Stoner Control, You’re the Best, Lucion Hall – 21+

Lucion Hall is a power quartet that plays sentimental garage rock from Portland, Oregon. Tinged with elements of power pop and shoegaze, the nuanced songwriting can be both tender and muscular. Songwriter Lucion brings a style and persona influenced by the lyricism of Elliott Smith, the attitude of The Cramps, and the art rock theatricality of the Talking Heads. You’re the Best is a 4-piece punky/surfy outfit from Portland, Oregon composed of Alice Brennan, Emily Dillon, Peter Helmis (Algernon Cadwallader), and Maria DeHart (Bug Seance). They use driving beats, snappy riffs, and playful yet cutting lyrics to resist the status quo and make their listeners bob their heads. Last year they came out with their debut EP, which they recorded themselves in local practice spaces and garages. Creating a subversive narrative based largely on local stories, they capture the essence of punk with their DIY and antifascist ethic. On Sparkle Endlessly, Stoner Control sound like themselves. This is a feat achieved by virtue of the trio honing their skills as individual songwriters and musicians and as a working group. Singer/guitarist Charley Williams, singer/bassist Sam Greenspan and drummer Mike Cathcart, are each diligent students of their craft. Greenspan and Cathcart, college classmates at Portland’s Lewis & Clark, met Williams when their previous groups played a show together. The three bonded initially over the albums of Green Day, Oasis, The Rolling Stones, Wilco, and Creedence Clearwater Revival. It was pretty clear from the start there was enough musical ground in common to form a band of their own. Stoner Control’s sound in turn became one ever enamored with the endearing endurance of big riffs, endlessly listenable melodies, chugging rhythms, and heartfelt vocals. Over the last five years, the Portland trio have refined their style while playing in Portland’s underground circuit of basements and bars. Doubling down on the creativity that has always been there, their third album features the group’s broadest sonic palette to date, one highlighted by musical guests(hark! a trumpet!), reaching vocals, honesty, and deliberately considered tones, guitar and otherwise. Recorded with Mo Troper and Brian Harvey at Singing Sands Studios, the colors in the palette presented here are familiar but brighter. The group has always written with sincerity but here there are moments granting a closer view of the phosphenes seen beneath closed eyelids.

Spend The Night presents: Uniiqu3, Ballads, Aloso – 21+

Spend The Night presents Uniiqu3 Ballads Aloso Cherise Gary, the producer, DJ, and vocalist best known as UNIIQU3, is the queen of the Jersey club movement. The Newark native creates and spins an ecstatic blend of ballroom, juke, trap, and more, filled with fast-paced breakbeats, hip-hop and R&B samples, and sex-positive lyrics. She rose to international prominence through numerous high-octane mix sets, as well as EPs like 2018’s Phase 3 and 2021’s Heartbeats. She additionally received attention for “Hold Up,” her 2022 collaboration with Whipped Cream, Big Freedia, and Moore Kismet. Gary played piano in her high school concert band. She additionally took dance classes in downtown Newark, where she encountered DJ Tameil, the originator of the Jersey club sound, selling mix CDs on the street. At the time, the Jersey club scene was dominated by male DJs, promoters, and dancers. UNIIQU3 formed a street team and dance crew called the Vixens, and became the scene’s first female DJ. She threw numerous D.I.Y. events in New Jersey, and became a regular presence at New York’s influential GHE20G0TH1K parties. She lent her voice to several local producers, though she became frustrated with them for taking too long to produce their tracks, and taught herself to make music on her own. In 2014, UNIIQU3’s mixtape The New Klassiks was released by Lit City Trax, and she released the song “2 the Floor” with Ase Manual. She continued producing tracks at a rapid pace, and her fame spread worldwide through mixes such as her 2016 Boiler Room appearance and a 2017 guest mix for Diplo & Friends on BBC Radio 1XTRA. 2018 saw the release of UNIIQU3’s Phase 3 EP and Club Queens, a collaboration with Baltimore’s TT the Artist. She also made a guest appearance on Teklife affiliate DJ Taye’s Hyperdub-issued full-length Still Trippin’. In 2020, she released two Digital Diva EPs and collaborated with London’s KG on the single “B2B”/”Black Roses.” The following year, UNIIQU3 issued the brief mixtape Bitches Is Outside, Vol. 1 and the Heartbeats EP (on Local Action), which contained the viral hit “Microdosing.” Additionally, her 2018 song “Off the Chain” (with TT the Artist) was sampled by Chlöe (of Chlöe x Halle) on her 2021 solo single “Have Mercy.” The song reached the Top Ten on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and was performed at the MTV Video Music Awards, providing a major moment of mainstream exposure for Jersey club music. In 2022, UNIIQU3 collaborated with Whipped Cream, Big Freedia, and Moore Kismet on the single “Hold Up.”

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

ADVANCE TICKETS ARE NOW SOLD OUT AND RSVP LIST IS MAXED OUT.WE WILL HAVE A LIMITED NUMBER OF TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR WHEN WE OPEN AT 9PM NIGHT OF SHOW.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) FOR PRIORITY ENTRY UNTIL 11PM, PURCHASE AN ADVANCE TICKET FOR $15$20 AT THE DOOR

Donovan Woods and Henry Jamison: The Husbandry Tour – Early show! – w/ Isabel Pless – 21+

Donovan Woods was in on the joke when he named his latest release. Riffing on a lyric from a Martin Simpson song (“Never Any Good”), Big Hurt Boy is a six-song exploration of how our failures — and our fixations on them — not only shape but enlighten us. Woods’ deep curiosity about the human condition is why we so clearly hear our own stories in his. The details differ, the characters change, but at their core, Donovan Woods songs are for and about everyone. That’s particularly apparent on his new EP, released March 18, 2022. “These are smaller, less polished songs than the ones I’ve been putting out recently,” says Woods, winner of the 2019 Juno Award for contemporary roots album (for Both Ways) and whose global streams have surpassed 210 million. Still, Big Hurt Boy brims with some of the luminous production touches Woods has been adding to this repertoire lately.Big Hurt Boy is the follow-up to 2020’s Without People, Woods’ celebrated album he made in isolation at the height of the pandemic. Whereas those songs were recorded in a makeshift studio at his Toronto home, with collaborators working remotely, his latest release harnesses the electricity of a roomful of musicians laying down tracks live in the studio, a first for Woods. As respected as he is as a solo artist, Woods is evolving and upending our expectations of how his music sounds. His songs have grown more dimensional, emboldened by new sonic landscapes, reminding us that classic songwriting transcends genre. Henry Jamison’s 2022 third LP The Years was produced by Doug Schadt (Maggie Rogers, Claud) plus long-standing collaborators Thomas Bartlett (Florence & The Machine, Sufjan Stevens) and Harris Paseltiner of Darlingside. Featured vocalist Maisie Peters and composer Nico Muhly (Adele, Bjork) round out the cast on what is Jamison’s most dynamic and diverse collection of songs to date. Since his 2017 debut The Wilds, which was humbly produced with two friends at a sugarbush/apiary in his native Vermont, Jamison has branched out to become one of the most interesting collaborators of his generation. His 2019 follow up Gloria Duplex explored identity, class and masculinity over baroque textures and performances from Thomas Bartlett, Rob Moose (Phoebe Bridger, Bon Iver, Taylor Swift) and Shazhad Ismaily (Damien Rice, Nils Frahm, Marketa Irglová). In 2020 Jamison released Tourism, a five-song folk collection, featuring JOSEPH, Ed Droste, Fenne Lily, Darlingside and Lady Lamb.Jamison’s uncanny ability to weave folk lyricism and instruments through a popular veneer has led to over 300M streams and widespread praise, especially from his peers. Adrianne Lenker describes, “Songs that sing me through mazes of my own sensuality and sadness and help me to feel less alone in the journey to understand myself.”

Dance Yourself Clean – An Indie dance party – 21+ event

POSTPONED: EMPRESS ENERGY: Dance party benefitting Andisheh Center ft. DJs: CEA, Qloq, Tourmaline, Chixy Guap – 21+

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER. WE WILL ANNOUNCE A NEW DATE FOR IT SOON! EMPRESS ENERGY: A House dance party to benefit Andisheh Center, a local organization celebrating Iranian cultural heritage.Featuring DJs: CEA, Qloq, Tourmaline, Chixy GuapCo-promoted by Ibiza Boys

Global Based presents: Quiero Cumbia ft. Royal Highness, Sonido Dead Steady, Espina Letal, Backyardmango – 21+

QUIERO CUMBIA IS BACK! We had the honor to curate a two-night run for the NW debut & reunion of ROYAL HIGHNESS. The duo made up by Boiler Room alumni and member of the respected Peligrosa collective King Louie and Principe Q, the son of AB Quintanilla founder of the Kumbia Kings & nephew of the legendary Selena. They are known as the originators of “SCREWMBIA” 🔥 CUMBIA, ELECTRO CUMBIA, SCREWMBIA Y MÁS! Sounds by: ROYAL HIGHNESS (TX) Support: Sonido Deadsteady Espina Letal Backyardmango *VOTED BEST LATIN NIGHT VIA WILLAMETTE WEEK*

Childspeak, Helens, Stammering – 21+

Since 2013, the Portland-based Childspeak has fused post-rock, math rock, and prog to create a mind melting mixture all their own. The instrumental band recently finished their second collaboration with Grammy award winning producer Marcel Fernandez (Molotov, Foo Fighters), and keep pushing forward with the new record- but never straight. Tentatively set for a Spring 2023 release, Childspeak’s latest batch of lawless, hyper-saturated sounds are as deep as they are diverse. Tracked live at the legendary Robert Lang Studios, the album also reflects a turning point for the band that favors chemistry over perfection. The band’s raw, organic self is on full display here – and that’s just the way they like it.Helens is a Shoegaze / Dream Pop quartet based out of Portland, Oregon. After several years and EPs they have released a new album of melancholic anthems to soundtrack an escape to anywhere else but here. The new album, Somewhere In Nowhere, was recorded in 2020 by Corey Coffman (Gleemer) and was released on November 18th, 2022. with help from Portland all-star label, Bud Tapes. Somewhere In Nowhere infuses the band’s unique Shoegaze/Post-Rock/Alternative mixture with lusher melodies and more Dream Pop sensibility than previous output. The recent expansion of the lineup to a four piece with added guitar textures has also widened the band’s scope which carries the listener from wistful wash to searing sonics.Stammering is a 4 piece rock band from Portland, OR. The band formed in 2019 when two buddies from Las Vegas (Cory and Bobby) decided they wanted to make some cinematic, punchy, aggressive, thoughtful music together. The two scoured the local rock scene for a drummer who fit the part. Eventually crossing paths with Luna Vista drummer Sam, the band began to take shape. In early 2020 the band recorded what would become their first record titled ‘Aftersome’ with help from sound engineer, Matt Bayles. The band began performing live around the Portland and Seattle area. In an attempt to push the band in a more intentional direction, the band added guitar and synth player, Ward. With a new lineup locked in Stammering is currently writing for their next release. If instrumental melodic meandering and syncopated rhythms are your bag, quit your job and listen to Stammering for 40 hours this week.

Bankrol Hayden: THE 29 TOUR – w/ Scorey, KillBunk – presented by Mammoth NW – All Ages

Equal parts casual and charismatic, California rapper Bankrol Hayden built a significant fan base in the late 2010s and early 2020s with his laid-back brand of hip-hop. After working his way into the spotlight with a series of key singles and freestyles, he made his breakthrough with 2019’s Luh Kel-assisted “Brothers,” which appeared on his 2020 debut Pain Is Temporary. He then paired with Lil Tecca for the 2021 track “Come Through,” and continued issuing solo singles. Born and raised in Modesto, California, Bankrol Hayden made his debut in the rap game with 2017’s “Humble,” an emotive rap narrative uploaded to streaming platforms under his given name, Hayden Inacio. Adopting the Bankrol Hayden moniker, he found his first major success later that year, when sophomore single “Ride with You” (a freestyle over OutKast’s iconic “Ms. Jackson”) found a viral audience on video streaming platforms. With a laid-back flow and candid writing style, it was not long before Hayden built a substantial following: his 2018 single “29,” a somber reflection on his near-death experience, landed the rapper millions of streams via staple rap platform WorldStarHipHop. Closing out 2018 with a string of further singles (“28,” “Real,” “Bestfriend,” “Drumsticks,” and “Sandlott”), Hayden issued a third viral hit that year with a freestyle over Drake’s “Nice for What.” After catching the eyes of the wider industry with the 2019 single “B.A.N.K.R.O.L.,” he secured a collaboration with Top 40-charting artist Luh Kel; the duo’s relationship-driven “Brothers” soon became Hayden’s biggest hit to date, racking up over 50 million streams. He returned in early 2020 with the summer-infused trap of “Costa Rica.” Both tracks later appeared on his official debut, Pain Is Temporary, which also featured guest appearances by Lil Baby, Polo G, and the Kid LAROI. A stand-alone track, “Come Through” featuring Lil Tecca, arrived in September 2021. Further singles included “No Drama” and 2022’s “Fuck Love.”

Spend the Night Presents: Mall Grab, Perfect Cyn, Jesse Sugar Moore – 21+

ADVANCE TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT ARE NOW SOLD OUT. WE WILL HAVE A LIMITED NUMBER FOR SALE AT THE DOOR WHEN WE OPEN AT 9PM NIGHT OF SHOW.Spend The Night presents: Mall Grab Perfect Cyn Jesse Sugar Moore Operating at a dangerously high frequency, Jordon Alexander aka Mall Grab is perpetually evolving, but always retaining one constant motif – raw energy. The Australian’s rise from an exciting newcomer to a dominant force over the last six years has been impossible to ignore. Now based in London, he’s continued from strength to strength with diverse releases on his own label Looking For Trouble, running parties, working on new projects and music, all while keeping the axis spinning with the label he runs along with his 3 best friends, Steel City Dance Discs. A dynamic stage presence and DJ, MG specialises in a genre-transcending infectious energy that involves the whole crowd – It’s the club in which Mall Grab does the realest damage, favouring predominately unreleased strictly-for-the-floor MG material. Best arrive ready. Social links: Instagram Facebook Spotify

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