SLEAZE FREAKS: An Indie Sleaze Revival Dance Party – 21+
What the Dance presents ⋆.˚✮ SLEAZE FREAKS: AN INDIE SLEAZE DANCE PARTY ✮˚.⋆ Let’s party in the sleaziest and sweatiest way possible Portland! Grab your leather jackets, skinny jeans, eyeliner, and cigarettes as we dance to all your favorite indie rock, electroclash, and alternative hits Holocene Thursday, March 20 9pm 21+ YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE / GET TIX NOW ON WHATTHEDANCE.COMDJ @plus_________us will be spinning the best of The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Dare, LCD Soundsystem, The Hellp, Snowstrippers, 2hollis, Crystal Castles, and so much more! It’s an indie sleaze revival @thedanceparties
Dreamer Isioma w/ ivri – All Ages
First-generation Nigerian-American singer and songwriter Dreamer Isioma has quickly built a cult following and has long received praise and support by some of today’s biggest stars including SZA, Janelle Monae, Steve Lacy, Doja Cat, Lizzo, Foushee, Kali Uchis and many more through their dynamic art. Fierce and unrelenting in their vision, Dreamer’s music has long worked to dismantle genre confines and disrupt social norms to ultimately create space for those who don’t fit into binaries. Dreamer broke onto the scene with their massive hit “Sensitive” in 2020, which has now clocked in nearly 220 million streams and landed them on Rolling Stone’s Breakthrough 25 Chart ranked at #6 as well as #1 on Shazam’s Predictions 2021 Chart ultimately reaching a viral explosion on TikTok. Dreamer has time-after-time received large critical acclaim for each of their explosive projects, including Princess Forever, The Leo Sun Sets, and Goodnight Dreamer. Additionally, Isioma has amassed 325 million career streams across their catalog and becoming a bonafide critical press darling who has been lauded by NPR, Rolling Stone, Vogue, i-D, Complex, BET, Billboard, NME, Teen Vogue, PAPER Magazine, Pigeons and Planes, Nylon, HYPEBEAST, them, Wonderland and many others. The Chicago native has become celebrated for effortlessly combining timeless vocals and groovy, funk-inspired production, brilliantly fusing indie rock, R&B, pop, Afrobeats, and hip hop with lyrical themes about being unapologetic, carefree, and joyful despite external pressure and opinion. Dreamer’s voice has become an anthem for young marginalized voices everywhere defying conformity and intolerance. Their captivating music and message has positioned them as an undeniable force who is re-inventing and revolutionizing modern popular music. Dreamer is preparing to release their third studio album StarX Lover this spring. The new chapter is soundtracked by a sonic direction that ventures in a more rock / alternative territory while still remaining rooted in the Dreamer’s Nigerian heritage and life in Lagos, a scintillating new sound they call “Afropop rock.” The visual unveils a world that draws from the work of Norman Bates and evokes a solar punk, dark sci-fi feel with a mesmerizing duality between a superhero and a villain.
GLOBAL BASED: Quiero Cumbia feat. AMANTES DEL FUTURO – 21+
Advance tickets are sold out. We will have limited door tickets available night of show starting right at 9PM Quiero Cumbia is back! We’re happy to present for the first time in the NW, innovator of Cumbia Futurista, desde México, Amantes del Futuro CUMBIA, ELECTRO CUMBIA Y MÁS SOUNDS BY: AMANTES DEL FUTURO (Mucha Cumbia, México) SUPPORT: LAPAUSHI ESPINA LETAL MRLS.IRG POWERED BY: EL JIMADOR
Bae Rave: A night featuring remixes of Beyonce, Rihanna, Doechii, Doja Cat, Nicki Minaj, SZA, (+more) – 21+
BAE RAVE: A night of Beyonce, Rihanna, Doja Cat, Nicki Minaj, SZA (+more) Remixes, Club edits, & originals. A Lights & Music Production
Chihei Hatakeyama w/ Wild Card, {arsonist} – 21+
Chihei Hatakeyama is a sound artist, an organizer and mastering engineer who was born in 1978, and lives in Tokyo. He has performed for years under his given name and also as one half of the electroacoustic duo Opitope, along with Tomoyoshi Date. Hatakeyama got involved in playing music through strumming a electric guitar in a few rock-oriented bands in his teenage years. Subsequently a laptop computer superseded his bands as his main platform. Hatakeyama polychromes memory-evoking soundscapes with various recorded materials of acoustic instruments such as guitars, vibraphone, and piano; mostly played by hand and processed time and time again via laptop. His first album Minima Moralia was commissioned for release by the Chicago-based label kranky in early 2006. Since then his many albums have been released by Room 40, Under The Spire, Hibernate Records, Magic Book Records, Home Nomal, OwnRecords, Spekk, Dronarivm, Constellation Tatsu, Glacial Movements Records and his own label White Paddy Mountain. In 2013 Hatakeyama founded the record label White Paddy Montain, which has since released over 40 recordings by some of the most accomplished musicians and modern ambient musicians, Shoegazer and folk musicians in Japan. Recent years Hatakeyama continues to evolve his sound by analog synthesizer, modular synthesizer and compact guitar effector. Hatakeyama approaches some modular synthesizer and electric guitar drone projects with an expectation of new directions. Wild Card of Cascadia is a trio from Portland whose immersive, spontaneous music emerges from omnivorous, adaptable, inquisitive working methods. In search of unexpected discoveries they deploy conceptual prompts, unexpected instrumentation, and game-like challenges. Their emphasis on electro-acoustic sound means they draw from a large array of instruments and techniques, from free improvisation to concrete composition. Wild Card’s membership includes established artists William Selman (Mysteries of the Deep, Critique of Everyday Life), Marcus Fischer (12k), and Paul Dickow (who records as Strategy), but the group’s sound is distinct from their individual projects. {arsonist} is the solo project of Pittsburgh native, classically-trained violinist and producer Danielle Rager. Collaging raucous, algorithmically arranged electronics, manipulated vocals, and her mother-tongue of lush orchestral arrangements, {arsonist} kindles a unique symphonic form of computer music. Her live sets bridge multiple A/V frameworks including live-coding musical language TidalCycles, Ableton Live, and reactive visual platforms OpenFrameworks and GLSL. {arsonist} tracks have been featured in collections from Renraku, Genot Centre, and PC Music. She makes her full length studio debut on Unifactor in 2020 with album Reality Structure, which explores the mystique common to the symbolic languages of dreams and mathematics.
Spend The Night Presents: Portland Loves UK Garage – 21+
Spend The Night presents: Portland Loves UK Garage A night dedicated to the full spectrum of UKG. Expect 2 step, speed garage, bassline, breakbeat garage & more. With DJs: Nofux Gibbons DJ Cea Maxfield Kirk Ben Tactic
Vortxz: Call Me On The Phone Tour – All Ages!
REGENCY RAVE: A Bridgerton Inspired Dance Party w/ DJ Timothy Bee – 21+
Dearest Gentle Readers, your presence is requested for a Bridgerton inspired dance party. Not a stuffy ball, but a night on the dance floor. Dress in your dance floor ready renditions of Bridgerton fashions – think Regency era decadence with a club twist! From elaborate hairstyles to pops of color, the Bridgerton universe is rich with inspiration. Dress in your finery for the costume contest to be selected as diamond of the season! You’ll hear music from the artists featured / covered in the show’s soundtrack selected by DJ Timothy Bee, with an emphasis on Pop & R&B jams, with some violin renditions thrown in the mix for good measure 🙂 The walls will be adorned with projected visuals from the show’s opulent universe, and the bar will be serving up fanciful handcrafted drink specials.
Emo Nite at Holocene presented by Emo Nite LA – 21+ event
$1 per ticket transaction sponsors Emo Nite Gives A F*ck. Donations are allocated for worthwhile organizations focusing on:· Mental Health· Harm Reduction· Children & Families· Poverty & Homelessness· Disenfranchised Communities· Terminal Illness
食品まつり a.k.a Foodman, Carly Barton, SH (Francisco Botello and Zack Rowe) 21+
Takahide Higuchi a.k.a Foodman, creates music that defies categorisations – and is one of the few artists that actually fit this overused description. There are traces of almost every electronic music genre, from juke, footwork, ambient, house, techno, to noise, but those elements are dissected and morphed together then driven to extreme without giving you a second to come up with a definitive genre. The noisy technicolour of these borderline versatile or schizophrenic collages is borne out of his experiments (or accidents) and has titillated, confused, and enchanted music obsessives far and wide. After releasing his debut album from NY/OH experimental label Orange Milk, his music has been released from international labels including Diplo’s Mad Decent and its offshoot Good Enuff. His ever-evolving and mutating musical vocabulary draws from every kind of music he stumbles across, from Chicago footwork to Okinawan folk music of his roots, ambient to J-pop, Talvin Singh’s Indian classical music/drum ‘n’ bass fusion to classic video game soundtracks, then twists them all with his playful psychedelia. This extends to his remixes and DJ mixes, including his monthly residency at NTS radio mix, which was picked up on Pitchfork’s 10 Best DJ Mixes of March 2017 list. Since playing his first show outside of Japan in mid 2016, he has appeared on Boiler Room, Low End Theory, and Unsound just to name a few, as well as headline shows across the US and Europe. In July 2021, the album Yasuragi Land was released on Hyperdub.The album was voted best of the year by various national and international media, including Pitchfork’s The Best Electronic Music of 2021. The new EP “Uchigawa Tankentai” was released from Hyperdub in November 2023. Carly Barton: Carly Barton has spent the last decade+ immersed in Portland’s creative community as a composer, DJ, and visual artist. The bulk of their music catalog prioritizes world-building electronic music, dub, and contemporary piano composition, exploring and creating genre-bending scapes with a specialty in collage and controlled chaos. Most of Carly’s work is self-published: sheet music, concept EPs, Vidya World (an imagined 12-part game soundtrack), Anime Resource Center, OST, Subs Before Dubs, Carb’s Bong Orchestra, and the occasional crossword, with additional releases/remixes with friends and labels near and far (MANIC!, Disposable Commodities, Blankstairs, secondnature, iideo, The Periphery). SH: SH is the Portland-based duo Francisco Botello and Zackary Rowe (Bathwater, Nuisance), two experimental musicians embedded in the city’s underground music circuits for nearly a decade. Emerging first as sharon, the project has evolved from hardware-based sample destruction to custom-built digital tools, dismantling sequencing conventions while privileging improvisation, system volatility, and chance operations. Their sonic language draws from glitch, early computer music, free jazz, and footwork—assembling momentary structures that slip into dissolution just as quickly. Embracing ambience as discomfort and glitch as comfort, SH continues to trace a trajectory driven by self-interrogation.Beyond sound, SH’s practice extends into spatial, curatorial and cinematic realms. As founding members of the underground house venue Freque Space, they cultivated a vital zone for the Portland experimental music scene to prosper. The duo are also resident DJs for the annual Off the Grid mini-festival. In 2019, their work expanded into immersive media with Four Corners, a spatialized audiovisual experience debuting at the Portland Art Museum. Their upcoming EP will be released by Hole Recordings.