sachiko
Oct 11 2008
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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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sachiko
Oct 21 2008
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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 |
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sachiko
Oct 25 2008
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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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sachiko
Nov 05 2008
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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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sachiko
Nov 13 2008
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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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pc-pdx
Nov 18 2008
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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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Bad Times
Dec 06 2008
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Dec 13 2008
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pc-pdx
Jan 24 2009
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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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sachiko
Mar 10 2009
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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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sachiko
Mar 10 2009
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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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pc-pdx
Mar 27 2009
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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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sachi
Mar 28 2009
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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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pc-pdx
Apr 12 2009
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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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Bad Times
May 15 2009
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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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pc-pdx
May 21 2009
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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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pc-pdx
Jul 04 2009
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The Coop is dead.. After a 17 month run as The Coop, the space moves on and the shows at 3535 N Lombard will cease.. The future of the house is up in the air but according the the Landlord, the house will go in another direction and will not be again leased for the community space that the Lombard house has been running for the last 2 -1/2 years.. The shows will stop at the 3535, but the house may again see old tennants as John Brainard is back in town to possibly open up a coffee shop or hostel... (?)The last show will probably be the Resistance Fest Northwest day #4 show on Sunday, July 12th.
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pc-pdx
Aug 22 2009
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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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pc-pdx
Sep 05 2009
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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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pc-pdx
Nov 17 2009
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Awesome uhm....this band kicks ass.Is there anything else to say?First time i saw these guys was 6+ years ago at the now way defunct Meow Meow.. It was probably with Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower or some other cacophonous jazz-punk ensemble . Whomever it was, I remember being really excited about seeing the headliner - but it was one of those shows that i left being way more pumped about the local openers: Mustaphamond.. At the time i recall the band was something like 5 dudes doing Dischord meets Converge math-punk.. It was amazing and blew my mind.
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pc-pdx
Jul 21 2010
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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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pc-pdx
Apr 12 2011
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"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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pc-pdx
Jun 22 2012
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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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pc-pdx
Dec 06 2012
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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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