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The OLCC and the Future of -ALL AGES- Shows.

IMPORTANT OLCC INFO!. Support the OLCC’s plans to allow music venues to admit people under 21 by writing an email before Friday, March 7, 2008.. Visit PDX POP NOW! and find everything you need to support this issue and make a difference. pc-pdx's summary: Remember the OLCC letter witting campaign from last fall and the possibility of opening up some of the venues to be able to serve the All Ages music community?. Well it failed with a vote of 3-2 against accepting the amendments that would allow for such a change.

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MTV (EmptyTV) nods a sulute to Portland

Empty-TV gives it up for Portland with a few small vignettes on the incredible PDX scene.. They focus on the standard hip bands like StarFucker, YACHT, Southern Belle and the oh-so obvious Thermals but also reach out to the always awesome band Eat Skull.. This is not exactly a good representative cross-section on the many genres and sub-scenes that Portland has to offer but it's still kind of cool.. PC-PDX.com : Portland Show Guide Next time how about something including Autistic Youth, Red Dons, Estranged and the rest of the punker scene?

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PDX gets independent + local FM radio.

press release from KZME: KZME 91.1 FM is coming!!! It will be the first non-commercial radio station in the Portland metro area dedicated to airing local music.. Our intent is to be broadcasting and streaming in 2009 and we need to build our music library; fill it with incredible music from the Northwest.. If you are interested in submitting your music, please mail a CD with bio, to the following address: Dennise M.. Kowalczyk Director of Organizational Advancement MetroEast Community Media KZME 91.1 FM 829 NE 8th Street Gresham, OR 97030 P 503.667.8848 ext. 335 http://www.metroeast.org dennise@metroeast.org

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StumpClub Releases the Hottest Disc in PDX

Check out this Amazing CD Compilation release show to benefit StumpClub.org in their quest to open a new ALL AGES venue in Portland :: Reporter, Experimental Dental School, Teeath -August 9th, 8pm @ The Coop [3535 N.. Lombard]. It's $5 for the Show or Bring $8 for the show and a CD of this incredible compilation of 19 Portland Artists featuring : All Girl Summer. Fun Band * Hockey * Teeath * Reporter * Exprimenal Dental School * Westfold * Copy * Magic Johnson *31 Knotts *The Hand That Bleeds * Purple Rhinestone Eagle * Childhood Friends * David Evan * Ghost to Falco * Dirty Mittens * Panther * Golden Bears * Reverse Dotty... Keep up to date with the project at StumpClub.org

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The Mercury Rises for StumpClub!

The Portland Mercury showers StumpClub with love this week with two articles about the Volunteer collective working on opening a new ALL AGES venue here in Portland.. Read the articles here: Once More With Feeling. End Hits Blog Ezra Ace Caraeff highlights the efforts of StumpClub with a brief history on their awesome shows and projects and their plans for the future of Portland's music scene including a new non-profit venue.. StumpClub is hosting a show this Saturday at The Coop [3535 N.

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Final Edition of The Newspapers

One year and three days after releasing their debut E.P. and two months after releasing their second, NEWSPAPERS have announced that their last show will be this Saturday at Neverland Ranch on SE 49 and Powell.. I first met Billy Webb on March 10, 2007 at the Pink House in S.E. --- a show I had set up with Narwhal vs.. Narwhal, Hurah Hurah and Eskimo & Sons.. It was the day everybody met everybody.

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StumpClub Compilation now In-Stores

This compilation of 19 incredible Portlands bands is now available in stores around town.. This disk benefit's StumpClub in their quest to open a new All-Ages venue and hangout (think X-ray Cafe/Thee "O" meets 924 Gilman + Vera Project + ABC No Rio) and features All Girl Summer. Fun Band * Hockey * Teeath * Reporter * Exprimenal Dental School * Westfold * Copy * Magic Johnson * 31 Knotts * The Hand That Bleeds * Purple Rhinestone Eagle * Childhood Friends * David Evan * Ghost to Falco * Dirty Mittens * Panther * Golden Bears * Reverse Dotty... All Girl Summer Fun Band "Something New" These individualy numbered, hand screened discs can be found at these great businesses: [DOWNTOWN] Jackpot!. Records Reading Frenzy 2nd Avenue Records [NE] --Mississippi Neighborhood: BlackRose Collective Mississippi Records CD Game Exchange [SE] Green Noise Records (26th + Clinton) Trade-Up Music (Division) Anthem Records (34th + Belmont) Discourage (19th + Morrison) Sonic Records (29th + Belmont) Jackpot!

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Summerfector : Punk as Fuck

Today kicks off the Defectors Summerfector madness.. This is a series of shows happening over the next four days at locations all over town, mostly all-ages.. What really makes this a bad ass fest is that there are two generator shows happening.. One at Burnside Skate park on Sunday and another one at Overlook Park in NE complete with all the legal premits for both noise and booze.

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MFNW : An Intimate Evening with Mirah

The woman makes me swoon -laugh, cry, love, all of it, in all the best ways.. Mirah melts me.. As much as i love her and as much as my life has been based around going to shows, i've never managed to see her.. It's not that i haven’t been trying, believe me, i have.

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100th photoset posted on the Show-Guide

We've just posted 5 photosets in the last few days.. Two new sets from the weekend and three old sets that aparrently we forgot to post.. With Saturday nights show at Negative Cook st., our Gallery photoset count comes to a grand total of 100 now!. Click the pics and check out the Gallery to view the full photosets. toxic narcotic | bill bondsmen (detroit usa) | defect defect | salted city | ripper @ Negative Cook st. [Sept. 13] Red Dons @ Laughing Horse [Sept. 12th] Taxpayers @ the Ivy House [May 29th] the Red Dons @ The Coop [May 30th] the Revisions BBQ @ The Coop [May 25th]

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Sound Judgment Festival 2008 : 2 Days, 26 Bands This Weekend!

Sound Judgment Festival 2008 Year two of the Sound Judgment Festival is upon us.. This weekend brings 26 bands in two days, hope you're ready.. Check out the line-up and oh, give snaps to Arya Imig because it's his birthday.. DAY 01 :: Friday, October 10

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Album Review: Oh Captain, My Captain

Oh Captain My Captain - Recklessly She Split The Sea. Releases November 10th, 2008Annie Marie, the second track, first song on Oh Captain My Captain's, "Recklessly She Split The Sea", interrupts a cheesy intro, that couldn't be any worse if they had called it "Opening Credits"; oh wait, they did.. Annie Marie is a sad pathetic song about a wimp.. It describes a girl that cheats on a boy and of course he's devastated.

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Kickball is a game-- and a it's a band, too.

As y'all probably know, this show was at the Coop this Saturday, (that's Aug 10th, BTW). We got there late, and kickball was the only band I got to shoot pictures of.. It was packed.. Like, SUPER packed.. Like, 'in the event of a fire we are all gonna die, guys' PACKED.

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KickBall + Sound Judgment Fest Reviews - A Weekend At The Coop.

This last weekend has been an amazing few days at The Coop.. Friday nights show was one of the coolest, and somehow smoothest house shows we've ever done.. It was a feature in both the Mercury and the WillieWeek which was a bit worrisome.. The last time that happened we had to repaint the bathroom because of asshole taggers.

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Explode into All Girl Summer Fun !!!

Here are some Portland girls just doing what we do- dancing, playing some music, and having a motherfucking raffle. (Raffle prizes included AGSFB's new CD, T-shirts, and a switchblade comb.)            [all girl summer fun band | explode into colors | grant of arthur and yu | w]

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Groadie in Pink-- JonnyX and the Groadies

The two local bands in this line-up were amazing, but since I am probably going to blog about them again in the future, I am going to stick to the touring band, The Usaisamonster.. Not at all the metal-centric dirge fest that I was expecting (especially on this bill- no offense, JXATG and TBTSYW). The Usaisamonster has a much more psychedelic feel- quiet, almost pop-y vocal harmonies in the darker sounding minor keys and synth/keyboard parts that weave into with the rest of the arrangement to make it sound real dream-y.. Really good, really different than what I had expected, which almost always is nice.

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Magic Johnson Halloween @ Ghost Realm

Pre-halloween show @ the Ghost Realm.. Celebrating the birthday of Brandon, one of the World's Greatest Ghosts. [magic johnson | purple rhinestone eagle | department of motor vehicles | marmalade mountain | skip roxy ]

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The King Khan & BBQ Show

The King Khan and BBQ Show are a traveling duo, originally from Canada, who used to be in the band the Spaceshits together.. Their show is full of crazy energy-- King Khan uses his own kind charm to rile up the crowd-- on stage at Dantes he reached into his panties and grabbed a handfull of what looked like cauliflower, throwing it into the audience-- awesome!. King Khan's charismatic stage presence combined with their jangling rock and roll guitars and screaming vocals turned the crowd into a sweaty pit of screaming ladies in no time flat.

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Weekend With the So So Glos

I hope you caught The So So Glos this last weekend because it was -amazing-! I have to say without a doubt, that Saturday's show at The Coop was the most incredable show i've ever seen.. Two of my favorite bands, The Taxpayers and the So So Glos just killed it.. It was great because i've never been worried about The Taxpayers being able to keep up with any of the other bands...somebody needed to give those boys a challenge!. I could definately tell there was a strong fire in Rob Taxpayers eyes to bring it after that incredable SSG set.

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...Worms, Brave Priest, The Cysts @ The Ranch

The CystsBrave Priest...Worms

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Stag Bitten, Don Hellions, and others @ Dekum Manor

Total Bro'sCurious HandsDrunk folks rocking out.Don HellionsStag Bitten

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Los Moustachios - Go Fish or Die Trying

Local comedic troupe, Los Moustachios, have posted a video (Go Fish or Die Trying) on "Funny or Die" and you should check it out!. Given two options, you can vote "funny" and instantly be the most popular person in town, or vote "die" and be a friendless dick.. Watch their other videos on the site too!Los Moustachios have been kickin around for a few years and have been rocking your garages, stages, basements, and your computer, working tirelessly to rock your pants off.. Check out one of their live shows sometime, its even unique in Portland.www.losmoustachios.com Check out all Los Moustachios shows on pc-pdx.

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Explode Into Colors - Footage of "Wooden Ghost"

Here is footage of Explode Into Colors playing at Holocene from November 29th's showcasing of Cartune Xprez, "a travelling roadshow of animated videos and multimedia performances."Explode Into Colors are probably my favorite band in PDX right now.. Its pretty easy to see why in this video, check it out yourself.If you want to catch Explode Into Colors live, there are two very excellent opportunities coming up soon(ish).Dec 31st - New Year's Eve Show w/ White Fang and Nightclubbing vs.. Hot Mess @ The HoloceneFeb 14 - w/ Starfucker, Strength, and Dirty Mittens @ The Wonder Ballroom

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Help Book PDX Pop Now! 2009

The sixth annual PDX Pop Now!. Festival of Portland Music is slated totake place in the summer of 2009.. As always, the festival will be afree, all-ages, multi-day, non-profit celebration featuring nearly 50local bands, emcees, laptop wizards, singer-songwriters, noise-mongers, chamber ensembles, crews, audio experimentalists and as-yet-unnamed varieties of musician.The line-up will be determined by a dedicated committee of musiclovers willing to lend their time, energy, thought and enthusiasm toputting together the most mind-bogglingly exciting and stylisticallydiverse bill of Portland music the world has yet seen.. Interested inbeing one of them?No prior experience in booking or event production is required to bea PPN! booking committee volunteer.

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Submit Your Music to PDX Pop Now! 2009

PDX Pop Now!. Accepting Submissions for 2009 Compilationhttp://pdxpopnow.com/releases/1/submissions/newListen up, Portland-area musicians, because we’re ready to listen to you.. We've just opened submissions for PDX Pop Now! 2009, our sixth double-disc compilation of Portland music.. All genres, styles, aesthetics and sensibilities are welcome.For those interested in submitting music for consideration, the process is now easier than ever.

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Video from the 40 Band Defector Benefit

Some video I took at the huge show at Rotture on Tuesday.. Band on the bill included : 57 octaves | below | adelit@s | amalgams | anon remora | autistic youth | boot city | blood sox | bookends | book of belial | chores | cower | defect defect| downriver| ealdath |kody | exit collapse | fullfaceriot | helghast | jalin | jeannie | reno | kudzu | machinegun congress | maraud | nathan jr | nux vomica | order of the gash | raw nerves | scene | ripper | squalora | -dan | superbad | -mike the catterpillar | tim messing | torn to pieces | transient | the taxpayers [a benefit for the defector]

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KUFO Adds Punk Show to Weekend Line-up

[Here's a press release we came across today - we took most of the bullshit corporate advertising crap off the end.. Please comment on your thoughts about this.. We'll leave ours out for now]KUFO ADDS PUNK SHOW TO WEEKEND LINE-UPNew Show Debuts on Sunday February 1 at 7pm (Portland, Oregon) … Rock 101 KUFO is adding to its musical flavor withthe debut of The Punk Show on Sunday, February 1, 2009, hosted by LisaWood and Sarah Dylan.. The show will air every Sunday from 7-9pm, justprior to the increasingly popular local music show, Viva La Luna, whichairs 9-10pm.

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'A Paper Cup Band' Throws Down a Mean Hoedown

A Paper Cup Band 01/23 @ Random House PartyThis Minneapolis trio really knows how to kill the party and alienate the sorrostitutes that have never expanded their musical vocabulary beyond Cyndi Lauper and Madonna; good.. However, if you're cool enough to wait the three minute set up time with out making stinkface - you're in money because A Paper Cup Band bring a whole other level of party.. These acoustic anarcho-jug band stylee (you describe them?) guys were tossed last minute into a fashion dance party and pulled it off fluid.. The whole house was stompin' and shakin, booties were bouncing all over the living room.

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The Taxpayers Video - CD Release Show Live @ Dunes

Los Moustachios were kind enough to have filmed The Taxpayers set at Dunes for their "A Rhythm in the Cages" release show.. Stag Bitten and Total Bros also played that night.. Both bands owned it.Los Moustachios also just launched their new site, stop by to check it out.. Check out the links from the bands at the Dunes show: Los Moustachios Stag Bitten Total Bros The Taxpayers

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HS Bands - Your Chance to play the Crystal Ballroom

Yo High Schoolers - here's your chance to play in front of the big 3 music editors and some of the heavy weight personality's that fuel the scene.. Top prize gets to play the Crystal Ballroom.. April 10th is a High School Battle of the Bands at Backspace.. Fill out an application online and play with Boy Eats Drum Machine and the holy-crap-amazing So So Glos(!).Battle of the Bands are most of the time, well, dumb.

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PDX Pop Now Comp Submissions Due Today

The time has come!. Submissions to the PDX Pop Now! 2009 compilation of Portland music are due today - Saturday, Feb. 28.So stop fiddling with those mixes, hit the export button, and upload your track here:http://www. pdxpopnow. com/releases/1/submissions/newIf you have any questions or hit any snags, email comp@pdxpopnow.comWe look forward to hearing what you've been up to this past year!PDX Pop Now!http://www. pdxpopnow. com/

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The End of The Hush - Shutdown!

last night the inevitable happened, 5 cops, 1 olcc rep, and 2 fire marshals stopped the show and let us know that we were to have no more shows until we have a permit.. Here's the reason we don't have one to begin with: due to the fact that the performance hall is three stories up we would be given a capacity of LESS THAN 49 INCLUDING PERFORMERS AND STAFF.That's not a lot of people. you can see why it was not appealing for us to go legit.so now I have a hand full of shows that I need your help in placing.I've contacted the artistery, the wail, backspace, disjecta and worksound about taking some bills, is there anywhere i've left out?all in all, I want to continue to work with the music community in making it the raddest it can be, there are so many amazing bands in portland right now and we have all been doing our part in supporting that. lets keep working together in harnessing that, whether it be attending a show, spreading the word about a band you really like and buying their albums, throwing sweaty house shows for new up and coming bands, or simply telling someone their art is awesome and worth appreciating, every little bit helps.& thank you all for sharing the excitement with me about the bands and shows HUSH has had.. See you around.<3 Rockyp.s.- anyone know of any good warehouses for rent?. HUSH the sequel maybe?

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Atomic Butter Babes "Wish I Was A Walrus" Music Vi

Yes, it finally happened.Atomic Butter Babes have left your nautical wet dreams of danger and entered your computer screen.

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Japanther and friends

After months of winter hibernation, I have crawled out of my cave [basement] and returned to the land of the living.. This was the first show I'd been to since somewhere around early november, last year.. Good to be back!

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Murder City Devils @ Roseland

This show was weird.. It was at the Roseland, where I had heard you couldnt bring in cameras, especially "professional" ones (ie anything that has a detachable lens). So I ended up getting a 'photo pass' from the really nice guys in the band Past Lives, who I had seen before, and were the opening band that night.. This meant that I got to go in this little like 4 ft. section between the crowd and the stage that was roped off, and take pictures, with my 'photo pass'.. Of course, the stage is like 5 ft. tall, and the bands are really far away, and the 'photo pass' only allows you to be in the special roped off VIP section (which I learned later was basically meant for the bouncers to stand in and catch crowd surfers before they reach the stage-- HOWEVER--one really athletic and insane chick managed to jump all the way from the balcony onto the stage and give Spencer Moody a hug, before the bouncers realized what she had done) for 3 songs.

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The So So Glos Postpone Portland for Prague and Poland

One of our favorite bands, The So So Glos, have scored a sweet European tour with ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead.. Sweet deal for them, though that means Portland will have to wait a few more months before the return of these crowd favorites.These guys are pc-pdx crew favorites and are just flatt out hott shit!. Since their first trip to Portland back in November of 2007, these five guys have consistently impressed with their killer shows.. If you've never experienced the magic, do yourself a favor and check them out.

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Homosexual Punk Rock

If you havent heard the 70's/80's post punksthe Homosexuals, you really ought to.. Click the link and check them out so that you dont miss them the next time they (or more specifically Bruno Wizard decides to come to town.

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Doppleganger!

The Doppleganger has long been a mystery, but now consider it solved. "A double, an identical replica of a person.. The idea behind this is that everyone has a Doppleganger, an identical copy of themselves somewhere in the world.. If the person is good, then the Doppleganger will be evil and vice versa.. It is even said that if the two should meet, then they will both perish.Although there is no evidence that Dopplegangers exist, some people have actually reported claims of witnessing what they believe to be their Doppleganger.

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Live at the Blood Bank: April 4th

Our friend Natalie sent some pictures of the April 4th show @ the Blood Bank. "the photos are of larians and bird announced land. i suck, so i didnt get any shots of church." Well, we think she far from sucks and give mass-snaps for sharing these great shots. -Thanks Natalie!

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Bear Feet : Portland's Best New Band

Playing their first public show, these six kids packed the Coop with a horde of friends and pretty much shook the place to the ground.. Bear Feet brings fresh flavor - straight from the 30's.. These teenagers offer a sort of Ragtime Americana Stand-Up Bass, delicious Jug-band jazz that's thick brewed in 80 year old styles.Lovely twin vocals from the lovely Taylor and Elena run reminiscent of all that's good from the Ditty Bops.. With two members coming from the defunct thrash band Tibetan Beef Garden, the male half of the string section shows amazing diversity in their talent.

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Hindsite: A Show Journal and Scene Report

Jesse Michaels, Mike Park, Dateless, The Damage Done, Destroy Nate AllenMarch 17th @ GRNSTR House in SeattleWe found out a few days before this amazing show that we had some family from Bolivia flying through Seattle.. Tessa suggested I try to find a show.. The Damage Done were kind enough to let us open last minute.. The GRNSTR House was small and pretty well packed before things got started.

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Church : Live @ Dekum Manor

Church - IslandLive at Dekum Manor, April 10th 2009.Here's video of Church playing live at Dekum Manor.. There's also footage of James Rabbit (VA) who also played the show available on the menomination blip.tv page.. I have a lot of old video posted and try to put more new stuff up all the time.

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House Shows vs. The Almighty Dollar : Where Do You Stand?

There's been a mighty discussion on the Show-Guide recently regarding house shows and the almighty dollar-dollar-bill-ya'll.. It's been interesting watching this hot topic unfurl.We haven't chimed in too much but rather let this one unfold on it's own and it's still going four days after the first post.. We've gone ahead and pulled out all the Shoutbox commentary and posted it in order in hopes to carry on this topic and to bring in the RSS readers into the conversation.For your annoyance or reading pleasure (it will vary for you post-by-post): 4/24/2009 12:34:48 PMjuvenile: fuck house shows that charge money;we are the brokest city foolz 4/24/2009 12:38:24 PMpc-pdx: Everybody else is broke too, like touring bands that are traveling around the country spending gas money and eating fooods.. You should never be turned away for lack of funds - but please remember that we need to support those touring bands so scrounge all you can! 4/24/2009 1:52:00 PMfuck that: fuck houses that dont give all the money to bands. unless a window gets broke. or its a benefit. your punk dollars go to punk bands to get to the next punk show. ask your mom for a bigger allowance, or start drinking cheaper beer.;fucking lackasses. 4/24/2009 3:04:00 PMNathan Backous: People that do house shows don't charge money because its fun or to make profit, they do it so they can pass the money on to the touring bands that have to fill their tanks with gas (gas stations don't donate it). If you like seeing bands, be prepared to trade some cash for it.

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Hey Tiger's Last Show

Video of Hey Tiger's last show @ The Coop.. May 6th 2009.

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Palo Verde, featuring Nicole J. Georges

Palo Verde, featuring Nicole J.. Georges @ The Sorority House (May 7, 2009)

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Gone to Croatoan @ East End

Gone to Croatoan at East End (May 8, 2009)

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Best Band PDX 2009 Poll - we fixed our mistake

As i'm sure everybody knows, We're hosting the Best Band PDX 2009 poll on the Show-Guide.. Our friend MIKE informed us that when you hit the [Enter] key on the keyboard after typing in a band - the #1 band gets a vote rather than the band that was manually typed in... That means that The Closet Monsters' vote count is unnaturally high and they didn't really get as many votes as are now counted.. We've thought about the best way to handle this and consulted some good people to help figure this one out.. What we've decided to do is to NOT start the survey over but rather delete the bad count for The Closet Monsters.

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Bad Times' Best New Bands of 2009

This is my own list and has no connection to the current poll.. I have disqualified bands I know have existed prior to 2008, including some of my favorites such as Here Comes A Big Black Cloud, Popitilopitilus, Mattress, and Magic Johnson, all of whom I guess I’m giving props to right now.1.. Stag BittenHardcore, punk, whatever.. Stag Bitten always brings it.

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The Meatmen @ Plan B

The Meatmen @ Plan B.. This was fucking crazy.

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PDX Pop Now! CD Release Show and Track Listings Announced

PDX Pop Now! -- Portland's premier DIY music festival, compilation and music advocacy organization - has announced the track listing for this year's compilation and plans for the CD Release Benefit Show.. PDX Pop Now!'s recent sold-out "Make It Pop!" fundraiser saw performances by James Mercer of the Shins, Brandon Summers of the Helio Sequence, Marty Marquis of Blitzen Trapper, Ryan Sollee of The Builders & The Butchers, Loch Lomond and live video DJing by Dantronix and raised $4,000 for PDX Pop Now!. Tyler Kohlhoff has some pictures from the event here and you can download a yousendit file of Jason Quigley shots of the event here.. Feel free to spread around these great pictures from the "Make It Pop!" fundraiser!Portland music fans will be pleased to find out that PDX Pop Now! has announced the track listing for the sixth installment of their much heralded compilation.

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The Boneyard Shutdown .. Temporarily?

One of Portlands solid hardcore houses has been shut down, perhaps only temporarily with any luck.. From the Boneyard crew:ALL SHOWS CANCELED TILL FURTHER NOTICE, Fire Marshall will fine us $500 if we have a show without getting a permit.. We have not been able to obtain one yet so we can’t have any shows...Sorry

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Long Legged Woman @ Dekum Manor

Long Legged Woman (from SF) @ Dekum Manor (June 12, 2009)                                               

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Tiny Knives @ The Salad House

Video of Tiny Knives playing a set at The Salad House                                           

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NoFest Schedule - June 27 in St. Johns

June 27, 2009 - ALL DAY!!! in St.. John's, North PortlandFREE ADMISSIONST JOHNS BOOKSELLERSEarly Bird Children's Show hosted by Kelly.10-11am: Rookie Rock by Sound Roots.11-Noon: Jelly Jar Productions3-4pm: The Neighborhood DiariesTOWN SQUAREEclectic Main Stage, broadcast live on KBOO 90.7 fm.Noon-1.. Hemispheric Chamber Orchestra plays "In C" by Terry Riley.2-3.. Jamie Potts Catwalk3-3:30.

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Robogeisha: The Best Shit Ever!

Motherfucker.. This is the best shit of all time.I don't know what you want me to say here, what's to be said really?. This is just flat out THE MOTHERFUCKING BALLS!. Yo Japan: your shit is on point, and i respect you.

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Arya Imig: What I'll remember About The Coop

White Fang moves the crowd @ Sound Judgment festival II Time it was, and what a time it was, it was A time of innocence, a time of confidences Long ago, it must be, I have a photograph Preserve your memories, they're all that's left you        - Simon and Garfunkel It's the kind of loss that hits you suddenly even if you should have expected it.. It was inevitable, as most loss is, but it is no less heartbreaking. 17 months after The Coop took over for Brainstains, there will no longer be shows at that address that's been repeated so many times over the last few years: 3535 N.. Lombard.. I, for one, will very dearly miss seeing bands in the space that occupied that address.

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PDX Pop Now! Schedule Announced.

Finally!. Here's the long awaited magic lineup for this years PDX Pop Now! fest: Friday July 24INSIDE6:00-6:30 Dirty Mittens6:40-7:10 The EstrangedOUTSIDE7:25-7:55 Chamber of Commerce (Blue Cranes + Paxselin Quartet)8:05-8:35 Don HellionsINSIDE8:50-9:20 Fear No Music9:30-10:00 Peter Broderick10:10-10:40 The Mint ChicksOUTSIDE10:55-11:25 Animal Farm11:35-12:05 Explode Into Colors12:15-12:45 The Minus 5Saturday July 25INSIDE12:00-12:30 Teeath12:40-1:10 White Hinterland1:20-1:50 Morning TeleportationOUTSIDE2:05-2:35 Magic Johnson2:45-3:15 Rob Walmart3:25-3:55 Fist FiteINSIDE4:10-4:40 Benoit Pioulard4:50-5:20 Breakfast Mountain5:30-6:00 Nucular AminalsOUTSIDE6:15-6:45 Luck-One6:55-7:25 INSIDE Voices7:35-8:05 Red FangINSIDE8:20-8:50 Church9:00-9:30 Tara Jane O’Neil9:40-10:10 Deelay CeelayOUSTIDE10:25-10:55 Laura Gibson11:05-11:35 Nice Nice11:45-12:15 Pierced Arrows12:25-12:55 StrengthSunday, July 26INSIDE12:00-12:30 Ah Holly Fam’ly12:40-1:10 DASH!1:20-1:50 Guidance CounselorOUTSIDE2:05-2:35 The Andrew Oliver Sextet2:45-3:15 The Quick & Easy Boys3:25-3:55 Purple Rhinestone EagleINSIDE4:10-4:40 Sallie Ford & The Sound OUTSIDE4:50-5:20 Daniel Menche5:30-6:00 Jeffrey JerusalemOUTSIDE6:15-6:45 The Old Believers6:55-7:25 MY-G7:35-8:05 CullINSIDE8:20-8:50 Grouper9:00-9:30 Nurses9:40-10:10 ThronesOUTSIDE10:25-10:55 The Shaky Hands11:05-11:35 Lightheaded11:45-12:15 Au12:25-12:55 Menomena

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Summerfector 3 : Punk as fuck, 2009

It's back for the thrid year -The Defectors brings you a punk as fuck fest layed out all over Portland.. Same as it ever was: bar shows, All ages venue and house shows and also a few generator shows in the parks.. Rad, check out the constantly updated Sumerfector 3 schedule / line up Summerfector 3 bands:VIOLATION(SANTA ROSA,CA)SILENT MAJORITY(PDX)MACHINE GUN CONGRESS(PDX)ADELITAS(PDX)CRIME MACHINE(PDX)STAGGERING DEPTHS(EUGENE,OR)SON SKULL(OLYMPIA,WA)JUICY KARKASS(PDX)ISKRA(VICTORIA, B.C.)CRIMINAL DAMAGE(PDX)DOGS HOLY LIFE(LOS ANGELES)DEAD SECTION(PDX)KNELT ROTE(PDX)TRANSIENT(PDX)BURNING LEATHER(PDX)ABANDON(PDX)BOG PEOPLE(PDX)MASS GRAVE(VANCOUVER,B.C.)WARTORN(APPLETON,WI)WARCRY(PDX)AUTISTIC YOUTH(PDX)NUX VOMICA(PDX)RUM REBELLION(PDX)ELITIST(PDX)SALTED CITY(PDX)COUNTDOWN TO ARMAGEDDON(SEATTLE,WA)HERE COMES A BIG BLACK CLOUD(PDX)HONDURAN(PDX)ANON REMORA(PDX)DOWNRIVER(PDX)DRUNKEN BOAT(PDX)MARUAD(PDX)RAW NERVES(PDX)

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Sei Hexe and Gone to Croatoan @ The Brick Shithouse

Video footage of Sei Hexe and Gone to Croatoan @ The Brick Shithouse, Sat, Jul 18, 2009.

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Cull @ Pdx Pop Now

Video Footage of Cull at Pdx Pop Now 2009.

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Rib Cages, Hornet Leg, Big Black Cloud @ The Camel

Video of Rib Cages | Hornet Leg | Here Comes A Big Black Cloud (Tour Kickoff) @ The Camel House, August 12th

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The Thermals - Live @ Jackpot Records

The Thermals playing "Pillar Of Salt" Live @ Jackpot Records, Portland, Oregon 7.24.2009This video is from our friend Andrew.. The video production is amazing and we're not sure how he did it.. regardless, it's a great vid and Andrew should post more (wink wink). He's got a full channel of good looking videos.. If you're into music more on the indie side of the scene then be sure to Check out his video page menomenation.blip.tv/

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The Wail is not Closing - Want to Run the Music/Artspace?

Please be sure to read the second comment for the full update on this story.. The Dead Air Fresheners @ Rererato, 2008.. Photo by codfischIt's been almost a year since our last post about the art and music space on 42nd and Sumner.. The Hare Krishna house turned Rererato turned The Wail is ready for another incarnation.

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House Show Rules #2: Bringing Common Sense

I had intended to post this as a comment following the "House Show Rules #1: No Jerks!" blogpost, but then it sorta became an essay.. Boom Boom Kid @ the Sea Shanty, 2007.. As someone who's thrown a few hundred shows in houses over the last decade and a half, I gotta say that house-show hosts must be aware of the risks of turning their home into a public space, such as cops, assholes, theft, electrical fire, damage to walls and floors, giant messes to clean up, and even violence.. The solution is not so simple as complaining about jerks on a corner of the internet (such as here!) which will go unchecked by likely every such jerk who needs to check their attitude.The solution surely begins with considering what risks are associated with each show before you even confirm it.

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New Facebook Fan Page - Sign up!

FB.init("3746f61c7a4ac549c211bcbe73a5adb6");PC-PDX.com : Portland Show Guide on Facebook Hey Everybody!. We're finally getting grips on the Facebook action with a proper FAN Page.We have a facebook page already with a good number of friends.. If you're one of those people - please friend the new FANable page.Do you guys have any suggestion on what you would like to see from us in the Social realm?. Please feel free to post suggestions.

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Top Ten Things of This Summer...

i think a top ten things of this summer blog is a great idea. i'll start it off. 1. kickball at alberta park 2. rvivr "life moves" 7" 3. deep sleep/psyched to die live @ slouchvegas 4. dear landlord "dream homes" lp 5. ringers "curses"lp 6. shellshag live @ east end 7.the ergs "hindsight is 20/20" 2xlp 8. teenage cool kids @ slouchvegas 9.. FUTURE VIRGINS 7" 10. jordan o jordan live @ dill pickle [pc-pdx] We'll post ours in a few... What's yours?

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[Bootlegs by Scrags!] Dinner and the Maincourse: Live @ Dunes!

If you guys haven't run into Scragz in the past few months - know that this guy carts an awesome handheld recorder and snags some awesome recordings whilst bopping along at the shows.. We've been meaning to build him his own section to bring these awesome recordings to you..but you know... beer and tacos are pretty cool too.. Until then, check out the recordings here.. He's got a rad list of past shows recorded on his Bootlegs by Scrags Bandcamp site.Here's his latest recording: Dinner & the Main Course @ Dunes, playing their second to last show.Dinner & the Main Course by Bootlegs by Scragz

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Copy @ Sound Judgement 2009

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I dig Frank's costume.

Is that a drum on his head?. Video of Benjamin Franklin Freeman @ Backspace - October 13th, 2009

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Suck My Flick!

Hello PDX independent film makers!. Suck My Flick from. Chris Hackett on Vimeo.. Portlandfilm.org last Tuesday of the month!

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PDX Has the Best Scene in the Country - This Map Proves it!

This is why Portland has the best damn music scene in the country.Check it out, There are about 305 active houses and venues hosting shows here in Portland.. There are so many fucking awesome people hosting shows and so many more bands here that you barely have to cross the street to catch a part of the scene.. All it takes is a basement and some tallboys and you're gold.. We've been doing the Show-Guide for about three years now and have almost 700 venues and houses listed, about 305 are them have been active and thrown shows in the past five months.

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The Ultimate Open Mic List for Oregon and Vancouver

You've got a song, a poem, a joke, or something - we wanna HEAR it!A skit, an act, part of a movie or play that you like - we wanna SEE it!No matter what you've got, there's a place on this list to PERFORM it!I promise we will applaud no matter what.. May lead to bigger things: paying gigs,collaborations with other artists - who KNOWS?!?Maybe you're not a performer, but just want to witness some of the most creative,intelligent and beautiful people on the planet.Well, without an audience, it's just rehearsal.. It isn't a show without YOU!Come be a part of it!Open mics and jams come and go regularly, so it's a good idea to call and confirmdetails before attending one for the first time.. Please let me know of any additions/deletions/corrections.Now - COME SHOW US YOUR STUFF!(Open Mic tips at the end)ALL AGES Open Mics in Portland 21+ OPEN MICS ARE BELOW THESE as well as OutsidePortland and Non-weekly listingsMONDAYTwin Paradox coffee house 8609 SE 17th Ave Sellwood (503) 232-8202 sign up 6:45pm Show 7 pm Intimate neighborhood gathering.

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The "Super Awesome Contest" Contest, Win an Army Of Darkness dvd, a Useless State Records prize pack and Cereal!

.prize li{padding-bottom:5px;} We're finishing up the year with a count the jellybeans stylee` contest.. The Winner gets STUFF!. Useless State Records Prize Pack!. The Taxpayers Discography + a live DVD! the Atomic Butter Babes Discography!

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Laughing Horse Sleeping Bag Fundraiser Festival!

Laughing Horse Sleeping Bag Fundraiser Festival! |Four nights of musical entertainment, Thursday Jan 21st through Friday Jan 24th starting each night at 8PM featuring the following: |Al Bradbury |David Rovics |Felecia and the Dinosaur |Grandparents |Grey Anne |The Hand that Bleeds |Hepsi |Leviticus Appleton |Lindsey Walker |Mama Sunshine |Nun Chuksky |Riot Cop |Whale Warrior |With special guests from New Orleans |Count James |Peppermint Pony --Check out the Laughing Horse show schedule.History:In November we had a small fund raiser to buy sleeping bags for the homeless.. We generated $100 and bought three military intermediate grade bags rated to 10 to 20 degrees Fahrenheit at a discount from Andy & Bax and donated them to the "Red Door" at the Down Town Chapel.. Everyone thought the fund raiser went well so we decided to do it again.. In December we had another fund raiser and generated $200 and bought and donated six of the same sleeping bags.

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Northwest Punk Vol.1: White Fang, P.R.E , JX:ATG, Tiny Knives + Magic Johnson

NORTHWEST PUNK is a video fanzine dedicated to highlighting some of the best new punk music in the Pacific Northwest.. Volume 1 features music from White Fang, Purple Rhinestone Eagle, Jonny X and the Groadies, Tiny Knives and Magic Johnson.Northwest Punk Vol. 1 from NORTHWEST PUNK Inspiration for this project was taken from the folks who put out Mondo Vision, a bay area punk videozine.. Check it out: vimeo.com/mondovisionThis is a pretty rough edit, but I've been wanting to get it out soon... if you have any suggestions, or would like to help in the future, contact britestreet@hotmail.com

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Foot Ox @ The Camel House

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Here Comes a Big Black Cloud @ Ducketts Public House

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Here Comes a Big Black Cloud @ The Failing House

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All-Ages Movement Project Needs Your Help

February 26, 2010 -- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: THE ALL-AGES MOVEMENT PROJECT FALLS TO 11 th PLACE IN PEPSI REFRESH PROJECT, IN DANGER OF LOSING $50,000 GRANT COMPETITION WITH 3 DAYS OF VOTING REMAINING.. SOS!. Mayday!. Calling all supporters of all-ages music in every town!

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Doug Fir Spits on Minneapolis and Hosts Bike Races

Okay, maybe not 'spits' but we stuck that in there for Jay Awesome and you other minneapolisotans.. We usually don't post press releases from bars but we love bikes and also being cooler than Minneapolis. —from doug fir: Doing Our Part In Reclaiming "The Most Bike Friendly Community"Portland has been atop of Bicycle Magazine's most bike friendly cities since 1995.. We have always looked down at the competition.. Well, until now.

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Repost of Dekum Manor Bulletin

From: DekumManor (51855205)To: (61763797)Date: 5/3/2010 4:47:59 PMSubject: Seve Sheldon and Aubrey EdwardsIf anyone has the number or address for either of these assholes we at Dekum Manor would really love to get a hold of them.. After tagging both sides of the little market next to our house at my birthday party, they spray-painted FUCK YOU on our front steps.. We are now facing possible eviction from our house and the suspension of all shows because of their vandalism.. Thanks for any help you can offer, friends :-)<3 Dekum Manor

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PDX Pop Now! 2010 Compilation Track Listing

Portland music fans will be pleased to find out that PDX Pop Now! has announced the track listing for the sixth installment of their much heralded compilation.. The 2-disc set is stacked with 40 tracks from some of Portland OR's finest musicians, including previously unreleased tracks from Menomena, Talkdemonic, Dharma Bums, Blitzen Trapper, and more.. Deelay Ceelay, Tope, The Angry Orts and The Great Mundane have been tapped to perform at this year's CD Release Benefit which will be held June 3rd at Holocene (1001 SE Morrison St.). The cover is $10 and that will include a copy of the 2010 PDX Pop Now!. Compilation CD.

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Bad Times Best New Bands of 2010

This is my annual obligatory response to the Willamette Week’s Best New Bands feature.. These are the best new-to-me bands I’ve seen since last May.. I've tried to exclude bands formed before 2008.. I’m sure you have your own lists, so feel free to post them below!1.

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Mattress @ Burgerville

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Swampbuck @ The Pink Room

I didn't make this, but I like it.Swampbuck Live at the Pink RoomSwampbuck | MySpace Music Videos

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Transient @ The Brick Shithouse

Transient at The Brick Shithouse from Koalacanth on Vimeo.

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Final weekend of the old PC-PDX!

hi all,It's been a long time coming... almost an embarrassingly long time.I started talking about it around this time last year.. The earliest date that i can recall where i said we'd launch was to be New Years day, some of you may been able to nail it on a earlier date than that.ALL said and done, here in internet ink,THE NEW VERSION OF THE SHOW-GUIDE WILL LAUNCH OVER THE 4TH OF JULY WEEKEND!It's looking pretty great, i'm not going to lie - we're very excited to get the new version published and have you guys use it!WHAT'S NEW:Maps and Membership and more!SPEED:The current version in the past few weeks/months has often been slow, sometimes just gone non-responsive (ouch!). The site has been almost completely recoded - it's all 99% fresh to be able to handle to ~15 page views the site is averaging EVERY SECOND.Membership Features!If you happened to have signed up for the current implementation of Membership on pc-pdx, i'm sure you're deeply disappointed.. RURL SORR about that!. Subscribe and Track your Bands/Artists + places:Be alerted, even emailed when your subscriptions have new shows.Save shows to a custom list.Show Tags! -"being able to tag shows by genre would be pretty sweet so people into particular kinds of music could search for shows that way -name"this is the most requested feature of all time and it's finally here.

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Foot Ox at Satyricon

..tapped in!!This video is Foot Ox first show since Teague's return to Portland.. The show was at Satyricon on June 30th with DMV,Your Heart Breaks, and Defiance,ohio.. Sadly, YHB had to cancel but the show turned out to be a real slam anyway!You can see more videos from that show on my youtube channelhttp://www.youtube.com/user/hollypaulyAlso, this coming up friday july16th will be the Foot Ox official record release party at The Green House featuring various members of distant colony,forever and blood beach.. Come and celebrate with us and some good times!!

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FAQ / WTF?! : Tags and Band Bios explained

Hi Hi,The Band Bios and Tags are awesome and are a huge step forward in the coolness and usefulness of this site.. They are also, on occasion, the source of some WTF?! confusion:"Why is my show tagged 'dubstep'?. I'm not dubtep or reggae!""The listing for my band shows the wrong bio - what's up?"Let it be known that we don't actually host any of the band bios or tags at this moment in time.. All of the band bios come from user submitted data from Last.Fm.

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Defect Defect @ Pdx Pop Now

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Asss @ Pdx Pop Now

Video by BrewcasterASSS - 2010 PDX Pop Now!. Festival from brewcaster on Vimeo.

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Adios to The Honey Pot: Show House Burns Down

(Source: The Oregonian)trackingBy Molly Hottle, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.Aug. 01--Portland Fire and Rescue Bureau said a candle left burning throughout the night was the cause of an early morning fire today at a North Portland home.. The blaze displaced five residents and left a firefighter with minor head and neck injuries.Portland Fire crews arrived on the scene at 6:53 a.m. to a column of black smoke coming from the house at 5934 N.. Borthwick Ave.Officials were told all five residents, three men and two women, were out of the house when they arrived.Four of the residents had to jump from a window to escape.. One of the men suffered a shoulder injury and a woman twisted her ankle when they were escaping.

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Satyricon to close FOREVER, Last Show: Halloween 2010

The legendary punk club is in it's last few weeks - it will be shutting down for good on Halloween.Here's a quote from the upcoming Willy Week [don't hurt me casey!]"Satyricon, once the longest-running indie rock nightclub on the West Coast and one of Portland’s few all ages venues, will close its doors for good this October.. The building housing the venerable venue has been purchased by local outreach/housing program the MacDonald Center and is slated to be demolished to make way for a new shelter.. The club, which shut down once before in 2003 after an initial two-decade run (when the club opened in 1984, WW’s Zach Dundas noted at it’s ‘03 closure, there was “no Pearl District, no River District, no Chinese Garden, no MAX”), is planning a string of high-profile farewell shows in October, with the final blast happening on Halloween.. Satyricon has been open in its current all ages format since 2006.

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Big Black Cloud @ The Laughing Horse Block Party

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Super Bonheur, new Pdx locals!

This musical duo is fun,charming and quirky and new to the Portland streets.. They were featured in the Oregonian while playing the market circuit around town and have recently arrived to Portland after much traveling.. Be sure to check them out some time and welcome them here.

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The Preblon Kids offer up bootlegs of Portlands best.

Some Examples of what the house of preblon kids have been doing, documenting local house shows- here's a bunch of em...grrrlfriend@myspace.com[get in touch to book some shows, or to get a copy of yr band playing from us- at this point we really might have it]Terraform @ Dekum Manor 9/1/10Stag Bitten @ Dekum Manor 9/1/10Guantanamo Bay Watch @ Dekum Manor 9/1/10Tiny Knives @ The House of Preblon 6/5/10Fuck Mountain @ The House of Preblon 6/5/10Cat Stalks Bird @ The House of Preblon 6/5/10Dinner & The Main Course @ The House of Preblon 6/5/10Grrrl Friend @ The House of Preblon 6/5/10

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FU: The best ALL AGES venue in portland - it's new, it's the Factory Underground

Let's start with the bad : they're north.. Wicked North.Everything else at the Factory Underground is pandas and puppies and fireworks and punk rock rainbows - this place is awesome.. Bands, coffee, cute girls running an art gallery that doesn't suck (really -it doesn't suck!), a half-pipe(?!),I grew up in small towns(s) midwest and if we weren't getting kicked out of wall-mart (the intercom is [*]+[0]+[3] by-the-way), we were sitting at Denny's, chain smoking, drinking coffee and talking about opening up the coolest place in the universe...some sort of punk rock coffee shop with half-pipes and all of our favorite bands.. It's pretty crazy just how closely the Factory Underground resembles everything i ever wanted out of being a trapped in teenager in the boring ass madwest.

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Stag Bitten @ House of Preblon

In the first video they cover Crass and James Brown.. I don't know the last song.. In the second video they cover Nirvana, Devo, and do some of their own songs.

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LIVE SET ONLINE: PUNKINS! (ft/ members of Magic Johnson, Nucular

http://indierocksucks.blogspot.com/2010/11/punkins-ft-members-of-magic-johnson.html#more*PUNKINS were/are a PDX Halloween supergroup, featuring members of Magic Johnson, Karen & Nucular Aminals, who performed all those Smashing Pumpkins jamz at the Failing House on 10/30.. DOWNLOADABLE SET: 1.Cherub Rock 2.Zero 3.Rhinoceros 4.1979 5.Today 6.Rocket 7.Bullet with Butterfly Wingswww.indierocksucks.com for more from your fav PDX artists & keep an eye out for more sets from Halloween Weekend coming soon! <3

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Stag Bitten (as Negro Nation) Cover Set mp3s/video

Stag Bitten performed on 10/29/10 at the House of Preblon Halloween show as "Negro Nation." Their downloadable mp3 set was as follows: 1.Crass - Walls (Fun In The Oven) 2.Crass - Shaved Women 3.James Brown - It's A Man's Man's Man's World 4.Gina X Performance - Be A Boy 5.Nirvana - Territorial Pissings 6.Devo - Gates of Steel 7.Stag Bitten - WWIII 8.Stag Bitten - Rainbow Co.. Inc....mp3 and video at www.indierocksucks.com

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Mix It Up, Fuck It Up! A Comp. Tape and Benefit Show To Help KEEP THE SHOW-GUIDE ALIVE!

Useless State Records presents: Mix it up, Fuck it up!- a compilation tape of Portland DIY bands.. This tape is a benefit for the Portland Show Guide so come to the Tape Release show at the Failing House on Saturday, November 20th and support this site that supports us all.. If you donate more than $3 at the door, you get a free tape!USRSide A: Mix It Up 1) Early Times - When We Were Young2) Batmen - Permanently Wasted3) Bill Skins Fifth Will Punch You Right in the Face! - Bubbles Turd4) Drats!!! - Art Nouveau5) Carrion Spring - Scumfuck Angels6) Stag Bitten - Look and Listen7) Tiny Knives - Retaining Wall8) Big Black Cloud - Allergic To Love9) Mic Crenshaw - Bounty10) Absent Minds - Sweet Music11) Nun Chuksky - Let Them Eat LycraSide B: Fuck It Up1) Foot Ox - Charlie Brown2) Super Bonheur - Bang!3) Destroy Nate Allen - The Circle Must Be Broken4) Raised By Television - We've Got It All5) Lee Corey Oswald - Heyna, or No?6) A Confederacy of Dunces - Wicked Bad Air7) Drunken Boat - Hell Again8) The Taxpayers - And the Damn Thing Bit Him9) Archers - Door to All Marvels10) Popitilopitilus - Petting Zoo11) JonnyX and the Groadies - Upon a Thrown of Teeth12) DJ Foxdye - Pony Princess East Oatmealpc-pdxupdated 11/17:**Support the guide - buy a tape HERE** Tapes are available for $2 - $10 sliding scale. +$2 ship.

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Parrot singing Let the Bodies Hit the Floor

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Boo Frog - Birthday Girl

I am very excited for 2011.. It is the year that will go to 11. 3rika.

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PDX Pop Now! Accepting Submissions for 2011 Comp

PDX Pop Now! -- Portland's premier DIY music festival, compilation and music advocacy organization - has begun accepting submissions for its 2011 compilation.. Submissions can be made online at www.pdxpopnow.org and will be accepted through February 28, 2011.PDX Pop Now! is excited to announce the launch of its new website which features new design, photos, outreach information, historical background on the organization, and many different ways to get involved.. PDX Pop Now! will be holding its first 2011 volunteer meeting on Tuesday, January 18, 7-9 p.m. at Backspace.. At the meeting volunteers can apply for the booking committee, sign up to be on the compilation listening, marketing and fundraising committees or to volunteer at the festival.

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LOTL: Pacific NW Underground needs music.

I have started doing a show on Radio23's Cascade Community Radio called Land of the Lost: Pacific Northwest Underground and I am seeking some good Pacific NW music to play.. Any genre is ok from punk to folk to spoken word to hiphop... I'll play stuff I like (fortunately I have eclectic taste). Send your high quality MP3s (no less than 192 kbps) to lotlpdx (at) skullmanrecords.com.. It's like a big mixtape, streams on Wednesday nights & will be archived as well.. Attach up to 3 MP3s per mail & write if you have questions or comments or whatever.... x 3rika

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The Bus: Documentary on Oakland's Mobile Music Venue

This came my way so I thought I'd share it.. Its about a "homemade mobile music venue from Oakland, CA that runs on veggie oil."I also found this video:

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Kotten-Dik @ The Pink Room

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Some Goofpunx Pics!

Okayyyyyy I wish I had more pictures from the Goofpunx Fest to post, but unfortunately others and I were only able to snap a few.. I also had to weed out the garbage photos from the good ones so here is what I came up with.. We have some photos from Red and Black show and some from Marge Madness. http://www.flickr.com/photos/skinnyisthenewblack/sets/72157626394221942 pc-pdx edit-add on:Check out Lee Corey Oswald "These Four Walls" at Marge Madness @ Sea Shanty :

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Big Black Cloud @ The Frawg Pound + Interview

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free pdx music from 1984

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Our Tech - the past, present and future of pc-pdx

"Anyone know what CMS this site is based off of?"This site is 100% custom freshness!It started in 2007 as a hardcoded mess - i literally updated the show listings by hand every night at midnight to remove the old shows.Jan 1st 2008 saw version #2 where we actually got a database and pc-pdx started becoming a real website, the wiki format that it is today - rather than a static mess.~July 2009 came version #3, the Red + Black version where the site really started to take off.. The site started to become more user friendly - we had some hits and misses with features..(membership like features were a HUGE failure) It started getting really slow and cumbersome towards the end of its run because i learned to code along with this site and it hasn't always been the highest preforming, scalable implementation.July 5th 2010 - this current version breached the septic internet womb and came into fruition.. A lot of cool new features were added but now that it's so many months later, i see a lot of places for improvement.. You guys might have seen the "Ohhh shit!

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Bad Times' Best New Bands of 2011

The Willamette Week recently put out their annual “Best New Bands” issue, which featured a hodgepodge of Portland’s most power-washed music.. As a friend of mine said, seeing that list makes me feel like I don’t care about local music.. Perhaps we truly are “underground.” Below is my obligatory response list, accumulated from attending numerous house shows and parties.. I have to say Drunk Dad gets props for having one of the rowdiest followings in town, while Sexhair is probably the purist Portland punk band since Moral Panic broke up.This year started out rather rough so something needs to be said for the houses that hosted shows.

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Hammerlord is sooo metal \,,/

HAHAHAHA,My buddy Jeremiah shared this awesome band called Hammerlord - they're on their second album but it's new to me.. If you aren't aware of these classy gents, they ARE SO DAMN METAL.. The cd (what's a cd?) should come with a mastadon fur loincloth You have to approach it the same way as you would Storm Troopers Of Death - don't take it so damn serious because it's just metal.. Storm the Castle

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PDX Pop Now! Unveils Compilation Track List And Release Show

Portland music fans will be pleased to find out that PDX Pop Now! has announced the track listing for the eighth installment of their much heralded compilation.. The 2-disc set is stacked with 41 tracks from some of Portland OR's finest musicians.. O Bruxo, Blue Skies For Black Hearts, Swahili, Lost Lander, along with DJ papi chulo and DJ GIGANTE, have been tapped to perform and provide music between bands at this year's CD Release Benefit which will be held June 2nd at Holocene (1001 SE Morrison St.). The cover is $10 and that will include a copy of the 2011 PDX Pop Now!. Compilation CD.

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Rigsketball 2011 - A Portland Band Basketball Tournament

Rigsketball 2011 - A Portland Band Basketball TournamentAnd And And challenges any Portland band to compete in our summer basketball tournament!The tourney is going to take place anytime between June 7th and June 19th!The teams will be the top three players from each band v.s. the aforementioned of other bands partaking in said tournament.TUESDAY THE 7THBlast Majesty v.s.. Ugly Flowers 1:00 Tues The 7th at 4851 NE Alberta ct.Youthbitch v.s.. Hello Electric 2:30 Tues The 7th Location TBALaura Gibson v.s.. Charts 4:00 Tues The 7th at 2nd and SE water across from Bunk Bar in that parking lot.Otis Heat v.s.

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We Fucked-Up and Deleted ALL The Flyers...

Yep, it's true!All 19,637 flyers went kaputznik and made a super bye-bye action with no recycle bin love of any kind.I am uber careful and paranoid of these things and still manage to pull an epic maneuver like this about once a year. -Last year whilst working on a client site, i deleted the entire four-year calendar set for *two* site for the Solano County Library.. YEAH BUDDY.Yep, So - where we're at now is that i quickly dropped $43 to get some magic (Slingblade)"Should'nta done that boy" software so as i can try to get back the deleted info off the hard drive. -IT was a half win.. I think we got back most of the files but there seems to be an issue where the files that came back did so with different data or whatever : The file names no longer match the actual show info they should contain so SHIT IS BANANANANAS all over the site right now.I have since found a version of the flyers folder in our old svn repo from about 6-weeks ago when we made some reconfiguration changes.. I, in all my awesomeness, didn't get these two flyer related folders back into svn sync (because we're virtualizing the directories to share the data with other sites, NERD stuff..) and totally blew the gun in the face.It's okay though.

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Transient in head on collision - needs your help in getting home and for medical bills!

On their way to Savannah, Georgia yesterday, Transient was in a head on collision when an SUV flew over the medium and landed on them.. Krysta had to be airlifted to the hospital.. We are all relieved that they are alive and doing ok.. Krysta had to have surgery on her wrist and her hip put back into place.

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Transient Benefit Shows!

In case you missed the post directly below this one, awesome PDX band (but you know that already) Transient got roughed up and needs some community love.. Check out the benefit shows and toss em some scratchon their way to savannah, georgia on tour, transient was in a head on collision when an suv flew over the median and landed on them. krysta had to be airlifted to the hospital and had to have surgery on her wrist plus her hip put back into place. the van has been totaled and they need help with medical and other bills. there will also be a raffle for some seriously awesome prizes.Sunday, 8/14/2011 @ RottureAtriarchWizard RifleDavis HookerSluaghOrder Of The GashChasmaSaturday, 8/27/2011 @ Plan BElitestBasment AnimalSpectral TombsAtrocity ExhibitionHeavy VoodooTransient updates + donations here

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Special Late-Night Radio Preview of MUFUII

Would you like to hear Mix it Up, Fuck it Up II before it's released?. Tune in to KBOO 90.7 on Wednesday night/ Thursday morning (Sept 22nd) 3am-5:30am to Mixtape Radio, hosted by Joshua Harper.. He will be broadcasting this tape and doing a live interview with a Useless State Records representative, so tune in and be the first to hear this rad new tape!

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Mastodons new full album up on the tubes

I'm pretty excited about this so i'm posting it.. WHURD

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Welcome to the NEW server

This is it, welcome.we're a part of 'the cloud' now. multi-core processing in! single, slow-ass not-multi-but-single-1994-core processing out!MUCH more memory!most of you won't care about the nerd stuff, just know the site should be wicked-much faster now and not choke so hard when its serving up ++60 requests per second.THIS IS A WIN./that's all.

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PC-PDX Benefit This Friday @ Backspace!

Hey Look!. Awesome people rounded up an awesome line-up and are throwing the show-guide a benefit show at backspace this friday. "...it's a valuable tool that has benefited the city, us haphazard bands, and clueless fans without the cliquey barrier so many feel is necessary to be cool."Thanks guys!. WE'LL SEE EVERYBODY IN PORTLAND THERE ON FRIDAY.

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TOP-10 SHOWS @ THE KNOW in 2011

On the eve of a new year, I thought it would be fun to get in on the “year-in-review” things that many people/publications/media-outlets do.. PC-PDX has always been a huge supporter of our endeavors at The Know, and what better forum to share this retrospective look at 2011.In chronological order:04.01 - FROM ASHES RISE / NUX VOMICA / TRAUMAThis line-up was so ridiculous that some people on message boards had concluded that our listing was an “April fools” joke...it wasn’t, and the show went down with hundreds of people cramming into our humble venue-area to catch a glimpse of Portland’s finest d-beat crushers. 06.10 - BASEMENT ANIMAL / VILE GASH (OH) / NUKKEHAMMER (OH) / SOCIETY NURSE (WA)Rarely are we able to accommodate a slew of touring-acts that can hold their own with minimal local-support.. But when you’ve got the nastiest sonic-pummeling from crew of Ohioans, and a venerable/touted neighbor from the north, support becomes less of an issue!. Not to mention what would be the final assault from Portland’s very own grind-punks, Basement Animal.06.18 - SLOWMOTIONS (JP) / CRAZY SPIRIT (NY) / ORIGIN OF M (JP) June was the month of unbelievable touring acts playing our stage.

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Refused - finally, a reason to care about coachella

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WE'RE FIVE YEARS OLD! -a screenshot retrospective

The Show-Guide at this point, as we've been told by many (thanks!), is the tip top kaleidoscope of cool as far as any diy show listing site goes.. It is an open-to-anybody wiki where you can post and edit any show to keep everybody up to date on the cool shit that happens here in pdx.. Back in 2007 there was not any central place to find and talk about shows or to keep everybody updated on last minute changes : just bands with myspace pages furiously sending out bulletins at 5pm saying that the 8'oclock show had to move houses across town or whatever and that just want awesome.We created the show-guide wiki, as it stands now, over the last five years.. I got nostalgic a few days back and decided to hit Archive.org to go through some of their screenshots of the various site styles through the years.

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Record Store Day!

This Saturday is the fifth Record Store Day!Get on down and support your local record store or record store supporter.. Make sure that any RSD show is posted and tagged "record-store-day" and be in the list of portland record store day shows

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The Know Presents: MEMORIAL WEEK (because a day is not enough)

So…there are many music “festivals” and whatnot during Memorial Day weekend (and a boat-load of bands that hit the road in relation to said festivals/with the on-set of spring). as result, we have cleverly/effectively ridden on the coat-tails of these festivals/tours and are proud to present the most awesome 7 consecutive-days of music (without resorting to festival “test of endurance”/”epic” line-ups…i.e. 10+ bands on a single-day), which we have deemed:The Know’s MEMORIAL WEEK (because a day is not enough) SHOW SERIESalso, of important note (READ): several of the shows listed will require us to monitor the capacity of our venue/bar area (for everyone’s sake), and we’ll be using the same style of “restricted-entry” that was employed over our 7th Anniversary-Week for the Tragedy/From Ashes Rise/Bi-Marks show. if you are not familiar with how this worked, the amendments to our standard cover/entry to our shows are listed below:- remove our cover-charge “cap” (of $5) in favor of an appropriate alternative…somewhere in the range of $7-10- we close our bar at 7pm and clear out extraneous furniture and what-have-you to create more standing-room/viewing ability for the presumably larger crowd.- we re-open at 8pm and charge entry/stamp hands at our front entrance (instead of the curtained entrance to the venue area…our venue is adjacent to our bar-room/separated by a wall and curtain. the curtain remains open during these shows). the stamps allow for attendees come-and-go out of our space for a smoke/phone call/etc and then be re-admitted to the show.- our front door-person will be running a ‘counter’ and will restrict entry once our capacity is reached. at this point we’ll revert to a one-in/one-out system that is up to the discretion of our front door staff.- we often do not allow drinks at our side-walk tables during “special scenarios,” as we must keep the sidewalk passable for pedestrian traffic/only have the space to allow the anticipated number of smokers at our tables without causing disruption for passer-by. this is also up to the discretion of our front door staff (who are unbelievably amiable/looking out for the best interest of the show…so please work with them).- we’ll run a video-feed of the performances to our barroom tv’s so that people can still see the show in the event that they want leave the venue area (ex – they’re tired from standing/feeling too cramped/need another drink/etc)long and short is…during “special scenarios” we try to maximize the level of comfort and stage visibility for the show-goers/provide greater compensation to the performer(s) while also being particularly sensitive/not causing disruption to our neighborhood. our barroom and venue area will be utilized as ”one room” for the duration of the show (versus being separate entities). i.e. regular patrons/curious passerby/etc are not admitted to any part of our establishment during the show run-time without paying the cover…this allows for the greatest number of people who actually want to see the show/are invested in the bands/music to attend!

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PDX Pop Now! Unveils 2012 Compilation Track Listing and All-Ages

PDX Pop Now! -- Portland's premier DIY music festival, compilation and music advocacy organization has announced the track listing for this year's compilation and plans for the CD Release Show.. Portland music fans will be pleased to find out that PDX Pop Now! has announced the track listing for the ninth installment of their much heralded compilation.. The 2-disc set is stacked with 41 tracks from some of Portland, OR's finest musicians.. Sun Angle, , Wild Ones, Hollywood Tans, , Rose along with DJ Porsche Cayenne, have been tapped to perform and provide music between bands at this year's CD Release Benefit which will be held June 7th at Holocene.

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No.Fest

The st johns nofest is a free music and arts festival with over 90 performances this year. the event begins at noon in the historic town square, and continues across multiple venues late into the night. every conceivable and perceivable music genre is represented, as well as installations, micro film fests, and a spoken word/comedy showcase. growing into its 5th year, the SJNF is evolving and expanding. we are commited to staying awesome...and weird!WHEN THE BROKEN BOW PULSE EMITTER RLLRBLL PINEHURST KIDS Dr ID DR.. AMAZON DIRTCLODFIGHT METANOIA THE INCREDIBLE KID MICHAEL STIRLING DOUG THERIAULT RENFIELD BRIZBOMB SIR RICHARD BISHOP LSD&D BLAKE MACKEY MANGLED BOHEMIANS PLANKTON WAT MARISA ANDERSON j.d. helwig SPECIAL OCCASIONISTS JEREMY BURTON BAND JENNIFER ROBIN THE HAND THAT BLEEDS SUPER DUPER FUN GUN THE HARVEY GIRLS ROB WALMART VSOB RAW NERVES DRUDEN THREADBEAR MONGOLOID VILLAGE SOUND ROOTS Ix MOOGWYND PECOS CHILD CHILDREN MUSTAPHAMOND ART SEED MATT MCDOWELL NEVER AGAIN SWAMP BUCK BISON BISON THE CHARLIE DARWINS RYAN A.. MILLER PILLOW HORSE QUAIL {[(gang radio)]} FIASCO THE FOOD LOVE BOMB GO-GO SNOW BUD KLUSTERFUCHEN IRIE IDEA MAX COUNTRYMAN RAYLIOTA THE SILENT NUMBERS BETACRACK PARTY KILLER TEFLON MONSTERSIZEDMONSTER C.E.. SEARLE YARBLES DRUNK DAD SOME ONE & SOME ELSE HIVE THE SEXBOTS OLD DIRTY FACE SUBLIME FREQUENCIES THE INSTIGATORS BOYD ANDERSON THE ARCHITECTS XYPLEXIA MODALIS ONG HIT NO JOKE BANISHING OLD CITY LORD JOHN HENRY MONKEY TRICK CADDOC FLATLAND JOE PAUL WE SICK BOSS

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Ich Bin der Shit, Bitches!

I just got back from a drinking tour of Scandinavia which you know was fucking awesome.. I was hanging out with some rad Germans and of course drinking often leads to youtube so we shared a few gems.. I gave them the gift that is Chuggo and what they offered up just blew my mind.. Here, i share with you, the most hardcore gangstarr motherfucker keeping Deutschland real: Moneyboy.I'm not even capable of putting words around this legend on the mic so i'll leave it to Moneyboy himself "ich bin der Shit - Bitches"Money Boy - "Dreh den Swag auf"I might suggest waiting until you've had 9 or 12 beers before jumping into the vid - so, you know, you FULLY appreciate it.

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The Shape of Punk to Come has a $50 price tag

One of my favorite bands of all time is playing in town tonight and i feel it is my obligation to boycott.I don't think i could actually bear to see Refused.. The Shape of Punk to Come is one of the best, most solid albums ever released and it never got the justice it deserved with the bands sudden breakup. -That was 15 years ago though.. What if i did actually see this show and it sucked?. I don't know if i could handle that.

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Take Five: missing a jazz-great, podcasting with pdx-great Arya Imig

It was over five years ago that i met the poppa of the Portland scene, Arya Imig.. It was at a show, of course, in the dmug basement that sparked it.. Since then, i think we've done some cool things together.. One of my favorites is this podcast from the fall of 2007.

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East End Temporarily Closed Due to Fire

East End is closed for at least this weekend due to the fire that took place at the Osborn Building this morning as reported by KATU.. East End will reopen as soon as possible.. How long will depend on the extent of damage inside the bar and show room.. We will keep people updated about our status through the website at www.eastendportand.com (the design of which by the way was recently updated by our good friends at DBmonkey so this is a great time to check that out!) and via these email list updates.

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