Party Rock in the USA (2010-2015 Pop Throwbacks!) – 21+
Celebrate the long weekend with Party Rock in the USA Brought to you by your favorite recurring pop throwbacks party at Holocene! Take it back to a simpler time, where pop and dance music went hand in hand at every party. Get down to these iconic club bangers and fist bump all night long like it’s still 2012! Good vibes only! y2k / trashy / jersey shore attire is encouraged! Song requests are welcome!Follow us on Instagram **This is a tribute dance night. None of the artists mentioned will be appearing at this event, nor are they affiliated with the event.
Slender Gems, Rambush, Collate – 21+
Formed in 2018 by longtime DIY musician Jordan LeVeque, whose punk rock bonafides include a stint as the final resident/booker of North Portland standby Fail House, Slender Gems are a murderer’s row of some of the city’s finest musical talents. Equally influenced by the big, opened-tuned chords of 90s slacker-rock and the elegant shredding of 70s AOR, they are at once grandiose and intimate, with LeVeque’s acerbic observations of our spiritually bankrupt world, a resounding clarion call over their guitar pyrotechnics Rambush is an experimental sludge-pop trio originally formed in Portland, OR in 2012. Members, Jack Stringer, Hank Smith, and Joey Furness have now found themselves in Los Angeles to start anew after a 7 year hiatus. Blending a mixture of grunge, rock, pop, and experimental sounds, Rambush is recognized by their dynamic arrangements and multi-part vocal harmonies. Portland’s Collate play music that recalls late ’70s/early ’80s minimalist post-punk, and loops through the styles and genres influenced by that music a million times until you end up with a sound that is evocative of the past but also modern—kind of like when you photocopy and re-photocopy something until it distorts and becomes something new and weird. The lyrics are sometimes blatantly political but always wry and clever. Collate always handles themselves with cool restraint, even when frustration, anger, and joy are palpably bubbling under the surface. Made up of Erika (bass/vox), Jacyn (guitar/vox), and Janie (drums), Collate has put out two full lengths, two 7”s, and a handful of random tapes over the years and there’s more to come.
SNAP! Y2K ’90s vs ’00s Dance Party! – 21+
RSVP (via ticket link) FOR FREE ENTRY BEFORE 10PM (subject to capacity) FOR GUARANTEED ENTRY, BUY ADVANCE TICKETS Party with us on Friday, June 26th for SNAP! Y2K at Holocene for our 90s vs 00s dance party. Bust out your mini butterfly clips, statement chokers, chunky platforms, raver pants, bucket hats, and your Nokia phone then round up your crew and meet us on the dance floor—because nostalgia never sounded so good. Bring your besties and come party to all your favorite 90s and 00s jams. We have something for everyone! EXPECT TO HEAR Grunge, Rave, Pop, Hip Hop, Alt Rock, Rap, R&B, and everything in between from the early 90s to the early 00s. And don’t forget to step into our gaming area to play all your favorite Nintendo games. Join the SNAP! crew every LAST FRIDAY at Holocene for a nostalgic trip back to all your favorite music from the early 90s to the early 00s. Spanning genres from Hip Hop to House to Alt Rock to Mashups you will feel like you are back at a middle school dance.
Marielle V Jakobsons, David Wesley Golightly, Marcus Fischer – EARLY SHOW! – 21+
Marielle V Jakobsons creates immersive compositions for synthesizers and expressive strings — minimal in structure, deeply felt in presence. Her latest album The Patterns Lost to Air, out on Thrill Jockey Records, has been called “spare, but not simple” and “one of the finest examples of contemporary ambient music in 2026.” David Wesley Golightly (Hair and Space Museum, Midday Veil) is a pianist, synthesist, and composer based in Oakland. With his solo piano album Seven Songs for Solo Piano, he offers simple, drifting, and meditative pieces to encourage deep listening and sympathetic resonance. Live video:https://youtu.be/VsCWzh2mh3Y Social: https://www.instagram.com/davigoli/ Marcus Fischer is an interdisciplinary artist and musician based in Portland, Oregon. He is a first-generation American artist that exolores the possibilities of sound to exoress convey ideas and information. Through the creation and transformation of sound, rischer constructs immersive, layered compositions for live performances and exhibitions. Site-specific assemblages of exposed speakers, tape loops, and handmade objects are characteristic of his installations, often paired with melodies of restraint and tension. He contributed two sound works and two performances to the 2019 Whitney Biennial as the only artist from the Pacific Northwest region included in that installment. Fischer’s most recent solo exhibition “What Was Lost and What Remains” addressed themes of loss, generational trauma, and gun violence in the United States. Marcus has recorded and performed nationally and internationally as a solo artist and in collaborations with artists including Taylor Dupree, Aki Onda, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Laura Ortman, Stephen Vitiello, Calexico, Raven Chacon, and Eileen Myles. He has been honored as a Hallie Ford Fellow for the Visual Arts by The Ford Family Foundation and selected for residencies at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation’s Rauschenberg Residency, MacDowell, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art and Headlands Center For the Arts. Further information at MAPMAP.CH
Jewelry Exchange / The Social Stomach / Negative Concord – 21+
Jewelry Exchange is a Portland, Oregon based band probably describable as post-punk. They’re better described as a heady mix of noise rock, krautrock, and dance punk, with musical goals of immediacy and intentionality in equal measure. Most especially known for their live shows, you can expect movement, sweat, and their singer bopping in and out of the crowd. Their new record Bedazzled is laser focused on the improbable relationship between chaos and groove. Angular guitar meets syncopated dancefloor bass; odd-time signatures meet sixteenth-note hi-hats. Lyrically, it’s a breakup album. The juxtapositions are the point. Bedazzled is available now on all major streaming platforms and Bandcamp. Links to Bandcamp: https://jewelryexchange.bandcamp.com/ instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jewelryexchange__/ The Social Stomach is a voice and drums duo created by Diana Oropeza (lyrics) and TJ Thompson (music) as an alternative to traditional poetry readings. Inspired by the nature of social beings, they invite a rotating door of artists to collaborate with them. Live, they blend their written work with improvisation as a way to keep the work alive, to remind both performers and listeners to be present, and to invite chance and the opportunity for surprise. Negative Concord is Portland’s emergent electronic and ambient jazz duo. With Richard Sabon (Rum River Cult, Shawna Pair, No Attempt) playing the ondes martenot and electronics, and Patrick McCulley (Cliff Walker, Zebra) on saxophone, Negative Concord seeks to measure opposing temporal and linguistic realities with sonic frameworks, flexible timbres, and nebulous rhythms. Having released their self-titled first album in September of 2024 the duo is currently working on their second album, Nokturno, smashing together influences from their heroes in the techno, dance, ambient, and jazz worlds. https://negativeconcord.com/ https://www.instagram.com/negativeconcordband/ https://negativeconcordmusic.bandcamp.com/album/negative-concord
Sassy 009 – 21+
Sassy 009 is the shape-shifting project from Oslo-based producer, songwriter and vocalist Sunniva Lindgård. After finding early acclaim as a trio with 2017’s Do You Mind EP, Sassy 009 rebooted as a solo vehicle in 2019, later evolving into 2021’s sultry, bass-driven Heart Ego mixtape. But for Lindgård, the forthcoming Dreamer+ is her true debut: a concept-driven album pieced together from nearly four years of studio effort, and an ambitious attempt to take complete control of her artistry. Steered by freshly distorted vocals and elements of grunge, shoegaze, ‘90s beatronica and gauzy hyperpop, the album is a record of self-discovery and self-effacement at once, studded with guest contributions from Blood Orange, BEA1991 and Yunè Pinku.Dreamer+ is work of fiction at its core, a grim fairytale in which dreams and emotions are processed through a landscape of shapeshifting characters, dark forces and moral responsibilities. Sent on a mission to an abandoned town, Lindgård is her own main character, hurled into a “magical but distorted dream-like world” after a fatal encounter: “Her love for Jakov is absurdly intertwined with his dying; no path could lead her away from it.” The album opens with ‘Butterflies’, a premonition of the rocky road that Dreamer+ is heading down: scorched breakbeats ripped apart by the revving of a motorbike and notes of Air, Yves Tumor and yeule. The pop-forward shoegazing of ‘Edges’ gives way to slinky broken beats on ‘RIP Time and Thoughts’, lambent post-Tirzah R&B on ‘Dreamer’ and ‘90s alt-rock memories on ‘My Candle’. Dev Hynes wraps his instantly identifiable vocals around ‘Tell Me’, a grungy torch song led by Lindgård’s Blood Orange-inspired guitar. Singer-songwriter BEA1991 adds a silky touch to ‘Sleepwalker’s Pendulum’, spookily providing the same harmonies that Lindgård had originally imagined for the song. Irish dance diva Yunè Pinku drops daisy-fresh vocals into ‘Mirrors’, as Lindgård confronts a recurring dream where “you can’t tell where the way out is – you just see different angles of yourself.”‘Ruins of a Lost Memory’ completes the journey by sampling a melancholy melody written by Lindgård’s parents – both classically trained musicians – for a Eurovision Song Contest entry in the ‘90s. Coming at the end of an album about love, loss and mourning, it’s the final piece of the puzzle – “like the credits after the film ends,” she says.With her fantasy story as scaffolding, Lindgård sets herself free as a songwriter, taking inspiration from the organic electronica of Gorillaz, the hazy moods of Boards of Canada, Nirvana’s grunge pop logic and even Lil Wayne’s deftly distorted vocals. Tackling recording from the ground up, she felt herself finally “stepping into that producer role,” imagining herself writing for a live band instead of “being lost in the chaos of 200 layers,” she laughs. Dreamer+ is an album Lindgård has imagined for years. It has taken on many forms, shapes and sizes. Like those morphing silhouettes you see at nighttime, this distinctive body of work has been an ever-evolving assimilation of disciplines. Its final form is a crystalising constellation of connected works—a bricolage of thought, feeling, and creative desire. Each element offers a familiar entry point into the same underlying themes: identity, memory, and the shifting boundaries of self—where the dreamer is the only witness / only one who remembers.
LUST FOR LANA: A LANA DEL REY DANCE NIGHT – 21+
What The Dance presents LUST FOR LANA: A LANA DEL REY DANCE NIGHT Say Yes and meet us under Portland Blvd for a night of Lana Holocene Thursday, August 20 9pm 21+ We’ll turn the Radio up and Dance Till We cry, so leave the Cruel World behind for the night because we’re all Young and Beautiful Sounds by @djsappho Gogo dancing by @cavaelectra & @helena.hemlock @thedanceparties is that fantasy that you got on your mind
CLUB SLAYYY: SLAYYYTER + HYPERPOP NIGHT 🐰 – 21+
What The Dance presents WOR$T PARTY IN PORTLAND: HOLOCENE THURSDAY, AUGUST 13 9PM 21+ WE WILL BE SPINNING THE HOTTEST FROM SLAYYYTER, CHARLI XCX, KIM PETRAS, SOPHIE, ASHNIKKO, COBRAH, KESHA, FKA TWIGS, BRITNEY, HORSEGIIRL, LADY GAGA, SHYGIRL, FROST CHILDREN, AND MORE! COMMENT THE SONGS YOU WANT TO DANCE… TO CRANK IT! @THEDANCEPARTIES
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Pixel Grip (DJ Set) w/ Sharlese- 21+
Formed in 2019 Rita Lukea (Vocals)・Jonathon Freund (Synth) ・Tyler Ommen (Drums) Pixel Grip’s sound is both seductive and confrontational – a dark, club-driven sound that blends elements of synth-pop, EBM (electronic body music), house, and industrial into their own edgy, danceable, and immersive ethos. Pixel Grip is known for their high-energy live performances and moody, avant-garde aesthetic. In 2024 they toured as direct support to noise-rock contemporaries, HEALTH. Followed by a (sold out) North American headline run of their own, which included a stop at the iconic punk festival RIOT Fest. Often exploring themes of desire, power, and liberation, underground cult classics such as “ALPHAPUSSY” & “Demon Chaser” have been used in campaigns by fashion powerhouses such as VERSACE & Alexander Vauthier. Relentless touring and placements with major brands have helped push Pixel Grip to the forefront of indie music. Pixel Grip’s ensuing LP (Summer 2025) arrives as they prepare to expand their reach into the EU & UK for the first time. On their third album, Percepticide the Death of Reality, the Chicago-trio looks within and around at a shifting landscape of fragmented perceptions and social disengagement. The album marks an important part in each of their lives, both musically and personally. Recorded over three years in Los Angeles & Chicago, each member privately faced their own demons, including betrayal, addiction, and neglect. “Percepticide” a portmanteau – a term that originates from – “percipere” (to perceive) and -cide (to kill) – in essence “the killing of perception.” ‘Percepticide’ is a cognitive distortion and a symptom of trauma – beliefs you hold to be true are shattered – as you question everyone and everything around you. My dream is that the expression of my rage can help someone else feel empowered and at the very least, less alone. You’re never stuck, and you’re never alone, say Lukea.