASE

XDS

Swahili

Grapefruit

Join us for a tape release celebration with our favorite weirdo preacher, the inimitable Mattress.

8:30pm | $5.00 day of show

Mattress is the name of a neon soapbox upon which one Mr. Rex Marshall has stood
since 2006. A native of Las Vegas, Nevada, he moved to the greener pastures of
Portland, Oregon to begin sermonizing with a drum machine. Clearing his throat to sing, he coughed up scorpions. It seems that you can take the man out of the apocalyptic city, but you can't ... | more info Mattress is the name of a neon soapbox upon which one Mr. Rex Marshall has stood
since 2006. A native of Las Vegas, Nevada, he moved to the greener pastures of
Portland, Oregon to begin sermonizing with a drum machine. Clearing his throat to sing, he coughed up scorpions. It seems that you can take the man out of the apocalyptic city, but you can't take the apocalyptic city out of the man. The desolation of the Nevada desert, its loneliness and whatever beauty we can carve out of its red rocks in our minds, were permanent influences on Marshall. Yet so too were the glitzy showmanship, dazzling lights, and overindulgent sleaze of the city.

The city's bipolarity plays out to put to grand effect in the music of Mattress, which is perhaps best categorized as Industrial Synth
Future-Gospel. Guitars are gleefully sent to the landll in favor of a Boss DR-55 drum machine. Thick industrial beats lay down a sludgy, syrupy backdrop for Marshall's riveting croon. Mattress is electronic music. Some might even venture to call it dance music. Yet that voice, that unmistakable lounge singer's howl which can seduce you, shame you, and inspire you with equal deftness, sends Marshall into an entirely different arena than most acts that might also be labeled "synth pop."

The howling banshee that is Birthday Party-era Nick Cave is an easy reach in terms of sound-a-likes, but the comparison is rather thin beyond a mutual intensity of demeanor. Something a bit closer might be the "crank prophet bestride America," as Greil Marcus wrote of Pere Ubu's Dave Thomas. Prophecy is essential to Marshall's project. He has seen decay, but continues to dream. His fantasies are robed in gold, even as he remains ever vigilant against the spiritually bankrupt who hurt and have hurt.

Alex Hungtai, aka soul singer Dirty Beaches, writes that Mattress was "a huge influence on the conception of early Dirty Beaches back in 2008 after I saw him perform at Cagibi in Montreal all alone on a stage, crooning. Armed with tape
machine back up tracks, pedals, and other machinery, he rocks the mic like a shadow dancer in the night. Incredible voice."
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THU JUN 20

NIGHT MOVES

Sex Life DJs

Cooky Parker

Plus special guest:
Beat Electric DJs (SF)

Our monthly Modern Soul & Boogie dance party!

9pm | $3.00 day of show

NIGHT MOVES is a modern soul party celebrating rare club music from the 80s and beyond. Residents Cooky Parker & Sex Life spin a wet mix of boogie, post-disco and modern funk jams while slicing video cuts of experimental boogie moments. Come, raise your spirits with this timeless and ecstatic music.

Wet your whistle by checking out our boogie blog ... | more info

FRI JUN 21

ROCKBOX

with DJs
Matt Nelkin

DJ Kez

Plus special live guests:
Roane Namuh & Reva DeVito

9pm | $3.00 day of show

Rockbox's resident DJs KEZ (360 Vinyl, THE FIX) and Matt Nelkin (Liquid Beat, KPSU) bring a masterfully blended mix of fun, dance oriented Hip-Hop and R&B with a dash of Dancehall, 80s, 90s, Disco, and House thrown in for good measure.

Every set and every ROCKBOX dance party is a custom experience with these cats digging into their seemingly ... | more info

SAT JUN 22

Dropping Gems, Abstract Earth Project, and Closer Music Festival present...

Natasha Kmeto "Crisis" Album Release Party

Grown Folk (Icee Hot, Montreal)

Ben Tactic

Lincolnup

Avant-R&B vixen Natasha Kmeto gives us a stunning new album!

9pm | $5.00 advance

"Kmeto is a beat maker who thinks like a songwriter...the Sacramento, Calif., native humanizes the low-rumbling bass, glitchy rhythms and moody, digitized textures of modern electronic music by cutting it with the emotional undercurrents of hip-hop and soul. It's an aesthetic that's allowed her to cross over in a city still a bit leery of music ... | more info

MON JUN 24

Valleys

Weeknight

We're truly impressed by the cinematic experimental pop of Montreal's Valleys.

8:30pm | $8.00 advance $8.00 day of show
Tickets:

Stranger Tickets

From its inception, Valleys has been always changing. From the quiet and exploratory preliminary years to the stormy experimentation of recent works, the duo has always had one foot in the pop realm and the other in the dirt. Are You Going To Stand There And Talk Weird All Night? is the result of a year's worth of writing through unexpected loss ... | more info

WED JUN 26

Still Pigeons (formerly Pigeons)

PWRHAUS

Join us for an evening of exuberant indie rock!

8:30pm | $5.00 day of show

"Not just another strummy folk-rock band, Pigeons' music grows like wild, sprawling weeds, touching different pockets of Americana with urgency and grace" - Portland Mercury

THU JUN 27

LAID OUT

with resident DJs:
Gossip Cat

Pocket Rock-it

Misti Miller

Calling all queens and queers: LAID OUT is a new gay dance party held every last Thursday.

9pm | $3.00 day of show

Come drink, dance and get right with resident DJs Pocket Rock-it and Gossip Cat and their rotating monthly guests. Warm up jams at 9pm by MistiMiller -- begin with the menz and frenz at 10 pm. We'll keep the dance floor thumping -- you keep it bumping.

FRI JUN 28

SNAP! '90s Dance Party

Dr. Adam

Colin Jones

Freaky Outty

9pm | $5.00 day of show

This DANCE PARTY is held down by resident DJs Doc Adam and Colin Jones, and hosted by Ms Coco B. The vision behind the party is to offer a slice of nostalgia that will bring booty-shaking, head-nodding and memories of all those awesome middle school dances. SNAP! is proud to have hosted some of the most talented DJs/Producers touring the world ... | more info

SUN JUN 30

YU presents...

Mykki Blanco

Mykki Blanco debuts in Portland for the second in a series of benefit concerts for Yale Union, this one at neighboring Holocene.

8:30pm | $15.00 advance $20.00 day of show
Tickets:

Stranger Tickets

Mykki Blanco, who the Village Voice calls a "Gender Ninja," will perform from debut release "Cosmic Angel: The Illuminati Prince/ss". Says Blanco, "Cosmic Angel is my way of welcoming the world into my reality, the weirdos, the freaks, alternative black american culture. Sexuality figures in last, we're talking street life, night life and under the... | more info

WED JUL 3

Onuinu

Wampire

Magic Fades

DJ Zack

A co-headlining extravaganza with two fast-rising, seriously fun local pop acts. FIRST 25 ADVANCE TICKETS SOLD ARE JUST $5!

8:30pm | $8.00 advance $10.00 day of show
Tickets:

Stranger Tickets

Each song on Onuinu's debut full-length Mirror Gazer is teeming with raw wood grains over which to run your fingers and exposed rafters through which to follow countless reverberations. It is a sprawling, mixed-use space where ambient electronica, hip-hop and house music convene to talk in circles about the universe, and frankly, for Onuinu aka ... | more info

SAT JUL 6

Holocene presents...

Bass is our biz, and our biz be boomin'!

9pm | $5.00 day of show

World domination, butts, drank, money, records, but mostly butts. From its humble beginnings in 2002 as a small birthday party for a few friends, Booty Bassment has grown to one of California's best rap-based dance clubs. Veteran DJs Dimitri Dickinson and Ryan Poulsen have turned this night into a success with monthly installments in San Diego, San... | more info

TUE JUL 9

Benoit Pioulard

Logreybeam

Zachary Gray

Three wonderfully innovative artists, who have collectively graced labels including Kranky, Ghostly, Type, Shadetek, Merck and Camomille.

9pm | $7.00 day of show

A veteran drummer of a half dozen bands [including Orcas] and an avid collector of instruments and analog devices, Thomas Meluch relies on guitar and voice as the bases for his work as Benoît Pioulard. From a young age, Meluch has been fascinated by natural sounds and the textures of decay, and for more than a decade has sought to create a unique ... | more info

THU JUL 11

I'VE GOT A HOLE IN MY SOUL

DJ Beyondadoubt

I'VE GOT A HOLE IN MY SOUL is Portland's original Soul and RnB dance party.

9pm | $5.00 day of show

The stomping, storming sounds of American roots music are laid down at 45rpm, all night until the sweaty end. Six years strong, this truly legendary dancefloor institution has moved to Holocene and takes place every second Thursday. Our space is decorated with love and care just for the occasion, with an eye for that sharp, sexy mod style. We ... | more info

FRI JUL 12

ECSTASY

Jacques Renault (Let's Play House, DFA, On the Prowl)

Magic Touch (100% Silk)

Miracles Club

Spencer D

ECSTASY is a dance party celebrating the future of club music.

9pm | $5.00 day of show

Producer and DJ, Jacques Renault, was a post-punk Washington D.C. native who moved to Chicago in 1997 to continue his studies of viola, but in turn got a serious education in dance music. Tapping into the well established Drum n' Bass scene, he held a residency at Smart Bar and became a buyer at the legendary Gramaphone Records. This broad, raw ... | more info

SAT JUL 13

Tropitaal: Desi-Latino Soundclash Dance Party

Dj Anjali & The Incredible Kid

DJ Indian Summer

DJ Michael Bruce

Tropitaal is a Desi-Latino Soundclash! A new dance party bringing you the hottest club sounds from India and Latin America, scorching the dance floor in a battle to the dance.

9pm | $5.00 day of show

Take the sultry vibe of the Latin American Tropics, combine with the rhythm of India ("Taal") and you get Tropitaal, Holocene's newest dance night - a Desi/Latino Soundclash where the hottest club sounds from India and Latin America go head to head in an all-night dance-off of epic proportions. Resident DJs Anjali & The Incredible... | more info