Portland Art Opening, First Friday, November 6th, 2009 from 9pm – 2am Report Lounge – 1101 E. Burnside Portland, Oregon 97214 A PROGRESS REPORT: Recent works on canvas and wood by LA artist Augustine Kofie at Report Lounge in Portland. Show runs thru December 1st, 2009. Music: Rev. Shines [Lifesavas] & King Tim 33.3 A Progress Report will [...]
Portland primed to get hip-hop high schoolBy October 30, 2009, 9:35PMOlivia Bucks/The OregonianMaria Velador, 11, a sixth-grader at Harvey Scott Elementary School in Portland, works on the "baby freeze" during the school's after-school hip-hop and break-dancing class. Instructor Levi Banner, who also teaches graffiti art in Portland, said the art forms give kids a way to express themselves...
Phew! It’s been a really tough 18 hours or so. We displayed and emailed the pictures around the WW office, and of the seven entries to our contest, three clear favorites emerged. Then we got it whittled down to two. But alas, the contest was tied dead even between Ben’s crazy, world-exploding monster and Rachel’s [...] Related posts: Monsters of Folk Ticket Giveaway! Draw Us a Cartoon!...
1) Thriller – Michael Jackson You will probably hear this song six times on Halloween. Not because DJs can be lazy, because this is what you need to hear. There is a reason this won best music video for years on end. There’s a reason even children in rural Indonesia know this dance. Its one of [...]
Monday September 28 Talkdemonic w/ Western Autos @ Hi Dive Citizen Cope @ Fox Theatre Manic Street Preachers w/ Nico Vega @ Bluebird Theater Tuesday September 29 LSD and the Search for God w/ 900 Ancestors @ Hi Dive Chet & the Benders w/ the King Bears @ Larimer Lounge Brother Ali w/ Evidence @ Ogden Theatre B-52s @ Fillmore Auditorium David Cross @ Paramount Theatre Family Force 5 w/ Breathe...
Attention breeders (and those who do not hate kids): Unlike a certain horrible sugary chocolate dairy beverage with a similar name, You Who is actually good for kids. This new "monthly children’s variety rock show" curated by Chris Funk (Decemberists) and his partner Seann McKeel (former booker at Nocturnal) is a welcome relief from Raffi—and whatever Baby Loves Disco is—as...
Menomenaut Brent Knopf just put out a very solid side-project as Ramona Falls, and the live band—featuring Menomena’s Danny Seim, Matt Sheehy and Datr’s Paul Alcott—sounds just as promising as the record itself. So if you want two tickets, we got ‘em. There’s just one thing. Knopf is a connoisseur of chocolate, and we want to [...] Related posts: Ramona Falls’...
Every second Friday at Rotture, 315 SE 2nd Ave in Portland, the Pharcyde’s Trey Hardson, Rev Shines of Lifesavas and DJ Nature will bring you a hype party featuring Live Remixing and Production [I get live remixing, but production'] And of course with tonight being the 2nd Friday you should get your dancing shooz on [...]
Guitar riffs, rhymes and polyrhythmic ragas got the second Rothbury Festival off to an eclectic start on Thursday at the Double JJ Ranch in western Michigan.
Portland’s dance scene kinda rocks. Throwing a big dance party comes easy to Manny Reyes. He’s been doing it for 15 years. “Me and my high-school friends had a party crew—we’d rent a warehouse, make a flier and spin house and techno for hundreds of teenage Mexican kids,” the 31-year-old Atole frontman says of his teenage years [...] Related posts: Ben Darwish Forms...
The second incarnation of Rothbury Festival is back on the Fourth of July weekend with a lineup that will satisfy any jamband fan living in these great independent states, and I’m just now getting around to posting the lineup for everyone to see (not that you haven’t already seen this elsewhere). I’m already booked [...] Related posts: Wakarusa 2009 Lineup, Schedule Posted Rothbury...
Jerle Moore , Max B 's Manager explains Max B's current projects set to be released and who Max B has been a ghost writer for. She also states that a DVD that will be released giving insight to the now sour relationship between Dip Set 's Capo Jim Jones and Max B. "Introducing Teflon" Exclusive Interview with Queen Princess "Introducing Portland Representers: The Lifesavas" Exclusive...
Wilson High’s Starparty prepares for the best summer ever. The first time I heard Starparty’s Caleb Misclevitz sing, he was 15 years old and trying to perfect Elliott Smith’s “Rose Parade” in a basement practice room at the Portland outpost of School of Rock. “The trumpet has obviously been drinking,” he sang nervously. “’Cause he’s fucking...
The fine folks at the Music in the Schools Project have kindly allowed us to give away two tickets to Thursday Night’s excellent Portland Public Schools fundraiser at Cleveland High, which features local dance-pop sensations Star*!@$?er (there might be kids reading! Kids with sensitive eyes!!) and Portland Rap superstars Lifesavas, as well as two local [...] Related posts: Floater: I Wanna Smoke...
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