Genre: Concerts

Starover Blue (single release), goodgrief (album release), Tim Yee – 21+

Starover Blue The nostalgic tones of a Juno-106 combine with ambient layers, sparkling guitars, and airy, bittersweet vocals to define Portland dream pop band Starover Blue.  Founding members Kendall Sallay and Dirk Milotz began the group in 2007 while studying music at San Jose State University, then relocated to Portland in 2016 where they reformed as a six-piece. The band’s penchant for lush vocal harmonies, textural experimentation, and subtle use of odd meters appeals to fans of acts ranging from Cocteau Twins, Beach House, and Big Thief to The Joy Formidable, The Velvet Teen, and Wye Oak. A new LP is underway for 2024 release, taking inspiration from heavier-hitting indie rock versus the synth pop textures of 2019 LP Ordinary Magic and 2016 debut Spacegeist.    goodgrief The new project from prolific Northwest songwriter Ezekiel Rudick, goodgrief draws inspiration from the depths of memory and the gray skies of Seattle in equal measure. Written, performed, and produced by the artist in his home studio, the first single, “this one’s about you” draws inspiration from the early ‘90s shoegaze sounds of bands like Drop Nineteens and Low while infusing it with the same rich poetic and sonic depth Rudick has brought to both his long-running project Young Elk and his collaborative effort with Starover Blue’s Kendall Sallay, The Slow Sound. The debut LP, ‘love birds’ mines the depths of emotional turmoil and nostalgia in equal parts. These melancholy aspects act as a foil to Rudick’s energetic performances and catchy riffs that seem looser and more free than his work in previous projects. ‘love birds’ is out Sept. 1, 2023 on Rue Defense.   Tim Yee From solo road-tripping couch stories to conversations with God, Portland-based Tim Yee pairs these topics with some electric guitar-driven music containing flares of Indie rock that’s full of deep reverb and chorus, and a dollop of Alternative with its crunchy guitar riffs to keep you paying attention.  The heart and soul of the music from Tim Yee are derived from deep-dived spiritual journeys and questions concerning faith, purpose, and the meaning of life’s events, with the hope of creating a space where people don’t feel alone in the struggle to understand life. With interlacing intricate guitar riffs, rip-roarin’ solos, and compelling bass lines to get you groovin’, these musical sounds and melodies are influenced by bands like Turnover, Beach Fossils, Coldplay, and more. With two E.P.s in the bag (Want You Next to Me and Blue Hair), Tim Yee has more music in the works and hopes to share soon!

RENAISSANCE / RENAIDDANCE: Celebrating Beyoncé – 21+

Release the stress! RENAIDDANCE is a celebration of Queen B’s latest masterpiece and the ballroom, disco + techno scenes that inspired it. Expect to hear every song on the album and more! LET’S MOVE! Sounds by @timothy.bee & @foto_haus Follow us @thedanceparties 🥳

Emo Nite at Holocene presented by Emo Nite LA – 21+ event

$1 from every ticket sold will be donated to Living The Dream Foundation

Creature Party, Black Ends (Seattle) – 21+

A DIY post punk new wave band from Portland, Oregon, Creature Party specializes in good times. With a healthy dose of kitsch, a sprinkle of catchy melodies, a dash of punk, and a heaping spoonful of synthy rock, Creature Party fulfills the promise of their name by cooking up a musical party!  bandcamp: https://creatureparty.bandcamp.com/ instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creature_party_band BLACK ENDS IS GUNK POP (Seattle) IG: https://www.instagram.com/black.ends/ bandcamp: https://blackends.bandcamp.com

Soul Conversation: Living History in Albina – Free Early Event presented by Albina Music Trust – 21+

The streets of Albina reveal little trace of the thriving Black community that once occupied that part of Portland. Much of what we can discover today rests in the collective memory of the elders who lived it.  SOUL CONVERSATION is a gathering of Albina’s elder musicians, activating memory through storytelling. The event features Norman Sylvester, Ural Thomas, Paul Knauls, J.W. Friday, Mel Brown and Calvin Walker. Archival photography showcasing Abina’s historic music culture will be presented in conjunction with the conversation. In addition, kiosks displaying Albina Music Trust’s digital archive will be live throughout the venue. Arrive early and learn more about this important preservation effort, experience the user interface, and share feedback in advance of the archive’s 2024 public release. Albina Music Trust is preserving North Portland’s music culture with programming that documents the Black community’s oral history, archival media, and special events. In collaboration with Albina musicians, founders Bobby Smith and Calvin Walker have brought to light a definitive catalog of historic regional music and the memories of its creators. This preservation initiative is a program of the World Arts Foundation, serving Oregonians at the intersection of arts and education since 1976.

PORTLAND FRUIT TREE PROJECT BENEFIT SHOW ft. Ruune, Femme Cell, Culture Cat, Second Half Walters – 21+

  Portland Fruit Tree Project is a grassroots 501(c)(3) non-profit gleaning organization that provides a community-based solution to a critical and growing need in Portland and beyond: access to healthy food and the benefits provided by trees including cleaner air, shade, and food. By empowering neighbors to share in the harvest and care of urban fruit trees, they are preventing waste, building community knowledge and resources, and creating sustainable ways to obtain healthy, locally-grown food.  Ruune is a multidisciplinary performance artist who builds worlds and connections via ritual tools. Employing glitch sounds and acoustics, Ruune draws from a wide variety of genres ranging from pop to experimental and changes the tone of an environment from set to set. With music releases on both Dollhouse Lighting, Fake Four INC, and over a decade of touring experience they seek to craft wonderment and texture in the air.  The Second Half Walters are an indie punk band from Portland, OR. They released their debut EP, Prescience, in September of 2023 featuring energetic songs, with big dynamic shifts and poppy melodies, backed up with grit and speed. Thematically, the band’s music is centered around attempts to feel grounded while processing their journey through the human experience. The lineup: Bobby Naughton on lead vocals and guitar, Ben Goldberg on lead guitar, Nic Castillon on drums, Adam Ruhl on keyboard/guitar/auxiliaries, and Dylan Nanney on bass. Culture Cat is a queer art pop band from Portland, OR. Their diverse and eclectic sound ranges from sparkling jazzy pop to booty-shakin’ swing to spooky pop-punk. Embrace the weird, and enjoy the party! Femme Cell is an amalgam of dreampop, shoegaze, and psychosis rock that subsists on themes of melancholy, ecstasy, and angst. Rabbit Hole is a Portland, OR DIY Collective which organizes rad shows and good times who is bringing their brand of enthusiastic promotion to assist this benefit! Advance tickets at $10, $15 or $20 (give at the level you’re able to)

Fyield: live performance + Invisible Landscapes short film screening – w/ Moss Wand, Saapato, Patricia Wolf (DJ set) – 21+

On their debut album, Future Landscapes, the Czech-Icelandic collaboration fyield explores the locations used to satiate the needs of our society in terms of power consumption and nourishment, or places impacted by the exigencies of industrial society. Altogether, the artists’ adventurous journey shows us how solutions to existing problems bring new, often unsuspected and complicated issues. By focusing on the sound that emanates from technological, power-generating and other entities, they testify to our existence beyond the visible. Their work portrays unique entities that don’t usually attract our attention – even though our civilisation depends on them. They are not people, mythical figures or animals, but technological devices and ecosystems that open up questions about our climate future.  The album was preceded by a sonic expedition. A group of musicians, accompanied by leading European field recordists, Sara Pinheiro from Portugal and Magnús Bergsson from Iceland, visited eight locations in the Czech Republic and Iceland. With the help of special instruments such as hydrophones, geophones, ambeo or electromagnetic sensors, they listened to the manifestations of infrastructures that the human ear alone cannot hear.  fyield’s compositions bring us close to, or inside, the organs of geothermal, hydroelectric or coal-fired power plants, a CO2 repository, an aquaponic farm, a lagoon created by melting glaciers, and an oil well. The Czech Republic and Iceland represent countries with contrasting approaches to CO2 production. The Czech fossil-fuel-impacted landscape is juxtaposed with the seemingly environmentally sensitive Iceland, where the technology it employs poses a number of problems of a completely different type. fyield warns us that it is futile to hope for a single save-all solution to the climate crisis.  fyield brings together leading figures of the Czech and Icelandic independent music scene. Czech musicians Václav Havelka and Kryštof Kříček from the band Please The Trees are joined by Iceland’s Pan Thorarensen, a member of the ambient trio Stereo Hypnosis and founder of the international experimental music festival Extreme Chill, which has been held in Reykjavik since 2010.    Director Ivo Bystřičan brings from this expedition the short film Invisible Landscapes, which will be screened this evening. with support from Portland’s own Moss Wand, a DJ set from Patricia Wolf, and a special set from New York based field recordist Saapato.

Liv.e, Stas THEE Boss, Israel Autumns, Tha Day – All Ages – presented by Sean Healy

Liv.e, pronounced “Liv” (born Hailee Olivia Williams in Dallas, Texas) is an American singer-songwriter, rapper and producer who mixes facets of R&B, jazz, soul, and hip hop to create a sound that is wholly her own. Coupling her hypnotic voice and unique writing over dusty loops and sun soaked production, Liv.e makes songs that are both eclectic and timeless without sounding dated. While it’s difficult to label Liv.e’s music under one genre or scene, it is born out of production based on samples pulled from vinyl in Dallas record shops, southern rap, and her upbringing in Dallas with local DIY label Dolfin Records. She also raps under the alias Jade Fox, forming a supergroup with fellow Dolfin labelmate Lord Byron and Pink Siifu under the name Kryptonyte. Liv.e started to garner attention with her 2017 project FRANK and 2018’s Hoopdreams, which led to her supporting Earl Sweatshirt on the 2019 Fire It Up Tour alongside BbyMutha, MIKE and Na-Kel Smith; as well as featuring on “MTOMB” from Earl’s EP Feet of Clay. On July 30, 2020, she released her debut album Couldn’t Wait to Tell You… to critical acclaim, featuring guest appearances from C.S. Armstrong, Lord Byron and Akeema Zane. Exactly a year later on the album’s first anniversary, she would follow this up with CWTTY+, a deluxe companion to the album with 6 brand new tracks. Socials: Liv.e Spotify | Instagramwith regional support from:Stas THEE BossBandcamp // Instagram  Tha Day Spotify | Instagram    Israel Autumns  Youtube

Sorry for Party Rocking: 2010-2015 Pop & EDM Throwbacks – 21+

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! 💘💘🌈 💙🧡Fun / neon attire is encouraged! 🧡💙 🎶🎶 Song requests are welcome 🎶🎶 Follow us on Instagram 🙌 @sorryforpartyrockinglaFREE BEFORE 10PM WITH RSVP  – SUBJECT TO VENUE CAPACITY (EARLY ARRIVAL RECOMMENDED) . RSVP LIST WILL CLOSE EITHER THE DAY BEFORE EVENT, OR ONCE IT IS MAXED OUT, WHICHEVER IS EARLIER.FOR PRIORITY ENTRY UNTIL 11PM, PURCHASE AN ADVANCE TICKET(ADVANCE TICKET PRICING IS BY TIERS AS INVENTORY RUNS OUT – $10, $15, THEN $20)$20 AT THE DOOR 

DANG! – A Soulful Electronic Dance Night – 21+

DANG! is a one of a kind soulful electronic dance night! Join us for an unforgettable night of dancing, blending elements of hip hop, R&B, and electronic music. DJ will be spinning all of your favorite tracks from artists such as Anderson Paak, Kaytranada, Disclosure, Toro Y Moi, Channel Tres, SG Lewis, Tyler The Creator, Goldlink, and more!Come kick off your holiday weekend with us! Follow us on Instagram 🙌 @PAUZPRESENTSFree before 10pm with RSVP (limited quantity)$10 tier 1 advance tickets (limited quantity)$15 tier 2 advance tickets$20 day of showBuy 4 and save! – 4 ticket bundle pricing available