Candi Pop – A bubblegum pop dance party – GIRL POP EDITION! – 21+ event

Marie Davidson LIVE w/OTHRWRLD & Peter Sheppard – 21+

Marie Davidson has always gone against the grain. The French-Canadian producer’s first four albums established her as a transgressive force in dance music, with her 2014 debut Perte d’identité (Loss of identity) laying the foundations of organic electronics and introspective storytelling that she would continue to build upon. Each release probed her “dualistic” relationship to nightlife while becoming increasingly saturated in its abundance of sounds, from Detroit techno to Italo disco, finally reaching a fever pitch on 2018’s Polaris Music Prize-nominated Working Class Woman. Putting the pitfalls of club culture and her own fractured identity under a withering satirical lens, Working Class Woman doesn’t wrestle with the existential as much as fling it around the dancefloor. After that, 2020’s Renegade Breakdown broke the mould entirely. With “a will to explore other styles of music,” Davidson formed a band with her husband and longtime collaborator Pierre Guerineau (also her counterpart in the duo Essaie Pas) and producer Asaël Robitaille. A deeply collaborative project, the trio wrote a slate of experimental pop songs inspired by records they would play at living-room afterparties – jazz classics, French chanson, electronica – on which Davidson sang for the first time. Four years and a pandemic later, Davidson’s sixth studio album, City of Clowns, marks a return to the club – but not as you know it. The techno thump and scathing spoken-word delivery of Working Class Woman resurface at points, but the pop structures and melodic sensibilities of Renegade Breakdown also remain. It’s a “strange” sonic blend even by Davidson’s own standards. “It’s definitely linking back to what I was doing pre-pandemic, but with a bit of an evolution,” she says. “I didn’t want to just repeat myself.” The sound and the spirit of the album are shaped, too, by the fact that Davidson has a new antagonist. This time it’s not club culture that’s coming for her sense of self, it’s Big Tech.

Club Blush: An Ethereal & Euphoric Dance Night – 21+

A tribute to the hits from Rufus Du Sol, Flume, John Summit, Disclosure, Kaskade, ODESZA, Hayden James, Dom Dolla, Bob Moses, Lane 8, Fred Again…, Zhu, Duke Dumont, Gorgon City, Nora En Pure, Kaytranada, Jamie xx, Peggy Gou, Yotto, Bob Moses, SG Lewis and many more. A celebration of the best ethereal & euphoric electronic anthems all night long. Join us on the dancefloor! Get into the vibe of the party here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/305ZYb91t3mmBpyVXWKHtF?si=4d7a718a4fa84008*This is a tribute dance night. None of the artists mentioned will be appearing at this event, nor are they affiliated with the event.Song requests are available through Instagram.

DANCE ROMANCE: A Very Gaga Dance Night – 21+

DANCE ROMANCE: A LADY GAGA DANCE NIGHT 🩷 Let’s play a LOVEGAME and JUST DANCE all night to Lady Gaga’s iconic discography! ⚡️Don’t be a Drag, Just Be a Queen 👑 📍Holocene – Portland 🦄Wednesday, November 20 🌹9pm 💃 21+ LEAVE YOUR YOUR HEART ON THE DANCE FLOOR / TIX ON WHATTHEDANCE.COM 🎟️Come party all night to the pop queen’s hits along with your favorite songs from artists like Britney Spears, Kesha, Miley Cyrus, Madonna, Rihanna, Gwen Stefani, and Robyn! 💅 DJ set by @djsappho 🪩 Drag performance by @itsmissjaxon 💋 Follow us @thedanceparties 🥳

The Fourth Wall, Veradas, Miss Honey – 21+

The Fourth Wall: Stephen Agustin grew up in Oahu, and was ten years old when his musician father took him to a B.B. King concert. He quickly thereafter begged his parents for a guitar and soon started forming bands with his middle school friends. He played in various projects until the formation of The Fourth Wall, and eventually moved to Portland where the band continued to find a growing audience while opening for acts such as The Shins, Andrew Bird, Menomena, Band of Horses, and Typhoon. The Fourth Wall self-recorded Return Forever, beginning with recordings Agustin started in isolation during the pandemic. The record features Kasey Shun, Chris Lau, Kendall Sallay, and Andrew White. It is slated for release in 2024 on devilduck records. Veradas: A powerful Portland trio of heavy distortion and fuzz, hypnosis in rhythm. Micro-epics born of the gloom that is the Pacific NW drench you in forever thickening waves of sonic pleasure. Miss Honey: Miss Honey is a five piece nightmare pop band from Portland, Oregon. Through expansive, harmony-rich compositions, Miss Honey explores themes of queerness, alienation, and self-liberation.

Autechre – at The Den – 21+

Autechre is Sean Booth and Rob Brown. In November 2024 the duo released their most recent new music. AE_2022– is a series of extended pieces recorded in front of live audiences around the world between 2022 and 2024 (so far). It is available to listen for free and buy in high quality on Autechre’s web store – AE_STORE (https://autechre.warp.net/), Bleep and Bandcamp. It was released on Warp Records. In December 2024, Autechre took over BBC 6Music’s prestigious Artist In Residence series, presenting four hour-long DJ shows that were originally broadcast between 9th and 12th of that month. You can explore the tracklists here. 2025 sees Autechre take to the road in one of their most extensive series of live shows to date. This includes their first North American tour in ten years plus UK tour and key European summer dates. It is expected that some of these performances might form part of the ongoing project of new music, AE_2022–. Support from Mark Broom

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

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