Holocene Calendar

WED MAY 16

Holocene presents...

FIN DE CINEMA

A screening of:
Mala Morska Vila
("The Little Mermaid," Czech, 1976)

featuring a live score composed and performed by:
Goodnight Billygoat

Wooden Indian Burial Ground

Blood Beach

DJs Pattern & Shape and Cuica

Fin de Cinema returns with another gem of the Czech New Wave: the 1976 live action interpretation of The Little Mermaid, Mala Morska Vila! In the vein of other gorgeous, hazy surrealist works from the period such as Valerie and Her Week of Wonders and Daisies, this piece of beautiful melancholy embodies all of the darkness of the original Hans Christian Andersen fairytale. Taking up scoring duties will be Goodnight Billygoat, with their twinkling orchestral pop; Wooden Indian Burial Ground, with their spacious and trippy rock landscapes; and Blood Beach, with their theremin-heavy psychedelia.

8:30pm | $5.00 day of show

THU MAY 17

RAC Presents!

Cyclist (Vancouver BC)

RAC

American Girls

RAC, aka Remix Artist Collective, aka Andre Allen Anjos and Karl Kling, are two of the foremost producers / DJs in the country, and we're lucky enough to have them call Portland home. Accordingly, we've given them a monthly party for dancefloor ruckus, where they'll spin their own remixes and current favorite tracks alongside a carefully curated array of awesome guest DJs!

9pm | FREE!

Introduction to RAC from GreenLabelSound on Vimeo.

... | more info

FRI MAY 18

APERITIVO HAPPY HOUR

with live performances by:
Evan Way (of Parson Redheads)

Rememory

DJ Bill Portland

Please join us from 5-8:30pm 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! Tonight we present the second edition of our monthly series of live performances at our happy hours, with sure-to-be-gorgeous solo acoustic sets from Evan Way (of Parson Redheads) and Rememory (aka Justin Power)!

5pm | FREE!

FRI MAY 18

ROCKBOX

with resident DJs
Matt Nelkin

DJ Kez

Dundiggy

9pm | $3.00 day of show

ROCKBOX is a dance party. Pure and Simple. The triumvirate of DJ KEZ (360 Vinyl, THE FIX), Matt Nelkin (Liquid Beat, KPSU), and Dundiggy (THE FIX) play 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 ... | more info

SAT MAY 19

GAYCATION

DJ Snowtiger

Mr. Charming

Plus special guest Roy G Biv

The hot & sweaty queer dance party.

9pm | $3.00 day of show

SUN MAY 20

Portland State University’s Art and Social Practice program presents...

OPEN ENGAGEMENT CLOSING PARTY!

DJ Peace Pipe (of Brainstorm)

DJ Grapefuit

DJ Mighty Moves

Join us to celebrate another year of Open Engagement with our closing dance party! This event is free and open to the public (21+).

9pm | FREE!

Open Engagement is an international conference that sets out to explore various perspectives on art and social practice and expand the dialogue around socially engaged art making. Open Engagement 2012 happens May 18-20. You can find out more and register online at openengagement.info

The dance party will include an art installation by Will Bryant ... | more info

MON MAY 21

Holocene presents...

Julia Holter

Jib Kidder

CLOAKS

Immerse yourself in the breathtaking, hushed pop of mythologically-minded composer Julia Holter.

8:30pm | $10.00 advance $12.00 day of show
Tickets:

Brown Paper Tickets

Stranger Tickets

Julia Holter's songwriting stems from a mythological reverence of that which is incomprehensibly beautiful. Formative experiences at Cal Arts studying with Michael Pisaro and in India singing with harmonium under guru Pashupati nath Mishra marked a slight detour for Holter in what started as a more traditional composition route. The trajectory ... | more info

TUE MAY 22

DROPPING GEMS SHOWCASE

Gumar & His Magical Midi Band

DJAO

Rising local electronic label Dropping Gems showcases their fine roster of producers!

8:30pm | FREE!

Dropping Gems is a label and collective of artists based in the Pacific Northwest. Our goal is to share our vision of the future of humanity, particularly as it's expressed in the form of electronic music. We produce and release albums, and we throw shows for people to come see what we do. We serve as a DIY conduit between the Northwest and ... | more info

WED MAY 23

Holocene presents...

NITE FLIGHTS: An evening celebrating Scott Walker

featuring tribute sets by:
Mattress

Ghost Animal

WL

...Worms

DJ Comedienne

Join us in celebrating the artistry of one of pop music's most enigmatic legends. From the teen heartthrob in the Walker Bros., to the baroque pop crooner with his solo career, to the avant-garde sound artist in his recent works, the many faces and phases of Scott Walker will be represented this evening via live covers from a wide array of Portland musicians. We present this evening's programming under the name "Nite Flights": in part because the sublime and oft-overlooked Walker Bros. record of same name will be thoroughly covered tonight, but also as it embodies a central thread running through Scott Walker's work. With pain, comes strength. Through pain, comes transcendence. Despite pain, comes hope. This winged visionary in the darkness is an inspiration to all of us involved tonight.

8:30pm | $5.00 day of show

FRI MAY 25

SNAP! '90s Dance Party

Dr. Adam

Colin Jones

9pm | $3.00 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 MAY 26

13 Months of Sunshine: African sounds dance party

Awesome Tapes from Africa
(DJ set)

DJ Sahelsounds

DJ Cuica

DJ Spencer D

We're pleased to bring you a special weekend edition of our 13 Months of Sunshine party for emerging African dance music! Welcome special guest DJ Brian Shimkovitz, curator of one of our favorite blogs, Awesome Tapes from Africa.

9pm | $5.00 day of show

After a stint in Ghana researching the local hip-hop movement, Brooklyn's Brian Shimkovitz, a trained ethnomusicologist, has accumulated hundreds of cassette tapes of rare african music from Zimbabwe to Ethiopia to Senegal. He has been sharing his bounty through his popular blog Awesome Tapes From Africa, which he takes on the road as a DJ. ... | more info

SUN MAY 27

Holocene presents...

Broncho

The Shrine

PinkSlime

Jaret Ferratusco

Norman, Oklahoma's BRONCHO breathe new life into the exhilarating sound of classic '70s punk.

8:30pm | $7.00 advance
Tickets:

Brown Paper Tickets

Stranger Tickets

Harkening back to punk rock's glory days of the 70s, Oklahoma outfit Broncho captures the aggression, DIY authenticity and youthful exhilaration of a bygone era and then drags it by the hair into the Here and Now, creating a fresh sound that's unlike anything being played today. With echoes of The Replacements, Iggy and the Stooges and The Ramones,... | more info

MON MAY 28

Holocene and Soul'd Out Productions present...

Nick Waterhouse

DJ Beyondadoubt

DJ Cooky Parker

Delight in the vintage R&B sound with this talented singer-songwriter.

8:30pm | $10.00 advance $12.00 day of show
Tickets:

Brown Paper Tickets

Stranger Tickets

Nick Waterhouse is the New Breed -- An R&B fanatic who combines an uncanny old-school sensibility with a charged, contemporary style. At just 25, He joins the ranks of a growing cabale of similar acts and producers of recent times -- Mark Ronson, Mayer Hawthorne, the Daptone Crew et al -- that are all moving forward into the past, yet all quite ... | more info Nick Waterhouse is the New Breed -- An R&B fanatic who combines an uncanny old-school sensibility with a charged, contemporary style. At just 25, He joins the ranks of a growing cabale of similar acts and producers of recent times -- Mark Ronson, Mayer Hawthorne, the Daptone Crew et al -- that are all moving forward into the past, yet all quite different. For Waterhouse, his muse is the over-modulated sound of vintage R&B, and his take on such a time-honored tradition evokes the back-alley thrill of New Orleans, Detroit and Memphis in their heyday. He combines an astute attention to detail with an honest desire to match the emotional impact of the music that inspires him.

When asked to pinpoint the sound or style he strives for, Nick Waterhouse simply shrugs and responds, "American music. And I know that's pretty general, but it is what it is. I have spent so much of my life immersed in this stuff, because I wanted to figure it out, [yet] all I figured out was that there was no plan." In other words, whatever musical style Nick may choose to espouse, it's not done because someone else did it, but done for the same reason someone else did it. "To me, [the music I play] is not a 'type' of music," he emphasizes; "it IS music. The records I listen to ARE music. A record is a moment in time, and something recorded in 1955 is the same as something recorded in 2010." Growing up in the Southern California, Waterhouse eschewed his surroundings and found emotional authenticity in the vintage wax of Ray Charles, Roy Head, Little Willie John and the whole panoply of American music, where feel so often trumps technique. After the sold out release of his own self-produced 45, the raunchy 'Some Place', and a string of exciting shows with his live group The Tarots, Nick went to work on his forthcoming full-length for Innovative Leisure -- continuing an undeniably raw and rhythmic take on American music.

His approach to production -- entirely vintage analog equipment, open-reel tape machines, lacquer cutting machines, and even hand letter-pressed labels -- has left a few fans wondering where and when he comes from; Long-lost deadstock Rhythm & Blues artifact? White or Black? New or old? It's a fitting recall to the days of early Rock & Roll, when rhythms crossed the tracks and no-one was quite sure WHAT or WHO this music was.

As LA Record bears witness, "You've gotta be one kind of maniac to produce like this, and a whole other kind to shout like this, and an even more frightening kind to make the first two maniacs work together. Nick pulling this all off simultaneously means preternatural powers in play"

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WED MAY 30

Holocene and MusicFestNW present...

MFNW KICK-OFF PARTY

with:
Gardens & Villa

Swahili

Grandparents

Join us as we gear up for another awesome year of MFNW! Tonight we present a radiant bill of psych-pop talents who will also be playing the fest this fall. Two of our finest locals join Santa Barbara's cosmic synth brethren Gardens & Villa.

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

Brown Paper Tickets

Stranger Tickets

In the year of the saxophone, Santa Barbara's Gardens & Villa give us the flute. And along the way, G&V effectively wipe clear the vaseline from the murky bedroom funk of recent days. G&V bang out instant classics -- each crystal clear and immaculate, but no less sweeping or languid. Their debut is a youthful exploration of just how opulent and pop... | more info

THU MAY 31

A Few of My Favorite Things: Sean Pecknold

Animation artist Sean Pecknold curates A Few of My Favorite Things, our recurring series in which a prominent member of the local arts community is given an evening to showcase their favorite fellow locals. Sean has put together a dazzling bill of experimental folk music, and will also be presenting a program of local video art!

8pm | $5.00 day of show

Featuring Visual Art and Animated Shorts by:
- Stefan Nadelman
- Will Vinton
- Jordan Bruner
- Rachel Blumberg
- Britta Johnson
- And Many More!

Here's some of Sean's amazing work:
... | more info

FRI JUN 1

Abstract Earth Project presents...

FRESH.

Lazer Sword MEMORY ALBUM RELEASE TOUR

Morri$

Chrome Wolves

FRESH. is a forward-thinking electronic dance party, every first Friday at Holocene.

9pm | $10.00 advance

Press for Lazer Sword's new album:
"Lazer Sword striking a balance between their flamboyant past persona and more emotional, adult new one, at once hyperactive and precise." - Little White Earbuds

"Lazer Sword jump straight in with a newer, sleeker, darker and more physically robust sound. They draw inspiration from the greats of Detroit techno, ... | more info

SAT JUN 2

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

SUN JUN 3

Holocene presents...

Anne 7" RELEASE PARTY

Your Rival

Industrial Park

Revel in a wall of sound with the melodic shoegaze of these lovely locals.

8:30pm | FREE!

Willamette Week writes of Anne: "Although Portland does not lack for peddlers of speed and aggression, there are surprisingly few bands here pushing the kind of wet and gray dolor Anne so expertly evokes... It is music for fetal positions, and it is wonderful...It brushes away hesitancy and doubt while ushering us, free of shame, into dark places ... | more info

WED JUN 6

HOLOCENE TURNS 9

AU

Join us for our 9th anniversary celebration! As our thank you to this amazing community, we're throwing a FREE show featuring a selection of our favorite emerging acts of 2012, joining near and dear members of the Holocene family, AU.

8:30pm | FREE!

THU JUN 7

PDX POP NOW! 2012 COMPILATION RELEASE!

An ALL-AGES album release party for PDX POP NOW!'s always-stellar annual compilation of local music. FREE copy of the compilation included with door price! Line-up details TBA.

8pm | $10.00 day of show

FRI JUN 8

Holocene presents...

Tu Fawning ALBUM RELEASE

Regular Music

Join us for a transcendent evening with the energetic avant-pop of Tu Fawning. Tonight we celebrate the release of their new album A Monument, out May 15 on City Slang records!

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

Brown Paper Tickets

Stranger Tickets

SUN JUN 10

SONGS ON CONCEPTUAL ART - Album Release Party

Dragging an Ox Through Water

Jake Ransom

A release party for the visionary local project Songs on Conceptual Art, featuring live performances by many of the album's contributing musicians!

8pm | $5.00 day of show

Songs on Conceptual Art is a compilation album inspired by Sol LeWitt's Sentences on Conceptual Art. Featuring 35 musical interpretations of this landmark art text, the limited edition double LP will be available June 1st through Marriage Records, Awesome Vistas and Teenage Teardrops, and the songs are downloadable for free at ... | more info

TUE JUN 12

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!

TUE JUN 12

GROWING SCHOOLYARD FARMS

Duover

Fair Weather Watchers

Queued Up

DJ Bob Ham

Join Schoolyard Farms at a our kick-off event - Growing Schoolyard Farms! We have the land ready to go - a one-acre farm at Candy Lane Elementary in Milwaukie, Ore. - and now we need your help to get things growing. Revel in a night of music and merriment to fund urban farms. All proceeds will go towards the starting costs of the project.

9pm | $10.00 day of show

Schoolyard Farms seeks to foster healthy communities by teaching about and growing food on urban schoolyards. In so doing, we will make fresh food more accessible as well as build and spread an economically viable urban agriculture model.

WED JUN 13

Holocene presents...

Rebecca Gates ALBUM RELEASE

Clea Partridge

Come celebrate the release of Rebecca Gates' new album The Float, out June 12 on Parcematone!

8:30pm |

Portland Monthly writes of the new album: "A rich, cinematic album, The Float ranges from the acoustic "Rose," where violin and cello roll over guitar like the unfolding of spring, to the fuzzy, yearning rock of "Lighter Than We Go." Gates layers her gorgeous, dreamy voice into choral self-harmonies that float through bittersweet and wry lyrics."

"... | more info Portland Monthly writes of the new album: "A rich, cinematic album, The Float ranges from the acoustic "Rose," where violin and cello roll over guitar like the unfolding of spring, to the fuzzy, yearning rock of "Lighter Than We Go." Gates layers her gorgeous, dreamy voice into choral self-harmonies that float through bittersweet and wry lyrics."

"Whether folding Memphis R&B into slacker bedroom laments or post-rock abstractions into catchy pop, she nails the ennui of lovesick transitions and physical displacements with a marksman's aim. And she might just possess the sexiest voice in rock." -- Entertainment Weekly

Rebecca Gates is a US based musician, curator, artist and audio editor. She has released four albums, three as leader of the critically acclaimed group The Spinanes (Sub Pop), toured internationally and appeared as a vocalist on numerous records by artists as wide ranging as The Decemberists and Willie Nelson. Her 2001 record Ruby Series was hailed by Spin Magazine as "warm, thoughtful, and melodically gorgeous."

Gates co-curated The Marfa Sessions, an exhibition of sonic land art installations by US and international artists in Marfa, Texas. She has been featured as an artist at Lehmann Maupin Gallery (New York, NY), Vedanta/Kavi Gupta Gallery (Chicago, IL), Centro La Fontana (Barcelona, SPAIN), Fontanelle (Portland, OR) and The Sun Valley Center for the Arts (Sun Valley, ID/Los Angeles, CA). She was editor and co-founder of The Relay Project audiomagazine, a sound-only periodical featuring content from a variety of editorial and sonic sources which will be re-launched in 2012 as Sonoset Magazine.

She currently performs solo and with a combo under the Consortium moniker. The fine onstage version of the Consortium, may feature any and all of : Ji Tanzer (Blue Cranes), Joanna Bolme (The Jicks, Quasi), Rebecca Cole (Wild Flag, The Minders), Nate Query (The Decemberists, Black Prairie), Jenny Drizos (The Decemberists, Black Prairie), Amy Domingues (Garland of Hours), Dave Depper (Loch Lomond, Blue Giant) or any other musical genius who consents to participating.
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THU JUN 14

Holocene presents...

How to Dress Well

Babe Rainbow

We're pleased to welcome back the heartrending experimental R&B of How to Dress Well.

8:30pm | $10.00 advance
Tickets:

Brown Paper Tickets

Stranger Tickets

Garnering inspiration from a broad range of artistic, cinematic, philosophical, and musical sources How To Dress Well, aka Tom Krell, creates music that is provocative and compelling. Though the arrangements are remarkable, it is Krell's singing voice that truly carries this record. At the heart of each song there is a chorus of disarmingly ... | more info

FRI JUN 15

GAYCATION: PRIDE WEEK EDITION

Boyjoy

Gaycation is a monthly queer dance party. Currently in its 6th year of fierceness, Gaycation showcases local & international queer performers and strives to create a super hot, inclusive, homo dance party.

9pm | $5.00 day of show

For Portland Pride 2012, Gaycation will feature Portland local talent transplanted across the nation. With much thought and deliberation we wanted to select a cosmopolitan array of this party's best and brightest guest DJ's over the past 6 years.

DJ Chelsea Starr has been running the game in queer music industry for well over a decade. Her big rad ... | more info For Portland Pride 2012, Gaycation will feature Portland local talent transplanted across the nation. With much thought and deliberation we wanted to select a cosmopolitan array of this party's best and brightest guest DJ's over the past 6 years.

DJ Chelsea Starr has been running the game in queer music industry for well over a decade. Her big rad queer party, Hot Pants, started in 2002 and ran for 7 years. Working in clubs all over the country from LA to NY to TX to FL, gay and straight, fancy and grimy- DJ Chelsea Starr's blends the high brow with high femme just perfectly.

DJ Boy Joy (Seth Gottesdiener)- Skill and flexibility has built his DJ empire and has worked throughout the world. Anywhere from Tokyo, Japan to the Lower East Side's Happy Endings in Los Angeles- Boy Joy has been there in his adonis aesthetic and amazing music. Guaranteed to bring high energy to any party he plays you can expect anything from commercial hip-hop, top 40, new disco, house, current favorites, and throwback nostalgic jams.

DJ Equestrian- The deep international fashion and couture DJ Equestrian has been noticed and featured in publications such as Vogue Italia and Harpers Bazaar UK. In between all of that she's making music for her greater queer community. Widely known for her musical collaborations with DJ Automation in Los Angeles under the duo- RoboPony; DJ Equestrian will be very very buck.

Mr. Charming has been organizing, promoting, and DJ'ing in since 2004 and is a resident/co-founder at Gaycation. Mr. Charming has also also worked with Spinderella, Kim Ann Foxmann, and MEN.

DJ Snowtiger resident /co-founder at Gaycaiton, ex-Swan Island guitarist, filmmaker, you may recognizer her from the Portlandia "Dream of the 90s" video.

With a focus on depth in music, high fashion, deep glam, and knowing that your outfit and hair are just right- Gaycation Pride 2012 will be all at once local and global. This celebration recognizes the ties and the talent that have built Gaycation throughout the years. Join us Friday June 15th and transform Holocene into the Homoscene!
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SAT JUN 16

ROCKBOX

with resident DJs
Matt Nelkin

DJ Kez

Dundiggy

9pm | $3.00 day of show

ROCKBOX is a dance party. Pure and Simple. The triumvirate of DJ KEZ (360 Vinyl, THE FIX), Matt Nelkin (Liquid Beat, KPSU), and Dundiggy (THE FIX) play 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 ... | more info

MON JUN 18

Oren Ambarchi of SUNN(0)))

Mamiffer

Daniel Menche

We welcome an impressive trio of sound artists into our space for a meditative and mind-bending evening of original musics.

8:30pm | $7.00 day of show

Australia's Oren Ambarchi is a composer and multi-instrumentalist with longstanding interests in transcending conventional instrumental approaches. His work focuses mainly on the exploration of the guitar, "re-routing the instrument into a zone of alien abstraction where it's no longer easily identifiable as itself. Instead, it's a laboratory for ... | more info

WED JUN 20

Basic Rights Oregon presents...

RICE,BEANS,& COLLARD GREENS: All-Ages Pride Party!

Asian Pacific Islander Pride, Black Pride, Latino Gay Pride, Portland Two Spirit Society, Pride Northwest, and Basic Rights Oregon present a Pride dance party for Queer and Trans People of Color and our friends and family! All ages welcome, bar open for those 21+. $5 at the door, but no one turned away for lack of funds.

8:30pm | $5.00 day of show

THU JUN 21

RAC Presents!

RAC, aka Remix Artist Collective, aka Andre Allen Anjos and Karl Kling, are two of the foremost producers / DJs in the country, and we're lucky enough to have them call Portland home. Accordingly, we've given them a monthly party for dancefloor ruckus, where they'll spin their own remixes and current favorite tracks alongside a carefully curated array of awesome guest DJs!

9pm | FREE!

FRI JUN 22

HAPPY LIFE SOLUTION: J-POP & K-POP DANCE PARTY

DJ Solomon

DJ Hojo (J/K POP - Seattle)

DJ vVv

FREE before 10pm! With HAPPY LIFE SOLUTION, our expert DJs will acquaint Portland audiences with all of the vivacity, infectious hooks, and exceptionally high production value of Asian pop music. Come to our dancefloor for the best Japanese and Korean pop gems you've never heard - from '90s Korean R&B to the latest in Japanese electro.

9pm | $3.00 day of show

SAT JUN 23

AN AFROBEAT TRIBUTE TO MICHAEL JACKSON

Commotion

Excellent Gentleman

DJ Hanukkah Miracle

Calling all P.Y.T.s! Put on your dancing shoes for an Afrobeat concert inspired by Michael Jackson’s music. Innovative Portland-based composer Ben Darwish will lead a ten-piece band interpret Jackson’s songs using Afrobeat techniques popularized by Fela Kuti. Originated at Portland's internationally recognized art and music festival, PICA's "Time Based Art Festival", the show is back after nearly a two-year hiatus. Featuring members of COMMOTION and special guests Toni Hill (Sirens Echo) and Aniana Hough (Philly's Phunkestra) on vocals. Don’t stop till you get enough!

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

Brown Paper Tickets

Stranger Tickets

Press for the last edition:
"Darwish's ensemble was pretty amazing with a bold horn section and spot on rhythm. Darwish, for his part, directed them well, jumping around the stage and coaxing them on. His arrangements were fantastic and it was cool to hear Jacksons work pulled, stretched, and wrapped around afrobeat rythyms. For instance, phrases ... | more info

FRI JUN 29

Holocene and Coco B present...

SNAP! '90s Dance Party

Dr. Adam

Colin Jones

9pm | $3.00 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

FRI JUL 6

Abstract Earth Project presents...

FRESH.

FRESH. is a forward-thinking dance party happening every first Friday at Holocene. Line-up details TBA!

9pm |

SAT JUL 7

Bass is our biz, and our biz be boomin'! FREE BEFORE 10PM!

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 JUL 8

Holocene presents...

Simon Joyner

The Renderers

Indie rock cult legend Simon Joyner is embarking on a rare tour in support of his new album "Ghosts"!

8:30pm | $10.00 advance $12.00 day of show
Tickets:

Brown Paper Tickets

Stranger Tickets

Simon Joyner is known for challenging, lyric-driven, story songs which keep him on critic's lists, inviting comparisons to Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Townes Van Zandt, Nick Drake, and other masters. Often called the godfather of the Omaha scene and major influence on Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes (who has covered Joyner's "Burn Rubber&... | more info