DoublePlusGood, Colin Jenkins, Soft Cheese

This Venue is proud to participate in the 2023 2nd Annual Portland Music Month. This ticket includes a donation to MusicOregon's Echo Fund , which provides creative project grants for local independent musicians. Your check-in at the show will also enter you in a sweepstakes to win prizes! DoublePlusGood is the long-running romantic pop project of Portlander Erik Carlson. Often known for his shimmering layers of production, Carlson has created a sound that beautifully combines melancholy crooner with dreampop textures. Backed by a four-peice band, audiences are transported to a 1960s era romance film where the protagonist can't get enough jukebox slow jams. Since its birth over a decade ago, DoublePlusGood has released mutiple albums and EPs, been featured on several local compliation albums, and has been trusted support for acts like Ariel Pink, Wild Ones, and Typhoon. Carlson also single-handedly ran an independant record label, SoHiTek, that has been home to Hosannas, Fanno Creek, Pocketknife, and more. Colin Jenkins is a purveyor of crystalline, funky future-pop. Backed by well-regarded local talent, Colin Jenkins blends together 70's soul and 90's R&B under a bed of modern production. Soft Cheese churns out tunes that have been described as shoegazey, grungey, dreamy and all around delightful. Since forming in Portland, OR in 2019, this quattro formaggi has been making music to eat pizza and cry to. Over the pandemic, the group self-recorded and released two EPs, "Blue Sausage Fruit" and "Tarp," as well as putting out their self-titled LP that they had recorded with Cam Spies at Trash Treasury Studios just before the quarantine. Post-lockdown, Soft Cheese has made their way back to the show stage opening for acts like Wolf Parade, Oberhofer and Summer Cannibals, and also headlining shows at Mississippi Studios and the 2022 PDX Pop Now! Festival. Recently, the foursome made their way to an ocean forest retreat to record new material in the hopes of releasing their second LP in the near future!