Unless otherwise noted: Doors at 8pm, Show at 9pm.
All shows 21+
Karaoke every 4th Wednesday of the month, 9pm!
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
In The Cooky Jar
Soul Dance Night
with DJ Cooky Parker
:: The Woods' monthly soul dance night! ::
In the Cooky Jar brings the community together for a night of sweaty and hectic dancing, to the rarest and most carefully chosen soul and R&B 45's on the planet. DJ Cooky Parker has been scouring the basements of record stores, the far corners of the world, and even less likely places, constantly on the search for a demo or rare gem that will make you run for the dance floor! Motown/Stax, Northern soul, New Orleans R&B, Girl Groups, Funk, Popcorn soul, Doo Wop, Brill Building pop, and Beach will all get a spin on the turntable. By handpicking sets each night, DJ Cooky Parker will make for an unstoppable night of shakin, twistin, jumpin and even mashed potatoin'!! So come on down to The Woods to shake a tailfeather and, if it is your pleasure, do "the Double Bump", or maybe "the Funky Penguin"...or even better, "the Pop-eye!"
$3 in advance, $3 day of show
GET TICKETS FOR THIS EVENTFriday, September 03, 2010
Dao Strom
with Jenny Gillespie
:: EARLY SHOW - Doors 6:30pm, Show 7:00pm ::
Dao Strom is a writer of both books and songs. She was born in Vietnam, raised in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas in California, and has since lived in NYC, San Francisco, Iowa, Austin TX, the Oregon coast, and Alaska. Her music is inspired by American roots music stemming out of Appalachian and gospel traditions while reaching also into other traditions, mingling East with West, and attempting to draw the Vietnamese diasporic experience into the context of Americana. However, she also writes and plays songs that are simply songs about life, love, wanderings & longings. Lyrical, gentle, sometimes dark, sometimes ethereal, Dao's music has been praised by No Depression magazine, among others. She is also a literary fiction writer with two published books.
Having followed many musical threads from jazz to alt-country to electronica, Chicago-based Jenny Gillespie finds herself merging all of the tones, sounds, and textures she loves on her new album Kindred. After her 2009 debut album Light Year drew praise for its blend of ethereal folk and art-pop grandeur, Jenny embarked on a new sonic adventure, recording her new album Kindred produced by Austin, TX multi-instrumentalist Darwin Smith. Smith had mixed Light Year and expressed interest to Jenny in recording an album in a house setting near her home base of Chicago. Using over two years of home demos as a starting point, Smith and Gillespie worked together to arrange the songs and create the lush sound of Kindred. Recorded both in the living room of a rambling house in Wilmette, IL and various locations in Austin, TX, Kindred is a convergence of refined musicianship and experimental spontaneity.
$5 in advance, $7 day of show
GET TICKETS FOR THIS EVENTFriday, September 03, 2010
Pete International Airport
with Benjamin Starshine
and Happy Prescriptions
:: LATE SHOW - Doors 9pm, Show 10pm ::
Benjamin Starshine formed in Portland in late 2005 when singer/guitarist Ben Starshine (formerly of The Shrills) met up with violinist Pekio Vergotis to arrange and produce some of his new solo work. After collaborating, recording and performing together for a year, the duo was joined by drummer Michael Ford (Rick Bain & The Genius Position) and bassist Lance Dinauer (Go Fever), and so a star was born... In August of 2007, while playing Fuzzfest Northwest with legends such as The Chocolate Watchband, Electric Prunes and The Strawberry Alarmclock, Benjamin Starshine was thrown into the position of backing up the iconic Sky Sunlight Saxon of The Seeds. The result was a spontanious improvization of fuzzed-out primal rock, as well as a handful of classic Seeds songs. The success of the night led to future collaborations with Saxon in Portland and Seattle, in early 2008. Their first LP, (Self Titled), recorded jointly at Revolver Studios with engineer Colin Hegna (of Brian Jonestown Massacre and Federale) and at their home studio, was self-released in September of 2008 on their own label, Dreamyoga Records. Drawing from influences such as The Velvet Underground, Spacemen 3, The Plastic Ono Band and Elliott Smith, the album is split between stylish sixties pop arrangements and dreamy layered psychedelia. Benjamin Starshine is currently working on a new record, due for release sometime in 2010.
$5 in advance, $5 day of show
GET TICKETS FOR THIS EVENTThursday, September 09, 2010
A Bawdy Tale
:: A Play - Presented by Montgomery Street Theater ::
** DOORS at 7pm, SHOW at 8pm**
A Bawdy Tale is inspired by the 16th Century poetry of John Skelton, and tells the story of modern twenty and thirty-somethings sent to die at an island resort after contracting a rampant plague. The resort's immune bartender serves wisdom and drinks while the dying deal with their impending demises by seemingly not dealing with them at all. They try to drink, screw and fight their way to happiness as they wrestle with how to make their final exits.
A Bawdy Tale was written and is directed by Connor Kerns, Artistic Director of Portland's Quintessence and Language Theatre. "I sought to capture Skelton's harum-scarum wit and dark sense of humor, and combine those qualities with spare, gritty realism," says Kerns. "I wanted to create a dirty, pretty play as well as a dark comedy that had make-believe elements such as ghosts and swashbuckling with some poetry and a little sex."
Scott Rogers, one of Montgomery Street Theater's founders, says, "A Bawdy Tale is the kind of work that excites us; it's very raw, very visceral, it mixes stylized verse with modern prose, it's less concrete and is a challenging work to produce."
$5 in advance, $5 day of show
GET TICKETS FOR THIS EVENTFriday, September 10, 2010
A Bawdy Tale
:: A Play - Presented by Montgomery Street Theater ::
** DOORS at 7pm, SHOW at 8pm**
A Bawdy Tale is inspired by the 16th Century poetry of John Skelton, and tells the story of modern twenty and thirty-somethings sent to die at an island resort after contracting a rampant plague. The resort's immune bartender serves wisdom and drinks while the dying deal with their impending demises by seemingly not dealing with them at all. They try to drink, screw and fight their way to happiness as they wrestle with how to make their final exits.
A Bawdy Tale was written and is directed by Connor Kerns, Artistic Director of Portland's Quintessence and Language Theatre. "I sought to capture Skelton's harum-scarum wit and dark sense of humor, and combine those qualities with spare, gritty realism," says Kerns. "I wanted to create a dirty, pretty play as well as a dark comedy that had make-believe elements such as ghosts and swashbuckling with some poetry and a little sex."
Scott Rogers, one of Montgomery Street Theater's founders, says, "A Bawdy Tale is the kind of work that excites us; it's very raw, very visceral, it mixes stylized verse with modern prose, it's less concrete and is a challenging work to produce."
$5 in advance, $5 day of show
GET TICKETS FOR THIS EVENTSaturday, September 11, 2010
Joro Boro
with DJ Anjali &
The Incredible Kid
and DJ E3
:: Bulgaria, India, & Everywhere ::
Joro-Boro was born in Bulgaria. He plays and promotes Etnoteck (or EthnoMesh) - the dirty and uninhibited side of globalization force-fed back into a party without borders, a three-day Gypsy wedding in a post-national state where noise, libido and ecstasy detonate the market mono-culture.
He established himself over seven years as the resident DJ in the Bulgarian Bar Mehanata in New York City. In 2007 he left his residency there and developed the artist/charlatan alter ego Joro De Boro. As Joro De Boro he collaborated extensively with choerographer and performance artist jill sigman/thinkdance. In 2008 Joro De Boro founded the XAYC/House art collective with visual artist Daniela Kostova and curator Natalia Mount.
DJ Anjali and the Incredible Kid have played a transformative role in the Portland, Oregon club scene for nearly a decade, hosting two of Portland's longest-running and most successful dance parties, as well as hosting a popular radio show on KBOO community radio. They are most known for incinerating dance floors with the South Asian sounds of Bhangra and Bollywood, but the duo scour the globe for any hard-hitting music that combines local musical traditions with window-rattling production. Since introducing Portland club audiences to the amazing sounds of the South Asian diaspora and more the duo have remained in constant demand playing any number of one-off events nearly every weekend of the year including shows in New York, San Francisco, and Vancouver, BC in addition to their regular parties.
$7 in advance, $7 day of show
GET TICKETS FOR THIS EVENTSunday, September 12, 2010
Scott Law
With Elephant Revival
:: Guitar Virtuosity / Transcendental Folk ::
Scott Law embodies the ideal of the American Guitar Master; a brilliant and versatile instrumentalist, Law has connected onstage with many of the foremost in contemporary American music - among them Phil Lesh & Friends, String Cheese Incident, Melvin Seals, Bill Nershi, Yonder Mountain String Band, Tony Trischka, Railroad Earth and many others. Scott's alternately chiming and grinding melodic concept bears favorable comparison with everyone from the early Telecaster masters to Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jerry Garcia and Clarence White while creating a style that bears his unique stamp yet freely ranges over the entire history of the steel-string guitar. Scott's original compositions bridge pure guitar instrumentals and timeless songs that connect deeply with listeners, sparked by his rare rhythmic concision and rock solid groove.
Scott recently became an endorsing artist with Santa Cruz Guitar Company and had a great featured set at this year's NAMM Convention in Los Angeles. Law has scored and performed music for film and television, including an original song for the CBS primetime feature "Viva Laughlin" in 2007 and scores for 2 full-length documentaries by The Columbia Land Trust and Tom's Of Maine. He is a dedicated and experienced music educator, having taught at workshops, camps, schools, festivals and private sessions throughout his career.
Young in age and conception, Elephant Revival carries a fresh sense of creativity and inspiration that is felt by people of every generation. The neo-acoustic quintet is on the cutting edge of an emerging new genre that is known as Transcendental Folk. Individually and collectively the band members have performed with some of the most prolific performers of our time like Bela Fleck, John Paul Jones,
Michael Franti, Little Feat, Yonder Mountain String Band, George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, Leftover Salmon et al. In performance, Elephant Revival reveals hidden treasures deep within a vast repertoire of original material and a few carefully selected traditionals. Following the lead, but not the footsteps, of groups like Leftover Salmon and Yonder Mountain String Band, the five-piece Elephant Revival has created a unique and appealing modern acoustic sound simultaneously soaked in all manner of tradition.
$12 in advance, $15 day of show
GET TICKETS FOR THIS EVENTTuesday, September 14, 2010
Chris Brokaw
with Rebecca Gates
:: Ex-Codeine / Ex-Spinanes! ::
Chris Brokaw was born and raised in and around New York City. After attending Oberlin College, he moved to Boston, where he continues to reside. In 1990, he began recording and performing internationally with Codeine, with whom he played drums and guitar on two records for Sub Pop. in 1992, he left that band to pursue songwriting, singing and guitar playing with Come, recording four albums for Matador and touring internationally over the course of 10 years.
Since 2002, Chris has recorded four solo albums: the instrumental "Red Cities", the solo acoustic "Wandering As Water", the film score "I Was Born, But", and the rock/vocal "Incredible Love." He has performed on over 2 dozen other recordings, performing as a guest on recordings by Cobra Verde, Manta Ray, Rosa Chantswell, Karate, and Via Tania; and as an accompanist to recordings and performances by Steve Wynn, Evan Dando, Thalia Zedek, Alan Licht, Tara Jane O'Neil, crime writer George Pelecanos, and Rhys Chatham. He's performed throughout the US, Canada, Europe, the UK, Russia, Australia, and Africa.
He currently plays solo as well as with the following bands: Fflashlights (with Doug McCombs and Elliot Dicks); Dirtmusic (with Chris Eckman and Hugo Race); The Thurston Moore Group (with Thurston Moore, Samara Lubelski, Matt Heyner and Steve Shelley); and The New Year (Touch and Go). He also has a duo with Geoff Farina (ex-Karate); their debut album will be released in 2009. Chris also has performed and/or recorded recently accompanying Christina Rosenvinge; Jennifer O'Connor; and The Lemonheads. 2009 saw the release of a new solo album, as well as the Brokaw/Farina album.
The Spinanes formed in Portland Oregon in 1991 when Rebecca Gates (guitar/vocals) started playing with Scott Plouf (drums). In 1993 they released their first album with Sub Pop, the acclaimed disc "Manos". In 1996 "Strand" followed , and after the departure of Plouf, who left to handle drum duties in Built To Spill, Rebecca relocated to Chicago and issued "Arches and Aisles".
On her new album, Rebecca Gates is joined by Chicago musicians John McEntire (Tortoise, The Sea and Cake), Noel Kupersmith (Brokeback, The Chicago Underground Quartet), Mikael Jorgensen (Movere Workshop) and Brian Deck (Califone, Red Red Meat). Production is handled by Rebecca with the assistance of John McEntire (Stereolab, Tortoise) and Brian Deck (Modest Mouse).
Rebecca Gates has performed on The Conan O' Brien Show and toured with The Afghan Whigs, Sam Prekop, Luna, Liz Phair, Stereolab, Morphine, Codeine and other seminal artists. She sang on Elliott Smith's debut album and he returned the favor by joining her on The Spinanes' album "Strand."
$7 in advance, $8 day of show
GET TICKETS FOR THIS EVENTWednesday, September 15, 2010
Sam Amidon
:: with special guests ::
Born in 1981 and raised in Vermont by folk-musician parents, Sam Amidon sings and plays fiddle, banjo, and guitar. As a teenager, Amidon rose to acclaim as a fiddler, releasing five albums with his band Popcorn Behavior. A musician who glides through unlikely set of genres from traditional folk to free jazz, Amidon has released four solo albums, and also plays in the New York-based indie-rock bands Doveman and Stars Like Fleas. After a seven-year stint in New York City, Amidon has been fully itinerant since 2008 as he tours and collaborates with a roster of renowned musicians, including Shahzad Ismaily, Nico Muhly, Thomas Bartlett, Ben Frost, and Valgeir Sigursson.
$8 in advance, $10 day of show
GET TICKETS FOR THIS EVENTThursday, September 16, 2010
Tiger House
with Young Mammals
:: With Sons Of Huns & Massive Moth ::
Tiger House bestowed their music upon the rainy city of Portland Oregon on July 2008. Since then they have been on an unrelenting warpath to humble mustaches through out the music scene. The songs suggest it's okay to clap your hands, sing, and dance to rock and roll - and it totally is. Tiger house renders their listeners with basement-friendly dance pop and a singer more infatuated with falsetto than 80's glam metal. They can also rock more than a disco beat - but certainly are not opposed to it. Tiger House executes high energy live shows with passion and ease while supplying their listeners with thoughtful poetic snark.
They also don't think they're cooler than you and will happily supply as many affectionate high fives and sweaty hugs as they can muster. It's okay to feel good. They're here to help.
"Tiger House is not afraid to try on a leather jacket and bandanna with bell bottoms and shimmering dancin' shoes. Bill Scharmann's quartet does ruffled disco rock, with primal breakdowns and breathy, helium-fed vocals." - Willamette Week
"[Young Mammals'] 'Confetti' is a blustering, billowing forest fire of blissfully looping noise, chirruping guitars and vocals; a song that lands a marshmallow-mallet to the rear of the head - the subsequent gasp for breath and spinning stars are brilliant, dizzying and welcome." - A New Band A Day
$5 in advance, $5 day of show
GET TICKETS FOR THIS EVENTFriday, September 17, 2010
Dragging an Ox Through Water
with Hammer of Hathor
:: Deconstructed Country Folk ::
Born in Twin Falls, ID, Brian Mumford grew up moving between different areas of Oklahoma, Montana, and Colorado. His main musical project, Dragging an Ox through Water, marries the lyrical twang of country and folk to the broken textures of feedback, drones, tape hiss, and the howl of homemade oscillators. A strong value on the contrast between chance and intention makes both performances and recordings a constantly evolving process.
He also plays in Jackie-O Motherfucker, Grandfather Claws, Deeds, Thicket, and Jung Sleaths.
Brian has collaborated with TJO, Chris Johanson, John Wiess, John Gruntfest, Makino Takashi, Weasel Walter, and many others. He has played shows with Silver Apples, Earth, Young Marble Giants, Michael Hurley, Grouper, Katie Eastburn, Inca Ore, Jean-Louis Costes, Scott Kelly (Neurosis), The Sic Alps, Tara Jane O'Neil, Xiu Xiu, Janet Pants Dance Theatre, Final Fantasy, The Oh Sees, Calvin Johnson, Ida, Beach House, The Horrors, The Fiery Furnaces, The Dead Science, Little Claw, Fred Thomas, Argumentix, Tall Firs, Linda Hagood, Tom Carter, The Enablers, Radar Bros., Castanets, Jazzfinger, and many more.
$3 in advance, $3 day of show
GET TICKETS FOR THIS EVENTThursday, September 23, 2010
Laura Tsaggaris
with Buoy La Rue
and The Sale
:: A Touch of Rock, A Hint of Soul ::
Born in Reading, Pa. and raised in Pittsburgh, Laura Tsaggaris' early life gave few indications of her eventual calling. She attended The College of William & Mary on a tennis scholarship and graduated with a degree in finance. While working at a Washington, D.C. law firm, Laura started her own record label, Overtime Records, and recorded her first album, Proof, in 2005. Galvanized by the local, national and international reaction to her debut, Laura quit her job, packed her bags and toured the country alone to promote the record and launch her career as a performer. After the cycle of touring ended in 2008, Laura began work on her second studio album, Keep Talking. From the cautionary "Warning Signs" to the life-affirming "Get Yourself Right" to the hyper-personal "Pilots", Keep Talking is a rare effort that rocks, soothes and inspired The Washington Post to write, "When a singer-songwriter builds an array of songs, often arising from a solid pop foundation with a splash of blues, a touch of rock and a hint of soul, that affirms a genuine musical gift."
$7 in advance, $7 day of show
GET TICKETS FOR THIS EVENTFriday, September 24, 2010
Denison Witmer
:: **SHOW CANCELLED** ::
"(Denison Witmer) sounds ready: cannily fleshing out his sound with help from friends (Sufjan Stevens, James McAlister, Don and Karen Peris of The Innocence Mission), but never losing sight of the style he's honed for years" - Pitchforkmedia.com
"We are smitten with these sweet drowsy ditties...(Witmer's) modest reach and pensive melodies could easily get lost in the white noise of contemporary culture, it would be a shame, though, to miss tiny gems like these..." - Entertainment Weekly
"Denison Witmer is one of the greatest unknown musical talents in the world today. Denison Witmer is an unique and exceptional talent whose music can appeal to everyone. Are You a Dreamer? is incredible. This album is a gem." - CDreviews.com
$8 in advance, $10 day of show
GET TICKETS FOR THIS EVENTSaturday, September 25, 2010
Midnight Serenaders with Casey MacGill's Blue 4 Trio
:: jubiliant jazz for the ages ::
Riding the crest of the neo-traditional jazz craze presently occurring on the West Coast, the MIDNIGHT SERENADERS are a six-piece swing band playing
regularly to enthusiastic audiences throughout the Pacific Northwest. Performing vintage pop, Hot Jazz, and
Hawaiian instrumentals, as well as an expanding collection of Jazz Age-sounding original songs, these six veteran musicians strive to share their love for the music of the 1920s, 30s and 40s. With an exciting stage show, tight musical arrangements, and outstanding solo and harmony vocals, MIDNIGHT SERENADERS fans include
nostalgists, swing dancers, melody junkies, retro-clothing hounds, and folks who simply appreciate good quality, jubilant music.
Casey MacGill's Blue 4 Trio performs music that swings. Nat "King" Cole Trio meets the Mills Brothers. Fats Waller meets Fats Domino. Slim Galliard meets Fred Astaire. It is music of many decades and no decade in particular, all happening at the same time, woven into a seamless, beautiful whole. At the core of this group's sound are the band's sometimes sweet, sometimes rough-hewn three-part harmony vocals and a piano-ukulele-bass-and-drums rhythm section that swings in a variety of textures.
$10 in advance, $10 day of show
GET TICKETS FOR THIS EVENTTuesday, September 28, 2010
Brass Bed
with Singing Knives and Pharmacy
:: ::
Sunshine, sarcastic, and sullen, Brass Bed are a quartet of wide-eyed pop dreamers rifling through record bins and churning out recordings that double as rock and roll history lessons. Born and raised in Lafayette, Louisiana, their music elevates the unrestrained power pop of Big Star and the guitar heroics of Television with the 60's pop revivalism of bands like XTC alter-ego The Dukes of Stratosphear and the starry-eyed bands from the Elephant 6 collective. Their songs speak with a voice that is both thoroughly modern and reverent of the past.
$6 in advance, $6 day of show
GET TICKETS FOR THIS EVENTWednesday, September 29, 2010
Robyn Hitchcock
and Joe Boyd:
Chinese White Bicycles
:: Music and Readings from Two Legendary British Artists Celebrating Music of the Past ::
** TWO SHOWS: 7:30pm & 10pm **
Joe Boyd reads from his book White Bicycles about the musicians he discovered, nurtured and produced in the late 1960s: The Incredible String Band, Fairport Convention, Pink Floyd, Nick Drake and others. Robyn Hitchcock, a teenage fan then, plays some of their songs and he asks Joe about them in wide-eyed wonder.
Over the past three decades, Hitchcock has built a large and distinctive body of work that has established him as one of rock's most respected and beloved iconoclasts. The prolific English singer/songwriter/guitarist's vivid surrealist songcraft has won him an uncommonly devoted international fan base. Hitchcock is presently in the midst of a remarkable artistic and career resurgence - at a point at which many veteran artists are either throwing in the towel or coasting on past achievements, Hitchcock has been generating some of the most vibrant and resonant music he has ever made. Beyond his original work, he's legendary for his unique and insightful interpretations of other artists' ouvres, including Bob Dylan, Morrissey, Nick Drake, Syd Barrett and many more. Join these massively influential Brits for an unforgettable trip into musical history.
$18 in advance, $20 day of show
GET TICKETS FOR THIS EVENTFriday, October 08, 2010
An Evening With
The Liberators
:: Portland Improv Comedy Favorites ::
Come spend the evening with The Liberators, Portland improv comedy faves who have been described as "Portland's best improv troupe" (Willamette Week) and "PDX's version of Second City" (Mississippi Studios). Come see why. They'll provide the smart, sexy comedy they've been bringing all over Portland for almost 5 years - you just need to bring an openness to all things awesome, and your sexy ass.
$10 in advance, $13 day of show
GET TICKETS FOR THIS EVENTSunday, October 10, 2010
An Evening with
Edgar Allan Poe
:: Doors at 9:30pm, Show at 10pm ::
Alastair Morley Jaques and Lenore Productions are proud to present a live reading by Mr. E. A. Poe, formerly of Richmond, Virginia. Mr. Poe, author of the collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque and of the highly regarded poem "The Raven," will, for the amusement and edification of those assembled, give recitation of a number of his most excellent compositions.
A discussion by Mr. Poe will follow.
$10 in advance, $12 day of show
GET TICKETS FOR THIS EVENTSaturday, October 23, 2010
Breathe Owl Breathe with Little Wings and Graves
:: Up-and-Coming Indie-Folk Legends ::
"As Breathe Owl Breathe, Michigan trio Micah Middaugh, Andra Moreno-Beals and Trevor Hobbs sound as intimately familiar with woods and wild as their band name suggests, but there's an air of cosmopolitan sophistication, too. Their forest-paced, guitar-and cello-grounded 'Playing Dead' has the careful, modern approach to folk production of rustic post-rock ensemble Califone, and Middaugh's weary vocal also braves Palace Brothers' Southern haints. "I got you, didn't I,' Middaugh repeats in harmony with Moreno-Beals, as cymbals splash across some delicate acoustic plucking. The verses reflect nostalgically on playing dead as a child by the swing set, so this chorus comes to tell everyone they're just fooling. At the same time, the joke may be getting played on us, too: 'When I was alive...' Middaugh begins one line. What, is he dead? Still, like North Carolina's similarly verdant Bowerbirds, Breathe Owl Breathe keep their lyrics earnest and un-showy ('Your hair is gray...the light is black') and then bask in organic splendor. They got me, didn't they?"
- Pitchfork Forkcast review For "Playing Dead"
Little Wings was formed in San Luis Obisbo, CA, and the music of Little Wings carries the landscape of its place of origin like clouds carry water vapor, to release it in a myriad of forms over a changing landscape. Little wings is a project that revolves around frontman and songwriter Kyle Field, sometimes with drummer Adam Selzer, keyboardist Rob Kieswetter, bassist Mark Leece, and others. His Debut Album, Discover Worlds of Wonder, was released in 1999 by Walking Records, and later in 2000 by K records. It has been called "a dreamy, balladic tribute to the surreal aspects of the contemporary Californian landscape." Moving to Portland, Little Wings followed up this first release with The Wonder City and Wonderue to complete their Wonder Trilogy, which consists of three albums released on K and Knw-Yr-Own Records. In 2003 Little Wings released Harvest Joy, followed by Magic Wand in 2004 and Glow in 2005. He released Soft Pow'r in 2007. Kyle Field has played with the likes of Grandaddy, Lee Baggett, and Devendra Banhart, and is also a talented visual artist. A book of his drawings was published by the label Ahornfelder.
$10 in advance, $12 day of show
GET TICKETS FOR THIS EVENTSaturday, November 13, 2010
John Wesley Harding Sings to a Small Guitar
with
matt the electrician
and special guests
:: The Celebrated Songwriter/Novelist Brings his Gangsta Folk to Portland ::
Since his much-lauded debut Here Comes The Groom on Sire Records in 1990 (declared "the first great rock record of the '90s" by Robert Hilburn in the LA Times), Harding has been single-minded in his pursuit of pop perfect songcraft. He's explored many of the darker corners of contemporary music, from traditional folk to garage rock, even recording an a capella record just for good measure. His songs have been featured in movies such as High Fidelity, and he has recorded duets with Bruce Springsteen, Lou Reed and Josh Ritter among others.
Under his real name, Wesley Stace, he has written two novels: the international bestseller Misfortune, nominated for a slew of awards including The Guardian First Book Award and The Commonwealth Writer's Prize, and by George, a New York Public Library Book to Remember of 2007. A third is recently completed, slated for publication in late 2009. He was also the subject of an ambitious concert movie, A Bloody Show, filmed at Seattle's Bumbershoot, featuring the songs from Misfortune performed by an a capella group, a string quartet and a rock band, with Robyn Hitchcock in the role of the narrator.
His first new album in five years, Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead, was recorded here in the Pacific Northwest with his musical friends The Minus Five.
*****
Once upon a time, there was a young man named Matt Sever. He lived in Austin, TX, and he worked as a journeyman electrician. Every morning, when it was still dark outside, he would go to work, and wire houses all day long in the blistering Texas heat. When he would come home, again, it was dark outside. And then, sometimes, with no time to shower or change his clothes, he would go straight to the bars and nightclubs of Austin to play his songs for whomever would listen. And he would apologize for his appearance, and explain to the audience that he was an electrician, and he found a certain nobility in this, even if no one wanted to sit too close to the stage. So they called him Matt The Electrician, and he did not mind this, for he was proud of himself, for there is no shame in a hard days work.
But eventually, he quit his job as an electrician, to spend more time writing and playing songs, and the name stuck with him, because everyone needs an electrician sometimes. And there are some who say, that when the moon is full, and Jupiter is aligned with Mars, you can often hear Matt The Electrician in the distance, wiring a house, and whistling softly to himself.
$12 in advance, $14 day of show
GET TICKETS FOR THIS EVENTSaturday, November 13, 2010
An Evening With
The Liberators
:: Portland Improv Comedy Favorites ::
** EARLY SHOW - Doors at 6:30pm, Show at 7pm **
Come spend the evening with The Liberators, Portland improv comedy faves who have been described as "Portland's best improv troupe" (Willamette Week) and "PDX's version of Second City" (Mississippi Studios). Come see why. They'll provide the smart, sexy comedy they've been bringing all over Portland for almost 5 years - you just need to bring an openness to all things awesome, and your sexy ass.
$10 in advance, $13 day of show
GET TICKETS FOR THIS EVENTFriday, November 19, 2010
Faun Fables
with Billygoat
:: Forests, Parks, Dreamlands, Home ::
"A Table Forgotten" is the first taste in an ongoing series of projects by Dawn "The Faun" McCarthy on a theme that's been largely unexplored in recent times: the age-old practices of tending a home and its immediate impact upon our day to day lives. It is an invitation to return to our kitchens and homes with reverence, to enjoy a largely overlooked sanctuary in the modern age. After the Faun Fables record release of The Transit Rider in 2006, Dawn was invited to be Artist In Residence with Idyllwild Art Academy's Interdisciplinary students in the San Jaciento Mountains of southern California, where she began delving into this longstanding theme of interest. Drawing from her own personal experience and research into historical patterns plus the students' concerns about family and home, a musical theater performance debuted on the Idyllwild Arts campus in May 2007. Since that production, she has continued developing and performing this material plus other new songs with the Faun Fables band.
Dawn received worldwide attention for her collaborative singing efforts with Bonnie "Prince" Billy on his recent releases The Letting Go and Wai Notes.
David Klein and Nick Woolley formed the musical/video duo of Billygoat, producing stop-motion animated films and performing their live, original scores. These films have been described as "stop-motion shorts of staggering complexity," created one tiny movement at at time via tens of thousands of individual photographs of an ever-morphing art piece. These photos are then stitched together to become an elaborately detailed and captivating art film, bringing their other-worldly aesthetic to life.
During live sets, the films are projected onto a wall-sized screen as Klein and Woolley play an orignal musical arrangement on harp, keyboards, accordion, glockenspiel and electric bass. This sonic accompaniment, coupled with the intricate visuals, have played to sold out theaters in performances described as 'breathtaking' and 'delicately haunting.'" - LA Weekly
$10 in advance, $12 day of show
GET TICKETS FOR THIS EVENTSaturday, December 11, 2010
An Evening With
The Liberators
:: Portland Improv Comedy Favorites ::
** EARLY SHOW - Doors at 6:30pm, Show at 7pm **
Come spend the evening with The Liberators, Portland improv comedy faves who have been described as "Portland's best improv troupe" (Willamette Week) and "PDX's version of Second City" (Mississippi Studios). Come see why. They'll provide the smart, sexy comedy they've been bringing all over Portland for almost 5 years - you just need to bring an openness to all things awesome, and your sexy ass.
$10 in advance, $13 day of show
GET TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT
