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ELEVEN PDX MAGAZINE ISSUE NO. 3
THE USUAL 3 Letter from the Editor 3 Staff Credits Columns 4 Editorials Fun With Phones
5 Aural Fix Janka Nabay Atlas Genius Lianne La Havas
new music 7 Short List
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FEATURES Mini Feature 14 A-TRAK
National Scene 15 Holy Fuck just about sums it up — for those needing more detail, ELEVEN hollers at Brian Borcherdt for *expletive deleted* explanations.
FILM Watch Me Now 20 Jim Henson Retrospective Cinekink Spend the Summer with Bill Murray Instant Queue Review Movies In The Park
7 Album Reviews Onuinu Wild Nothing Yeasayer Bloc Party
Local Visual Arts 21 Husband and wife creative duo APAK
LIVE MUSIC 9 Musicalendar An encompassing overview of concerts in PDX for the upcoming month. But that’s not all - the Musicalendar is complete with a venue map to help get you around town.
11 Review Spotlight What The Festival?!
12 Upcoming Shows
PDX Paragons 23 Bubble Cats No Kind Of Rider Still Caves
Neighborhood of the Month 24 NE Alberta Street
The Local Biz 25 ELEVEN’s favorite local business directory
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HELLO PORTLAND! Another day in beautiful, sunny Portland. Well, for the next couple of weeks at least. (Hopefully.) Lately, we’ve doled out rambles about gettin’ while it’s good, about all the great festivals near and far, about improving your lifestyle and plenty of other locally pertinent topics. Which is why I would like to take this opportunity to jazz about a less relevant topic: The Olympic Games. Our lauded “sports” tend to be a somewhat alientating thing by nature, from the early days of getting picked last on the school playground, to the elder spectrum and more adult/contemporary attitude of scorn for those that take their sportsball a little too seriously. As a midwest native, I too often tend to fall among the latter, guilty as charged. I will say that I find a beauty and grace in the athletecism; there’s a little bit of music in that last, exhausting kick and wall-tap of America’s new gold-medal sweetheart. While I prefer to root for the world as a human family over dyed-in-the-wool nationalism, there is a certain compelling curiosity to see who is the best at “it”, whatever activity “it” may be. Packing the stadiums and rooting for blood may be less evolved than we strive to be, but nobody is perfect and we all give ourselves much too hard of a time. For a moment, let’s give our world’s finest athletes a little credit for all their hard work, whatever country they are from. As futile as those achievements may be in the long run, they poured themselves into it. Moving on, let’s aim our furious focus to creativity, innovation and kindness. »
- Ryan Dornfeld, Editor in Chief
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EDITORIALS Fun With Phones Welcome to the world of tomorrow. It has been a dream, of some, that one day the inhabitants of this planet be joined as one – a world community, cooperating to achieve a common goal. Well congratulations, we did it, and that dream has become a nightmare. Everyone already knows that the internet is everywhere now and cell phones and laptops have given us the ability to be connected to everything at any time, but does that mean we must? The phrase, “With great power comes great responsibility” enters the mind. Our unquenchable thirst for knowledge and perpetual gravitation towards universal wholeness has been ongoing since the dawn of man. As we neared our ultimate goal, however, our persistence and impatience inspired us to gain more and more speed, and now our momentum has caused us to overshoot our aim considerably, reaching a frightening point of no return. This level of unprecedented connectivity is going to tear us apart. When was the last time you had dinner with a friend without at least one of you checking your Facebook, tagging you at the restaurant, posting a picture of your food, or answering a text? Now that even the elderly (trained by their offspring) have been connected to the matrix, entire families have taken to spending hours together in a room and barely speaking six real words to one another. Some of us don’t even know who our real friends are any more. Our communications have been limited to a finite amount of characters, and our thought processes have been mutated into blobs of recycled mush. I’m not saying I’m not guilty of it myself, but I believe it’s now time to start putting on the brakes before this train really gets out of control. Unplug for a little while and have an actual conversation with somebody. Go on a trip and leave your phone at home. Tell stories about times you had to use a pay phone before you forget what a pay phone was. Use a map. Cell phones and the internet obviously aren’t going anywhere, but at least we can keep them from going any further, before it’s too late. » - Aaron Mills
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AURAL FIX
(Every month, our expert team seeks out the newest and most exciting musicians in the world. After searching high and low, we’re proud to bring you the result of our concentrated efforts.)
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JANKA NABAY
Even futuristic hipster jams find their origins in ancient Africa. The newest music style called “bubu” has invaded Brooklyn after Janka Nabay fled to New York when civil war tore apart the unity of the Sierra Leone region. A unity Nabay assisted in creating by revitalizing this formerly lost musical form rumored to have been stolen from a witch by a young boy who sacrificed his life to bring it to his village. The cost of Nabay bringing it to the United States was relatively minor in comparison; he experienced some homelessness prior to capturing the attention and allegiance with some semi-notorious indie rockers on the streets of Brooklyn. Bassist Boshra AlSaadi (of Saadi), guitarist Tony Lowe (Skeletons, Zs), guitarist Doug Shaw and drummer Jon Leland (Skeletons) make up the Bubu Gang of Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang. “Bubu” is meant to be elastic. Not an elastic meant for any jamming, crap-shootin’ hodgepodger, but an elastic shaped by particular dialed-in souls who can manipulate their instruments to manifest the mythological magic gifted by a dead child! And it’s great for dancing. A sound that could be described as spinning in the streets of Jamaica in a ‘67 Chevelle with Hunter S. Thompson and a broken lo-fi record playing in your lap. » - Billy Dye
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ATLAS GENIUS If you’re fresh then you already know that Atlas Genius is from
Australia, and they have a song being hailed as the next summer anthem. Working it into a three song debut EP, Through the Glass, the four instrumentalists know they are doing something right. I can tell because they already have perfectly styled and coiffed promo pics. Fewer tracks makes it easy to scrutinize every sound, leading me to believe that even though the title track, “Trojans,” is winning with over 50,000 downloads. It shouldn’t be. Closing song “Symptoms” better encompasses all of their great audible traits, the ones I want to hear on the new full-length (expected this fall): enough energy and groove from the electronic side, a melody set by the lead vocals and an honesty radiating from the bass, drums, guitar and keyboard. Lastly, “Back Seat” competes with similar patters and anticipation that are present on “Symptoms,” but it’s just a little too familiar sounding. Curiosity makes me wonder what exactly brothers Keith, Steven and Michael Jeffrey, plus keyboardist Darren Sell, played in order to land a contract with Warner Bros. Their ultra-generic band name doesn’t enrapture me, and their output to popularity ratio is bothersome. Developing and retaining an air of independence and originality are the keys to success for this band. If they don’t step up the lyrics or get experimental, they will drown in the sea of failed one hit indie wonders. Sink or swim. » - Kelly Kovl
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LIANNE LA HAVAS
You might want to write Lianne La Havas off as another sunny, optimistic singer/ songwriter a la Corinne Bailey Rae or Nora Jones, but your want is wrong. The beautiful UK-bred power pop female plays soft on vocal elements, choosing to sound more like melting butter than a hurricane. The soft pluckiness of her guitar flutters through each track. She’s got all of the elements to be a protégé of Erykah Badu or Annie Clark, but where her gorgeous, smoky singing voice prevails, her lyrics fall a bit short of anything profound. Too often, powerful women with angelic voices get their hearts broken. Too often, that’s what they choose to sing about all of the time, every time. Take La Havas’ “Lost & Found,” where she sings “You broke me/ unfold me and teach me/ how to be like somebody else,” buffering that bitterness with clear, almost contrived callings (“You taught me how to hate myself” being the most obvious). The song sounds like a starched white sheet slow blowing in the wind in part
1. Part 2, when shit goes down, is when the flash flood comes through and ruins that beautiful, airy mass until it’s just a distant memory, a lost chance. We’ve heard this before, haven’t we? Beautiful, young, strong women growing stronger after the storm, still unable to shake the memory of what hurt them, what blasted their innocence. Do not get me wrong, La Havas has something and that something includes perfectly tuned-up vocals, a sweet/sultry mash up and that smoky jazz style that takes you deep into a dark blues club with red tables, tall martini glasses and an army of big band musicians wearing dark shades. She can get really playful, like in “Forget,” where she sings along with a background guitar that plucks and plucks, forever holding back so that the brassy instruments can peacock later on in the song. She’s fun. She’s talented. She’s young, and this is her debut album, and there’s a lot of room for growth. A lot of time to repair these deep emotional wounds some jerk gave her. » - Nikki Volpicelli
QUICK TRACKS A “FORGET” Guitar plucks like that of a talented teen in his bedroom. Quiet electric so as not to wake up Mom and Pop. Then he hands over his work to the quiet girl in school that never talks but can belt a ballad with as much confidence as an artist with a few sold out stadiums under her belt.
B “AU CINEMA” St. Vincent but less experimental. New York, top hat times, flappers holding long cigarettes, wearing extra mascara on bottom lashes. Jazzy, a brisk walk before a sprint, a lead up. Classy, dreamy, would be a great classy chorus to play behind a 1920s silent movie if those movies weren’t so silent.
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Mirror Gazer Bladen County/Bad Cop Bad Cop
The exciting thing about Onuinu’s Mirror Gazer is that it allows songwriter Dorian Duvall’s fanbase to experience his music in a previously unknown format. His singles and live show have garnered local praise over the past year, but what would result from his venture into full-length territory?
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As far as one man bedroom acts from Georgia go, I surmise that in terms of quality, Wild Nothing is an 11/10. The mastermind behind it all is Jack Tatum, a craftsman of wellexecuted dream pop with a nostalgic slant. In its own fashion Nocturne, the new album out this month, remains true to the sound defined by Gemini and previous EPs. That being said, it’s
All things considered, Duvall successfully separates himself from the healthy abundance of dancecentric artists in Portland with a fresh take on electronic pop music. It’s a solid debut: melodies that channel Stevie Wonder, production values that reminisce the golden age of ‘70s funk, and a presence that welcomes the party without trying to impress any of its attendees. A while ago, Onuinu released a mix of 10 songs through the local music media group Into The Woods that helped lay the soil of what to expect from the first Onuinu longplayer. The musicians he included — Harry Nillson, Gary Wilson, David Byrne and Brian Eno, for example — show that the man has done his homework in the eras that bookend new-wave’s proliferation. But I wouldn’t say that Mirror Gazer is a throw-back album. It carves its own place because of how aptly it takes a keen survey of the past while drinking from the forefront of the present. » - Jonathan Magdaleno
delightful and carefree in sound with lyrics that can be surprisingly bitter or even angst-laden. Opening track “Shadow” attempts to explain that despite trying, it is often impossible to offer true feelings to someone, and a shadow is all that is left to give. In the background, surreal audio completes this lyrical and emotional contradiction and reminds you to just breathe. The album as a whole reflects nostalgia that spans decades. Depending on whom you ask, one might say that Tatum developed his passion in the likes of When In Rome, Fleetwood Mac and/or Enya. Type A personality traits reveal themselves between the six similarly patterned CD covers that he approved. His multifaceted, bipolar-like persona, depending on whether he’s alone or in front of a crowd, is a level of commitment that brings him together with DIIV, Beach House, Grimes and The Walkmen this year. Worthy listen. » - Kelly Kovl & Steven Ouellette
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Yeasayer Fragrant World Secretly Canadian
Yeasayer began as a breath of fresh air in 2007 with All Hour Cymbals. The album favored traditional instruments and transported this listener into a fantasy world with a vibe that must have been moving through Babylon in its glory days. The album sounded like frankincense and was defined
Bloc Party Four Frenchkiss Records A dozen fresh tracks from British art-punk indie rock band Bloc Party — the first full-length in four years after announcing a hiatus in 2009. Hang onto your collective seats. Kele Okereke and company are back and better than ever thanks to a new
by rolling string arrangements and long a cappella choral breaks. Riding the wave of their early success, Yeasayer was left with more room to experiment and gave us 2010’s Odd Blood, which saw the introduction of electronic elements, inadvertently bringing Yeasayer into more of an indie/dance sound, but the album retained the magic of All Hour Cymbals and walked the thin line of retaining depth and inspiring a party. “Madder Red” was one of the defining tracks of the year and still makes the rotation in driving playlists. After what’s felt like an eternity; and let’s face it, it’s been a really long time since 2010, we get Yeasayer’s third full-length production, Fragrant World. After five years, Yeasayer have found themselves fully submerged in the deep end of the electronic music community pool. Fragrant World attempts to pull Yeasayer’s modus operandi, and it drives with synth and effects, leaving guitar licks and strings to
the background — and all in all by the wayside. The single “Longevity” was released last month and is the best track on the album. The song takes an interesting turn from the falsetto chorus of vocals and dives into a synth string arrangement that finds its quality in delivering the Yeasayer sound of old. Overall, the songs are convoluted, and it’s hard to sort through the accompaniments of glitch synth and autotune to find a true driving force behind the album. It is impossible not to crave the movement and depth of the Yeasayer of old. I’ve been trying to find that intrinsic driving force that makes the band so great, and it just doesn’t seem to be present in this album. Perhaps Yeasayer’s electronic curiosity has simply gone too far and displaced the magic that made them great. » - Gabriel Granach
contract with Frenchkiss Records. The quartet teamed up with Alex Newport (Death Cab For Cutie, At The Drive-In, The Mars Volta), for their fourth studio album ever so simply entitled, Four. With a generous helping of thunderous pummeling drums right out the gate, “So He Begins To Lie” gives the listener faith that the rest of the album will be filled to the brim with urgency and a plethora of effects pedals. The third track, “Octopus,” was released last month as the band’s lead single off the album and takes them back to the basics with their signature earwormworthy hooks. Hard-hitting “Kettling” is evocative of 90’s post-punk guitar work and the angsty declaration of youthful revolution: “They can’t stop us /We can feel it in our bones/ The future is ours/We can feel it in our
bones.” Filled with a domineering sense of urgency, you’ll feel it in yours too. While the first half of the album is packed with pulsating make-youwant-to-dance tracks, the second is home to soon-to-be fan favorites “Team A” (classic Bloc Party riffs with some lingering electro bits from Intimacy) and “Truth” with the former likely to be a single. Four is clearly a follow up to 2008’s Intimacy and certainly a continuation of what Bloc Party does best. Fans and critics agree that Silent Alarm is the band’s Magnum Opus, and you can bet Four will comfortably settle in the runner-up position. Regardless if you were a fan before, this comeback album will not disappoint. Cheers Bloc Party, nice to have you back. » - Wendy Worzalla
Catch Yeasayer live in Portland this month August 31 @ Crystal Ballroom
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The White River Valley
and a one-hundred foot long slip-n-slide,
may not be on Oregon’s main list of
not to mention three stages featuring
attractions, but the last weekend of July,
a literal cornucopia (no, really, one of
thousands of electronic music fans flocked
the stages was shaped like a huge white
to the small canyon thirty miles south of
cornucopia) of talented electronic artists.
The Dalles to experience the inaugural
Even if the ribcage-rattling,
What The Festival. Tent communities
reverberating bass of all day/night
sprang up in cow pastures, where the
dub-step is not really your thing, the
experienced festival goers came prepared
performances by the likes of Holy Fuck,
with pop-up sunshades and tie-dye
Ghostland Observatory, Beats Antique,
tapestries to shield themselves from the
Bonobo and Gold Panda provided more
brutal desert sun. The dusty road from
than enough opportunities to get your
the festival entrance led attendees into a
serious day-glow dance pants on and kick
wonderland of tepees, neon-colored lasers
it with thousands, decked to the nines
and photobooth pavilions, projection-
in Burning Man-style costumes. For its
mapped barn sides, Alice in Wonderland-
maiden voyage, What The Festival pleased
inspired hookah lounges, gypsy wagons
the spirit as well as the ears. » - Bex Silver
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PREVIEWS SHARON VAN ETTEN - Photo by Shervin Lainez
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Brothers Ryan and Jeffery Burian realized they shared a common mission in life: they wanted to rock out. After years of being separated by musical styles Jet Force Gemini | She’s Not Dead | The Wandering Minds and a third of the country, they found hawthorne theatre themselves in Portland and began their 1507 SE 39th project Béisbol. The rhythmic pop songs Lidless Eye | Tetramorphic | Censure | Reficul the duo produces are beyond catchy, Fang Island | Zechs Marquise | The Hugs and one can’t help but start bobbing IamDynamite | The Cry The Phenomenauts | Prima Donna | The Bloodtypes their head. Béisbol has an instrumental Bad Rabbit | Ozymandias | Stark Heroes | Death Star Radius sound and style similar to Phoenix, and Swingin’ Utters | Roll the Tanks | Rendered Uselsess seriously, the hooks hook. It’s guilty Bison Bison | Nudity | Turbo Perfecto | Fellwoods American Roulette | Beringia | Proven | Kingdom Under Fire pleasure indie pop at its finest, and Béisbol will have you dancing all night and We Rise The Tides | Whispers of Wonder | Simon Says Die The Treatment | American Bastard singing along even if you don’t know the Kool AD | Fat Tony | The Chicharones Vinnie Dewayne words. » - Gabriel Granach David Allan Coe | Honky Tonk Union
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AUGUST 8 | ALADDIN THEATER
AUGUST 9 | RONTOMS
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TENNIS
On the surface there seems to be nothing complex about the description of a female singer-songwriter; however, it seems there are very few things simple about being a woman (says a man). Sharon Van Etten’s words are not drowned out by puzzling metaphors but rather she speaks to the listener honestly and earnestly – easily provoking emotion by connecting with a listen on a human level rather than a pretentious intellectual level. Her stories are wise, and the music may suck you under into a back draft of fiery self-reflection. The Aladdin will provide a perfect intimate movement for her sound. » - Billy Dye
4. SUN ANGLE WITH
BRAINSTORM, SWAHILI, DJ SAHELSOUNDS
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Sun Angle appears wholly uncontrolled, but like all intense phenomena there’s a driving sense of precision beneath their prowess. They’re a product of power; pure and simple. I’ve seen this group play across the spectrum -- garages, sound-savvy venues, etc. -- with every performance establishing itself as an experience to gush over. It’s like they’re a living embodiment of some law of physics, or the resultant vertigo that comes after lifeaffirming airplane turbulence. » - Jonathan Magdaleno
Brainstorm will be releasing a split 7”alongside Mdou Moctar.
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If you’re looking for a show that doesn’t involve rich electronic textures, thick folk-style harmonies, and more than a handful of good vibes, you may want to steer clear of local up-and-comers Wild Ones. But honestly, missing the delightfully atmospheric set this five piece delivers every time they hit the stage would be a little silly. Catch them before they catch on; once the world hears vocalist Danielle Sullivan’s precious melodies, there will be no stopping the band’s rise to the top of the indie pop heap. » - Jeff VanVickle
5. FLYING FOX AND THE HUNTER GATHERERS WITH
JAMES LONDON, RARE MONK
AUGUST 15 | BERBATIS PAN Whimsical, Winnipeg, Canada sextet, Flying Fox and the Hunter Gatherers glide down our way this month with some fun times strapped to their backs. Friendly brass, celestial piano, and playful bass and guitar combine to form an original and satisfying jazz/pop fusion. With live shows featuring elaborate sets, costumes, and choreographed routines, their comical approach and theatrical on-stage presence conjures a feeling of youthful glee. They are inspired, among other things, by folklore, puppet shows, and children’s stories (they’ve written a rock opera based on Where the Wild Things Are). This spectacular show is surely not to be missed. » - Aaron Mills
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PREVIEWS 6. HUSTLE & DRONE WITH
KAY KAY & HIS WEATHERED UNDERGROUND
AUGUST 16 | MISSISSIPPI STUDIOS
7. EXPERIMENTAL NOISE FESTIVAL AUGUST 17-18 | ELLA STREET
We were all crushed when Ryan
Tired of your typical weekend
Neighbors left indie rock heavyweights
nights spent grabbing a beer or two and
Portugal the Man to embark on another
catching a band that plays, well, songs?
musical adventure. Then we heard Hustle
The Experimental Noise Fest has got
& Drone. I’m gonna go ahead and call the
you covered with two nights of noise
band pop step, but really, there isn’t an easy
maestros filling the air with everything
way to classify these guys. The soaring
from the quietest hum to the sharpest
vocal melodies are the perfect compliment
screech. Oregonians Daniel Menche, Okha,
for full bass beats and truly searing and
Scard and Redneck join a wide variety
adrenaline inspiring schmorgasbords of
of imaginative aural scientists, eager to
electronic awesomeness. Hustle & Drone
reshape the way you listen to music. But be
have found a way to maintain pop structure
forewarned: An entire evening of tinkering
and push their music into the experimental
with the sounds of order and chaos may not
at the same time. » - Gabriel Granach
be the best venue for a first date. » - Jeff VanVickle
8. INTERNATIONAL POP OVERTHROW AUGUST 17-18 | MT. TABOR THEATRE
9. THE CULT
AUGUST 20 | ROSELAND THEATER
Days of Days | City in Ashes | Sicarius | Saints
International Pop Overthrow Festival
Moisture Farm | The Weather Machine | Kyle Castellani
RAKSHA! | Volifonix Polarization | Mouth of the Serpent | Nemisis Fang Moon Cutlass Supreme | Hard Power U.S.A. Rare Monk | Opie | Insomnia Project 36 Crazy fists | Dirtnap | The Mediam | O.A.K. Tigress | Twin Suns Antique Scream | Alabama Black Snake The Hoons | Western Family | Charming Birds Broken | Sintax | A Killing Dove Knowledge Lives Forever
The Cult’s heading North after tour
is landing in Portland this month for
dates all throughout California, and after
a weekend of pure, unadulterated pop
us, Seattle and Canada. Hard on metal
music. Celebrating its fourteenth year,
influence, and with a little bit of a country
IPO has expanded from its inception in
drawl, the UK group is releasing Choice of
Los Angeles to its current state of over a
Weapon, the most recent for the prolific
dozen handpicked cities. The idea is to give
group, which has been putting out records
worthy artists a chance to play in a festival
since the early ‘80s. You can clearly hear
atmosphere while simultaneously drawing
the arena rock resemblance in songs like
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“For the Animals” and “Lucifer,” two tracks
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ready to be featured as shredders on the
Veronica, The Cry, Queued Up, and Blue
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Dr. Velvet& the Social Drinkers | Thundering Asteroids
Pool Party Violent Isle | Just Lions
Dead Remedy | Pink Slip | Blood Owl | Rebenge
Bummer-Less Summer Fest Dear Landlord | Ninjas with Syringes Heavy Kingdom | Mike Scheidt | Aerial Ruin Torche | Lozen | Norska Ocean of Mirrors | Mureau | Parley Jel | Tope | Cloudy October | Stewart Villian Lumerians Nicky Da B | Dual Mode | Tyler Tastemaker The Body | Author & Punisher | Hot Victory Drawn and Quartered | Scorched Earth
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AUGUST 24 | DOUG FIR
Taking their name from the famed Sam Cooke album, this Seattle based trio will rock your mind, body, and soul. Channeling the 13th Floor Elevators and tonic lounge the aforementioned Cooke, frontman Lee 3100 ne sandy Blackwell’s blues-laced guitar stylings XDS | K-Tel ‘79 | Dollywood Babylon Sean Flinn | Animal Eyes | Souvenir Driver threaten to trigger a fuzzed-out explosion Lamprey | Mane of the Cur | Doomsower you won’t be able to take your eyes off of. City in Ashes | Duty | A Collective Subconscious My Only Ghost | Grand Turantula | Idlehands Together with Tarek Wegner’s and James Bone Dance | Tigon | Habits | Worthless Eaters Traeger providing a powerfully solid Lightsystem | Axxicorn | Excuses | Lunar Grave The Gemtones | Fast Fox | Flat Black Tomato | The Hunt backbeat, their sound is a whirlwind of soul and blues infused Texas garage psych. PDX Punk Rock Collective | Lord Master | Pale Blue Sky The Keplers Offering up arguably some of the best psych The Lovesores | Amanda Arnold currently in existence, Night Beats are a The Unicornz | The Band Who Fell to Earth must-see act. » - Wendy Worzalla A Gatherin’ Storm | The Caste | The Pyrenees
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AUGUST 25 | KELLY’S OLYMPIAN In a town that is saturated with bands of the indie and rock genres, Paper Brain pulls ahead with a more classic sound:
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by the Wroblewski siblings in 2006 and a Wroblewski, Duncan Galvin, Philip Orchard, and Brian Harvey. Their shows will pull you in with echo-y hooks and hard drums that at times speak louder than monotone Mike. The nice thing about this band is that you can usually sing along after hearing only one refrain...classy. » - Kelly Kovl
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When being Kanye’s touring DJ isn’t the height of your career, you’ve done something right. Montreal-born Alain Macklovitch turned Brooklyn icon A-Trak has remixed everyone from MSTRKRFT to Yeah Yeah Yeahs. He scratched on Common’s Be, is the brother of Dave-1 from Chromeo, and started Fool’s Gold, a producer-driven label, with friend DJ Nick Catchdubs. Having proven his ability to produce and mix great beats years ago, A-Trak now focuses his energy on understanding and dominating the ever-changing music business.
11: How did you and Nick go about building the Fool’s Gold label? A: A lot of the artists we put out are either friends of ours or people around us. The whole A&R scouting model is changing. When we started Fool’s Gold, we looked around us and put out our friends’ music, like Jokers of the Scene and Sammy Bananas. We either met other acts out DJing, like Kingdom, or we’ve found people on MySpace, like Treasure Fingers, Congorock or even Kid Cudi, an album alum.
11: Kid Cudi had a great year! A: I know, now he’s huge! To me, he’s a generational artist. There’s a whole group of kids growing up now that really identify with him, and it’s gone beyond music into a whole cultural thing. 11: Do you have a favorite [Fool’s Gold] track? A: It’s hard to pick favorites, like picking a favorite child or something. It’s great to see some of our producers who usually specialize in the club format to make vocalist tracks. The range of music that’s on there is something Nick and I are really proud of. To have so much music fit into one big picture is just so cool. 11: So I have to ask, did you mean “Ray Ban Vision” as a brand shout out or a joke? A: *laughs* That track was done in like five minutes. In the end, the whole compilation was finished, but it just didn’t feel right not to have something by me on it. So I made a beat, sent it out to a couple of rappers and Cyhi [Da Prynce] decided to make a song out of it. I just asked for a verse and he sent back a full vocal with a theme and everything! I’ve done a lot about sunglasses over the years, but he just had this idea and it just happened to fit. » - Claire Rachel
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You can’t say it on the radio or print it in your everyday newspaper, but this band travels by word of mouth. Floored by the roaring clatter of acid-dripping lunar spaceship noise, it is astounding to learn that every sound heard is being produced sans digital loops or computers — a completely organic, digital, yet truly analog sound. Using a veritable orchestra of miscellaneous utensils of sound makers, from a giraffe-shaped Casio keyboard to 35mm film sequencing blocks, Holy Fuck has succeeded in their goal of creating modern, electronic music without many of the techniques generally associated with that genre. In a scene so packed with button pushing dub-steppers and the laptopenslaved loopers performing electronic symphonies completely by themselves, the work that goes into creating digital-sounding analog music is clearly apparent at any Holy Fuck show. Brian Borcherdt, Graham Walsh, Matt McQuaid, and Matt Schulz furiously flit between their various guitars, synths, toy pianos, and plastic phaser guns, somewhat unawares that playing their music is extremely difficult. Enormously popular in their native Canada, Holy Fuck has received many an honor internationally, and have been hailed as kings of electronica in the UK and Australia, but in the US some only know them as the band whose music video was ripped off by Geico Insurance (Red Lights famous cat vs. dog chase scene was directly plagiarized by the insurance company). ELEVEN was curious to find out what drives Brain Borcherdt and his fellows to rifle through thrift stores in search of toy instruments and why they might prefer to fly out to Oregon to play the first ever What The Festival instead of playing to an audience over ten times larger at one of the megafestivals.
Additionally, Holy Fuck continues to produce surprisingly dynamic records that are drenched in legendary ingenuity, a mythical soundscape that cannot be visualized until seen on stage. What’s certain is that they just can’t stop, though miles may put band members apart (most of the band members have moved from Toronto to other locations), and they swear they will take time off touring to get back in the studio. They’re just having too much fun. 11: Have you been playing many festivals this summer — as you have done heavily in the past? BB: Yeah, it’s like a drug you can’t wean yourself off of because we made a vow to take a break. We made this decision in March of 2011 [that] we needed to take a personal break and then we would get started on the record, but it’s well over a year later and we still have been picking up festival gigs. We keep saying that we’re not going to do it and then offers come along and we end up saying yes to them and we actually have not gotten started on the record yet. So we’ve just been in a bit of limbo, still picking up the summer festivals, just a little bit at a time. 11: What has been your favorite festival to date? BB: That would be very hard to say. There are so many differences, the bigger festivals can be a highlight in terms of life achievements, having the opportunity to play festivals like Lollapalooza and Coachella, Glastonbury, Roskilde; those are some of the biggest festivals and the most reputable, so having the chance to play them is really exciting, and yet at the same time it’s fourty-five minutes of your life that is spent, so it’s a highlight, it comes and goes very quickly and you don’t even know if you enjoyed it. Sometimes the smaller festival that maybe wasn’t on your radar ends up being the most fun because you had a really enjoyable time and hung out with some friends and... it really depends. They are all different.
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features national scene 11: As far as traveling from festival to festival, what is the gear situation like? Is the gear you travel with different than what you record with? BB: It is. What we can record with is sort of like, you can try anything. I collected a lot of old crappy little keyboards. I can’t resist. I go into a thrift store and I always come out of there with some little pink Mickey Mouse thing, anything that has beats on it, but once upon a time we were bringing everything we could think of. It was all a matter of just trying things. Impromptu, spontaneous things that we were just trying, but as we coalesced into an actual band, an actual set and actual songs we realized we didn’t need everything and we actually honed it down quite a bit. I don’t travel with so much stuff any more. I probably use different keyboards for each song because we’re using different beats. If one song revolves around the Latin beat on one little Yamaha keyboard and another song revolves around the Reggae beat on some Casio thing that you’ve gotta ramp it up five times tempo and then everybody knows their cues and that’s what sort of forms the song, so you need to bring those [instruments] to play each song in the set, but it really doesn’t take up as much room as you would think. We throw it all in some cases, check it at the airport and hopefully everything arrives when we arrive. We’ve certainly arrived before and have none of our luggage show up and been stuck having to play in front of an audience with no equipment. We’re not the type of band that can just borrow equipment from other bands, it’s not just having a guitar and a bass guitar… we have some of that stuff but the basis of the show is so much more unique to what we’ve collected and what we play, probably nobody else plays. 11: So, probably no such thing as an a cappella Holy Fuck show? BB: *laughs* Yeah, not at all. 11: Some of the nontraditional instruments that you use, like a film sequencer block, how do you discover those sounds? BB: There was a time in my life when I was more actively pursuing those things. Not in a super gear nerd way, (I wasn’t hunting on eBay for things that I had read about or heard about), it was more just things that I picked up in my own life, just keeping an eye out for things. I was working in film ten years ago and editing — I was assisting in an editing room and one of my jobs was to help sync all the dailies (and that’s some film nerd talk,) they probably don’t do it so much right now; the synchronizers and flanges and reel-to-reels and all that stuff like we had before… it’s not that long ago but things have changed a lot and nowadays everybody’s doing it much cheaper and easier in the digital world. At that point in time I had the unique experience of using some old analog film stuff and it was cheap to get your hands on because no one wanted it, so I had access to a giant audio library that I had helped assemble, so I filled the back of my station wagon up with all these 35-mil mag audio reels and you know, it’s been ten years collecting the stuff and unfortunately I’m down to only one tape head now. I think I have a lead on someone who can hook me up with more tape heads. Because things break, it’s not meant to be travelled [with] as gear, as music equipment. 11: Now that you have such a diverse set of sounds, do you still seek out new sounds? Are you looking for instruments that will make a particular sound or do you discover a sound and then implement it into your music? BB: It’s more of the latter. I think seeking out a sound and wanting to go from there is quite common, especially in the world
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of electronic music because people watch these YouTube forums on some new thing, right? And someone’s showing you through YouTube what this new thing does. I have no interest in that. That to me is just so boring. I can’t imagine wanting to start with a preconceived idea of what something is going to be. I’m just not that interested in electronic technology. To me, it’s more of the fun of finding something — just going to Value Village (or whatever — I think in the states sometimes it is called something different,) you go to your pawn shops and you go to the kid’s section and you blow the dust off of some little peach colored thing with a giraffe on it and maybe press the disco beat on it and there’s half of your song. That, to me, is the process of discovering a sound and a very limited sound, not having the ability to synthesize it or sequence it, not being able to change it, like “Oh, this would be cool if it had a little bit more of this,” it’s like, naw, “this is what you get. It’s the giraffe keyboard” *plays a couple notes on the giraffe keyboard* and you either like it or don’t. That’s fun. I like that. It reduces all the possibilities and puts you back into this very limited world of making do with what you have as opposed to the sky is the limit and making what you want.
“It was just this idea, I thought, ‘Everyone is going to want to look at cats! Cats are hilarious - it will be a revolution on YouTube!’” 11: Do you think that is what inspires your music and really where your music comes from? BB: It is. I mean, I think the four of us coming into this band we all come into it in a different way, so I am speaking very much from my own perspective. Obviously, someone who spends their life learning to play the drums and has his own favorite techniques and types of gear is going to approach the songs different than I am. As someone who likes to go fuck around with a little giraffe keyboard, you know, I have my reasons and they have theirs, but that’s part of what makes it exciting. 11: Let’s talk about your videos. The first time I saw Red Lights I played it at least three times. Did you have any hand in making
features national scene that? Where did it come from? BB: I made that video. I co-directed it along with a friend of mine who has much more experience. It had been over three years of trying to make that video happen, mainly because at one point in my life thought I was going to be doing more film-related stuff and I have a head full of ideas but [not] the experience to back it up, because I was just starting in that world when I started touring full time, so I really don’t have the expertise on very much (other than maybe being able to get on a plane on time or get in a van on time or get to the gig on time, beyond that I just have a head full of ideas. So, we’d had a couple years of trying to make the video happen through some fairy funding in Canada, but they didn’t want to fund it because they probably didn’t get it, they were just like “Cats? No one wants to watch cats!” Right? Who cares about cats? Because there wasn’t really cat content on YouTube. It was just this idea, I thought, “Everyone is going to want to look at cats! Cats are hilarious - it will be a revolution on YouTube!” It hit me like a thunderbolt, it was just like, this is going to be a cool video. I wish I could have made it when I originally set out to do it, but I was getting rejected everywhere I went. Eventually (when the next record came out,) I picked a song, and I think in the end it was probably a more appropriate song than what I had initially had in mind anyway, and I reached out to a friend of mine who is a filmmaker here and I had to fund it myself — which is fine, you know, it’s not a big sob story, especially for anyone south of the border, who doesn’t have a system in place to try and help fund the arts, and in Canada we do, although it’s limited. So, you know, we funded it ourselves and we made it happen and guess what? It turns out everyone does like to watch cats. *laughs* 11: Indeed. I know your band names draws a bit of attention, sometimes undesired, but when I hear your music, Holy Fuck is exactly what I want to say. Is that the desired effect? BB: I guess so. I certainly didn’t name the band expecting it to reflect upon the content of the music, I think that would be a little bit precocious, maybe a little bit braggy of me to be like, I’m going to name my band ‘Awesome’ because we’re going to be awesome!” I think it was more self-deprecating in a way, like there’s sarcasm in it, maybe the name was so big, bold and [impacting] but the content of the music was literally a nerdy dude playing on a Casio, so I thought where the sort-of-twist on the concept was, I thought that is what made it kind of clever, but by the time the world, those people out there, discovered our band, we had become this festival-touring four piece with drums and [we were] very big sounding, so suddenly a little of the sarcasm of the name is lost and maybe we grew into our name. 11: So what’s next? BB: That’s hard to say. We are recording soon — that’s finally happening. We took much needed time off, and like I said it wasn’t entirely time off because we were still out there playing as much as we could, but we need to focus on the recording for sure. Everyone in the band has been involved with other projects, as it always has been, that’s not anything new, it’s just that when we took a little break it allowed some of those things to fill in the void. Such as producing; Graham has been particularly busy with producing, and Matt McQuaid, our bass player has been doing some producing this year, and I’ve been focusing recently on my own other projects. I have about three other projects on the go and one is currently touring, so there’s lots to keep us busy, but we’ll be focusing for sure on our recording starting in July.
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features national scene 11: Can you talk about your other projects? BB: I have a project called Dusted, and Dusted is a two-piece. Kind of a grungy, folk-indie thing. [I’m] very much in that one for my songwriting, which for me is my number one hobby; to pick up a guitar and write songs. It’s something that has become more of a hobby as of late because my full-time touring band does not consist of any of the above, it doesn’t consist of the same kind of songwriting or playing guitar or singing, or any of that stuff. I have about six years worth of writing to put onto tape so I’m just going to get caught up slowly if I can. I made one record that is coming out in July, so thats exciting, and then I started more of a drone-y psychedelic punk band with a couple of my buddies here. One guy plays in a band called Mets, and they are soon to release a record on Sub Pop, so maybe the world will hear about them. They’re really heavy, super heavy guitar band, and a drummer from Constantines, (they were a really great pop band). Great stuff. These buddies of mine were forming little projects, so I think we’re all eager to try different things. 11: Sounds fun! What do you prefer to play? Experimenting with Holy Fuck vs. traditional song writing? Everything? BB: It’s sort of a love of everything. It’s a pursuit of satisfaction in a lot of ways. I don’t really know how it is for other people but for myself, if I feel like I’ve said one thing well enough that some people have taken notice of it, that for me is, in a weird way it’s almost like it’s not enough. I have too may things I want to say, so I’m really trying to figure out a way I can be pleased with everything I’ve done. I feel like just doing just one thing is not enough. Maybe this sounds entirely egotistical of me, I guess it’s just that I really want to be able to express something that is honest and only doing one thing, for me, would never be enough. Sadly, I need to do more. 11: We’re all multitaskers that’s for sure. BB: I think so, yeah. We’re very eclectic now, right? I mean anyone, wether it’s what they’re reading at home or what they have on their iPod, there’s a lot of information out there, and I think [that] part of the joy of interacting with the music and the arts is to have access to a lot of different types of stuff that’s coming from all over the world, different cultures, different everything. I think that’s sort of where this generation is at. We’re really absorbing a lot of information, so I think therefore it’s hard to regurgitate something that is really single minded and single focused. We kind of want to be multitasking in our output as well. 11: Eloquently put. Thank you so much, Brian! »
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JIM HENSON RETROSPECTIVE AUGUST 10 | HOLLYWOOD THEATRE
An astounding collection of shorts, zany commercials, and various rarities from the Jim Henson vault. Highlights include: an industrial film for Wilson’s Meat, commercials featuring the LaChoy Dragon, a full-body puppet voiced by Frank Oz, and animation utilizing techniques ranging from stop-motion to early computer animation.
MOVIES IN THE PARK
ROTATING IN PDX ALL SUMMER LONG Of the many benefits to living in Portland, the Movies in the Park events thrown by the Portland Parks & Rec department makes summer in PDX especially lovely. Grab a blanket, a patch of grass, and some friends for these free events where no one will yell at you for bringing a picnic. All shows are free, pre-show entertainment starts at 6, movie at sundown. » - Bex Silver
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CINEKINK: THE KINKY FILM FEST AUGUST 5 | THE CLINTON STREET THEATRE
Dedicated to the recognition and support of sex-positive and kink-friendly depictions in film and television, Portland will consider offerings drawn from both Hollywood and beyond. Cutting across orientations, topics covered at CineKink have included -- but are by no means limited to -- BDSM, leather and fetish, swinging, non-monogamy and polyamory, role-play and gender bending.
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SPEND THE SUMMER WITH BILL MURRAY AUGUST 2-30 | EDGEFIELD
AUGUST 3 | LAURELHURST PARK
One of the greatest masterpieces of cinema history, Orson Welles tells the tale of Charles Foster Kane, a newspaper tycoon character based on William Randolph Hearst.
THE MUPPETS
AUGUST 5 | SELLWOOD PARK, AUGUST 10 | ST. JOHN’S PARK
It’s not easy being green.
PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE
AUGUST 12 | WASHINGTON PARK
Aliens try to stop the human race from creating a weapon that will destroy the universe in this classic sci-fi flick.
SUPER 8 AUGUST 18 | ALBERTA PARK J.J. Abrams’ version of E.T. set in 1979.
WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY AUG 31 | DAWSON PARK An acid trip in a chocolate factory? Yes please!
Actor, comedian, and lovable weirdo Bill Murray was rumored to be traveling from coast to coast, showing up on the doorsteps of strangers’ homes to drink their booze, belt out a few verses of karaoke, and crash on their futons for the night. As much as we wish that would happen, we can settle for a film showcase at McMenamins’ Edgefield instead. All screenings are free, and are weather dependent. » - Stephanie Young
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Instant Queue Review
Sick of the August sun? Become a summer shut in with these thoroughly addicting TV series. TWIN PEAKS
(1990-1991)
A Portland favorite, David Lynch’s visionary CBS aired drama captures all the quirk and intrigue of a small Pacific Northwest town. My log tells me you will enjoy. (Available on Netflix)
MISFITS + SKINS
(2007/2009-PRESENT)
The two go hand in hand as over-the-top British teen TV. Both shows offer guilty viewing pleasure as you watch British teens have more sex, drugs, parties, and problems than we did as American Teens; plus, Misfits adds an extra layer of complexity with super powers. (Misfits availble on Hulu, Skins on Netflix)
3RD ROCK FROM THE SUN
(1996-2001)
An all-star cast of Martians come to Earth trapped in the bodies of John Lithgow, Kristen Johnston, French Stewart, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt to gain intelligence on Earthling habits and customs. Hilarity ensues as the aliens learn what it means to be human. (Available on Hulu)
PORTLANDIA
Over 300 films, guest speakers, &screenwriting workshops
(20011)
See where that damn “Put a Bird on It” thing came from and laugh at yourself a bit.
Fri 24th Get ready for an event unlike anything Vancouver has seen since 1936!
7pm
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VISUAL ARTS
Husband and wife creative duo APAK
Photo by Gabriel Granach
The whimsical, two person, transplant collaboration behind APAK Studio are more than the sum of their parts. ELEVEN sat down with Aaron, Ayumi and Aki over coffee to discuss being children, having children and the effects of food carts and cuteness on art and culture. Deep-rooted inspirations threaded from Japanese pop culture and mother nature combine to achieve something both abstract and familiar. Having been in Portland for the past seven years, the duo has been busy creating lovely dreamscapes in paintings as well as three dimensional sculptures and dioramas. Their child like and innocent approach to their art is very apparent in their characters and color schemes and now, with an 18 month old child of their own, seem inspired to continue down the same road, maybe just with a sharper perspective.
11: Why don’t you tell us a little about APAK Studio? Aaron Piland: Yeah, APAK Studio is what happens when two people make art together, and we started in college in Grand Rapids, Michigan. We went to Kenyon College of Art and Design, and we were in a class together. We designed a website together and we named it APAK with our initials Aaron Piland and Ayumi Kajikawa and [it] just remained our domain ever since then. Ayumi Kajikawa: I think it was 1999 or 98 even. 11: What inspired the move to Portland? AK: It was 2005. So we lived in Japan for two years, where I grew up. and then moved to Portland just kind of randomly because of the art scene. AP: Well we didn’t know about the art scene really. We came and visited when we were in college one day when we were on spring break, and we just kind of explored around and camped. We didn’t really spend much time here but we liked how it felt. So we, after college, moved to california, because we had school debt
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and we wanted to pay that off, that was happening then. We paid our school loans and moved to Japan and then we were like, “Oh, remember Portland?” and so we came back and tried it out and we were surprised by how welcoming and comfortable it felt. I guess we did meet someone; we met another teacher in Japan who was from Portland and he said “Oh, yeah, you’d fit in there perfectly.” 11: So that was the right decision, moving to Portland? AK: It was really the right decision. We just loved it so much and we did meet a lot of other artists. 11: Do you feel very involved in the scene or more sort of you do your thing and have some shows from time to time? Aaron: Yeah we were more connected at one time. Then we had a child. He is 18 months. 11: Changes everything? AK: Changes EVERYTHING. AP: I guess 18 months we have been preoccupied and we haven’t been too involved in the art. 11: What do you think about that Aki? No comment. *laughs* AP: So, yeah, it has changed a lot in the past few months. Having a kid has changed our perspective a lot too; about art and what we were doing before is like... we wish we had more time to continue the evolution of where we were going but it has just been on hold for a month and a half. We have a show in Australia coming up in August, so we are working on some pieces and small bodies of work. So that has been really refreshing to do again and taking some new ideas and applying them to our old way of working and I don’t know, having a kid is ... it is like before, we were collaborating on art and now we are collaborating on human being, you know? So it is a totally new part of life and it is really cool to see an alive, 3-demensional art project. So the art work has kind of been like the preparation for having a kid and now having a kid, he is like the inspiration for our next body of work.
local Delicious breakfast Locally roasted coffee Famous jam by the jar 11: Speaking to that, a lot of your artwork has a very innocent and childlike quality, almost like a children’s book. What is the intention behind the playfulness and how has having a child sort of expanded that or shifted that perspective? AP: When we make art together, we become kids or children. So we tap into that operating mode, I guess, and it is really free and there are no rules and there is no boundaries and we just kind of, like I will do something, and it is a conversation, and she’ll respond to it and you know, we have some boundaries. I have my part that I do and she has her part that she does and we can’t go into each other’s space, but we each have talents and we kind of let each other do what would be best and try not to interfer with each other’s zone. 11: Cool. Could you speak a little bit about your new projects and your new body of work and the direction it is going? AP: I guess the theme that I have been working under, I tend to start with pieces and I kind of respond to them, so what I see so far is there is kind of this exploring the unknown theme so like into the unknown theme might be the show title. It is just like welcoming whatever comes out of this a year and a half of building up and so what is coming out is just what kind of free flowing immersions of organic things and a more natural way of working. But it has got all the same cuteness and organicness and plants and animals. I guess it is more abstract, going more abstract. AK: I agree with Aaron that it is becoming a little bit more abstract. My place is always look at Aaron’s work and then explore the possibility of the environment and then let my characters play and then focusing on the relationship of the characters. It’s always kind of a reflection of the relationship with Aki and other people. AP: Yeah, it used to be a lot more couples, but now it is more like a couple and a family, maybe a little one or a mother and a little one. 11: So Aaron was saying “into the unknown” is sort of the theme but also with these relationships it’s like exploring together? AK: Yeah, yeah, definitely. I always reflect my personal life too, I can’t help it, to let it out. So it’s quite the adventure to, you know, be able to explore this abstract world. Its fun. 11: Did growing up in Japan affect your artistic style? AK: Well definitely, I made my characters like them because I grew up with them and the cuteness is always next to me. I am fascinated by it. 11: Portland is a good place for cuteness also. AK: Yeah, I see the cuteness is more accepted in the US like more Japanese style cuteness is accepted and becoming mainstream, which is good, but I also see it as pop culture, and I don’t necessarily want to stick with pop culture. I like timeless, timeless quality to my work and that I can picture people in a timeless manner. 11: Is there a place you would want to live and make art besides Portland or is Portland kind of a great fit for you? AK: Portland is just perfect. I love people here. People are really aware of everything, the environment. It is inspiring. I do see people who still have a hard time making a living in Porltand, you know the economy is not that great in big cities. Still, I don’t know. 11: Last question for both of you guys, who are two of your favorite artists either locally or on a large scale? AK: We usually say mother nature. AP: Each other.(To Ayumi): I am really inspired by what you do. AK: (To Aaron): Thank you. We just have different talents. It works well. Yeah, we inspire each other. » - Ryan Dornfeld
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PDX PARAGONS Local bands on the radar
Photo by Amy Fargnoli
BUBBLE CATS
AUGUST 9 | ELLA STREET Before listening, I tried to theorize what the fuck a band named Bubble Cats will sound like. Everything about those two words hints at twee-pop, or, maybe, they’re cashing in on the viral swarm of cat videos that currently propels internet culture. Lyrics referencing Maru.
Photo by Rachel Lecrone
NO KIND OF RIDER
AUGUST 14 | WHITE EAGLE The story begins in midtown Tulsa, Okla., where the five-piece came together in 2006, then known as Black Swan. In 2008, after frontman Sam Alexander’s tech company relocated to Portland, help was offered up to his bandmates with the move to continue their musical journey on the West Coast. In attempt to avoid facing legal troubles, the quintet
settled on the new name No Kind of Rider. The band kept fairly quiet for their first couple of years in the Rose City as they acclimated to life in a strange and wonderful place, but over the past two years they have managed to create buzz in quite a few grateful ears. Having previously drawn comparisons to Bloc Party and TV on the Radio, the group is much more driven by the influence of blues, garage, shoegaze and math rock. Paired with a strong desire to play music and connect with fans, friends, and strangers alike their sound is full of an undeniable passion, well-crafted melodies, and super sonically pleasing dual guitars. There’s something uniquely special going on here--trust me. » - Wendy Worzalla
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STILL CAVES
Pretty stoked that I was wrong. These guys have some solid live videos available online, as well as two wellrecorded tracks that document the proficiency of their musicianship. It’s rock music in the vein of Fugazi -- a hint of Violent Femmes here and there -- coupled with occasional interactions between the bassist and drummer that nod towards an accelerated style of dub. Sublime may have been on rotation across the time span they developed as musicians. The vocalist spits lyrics with the conviction of Frank Black, channeling a dynamic intensity that sounds like he’s about to give up the ghost at any moment. All in all, there’s some good potential in the direction they’re heading. » - Jonathan Magdaleno
Photo by Matthew Koskondy
AUGUST 16 | THE KNOW Literally, Still Caves sounds like it’s playing in a cave: faraway, barely decipherable vocals, steady, dreamy drumming, the static fuzz of electric guitar that’s just quiet enough to never wake you up. That’s “Dutch,” the Portland group’s single that’s got a muddy melody so impossible to get out of the head. Then there’s “Great Recession,” a rockier, hardedged punk petition that’s also included on the group’s 6-track album Static Lips, which is being pushed as a digital download and cassette tape. What do you want out of this album? What should you expect to get? A belligerent, melodramatic escapade of a heavy reverb, a sincerely hard
working drummer and bassist, six great songs to get stoned to. Rough sounding, scratchy vocals from a frontman who’s got the whole fumbling through a string of lo-fi, single chords with breakneck consistency down pat. This month, the four piece group releases Static Lips to a solid group of fans with an ear for basement battles and playing the chaotic crashing of cymbals in a tight garage. » - Nikki Volpicelli
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NEIGHBORHOOD OF THE MONTH:
NE ALBERTA STREET Location photos by Ryan Dornfeld
2. HAPPY HOUR (EARLY AND LATE)
1. FUSION TACOS
Radio Room - 1101 NE Alberta
3. TRANQUIL TEAHOUSE Townshend’s Teahouse
BEST OF NE ALBERTA
Cruzroom - 2338 NE Alberta
4. SINGLES MINGLES
The Bye and Bye - 1011 NE Alberta
5. FRENCH BREAKFAST
Petit Province - 1824 NE Alberta
6. GREASE ON WHEELS
Burgers or Bust Cafe - 23RD+Alberta
7. BIKING RESOURCE
Community Cycling Center - 1700 NE Alberta
8. EVENING COFFEE DATE
Random Order - 1800 NE Alberta
9. PATIO AND PING-PONG
The Nest - 1801 NE Alberta
10. PINBALL, PINTS AND PUNK
The Know - 2026 NE Alberta
11. LOCAL FOLK HOUSE
Alberta Street Pub - 1036 NE Alberta
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THE LOCAL BIZ EXTRACTO
At Extracto Coffeehouse & Roastery each coffee is carefully selected, craft-roasted in small batches, and brewed with love by friendly people who are crazy passionate about your cup of goodness. MAGIC CORNER | NE PORTLAND 2921 NE Killingsworth | 503.281.1764 1465 NE Prescott, Ste B | 503.284.1380 www.extractocoffeehouse.com
SOLID CABLES
The new GT Cable from Solid Cables, available at Pro Guitar Shop & East Side Guitar Repair on Hawthorne. All Solid Cables are handmade in Portland to sound great and not break. SE PORTLAND solidcables.com info@solidcables.com
BEACON SOUND
Carrying a broad spectrum of new and used vinyl including classical, folk, soul, jazz, indie rock, psych, as well as an excellent selection of contemporary electronic music. They pay well for your used vinyl (cash or trade), host in-stores, and generally rule. MAGIC CORNER 1465 NE Prescott (97211) 503.360.1268 | beconsound.net
MOLOKO
Taste the nightlife of Mississippi. Over 40 house infused liquors. Specialty absinthe cocktails. Open until 2am every day.
N PORTLAND 3967 N Mississippi (97227) 503.288.6272 | molokopdx.com
BEECH STREET PARLOR
Offers a cozy environment, tasty drinks, nightly DJs, an amazing selection of beers, delicious food, a lovely porch, The New York Times... and allows minors until 9pm. Open Monday-Saturday, 5-Late Happy Hour 5-7pm NE PORTLAND 412 NE Beech St (97212) 503.946.8184 | beechstreetparlor.com
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TENDER LOVING EMPIRE
The TLE shop houses handmade gifts from Portland’s thriving DIY scene. It is also the record label headquarters, a screen printing studio and art gallery—fostering TLE’s love of art and music through community exchange and good ol’ conversation.
DOWNTOWN 412 SW 10th Ave (97205) 503.243.5859 | tenderlovingempire.com
FRINGE VINTAGE
Uniting Portland’s two favorite things under one roof: live music and vintage style. We’re an art, music and fashion cooperative featuring exceptional vintage garments for people with their ear to the door. NW PORTLAND 1700 NW Marshall Street 503.227.5630 | fringevintagepdx.blogspot.com
THE FIRKIN TAVERN
Located on the west side of Ladd’s, the Firkin Tavern features an astounding selection of craft beers to enjoy inside or on our patio. Art enthusiasts will enjoy a variety of local artwork on display and sold comission-free! SE LADD’S 1937 SE 11th Ave (97214) 503.206.7552 | thefirkintavern.com
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Expertly grown Carefully Harvested Seasonal and fresh Skillfully roasted Cupped and scrutinized GREAT COFFEE IS PUBLIC DOMAIN SW PORTLAND 603 SW Broadway (97205) 503.243.6374 | publicdomaincoffee.com
HOLLYWOOD THEATRE
A not-for-profit organization whose mission is to entertain, inspire, educate and connect the community through the art of film while preserving an historic Portland landmark. NE HOLLYWOOD 4122 NE Sandy Blvd (97212) 503.493.1128 | hollywoodtheatre.org
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