TIME
9pm

COST
$3.00 day of show

The hot and sweaty queer dance party

ALL AGES

TIME
8:30pm

COST
$13.00 advance
$15.00 day of show

TICKETS
Brown Paper Tickets + Jackpot Records

Benefiting Bikes to Rwanda!

ALL AGES

Just in case an evening spent with the groundbreaking bombast of the Dirty Projectors wasn't stepped up enough by FIREWORKS, we've got another way to make your experience exceptional!: Buy a presale ticket from Jackpot Records or brownpapertickets.com, either physical or will call, and show up early on the night of the show. If you're one of the first fifty presale ticketholders through the door, you'll win a free show poster, gorgeously silkscreened by Seizure Palace and designed by I, Brontosaurus.

Soulful experimentalism that raises the bar for pop music.

Dirty Projectors' highly anticipated forthcoming release, Bitte Orca, is perhaps best explained in the words of its ranting, raving, high-profile fans:

The legendary Talking Head and Dirty Projectors' collaborator David Byrne is effusive: "OMG this record is incredible!... Holy shit -- a quantum leap forwards and sideways at the same time. My new favorite record. I know this is all too gushy. Whatever, congratulations."

Battles' Tyondai Braxton notes that Dirty Projectors' frontman Dave Longstreth "forged his own path with authority and an inexhaustible urgency."

Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend raves: "It's tempting to listen to Bitte Orca as a series of signifiers -- re-arranged, deconstructed, POMO'd, whateva -- but in the face of such living, breathing music this would seem overly morbid. If the guitars can recall classic rock or grunge, it's not because they're returning to those styles, but maybe because they represent the next loop on the eternal, golden chain. 'Isn't life under the sun such a crazy, crazy dream?' What will most people make of a phrase like that? New age nonsense? The lyrical MS-DOS of pop robots? Overly used phrases and overly played guitar tones can seem devoid of meaning until someone like DPz finds the kernel of excitement that hides but never fades away and lets it rise up like the '93 Suns. There's a gigantic difference between plumbing the depths of pop garbage for jokes and empty memories and looking for truth where we all forgot it existed. You know how people sometimes say, 'It's funny cuz it's true'? Well, it is!"

TIME
8:30pm

COST
$7.00 day of show

$5 admission for PICA members, $7 general

TIME
8pm

COST
$7.00 day of show

PICA IS TURNING 14!

Join PICA as we celebrate 14 great years of making Portland safe for contemporary art. The music is Lovers; Point Juncture, WA, and Strength; the DJ is Girlfriends; and the sweets are Saint Cupcakes. Bring your lady, your man, or your crush and let out your inner Eros. Tickets available at the door. Enter our raffle and win a tattoo from Icon Tattoo Studio or a TBA Festival Pass.

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COST

To schedule a private event at Holocene, please email bookings@holocene.org

TIME
9pm

COST
$5.00 day of show

ATLAS is Holocene's longest-running dance party, inaugurated in November of 2003. ATLAS is hosted every second Saturday by resident DJs Anjali, E3, and The Incredible Kid. Whereas through insipid marketing international music has developed a reputation as being edgeless, irrelevant, and hopelessly uncool, ATLAS exists to present the gritty urban music whose production and traditions are not limited by American borders. ATLAS was the party that first introduced the Portland club audience to genres such as Balkan Beats, Funk Carioca, Kuduro, Mambo, Rai'n'B, and Reggaeton, among many others. Atlas is THE Portland club night dedicated to exposing the latest electronic sounds emerging from South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, Jamaica and Europe. Atlas is the ONLY night of its kind in Portland and has been going strong for over five years.

TIME
8:30pm

COST
$8.00 advance
$10.00 day of show

TICKETS
Brown Paper Tickets + Jackpot Records

Future primitivist psych-rock.

Houston-based Indian Jewelry are part of the unstoppable, new-primitivist psychedelic label/collective We Are Free, alongside Yeasayer, Ponytail, and Beach House. Their latest, Free Gold!, is a monumental pop album, but pop in the INDIAN JEWELRY way. Hooks buried in drifts of noise, dance grooves, lyrics buried in hazey blizzards. But, there are even surprises; acoustic guitars, love, and even some straight shooting. "FREE GOLD!" is beautiful. It's pissed. It's cool.

"Over a derelict house beat the musicians achieve a nearly ideal balance of murky synth blats, disembodied guitar figures, and obscurantist vocal gibberish worthy of such contemporaries as Excepter or Black Dice." - Pitchfork

Psychic Ills weave deep beats, drones, and astral harmolodics into a transportational ambient landscape.

"Psychic Ills have that dance band by accident thing going for them in a big way. Everything about them is bewitching, really, evacuating...an unlikely future-primitive grind, something as if (say) rave music and shoegaze were exactly the same thing." -- Village Voice

TIME
8:30pm

COST
$7.00 day of show

TIME
8:30pm

COST
$7.00 advance
$7.00 day of show

TICKETS
Brown Paper Tickets + Jackpot Records

Experimental music that scavenges, challenges, and testifies...

In 2008, Merrill--the girl behind tUnE-YaRdS--released BiRd-BrAiNs, which she had recorded over a span of 2.5 years on a hand-held voice recorder. Sampling snippets of her life as a nanny on Martha's Vineyard and later as a young musician in noisy urban settings, she weaved sounds together to make substantial rhythms and then layered her ukulele and vocals over top. The album came out on recycled cassette tape to the chagrin of many, but was also offered by donation as an online digital download. tUnE-YaRdS toured with Thao with the Get Down Stay Down in the summer of '08, and then with Disposable Thumbs on a self-booked cross-country tour for two long months in the fall of that year. One result was the release of BiRd-BrAiNs on vinyl through Marriage Records in Portland, Oregon. Pitchfork even reviewed her album and mistook her ukulele for a guitar (which made the ukulele blush with pride.)

Raucous, dub-tastic art-punk girl-gang Explode Into Colors earned the well-deserved distinction of Portland's Best New Band in this year's Willamette Week poll. Willamette Week writes: "Onstage, the trio's varied backgrounds and musical aesthetics meld into one internationally informed barrage of sound. Shared influences include Japan's the Boredoms and seminal NYC funk-hop quartet ESG, but EIC is its own animal. Claudia Meza and Lisa Schonberg make up a sludge-thick but danceable rhythm section, and Heather Treadway alternates between giving the drums even more kick and providing melodic hooks on her various trambonies. Portland--a city that has embraced original dance music with open arms over the past few years (see previous Best New Bands notables Starfucker and Copy)--has warmed to Explode Into Colors quickly. It's hard to remember another act that has gained steam so quickly despite a lack of recorded material... "I always wanted to be in a band with rad people, where we could do whatever the fuck we want," Meza says. And though she's talking about Explode Into Colors' music, you'd be hard-pressed to find another local band with this much balls."

TIME
9pm

COST
$5.00 day of show

TIME
5pm

COST
FREE! day of show

Happy Endings -- The End Of The Week Never Felt So Good -- is a feel good, winding down of the workweek Happy Hour, perfect for sipping a cocktail and engaging in positive conversation. The event showcases DJ Duo Tyler Stone & Patrick Hinds (Sutro) bringing nu-jazz, broken beat, and other smooth grooves to Holocene. The night will also feature Tyler Stone's smooth as silk vocals and other special guests. Whether you're gearing up for the weekend or winding down from the week, Happy Endings provides a smooth transition for your destination.

TIME
9pm

COST
$3.00 day of show

ROCKBOX is a dance party. Pure and Simple. The triumvirate of DJ KEZ (KBOO, THE FIX), Matt Nelkin (KPSU), and Dundiggy (THE FIX) play a masterfully blended mix of fun, dance oriented Hiphop, R&B, and Old School Electro with a dash of Bmore, Dancehall, 80s, and House thrown in for good measure.

As die-hard record collectors all three Dj's play exclusively vinyl. Every set and every ROCKBOX dance party is a custom experience with these cats digging into their seemingly bottomless crates to pull out the beats that make you want to sweat out the work week. More than just another gig for these talented three, ROCKBOX dance party represents their long held vision of merging the classics alongside the progressive.

Check out a new mix created by ROCKBOX'S Matt Nelkin!

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COST

To schedule a private event at Holocene, please email bookings@holocene.org

TIME


COST

To schedule a private event at Holocene, please email bookings@holocene.org

TIME
8:30pm

COST
$6.00 day of show

An exciting ensemble of up-and-comers in Portland's rock scene.

"Blue Horns has the punk aesthetic of 1970s pioneers Television, but the mass appeal of Bowie. What was once just a Portland band with promise is on its way to gaining a reputation in the Northwest scene." -Seattle Weekly

"Blue Horns has quickly emerged into a real player on Portland's pop scene...There is a blissful insanity in their execution that gives that band more substance (and less predictability) than other more polished bands of the same ilk." -- Willamette Week

Equal parts soulful and intelligent, Inside Voices have miraculously succeeded in accepting the burdensome indie rock lineage dominated by Modest Mouse and the ilk, without letting it mold them or render them at all derivative. They clearly know where they stand, but they've got something new to offer: forward-thinking rock'n'roll that's muddled up in psychedelia and isn't afraid to show some heart.

$5-$20 sliding scale

TIME
7pm

COST
$7.00 day of show

TIME
9pm

COST
$6.00 day of show

Since its humble beginnings 6 years ago, Horse Meat Disco has become an institution for gay Londoners looking to lose their minds every Sunday night at the infamous Eagle club. Their disco-centric parties harp back to the halcyon days of The Loft and The Gallery in New York attracting a discerning mix of old time disco heads, club kids, bears, naturists and something new in gay clubs; a space where disco fans of a heterosexual persuasion could live out their fantasy of going to a gay disco club without feeling totally out of place. Knowing quite well that the best parties have always been the ones where the crowd comes from all walks of life, Jim Stanton and James Hillard have specifically fine tuned their all-inclusive party to this end, and in the process have become two of the world's most in-demand DJs. Please join NIGHTCLUBBING and Holocene in welcoming them for the very first time to the Northwest US for this dance party to end all dance parties.

TIME
8pm

COST
$5.00 day of show

The queer dance party where the player always wins...

TIME
8:30pm

COST
$8.00 advance
$10.00 day of show

TICKETS
Brown Paper Tickets + Jackpot Records

Sprawling, celebratory psych-rock from your new favorite cult leader and his ten best friends.

Birthed by Mouth in the year two-thousand and five, young Edward Sharpe had to wait nearly two years before he was to grow his arms and legs and fingers and toes. Immaculately conceived, his father (a Robot who had magically become a real boy...but that's another story) declared his undying devotion to the creature. He perched the fleshy bust upon a teetering pedestal fashioned from stacked cereal boxes and positioned the display at his window for all the town to see. Young Edward soon proved no ordinary boy. Though his father had figured him deaf for his unresponsiveness to sounds, he in fact had the universally unique condition of being deaf from hearing too much or, more correctly put, too well. In plain words, he heard EVERYTHING AT ONCE. At first it proved rather painful like a wretched whining winding all hours, but very soon those who whisper visited young Edward and revealed to him the Tricks and Truths, the Ways and Plays, the Chords and Dischords of the Universe. He did not need to eat but the color of the sun, which was F#, and moved his bones to grow. His arms and legs and fingers and toes grew 'til the tower of boxes collapsed and he laughed. He moved thru the door which was C over B# and ran thru the village hearing ALL of its music! The workers and children and painters of buildings and dogs barking madly and trees bristling softly and OH!! Young Edward could not resist! He began playing the tree which are the chords E and D 'gainst the mice in the grass which are A played with brass and the wooden fence F and then C and repeat with a drone of B Minor to bring in the street and the Birds B to B Sharp with fluttering strings and the sky mostly C unless he wants to bring in the rain and for rain bring the F Chord bombastic with organ's distortion and symbols a'crashin! Yes, and a music was born.

TIME
8:30pm

COST
$7.00 advance
$8.00 day of show

TICKETS
Brown Paper Tickets + Jackpot Records

Genre-deflecting spasmodic garage rock.

Japandroids (JPNDRDS) is a two piece band from Vancouver, BC. This 'band' started in 2006 as a creative outlet for the post-teenage angst of Brian King and David Prowse. Originally intending to be a trio, the boys decided to forgo the logistical nightmare of having a 'lead singer' and do it themselves. As a consequence, Japandroids are 1 guitar, 1 set of drums, and 2 vocalizers. They call it garage rock. They don't care what you call it, as long as it's not minimal. Japandroids are maximal - a two piece band trying to sound like a five piece band.POST-NOTHING is the forthcoming release by Vancouver's dream team, and is sure to build on the buzz of 2008'S LULLABY DEATH JAMS and 2007's ALL LIES. These latest gems run the gauntlet of rock n roll sub-genres, with the boys ripping off too many different bands to sound like any other duo making music right now. Supporting Japandroids gets you into Heaven - no questions asked.

Joining Japandroids are two of our favorite locals, the high-energy spastic art punk of Flaspar and the triumphant nubile thrashing of White Fang.

TIME
9pm

COST
FREE! day of show

30 years ago a man was born. Some might even call him a giant. This man, Holocene's beloved Jared White, has cooked up a free dance party to celebrate the big day. Consider yourself invited.

TIME
9pm

COST
$3.00 day of show

Featuring an amalgamation of DJs from around the city, this thing promises to be a dance party staple for the ages. We want to see Esprit, Bum Equipment, Mossimo, overall shorts, Cross Colors, all that..Think Ninja Turtles, Crystal Clear Pepsi, Bill playin sax and Frankie says relax. Pay homage to Color Me Badd, White Town, BBD and a young Snoop D O double G. If you can still do The Running Man, The Whop, Kid 'n' Play or that jiggle thing across the stage that MC Hammer used to do, then you'll fit right in...We're gonna sex you up, knock your boots and maybe even zoom a zoom zoom in your boom boom.

Hit it!

TIME


COST

To schedule a private event at Holocene, please email bookings@holocene.org

TIME


COST

To schedule a private event at Holocene, please email bookings@holocene.org

TIME
7pm

COST
$10.00 day of show

The Portland premiere of Tiffany Campbell and Andria Lessler's brand new all lady surf film, Dear and Yonder.

The evening will kick off with the opening of an art show titled: Mountains, Motorcycles, Horses and Waves. This assemblage of works on paper will feature artists Rick Albano, Alberto Cuadros, Serena Mitnik-Miller, Jeff Canham, Victoria Jarvis, Nat Russell and several others. Throughout the evening, DJ Zach Reno will be spinning the far-out go-out soundtrack and Holocene will roll out la parrilla for some streetside tacqueria action. The film will start around sundown. The party continues after the screening with a live performance by Tara Jane O'Neil with Marisa Anderson. Come spend the evening with a whole bunch of good folks.

TIME
9pm

COST
$5.00 day of show

Live sample-based beat battle.

Electronic music nerds battle it out laptop-a-laptop, at another installment of the compelling computer composition competition. There'll be button pushing, beat making, and sound sampling to fill Holocene with some seriously hot noise. - Portland Mercury

TIME
8pm

COST
$7.00 day of show

TIME
9pm

COST
$3.00 day of show

TIME
9pm

COST
$5.00 day of show

ATLAS is Holocene's longest-running dance party, inaugurated in November of 2003. ATLAS is hosted every second Saturday by resident DJs Anjali, E3, and The Incredible Kid. Whereas through insipid marketing international music has developed a reputation as being edgeless, irrelevant, and hopelessly uncool, ATLAS exists to present the gritty urban music whose production and traditions are not limited by American borders. ATLAS was the party that first introduced the Portland club audience to genres such as Balkan Beats, Funk Carioca, Kuduro, Mambo, Rai'n'B, and Reggaeton, among many others. Atlas is THE Portland club night dedicated to exposing the latest electronic sounds emerging from South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, Jamaica and Europe. Atlas is the ONLY night of its kind in Portland and has been going strong for over five years.

TIME
8pm

COST
$5.00 day of show

The Queer Dance Party with resident DJs Automaton & Equestrian.

TIME
8:30pm

COST
$8.00 advance
$8.00 day of show

TICKETS
Brown Paper Tickets + Jackpot Records

TIME
9pm

COST
$3.00 day of show

The hot and sweaty queer dance party.

TIME


COST

To schedule a private event at Holocene, please email bookings@holocene.org

TIME


COST

To schedule a private event at Holocene, please email bookings@holocene.org

TIME
5pm

COST
FREE! day of show

Happy Endings -- The End Of The Week Never Felt So Good -- is a feel good, winding down of the workweek Happy Hour, perfect for sipping a cocktail and engaging in positive conversation. The event showcases DJ Duo Tyler Stone & Patrick Hinds (Sutro) bringing nu-jazz, broken beat, and other smooth grooves to Holocene. The night will also feature Tyler Stone's smooth as silk vocals and other special guests. Whether you're gearing up for the weekend or winding down from the week, Happy Endings provides a smooth transition for your destination.

TIME
9pm

COST
$3.00 day of show

ROCKBOX is a dance party. Pure and Simple. The triumvirate of DJ KEZ (KBOO, THE FIX), Matt Nelkin (KPSU), and Dundiggy (THE FIX) play a masterfully blended mix of fun, dance oriented Hiphop, R&B, and Old School Electro with a dash of Bmore, Dancehall, 80s, and House thrown in for good measure.

As die-hard record collectors all three Dj's play exclusively vinyl. Every set and every ROCKBOX dance party is a custom experience with these cats digging into their seemingly bottomless crates to pull out the beats that make you want to sweat out the work week. More than just another gig for these talented three, ROCKBOX dance party represents their long held vision of merging the classics alongside the progressive.

Check out a new mix created by ROCKBOX'S Matt Nelkin!

TIME
8pm

COST
$5.00 day of show

The queer dance party where the player always wins...

TIME
9pm

COST
$3.00 day of show

Featuring an amalgamation of DJs from around the city, this thing promises to be a dance party staple for the ages. We want to see Esprit, Bum Equipment, Mossimo, overall shorts, Cross Colors, all that..Think Ninja Turtles, Crystal Clear Pepsi, Bill playin sax and Frankie says relax. Pay homage to Color Me Badd, White Town, BBD and a young Snoop D O double G. If you can still do The Running Man, The Whop, Kid 'n' Play or that jiggle thing across the stage that MC Hammer used to do, then you'll fit right in...We're gonna sex you up, knock your boots and maybe even zoom a zoom zoom in your boom boom.

Hit it!

TIME
8:30pm

COST
$10.00 advance
$12.00 day of show

TICKETS
Brown Paper Tickets + Jackpot Records