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These individuals are selfishly wasting a limited resource [“Hydro Hogs,” WW, Aug. 21, 2013]. That said, it is the government’s responsibility, not theirs, to reduce the amount of energy consumed through water usage. Additionally, every person on Earth has a moral obligation to use water responsibly. Keeping one’s estate “lush” while one is “out of the country” and fountains bubbling pleasantly 24/7 does not fall under that category. —“geewhiz” You should be ashamed of yourselves for this kind of article. If you didn’t notice, it rains nine months a year—we aren’t exactly running out of water. These people pay for every drop, just like everyone else in the city. I’m sure the water used in our Portland parks is thousands of times greater. Should we close those down? And all of our industrial plants as well? What about all of the water used for school grounds and athletic fields? This is just another stab at the successful people who run our city. —“portlandpdx” Very interesting report. Now I’d like to know how the water use of these single-family homes compares with industrial users. Undoubtedly, the city’s biggest water (and energy) hogs are not individuals but industry. We can change our individual consumption patterns all we want, but as long as industry does nothing to curb its appetite, our efforts are just a drop in the bucket. —“Meredith”

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I think it is a crock you guys are singling these people out. They pay their bills and are no doubt standup citizens. What about all of those water fountains in the city that are wasting water 24/7? How much water is that? Why don’t they install on/off switches. Did I miss that part of your story? If it was such a big deal to use water, then they would do that. —“Eric Stallsmith”

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If I understand this article [“The Mayor’s Bar Tab,” WW, Aug. 21, 2013], no one except Mayor Charlie Hales likes his “entertainment” district. Yet Charlie is trying to figure out who he’s going to make pay for this poorly planned “entertainment” district. —“Annie Smythe” We should spend that $80,000 [yearly cost] studying how much would it cost to relocate the entertainment district to the suburbs. Go home, please. —“Gary”

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Your theory shares about 98 percent of its DNA with the urban legend that an undercover cop has to tell you he’s a cop if you ask. That one is total bunk, so I was surprised to learn there’s a germ of truth in the story you’re peddling here. OLCC policy does indeed state that minor decoys shall not present false ID, nor misrepresent their age. Thus, asking the suspected shill their age would prevent the server from directly serving one of these decoys. That said, nothing about this plan keeps the decoy from going back to their handlers and informing them that the day bartender at TJ McDongfondler’s is accepting pinky swears in lieu of state-issued identification. The OLCC’s list of red flags that invite further scrutiny includes “documented failure to properly check identification.” Calls to the agency were not immediately returned, but it’s hardly a stretch to imagine this sort of thing would qualify.

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Last month, Gov. John Kitzhaber tried to force two ancient enemies—public-employee unions and the Oregon Republican Party—to strike a “grand bargain” on pension reform and taxes. He failed, despite holding more power than ever. “Nobody in this state has ever had more political capital than he does right now,” says Senate Minority Leader Ted Ferrioli (R-John Day). But Ferrioli says Kitzhaber is in danger of squandering that capital. In early July, Kitzhaber began setting the framework for a special legislative session to make further cuts to the Public Employee Retirement System. But he’s made little progress and gotten sidetracked with an effort to revive the multibillion-dollar Columbia River Crossing project. His failure to convince lawmakers to make further PERS cuts would not only threaten Kitzhaber’s ability to pay for his health-care and education reforms, it would increase the chances of brutal 2014 ballot-measure wars. As Kitzhaber dawdles, both Republicans and Democrats have calcified back into rigid positions. Since the regular session ended July 8, Ferrioli and the Senate GOP’s point man on PERS and tax reform, Sen. Larry George (R-Sherwood), say they’ve repeatedly asked

to meet with Kitzhaber to no avail. “He is the one who made PERS a big issue,” George says. “We said we’d go there with him and I thought it would be relatively easy to make a deal. But that’s all changed.” Public-employee unions, which seemed resigned to deeper PERS cuts in June, have stiffened their opposition. “We’ll lobby hard against any more cuts,” says Joe Baessler, statewide political director for the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees. “It’s really hard to keep coming back to public employees as the solution for the state’s financial problems.” In a recent statewide tour, Kitzhaber emphasized the urgency of PERS cuts and new revenue for K-12 schools, telling audiences it would save the jobs of 2,000 teachers. Kitzhaber’s spokesman, Tim Raphael, says the governor is fully engaged with all stakeholders and in making his case to the public. “He is absolutely committed to getting a PERS and revenue package done,” Raphael says. George negotiated with Kitzhaber in the final days of the session to broker $5 billion in PERS cuts and a package of small-business tax cuts and new taxes that would have netted $200 million in new revenue. Now George says he’s mystified by Kitzhaber’s approach, which includes new ideas, such as potential capital-gains and property-tax cuts to offset revenue increases, instead of the small-business tax relief Republicans favor. Kitzhaber is also pursuing a so-far unsuccessful strategy of trying to peel off two GOP senators to vote with Democrats on taxes and PERS (Democrats control the Senate 16-14 but need 18 votes to raise taxes). Time is running short for Kitzhaber, because the con-

sensus in Salem is that if major PERS changes are to happen, they must go through before next year’s elections. Making a significant reduction in future pension obligations could also help Democrats and their publicemployee union supporters on another front: 2014 ballot measures. Today, the union-backed group Our Oregon has tax increases pointed at next year’s ballot. Conservatives are pushing measures that would slash public-employee unions’ political activity. “We’d just like to see Oregon be a better place to do business,” says Stimson Lumber CEO Andrew Miller. “It seems the governor’s lost control, and that puts at risk everything that’s important to him.” A PERS deal could deflate anti-union sentiments and avert the class warfare that accompanied the passage of 2010 tax increases. “The governor sees enormous downside to the state in divisive ballot measures,” Raphael says. But even as the PERS dance continues, Kitzhaber is also expending political capital to revive the CRC, which appeared to die in the Washington Senate earlier this summer. Many lawmakers, including several who voted unenthusiastically for it during the session, see the CRC as a costly distraction. Kitzhaber wants funding in place for an Oregon-only CRC project by Sept. 30. Senate President Peter Courtney (D-Salem) says he’s cautioned Kitzhaber and House Speaker Tina Kotek (D-Portland), also a strong CRC backer, not to complicate a special session by trying to address the CRC and PERS. A veteran of 17 special sessions, including one that lasted 34 days, Courtney says he hopes Kitzhaber can pull together a tightly focused, brief session. “I’m terrified of special sessions,” Courtney says. “If you get in there and don’t know exactly what you’re doing, it’s horrible.” Willamette Week AUGUST 28, 2013 wweek.com

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GOWN TOWN: Eidan (left) and Michelle Bray sign their domesticpartnership certificate at a wedding ceremony Aug. 10.

A SAME-SEX COUPLE SAYS CC SLAUGHTERS NIGHTCLUB BARRED THEM FOR THEIR WEDDING DRESSES. BY A N DR EA DAMEWOOD

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Like any brides, Michelle and Eidan Bray figured their Aug. 10 wedding wouldn’t go off without a hitch or two. But as 100 friends and relatives gathered to celebrate their marriage in Northeast Portland, it was sublime: In addition to the chocolate and vanilla cupcakes topped with “Mrs. and Mrs.” and the lights twinkling from the ceiling as they signed domestic-partnership papers, both women—each in a white strapless wedding gown— shared a first dance with their fathers. The plan was to end the night dancing at Old Town’s CC Slaughters, a gay bar where “we always felt welcome,” Eidan Bray says. Shuttle vans carried guests from the reception to CC Slaughters at 219 NW Davis St. It was there, the pair says, the club’s bouncer stopped them dead at the door, saying they couldn’t come inside wearing their white gowns. “We thought he was kidding, so we started laughing,” Michelle Bray says. The newlyweds say they soon learned it was not a joke: They were barred from a gay bar on the night of their same-sex wedding. And, what’s worse, they say, club owners haven’t done anything to address what the couple is calling discrimination against lesbians. Their wedding gowns—Michelle’s made of intricate lace, Eidan’s featuring beautiful draping—technically violated the club’s policy of no bachelorette attire, including dresses, feather boas, tiaras and sashes. It’s a battle being writ large in gay bars all over the city: Regulars cringe at the hordes of straight women who arrive drunk, in costume and often screaming. And owners say bachelorettes flaunting impending nuptials—in front of a population that cannot legally marry—is also insensitive at best. 8

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The Silverado nightclub, which features male exotic dancers, banned bachelorette parties until last year. CC Slaughters allows bachelorette parties, but has a dress code barring their typical attire (“Screaming Ban Shes,” WW, June 20, 2012). “The bouncer said we would offend the clientele because marriage is not legal in Oregon,” Michelle says. “I understand that straight women might offend. But we are gay and we just got married.” The pair says they spent at least five minutes after they arrived around 10:30 pm trying to reason with staff to be flexible about CC Slaughters’ policy. As they tried to get in, gay men outside the club were cheering on their wedding and asking to snap photos with them in their gowns. Despite their pleas, they weren’t allowed in. “It seems like discrimination against lesbians but not gay men,” Michelle says. “If we were married in suits—if we were kind of butch—they would have let us in.” WW’s phone calls and emails to the club and its owners, John Houston and Bruce Rice, were not returned. Mutual friends introduced Eidan Webster, 28, a mechanical engineer, to Michelle Hodge, 27, a media researcher, two years ago. After signing domestic-partnership documents, they each took the last name Bray, Eidan’s middle name. Because they aren’t legally married yet, they plan to visit Michelle Bray’s home state of Connecticut this winter to do so. Turned away from CC Slaughters, the Brays wound up at the nearby Dixie Tavern, a straight club. They say they were announced on the club’s sound system, and even invited to dance on the bar. But they lost members of the wedding party along the way. “It doesn’t make sense to me,” Eidan Bray says. “We wound up at a straight club and we were embraced, and at a gay bar we were rejected.” The next day, Eidan Bray wrote an email to CC Slaughters’ owners, Houston and Rice. She says it wasn’t until then, as she described their treatment, that she cried. An email came back from Houston the same day. “I’m so sorry that this happened to the both of you on your special day,” he wrote. “I wish I could give you some reason that this happened but I have nothing. This is not how Bruce and I run our business.” The Brays say an apology isn’t enough. “We expected some kind of explanation or a change in the policy,” Eidan Bray says. “We just don’t want it to happen to anyone else.”

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HOTSEAT: TOM FAHEY THE SILTRONIC VP AIMS TO LOWER HIS COMPANY’S WATER RATES AND UNSEAT NICK FISH. BY AA R O N M E S H

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Tom Fahey is so steamed about his company’s water bill, he’s fomenting revolution. Fahey is vice president of human resources for Siltronic, a German semiconductor manufacturer that is the city’s largest commercial water user. In the past year, the company paid $1.9 million to the Portland Water Bureau for 446 million gallons to wash its silicon wafers. Last year, Siltronic shuttered one of its two Northwest Industrial District factories and laid off 380 workers. Fahey, who handles the company’s local government relations and PR, says he’s fed up with asking the Portland City Council to keep water rates flat. Siltronic is now backing a ballot initiative to wrest control of water and sewer rates from City Hall by creating an independently elected public water district to set utility rates. As the campaign prepares to gather signatures, Fahey sat down with WW to talk about how the new district could cut costs, and why Mayor Charlie Hales’ meeting with big water ratepayers in June didn’t stanch the uprising. WW: Why is the cost of water so important to Siltronic? Tom Fahey: We’re the largest high-tech company in the city limits. We make the raw silicon wafers that a company like Intel uses for their chips. We sell to all top25 semiconductor companies in the world, so we compete on price. Water is such a big issue for us because we spend $3 million a year on water and sewer costs. All of these high-tech products in the room—particularly mobile devices—everyone expects those products to be better than they were last year and to be cheaper than they were last year. Well, how does that happen? The only way that happens is companies like us putting more value in the product every

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year at less cost. How far can you really bring down rates with an independent board? On the sewer side, a lot of that is locked in because of the Big Pipe project debt. The biggest problem we have with the water side of it is, they’re still taking on those large projects—like the covering of the reservoirs, for example. Those are the ones we hope to be able to get before this independent body for adequate review. The reservoir capping is a $279 million project, and they’re halfway through. Would you want them to just stop it? Well, yes. You can already hear the city saying—I’ve heard them say it—“Oh, the bulldozers are already rolling, we have so much in the ground already.” That’s always the justification. That’s why they try to get these projects started as soon as they can. Where in the country has something like a public water district worked? Eugene. You don’t have to look very far away. The Eugene Water & Electric Board is a great example. When Mayor Charlie Hales first met with you in June, what was his reaction to your ballot initiative? If I had to label it with one word, I would say “intimidation.” In my opinion, he was literally out of control. I’ve never seen him that angry. I’ve never seen him or heard him be that loud. Yelling. I’ve never heard him use words that he used—that were inappropriate for any politician, never mind a large-city mayor in the United States. For example? Calling this “a hostile takeover,” we thought that was inappropriate. There’s a couple others. I hesitate to tell you because they’re juicy quotes. He called us “political terrorists.” And when the mayor called you political terrorists, did anyone respond to that? I tried to interrupt him. But he wasn’t going to be interrupted. He was on a roll.

TOM FAHEY: He says Siltronic won’t run the proposed Portland Public Water District. “I can’t see how any one entity,” he says, “whether it be private businesses or unions or anybody, could control this.”

When we started to make a point he would cut us off and not allow us to fully explain ourselves. And we ended up leaving the meeting before it was over. You walked out? How long did the meeting last before you left? We left at about one hour, and there was probably another 30 minutes or so. How much talking did Nick Fish do? When the mayor needed to take a breath and let the color drain from his face a little, Nick would speak up. What was your take on Fish? I have a pet description for him. It’s not complimentary, so I’ve not shared it with the press before, but I refer to him as “Jelly” Fish because he’s spineless and he

blows with the wind. He’ll say anything to get re-elected. You understand that some consumers are concerned that this new public body, while feeling democratic, is being put up by some very large companies with a lot at stake. What would you say to people who say that? My caution to all ratepayers is to look at the issue. Don’t look at who is putting it up. If this initiative hadn’t come up, would we be sitting here talking about this today? I think we’re already winning based on the fact that we’re finally getting a dialogue on these issues that have been undercover for years. They haven’t seen the light of day, except for these public hearings that very few people attend. We’re finally getting these issues out in the open.

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It’s not merely activists who occupy the city’s reservoirs. The scenic pools on Mount Tabor and in Washington Park are home to other items as well. Ducks, mostly, f loating on the city’s drinking water. But also footballs, shoes and a candlestick. Since May 11, 2008, the Portland Water Bureau’s maintenance staff has kept a log of every item found in the city’s six open-air drinking-water reservoirs. The pools have become the center of fresh debate since the City Council announced in May it would stop fighting federal demands to replace the reservoirs with underground tanks costing $279 million. Activists say it’s a waste of money to replace a century-old system that has never made any-

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WELCOME TO MUSICFESTNW FOR SIX DAYS, THE ENTIRE CITY OF PORTLAND IS BONDED BY A STRIP OF PLASTIC.

t MusicfestNW, the feedback permanently humming in the Pacific Northwest air turns into a tangible object wrapped around our wrists. In the daylight hours, when the noise is replaced by quiet anticipation, you’ll see those wristbands everywhere, at a food cart or coffee shop or on the MAX, and the magnetic rush of shared experience will compel you to swap stories of the previous night—the artist who exceeded your expectations, the one who disappointed and the one you never saw coming. That’s what makes MFNW Portland’s biggest community event. Sure, the bands are awesome, and yes, this is the city’s largest and best music festival, but it isn’t just about the music. After all, in this town, great shows aren’t hard to come by. The essence of the festival is found between sets, when you glance at your friends and realize you’re enjoying the best week of the year.

All that said, the bands really are awesome, particularly this year. This is your guide to all 168 of them, from the teenage rap prodigy (page 20) to the rediscovered 59-year-old soul genius (page 40), the rail-riding folk vagabond (page 33) to the Australian EDM maverick (page 33), the resilient metal sluggers (page 24) to the veteran psychedelic sound wizards (page 32). You’ll sit in on a conversation between two of most affecting female voices in music (page 45) and have a chat with a suspiciously familiarlooking Brit-punk legend (page 18). We’ll also show you where to grab a drink before each set and meet for a bite after (page 69), and give you tips for how to survive it all (page 72). You’ll also get a primer on the second annual TechfestNW (page 53), a summit meeting of the digital gurus shaping the culture at large, which this year includes a free-to-the-public cage match between aerial drones (page 58) and an interactive display showing a heat map of MFNW bands (page 58). It might seem like two different audiences, but I’m sure we’ll see some of those technophiles out there, too, zipping from club to theater to the Old Church. We may not be going to the same shows. But all of us are going to MusicfestNW. —MATTHEW SINGER, WW MUSIC EDITOR

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MUSICFEST IS RUBBISH THE RETURN OF BRITAIN’S ANGRIEST PUNK.

n late-’70s England, there wasn’t a more fearsome creature prowling the streets of London than Ian Rubbish. The levels of bile pumping through his spleen made Johnny Rotten look like Mr. Bean. He advocated stomping policemen in the face. He insulted the queen. He hated everyone and everything, and the British punk movement loved him for it. Then, in 1979, he committed career suicide. As Margaret Thatcher swept into power, the U.K. braced for the expected Rubbish evisceration. Instead, he released “Maggie Thatcher,” in which he declared the new prime minister, without irony, “a very special lady.” His fans were aghast. When asked why he admired Thatcher so much, Rubbish responded, “She reminds me of my mum.” In the ensuing controversy, he got booted from his own band. But with Thatcher’s passing earlier this year, the music of Ian Rubbish has experienced a revival. In May, he issued the comeback single “It’s a Lovely Day” and performed on Saturday Night Live. At MFNW, Rubbish will open Portlandia star Fred Armisen’s variety show. Willamette Week met with the “Living in the Gutter” singer in his natural habitat—the dumpsters outside Branx in Portland’s industrial Southeast—and discussed, well, a lot of things we didn’t plan on discussing. WW: THANKS, IAN, I APPRECIATE YOU TAKING THE TIME.

Ian Rubbish: Matthew, is it? Good to meet you. Thanks for doing it. It’s important people respect what journalism is and ask questions. Because the times happen where it changes and people don’t ask of themselves and other people, and they become complacent, Matthew, when they become nonquestioning. What happened to the day when people wanted to know more? They want to know less now. That’s a real tragedy, innit? Because humanity will go down the tubes, won’t it? [Rubbish continues for 10 more uninterrupted minutes, touching on vegetarianism, China, South America, war, drones, street fighting, Saddam Hussein, tennis shoes, Alabama, Kmart and, finally, skateboards.] But we’re all moving forward, ain’t we? 18

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ARE THOSE THE KIND OF BROAD IDEAS WHAT WENT INTO SONGS LIKE “CUNT IN A CROWN”?

What that was about wasn’t a person in particular but the idea of monarchy. You’re a cunt in a crown, aren’t you, Matthew? I’m a cunt in a crown. We’re all cunts in crowns if we’re subscribing to a system that goes back that many centuries, which has nothing to do with giving people hope, or giving people a chance. And by the way, it doesn’t mean it should be destroyed. You can change a crown, if you think about it. It could be gold with jewels and things that are meaningless, or it could be made of cardboard and food. It could be made of chocolate.

“YOU’RE A CUNT IN A CROWN, AREN’T YOU, MATTHEW? I’M A CUNT IN A CROWN. WE’RE ALL CUNTS IN CROWNS.” —IAN RUBBISH YOU WERE KNOWN IN THE ’70S FOR YOUR UNRELENTING ANGER. WHAT WERE THE THINGS THAT REALLY ANGERED YOU AT THAT TIME IN YOUR LIFE?

Well, look, what is anger, is what you got to ask yourself, right? The energy of what anger is, is a kind of happiness, innit? It’s a bit of a celebration, innit? What happens if you go to a football match, or what do you watch here? BASKETBALL?

Right. When your team is losing, you give a, “Oi! Don’t keep losing! Go score! Get the ball in the basket!” What’re you doing in that moment? You were with your mates, aren’t you? You’re in the stadium. You have your team colors on. You’re doing a dance of celebration, right? “Oi! Get off the court!” It’s a type of happiness, innit? WHAT WAS THE TIME IN YOUR LIFE WHEN YOU WERE MOST AFRAID?

Really, the scariest time is when you tell your mum you want to play music. Your mum

don’t want you doing that. At the time, they want you to be a schoolmaster, or a ticket inspector. To say you want to play music, you’ve got to be out of your mind. Maybe I am. Maybe we’re all out of our minds. There’s a bit of comfort with lunacy, innit? As long as you’re not hurting anyone, Matthew. BUT YOU WROTE SONGS ABOUT KICKING COPS IN THE FACE.

I never meant that you got to physically hurt another person. At the time, we’d go riot, and they’d push us back on horses. Did you ever have a horse in your face? They’re quite a bit larger, and they’ve got a lot of force to them. So the message of [“Hey Policeman!”] was, this is our line, don’t push us back. It’s more of a symbolic thing. My words are my boots. WHAT MAKES YOU ANGRY THESE DAYS, AS AN OLDER MAN?

It’s the same things that make anyone angry. In the service industry, if I call an airline, and they’re just going through the motions—it’s a job, I know, but there’s not a lot of thought put into it. I don’t like apathy. AT MUSICFESTNW, YOU’RE PLAYING A COMEDY SHOW. HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THAT?

We all like a good laugh, don’t we? A lot of the press have written that I take myself too seriously. That’s not the case. I have a real sense of humor. I have a laugh all the time. The other day I was at the airport, in the security line, and I said, “Would you like me to take off my trousers? If I do, I’m gonna take off my boots, and the smell ain’t too good on my feet.” I had a good laugh at that. IS THAT THE BIGGEST MISCONCEPTION ABOUT YOU, YOUR PERCEIVED LACK OF HUMOR?

I got slagged off in the press a lot about being too serious. I get passionate about politics and newspapers and all that, but at the same time, I say it all with a smile on my face. You should be happy when you listen to music, even if it makes you mad. MATTHEW SINGER. SEE IT: Ian Rubbish plays Crystal Ballroom with Fred Armisen at 9 pm Thursday, Sept. 5.

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MFNW COURTESY OF JOEY BADA$$

TUESDAY, 9/3 ANTWON

[HIP-HOP] There’s another side to hip-hop’s coin, and Antwon is making himself a contender to be its face. Dropping raw, DIY mixtapes like March’s In Dark Denim from his San Jose, Calif., home, Antwon is about as interested in money, liquor and hoes as the rest of us average people—that is to say, somewhat interested, but not obsessed. (ML) Roseland Theater, 9 pm.

BLACK BANANAS

[FUNK ROCK] Jennifer Herrema had been doing just fine continuing on with the classic rockinspired spirit of her band Royal Trux, but the 46-year-old vocalist wants to prove she still has some original spark with new project Black Bananas. The group’s 2012 debut, Rad Times Xpress IV, is some of the most unhinged, funky rock around, akin to the work of ’70s icons like Betty Davis and Parliament. (RH) Dante’s, 10 pm.

GANG$IGN$

[ELECTRO HIP-HOP] At 24, Portland DJ Gang$ign$—aka Nick Sisouphanh—possesses a musical palate that belies his age. This is a dude who isn’t afraid to mix braggadocio-laced gangster thump with Doris Day samples, electronic fuzz, jazz, punk and indie rock, putting it all through a Skrillex- and Dreinfused filter. (APK) Roseland Theater, 7 pm.

NACHO PICASSO

JOEY BADA$$ HIP-HOP’S SAVIOR IS AN 18-YEAR-OLD MC WITH BIG DREAMS, BIG PROBLEMS AND AN EVEN BIGGER PRICE TAG.

rooklyn rapper Joey Bada$$ likes to keep things candid. He’ll tell you, without hesitation, that any record label that wants to sign him will have to pay him $3 million up front. He’ll also tell you that he still lives with his mom at her house in Flatbush. Welcome to the life of an 18-year-old prodigy. With his introspective lyrics and sample-based sound, many have declared Bada$$—born Jo-Vaughn Virginie Scott—the savior of New York hip-hop. His debut mixtape, last year’s 1999, was a throwback to the “golden age” of the genre, when rappers used their lyrics to broadcast social ills and call for change, and beats were built on fuzzy soul samples and James Brown drum breaks. Scott not only paid tribute to the likes of EPMD, A Tribe Called Quest and Wu-Tang Clan, but he made old sounds ring fresh. Not bad for a kid who wasn’t even born when 36 Chambers came out. Although Scott says he also loves contemporary trap-rap, his affinity for the old school runs deeper. “That era just speaks to me more,” he says. It helps when you grew up in a household that cherished the classics. Scott’s parents and older cousins devotedly listened to early ’90s hip-hop and R&B, in addition to Prince and reggae. By age 11, Scott decided to pick up the pen himself. In high school, he formed his own crew, Pro Era, with friends Capital Steez, CJ Fly and Powers Pleasant. Going solo with 1999, the project’s lead single, “Waves,” built on a butterysmooth jazz beat, caught the rap world’s attention. Now, only months removed from high school, Scott is 20

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touring the globe and turning down record labels—like Jay-Z’s Roc Nation—that don’t bring enough money to the table. Don’t let his business moves and retro-tinged music fool you, though: Scott may seem like an old soul, but he still remembers where he came from. “As far as walking in the street and being in my hometown, I just try to be that cool dude that everybody can reach,” he says. “There are a lot of things changing in my life. I’m going through a lot.” That is, perhaps, a veiled reference to his good friend Capital Steez, who passed away last year in a suspected suicide. Scott refuses to speak on the matter, but admits he has gone through some “bad personal problems” in the past year. This may be why his latest mixtape, the much-anticipated Summer Knights, replaces the playfulness of his debut with a bleaker take on life. Even the project’s cover, a dimly lit painting of two bikes sitting quietly by a murky body of water, invokes a darkened state of mind. But the songs are still well-thought-out and, maybe more than ever, heartfelt. Summer Knights further proves that Scott’s music is not some gimmicky nod to hip-hop’s past but, instead, the genuine expression of a promising young MC. “There’s still a large crowd of individuals who are oblivious to what I could be meaning with my words. I think they’re just riding the bandwagon,” Scott says. “I’m just trying to extend my reach.” REED JACKSON. SEE IT: Joey Bada$$ plays Roseland Theater at 10 pm Tuesday, Sept. 3.

part feral beast, Nacho Picasso proves you can get experimental without ditching all the nasty shit built into the foundation of post-gangster rap. Nacho’s beats run the gamut from hypnotically ambient to darkly stirring, punctuated by deep thumps that make the MC’s slow, steady flow all the more menacing. (APK) Roseland Theater, 8 pm.

REDD KROSS

[POWER POP] There’s a strong case to be made for Redd Kross being L.A.’s greatest band. The long-running outfit, led by brothers Steve and Jeff McDonald, has survived everything from the “live fast, die young” days of punk to the rise of glam metal to the birth of Alternative Nation, all while resisting the urge to adjust their powerful, arena-ready pop one iota. (RH) Dante’s, 11 pm.

SUMMER CANNIBALS

[GARAGE ROCK] Summer Cannibals’ Jessica Boudreaux doesn’t scream her anger. Throughout No Makeup, the Portland band’s debut album, Boudreaux seethes with raw tunefulness rather than openthroated rage. She leaves the aggression to guitarist Marc Swart, who plugs directly into the shared amp of the Cannibals’ Pacific Northwest garage-punk forebears, from Dead Moon through SleaterKinney. (MPS) Dante’s, 9 pm.

[FREAK RAP] Part Shabazz Palaces, part Tyler the Creator,

WEDNESDAY, 9/4 THE 4ONTHEFLOOR [QUAD ROCK] Minneapolitans the 4onthefloor are a foursome who play four bass drums as well as, respectively, guitar, guitar, bass, and the rest of the drum kit. Oh, and its tough, melodic, hard roots-rock songs are exclusively in 4/4 time. Its debut album, naturally titled 4x4, features, yes, 16 songs. The recently issued follow-up, Spirit of Minneapolis, features 13 songs that expand on the sound of the debut. Just wait until album No. 4. (JR) Dante’s, 10 pm.

THE BASEBALL PROJECT

[JOCK JAMS] A band themed on America’s pastime? What, do they stand around tuning for four hours, playing a full song once every 16 tries? The jokes, they write themselves. But seriously, the Baseball Project sports an all-star roster, including the Minus 5’s Scott McCaughey, Scott Wynn of Dream Syndicate, and sometimes R.E.M.’s Peter Buck, elevating murder ballads about Carl May and power-pop tributes to Ichiro Suzuki above fun diversions into something kind of great. (MPS) Doug Fir Lounge, 11 pm.

CHILL CREW

[THROWBACK HIP-HOP] The Portland duo of Jon Belz and Jesse PC recalls an often-forgotten era of ’90s hip-hop in which a gruff MC and a smooth talker combined forces to at once throw down some badassery and make panties melt. The two pull it off beautifully while bringing their own brand of kush-laced spit to the game. (APK) Hawthorne Theatre, 8 pm.

EYELIDS

[INDIE ROCK] Though they’ve only played a handful of shows, the main members of Eyelids— Jonathan Drews (Sunset Valley), Chris Slusarenko (Guided by Voices) and John Moen (the Decemberists, Elliott Smith, Stephen Malkmus)—are well used to the stares of the adoring faithful through their key roles in legendary acts. The illustrious sidemen bring the same instrumental facility and formidable connoisseurship to this guitar-pop master class. (JH) Doug Fir Lounge, 8 pm.

Contributing writers: Emilee Booher, Ruth Brown, Nathan Carson, Pete Cottell, Joe Donovan, Jonathan Frochtzwajg, Robert Ham, Jay Horton, Reed Jackson, Matthew Korfhage, AP Kryza, Mitch Lillie, Haley Martin, Brian Palmer, Jeff Rosenberg, Amanda Schurr, Matthew P. Singer, Grace Stainback, Chris Stamm, Mark A. Stock, Brandon Widder.

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[NOISE POP] Atlanta quintet Deerhunter doesn’t write songs. It creates vortexes: swirling masses of cacophonous cymbals, fuzz-drenched guitars, distorted vocals and stray sound waves. It’s the kind of music that makes early Butthole Surfers sound like Brahms in comparison. Leader Bradford Cox has built his own world by defying expectations and layering the most seemingly incompatible sounds into something abstractly beautiful. Deerhunter sprung out of the gate with 2005’s Turn It Up Faggot, a record steeped in anger —its title comes from a recurring audience heckle during the band’s infancy—and pain stemming from the death of original bassist Justin Bosworth. The record, despite its dark production history—or perhaps because of it—turned heads, leading to the release of 2007’s more-subdued Cryptograms and 2008 breakthrough Microcastle, which unexpectedly hit the Billboard Top 200 charts, and landed the band a steady run of headlining spots. Riding high on a wave of acclaim and a growing fan base, the group went on hiatus. But the break was short-lived, and a year later the band stormed back with 2010’s Halcyon Digest. Its most critically lauded record to date, the album showed a more densely layered side of Deerhunter, blending its milieu of noise rock, shoegaze, classic rock and punk more densely than ever before. With the May release of sixth album Monomania, Deerhunter has managed to continue its tremendous momentum with another masterpiece of ambience. The group has graduated to the point of giving full-album performances, vividly bringing to life its swirl of contrasting sounds and winning new fans by refusing to sugarcoat the sharp musical pill it has assembled. AP KRYZA . Crystal Ballroom, 10:30 pm Wednesday, Sept. 4.

[SYNTH POP] Scotland’s Lauren Mayberry, Iain Cook and Martin Doherty made a big impression in Portland earlier this summer when they brought their shimmery sounds to the MusicfestNW kickoff party. It was just the latest in a slate of attention-grabbing gigs for Chvrches. A festival-circuit favorite since forming in 2011, the trio has been riding the Next Big Thing wave with widespread critical acclaim: kudos from the press at South by Southwest and the BBC’s Sound of 2013 poll, a live TV debut on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, sold-out headlining dates, a slot opening for Depeche Mode. All this for an act whose full-length studio debut doesn’t drop until Sept. 24. Breakthrough tracks “The Mother We Share” and “Lies,” released online last year, and the post-apocalyptic title clip for the Recover EP, are gloriously pretty washes of retro textures— punk, New Wave, goth, hip-hop. Epic production flourishes are on trend in the age of Purity Ring, M83, Passion Pit, et al., but credit Mayberry’s delicate lead vocals, Cook’s grounding guitars and Doherty’s sweeping samples for setting the band apart from the electro-pop crop. Lyrics follow suit. It’s rare that nods to burned bridges and an Earth gone cold sound both sad and soaring. With Mayberry at the helm, Chvrches’ wounded-warrior dance parties—see hooky, stomping electro anthem “Recover”—become radiant without being woe-is-me navel-gazing or twee breakup posturing. The results are dreamy synth gems of curious strength—in words and melody—that’s worthy of the hype. Chvrches’ date at Roseland Theater kicks off its latest North American tour, and a whole lot more of “I saw them when” talk. AMANDA SCHURR. Roseland Theater, 10 pm Wednesday, Sept. 4.

FRED & TOODY COLE (UNPLUGGED)

[PUNK ROYALTY] After birthing Portland punk with the Rats, defining it with Dead Moon and then refining it with Pierced Arrows, no one would’ve begrudged Fred and Toody Cole if they retired to a little house in the country once they hit 60. But then, a little house in the country—otherwise known as Clackamas—is where they started, and it’s where they’ve stayed, so what’s the point of retirement? An acoustic show is certainly a rarity, but if anyone deserves the Storytellers format, it’s the royal grandparents of the PDX underground. (MPS) Doug Fir Lounge, 10 pm.

G_FORCE

[HIP-HOP BEATS] Calvin Valentine is making moves, in and out of Portland. In the last year, the rapper-producer—known by the nom de beatsmith G_Force—has teamed with battle-rap extraordinaire

Illmaculate on the excellent Green Tape mixtape, remixed local indiepop sensations Radiation City and collaborated with Houston’s legendary underground king Bun B. That’s not to mention his continued work with TxE, turning out booming boom bap for one of the hottest MC tandems in town. (MPS) Hawthorne Theatre, 7:30 pm.

GOLD FIELDS

[SYNTH POP] Australian synthpoppers Gold Fields are creating the soundtrack for the ’80s movie that is your life. “Closest I Could Get” sounds like a Simple Minds B-Side, while the propulsive synths of “Treehouse” would have fit well in a John Hughes film. The swelling dance beats of “Dark Again” combine with Mark Robert Fuller’s vocals to great effect, recalling the group’s countrymen in Atlas Genius. (BP) Mississippi Studios, 11 pm.

GRIEVES

[HIP-HOP] A few years on the road have lent Seattle-via-Chicago MC

Grieves a certain maturity. Atop intricate beats ranging from bombastic to mellow, Grieves still packs an aggressive flow, but it’s now marked by a deeper, breathier cadence that adds gravity to the young gun’s drops of real knowledge. (APK) Hawthorne Theatre, 11 pm.

HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER

[DREAM FOLK] Like all good country-folk-blues-rock hybrid projects, this ongoing pursuit by singer-songwriter M.C. Taylor unfolds melodic ideas and lyrics slowly and with deliberate care. You fear one sudden movement will send the North Carolina musician and his friends scurrying back to their warrens. While the group is above ground, delight in its quiet country shuffling and mildly psychedelic highs. (RH) Aladdin Theater, 9 pm.

HONEYMOOON

[PSYCH POP] L.A. based duo Aaron Shanahan and Benjamin Plant spend

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JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE much of their time in experimental pop group Honeymooon wishing they could live in the 1960s and ’70s. Single “Hail the Madmen” might be about the homeless population in California, but the groovy, dreamlike tune’s effervescent vocals and curving synths will send you on a trip that’ll have you dreaming of a life far beyond the streets. (HM) Mississippi Studios, 9 pm.

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[AMERICANA] Justin Townes Earle can’t escape the shadow of his country legend father, Steve Earle, and it seems to be wearing on him: The younger Earle begins his last album, Nothing’s Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now, singing with a tinge of regret about how he doesn’t talk to his dad as often as he should. But after five albums he finally seems to be carving out a niche as an accomplished singer-songwriter on his own terms. (JD) Aladdin Theater, 10 pm.

K. FLAY

[HIP-HOP] It’s tempting to describe K. Flay as the alternateuniverse Kreayshawn. But that would imply just the sort of gimmicky connotations the unassuming, defiantly dressed-down former Kristine Flaherty has taken pains to avoid. Absent electro collaborators or indie samples, she tends toward coldly sparse selfproduction bolstering dominant lyrical themes of over-aware alienation that only really diminish midconcert as, beats constructed and audience enthralled, she indulges a richly deserved swag. (JH) Hawthorne Theatre, 10:15 pm.

LARRY AND HIS FLASK

[PUNKGRASS] Initially a goingnowhere Central Oregon punk band, Larry and His Flask began throwing banjo and mandolin into its Sturm und Drang on 2011’s All That We Know, drawing in both folks who like a little melody with their hardcore and those who want their string music with a grittier edge. It’s been a winning combination so far: The band has played the Warped Tour twice, drawing big crowds each time and blurring the line between hoedown and bro-down. (MPS) Dante’s, 11 pm.

LONNIE HOLLEY

[FOLK ART] Although his paintings and found-object collages have appeared in the Smithsonian and the White House, 63-year-old Birmingham, Ala., native Lonnie Holley has seemingly occupied his own plane of existence since the late ’70s. Last year’s Just Before Music, his first official album, is a transfixing star map of free-form soul, revealing Holley to be something of a cosmic Gil Scott-Heron. (MPS) Crystal Ballroom, 9:30 pm.

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MACKINTOSH BRAUN

[DANCE POP] Taking cues from the likes of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and Depeche Mode, the music of Ben Braun and Ian Mackintosh manages to be machine-driven while still beating with a human heart. The Portlandbased duo’s 2010 sophomore album, Where We Are, is full of swooning synths, dance rhythms and processed vocals that make them sound like lovesick androids. (MPS) Mississippi Studios, 8 pm.

MURDER BY DEATH

[GALLOWS FOLK] Murder by Death has always been a band that’s existed just shy of cheery. The Midwesterners find solace in the kind of boisterous Southern gothic tunes you’d expect once wafted from old-time bordellos. Sixth album Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon is brimming with dark, acoustic ballads and Adam Turla’s Johnny Cash-esque baritone. It’s a collection of brooding songs culled from American roots spliced with punk fervor and bold brass tinges. (BW) Dante’s, midnight.

RUSH MIDNIGHT

[THROWBACK POP] The bassist for buzz-worthy synth-pop maven Twin Shadow, Russ Manning, aka Rush Midnight, avoids the hardedged synths or distinct vocals of his side project. Instead, Rush Midnight adopts the voice as just another washed-out instrument in a New Wave orchestra, perfect for chilling out after midnight. (ML) Mississippi Studios, 10 pm.

SIRAH

[HIP-POP] Momentum stalled after a lawsuit shelved her debut, but Sirah finally found global success with a star turn as a guest MC for Grammy-winning Skrillex smash “Bangarang,” while also perfecting the playful flow that propels her most recent EP, Inhale. (JH) Hawthorne Theatre, 9:30 pm.

TXE

[HIP-HOP CLASSICISM] No other rappers in Portland regard the past with such warmth as TxE. On his own, Tope can barely go a verse without paying homage to his idols, and together with Epp, he forms a duo brimming with golden-age chemistry. On 2012 EP Tetherball, they even borrow directly from the greats, sampling Biggie and trading childhood memories over a version of A Tribe Called Quest’s “Luck of Lucien,” remixed by third member G_Force. (MPS) Hawthorne Theatre, 8:45 pm.

XXYYXX

[EXPERIMENTAL BOUNCE] Introducing teenage dial-and-knob phenom Marcel Everett. There’s an icy coolness about Everett’s creations, but XXYYXX goes beyond chillwave into zones of trip-hop, art pop, even dubstep. (MAS) Roseland Theater, 9 pm.

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[MUTANT DISCO] Emerging in the late ’90s from Sacramento of all places, and playing music rooted equally in the jagged funk of post-punk and the rubbery rhythms of actual funk, !!!—whose name is most commonly pronounced “chk chk chk”—felt like it was doing something radical, if not downright revolutionary. With fifth album Thr!!!er, the group has finally achieved its ultimate goal: to transcend “dance punk” and become, simply, a great dance band. (MPS) Branx, 11 pm.

AUSTRA

[ELECTRO-GOTH] Austra employs ice-cold vocals and pulsing synths to create a ghostly world of its own, one that feels both modern and retro in tandem. Feel It Break rightfully landed on the top of many best-of lists in 2011 thanks to the Toronto group’s careful marriage of retro bass plunks, panoramic sine-wave swells and the haunting melodies of singer-keyboardist Katie Stelmanis. Follow-up Olympia follows suit with a chilly, beat-heavy tunefulness that will satisfy fans of Björk, the Knife and Eurythmics in equal measure. (PC) Star Theater, 11 pm.

BLEACHED

[BEACH POP] With Ride Your Heart, Bleached’s Jennifer and Jessica Clavin have just about mastered the California poppunk formula. Hazy girl-group melodies, strummy guitars and wounded-heart lyrics are the soundtrack to a punkrock beach party, which actually happens in the 7-Eleven parking lot across the street. (MPS) Dante’s, 11 pm.

BARONESS CRAWLING OUT FROM THE WRECKAGE OF A DEVASTATING BUS CRASH, A METAL BEHEMOTH RETURNS, BETTER THAN EVER.

ast year was poised to be a banner one for Baroness. With its double-album, Yellow & Green, the band imported prog-metal touchstones— lengthy instrumental breaks, ambient squalls of harmonic feedback, minor-key acoustic bits that fade in and out of focus—into a pop framework, creating its most accessible release yet. Press was universally positive: Pitchfork gave the album a coveted Best New Music tag, and Spin declared it Metal Record of the Year. The confidence with which singer-guitarist John Baizley spliced anthemic, classic-rock melodies onto woolly, propulsive rawk grooves was bound to propel Baroness, from Savannah, Ga., to a stratosphere far higher than the underground metal ghetto guaranteed to troll the band for its efforts at crossing over. Then, in an instant, it all went to shit. On Aug. 15, 2012, the band’s bus careened off a viaduct near Bath, England, injuring nine passengers. No fatalities occurred, but the experience left the group deeply rattled. In March, Baroness announced that bassist Matt Maggioni and drummer Allen Blickle had left the band. While details of the split have been kept private, a public statement from Baizley—who suffered a broken arm and leg in the wreck—alluded to the strain from the accident being a significant factor in the two members’ departure. Regarding the future of Baroness, Baizley wrote, “We have only begun to accomplish what we set out to do through this band. There is so much more to say, and though we do need 24

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to heal up a bit, we will not allow any of those things to be left unsaid.” With hopes of getting back on the road, Baizley and guitarist Pete Adams replaced the rhythm section with bassist Nick Jost and Trans Am drummer Sebastian Thomson. Eager to regain the upward trajectory Baroness enjoyed before the crash, Baizley says the lineup change has been a significant hurdle. “When you alter 50 percent of your band, things do change,” he says. “I’m happy to say after a month of shows on the road, we’re playing better than we ever have in our existence.” Despite having gone to hell and back in the most “metal” way imaginable, Baroness’ advanced sense of melody and songcraft will still cause some to question its authenticity. But that’s an argument best left to your friend with the neck tats and the kitten named after his favorite Dimmu Borgir record. Baizley considers the band’s unique take on a stratified genre a unique opportunity to convene with new listeners. “At a heavy festival, we’re one of the more melodic, lighthearted bands,” he says. “If it’s an indie festival, we’re one of the more metal bands. We’re not playing for other bands. We’re playing for the audience.” But after all the band has been through, fans of heavy, heartfelt rock should just be grateful that Baroness is playing at all. PETE COTTELL. SEE IT: Baroness plays Hawthorne Theatre at 10 pm Thursday, Sept. 5.

BOB MOULD

[FUZZY PUNK] Bob Mould looks like your grandpa, because he kind of is your grandpa. From the legendary Hüsker Dü in the ’80s to Sugar in the ’90s to his current return-to-form solo album, The Descent, his personal brand of noisy, splintery pop punk counts its change to the penny, and it never tells a lie. (MK) Doug Fir Lounge, 11 pm.

BRONCHO

[PUNK ROCK] With grungy fast-paced vigor, Oklahoma’s Broncho calls on the youthful aggression of classic punk on its 2013 debut, Can’t Get Past the Lips, 10 quick tracks of crunchy guitar, pulsing bass and scrappy vocals that, in the typical punk form, blaze past in less than 20 minutes. (EB) Dante’s, 9 pm.

BRUXA

[WITCHSTEP] Bruxa is the most appropriate choice to lead occultish electronic music away from the contrived witch-house genre that blew up in 2010. The music’s just as creepy, but easier to dance to. Most tracks on 2012’s Victimeyez are bona fide dubstep, but some find influence from IDM and hiphop. All would work well in a strobe-lit warehouse. (ML) Holocene, 9 pm.

DIANA

[SHOEGAZE] Indie trio Diana, formed at the University of Toronto, released its self-titled debut only a few weeks ago, but that hasn’t stopped the

band from gaining a considerable amount of attention this past summer playing its shoegaze-tastic sounds at music festivals throughout Canada. In a genre in which every band risks sounding identical, Diana distinguishes itself through the sugary lead vocals of Carmen Elle. (JD) Star Theater, 10 pm.

DIPLO

[WORLD PARTY] When M.I.A. first heard Diplo in a London club, she thought his sound was “homeless.” Appropriate for a producer who slurps up exploding dance beats from Brazilian favelas, reggaeton clubs and practically the entire Internet, and who’s now worked with everyone from Justin Bieber to South African candy-rappers Die Antwoord. (ML) Wonder Ballroom, midnight.

FRED ARMISEN

[COMEDY] See interview, page 18. Crystal Ballroom, 9 pm.

HANDS

[DANCE ROCK] Having freshly released Synesthesia through powerhouse PDX label Kill Rock Stars, Hands is destined for firm footing in the arena of danceable rock. Like fellow L.A. compatriots White Arrows, the quartet injects searing guitars and electronic bleeps with heightened pop sensibility, making for a brand of music that is both cascading and catchy. (MAS) Mississippi Studios, 11 pm.

HAUSU

[POST-HARDCORE] The late ’90s were simpler times for post-hardcore. Back then, you had vans full of dudes flitting across the country, engaging in minor-chord bloodletting in any basement or bar that would have them. Portland’s Hausu inhabits the same world as Hot Water Music and Title Fight, a place where gruff vocals and jagged guitars supersede the aesthetic choices of “post-hardcore” bands associated with the Warped Tour. These guys are ready to let their anthemic revivalist punk do the talking. (PC) Dante’s, 10 pm.

HOTT MT

[PSYCHEDELIC DREAMLAND] One of HOTT MT’s most notable forays involved a pilgrimage to Oklahoma City to lay its musical soul bare at the feet of the Flaming Lips’ frontman, Wayne Coyne, which scored the group a collaboration with the reigning king of freak rock, the bouncy, breathy single “Never Hate Again.” The L.A.-based collective’s debut full-length, I Made This, hit sizzling psychedelic brainpans in May, reaffirming the group’s Coyne-esque space-indie style. (GS) Mississippi Studios, 9 pm.

HOUNDSTOOTH

[SUNSHINE BLUES] Ride Out the Dark, the debut album from Portland quintet Houndstooth, couldn’t have a more apt title: Katie Bernstein’s crooning vocals, layered over guitarist John Gnorski’s twangy surf-rock riffs, are a suitable soundtrack for Oregon’s three glorious months of summer sun. Bernstein sings with a slight drawl, likening her to the ’60s pinup archetype crystallized by Zooey Deschanel in She & Him, but Houndstooth

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JOHN VANDERSLICE

[PO-MO POP ROCK] On 2011 epic White Wilderness, prolific indie figure John Vanderslice teamed with the Magik*Magik Orchestra for a three-day live recording session, a departure for the founder of San Francisco’s Tiny Telephone studio. The result was a lush, uniquely experimental effort informed as much by its classical instrumentation as by J.V.’s smart post-modern songcraft. This summer’s Dagger Beach continues his evolution, with a piercingly organic work that’s all delicate loveliness and heartbreak. (AS) Doug Fir Lounge, 10 pm.

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[HEAVY ART POP] Taking the bombastic sound that marked its staggering and surprising debut, The Big Roar, and ratcheting up the musicianship and explosiveness, Welsh trio the Joy Formidable’s sophomore release, Wolf’s Law, sets a new bar. Here, double-bass pedals hammer down like thunder over wailing guitar hooks guided home by Ritzy Bryan’s ethereal vocals. The trio proves there’s no limit to the amount of sound a sparse outfit can emit, veering into Zeppelin territory even when grounded in surefooted art pop. (APK) Roseland Theater, 11 pm.

KRIS ORLOWSKI

[FOLK POP] Singer-songwriter Kris Orlowski must’ve felt vulnerable enough before having his band’s touring equipment stolen for the third time. The Seattle musician’s latest five-song EP and collaboration with composer Andrew Joslyn, Pieces We Are, draws breath from lush orchestral arrangements and Orlowski’s sweetly affable croon. It’s as intimate as an open mic, clad in a sea of waving strings and shaken lyrics about love and longing. Now, if he can only learn how to keep his stuff secure. (BW) Doug Fir Lounge, 9 pm.

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2012 with DRRT. The Brent Knopfproduced project is free-range rock at its finest, ebbing with choirlike simplicity and flowing with the highly percussive and piano-driven explosiveness of Menomena. It’s going to be tough to outdo a record that includes a build-your-own planetarium, but I like Sheehy’s chances. (MAS) Roseland Theater, 9 pm.

THE LOVE LANGUAGE [ANTHEMIC INDIE POP] Spearheaded by multi-instrumentalist Stuart McLamb, the Love Language is a project originally sparked from a breakup. What started as emotional, holed-up demos written for an ex-girlfriend has, over the course of three albums, evolved into a more spacious, anthemic sound, composed of big drums, bouncy synthesizers and lo-fi energy. McLamb’s third album, Ruby Red, is his most expansive and production-heavy record yet. (EB) Bunk Bar, midnight.

MAGIC FADES

[R&BLOG] Musically, Magic Fades can be geo-located somewhere in the bloggy, foggy Bermuda Triangle between “new alternative” dreamy R&B and the emerging microgenre referred to as “vaporwave.” Lyrically, its songs ooze with romance, swagger and sex. Although currently relegated to opening slots in Portland, the duo of Mike Grabarek and Jeremy Scott has made a lot of fans on the Web: A few months ago, the group performed on the live video-streaming site Tinychat, and attracted so many viewers that the site crashed. (ML) Holocene, 11 pm.

THE MEN

[BACKWOODS PUNK] When you transplant a punk band from New York City into the Catskills, something’s gotta give. For Brooklyn quartet the Men, what gave was the piercing hard rock of which we’ve grown accustomed. Newest record New Moon shows the band dabbling in alt-country, Americana and even Southern rock elements without completely forfeiting the bracing musical persona that’s brought the group success. (MAS) Dante’s, midnight.

[EXPERIMENTAL MUSICAL THEATER] Since 2010, under the name Like a Villain, Portland multiinstrumentalist Holland Andrews has been using her jazzy clarinet, looping pedals and musical theater-trained voice—along with a musical theater-cultivated flair for the dramatic—to make experimental music that revels in the dichotomy between pretty and provocative. Her recordings don’t come close to capturing Andrews’ sprawling live pieces—to say nothing of her bright-eyed, steadyhanded stage presence. (JF) The Old Church, 8:30 pm.

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[DISCO POP] Keyboard-centric on the verge of smooth-jazz territory, the sound of Portland-via-Missouri transplant Minden is a polished glass stiletto, clean and towering. On 2012’s Exotic Cakes and recent EP What’s More Than Appropriate, frontman Casey Burge’s nearwhispered vocals wind in and around crystalline keys and round melodies. And while Minden occasionally strays down more experimental paths, it always boomerangs back to its sugarcoated pop core. (MAS) Branx, 9 pm.

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MFNW static member Phil Elverum a new level of attention. Inspired by black metal and the coastal Washington landscape, it raised expectations for Elverum’s follow-up. In many ways, last year’s Clear Moon (the first part of a two-album set, the second of which, Pre-Human Ideas, drops in the fall) exceeds those expectations: It’s a gentle, masterfully constructed album that is mesmerizing where it’s not downright trance-inducing. (CJ) Aladdin Theater, 9 pm.

ON AN ON

[DREAM POP] On An On comprises three-fifths of the former band Scattered Trees, and despite popping up seemingly overnight and out of thin air last year, the group is making quite an impression, through a pleasing combination of electro-beats, synth-pop hooks and rock bravado. Diverse debut Give In is a moody, ethereal treat. (BP) Roseland Theater, 10 pm.

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[NEW AGE ELECTRO-POP] Brothers Ryan and Taylor Lawhon aren’t ashamed to admit in interviews that their musical taste comes from their mother, who must be a big fan of Enya and Deep Forest. Mixing the ambient synth textures of New Age with smooth vocals and driving percussion, the band’s sound is as entrancing as it is catchy. (EB) Pioneer Courthouse Square, 5:30 pm.

PORTIA

[DANCE] You might think someone slipped something in your drink at Portia’s show. Latininfluenced cumbia beats are sped up to dizzying, though still danceable, speeds, with eerie giggles emerging from the sonic whirlwind. It might be a good idea to wear comfortable clothing and have your address pinned to your collar, just in case. (ML) Holocene, 10 pm.

PRISM TATS

[LAB ROCK] Already a candidate for most memorable performance at MusicfestNW before the festival even happens, Seattle’s G Vandercrimp concocts a mean mix of howling vocals, ripping electric guitar and negative space as Prism Tats. The former member of garage-rockers Koko and the Sweetmeats has an affinity for post-punk and careful minimalism. He manages to come off as a rough-cut, avant-garde take on the Beach Boys, which is somewhat miraculous. (MAS) Bunk Bar, 10 pm.

RA RA RIOT

[INDIE ROCK] Ra Ra Riot, the Syracuse, N.Y., band known for infusing its indie pop with heavy strings, has lightened up on the baroque, in favor of synthesizers, on its latest album, Beta Love. Since the departure of cellist Alexandra Lawn, the band has strayed from its roots, with lead vocalist Wes Miles now crooning his sci-fi inspired lyrics in a smooth falsetto over electronic beats, but the group still delivers an energetic show, more danceable than before. (HM) Mississippi Studios, midnight.

RL GRIME

[TRAP] Twenty-two-year-old producer Henry Steinway became an EDM and hip-hop star last year with ubiquitous club anthem “Trap on Acid,” and his remixes of Kanye’s “Mercy” and Benny Benassi’s “Satisfaction.” The Los Angeles DJ’s new High Beams EP keeps the beats thick, trippy and expectedly crunkified, enlisting much-hyped rapper Problem for auto-tuned earworm “Secondary.” Grime’s dense, dark soundscapes can turn straight-up odd, but fans will dance to it until the drugs wear off, regardless. (AS) Wonder

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ROYAL CANOE

[ART POP] Counting two drummers, two keyboards, four vocalists and genres beyond number to drift among with a noble grandeur, Royal Canoe recently released its debut, Today We’re Believers— unconnected with The Believer magazine, though the troupe first made waves via an elaboration of Beck’s sheet music for the McSweeney’s empire—and continues to paddle in unison along a direction very much its own. (JH) Branx, 10 pm.

ROYAL THUNDER

[HEAVY ROCK] Miny Parsonz belts it out while wielding a mean bass guitar. Her Atlanta-based power trio rocks so hard its albums get shelved in the metal section, but Royal Thunder is that rare modern band that remains connected to pure Delta blues. Sometimes metal is more attitude than sound—even if that sound is pure rock ’n’ roll. (NC) Hawthorne Theatre, 9 pm.

SUN ANGLE

[PROG PUNK] Sun Angle’s live shows are a full-frontal assault, as much rockslide as rock music. Drummer Papi Fimbres plays nearly untrackable polyrhythms, blazing cumbia patterns at the breakneck tempos of punk. Meanwhile, Charlie Salas-Humara lacquers layers of delay-pedaled, psych-prog guitar over the top. It’s an experiment in chaos and control, the control being Marius Libman’s fast, circular basslines. On record, though, they’re somehow even better: Diamond Junk, the band’s debut, is one the best damn rock albums I expect to hear this year. (MK) Mississippi Studios, 10 pm.

TOBACCO

[DEMENTED DANCE] The music of Pennsylvania psych freaks Black Moth Super Rainbow is invariably described as “acid-fried,” but on his own, principal songwriter Thomas “Tobacco” Fec prefers the harder stuff. Making severely warped analog dance music that sounds like chillwave being burned alive, the often creepily bemasked beatmaker orchestrates raves for the angel-dust set, replacing the glowsticks and pretty lights with some truly disturbing video projections. Come for the bowel-displacing bass, stay for the E.T. porn! (MPS) Holocene, midnight.

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[ORCHESTRAL POP] See profile, page 33. The Old Church, 9:30 pm.

VICE DEVICE

[DARK SYNTHS] When Bobby Eagleson and Andrea K met around 2007, the two found themselves geeking out over thenobscure punk offshoots, like minimal synth music, German New Wave and coldwave. On the material they’ve released so far as Vice Device, the band deftly treads the line between New Wave pop and no-wave experimentalism, melding danceable rhythms with dissonant synths, noisy effects and at least one squalling sax solo. (JF) Star Theater, 9 pm.

YOUTH LAGOON

[PSYCHEDELIC ROCK] Wondrous Bughouse, the latest release from Trevor Powers, aka Youth Lagoon, is a kooky mindjob. Half the tracks sound sprung from a bad acid trip, while the rest seem born of a collaboration of Gene Wilder’s Willy Wonka and Thom Yorke at his craziest. Throughout, Powers contemplates the great mysteries of the universe and what really constitutes good and evil via a melting pot of rock, pop, synths and random sonic flourishes. (BP) Pioneer Courthouse Square, 6:30 pm.

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[INDIE ARENA ROCK] Video may have killed the radio stars of the early 1980s, but the radio stars of the new millennium have proven remarkably impervious to the rise of the blogosphere. Take Young the Giant. A group of resolutely nice guys from Orange County, Calif., playing indie-ish rock big and earnest enough to fill stadiums, the band has never received much help from online kingmakers like Pitchfork and Stereogum. But that hasn’t stopped them from scaling the Billboard charts, performing at the MTV Video Music Awards and winning the affections of Morrissey, who doesn’t seem to like anything except Oscar Wilde and cattle. No one, aside from its record company, perhaps, was trying to make Young the Giant happen. Instead, it came by fame the increasingly old-fashioned way: Get a song on the radio, and let the public decide if they deserve it. While the group borrows from the language of contemporary indie rock—lightly distorted guitar hooks, dreamy keyboard atmospherics, quiet-loud-quiet arrangements—it makes no bones about its arena-sized ambitions. These guys have visions of U2-style grandeur in their eyes, and no gesture is too sweeping. Every generation needs its tambourine-banging, lighterswinging, heart-bleeding emotional juggernaut, and Coldplay is getting old. There are certainly worse options to fill that niche than a bunch of—again—nice dudes who all seem perfectly humble. And, well, geez, at least none of them plays the banjo. MATTHEW SINGER. Pioneer Courthouse Square, 8 pm.

BONNIE PRINCE BILLY [FOLK] If Will Oldham cared in any obvious way about money, he’d be a whore. He is treated as saintly in some circles, of course. His song “I See a Darkness” reverberates through funerals, “New Partner” through the ends of relationships. Oldham’s quavering voice, over his 20-year career, has been considered the kindhearted carrier of some deep essence of country and folk and indie Southern America. The fact that he’s looked essentially the same since the age of 23—just as bald, just as sadeyed, both jester and ascetic at once—speaks to the endurance of this America. He doesn’t want to be America, though. He wants to fuck America. When he said he’d fuck that mountain on the Palace Music album Viva Lost Blues, goddamn if he didn’t mean it. His voice turns up on everybody’s albums, from Björk to Papa M to Johnny freaking Cash. Oldham’s albums, whether Bonnie, Palace or otherwise, are perplexing and funny and dirty as all hell, often blazingly inconsistent and often some of the most soulful and beautiful music we have. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Aladdin Theater, 10 pm. Willamette Week AUGUST 28, 2013 wweek.com

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[JOY POP] Portland’s AgesandAges made an imprint in 2011 with its cheerful, quirky and harmony-filled debut, Alright You Restless. Combining infectious vocals with catchy hand claps and pumping guitars, the band, led by songwriter Tim Perry, plays the kind of music that fills the listener with a buoyant sense of joy. (President Obama even included the group’s track, “No Nostalgia,” among the playlist for his re-election campaign.) Rumor is, there’s a new album coming soon, too. (EB) Star Theater, 10 pm.

BEAR MOUNTAIN

[DANCE POP] This Vancouver, B.C., quartet folds the mirror ball-dappled intoxication of electronic dance music into an R&B-informed take on modern pop. By the sound of the group’s debut album, XO, Bear Mountain has come up with something downright delicious as a result. Bust through the hard candy shell of slowbuilding jams like “Faded” and “Congo” and enjoy the rich, gooey goodness inside. (RH) Doug Fir Lounge, 9 pm.

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[FOLK] See profile, page 29. Aladdin Theater, 10 pm.

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oah Lennox has some advice for bands on the international touring circuit. “Don’t say you’re in ‘a psychedelic experimental band’ when going through customs,” says the artist better known as Panda Bear, a member of veteran psychedelic experimental band Animal Collective. No matter how accurate the description may be, it’s not worth the puzzled looks and extra searches. “Always say you’re in a rock band.” Lennox should know: He does quite a bit of traveling these days. A long-standing fan of the European way of life, Lennox moved to Lisbon, Portugal, eight years ago. He’s now 3,500 miles from Baltimore, where he and bandmate Josh Dibb, aka Deakin, first met in elementary school. The entire quartet is now spread throughout the world, with families, side projects and record labels to tend to. Naturally, that makes getting together to record its hyper-hallucinogenic art-pop a lot more difficult. “The way I’m feeling right now, I wouldn’t want to do the same thing again,” Lennox says of the recording process for its last album, 2012’s Centipede Hz, which saw the group reuniting in Baltimore under one roof. “It was enlightening on a bunch of different levels, but the pre-planning and logistics were tedious.” At this point, though, distance might be the only thing keeping Animal Collective from breaking apart. Over the course of 15 years, the band—rounded out by David “Avey Tare” Portner and Brian “Geologist” Weitz—has turned out to be far more influential than anyone could’ve guessed when it first emerged from Maryland, playing noisy, acid-damaged freak-folk abstractions that contorted even the most avantgarde notions of songwriting. Across its first eight albums, the group shifted musical paradigms until, by 2009’s critical milestone Merriweather Post Pavilion, it achieved something resembling pop. 32

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Never content to stay in one place very long, with Centipede, Animal Collective returned to the chaos of its earlier work, though that may have been less of a premeditated choice than a result of the circumstances of its creation: Listening to the album, you can sense a newfound friction, of four brilliant musicians, now all with individual concerns of their own, forced to spend two months crammed together in the same room. And so, the ability for the members to put some miles between each other when not on the road or in the studio might be the best thing for the group’s health. Lennox, for his part, seems built for Europe. He gathers ideas on long walks or drives through town. He is concerned about more than just songwriting. He focuses on things that will help the band in the long run, like, say, mastering a new instrument, or finding use for a new piece of gear. Recognizing each other’s roles and accepting certain responsibilities is a big reason Animal Collective has managed to make it this long. Maintaining that democracy is crucial. Much of the band’s music has collaborative origins, including the new material they’re exchanging now, remotely. Animal Collective will always be the sum of its complicated parts, even if those parts have more commitments now. And if an ocean of separation helps them keep it together, well, then, so be it. “Being in a band is like being in a serious romantic relationship,” Lennox says, rehashing that well-worn cliché in a tone indicating just how true it really is. “You really see the best and worst of each other, especially on tour.” MARK STOCK. SEE IT: Animal Collective plays Pioneer Courthouse Square at 8:30 pm Friday, Sept. 6.

BRAXTON/PALMER [DEEP HOUSE] Today is the day you learn that Olympia has a deep house scene, and that Braxton/Palmer is a part of it, sampling pitch-shifted D’Angelo over classic 808 beats and lacing in short riffs from TLC’s “Creep,” simultaneously a nostalgic shoutout and justification for the album’s name: Creepers. (ML) Holocene, 9:15 pm.

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[COMEDY] See profile, page 83. White Owl Social Club, 10 pm.

CODY CHESNUTT

[SOUL] On Landing on a Hundred, his first album in a decade, Cody Chesnutt sounds like a changed man. In 2002, he released The Headphone Masterpiece, a 36-track burst of unfiltered creative madness that was, at turns, raunchy and righteous. His latest documents Chesnutt’s period of spiritual “cleansing,” with songs chastising himself for past misogyny and celebrating the birth of his son, against a backdrop of bright, classic soul. (MPS) Doug Fir Lounge, midnight.

CRUSHED OUT

[BEACHSIDE HONKY-TONK] Brooklyn power duo Frank Hoier and Moselle Spiller pack a sonic wallop both thick and lean. The couple formerly known as Boom Chick’s debut full-length, Want to Give, is a lo-fi onslaught of surf-garage riffs and classic blues. Tracks like “Shake Can Well” crunch with early rock-’n’-roll energy, while full-throttle chomper “Sharkbite” sounds like the gnarly love child of Dick Dale and the White Stripes. (AS) Doug Fir Lounge, 11 pm.

DAN DEACON

[PSYCHEDELIC ELECTRONICA] Dan Deacon has never been one to shy away from the light, be it with his animated electronic music or penchant for zany live appearances featuring light-

up skulls and other various touch lights. The Baltimore psychedelic popsmith’s shows combine skittering iPods for backing tracks and synchronized shouts about Harry Potter from the crowd, but that doesn’t mean his music should be taken, ahem, lightly: His last album, America, dealt intelligently with the positive and negative fibers that weave the country together. (NMC) Pioneer Courthouse Square, 7 pm.

FIDLAR

[SKATE PUNK] Not many folks would name “TV Party” their favorite Black Flag song, but for the proud young wastrels in L.A.’s FIDLAR, it clearly resonated as a call to arms. The band’s shouty, adolescent punk is only song-title deep— examples from its 2013 debut include “Cheap Beer,” “Wake Bake Skate” and “Cocaine”— but a little juvenile verve goes a long way, and these dudes leak it from their pores. (MPS) Backspace, 11 pm.

FRANK FAIRFIELD

[OLD-TIMEY FOLK] Frank Fairfield was not made for this time. A spry 27-year-old, the central California native plucks, picks and hollers with the vigor of a freight train and raw, reedy drawl of pre-Civil War Americana. His albums are an acoustic smorgasbord of traditional and original tunes, laced with bow and fiddle but bred of fire-and-brimstone tales reminiscent of a bygone era he knows only from the musty 78s on his shelf. (BW) Bunk Bar, midnight.

GATE

[EXPERIMENTAL DRONE] The only mainstay in the world of Gate over the past 25 years has been Michael Morley. As such, the project has followed whatever whims the erstwhile member of New Zealand freaknoise group the Dead C wishes to explore. That could mean turning an off-center loop of a Rolling Stones song into a wobbly anthem, or quietly warbling over a shuffling electronic rhythm and drawn-out keyboard melodies. (RH) Roseland Theater, 9 pm.

THE GREAT MUNDANE

[ELECTRONICA] Bridging the gap between electronica and hip-hop is no easy task, but the Great Mundane does it well. Sharing vibes, fans and remixes with fellow Portlander Emancipator, the Great Mundane brings less natural elements to the table, but he’s got the same deep soul. Many of his tracks keep the beat running with Africanstyled clicks and thumps. It’s enough to make you wonder what’s so mundane about this guy’s music. (ML) Holocene, 10:15 pm.

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HAERTS

[ELECTRO-POP] It’s odd to classify a band as “’80s-sounding” when many of the decade’s hallmarks have shown longevity beyond the Top Gun era. The double dose of singles off Haerts’ forthcoming debut EP, Hemiplegia, though, proffers electro-pop gusto all the same. The atmospheric synths

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[ORCHESTRAL POP] Since moving up to Portland from Salem in the early aughts, Typhoon has won the hearts of the local music scene with its emotive, richly layered orchestral pop. But now the band—which, with its 12 active members, resembles an actual orchestra—is making a beefed-up bid for national fame. Key in that quest? A new full-length album, White Lighter, released Aug. 20. The band recorded it last summer at Pendarvis Farm in Happy Valley, then spent the next year making sure every plink of the piano and pull of the strings was in the right place. The resulting sound is big, mighty, three-dimensional—and an indication that Typhoon no longer fits in the average Portland basement. The ballads are lush and sing-along-friendly, the instrumental strata—bombastic drums boom against military-style horns and joyous strings, with whistles and bells and chimes percolating throughout—lavish. Triumphant bursts collide with moments of haunting spareness. The subject matter, too, is recognizably dark. Lyrical themes of guilt, aging and physical vulnerability often clash with the music’s stirring, sunny crescendos. Kyle Morton’s slightly breathy voice, vulnerable yet urgent, acts as an anchor, ensuring that the bold, busy tracks never erupt into unhinged chaos. REBECCA JACOBSON. The Old Church, 9:30 pm.

[SOULFUL FOLK] Dusty New Orleans folk outfit Hurray for the Riff Raff plays the kind of rambling tunes you’d expect to hear alongside an unlocked guitar case with a few crumpled dollar bills tossed inside. The band’s songs sound lived-in and worn, like each was born from a wandering, world-weary escapade. Indeed, that’s where many of them come from: Twenty-six-year-old leader Alynda Segarra ran away from her aunt and uncle’s home in the Bronx when she was 17, spending a couple of years hopping freight trains and playing washboard with traveling bands before landing in the swamps of Louisiana, where she started writing

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FLUME [ELECTRO HIP-HOP] Australian beatmaker Flume is not like other electronic dance producers, even when he occasionally resembles them. Sure, his self-appointed genre, “Flume-step,” owes a lot to the jerky beats of Flying Lotus, and his opiate-addled synths and Chipmunk-ified vocals are a clear tip of the flat-brimmed cap to Scotland’s king of wonky, Hudson Mohawke. But unlike those guys, the 21-year-old otherwise known as Harley Streten is at his best when keeping things simple. On his self-titled 2012 album, only a handful of elements—a low kick drum, hand claps, two or three synths, a background rhythm that evokes heavy breathing—are used to create beautiful songs other producers would have drowned in effects. That’s not to mention that he’s a half-generation younger than both FlyLo and HudMo, and grew up thousands of miles away from either. His rise to prominence has been similarly unique. After all, how many other EDM stars can claim to have discovered electronic music via a freebie CD-ROM program hidden inside a cereal box? In 2010, as an utterly unknown 19-year-old, he signed to Sydney-based Future Classic and released a pair of well-received singles, “Sleepless” and “I Met You,” a sunny pop-house collaboration with producer Anna Lunoe. Then, last November, his debut LP beat out One Direction to claim the top spot on the Australian iTunes charts, sending the country’s Twittersphere into a tizzy. If he can beat the boy bands in Australia, beat the odds for success as a very young producer and still keep his beats perfectly off-kilter, Flume might just be unbeatable. MITCH LILLIE. Wonder Ballroom, midnight.

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[INDIE POP] Holiday Friends’ 2012 debut, Chicks, mixes an array of energetic beats, upbeat synthesizers and multipart harmonies into an allaround infectious indie-pop sound. Following the release of its LP, the Astoria-based group traveled the West Coast in support of Blind Pilot, making for a fitting pair of melodydriven pop acts. (EB) Star Theater, 8 pm.

HOSTAGE CALM

[EMO AGIT-PUNK] If New Found Glory and the Promise Ring bore a love child with ADHD and a leftist political agenda, Hostage Calm is what you’d get. Driving power pop with one-two drumbeats turn on a dime and lock up with lightly plucked guitar arpeggios, allowing the best songs on 2012’s Please Remain Calm to cruise along with a steady thrust that’s urgent yet never pushy. (PC) Hawthorne Theatre, 8:30 pm.

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[POP PUNK] The market for earnest emo pop remains flooded a decade after the fact, but we can’t fault Evan Thomas Weiss, Into It Over It’s sole proprietor, for being late to the game. Proper, from 2011, is packed with urgency and hooks, qualifying it as required listening for fans of Relient K, Cartel and any of the hundred other identical bands that landed record deals in the time since I typed this sentence. (PC) Hawthorne Theatre, 9:30 pm.

JESSICA HERNANDEZ & THE DELTAS

[POP SOUL] Jessica Hernandez could kick your ass and make you enjoy every second of it. Her songs let the world know she isn’t going to put up with any crap, but the raw, sensual power and beauty of her vocals against the Deltas’ bluesy, soulful playing suggests that, if you treat her right, she’ll make the beat down worth your time. (BP) Doug Fir Lounge, 10 pm.

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[NORTHWEST BEACH MUSIC] La Luz is a study in contrast. The Seattle quartet melds ’60s girlgroup harmonies with boys-club surf guitar, and the band’s buzzgarnering debut 2012 EP, Damp Face, would feel equally appropriate as the soundtrack to a Quentin Tarantino movie as well as a Frankie and Annette beach romp. The album is a hooky lo-fi gem, featuring assured psychedelic textures and retro riffs awash in swooning, reverb-soaked vocals, with each member taking a turn on the mic. (AS) Dante’s, 9 pm.

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[NEW SOUL] The opening track on Larry g(EE)’s debut EP, “Yo Mamma,” is no joke—though the playful bridge referencing Kelis’ “Milkshake” might say otherwise. The Texas native’s Weekends struts a kind of soulful gait that’s neither purist nor modern. With the brass on high, rolling piano on low and g(EE)’s new-pop magnetism at the helm, the music has its roots in Motown and funk, while delivering lyrics about smart phones and contemporary heartbreak. (BW) Mississippi Studios, 9 pm.

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[AVANT-RAP] As ghettoizing a term as “queer rap” is, there’s no denying that hip-hop has, little by little, inched its way out of the closet recently, and New York’s Le1f has helped pry the door open. Originally gaining his rep making beats for Das Racist, the elasticvoiced MC dropped a pair of stunning mixtapes in the past year, spitting once-unfathomable lyrics

LE1F like “I am whatever you say I am/ Stop worrying about how gay I am” over cloudy, nearly avant-garde production that’s equally as captivating. (MPS) Mississippi Studios, 11 pm.

THE LONESOME BILLIES

[DARK COUNTRY] Portland’s Lonesome Billies take their cues from the likes of Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings, but I’m pretty sure neither of those two ever entered a jingle contest sponsored for a shot at $10,000. Regardless, the Hazel Dell, Wash.-bred outfit delivers dark, twanged-out country tunes—sung with throaty despondency by lead vocalist Billy McCune—that are far from uplifting but well-suited for a night of drinking the pain away. (BW) Bunk Bar, 10 pm.

MEAN JEANS

[POP PUNK] A Screeching Weasel for our time and place, Portland pop-punk savants Mean Jeans are totally serious about being totally dumb. Initially establishing itself as this city’s premier party band via its fast and silly Ramones-style punk, the band slowed down and refined its sound on last year’s Mean Jeans on Mars. It is still haunted by the ghosts of Joey and Johnny, but it owes more to the spacious Pleasant Dreams than the Ramones’ buzzsawing early work. (CS) Backspace, 10 pm.

MIKE DONOVAN

[GARAGE ROCK] After experimenting with numerous different band members, Sic Alps has called it quits, but that’s OK, because the one who kept the band afloat, Mike Donovan, is still around—going it solo this time. Donovan’s debut solo album, Wot, is set to release Oct. 15, and if it sounds anything like his former band, expect gritty garage rock with brash guitar that roughs up Donovan’s mellow voice. (HM) Dante’s, 11 pm.

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NAOMI PUNK

[UN-GRUNGE] They’re from Washington, their guitars sound dragged through wet waste, and they don’t give a fuck about their Internet presence. “Grunge” might be an apt way to describe Naomi Punk, but it leaves a lot of the band’s corners unlit. Last year’s full-length, The Feeling, bolstered its punk cred, but the vocals have a schoolyard-chant quality, like a broken Kate Bush record. This is not a group that fits easily into any box. (ML) Crystal Ballroom, 8:30 pm.

NATASHA KMETO

[ELECTRO R&B] Natasha Kmeto can’t get no satisfaction, and it’s killing her. On her previous EPs, the Portland future soul singer-producer humanized the glitched-out

rhythms and Richter-shifting bass of modern EDM by cutting them with vocal hooks straight off an Aaliyah greatest-hits set. But her recently released second album is called Crisis for a reason. It doesn’t writhe in ecstasy so much as in the ache of being deprived of it, with beats that feel hollowed out and infused with black-light moodiness. (MPS) Holocene, 11:15 pm.

NEAL MORGAN

[PERCUSSIVE POP] In the Yard is Neal Morgan’s second record made exclusively with drums and vocals. Upon listening, though, one rarely notices the limitations. Sometimes, Morgan’s sharp, engaging singing voice tumbles over itself to create an orchestra of voices backed by tribal percussion; on other tracks, he speak-sings descriptive passages from tour journals. The tapestry of sound created by Morgan—who is Bill Callahan’s touring drummer—seems limitless. (CJ) The Old Church, 8:30 pm

OLD LIGHT

[ECLECTIC ROCKAGE] Portland’s Old Light started as a series of autoharp-intensive recordings frontman Garth Klippert played for passengers in his cab. That spawned a band that initially sounded like an aggressive hybrid of My Morning Jacket, the Beach Boys and Black Sabbath, but has since delivered songs steeped in acid jazz, psychedelic Zeppelinisms and spooky shape-shifting atmospherics. You never really know where Klippert and company are going next, and that’s precisely what makes them great. (APK) Dante’s, 10 pm.

PREFUSE 73

[GLITCH-HOP] Prefuse 73 sounded like nobody else in 2001. With hip-hop snippets and hand claps hiccupping into clipped rhythms under a warm blanket of jazz organ, its sound tapped into the essence of summer in the city. In the intervening years, mastermind Guillermo Scott Herren has taken so many excursions—from freak folk to chillwave to Flaming Lips collabs— he sounds nothing like himself anymore. But then you hear the new track—all transcendental backward strings and skittery click beats— and bam! It’s summer again. (MK) Holocene, 12:30 am.

SAVES THE DAY

[CLASSIC EMO] When Saves the Day titled its 1998 debut Can’t Slow Down, it’s safe to assume longevity was not a priority for the New Jersey-based emo standard-bearers. Still at it 15 years later, it’s remarkable the band’s digression into chilled-out adults is already behind them. After a flaccid attempt at straightforward rock with 2003’s In Reverie, Chris Conley and company recalled their reckless days of yore and resumed churning out bangers made for restless teens with nothing to rebel against. (PC) Hawthorne Theatre, 10:30 pm.

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SHLOHMO (DJ SET)

[ABSTRACT ELECTRONICS] An L.A. native, Shlohmo (aka Henry Laufer) came of age under the influence of Flying Lotus and DJ Shadow, icons that have added psychedelia, jazz and the avant-garde into the bass-heavy swing of hiphop. Laufer has taken that same path but found detours galore that have taken him further into the woods for some seriously spooky and troubling lowbrow funk. (RH) Wonder Ballroom, 10:30 pm.

SHY GIRLS

[SMOOTH R&B] Soprano-sax solos, earnest pillow-talk vocals and a production style best described as “dentist-office funk” aren’t exactly de rigueur, but that’s the appeal of Shy Girls. Voted Portland’s reigning Best New Band, its music invokes memories of walking through a mall or riding in an elevator circa 1991. “Blueeyed soul” is the hipper nomenclature, but if you were to use the term “easy listening” to describe it, the band wouldn’t take offense. (MPS) Mississippi Studios, 10 pm.

SONS OF HUNS

[METAL] Sons of Huns have risen quickly to the upper echelons of Portland’s hardest-rocking bands, built on a solid foundation of ballsto-the-wall beats, huge guitar solos and blistering live shows. Somewhere between Fu Manchu and Black Sabbath, the trio combines the psych-y riffing and freewheeling energy of the former with the shout-along vocals and dramatic sensibilities of the latter. (RB) White Owl Social Club, 9 pm.

SUPERCHUNK

[POWER PUNK] Superchunk is never going to surprise you, and that’s among its better qualities. Over 23 years, the North Carolina stalwarts have squeezed a lot of life from just a few energetic power chords, strained-larynx hooks and a lot of punkish soul. Tenth album I Hate Music is every bit as vital as their 1990 debut, except frontman Mac McCaughan now uses his aggro-elfin whinny to ruminate on death, aging and the joys of staying at home. (MPS) Crystal Ballroom, 10:30 pm.

SURFER BLOOD

[INDIE SURF ROCK] Rising from the ashes of a chance conversation at an after party for Miami’s Ultra Music Festival—and a shared distaste for dance music—Surfer Blood has quickly ascended the indie-rock circuit with hooky surf-rock anthems chock-full of marauding melodies. Still in its infancy, the West Palm Beachers have scored international tour dates, pop-critic reverence and high-level anticipation for second LP Pythons, released in June. (GS) Star Theater, 11 pm.

TITUS ANDRONICUS

[ANTHEMIC PUNK] Once a punk band successfully records a concept album about a Civil War battleship, its ambitions are bound to recede. Local Business, New Jersey history buffs Titus Andronicus’ follow-up to their lofty 2010 breakthrough, The Monitor, finds the group returning to its scraggly, beery-eyed roots, ripping from rousing Springsteen-isms to shambling New York Dolls trash blues to Replacements-style emotional bloodletting. (MPS). Crystal Ballroom, 9:30 pm.

TY SEGALL

[GARAGE ROCK] A Southern California kid raised on Black Flag, Ty Segall was not the obvious choice to lead the garage-rock revival. But the multi-instrumentalist and songwriter has become one of the most active around, putting out three releases via three different bands in 2012 alone. His latest solo effort, Sleeper, proves he can do dark acoustic introspection as well as loud, unhinged fuzz rock.

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UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA

[PSYCH FUNK] As guitar gods go, Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s Ruban Nielson is pretty low-key. It’s only in concert that one realizes the extent of the New Zealandbred frontman’s labyrinthine licks. UMO’s sophomore effort, II, makes more obvious use of Nielson’s hands than its predecessor, but it’s his singing and songwriting that feel fully evolved. The funky cut-and-paste sound experiments of its debut have been replaced by seven-minute stoner jams and tricky pop songs that could almost pass as latter-day Beatles B-sides. (CJ) Branx, 11 pm.

WASHED OUT

[POST GLO-FI] South Carolina’s Ernest Greene is as much to blame for Portland’s national branding as Fred and Carrie: His bliss-drunk 2009 single, “Feel It All Around,” opens Portlandia. But the onetime chillwave leader didn’t just pack up his laptop after the fad faded and let the royalty checks roll in: Newly released second album Paracosm is equally gauzy and lightheaded, though also warmer and more organic. (MPS) Mississippi Studios, midnight.

THE WE SHARED MILK

[PSYCH POP] The self-described “party boys” in the We Shared Milk refer to their music as “moron rock,” which isn’t to say the Portland quartet dumbs down its woozy brand of psych pop. It just prefers to keep things simple. On Lame Sunset, the band’s second album in less than a year, the group interweaves remnants of its previous work—distorted guitar that glints and glides above syncopated rhythms—with a hazy shade of melancholia, its dazed crawl anchored by a newfound mix of keyboards. (BW) Branx, 9 pm.

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WILD ONES

[ELECTRO DREAM POP] There’s nothing all that wild about Wild Ones. Keep It Safe, the title of the quartet’s debut album, is a better indicator of what to expect from the 3-year-old Portland group’s romantic, richly detailed electro-acoustic pop. Golden-glow synths flutter with crystalline grace around subtly employed guitars and light dance beats, like Beach House shaken out of its lovebuzzed haze. (MPS) Star Theater, 9 pm.

WOODEN INDIAN BURIAL GROUND

[PSYCHEDELIC GARAGE ROCK] Originally a mellow guitar-anddrums duo, Portland’s Wooden Indian Burial Ground underwent a few changes last year, expanding its lineup into a four-piece and returning frontman Justin Fowler to his heavily distorted roots. Its self-titled debut is a blizzard of inthe-red guitars, squealing Farfisa organ and cranium-collapsing feedback, all swirling around in a whirlpool of hallucinogenic reverb. (MPS) Branx, 10 pm.

YOUTHBITCH

[POP PUNK] The 11 blasts of bracing pop punk on 2012’s Don’t Fuck This Up! should transform Youthbitch’s terrible name into a household one, at least in circles wont to worship noisy joy. Chief songwriters Nico Esparrago and Stevie Sensitive make like Lennon and McCartney, trading lead vocals and lifting each other to great pop peaks merely hinted at by the band’s debut. The album’s title suggests the musicians knew they were on the verge of something great, and they were right. And they did not fuck it up, even a little bit. (CS) Backspace, 9 pm.

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[POST-ROCK] A duo making instrumental music out of nothing but drums, vibraphone and ephemeral noise isn’t taking any shortcuts to success, but vibes player Jose Medeles and drummer David Coniglio have made it work. Howl & Bite, the Portland-based group’s debut, underpins simple, glimmering melodies with big, shuddering beats. (MPS) Aladdin Theater, 9 pm.

ANGEL OLSEN

[SINGER-SONGWRITER] Noted for her collaborations with Bonnie Prince Billy, Angel Olsen sings with a dramatic vocal range somewhere between Joni Mitchell and Roy Orbison. The Chicago-based singer-songwriter’s intense bursts, cracks and whispers entrance and jar in equal measure. (EB) The Old Church, 8:30 pm.

BEAT CONNECTION

[RETRO ELECTRONICA] For all the ’80s revivalist trappings residing at the heart of Beat Connection’s music, the quartet deserves credit for succeeding in bringing glassy synth melodies and low-saturated drummachine beats into a modern context. The latest album by this Seattle-based outfit, The Palace Garden, is blooming with earworm hooks and a slightly tropical flavor that runs counter to its sodden birthplace. (RH) Branx, 11 pm.

BISON BISON

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hen an artist vanishes for 40 years, rumors are going to spread, none of them good. So it was with Shuggie Otis. Nearly four decades passed after the release of his third album, the psychedelic soul masterpiece Inspiration Information, with barely a peep or public appearance to prove he was even still among us. Did he get fed up with the industry and retire into a life of manual labor, languishing in bitter obscurity for the rest of his days? Or did he descend into drugs and mental illness and take up residence under an overpass? Well, Otis regrets to inform you that the reason for his long absence isn’t nearly that tragic: He just couldn’t get a deal. After being dropped by Epic Records in the mid-’70s, Otis spent the ensuing years trying to persuade a label, any label, to sign him, and had so many doors slammed in his face he grew numb to the feeling. “It was always some mumbo-jumbo about, ‘I don’t think it’s a hit,’ or, ‘We want to put you with a producer,’” he says over the phone from a hotel in Boston. “Just, ‘See you later,’ in so many words.” That’s the narrative he’s been selling, anyway, since Sony reissued Inspiration Information in April with a disc of unreleased material and finally pushed Otis, at age 59, back onto the road and into public consciousness. It’s a familiar tale these days, what with the recent rediscoveries of Sixto Rodriguez and Charles Bradley, artists whose careers were frozen in time in the ’70s and thawed out in the digital age. With Otis, though, the story is harder to buy, if only because, unlike those other musicians, he’s never lacked influential admirers. Recorded in his early 20s, Inspiration Informa40

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tion’s fluttery grooves, rainbow-blues guitars and then-revolutionary funky drum machines—all played by Otis—allegedly floored Sly Stone, and so impressed the Rolling Stones they offered him a spot in the band. Quincy Jones expressed interest in producing his next record. Doggedly independent, perhaps to a fault, Otis rejected such overtures. “I didn’t want to be a sideman to anyone,” he says. In 2001, David Byrne re-released Inspiration Information on his Luaka Bop label and won Otis even more fans, from Questlove to Prince to Lenny Kravitz. Still, Otis insists, no one would give him a contract. He continued living off session work and royalties from his biggest hit, the incandescent “Strawberry Letter 23,” made famous by the Brothers Johnson’s 1977 version, while pitching himself to practically every record company in North America. Although he has hinted at battling personal problems, which he declines to elaborate on, Otis says, during all that time, he never got down. He always felt, eventually, he’d get a shot at his own second act. “Deep down inside, I always thought I’d get a deal,” he says. “I didn’t think it’d take so long for people to actually let me back in. But I believe someone was holding me back. I don’t know who.” Whatever the true story, the world has Shuggie Otis back. And no one is happier about that than Otis himself. “I’m on top of the world right now,” he says. “I’m not No. 1, but I’m back out here on the road, and that means the world to me.” MATTHEW SINGER. SEE IT: Shuggie Otis plays Crystal Ballroom at 9 pm Saturday, Sept. 7.

[STONER ROCK] Portland’s Bison Bison puts forth a caustic brand of shoot-first-ask-questions-later hard rock that’s brazen enough to wake the sheriff. Granted, that’s a lot of hyphens, but BB moves with such spastic disregard that tagging the band with a singular name would be a disservice to everyone involved. In short, hold on to your hats. (MAS) Dante’s, 10 pm.

BLEEDING RAINBOW [PUNK ’N’ ROLL] Volatile, Phillybased act Bleeding Rainbow likes it loud. Like contemporaries Yuck and Veronica Falls, the band must’ve grown up studying Sonic Youth albums like textbooks. Latest record Yeah Right foams over with supercharged guitar thrashing, primitive drumming and Sarah Everton’s airy vocals. (MAS) Star Theater, 10 pm.

BOOTY BASSMENT DJS

[HIP HOP] Oregonians are famously suspicious of their Californian neighbors, so it’s in the spirit of mutual understanding that the monthly Booty Bassment party migrated north to Portland. Locals Nathan Detroit and Maxx Bass are the regulars, while Cali-based founders Dimitri Dickinson and Ryan Poulsen will visit to deliver ass-clapping hits from the last three decades. (ML) Holocene, 9 pm & 1 am.

CHARLES BRADLEY

[SOUL] There ain’t nothing retro about Charles Bradley. Sure, his grooves are mighty dusty, and he sings and shouts like a tortured James Brown. But unlike so many other modern soul singers now invoking the sound of the ’60s, Bradley is truly living it in the present. (MPS) Crystal Ballroom, 10:30 pm.

CHET FAKER

[SOULFUL ELECTRONICA] As Chet Faker, Nick Murphy blew up after releasing a sultry, minimalist cover of Blackstreet’s ’90s R&B classic “No Diggity.” In his version, as with most of his songs, the Australian musician places his soulful, languid voice atop simple, sexy electronic beats, creating a compelling fusion of genres. (EB) Doug Fir Lounge, 11 pm.

THE CHICHARONES

[POST-HIP-HOP] So much of what makes the Chicharones the Chicharones—the dance moves, the frenetic live band, DJ Zone’s pig-masked hijinks, the band’s innate ability to perform its silliest songs with heartbreaking earnestness—has to be seen to be believed. While last year’s Swine Flew just may have been too personal, complex and funny to go supernova, the almost painfully smooth “Hi Hey Hello” did recently land in a Samsung Galaxy ad. (CJ) Hawthorne Theatre, 9 pm.

DEEP SEA DIVER

[INDIE ROCK] Although she’s now a regular member of the Shins, Jessica Dobson, the lead singer-guitarist-keyboardist for Seattle’s Deep Sea Diver, possesses the kind of vocal pipes suited for center stage. Deep Sea Diver’s album History Speaks encompasses a nice blend of upbeat badassery and lush beauty, proving Dobson to be a spellbinding leading lady. (EB) Pioneer Courthouse Square, 5:30 pm.

DIRTCLODFIGHT

[DIRGE POP] Re-formed in 2004 after a six-year hiatus, Dirtclodfight continues to balance on the knife’s edge of melody and heaviness. The former Portland group now calls Eugene its home base and has focused on acoustic tunes of late, but still wields its loud-soft dynamics with prowess. (NC) White Owl Social Club, 11 pm.

THE DODOS

[UBER-INDIE] Between Carrier and No Color, the beloved Bay Area duo the Dodos has turned out some of the strongest indie rock of the last two years. Meric Long and Logan Kroeber play with a fierce, nervous energy, creating tension through a percussive backbone and antsy guitar work. (MAS) Star Theater, 11 pm.

EARTH

[DRONE LORDS] Seattle’s Earth can boast one of the most critically successful comebacks in recent memory. Once the laughing stock of the Sub Pop roster, it is now considered a seminal founder of the heavy drone movement, inspiring glorified tribute acts like Sunn O))). (NC) Roseland Theater, 9 pm.

GAYTHEIST

[PUNK METAL] Metal at its core but bleeding into post-hardcore and punk, Gaytheist’s sonic onslaught is spiked with lyrics mixing political statements with biting sarcasm. As heavy as the band’s instrumental attack is, as you might guess from its name, absurdity is a big part of the deal. (ML) Dante’s, 9 pm.

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MFNW panoramic scenes of triumph and dread, GY!BE’s slow-burning approach to instrumental guitar rock eschews economy and melodrama for suspense and dissonant uncertainty. If society were to be dismantled in one week’s time, this is what day eight would sound like. This is not the soundtrack to a zombie apocalypse: It is the sound of what comes after. This is truly post-rock. While the band was on hiatus from 2003 to 2010, a bumper crop of heavy-handed also-rans sprang up across the globe. While several young post-rock bands cashed in on the promise of being the next “crescendocore” group to watch, it still wasn’t Godspeed. If excellent 2012 comeback record ’Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend! is any indication of what’s been bottled up for almost a decade, then there’s a torrential assault in store for our senses. PETE COTTELL. Roseland Theater, 10 pm Saturday, Sept. 7.

YA N N I C K G R A N D M O N T

[INDIE FOLK POP] Pure, unadulterated optimism is a rare thing to stumble upon in a music industry fraught with uncertainty, but the Head and the Heart is bursting with it—and well it should, given the band’s recent, whirlwind success. Born from open-mic nights in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood in 2009, the sextet self-released its eponymous debut—an album featuring a homespun blend of folksy Americana and melodic pop—and, with no promotional push behind it, sold more than 10,000 copies. Within a year, the group was signed to Sub Pop, which re-released The Head and the Heart in 2011. The album beams with nostalgia and big-hearted sentiments. Singer-songwriters Josiah Johnson and Jonathan Russell, along with violinist-vocalist Charity Rose Theilen, juggle leads in round-robin fashion, their soft-spoken tendencies offset by a mélange of jaunty piano and exuberant percussion. Bits of cello, glockenspiel and other orchestral arrangements ebb and flow throughout the album. Amid all the warmth, the album is underscored by a sense of longing—a heavy sense of what was, what is and what will become as people inevitably age along with the world around them—which only makes it more relatable. With follow-up Let’s Be Still coming in October, the band is looking to capture its rapid transformation from coffee-shop revelers into a headlining tour de force while expanding the thematic elements of its debut. Whether it can maintain its grassroots appeal remains to be seen. But something tells me they’ll be fine. BRANDON WIDDER. Pioneer Courthouse Square, 8 pm Saturday, Sept. 7.

GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR [POST-ROCK] Since forming in 1994, Montreal’s Godspeed You! Black Emperor has received critical acclaim for an intense live show that leaves fans in a daze—and all without saying a word. On record, the vocal-deprived band prefers to speak through dynamic rhythmic shifts and battering crescendos. In concert, the group adds another dialect to its wordless language: a video reel. While contemporaries Explosions in the Sky and Mogwai use the quiet-loud-quiet format to conjure 42

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the Black Keys. But Benjamin Weikel’s ecstatic drumming and Brandon Summers’ multitextured guitar travel a subtler path than those monochrome twosomes, and they seem content with being Portland’s (well, Beaverton’s) pride. (JR) Aladdin Theater, 10 pm.

HORSE FEATHERS

[INDIE FOLK] A Portland mainstay since 2004, Horse Feathers is perpetually pushing the line between solemn folk and hushed indie ambiance. The beguilement lies in the delicate string arrangements and singer Justin Ringle’s grating vocal delivery—always piercing but never pushing you away. (BW) The Old Church, 9:30 pm.

[ELECTRO NOIR] A Johnny Jewel project carries the same weight of expectation as a Quentin Tarantino film, and is often just as cinematic. The Portlandbased synth maestro has enjoyed the spotlight of late, not least of all for curating the widely acclaimed soundtrack for the film Drive. Long before Ryan Gosling entered his life, though, Jewel was making music evocative of driving through a city at night. Under the Glass Candy moniker, he and singer Ida No have produced irresistibly iridescent glam pop since the ’90s. And over the last six years, his side quartet, Chromatics, has evolved from a ponderous electro outfit into a well-manicured ambient force, peaking with last year’s critically lauded Kill for Love. In both groups, Jewel is abetted by alluring femmes fatales. In Glass Candy, No is a source of energy, a physical and vocal acrobat capable of converting Jewel’s glimmering keyboards into sweaty fits of hyperactive electronica. Her tireless stage presence and encouraging yelps go toe-to-toe with Jewel’s bassy beats and starry riffs. Between 2007’s outstanding Beatbox and a smattering of intoxicating singles, Glass Candy has affirmed itself as Portland’s late-night adrenaline fix. Meanwhile, in Chromatics, Ruth Radelet’s brushy, hypnotic voice offers a muchneeded exhale. Over bubbling guitar, ’80s pop structures and Jewel’s layers of synth, her furtive singing is so dreamy it’s indecipherable at times. At 90 minutes, breakthrough record Kill for Love might seem longwinded, but Radelet makes every breath vital. In all his projects, Jewel carries a keen understanding of pop and the crucial difference between copying your influences—his include Kraftwerk, Alan Vega and Daft Punk—and drawing from them. And just as a late-night jaunt in the city is always unpredictable, it’s comforting to have Jewel acting as both spark and sedative. MARK STOCK. Wonder Ballroom. Chromatics play at 10:30 pm, Glass Candy at midnight Saturday, Sept. 7.

ONUINU

[NEW DISCO] Easily one the best and catchiest Portland records of 2012, Onuinu’s Mirror Gazer remains a sizzling, summery collection of stoned disco. Dorian Duvall has become the local houseparty standard, combining lounge, R&B, house, pop and experimental electronica into a vibrant, hip-loosening mosaic. (MS) Doug Fir Lounge, 10 pm.

P.O.S.

[ROCK] The guys in Lonnie Winn aren’t going to blow you away with their slightly fuzzy and dreamy midtempo rock sound, but the ultimate result of their pleasant, languid music is to make you imagine sitting on a beach at sunset, and God knows there are worse things than that. (BP) Bunk Bar, 10 pm.

[RAP] Stef Alexander, aka P.O.S., approaches his brand of hip-hop a bit differently than the rest of his Rhymesayers labelmates deploying an “us versus them” dynamic. Last January, the punk rockerturned-MC had both kidneys replaced. Now back to 100 percent, P.O.S. is healthy enough to occupy Portland all by himself. (JD) Hawthorne Theatre, 11 pm.

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[COUNTRY BLUES] With swinging guitars, keys and percussion, Aaron Mortenson and Jay Rutherford of Nashville’s Los Colognes make classic country and blues which, on their infectious debut album, Working Together, combine into a sound lifted straight from the ’70s. (EB) Mississippi Studios, 9 pm.

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grooves. The Washington state duo sculpts sound waves with an ear to loopy, lilting melody and sexy percussion. (AS) Branx, 10 pm.

LOVE AS LAUGHTER [PSYCH BLUES] If you told anybody in 1994 that Love As Laughter’s Sam Jayne would stick it out for almost 20 years, evolving from ADHD fuzz rock to yelping Stones-y psychedelic blues before briefly making drifting backporch music—and then departing right back to stoner-blues territory—they’d laugh your ass straight into Unabomber isolation. But that’s what happened. (MK) Bunk Bar, 11 pm.

MARIACHI EL BRONX/THE BRONX [PUNKIACHI] While known mostly for playing fiery, straight-ahead punk, in 2011 L.A.’s the Bronx released its second serious mariachi record under the name Mariachi El Bronx, erasing any doubts that the first had just been a practical joke. Remarkably, the band is adept in both of these two wholly disparate styles. (JD) Mariachi El Bronx: Dr. Martens Store, 1:30 pm. The Bronx: Dante’s, midnight.

MORNING RITUAL

[FANTASY FOLK-STEP] Portland pianist and composer Ben Darwish has spent the last seven years blazing trails. Morning Ritual, his current genre-bending group, featuring sisterly singers the Shook Twins, combines folk, jazz, dubstep and R&B, and never feels schizophrenic or aimless. (BP) Crystal Ballroom, 8 pm.

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[TRAP] Strip hip-hop of everything but the bass and the libido and you get something like Most Custom. Formed in 2012 by Portlanders Tyler Tastemaker and Quarry, they’re both an indictment and endorsement of trap music’s rise. (ML) Branx, 9 pm.

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[CHILLOUT] On their radiant LP Summer’s Gone, college budsturned-collaborators Harrison Mills and Clayton Knight stretch the season out of the region with lounge-worthy electro

[DISCO] Phone Call is the phoenix that rose up from the ashes of Strength, Portland’s beloved longtime disco machine. The remaining two members have shifted to an ’80s-centric bump-’n’-grind approach, and have become regulars at Holocene under the new moniker. (GS) Doug Fir Lounge, 9 pm.

POOLSIDE

[DAYTIME DISCO] L.A.’s Poolside loves the heavy kick drums, claps and melodic, meandering bass lines of disco, but its version sounds as if the record was left in the sun, melting the vocals and adding shimmering bells and sharp synths to the high end. (ML) Doug Fir Lounge, midnight.

THE PYNNACLES

[GARAGE PSYCH] The Pynnacles, helmed by semilegendary local frontman Sean Croghan, opens its debut record with punchy guitar chords reminiscent of the Kinks’ “You Really Got Me,” but that’s before Tamar Berk’s organ oozes over the track. Suddenly, it’s apparent that while the Pynnacles’ sound—playful and urgent— finds inspiration from the wild garage rock of the ’60s, it refuses to handle its source material with cotton gloves. (CJ) Backspace, 10 pm.

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[MONSTER GARAGE] Slaying devoted crowds across Europe and the states with a largerthan-life stage persona, Carré Callaway—a former protégée of Trent Reznor—has grown from a cottage-industrial chanteuse to frontwoman of towering rawk dynamo Queen Kwong. On hard-charging releases like last summer’s Bad Lieutenant EP, Callaway’s Los Angeles trio scales the height of abandon with a primal ferocity. (JH) Star Theater, 9 pm.

SAD HORSE

[PUNK WHIMSY] A guitar’n’-drums duo of blistering intensity and sparkling bonhomie, the signature songs spun by local luminaries Elizabeth Venable and Geoff Soule are remarkably short, and despite the Sad Horse moniker, delivered with anything but a long face. (JH) Backspace, 9 pm.

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SINGLE MOTHERS

[OVERDRIVEN PUNK] Canada could become the next hotbed of fury-driven, in-the-red garage punk, and if it does, Single Mothers—a four-piece from London, Ontario—will be the band leading the charge. The quartet’s recent brooding and heartbroken self-titled EP often makes your stereo speakers sound like they’ve been punctured by knitting needles. (RH) Dante’s, 8 pm.

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[NARRATIVE FOLK] San Francisco-based artist, playwright and musician Sonny Smith is a twisted storyteller, blending longform lyricism with alt-countryish freak folk. The prolific singer-songwriter’s newest record, the aptly titled Antenna to the Afterworld, just about sums him up: It’s fun, adventurous and unlikely, blending spacey effects with traditional folk elements. (MAS) Bunk Bar, midnight.

TEAM DRESCH

[RIOT GRRRL] When all-female punk quintet Team Dresch first got together in Portland in the early days of the Clinton administration, its agenda was clear: anti-misogyny and pro-gay. Eighteen years later, the group hasn’t had to alter its targets a single inch. (MPS) Backspace, 11 pm.

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[FOLK POP] It is virtually impossible not to like the ebullient and quirky Thao Nguyen. Her tracks combine everything from Americana to ambient pop, hip-hop beats to Asian-tinged guitars, and the appeal of her sometimes Feist-like vocal delivery is nearly as wide. (BP) Pioneer Courthouse Square, 6:30 pm.

THE THERMALS

[POWER PUNK] Ten years in, it’s easy for Portland to take the Thermals for granted. Desperate Ground, the power trio’s sixth full-length, doesn’t mess with the group’s three-chord buzz-saw

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[SAXY BASS MUSIC] Since stomping onto the electronic-music scene in 2009, Big Gigantic has become pretty big and, well, pretty gigantic. The project of producer Dominic Lalli and drummer Jeremy Salken combines the improvisational elements of jazz with DJ-style production techniques, creating a sound that is fundamentally electronic but cut with Lalli’s saxophone like a laser beam through a murky storm of bass drops. (GS) Crystal Ballroom, 10 pm.

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[HARD FOLK] Portland staples Luz Elena Mendoza and Nick Delffs team for this folk-punk mélange of percussion and plugged-in power. The result is a driving, curious new project, whose bite is tempered by its knack for harmony. (AS) Dr. Martens Store, 12:30 pm.

TREE

[STREET RAP] Chicago MC Tree didn’t explode onto the scene so much as simmered within it until he caught fire. With a gruff voice embodying his upbringing, Tree waxes about life on the streets with a humility and clarity often missing in the genre. (APK) Mississippi Studios, 11 pm.

WHITE LUNG

[PUNK ROCK] White Lung could throw in with any of today’s revivals de rigueur—spooky post-punk, nostalgic grunge, noisy hardcore— and rule it within minutes. Instead, last year’s Sorry merges the aforementioned kindred schools into a fanged punk monster, and it is spectacular. (CS) Dante’s, 11 pm.

THE WOOLEN MEN

[POST-PUNK] When Portland garage-rock trio the Woolen Men signed with New York label Woodsist late last year, the city gasped. Would our beloved punktinged lo-fi group be cleaned up beyond recognition? The answer, according to the group’s self-titled debut LP, is a resounding no. The trio is as self-made, unified and explosive as ever. (MAS) Mississippi Studios, 10 pm.

YOB

[DOOM METAL] Though guitarist-vocalist Mike Scheidt has been concerning himself more with his solo acoustic explorations lately, now is the time to reacquaint the world with the devastating Sabbath-like burn of Yob’s slow squall. The trio is strapping in once again in an effort to whet local appetites for the re-release of its second album, Catharsis, out this fall. (RH) White Owl Social Club, midnight.

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approach. But after a few records of personal journal reading, frontman Hutch Harris returns to the sociopolitical declamations of 2006’s Bush-baiting The Body, the Blood, the Machine, and once again, the band sounds reborn. (MPS) Mississippi Studios, midnight.

ILL-ESHA

[GLITCH] While males have characteristically dominated the DJ realm, Ill-esha has paved her path wielding a weapon most of her male counterparts lack: a searing set of windpipes. She has garnered a reputation for simultaneous singing and live production, and established herself as a tastemaker on the glitch-hop and dubstep scenes. (GS) Crystal Ballroom, 9 pm.

THE MOONDOGGIES

[COSMIC AMERICAN MUSIC] The Moondoggies’ brand-new third album, Adiós, I’m a Ghost, finds the Washington roots-rockers growing in both power and subtlety. These Musicfest three-peaters have had past buzz from the likes of Rolling Stone and NPR, and the new album’s “Stop Signs” sounds like the kind of tune to land them on the late-night TV shows this time around. (JR) Pioneer Courthouse Square, 5:30 pm.

PICKWICK

[NEO-SOUL] Pickwick’s transformation from neo-folk to neosoul was something of a musical about-face, but in terms of ethos, the Seattle sextet merely traded one plainspoken, heartfelt genre for another. Pickwick, which released its debut full-length, Can’t Talk Medicine, in March, is among Seattle’s biggest current acts, with a sound that’s equally groovy and garage-y. (JF) Pioneer Courthouse Square, 6:30 pm.

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WHEN NEKO MET K.D. TWO COUNTRY-POP VOCALISTS TALK LIFE ON THE ROAD, LIFE IN THE STUDIO, AND LORETTA LYNN’S BOLOGNA.

onsidering the connections one can make between the work and careers of K.D. Lang and Neko Case, it’s amazing the two had, until last fall, never met in person. Last October, when it came to light that these two women were going to be in Portland at the same time—Lang is now a resident of the Rose City, and Case was working on her upcoming album, The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You, at Tucker Martine’s studio—it seemed like a great opportunity to get them together. Both met for a long lunch at Blossoming Lotus to discuss their careers, their admiration for each other’s work, and the sometimes-difficult aspects of the artistic life.

WW: You two have never met before, is that right?

K.D. Lang: Nope, never met. Although I imagine we’re sort of relatives by musical blood.

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What attracted each of you to country music?

Neko Case: It was always in the background at my grandma’s house.

Lang: I grew up listening to singersongwriters and I was involved with a performance-artist group in Edmonton, but I wasn’t comfortable with either. Then I started to study country music and absolutely fell in love. It’s real and emotional and a great showcase for the voice. There was a self-deprecation to it, too. They didn’t take themselves so seriously as jazz or rock musicians. How do you approach covering other people’s songs?

Case: It’s almost better to pick songs nobody’s ever heard before. I don’t think I’m a great interpreter. Lang: I just let my body and my emotion and my life absorb it, and then let it come back out of me and not really worry about recreating it or doing it better. [To Case] Do you read a lot? I can tell that from your lyrics. I think you’re one of the most incredible lyricists alive. Case: Lyrics are the hardest thing to do. Most of your time is spent editing it down. “Is there an easier way to say this?” All the really powerful writers used simple language. Especially Loretta Lynn. Lang: When I recorded Shadowland, I did

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a song with Loretta. She showed up to the session with a loaf of white bread, a jar of mustard and literally a log of bologna with a serrated steak knife. How beautiful is that?

ever been. Physically, I know I can’t keep up the pace that I have been. Singing is so physical. People have no idea.

How are you handling things now that the music industry is in such a state of turmoil?

Lang: I show off, is what happens. Case: Showing off is good. I’m always thinking, “These people are fucking bored. I’m just standing here.” I couldn’t fake it because I would look silly. Lang: I think to myself, “You are just being completely ridiculous right now.” And then I completely embrace it. Why take yourself so seriously? ROBERT HAM.

Lang: It’s about the live show. That’s the only thing that’s going to save the musizc business. Does this mean having to tour more?

Case: I never really stop, so I’m not sure that it’s possible. Lang: My touring business is the best it’s

And you really work the stage when you perform.

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to push phone notifications. Puppet Labs, New Relic and Cloudability managed the campaign’s systems, apps and cloud expenses. Half the developers of the campaign’s phone app were Portlanders. In this guide, we’ll show you what’s on the menu during the three days of Techfest, amid more than 35 seminars and panels and talks on topics from cloud strategies to APIs to the future of film and music (page 54). There will be aerial drone wars (page 58) in the OMSI parking lot, interactive light displays from Instrument (page 58) tracking the movement of people around Musicfest’s myriad venues, a 17-year-old inventor (page 56), the inventor of the wiki (page 54), The New York Times’ deputy editor for interactive news (page 54) and an innovator bringing women into the tech scene (page 56). Oh, and parties every single night. One of the biggest perks isn’t on the schedule: It’s everybody else who shows up to the conference, the developers and businesspeople and visionaries both onstage and off. Because it really is amazing what happens when you just get everyone together in a room. Or a whole freaking science museum, for that matter. —MATTHEW KORFHAGE, WW WEB EDITOR

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WARD CUNNINGHAM THE PIONEER

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ou know how you can take two fingers and stretch a picture out?” says Ward Cunningham about the now ubiquitous phone feature. “I actually did that at Tektronix with the two primary controls of an oscilloscope.” Except here’s the thing: Cunningham did that in the late ’70s. He’d sent out a blind request to Tektronix in 1978 looking for work after graduating from Purdue. A friend had told him, “Ward, you gotta come out. They’re right on top of all the best technology.” The Indiana native has been in the Portland area ever since. Cunningham helped develop the computer language Smalltalk, which Steve Jobs used to create the first Macintosh, and streamlined the process for object-oriented design and programming. But arguably his most recognizable achievement is the creation of the wiki. “I knew the Web was going to be a big deal,” he says, “so I wanted to create this new thing that helped distribute information in a new way, and collaborate on creative work in a Web browser. Then the encyclopedia people came along and that’s when the name became commonplace.” These days, Cunningham works primarily as an engineer and consultant for AboutUs, a Web directory that offers marketing and development advice, as well as mentoring the next generation of tech firms chosen for the Portland Incubator Experiment. Just as he saw that Portland was the place to be in the early days of the tech explosion, Cunningham is

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C O U R T E S Y T Y S O N E VA N S

n the week before Christmas in 2012, almost 3 million people clicked onto an online newspaper story about an avalanche in the Cascade mountains. Readers spent an average of 12 minutes on the page, an eternity in a jittery Web environment where attention spans are usually measured in seconds. But The New York Times’ “Snow Fall” was beautiful, enlisting interactive Flash animation, videos and photo slide shows that helped tell a multi-tiered story. Its writer, John Branch, won a Pulitzer Prize. Long-form stories don’t usually fare so well online. One of the main people behind the success of “Snow Fall” was Tyson Evans, the Times’ deputy editor for interactive news. At the intersection of journalism, design and technology, the 30-year-old UCLA grad oversees a team that, he says, “focuses on building solutions for more interesting and compelling storytelling, encouraging conversation on our stories.” Despite its nickname as the staid “Gray Lady,” the Times is one of the few newspapers to make a relatively smooth transition onto the Web, setting up a smartly considered paywall and shifting considerable resources toward dynamic, interactive content. During the 2012 election, Evans enlisted his team to provide up-to-the-minute vote counts and live factchecking during the debates. “The arc leading up to an election is really fascinating,” says Evans. “But there’s a huge wealth of information that we used to help make sense of polling and of issues like campaign finance reform. We had to find ways to help people not drown in a sea of data.” The Times must also adapt its stories to every single platform, whether phone or tablet or desktop. “If you stumble on a Twitter link to a Times story, you likely stumbled there on a phone,” says Evans. “You

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THE IRRELEVANCE OF LOCATION

Ryan Carson (Treehouse)

don’t have the huge canvas to tell the story that you do with newsprint or a traditional desktop website. People are expecting value very quickly on a small screen, and to have it make sense to them while standing in line at the grocery store.” Plus, the digital team at the Times needs to allow online readers to really engage with stories on a personal level that goes beyond “comments hanging off the bottom of an article,” says Evans. “In the next few months we have a mayor’s race here in New York, a special election in New Jersey, plus the general election this fall. We want to be able to let readers set the agenda of what issues they want to hear about, rather than [read] a dedicated feedback loop of the same propaganda they’re seeing in the field. We’re imagining ways to make it a two-way conversation between the reader and what we’re broadcasting out.” This constant dialogue between reader and newspaper may define the future of news. ROBERT HAM. GO: Tyson Evans speaks about the future of news delivery Saturday, Sept. 7, on the PDC Stage, OMNIMAX at OMSI. 1:30 pm.

C O U R T E S Y WA R D C U N N I N G H A M

TYSON EVANS THE NEWSPAPER IN THE DIGITAL AGE

Ryan Carson is the founder of Portland-based education startup, Treehouse, which brings affordable technology education to the web. He is also the creator of the web development and entrepreneurship conference Future of Web Apps. He also thinks location, location, location doesn’t matter like it once did. PDC Stage, OMNIMAX at OMSI. 10 am.

PANEL: The Recording Academy, Pacific Northwest Chapter Presents: New Northwest Music Technologies The music industry has no shortage of brilliance in innovation, and that seems to be alive in the Pacific Northwest. This panel of experts will explore how our region is developing new technologies and upgrading existing ones to change the way we think about fan experience, music discovery and artist/label royalties. Panel members: Portia Sabin (President, Kill Rock Stars), Zach Varnell (VP of Audio Production, Lively), Andrew Sloan (Co-founder, Generous), Kevin Breuner (Director of Marketing, CD Baby), Jon Maples (VP of Production Content at Rhapsody). Auditorium at OMSI. 10 am.

FIRESIDE CHAT: ERIC WINQUIST

Eric Winquist (Jama Software) Jama Software, which Winquist founded in 2007, just racked up $13 million in funding in April and allows companies to collaborate over the cloud on large projects. Its client list includes Texas Instruments and SpaceX, a private company that has dropped cargo on a floating space station and brought a spacecraft back in from low earth orbit. PDC Stage, OMNIMAX at OMSI. 4 pm.

FILMMAKING AND PRODUCTION FOR IMMERSION, INTERACTIVITY AND NARRATIVE EXPANSION Andy Merkin (Mirada Studios)

confident of the city’s future as a hub for startup innovators. “Sometimes people will talk to startups and ask them, ‘Why aren’t you here in the Bay Area?’” he says. “It’s not about funding. It’s that it’s easier to think here in Portland. There’s less noise. It’s a town that’s big enough to have entrepreneuring activity but small enough so it’s not crazy.” Cunningham is looking past the current boomlet in phone apps to the responsive design offered by HTML5. “It’s a good time right now,” Cunningham says. “I tell my friends it’s a good time to be a computer programmer. They tell me, ‘Oh my God, it’s so much work. It keeps getting reinvented.’ I just say, ‘I was an expert, so it must not be that hard.’” ROBERT HAM. GO: Ward Cunningham (with Nigel Kersten) speaks about open source Sunday, Sept. 8, on the PDC Stage, OMNIMAX at OMSI. 2 pm.

As Hollywood and Silicon Valley collide, filmmakers have the desire to use digital platforms to expand their vision beyond the silver screen. Andy Merkin, head of special projects and transmedia at Guillermo del Toro’s Mirada Studios, which lives at the forefront of visual and technical design, will discuss the changing landscape of filmmaking. Learn how the evolving perspective of the entertainment industry can inform decisions at every company. Auditorium at OMSI. 11 am.

FIRESIDE CHAT: STEPHEN MARSH

Stephen Marsh (Smarsh, Inc.) Founded in 2001, Stephen Marsh’s company Smarsh helps clients in the financial, healthcare and investment industries with hosted email, instant messaging and social-network communications, as well as risk management tools. Marsh was honored in 2009 as a finalist for Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year award for the Northwest. PDC Stage, OMNIMAX at OMSI. 11:30 am.

LIGHTNING TALKS

Short talks by presenters. PDC Stage, OMNIMAX at OMSI. 1 pm.

SCALING DESIGN

Alex Baldwin (Thoughtbot); Alex Bilmes (Cloudability) Alex Baldwin has worked design for websites like Console.fm and the app store Retina Mac Apps, and now designs apps for San Francisco firm Thoughtbot. Alex Bilmes helped develop and create online video-streaming service Dovie before coming onboard with Portland startup Cloudability. The two will discuss how design can help companies stand out in the crowd. Auditorium at OMSI. 1:30 pm.

FIRESIDE CHAT: SCOTT KVETON

Scott Kveton (Urban Airship) Scott Kveton led engineering with Amazon.com, RuleSpace, Janrain and Vidoop before founding Urban Airship, a mobile marketing company that aids app developers with the creation of push messaging and Passbook passes. Urban Airship quickly became one of Portland’s most successful—and certainly best funded–startups. PDC Stage, OMNIMAX at OMSI. 2 pm.

TOURING INTELLIGENTLY: HOW TECH CAN HELP THE LIVE MUSIC INDUSTRY

Brooke Parrott (Songkick) In case you’ve never taken to a van: Band tours are terrifying exercises in shoestring budgeting, full of desperate phone calls to pay for gas. Songkick’s Detour pre-funds and pre-vets tours by having fans commit to buying tickets ahead of time. As artist ambassador for Songkick, one of the largest online databases for live concert listings, Brooke Parrott helps market the service to her fellow musicians and bands. She performs music under her own name and as a member of Portland folk-pop act Loch Lomond. Auditorium at OMSI. 2 pm.

THE TERRIFYING CHASM BETWEEN CLASSROOM AND STARTUP

Jackson Gariety (TechStars) Still one year shy of his 18th birthday, Gariety has already developed HashTraffic, a web platform that connects sites and blogs via hashtags, and taken home the Best Developer and Best Execution awards at Portland Startup Weekend for his efforts. (See profile, page 56.) PDC Stage, OMNIMAX at OMSI. 2:30 pm.

LESSONS FROM THE SUMMIT CASH Music

CASH Music is a nonprofit that builds open source tools for musicians and labels. This presentation will cover insights learned from a two-part summit they held in August and September of this year, in which musicians and technologists came together to talk about their current challenges and realities as well as their hopes and dreams for the future. Auditorium at OMSI. 2:30 pm.

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RICK TUROCZY THE TECH ADVOCATE

ick Turoczy is the curator for TechfestNW. He’s also one of the biggest driving forces behind the success of Portland’s growing startup community. The 42-year-old former literary agent and marketing guru has been chronicling the scene for years with his Silicon Florist blog, and in more recent years he’s headed up the Portland Incubator Experiment (PIE), an incubator at ad agency Wieden + Kennedy that gives budding startups seed money, office space and connections to a network of mentors. Turoczy spoke with WW about the Portland tech scene.

to relocate to Portland specifically because of our lifestyle. What was once perceived as a detriment to our startup scene has become one of our greatest assets. is there less money floating around here to fund companies?

Portland is rapidly becoming recognized as one of the leading startup scenes in the nation. TFNW is designed to celebrate the ethos of the Portland startup scene and shine a spotlight on our local talent while attracting interesting speakers to town who reflect Portland ideals.

In the first quarter of this year, Oregon raised more venture capital than Washington for the first time in years. Jama—already a going concern with 600 customers—just landed $13 million in venture capital from Trinity and Madrona. Companies like Cloudability, Chirpify and Orchestrate are demonstrating that even our younger startups are able to attract capital from outside of the area. And local investment groups like the Oregon Angel Fund and OEN’s Angel Oregon are participating more and more in tech. You can never have enough access to capital. But that access has become less and less of an issue around here. It takes less and less money to run a company these days. People don’t have to build infrastructure from scratch anymore. Where we—and everyone else—are hurting is development talent.

What do you think is the next proving ground for Portland tech?

What were the biggest lessons you gleaned from the dot-com bust?

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Where Portland really has the opportunity to excel is in user experience—be that a phone application, Web application or a wearable piece of computing. Portland at its core and culture has a deep empathy for understanding how people want to engage with things. That’s what drives the craft culture as well. These hand-wrought crafted things that we appreciate are the same thing people are doing with technology. The Bay Area may be driven by the wealth that can be created and that competitive nature of, “How can I do better than the person next to me?” Portland’s almost the converse. “How do I get people to love what I’m doing?” Is Portland too interested in lifestyle to succeed as a tech town? San Francisco works 100-hour weeks.

I think Portland is finally over trying to be the next Bay Area or the next Seattle. Which is awesome. This new generation of Portland companies is finding its way to success while remaining true to an underlying Portland culture. Startups like Simple and Treehouse—who could choose to headquarter anywhere—decided

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There has to be a market there. No matter how good your idea and no matter how much you believe in it, there has to be somebody that’s willing to pay for it if it’s actually going to succeed. Today the thing that intrigues me the most is how very niche-focused products can develop into very sustainable and meaningful businesses, because of the sheer girth of people online. We had a company that came out of PIE focused on people that follow the paleo diet [a diet meant to mimic the diet of cavemen]. Is that an important part of the vetting process for PIE startups—a saleable product?

A lot of our focus at PIE is on the team dynamic. Would these people make good entrepreneurs? Are they coachable? Do they seem to be able to take feedback and translate [it] into action? Sometimes we’ll pick teams where we’re not even sure about their business idea. We just like the team and think they’re capable of doing something. We’re making our bets on people, more than business ideas. Willamette Week AUGUST 28, 2013 wweek.com

his year, Michelle Rowley was named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business by the magazine Fast Company. Beginning with $18,000 in seed funding from the Portland Incubator Experiment, the organization she founded in January of 2013, Code Scouts, has been successful enough it’s already beginning to outgrow its hometown of Portland. But she didn’t really mean to found Code Scouts. In a certain regard, its members found her. Code Scouts, a nonprofit devoted to helping women get their start in a male-dominated tech world, began after Rowley was interviewed by WW last year. In an article about the gender divide in the tech world (“Where the Tech Is She?,” WW, May 23, 2012), she said she was considering starting a group to help women learn Python programming. “I didn’t do any other promotion than that, and immediately got about 100 women emailing me wanting to be a part of these groups before I had even set them up,” Rowley says. She still sounds amazed. The 33-year-old programmer and lecturer set up a couple workshops for beginners, plus a Python user group that met every month to trade tips and secrets. At those sessions, Rowley saw that “the women programmers would sit together with other women.” “At one point,” she continues, “one woman turned to another and said, ‘We should meet once a week, and have some wine and chocolate and keep working.’ “I thought, this is the deal. There’s enough tutorials and books and workshops to get people started, but what they really want is other people at their same level so they don’t have to be alone.” This eureka moment was the start of Code Scouts. The core idea of the community is to provide bud-

JACKSON GARIETY THE TEEN INVENTOR

he enduring achievement of most 15-year-olds is passing the exam for their driver’s permit. Jackson Gariety, on the other hand, made a Web app that landed him awards for Best Developer and Most Crowd-Pleasing Product at the Portland Startup Weekend developer conference. HashTraffic is an API plug-in that allows website authors and bloggers to use Twitter-like hashtags in their content. Click on, for example, #butter, and a new window opens that shows search results looking for that same hashtag. But rather than be limited to just one site, you could see everything anybody posted about #butter across any number of platforms. Of course, Gariety acknowledges, “There’s no way to make money off it. It’s an interesting concept and bold in a way, but I don’t know how to sell it.” Nonetheless, HashTraffic and his Startup Weekend presentation were impressive enough to nudge open many doors for Gariety, now 17. Earlier this year, he was invited by TechStars program manager Gregg Cochran to work as a technical developer for the Nike+ Accelerator, a startup program that fosters companies interested in working with the sportswear giant’s Nike+ and NikeFuel products. His notoriety has also helped bring attention to some of his other efforts—including OpenHacker, a weekly competition for developers and coders, and Canary, his startup that will help brand managers stay on top of social-media trends. Gariety dropped out of Grant High School in early 2013 to pursue his coding projects. “I kind of stopped going back in February,” he says. “My parents weren’t 56

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ding software engineers with mentors who help set up individual learning plans and other members who are on similar tracks via a closed social network. “There’s an anxiety that any human has, that ‘I’m not like the rest of the people here,’” says Rowley. “The greater number of differences that add up, the harder it becomes to move forward. Since all the people involved are female beginners, we’ve taken away two of those differences right there.” Code Scouts is currently full, with 112 members (seven of which are men), and there is a quickly growing waiting list. Rowley is gearing up to open new chapters outside of Portland. But Rowley looks forward to a day when the discussion and tech can be put to rest, she says. “There’s a lot of talk about gender in the tech industry. And while I think it’s really good, at some point you just want to stop talking and just do some stuff.” ROBERT HAM. GO: Michelle Rowley talks about why women coders are necessary to a company’s success Sunday, Sept. 8, on the PDC Stage, OMNIMAX at OMSI. 1:30 pm.

counties in 2012. The congresswoman sits on the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology and is the driving force behind the STEAM Caucus, a group focused on integrating arts into traditional Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) curriculum. PDC Stage, OMNIMAX at OMSI. 3 pm.

gone on to become CTO for Simple, an online banking provider, and is now working on Breather, a service that allows people to find and rent office spaces using a smartphone app. Amid changes in crowdfunding and venture capital, Payne asks: Is it time to reconsider startups? PDC Stage, OMNIMAX at OMSI. 4 pm.

PANEL: Marmoset Presents: Technology Killed the Radio Star

JUST ENOUGH IS MORE

Musicians and bands have so many digital tools and endless opportunities provided by the web. So why is it hard for so many of them to navigate the internet and find success? Is this the land of opportunity or has supply exceeded demand? The panelists will debate these questions and offer insights that any hard-working independent artist can utilize and appreciate. Panel members: Ryan Wines (Producer at Marmoset), Maggie Vail (Co-Executive Director at CASH Music), Dave Allen (Director of Interactive Strategy at NORTH), Kevin Robinson (musician with Electric iLL and Viva Voce), Jared Mees (Co-Founder of Generous and Tender Loving Empire). Auditorium at OMSI. 3 pm.

RECONSIDERING STARTUPS Alex Payne (Twitter, Breather) Alex Payne built the API for Twitter. Since then, he has

FORGET VIABLE: BUILD YOUR MINIMUM VALUABLE PRODUCT

James Keller has served as interactive strategist for Wieden + Kennedy and lead interaction design for Small Society, and now oversees user experience for WalmartLabs, which provides shopping apps meant for in-store use. Keller talks about how design and user experience have became the key ways that products differentiate themselves. PDC Stage, OMNIMAX at OMSI. 10 am.

REINVENTING APPAREL DESIGN

Chris Lindland (Betabrand); D’Wayne Edwards (Pensole)

too happy about that, but I wasn’t getting anything out of it.” The hope is that Canary will eventually be snapped up by a high-profile client or two (“Someone big…a brand that my mom knows,” Gariety says), but until then the teen is going to be looking for a larger startup to join forces with. “I’m trying to figure out what’s going to play out over the next couple of months,” he says. “My hope is that when I’m there at Techfest, I can talk about how I found my own path and encourage people to blaze their own trail.” Still, he says his own trail is just beginning. “It’s really difficult and I’m still struggling, but it’s a good struggle to have.” ROBERT HAM. GO: Jackson Gariety speaks about starting out in startups Friday, Sept. 6, on the PDC Stage, OMNIMAX at OMSI. 2:30 pm.

Duane King (Huge/KingCoyle) One of Fast Company’s 50 Most Influential Designers in America, Duane King founded the Portland-based creative studio Huge/KingCoyle, a firm that’s worked with everyone from Nike and Toyota to MoMA and Neiman Marcus. He will talk about the art of simplifying the ever more complex. Auditorium at OMSI. 4 pm.

KEYNOTE: FINDING OPPORTUNITY IN THE ORDINARY John Saddington (Pressgram)

John Saddington earned his stripes as an engineer for some of the biggest companies in the world (Dell and News Corp, among them). He’s now bringing that experience to bear as the co-founder of Atlantabased gaming company 8BIT, and Pressgram, which posts filtered smartphone photos directly to WordPress blogs. Saddington talks about how seemingly everyday experiences can be the root of the greatest ideas. PDC Stage, OMNIMAX at OMSI. 5pm.

SATURDAY, 9/7 James Keller (WalmartLabs)

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MICHELLE ROWLEY BRINGING WOMEN INTO TECH

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Chris Lindland is the founder and CEO of online clothing laboratory Betabrand, which allows fledgling designers to submit fashion ideas, receive feedback and potentially get their wares mass-produced and sold. D’Wayne Edwards, a former Nike design director, created Pensole to give talented design students an opportunity to learn from the industry’s best and to provide the footwear industry with a farm system for the next generation of designers. The two will discuss how technology changes apparel design. PDC Stage, OMNIMAX at OMSI. 10:30 am.

INSIGHTS FROM THE SMARTEST MAN IN THE WORLD

Saul Colt (The Idea Integration Company) In a previous life, Saul Colt launched Zipcar into the Canadian marketplace and even knows what it’s like to work for a large corporation from his time at Rogers Communications. Colt now runs his own self-named firm that

does consulting work for fledgling companies on social media and customer service. He is also, apparently, the smartest man in the world. Auditorium at OMSI. 10:30 am.

WHAT I’VE LEARNED BY RUNNING A FAKE TECH STARTUP Matt Ruby (Vooza)

Called the “Spinal Tap of startups,” Matt Ruby’s Vooza creates weekly videos that provide a skewed look at the tech industry. Vooza has received kudos from The New York Times and VICE. Ruby will talk success and failure with design, pivots, learning from failure, and radimparency. Auditorium at OMSI. 11 am.

SLOW MANUFACTURING: INTEGRATING DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY WITH MANUFACTURING Kelley Roy (ADX); David Fredrickson (Figure Plant)

Kelley Roy is an author, film producer, musician, consultant and director of ADX Portland, a design and prototyping facility that encourages collaboration and multi-disciplinary creativity. David Fredrickson has been in the design and production game for 25 years, from movie-set dressing to creating a 20-foot-tall crazy straw for AT&T Park. He runs design-studio powerhouse Figure Plant. The two will talk about how technology is changing how art gets made, and how it’s experienced. PDC Stage, OMNIMAX at OMSI. 11:30 am.

THE FUTURE OF INTERACTIVE NEWS

Tyson Evans (The New York Times) Tyson Evans, a member of The New York Times’ web development team, talks about how leading publications blend jour-

nalism, design and technology to push the envelope. Evans oversees a team of NYT developers and journalists who build data-driven apps. (See profile, page 54.) PDC Stage, OMNIMAX at OMSI. 1:30 pm.

CROWDFUNDED: INSIDE A KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN

Patrick Triato (Carbon Audio); Jason Martin (Carbon Audio) Patrick Triato and Jason Martin are behind the extremely successful Kickstarter campaign that helped launch Zooka, a wireless speaker that can slip easily onto an iPad. The two will talk about the components of successful Kickstarter campaigns. Auditorium at OMSI. 2 pm.

INSPIRED AGAIN AND AGAIN Joe Stump (Sprint.ly); Brenden Mulligan (Cluster)

Joe Stump helped found two venture-backed startups, SimpleGeo and Attachments.me, was lead architect at news-sharing website Digg and now runs Sprint.ly, a company that provides project management software. Brenden Mulligan founded ArtistData, and moved onto his new photo crowdsourcing project, Cluster Labs. They will speak on what drives serial entrepreneurs like themselves: what makes them tick, and how you can apply this in your own life. PDC Stage, OMNIMAX at OMSI. 2:30 pm.

DRIVING DESIGN FROM WITHIN Klaus Kaasgaard (Intuit)

Klaus Kaasgaard joined Intuit in March 2012 as director of experience design of the small business group. He has 20 years of experience in user experience and product management with companies that include Telstra, Yahoo! and Microsoft. Prior to joining Intuit, he was CEO of Fundii, an online and mobile coupon marketing startup. Auditorium at OMSI. 3 pm.

WHY COMMUNITY MATTERS

Jessica Zollman (Tinker*Mobile, Instagram); Asha Dornfest (Parent Hacks)

one of the most popular parenting websites talk about how community drives and informs successful companies. PDC Stage, OMNIMAX at OMSI. 3:30 pm.

STUDIOS OR STORYTELLING— WHAT’S MORE IMPORTANT?

Nick Lambert (Mountain Machine Games), Cascadia Games So must one always pander to the masses, or is there room in video games to tell stories to smaller communities? Must one choose? Nick Lambert, founder of Mountain Machine Games, discusses the art and science of making video games. Auditorium at OMSI. 4 pm,

OUR FUTURE DEPENDS ON DIVERSITY

Deena Pierott (iUrban Teen Tech) An advocate for multicultural communication, Deena Pierott founded iUrban Teen Tech in 2011 as a way to help expose AfricanAmerican and Latino teens to the world of technology careers. The program was nominated for the 2013 Rockefeller Innovation Award and selected as the White House Champion of Change for Technology Inclusion. Pierott talks about how to bring tech to underserved youth and other new markets to serve tech’s need for new talent. PDC Stage, OMNIMAX at OMSI. 4:30 pm.

KEYNOTE: CREATING THE NEXT VERSION OF PORTLAND Alan Webber (Fast Company)

Fast Company founder Alan Webber is an award-winning author, editor, speaker and consultant—co-founder of the Oregon Times and former managing editor of the Harvard Business Review. (Full disclosure: He’s also a former WW editor.) Old-school city planning decisions like scotching the Mount Hood Freeway seemed ridiculous back in the ‘70s, but now look prescient. What types of “ridiculous” decisions should we be making today? PDC Stage, OMNIMAX at OMSI. 5pm.

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The former community manager for Instagram and the curator of

SUNDAY, 9/8 HOW APIS CHANGED THE WEB AND MOBILE Adam DuVander (SendGrid)

Adam DuVander blogged for Wired, provided IT support for Inspiration Software and now helps manage and produce written content for email service provider SendGrid. He speaks about the sea change in development brought about by APIs. PDC Stage, OMNIMAX at OMSI. 12 pm.

SIMPLICITY IS INEVITABLE

Antony Falco (Orchestrate.io) Antony Falco helped create Orchestrate.io with the idea of making the work of mobile and web app developers easier by streamlining the process of adding new features and working among different platforms. Falco talks about the larger trend of simplifying complex systems, and how this is good. PDC Stage, OMNIMAX at OMSI. 1 pm.

BALANCING THE TECH ECOSYSTEM

Michelle Rowley (Code Scouts) Michelle Rowley is the founder of Code Scouts, a nonprofit organization helping women learn to code. In 2013, Fast Company named Rowley one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business. (See profile, page 56.) PDC Stage,

OMNIMAX at OMSI. 1:30 pm.

INCREASINGLY OPEN

Ward Cunningham (inventor of the Wiki); Nigel Kersten (Puppet Labs) Not to dismiss his work as the principal engineer at Tektronix or his work keeping the online directory AboutUs.org afloat, Ward Cunningham will likely go down in history as inventor of the wiki. (See profile, page 54.) Nigel Kersten is the CTO of Puppet Labs, developing automation software for his fellow sysadmins at Twitter, eBay and Disney. Hear both talk about the changing landscape of open source. PDC Stage, OMNIMAX at OMSI. 2 pm.

KEYNOTE: PROS AND CONS OF BOOTSTRAPPING: IMGUR’S EXPERIENCE

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Alan Schaaf (Imgur); Matt Strader (Imgur)

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Alan Schaaf created Imgur, one of the internet’s biggest photo sharing sites, in 2009 during his spare time as a computer science student. Matt Strader signed on in 2010 to help with business development and strategy. The two will discuss the pros and cons of bootstrapping—the fine art of balancing the need to make money with the need to grow a business. PDC Stage, OMNIMAX at OMSI. 3 pm.

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GOOGLE GOGGLERS

Don’t be surprised if you see some people hanging around at TechfestNW wearing what looks like a broken set of prescription wear. They’re likely one of the 8,000 people who were selected to try out Google Glass, the wearable computer that has been the talk of the tech world since it was publicly announced last year. WW caught up with a handful of Portlanders chosen as “glass explorers,” and asked them about their futuristic cyborg-goggle experience. ROBERT HAM.

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I had an orientation session that lasted about an hour at Google’s offices down in Venice, Calif. It’s a little bit shocking at first, but after the first half hour, I was pretty well used to it. Most people pick it up pretty quickly. My 5-year-old niece picked it up quicker than most of the adults who I let try it out. The coolest thing about it is Google search, which is simple, but really empowering to be able to have any piece of information that you can pull up whenever you need it without having to juggle with your phone.

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In our industry, we’re using it more for shooting video and a little bit of photography. I think people will be using it a lot for remote communication. Not so much faceto-face video chat, but like a real estate agent I know who has clients in Hawaii can walk through a house and give a virtual tour. I kind of wish it had more storage space; it only has like 12GB right now. And I’m hoping they’ll have a zoom for the camera.

I’m writing a book about Google Glass, so my interest is entirely from a programming point of view and an interface design point of view. It’s going to force everyone to rethink how they do web design and how they design apps in the future. When I first got it in San Francisco, I had it synced with my Google account, and it knew when the flight was that I was taking back that day, and reminded me I had to get to the airport. I had the time wrong and almost missed my flight!

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At first I was wearing them all the time, but I’ve started to selectively use them for hikes and bike trips. My general use has been impacted by how much attention they draw. When I’m in public, I’m constantly approached by people. I always engage them and even let them use it, but it starts to get old after a while. Young people are the most enthusiastic. They get the vision and possibilities right away, whereas adults seem to be focused on whatever the media is hyping about it at the moment.

hatever you’ve heard on the news about Iran or Pakistan, Oregon is ground zero for drones. Tad McGeer, a Hood River pacifist and inventor, founded the Columbia Gorge company, Insitu, that manufactures the ScanEagle spy drones now favored by the U.S. military. His current company, Aerovel, is developing long-distance drones for weather reconnaissance. Clackamas’ Aerosight custom-builds drones for private clients, while Hood River’s Cloud Cap Technology makes the autopilot and camera systems for just about every drone on the market. Northwest UAV in McMinnville builds the engines. Meanwhile, the city of Pendleton is promoting itself as a military drone test site, which prompted talk in the state legislature about banning drones from the skies; a new law passed in June will require warrants for drone surveillance by law agencies. An Oregon company called Domestic Drone Countermeasures plans to sell black boxes that would interfere with aerial spies. But forget money or politics: We prefer spectacle. On Sunday, Sept. 8, in the OMSI parking lot—as part of TechfestNW—PDXDrones and tech-company Dialsmith will host an event called the PDX Drone Challenge for anybody who just wants to watch drones go really, really fast. It’s sort of like radio-controlled helicopter races on steroids, with 10 drone pilots slated to compete in an obstacle course called the Drone Cage. A drone enthusiast group called the Roswell Flight Test Crew will also be assembling a drone onsite before the competition—in a single hour. After the high-speed drone war, the pilots will demo the drones just for funsies. Don’t expect the drones near MusicFest events, however. For some reason or another, you aren’t allowed to fly these things over large groups of people. Which is where all similarity to my dive-bombing, eyesightthreatening, grade-school RC helicopter pretty much ends. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.

GO: The PDX Drone Challenge is Sunday, Sept. 8, at Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, 1945 SE Water Ave., 797-4000, omsi.edu. 11 am-3 pm. Free tickets available at tito.io/pdxdrones.

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AESTHETIC, SYNESTHETIC

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bove the grassy knoll and the cracking skate park, in the couplet that marks the east end of the Burnside Bridge, there will—during TechfestNW—stand a city of pyramids. It will be built on rock ‘n’ roll. Instrument—which for our money is one of the cooler companies in Portland—is building an installation called Duet that consists of 10 glowing pyramids, one for each of MusicfestNW’s major venues: Wonder Ballroom, Crystal, Hawthorne and so on. Using brand-new technology from a startup called PixelPush58

er, Instrument developers Ben Purdy and Martin Linde have designed the pyramids to act as a heatmap for what’s going on at Musicfest at any given moment. We are unendingly excited about this. The top of each pyramid will have colors and lights that are controlled by the social media check-ins at each venue—Twitter, Facebook, Instagram—and by a smartphone interface you can use when you’re onsite at the pyramids. The base of each pyramid will be controlled by the music—by

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from every angle, Purdy designed a special browser interface for a pair of virtual reality goggles called the Oculus Rift, another technology that basically didn’t even exist yesterday. TFNW is thrilled to be working with Instrument, which is a company that seemingly exists only to make cool stuff—for example, a program they’ll soon be putting up on their website (weareinstrument.com) that will let you skydive a little Lego man through an aerial obstacle course over three different cities on a live version of Google Earth. In the meantime: City of Roses, meet City of Pyramids. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.

the type of band that’s playing at the venue. So if the top of the pyramid bumps, there’s lots of people. If the bottom of the pyramid bumps,

the music bumps. Conversely, if you’re looking to avoid a line, you can gravitate to the calmer venues. To plot out how it would look

GO: The Duet installation is at the corner of East Burnside Street and Northeast Martin Luther King Boulevard during MusicfestNW.

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AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE PORTLAND HAS VENDING MACHINES WITH NEIL YOUNG SINGLES, GUITAR STRINGS, PREGNANCY TESTS AND LAP-DANCE COUPONS. BY R IC H A R D G R UN E RT

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Smitty’s Vending is where vending machines go when they die. At this metal graveyard on busy Southeast Main Street, Pepsi logos fade gently on a bed of broken glass behind barbed wire and a locked fence. The machines do get fixed and sold, but Smitty’s repairs only go so far. Most people, the technicians say, just want a machine for dispensing beer in their basement. There are those, however, who have taken things a little further. Whether filled with 7-inch records or tickets for free lap dances, these machines have been truly reborn, and make the ones at Smitty’s look like little more than shambling zombies. Venderia In a machine tucked deep in the back corner of broken-in cafe and bar Beulahland (118 NE 28th Ave., 235-2794, beulahlandpdx.com), you will find your spirit animal. (Mine was a shark.) Venderia is the brainchild of Taylor Valdes, a bartender at Lucky Labrador and occasional licensed tax preparer, who says she “initially set out to build a strange laundromat, but when my dreams came crashing down I had to do something with the machine I bought.” Valdes picked Beulahland as the location for her vending machine because it was “funky.” Venderia sells out its stock of 7-inch Neil Young singles, pregnancy tests and H.G. Wells paperbacks so quickly that Valdes has to restock the machine three times a week. Strangest of all are the spirit animals, which are a bit like a $2 fortune cookie you can’t eat; they fulfill Valdes’ lifelong dream of selling small, plastic creatures. But she sometimes worries about how people will react. “Some of [the fortunes] are quite mean,” she says. “They don’t always suit the person.” Flintstones Egg Machine It may not be from the Stone Age, but the Flintstones-themed vending machine at heavy-metal hut Tonic Lounge (3100 NE Sandy Blvd., 238-0543) sure feels like an artifact from another time. Jedediah Aaker, a bartender at Tonic, restored a machine from the 1980s and filled it with some truly strange plastic eggs. You never know what’s inside the egg; each one emerges from its slot with a loud “Yabba dabba doo!” from a spinning Fred. Aaker stocks the eggs with whatever he likes, from cheap jewelry and fortune-telling fish to coupons for free lap dances from local strip clubs Lucky Devil and Union Jack’s. The machine was broken when Aaker bought it, and he learned how to fix it through trial and error. “I find ’em on eBay, Craigslist and shit, from all over the country,” he says. He’s got three other machines—at the Wurst bar, the Matador and My Father’s Place—and two of them substitute mannequin heads for Fred. Creepy.

VARIETY VEND: Tums, lighters or Neil Young at Beulahland?

Mr. Vacuum Cigarette Machine Possibly the most novel way to get your smokes in town is at Tanker Bar (4825 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 445-4635, tankerbar.com), a laid-back dive with soccer on TV and plastic arcade shotguns on the walls. One day, owner Philip Ragaway decided it was time for something new. “Well, we wanted to have a cig vending machine, but didn’t want a big ’80s monster in the room.” It’s a bit like one of those claw machines you used to play with as a kid, except it costs $6 a game and might give you cancer. Instead of a mechanical arm, the Tanker’s machine uses a suction system that was originally designed to dispense iPod accessories. Thankfully, it’s play-till-you-win, so there’s no chance of coming away empty-handed, although you might end up with the wrong brand of cigarettes. “If I could, I’d put PBR in it,” Ragaway says. “But that might cause some problems.” Goldy Box Not all the cool vending machines are 21-and-over. Alex DeSpain’s Goldy Box is in the lobby of Portland State University’s art building. DeSpain, a PSU graphic arts student, found a broken vending machine lying in the hall and decided to take it home and repair it. After fi xing all the locks, he got it spray-

painted metallic gold and filled it with everything an art student could want: blank journals, art supplies and sometimes even condoms. The Goldy Box’s fi xed price of $1 per item makes it tough to turn a profit, however. “I guess I’m just sort of rolling with it,” DeSpain says. He hopes to fi nd another student worthy of being the Goldy Box’s steward, and will pass the key to a new generation when he graduates. Music Accessories Vending Machine This vending machine may be at Slabtown (1033 NW 16th Ave., 971-2291455, slabtownbar.net), but the true mind behind it is Jason Snell, co-owner of Centaur Guitar (2833 NE Sandy Blvd., 236-8711, centaurguitar.com). Three years ago, while on tour with his band in Japan, Snell was inspired by that country’s vending-machine culture. “Tokyo has vending machines for everything,” he says. If a machine could hold liquor, condoms and sex pillows, why not guitar strings? When he got home, he contacted the owners of Slabtown, who liked the idea. Now bands from all over Portland know and use the machine when they need to replace something. It’s got more than just strings. You’ll fi nd drumsticks, picks and even pingpong balls from time to time.

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PORE OVER THE PLAN: Because making pour-over coffee is a pain, someone in Portland is handcrafting $480 coffeemakers that basically automate the Chemex. Clive Coffee founder Mark Hellweg claims his new brewing device, Ratio, can make 40 ounces of pour-over-style coffee in six minutes or less. On a password-protected website, he claims Ratio will be able to automate and simplify pour-over brewing, boiling it down to one press of a button. “I’ve run a [coffee-equipment] company for six years, I know what frustrates people.” he says. “If you do [pour-over] badly, it really sucks.” The only headache left? Weighing and grinding the beans. Presumably, a future machine will open the bag, weigh and grind the beans for you, then transfer the coffee into this machine by vacuum tube. The Ratio’s targeted release is April 2014. KINGDOM COME AND GO: Eric Bechard’s 6-month-old restaurant, Kingdom of Roosevelt, will be moving from Southeast Cesar Chavez Boulevard to an undisclosed location. The restaurant, which focuses on wild game and locally foraged ingredients, veers far from the Portland wheelhouse of midpriced comfort fare, and has been half-empty on recent visits by WW. “We’re not commenting on it, but we are moving,” Bechard said by phone. The deal is still pending. But if it goes through, the space will be taken over by Gina Helvie, a friend of Bechard’s who works at the restaurant, along with Robert Thomas of Swift Lounge and Andrew Hanson. Helvie says the planned brunch place, called Trinket, will be “more accessible than what’s happening now— something cool for people in the neighborhood.” MAXED OUT: OMSI’s OMNIMAX will soon become a “mainstream” movie theater with a digital projector and smaller screen. The museum has confirmed the iconic theater will be converted into something resembling a regular movie theater— mostly by ditching the huge screen. They’ll still show movies like Dolphins (narrated by Pierce Brosnan), Dinosaurs Alive (narrated by Michael Douglas) and Hubble (narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio) for school groups, but they also plan to show “mainstream content” during the museum’s off hours. The last event at the theater before the switch will be TechfestNW (narrated by Mark Zusman), this paper’s second annual convention of up-and-coming technology, which starts Friday, Sept. 6.

OPEN WIEDEN: Katherine Wieden, daughter of advertising magnate Dan Wieden and known to most as Cassie, will be releasing her own wine. According to Northwest Portland’s Boedecker Cellars, Wieden’s Finnigan Hill Vineyards enlisted Boedecker to make a 2012 mark of pinot noir from the vineyard’s grapes. The wine will eventually be for sale, but no release date has been set.

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THE THIN WHITE DUKE VS. THE THIN WHITE GIRL DETERMINING THE FUTURE MOJO OF THE MODA CENTER.

Center. Friday’s sold-out Taylor Swift concert is the Moda’s first show. What does that mean for the stadium’s future? To determine who’s got the better mojo, we decided to do a side-by-side comparison of the Thin White Duke and the Alarmingly Thin White Girl. Based on the implication of these results, all we can say is: Enjoy the dynasty, Blazers fans! MATTHEW SINGER.

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In 1995, the Rose Garden celebrated its opening with an inaugural concert by David Bowie, with Nine Inch Nails opening. Over the next 18 years, the arena enjoyed many more high-profile concerts, NCAA basketball games, bull-riding contests, several Disney on Ice shows and zero Blazers championships. Earlier this month, the Rose Garden changed its name to the Moda

WEDNESDAY AUG. 28 TRANSPORTATION TRIVIA NIGHT [WONKY TRIVIA] How many miles of streetcar tracks does Portland have? What about the number of Car2Go vehicles? And just how well do you know your sharrows? Proceeds will benefit the Community Cycling Center. Radio Room, 1101 NE Alberta St., 287-2346. 7:30 pm. $10, cash only.

THURSDAY AUG. 29 XPAT STORIES: TALES FROM BEYOND THE COMFORT ZONE [STORYTELLING] In a town where it can seem that locals are rarer than unicorns, asking foreigners to recount their Portland stories seems curious. But former Portland filmmaker Robin Willis, who now lives in Spain, has corralled a compelling lineup of Portland transplants—from Iraq, Hungary, France and even the exotic Midwest—to tell it straight. Mississippi Pizza, 3552 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3231. 9 pm. $8.

FRIDAY AUG. 30 REO SPEEDWAGON AT THE OREGON STATE FAIR [FRIED FOOD, SOFT ROCK] You can fight the feeling, but should you? Give in, drive to Salem to hang out with rural Oregonians and eat fried food. Oregon State Fairgrounds, 2330 17th St. NE, Salem, 947-3237. 8 pm. $30-$50. All ages. Fair through Monday, Sept. 2; admission $3-$11. oregonstatefair.org.

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Opening for Charlie Daniels at age 11.

A tossup between Space Oddity, The Man Who Sold the World, Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust, Young Americans and Scary Monsters.

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Joe Jonas

Making pro-fascist statements during the Station to Station tour.

QUESTIONABLE ACTIONS

Dating John Mayer.

Fellow ’70s glam-rocker Marc Bolan.

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Ex-boyfriend Harry Styles of One Direction.

A somehow even more eccentric Andy Warhol in Basquiat.

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A ditzy Valley girl in Valentine’s Day.

Ziggy Stardust, who played guiiiiitarrrrrrr.

ALTER EGO

T-Swizzle, who played with T-Pain for one night.

EOLA-AMITY HILLS WINE TOUR [WINE] The Eola-Amity Hills American Viticultural Area—a 39,000-acre stretch of wine country surrounded by the Willamette Valley AVA—offers tours of many of its 95 wineries this weekend. 11 am-5 pm Saturday-Sunday, Aug. 31-Sept. 1. $25 for an Encompass Guidebook that grants access to free tasting flights at 20 wineries. eolaamityhills. com.

SUNDAY SEPT. 1 GARY NUMAN

[MUSIC] While it’s true that “Cars” is Numan’s only single to hit the Top 10 in the U.S., calling the 55-yearold Englishman a “one-hit wonder” is frustratingly dismissive. He is one of the most consistent artists to emerge from the post-punk era, and his recent albums—including the upcoming Splinter (Songs From a Broken Mind)—have embraced modern electronic music in smart and thrilling ways. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 7:30pm. $25 advance, $28 day of show. All ages.

TUESDAY SEPT. 3 MUSICFESTNW [MUSIC] Portand’s largest and greatest music festival begins, with sets from 18-year-old New York rap prodigy Joey Bada$$, L.A. powerpop institution Redd Kross and more. musicfestnw.com. Willamette Week AUGUST 28, 2013 wweek.com

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Enjoy one last August sunset from the Sensory Garden while sipping on complimentary tastings from Silver Falls Vineyards. You can bring your pet, too. Jefferey Martin will perform live music, and small plates and tapas will also be available. Oregon Garden, 879 W Main St., Silverton, 874-2500. 7 pm. $3 adults, $1 children.

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SATURDAY, AUG. 31 Incredible Cattail—From Survival to Pancakes

John Kallas leads a hands-on outdoor wild-food workshop on “swamp-to-kitchen” fare. Identify, gather, peel and make flour from cattails. It all ends with pancakes. There will be a carpool to the swamp from the venue. Wild Food Adventures, 4125 N Colonial Ave., 775-3828. 9 am-3 pm. $25-$50 sliding scale. Registration required.

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Explore the cuisines of AfricanAmerican, Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Latin peoples. Will Allen, a respected source of information on urban agriculture, is the keynote speaker. The inaugural festival will have dozens of food vendors plus live music. Pioneer Courthouse Square, 701 SW 6th Ave., 288-2923. Noon-8 pm. Free.

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This window at Dante’s is where every damn person running around for MusicfestNW should be getting their pizza (though they’ll also stop by Sizzle Pie on the eastside). Whatever their slice of the day is, you get their slice of the day. Problem solved. 300 W Burnside St., 234-0114, lonesomespizza.com.

Flying Pie Pizzeria

This joint is the most generous single-slicer in Portland, with a raft of custom toppings, a mountain of cheese—a mountain of pretty much everything on the far side of the mountain in Montavilla. 7804 SE Stark St., 254-2016, flying-pie.com.

Dove Vivi

Little-known secret: One pizza a day from this venerable cornmealpie spot is served up piecemeal to singletons. Pray for the housemade fennel sausage and peppers, or the killer tomato pesto. 2727 NE Glisan St., 239-4444, dovevivepizza.com.

Pizza Contadino

Stacked sourdough crust, sweet and chunky sauce, elegant char, copious specials—from soft cheese and radish, to mustard-cream sauce with bacon, brie and escarole. Right by the Fixin’ To, where you will eat your slice with a beer. 8218 N Lombard St., 935-4375. Cash only.

Escape From New York

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The original solid pizza by the slice in Portland, Escape still has its 30-year-old DNA intact, with sweet, New York-style sauce and nothin’ fancy. Eat your slice, kid. 622 NW 23rd Ave., 227-5423, efny.com.

Labor Day Brunch at EastBurn

Hotlips

Labor Day is an occasion to lie back and toast yourself, the American worker. Start with $2 mimosas and build your own bloody marys. Entrees on the menu include a Maine lobster and crawfish benedict, stuffed French toast and aebleskivers, which are traditional Danish pancakes. EastBurn, 1800 E Burnside St., 236-2876. 10 am-3 pm. Prices vary.

Huge slices or elaborately topped pie, pesto-soaked breadsticks and, on weekend days, $1 mimosas made with house soda pop. Any dryness of the crust is easily solved with one of the hot sauces on offer. Five locations: 2211 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 721 NW 9th Ave., 633 SW 19th Ave., 1909 SW 6th Ave., 5440 NE 33rd Ave. hotlipspizza.com.

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SWILL VS. 3-WAY IPA

(10 BARREL BREWING VS. FORT GEORGE, LOMPOC AND GIGANTIC) Just as the summer of 2013 had dueling radio hits (Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” and Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky”), in Portland it had dueling seasonal brews. Like a great pop song, they’re both simple yet hard to pin down. In one cooler, 3-Way IPA, sold in a green tall boy from Astoria’s Fort George but made in collaboration with Gigantic and Lompoc. It’s an intensely traditional Northwest IPA, rich with piney hops and clean California Common yeast. In the other, 10 Barrel Brewing’s Swill. The Bend brewery’s sour Berliner Weisse was spiked with massive amounts of grapefruit to create, in essence, a bittersweet radler. Before you can sniff at it, the bottle shames you: “Beer guy! Stop taking yourself so serious.” Both beers have been huge hits, with Swill drawing lines nearly down to the river at the Oregon Brewers Festival despite bottles being available for $1.99 at area grocers, while 3-Way delights hopheaded beer geeks. My pick? “Get Lucky” with a Swill. Either way, Pharrell wins. MARTIN CIZMAR.

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Drink before, eat after. Take it from a 32-year-old veteran of a couple thousand concerts. Why? First, alcohol is more effective on an empty stomach. Second, a large meal often leaves one groggy. Third, it’s always nice to sober up before making your way home. MusicfestNW, Portland’s largest weekend of music, is upon us. That means you’re likely to find yourself in an unfamiliar corner of the city, in need of booze and grub. Downtown: Backspace, Star Theater, Roseland, Dante’s, Crystal Ballroom Drink before: If you’re seeing Surfer Blood, the Bronx or Bleeding Rainbow, this probably isn’t your first late and soggy night in Old Town. So just consider these reminders about places you know you like. Select fine suds from the digital board at Bailey’s Taproom (213 SW Broadway, 295-1004, baileystaproom.com) or get one of Portland’s best cocktails at Teardrop Lounge (1015 NW Everett St., 445-8109, teardroplounge.com) or grab a shot, a beer and something spicy at Shanghai Tunnel (211 SW Ankeny St., 220-4001). Eat after: Chances are you’ll easily stumble across a downtown food cart that’s open after your show, but if you want to sit for a bit, grab a slice at the westside Sizzle Pie (926 W Burnside St., 234-7437, sizzlepie. com) or a massive burrito at Santeria (703 SW Ankeny St., 956-7624). Inner East Side: Doug Fir, Branx, Bunk Bar, Holocene, White Owl Social Club Drink before: Like a pair of thrift-store jeans surrounded by similarly styled designer jeans, B-Side Tavern (632 E Burnside St., 233-3113) is an actual rock bar surrounded by rock-styled bars. Tall boys run a buck or two, the music is loud and the patio is a haze of cigarette smoke. Eat after: If you can help it, always end your night on the inner east side. Robo Taco (607 SE Morrison St., 232-3707) makes great tacos; the eastside Sizzle Pie (624 E Burnside St., 234-7437, sizzlepie.com) has cheap slices; and you can find a little of everything the drunken mind desires, from wonderfully glop-topped french fries to charred pepperoni pizzas and banana crepes, at the Cartopia pod (Southeast 12th Avenue and Hawthorne Boulevard). If it’s

raining, or if you need more booze, hit up Montage (301 SE Morrison St., 338-4419, montageportland.com) or My Father’s Place (523 SE Grand Ave., 235-5494). Aladdin Theater Drink before: If you go to this homey Southeast venue on Wednesday, when Justin Townes Earle plays, or on Thursday, when Mt. Eerie and Bonnie Prince Billy play, you’ll love Bushwhacker Cider (1212-D SE Powell Blvd., 445-0577, bushwhackercider.com). Located around the corner from the Aladdin, it has about 200 fermented fruit drinks in bottles, cans and on tap. Those attending Saturday’s Helio Sequence show are more likely to enjoy Apex (1216 SE Division St., 273-9227, apexbar.com). (Bring cash for that one.) Eat after: Portland’s best 24-hour eatery, Hotcake House (1002 SE Powell Blvd., 2367402), is a block west of the Aladdin. If you’d rather just have a cup of coffee, head for the 24-hour Southeast Grind (1223 SE Powell Blvd., 473-8703, portlandgrind.com). The Old Church Drink before: If you’re headed to see local bands Typhoon or Horse Feathers, you probably know your way around. Rather than the obvious (Rogue Hall, McMenamins’ Market Street Pub), why not check out Gnarly Grey (1235 SW Jefferson St., 271-7407, gnarlygrey.com), a year-old pub operated by a pair of Portland State grads. Eat after: Let’s make tonight special. When’s the last time you went to Higgins? (1239 SW Broadway, 222-9070, higginsportland.com). It’s just a few blocks from the Old Church. The stalwart Portland restaurant’s tavern is open until midnight, has a great burger for $14 and a huge selection of beer and wine.

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Hawthorne Theatre Drink before: There’s no shortage of bars on this stretch of Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard, but the place to start your evening is Gold Dust Meridian (3267 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 239-1143, golddustmeridian.com), where happy hour runs until 8 pm. It’ll save you only 50 cents per drink, but you won’t complain about hanging in this richly adorned and dimly lit room. Eat after: You’re right next door to Portland’s best Szechuan restaurant, Lucky Strike (3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 2068292, luckystrikepdx.com). It closes at 11 pm, at which time you’ve got good ol’ Nick’s Famous Coney Island (3746 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 235-3008, nicksfamousconeys.com) a block away. Pioneer Courthouse Square Drink before: If you’re headed downtown for Young the Giant or Neko Case, you’ll probably like The Jack London Bar (529 SW 4th Ave., 228-7605). It’s hidden under the Rialto Pool Room and is known for its history talks and reading series. Eat after: Most Pioneer Courthouse Square shows are over early enough for dinner anywhere, but Luc Lac Vietnamese Kitchen (835 SW 2nd Ave., 222-0047,

luclackitchen.com) will still make you pho at 3:45 am on Friday or Saturday. Wonder Ballroom Drink before: Try to start your night at Sloan’s (36 N Russell St., 287-2262), which keeps the oddest tavern hours in town, closing at 11 pm on Friday and all day Saturday. Or head to Billy Ray’s Tavern (2216 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 2877254), which is cash-only but has a nice patio and pingpong. Eat after: This is a dead zone for late-night food. So just head downstairs for some tacos at Trigger (128 NE Russell St., 3278234, triggerpdx.com). Mississippi Studios Drink before: You could arrive early for a drink at one of Portland’s great bars, Bar Bar (3939 N Mississippi Ave., 228-3895, mississippistudios.com/menu), barring a lack of seats at the bar, which is always crowded. Crow Bar (3954 N Mississippi Ave., 280-7099, crowbarpdx.com), across the street, is less crowded and has pool. Eat after: Mississippi Pizza Pub (3552 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3231, mississippipizza.com) is open until at least midnight and makes the sort of puffy-dough pies you want to soak up a sixer of PBR.

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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 28 Purse Candy, Seance Crasher, Ghosties, Wampire DJs

[GINGERBREAD HOUSE] There’s a good reason most house music hovers around 120 beats per minute. Any faster, and you start to feel techno’s incessant drive grinding away at your teeth. Any slower, though, and you’ve got sway-worthy pop music. Purse Candy does what few in this country have done: makes slightly slowed down melancholy pop-house beats that move more than just torsos. Frontman Matthew Ellis sings over synths and soft guitar riffs, and he sounds like the indie-house version of Twin Shadow, his voice alternately wavering and straining. “Let’s run away/’Cause Mom and Dad fight too much,” Ellis whispers tweely on the childlike “Red Wagon.” The words and formula are simple, but the execution is as surprising as finding a king-size Snickers bar in your mom’s handbag. MITCH LILLIE. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8:30 pm. $5. 21+.

THURSDAY, AUG. 29 The Zombies, Et Tu Bruce

[WALKING DEAD] One of the highlights of my 2010 ATP fest experience was finally seeing the Zombies live. Now in its 51st year(!), the group returns to the Aladdin to bring back the melody and creativity of a more innocent era. Vocalist Colin Blunstone fronts the band, but organist Rod Argent finds plenty of opportunity to steal the show, especially on an extended workout of his spinoff group Argent’s “Hold Your Head Up.” Diminutive bassist Jim Rodford (formerly of another little British band called the Kinks) deserves a spotlight of his own, and his son Steve is along for the ride on drums. NATHAN CARSON. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $42 advance, $45 day of show. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.

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FIVE TIPS FOR SURVIVING MUSICFESTNW Study the schedule. Winging it is fun and all, until you’ve stumbled upon nothing to your liking, then you realize Deerhunter just started at the Crystal and you’re at Roseland, and then you blindly run into the street and get run over by the MAX. The moral: Know where you’re going. Accept that you will lose your friends. No matter how dedicated you are to sticking together, there will come a moment when you’re all standing on a street corner, passiveaggressively arguing about your next destination for 20 minutes. Concede in advance that you will not all be skipping to the last bus of the night arm-in-arm and keep your relationship intact. Sleep, damn it. There’s a temptation to rock ’n’ roll all night and party every day during MFNW, but remember: KISS doesn’t have day jobs. This festival is a six-day triathlon of drinking, walking and more drinking, and it’s exhausting enough even with ample shuteye. That isn’t to say you need a full, consecutive eight hours each night. Nap on a bench between shows. Nod off on the bus. Heck, find an unoccupied patch of Pioneer Courthouse Square and curl up during the Head and the Heart. Ride a bike. That might sound odd coming from the guy who once wrote a whole article about how he never rides bikes, but it’s something I learned after hoofing around South by Southwest in March and felt like I was walking on two giant, foot-shaped blood blisters by the end. It’s the most reliable, least cumbersome way to get from one side of town to the other. But then you probably already know that. Drink responsibly. And by that, I don’t necessarily mean moderation. Just pick your blackouts wisely. For example, I remember nothing about Titus Andronicus at Backspace in 2010. The second half of Fucked Up’s raging set at Dante’s last year is a blur of singer Damian Abraham’s back hair. And yet I remember every sleepy moment of Iron and Wine at the Square in 2011. Drink to forget, not to regret. 72

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When Nate Ruess of the chart-topping band Fun took the stage to accept a Grammy Award for Best New Artist in February, he took note of the moment as the culmination of 12 years spent working in the music business. He wasn’t just taking a swipe at the Grammys’ idea of “new,” but nodding toward his lesser-known past: Long before “We Are Young” made him a star, Ruess was the lead singer of Arizona-based pop duo the Format. Sam Means was the other half of the Format, providing the melodic framework for Ruess’ lyrical musings. The Format grew out of Ruess and Means’ high-school pop-punk band, but quickly demonstrated hit potential. The generically titled “The First Single,” from 2002’s equally generic EP, earned regional airplay. The band signed to Elektra Records for its full-length debut, 2003’s Interventions and Lullabies, and issued its second album, Dog Problems, three years later. Then the band broke up. Ruess moved to New York, and within years had a string of massive hits to his name. Means, meanwhile, settled into a much quieter life in Phoenix. In 2008, he founded Hello Merch, a band-merchandising company, and has watched as his former bandmate has taken home awards, soundtracked Super Bowl commercials and become an almost inescapable presence on pop radio. Not that he’s bitter or anything. “I see on Twitter or blogs where they’ll tag me in something, and be kind of like, ‘Oh, I bet Sam’s so bummed because he missed the boat or whatever,’” Means laughs over the phone from the Hello Merch office. “I’m definitely the least successful member of the Format at this point, when it comes to me and Nate, as far as the public eye is concerned. No one cares about a merch company.” “No one” might be a stretch. Hello Merch works with more than 100 bands, including Boris, King Tuff and Death Grips. In 2012, Means launched a

clothing line, Hello Apparel, focusing on “a lot of kid stuff, and merchandise that appeals to younger moms.” He recently added an apparel line targeted toward men. And much like how Ruess is the face of Fun, Means is the face of his own company: When you call Hello Merch, he’ll probably answer the phone. “It’s all very personal,” he says. “That’s the way that we ran everything in the Format, with our label and our management company that we worked with. Literally every element of the Format I brought over into Hello Merch and how it’s operated.” Means didn’t completely turn away from music, either. Most of his work is featured on his Bandcamp page, including the 2012 EP NONA, on which the songwriter sings for the first time in his recording career. Songs like “Something in the Air” share the Format’s ringing tunefulness, but Means’ voice is subdued and mature. It’s pop music, but it sounds resolutely grown up. Means says there’s more where those songs came from, but he’s in no rush to get them out. “I definitely don’t want to say that music has taken a backseat, because that’s definitely the furthest thing from the truth, but it sort of has, to a certain extent,” Means says. “It’s my No. 1 priority in my brain. But in my physical functions, it’s sat back.” He has contributed music to films and to a few other “low-key” releases, but he’s mostly focused on Hello and his family. “I like spending every extra second right now with my 3-yearold daughter,” Means says. “It’s not like I’ve lost any passion for [music], but there’s a time and a place for everything in my life right now.” There’s a place for his former bandmate, too. “I couldn’t be more happy for him at all,” Means says of Ruess’ huge success. “We talk, especially more recently. We’ve been seeing each other quite a bit.” Means insists the breakup wasn’t acrimonious. “What he’s achieved has been absolutely outstanding,” he says. “It’s almost annoying how much I’m trying to congratulate him.” So what if Ruess came calling about a Format reunion? “It’s not something I’m against,” he says. “But I hate when bands just get back together for no purpose. You just think, ‘Oh, somebody needs money.’ It’s kind of sad. But I wouldn’t rule it out. We’ve always totally gotten along since the band broke up—with us, it was time to move on.” SEE IT: Fun plays McMenamins Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, with Tegan and Sara, on Thursday, Aug. 29. 6 pm. Sold out.

tried-and-true rock ’n’ roll, flanked by slight glimmerings of orchestral brass and fret-burning guitar hooks that fall somewhere between Lynyrd Skynyrd and Stephen Malkmus. Nevertheless, it’s the subtle touches, like the sweetly sprouting backing vocals on the title track and the dance-riddled grooves of “Dog in the Scrapyard,” that keep singer Matt Jenkins and the rest of the Portland quintet from being labeled straight roots rock. BRANDON WIDDER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $5. 21+.

have underpinned the group’s reputation for visually impressive performances. Newest album Pris injects DBC’s glamour-punk style with staticky, caffeinated percussion, resulting in a highly danceable album. The band opens for Tamaryn, the Pitchfork darling who has gained some cred for colorful shows since wowing the MoMA Music Festival last year. JOE DONOVAN. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $12. 21+.

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[POWER-POP TRIO] Lemuria tends to get pegged as a punk band, based solely on the Buffalo, N.Y., trio’s early agitated efforts. But the group has since grown into itself as players and songwriters, becoming one of the best purveyors of pop around. Lemuria’s third album, The Distance Is So Big, recorded with former Jawbox leader J. Robbins, is further testament to those abilities, featuring the kind of glimmering riffs and sharply honed melodies that would make Cheap Trick and the Posies grimace with envy. Get to this show early and take in the similarly strong punk-tinged pop of local quartet Our First Brains. ROBERT HAM. Laughing Horse Books, 12 NE 10th Ave., 236-2893. 8:30 pm. $7. All ages.

[CIRQUE DU SOULLESS] As the big Red machine continues to rumble across the record books— her recent four-night stand at the Staples Center found the 23-yearold tying the venue’s mark for consecutive sellouts at 11—Taylor Swift veers ever further from her Nashville-prodigy roots. Though she’s already assembled a daunting array of hits to rummage through, the performances most closely resemble a Broadway on Ice elaboration of tweener-pop princess fantasies (sparkling skies! Stilt-walkers! Heart-shaped confetti!), with the songs themselves treated as merely another attraction—something to drive the mini-musicals or showcase the 21st century diva’s instrumental versatility. The resulting spectacle certainly thrills her vigilant fan base (and neatly camouflages lingering vocal limitations), but this incessant pose of wounded damsel unable to process her good fortune doesn’t quite fit the woman who’ll soon be queen. JAY HORTON. Rose Garden, 1401 N Wheeler Ave., 235-8771. 7 pm. Sold out. All ages.

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[HIP-HOP] For the past 20 years, Terrance “Cool Nutz” Scott has had

to endure the claim that “Portland isn’t a hip-hop town,” while simultaneously proving the exact opposite, and becoming one of the pre-eminent faces of Northwest hip-hop in the process. This year’s Bars, the MC’s 10th album and a follow-up to last year’s Portland Ni%#a, finds Nutz on the same path he’s walked since 1993’s Dis Nigga Nutz—a path that gains elevation with each step, and has guided Nutz from cocky young blood to the confident, eloquent MC he’s become. He’s a master of mixing social commentary with oddball humor and just the right amount of swagger to match his low-key but relentlessly smooth flow. Turns out, more and more, Portland is a hip-hop town, and Nutz is the mayor. AP KRYZA. The Blue Monk, 3341 SE Belmont St., 503-595-0575. 9 pm. Call venue for ticket information. 21+.

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[STONER HIP-HOP] Sometimes you hear a group’s name, and you immediately know you should prepare to load up the bong. DJ Frane isn’t one of them. But while his nom de production doesn’t exactly shout “Toke it up!”, his album covers do: Three out of four of the dude’s albums are subtitled “Beats to Blaze To.” And they don’t lie. This is high-potency hip-hop, cross-bred with funk and psych. If you can see beyond the purple haze, Frane has talent, in his sonic stitching and scratching abilities. Madlib this ain’t, though: Frane doesn’t dig nearly as deep into

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BEST TIME TO CROWD SURF AND/OR START A PIT “I Just Wanna Get Along,” but remember: The crowd is mostly 40-plus alterna-parents.

“Tiny Vessels” is “heavy,” but you’re likely to get the stink-eye from some kid in a Hollister shirt.

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The first movement of “Transatlanticism.” Make it past first base here, you’ve got a mate for life.

MOMENT TO START WEEPING The sweet, countryish ballad “Drivin’ on 9” never fails to kick dust in the eyes.

“Passenger Seat,” when the girl you met during the last song resumes texting her boyfriend.

BATHROOM BREAK “Roi,” which is basically four minutes of guitar noise circling around a drain. It reprises briefly at the end, anyway.

“Death of an Interior Decorator” may be the most embarrassing song in Ben Gibbard’s saccharine songbook.

The climax of “Transatlanticism.” Take a look at the throngs of fans singing along to the record’s centerpiece and try not to get misty.

WHOO! MOMENT NO. 2 The start of Last Splash’s other pogo-worthy single, “Divine Hammer,” featuring the Deal sisters pleading for an orgasm. Whoo, indeed.

“We Looked Like Giants” is either your last chance to headbang or a great chance to leave early and beat the traffic.

SEE IT: The Breeders play Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., on Friday, Aug. 30, with Tweens. 8 pm. 21+. Death Cab for Cutie plays McMenamins Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, with Deep Sea Diver, on Saturday, Aug. 31. 6:30 pm. All ages. Both shows are sold out.

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HEY, YOU SEE US ON LETTERMAN?: MGMT plays McMenamins Edgefield on Sunday, Sept. 1. dusty record crates and can’t quite get his songs to lose their digitized studio feel. Whatever, dude. Just blaze up and enjoy the beats while checking out Future Shock’s wellcurated selection of records, toys and art. MITCH LILLIE. Future Shock, 1914 E Burnside St. 11 am. Call venue for more information.

Club Crooks: DJ Izm, Dev From Above, Mr. Marcus

[TWERK] In this week’s chapter of “Monthly Club Nights Portland Shares With Other Awesome Cities,” please welcome Club Crooks. Having burned down New York’s Lower East Side and then returning to Portland two weeks later, Club Crooks is a twerk, trap and bass party that begs to have the “s” at the end of its name replaced with a dollar sign. Formerly held at the Crown Room, Club Crooks graduated to Holocene three months ago. Chief Crook DJ Izm showers dancers with heavy synth rips, airy buildups and beats tighter than a twerk teammate’s leopard leggings. MITCH LILLIE. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 10 pm. $5. 21+.

Blood Cobra, Medicine Family, Death by Bunga Bunga, Mark Brown One Time Only Last Show Ever Band

[MIDVALLEY METAL] Lots of kids from midvalley Oregon were weaned on heavy metal, and just as many have forsaken it for the last 20 years, except under a shroud of self-conscious irony. Over the last decade, as metal’s become hip in the big cities and is finally regaining respect down south, some of the finest musicians in Corvallis have banded together to unleash Blood Cobra, a group that sends John Zorn back to the closet in exchange for a healthy dose of Iron Maiden worship. NATHAN CARSON. Kenton Club, 2025 N Kilpatrick St., 2853718. 9 pm. Free. 21+.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 1 MGMT, Black Bananas, Kuroma, Michele Van Kleef

[SPECTACLE POP] Oracular Spectacular proved its worth, while Congratulations offered an experimental “fuck you” to the same industry machine that signed the band. MGMT’s three-year run from top of the college-radio charts to reclaiming its psych-rock roots was an admirable commitment to creativity and a joy to witness. Presently, Benjamin Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden are wrapping up a self-titled third album due out very soon. Not much has leaked, but all signs point to the duo playing in its comfort zone: equal parts hallucinogenic psych rock and fantasy folk worthy of Jethro Tull. MARK STOCK. McMenamins Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, 669-8610. 6:30 pm. $37. All ages.

MONDAY, SEPT. 2 ZZ Ward, the Wild Feathers, James Bay

[COUNTRY-HOP] As a kid, ZZ Ward played the bars of Roseburg, Ore., in her father’s blues band. She’s all grown up now, based out of L.A. and featured on TV shows and the late-night talk-show circuit. The soulful 20-something frontwoman belts atop country and blues melodies and big hip-hop beats. Last year, Ward released Til the Casket Drops, a record that sounds something like Christina Aguilera taking requests at a small-town bar. MARK STOCK. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $15 advance, $17 day of show. 21+.

Matt Pond

[INDEPENDENT ROCK] Newly shorn of the “PA” that’s long followed his name, despite moving from Philly to New York a decade ago, and the pretense of a band— really, it’s little more than a revolving lineup of sidemen—Matt Pond appears to be at last embracing his inner solo artist. And judging from altogether cheerful new release The Lives Inside the Lines in Your Hand, his first under the streamlined imprimatur and 10th proper, the single life agrees with him. While no one would confuse the just-this-sideof-anthemic guitar pop spun by his touring quartet with troubadour ditties, the newfound positivity shining through the sun-kissed melodies speaks to baggage blissfully left behind. JAY HORTON. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 2319663. 9 pm. $12. 21+.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 3 MusicfestNW: Tuesday

[MFNW] See MFNW guide, page 20. Multiple venues.

Alt-J

[MODERN ROCK] Alt-J’s Joe Newman has a polarizing voice. It’s at once one of the most complained-about and praised instruments in indie music since the Leeds-born quartet released An Awesome Wave last year. Not that unorthodox voices ever hold a band back. Musically, Alt-J is as sharp as they come, a Radiohead-inspired group that banks on highly rhythmic fuzz and detailed song structures. Yet, from the moment a friend told me Newman’s voice sounds like Adam Sandler impersonating a grandmother, it’s all I’ve been able to think about. MARK STOCK. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 9 pm. Sold out. All ages.

CLASSICAL, JAZZ & WORLD The Waking Guild

[FOLKY CHAMBER MUSIC] Belying its name, the Waking Guild makes

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dreamy, often languid instrumental music for the ravishing combo of violin, cello, flute and concertina. Occasionally flirting with tweeness, the band’s folk-tinged originals more often create a beguilingly intimate atmosphere, sometimes reminiscent of the lamented Penguin Cafe in its more whimsical moments. BRETT CAMPBELL. Shaker and Vine, 2929 SE Powell Blvd., 231-8466. 8 pm Wednesday, Aug. 28. $5. 21+.

Stereognosis

[MIDDLE EASTERN BREAKBEAT] Beginning as a recording project, the singular and incendiary combo of Uzbek percussion master Abbos Kosimov (who’s worked with musicians from Kronos Quartet to Béla Fleck to Stevie Wonder), Turkish bağlama saz (plucked long-necked lute) virtuoso Sinan Ayyildiz, bass boss Miles Jay, Egyptian ney flutist and keyboard player Michael Naguib and Belgian beatboxer Fatty K proved so successful that it’s turned into a onetime-only world tour. The ancient and modern mixture works much more organically than the usual shallow exoticism of grafting traditional music over standard, anonymous beats, resulting in a happy pan-cultural hybrid that you can dance to, as a pair of expert belly dancers will demonstrate. BRETT CAMPBELL. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055. 8 pm Thursday, Aug. 29. $20 advance, $25 day of show. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.

Art in the Pearl World Music Stage

[GLOBAL POTPOURRI] Every Labor Day weekend, the outdoor arts and crafts extravaganza Art in the Pearl also hosts the city’s most diverse world-music and dance festival. Saturday opens with Gypsy Heart’s tribal Middle Eastern, Cuban and West African belly dance and continues with Al-Andalus’ flamencoflavored mix of Spanish, Latin and Middle Eastern sounds; South Indian dance from Kalabharathi School; Colleen Raney and Colm MacCárthaigh’s Irish tunes; and traditional Javanese percussion music from Venerable Showers of Beauty gamelan ensemble. Sunday’s highlights include Moh Alileche Ensemble’s Berber folk; Hanz Araki and Kathryn Claire’s Celtic flute and fiddle tunes; Masumi Timson’s Japanese music for koto, violin and more; Yiddish Republik’s klezmer jazz; and Cantigo’s Afro-Caribbean rhythms. Monday’s lineup kicks off with more Middle Eastern music from Farajah, followed by singersongwriter-guitarist Edna Fabiola Vazquez Diaz’s original tunes, Cajun and zydeco grooves from Bon Ton Roulet and Toshi Onizuka Trio’s Latin jazz fusion. BRETT CAMPBELL. North Park Blocks, Northwest 8th Avenue between Burnside and Glisan streets. 10 am Saturday-Monday, Aug. 31-Sept. 2. Free. All ages.

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Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. False Metal, Martini Bomb

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St. The Pickups

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Moon Mountain Ramblers, Lewi Longmire & the Left Coast Roasters

McMenamins Edgefield 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Fun., Tegan and Sara, Henry Kammerer

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Will Kinky

McMenamins’ Kennedy School 5736 NE 33rd Ave. Craig Carothers

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Michelle Lewis

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Pheasant, Fen Wik Ren, Night Mechanic

Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. Charles Ellsworth, Shadow Puppet

THEY SEEM NICE: Lemuria plays Laughing Horse Books on Friday, Aug. 30.

WED. AUG. 28 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Bingo, 3-Hour Crime Spree

Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Drew de Man

Alhambra Theatre

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Grammies, Hands In

Amadeus Manor

2122 SE Sparrow St., Milwaukie Open Mic

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Demain, Seth Myzel, Thistle Stalk

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Blood Owl, Vultures In The Sky, We The Wild

Beaterville Cafe

2201 N Killingsworth St. Open Mic

Blackwater Records

1925 SE Morrison St. Anasazi, Life Form, Piss Test, Bone Spells

Boogies Burgers and Brew 910 E Burnside St. Las Otras, Frenzy, Raw Nerves, Flight 19

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Gregory Alan Isakov, the Seven Hats

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Suburban Slim’s Blues Jam

East End

Purse Candy, Seance Crasher, Ghosties, Wampire DJs

The Elixir Lab

Jack London Bar

The Old Church

529 SW 4th Ave. Proper Movement Drums and Bass

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Mel Brown Quartet

Kells

112 SW 2nd Ave. Bill Tollner

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Simon Tucker Blues Band, Quick & Easy Boys

Lents Commons

9201 SE Foster Road Open Mic

Main Street

Southwest Main Street and Park Avenue Caleb Klauder Country Band, Train River

McMenamins Edgefield 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale John Bunzow

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Billy D

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Destruction Unit, The Bugs, Autistic Youth

Record Room

8 NE Killingsworth St. Tiny Hearts, The Bedrooms, Try the Pie

Red and Black Cafe

400 SE 12th Ave. American Dischord, Skoi, I Have No Friends, Immoral Majority, Terminal Damage

Secret Society Ballroom

2738 NE Alberta St. Open Mic 1422 SW 11th Ave. Maria Stroebe

Thorne Lounge

4260 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Musician’s Open Mic

Tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway Erotic City

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Do You Remember Rock ‘n’ Roll? Radio Show: Pat Kearns

Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Bo Ayars

Torta Landia

4144 SE 60th Ave. Knowhere

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. New York Rifles, Slutty Hearts, Verner Pantons

Vie de Boheme

1530 SE 7th Ave. Bohemian Blues: Lynn Winkle, Mark Stauffer

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Kevin Florence, Evan Way, Marty Marquis

Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen Band, Shelly Rudolph

THURS. AUG. 29 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Bingo

Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. The Zombies, Et Tu Bruce

203 SE Grand Ave. Mr. Tang, Fake Beach, Debts

116 NE Russell St. Gayle Skidmore, Great Wilderness

Goodfoot Lounge

Suki’s Bar & Grill

1036 NE Alberta St. Sassparilla

The Blue Diamond

1314 NW Glisan St. 3 Leg Torso

2845 SE Stark St. Shafty (Phish tribute)

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St.

2401 SW 4th Ave. Kory Quinn

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Fenix Project

Alberta Street Public House

Andina

Andrea’s Cha Cha Club 832 SE Grand Ave.

Pilon D’Azucar Salsa Band

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Linux Sknrd, Stochastic Mettle Union, No Parades

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Fallstar, Apollo, Beneath The Gates, The Autonomics

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Ian Miller, Jake Ray & the Cowdogs

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Brothers and Sister (Allman Brothers Band tribute)

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Sorry Devils

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. Rio Grands, DJ Both Josh

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. Andy Coe Band, Cats Under the Stars

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

Sellwood Public House 8132 SE 13th Ave. Open Mic

Slabtown

3341 SE Belmont St. Luke McCain, Vinny D, Kelly Lemieux, Kenny Feinstein, Christopher Riedl

The Elixir Lab

2738 NE Alberta St. Underskore Orkestra

Tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway Karaoke From Hell

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Edewaard, Etherfiend

Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Tony’s Tiki Voodoo Vibes Lounge Lu-Owl

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. Teepee, Red Traces, Campfires

Vie de Boheme

1530 SE 7th Ave. Dan Wilensky Group

Jack London Bar

White Eagle Saloon

221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown B3 Organ Group

1201 SW Jefferson St. Alan Jones Academy Jazz Jam 836 N Russell St. Bad Assets, Country Trash, Hank Topless, Kory Quinn

225 SW Ash St. Prizehog, Cerberus Rex, Sad Horse

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. The Hoons, ThE RoDeO cLoWnS, Noble Firs, Fringe Class

Beaterville Cafe

2201 N Killingsworth St. Midwestern, Michael Dean Damron, Scott Brockett

Biddy McGraw’s

6000 NE Glisan St. Funk Shui, Ben Rice Trio

Buffalo Gap Eatery and Saloon

Camellia Lounge

Clyde’s Prime Rib

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Party Code 350 W Burnside St. The Objex, the Lowmen, the Romanes 830 E Burnside St. Brothers and Sister (Allman Brothers Band tribute)

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Terry Robb, Calvin Walker Band

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. Kingston Club, the Reputations, Hell, the Body, Night Nurse, Beard of Bees

EastBurn

1800 E Burnside St. Fast Timmy & the G-Men, Saucytown (Cerebral Palsy benefit)

Foggy Notion

3416 N Lombard St. Diesto, Honduran, Fellwoods

Ford Food and Drink 2505 SE 11th Ave. Sky Cooper, Dust and Thirst

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE 39th Ave. Maiden NW (Iron Maiden tribute), $intax, The Devil Riding Shotgun, Factor V (theatre); Stereo Sons, Rocket 3, Luxe Canyon (lounge)

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Clay Giberson

Jack London Bar

529 SW 4th Ave. Underground: Live Blues

Jade Lounge

Wilfs Restaurant & Bar

Jimmy Mak’s

Kells

Kelly’s Olympian

800 NW 6th Ave. Ellen Whyte, Gene & Jean

426 SW Washington St.

Ash Street Saloon

White Owl Social Club 1305 SE 8th Ave. Federation X

112 SW 2nd Ave. Bill Tollner

1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero Trio

Doug Fir Lounge

West Cafe

Jimmy Mak’s

Andina

2346 SE Ankeny St. Mark MacMinn 221 NW 10th Ave. Ernie Watts & New Stories

Tiger Bar

Kells Brewpub

Kells

Tonic Lounge

Kelly’s Olympian

Tonic Lounge

210 NW 21st Ave. Sami Rouisi

Alhambra Theatre

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Emulator

Malachi Graham, Cheryl Smith, Little 317 NW Broadway Mortified Mortician, December In Red, Amadon, Dead Man’s Throne

426 SW Washington St. Growler, Blast o Casters, Michael Sean Cummins

1036 NE Alberta St. Muriel Stanton Band

The Analog

The Blue Monk

2809 NE Sandy Blvd. The Tanked, Simply Luscious, El Pacto De La Llama, Aiden Johnson

112 SW 2nd Ave. Coming Up Threes

Dante’s

The Blue Diamond

Katie O’Briens

Alberta Street Public House

1033 NW 16th Ave. Drive-Thru Mystics, Kazumis, Spider Moccasin Ensemble, Foxy Lemon

1435 NW Flanders St. Tom Grant Vocal Showcase: Shelly Rudolph, John Knowles 529 SW 4th Ave. Sombras Borrachas

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Richard Marx

510 NW 11th Ave. Persian Jazz Ensemble, George Colligan

Camellia Lounge

430 N Killingsworth St. Steve Kerin

Aladdin Theater

Cloverdayle

777 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Ben Jones

Chapel Pub

303 SW 12th Ave. Bingo

Oregon Convention Center

Buffalo Gap Eatery and Saloon

510 NW 11th Ave. Joe Millward

Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel

6835 SW Macadam Ave. Mark Elmer Band

720 SE Hawthorne Death*Star, Klopfenpop, Rotten Musicians

6835 SW Macadam Ave. Stupefin’ Jones

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Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Beyond Veronica, Lucky Laskowski, The Dandelions

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St. Barn Door Slammers

Laughing Horse Books

12 NE 10th Ave. Lemuria, Our First Brains, Hemingway, Soft Skills

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Jacob Miller & the Bridge City Crooners, Zeb Dewar, Alice Stuart

McMenamins Edgefield 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Red Light Romeos

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Sonny Hess

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Kings on Fire, American Dada

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Tamaryn, Dangerous Boys Club, Daydream Machine

Mock Crest Tavern

3435 N Lombard St. The Reverb Brothers

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Joe McMurrian

Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Duffy Bishop

Rose Garden

1401 N Wheeler Ave. Taylor Swift

Secret Society Ballroom

116 NE Russell St. Alison Rice & the Ranch Hands, Copper & Coal, Barn Burners

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. MDC, Dirty Kid Discount, Hammered Grunts, Faithless Saints

Sleep Country Amphitheater

17200 NE Delfel Road, Ridgefield, Wash. Heart, Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. Blank Fridays

The Analog

720 SE Hawthorne Redcast

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. A.C. Porter & The Live Wires

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. Cool Nutz, Vursatyl, Tony Ozier, DJ Klyph

The TARDIS Room

1218 N Killingsworth St. The Hugs

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Matt Lande 3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Cordova, Lojia, Jade Grenade, Greyer Wolf, Here From Apathy, N’ycole, Travis Crum, Matthew Hartman, DJ Mutagen, Deophobic

Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Bo Ayars, Barbara Ayars

Torta Landia

4144 SE 60th Ave. Sidestreet Reny

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. Extralone

Vie de Boheme

1530 SE 7th Ave. Shanghai Woolies

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Stan McMahon Band, Reverb Brothers

Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Tony Pacini Trio

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. The Breeders, Tweens

SAT. AUG. 31 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Bingo

Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Butterfly Breakdown

Alhambra Theatre

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Jesus Presley (theatre); Dementia (lounge)

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka Trio

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. The Kamikazies, Dogs of August, Stolen Rose

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Acheron Flow, True Game, Reign Pro, Keegan & Avil, Memphis Maccie

Biddy McGraw’s

6000 NE Glisan St. Gravel, the Barkers

Branx

320 SE 2nd Ave. Havok, World Of Lies, Kong At The Gates, Chronological Injustice, Warkrank

Bravo Lounge

8560 SE Division St. Bridge Jumper

Buffalo Gap Eatery and Saloon 6835 SW Macadam Ave. Rockin’ Piano Party: Jorge Ramirez

Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Three for Silver

Club 21

2035 NE Glisan St. Holy Grove, Lamprey, Pinkzilla

Clyde’s Prime Rib

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. ON-Q Band

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St.

The Waypost

3120 N Williams Ave.

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Plew’s Brews

8409 N Lombard St. Loves It, Northeast Northwest

Secret Society Ballroom

116 NE Russell St. Farnell Newton, Ashley Jayy

Shaker and Vine

2929 SE Powell Blvd. Bad Agent

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Mister Tang, Rhythm of Cruelty

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. Drunk Dad, Elephant Rifle, Sioux

WELL TRAVELED: No sign marks the entrance to Expatriate (5424 NE 30th Ave., 867-5309, expatriatepdx.com), but you won’t need Lonely Planet to find it. There’s the odd assortment of national flags in the window—Cuba, South Vietnam, the Federated States of Micronesia—and it’s directly across the street from Beast, Naomi Pomeroy’s French-leaning, pig-worshipping restaurant. The cocktail lounge, which opened in mid-July, is run by Pomeroy and husband/barman Kyle Linden Webster. It’s a place that strives for worldliness with its restroom copies of Murakami, Mexican devotional candles and ornate silver flatware (ordered off Etsy, according to Webster). But for the most part, Expatriate leans decidedly eastward, particularly in its impressive but pricey drinking snacks. Aside from a nod to Portland’s original celebrity chef, James Beard—$4 gets you an onion-and-butter sandwich—the rest of the menu draws from Pomeroy’s time in India and Southeast Asia, such as a salad of crunchy green papaya, sweet cherry tomatoes, crispy shards of fried shallot and herbaceous, fermented Burmese tea leaves ($12). Webster’s cocktails (all $10), meanwhile, are boozy, citric and often fruity. The rum- and Curacao-based Shanghai gets a medicinal sweetness from grenadine and a lingering anise kick from Kubler absinthe. By night, Expatriate’s midnight-dark walls and drippy red candles are sexy. By day, the bar looks a bit like a stripped-down, spiffed-up version of Southeast’s Roadside Attraction, complete with a golden arch salvaged from a Chinese restaurant and Japanese lucky-cat figurines wedged among the bottles of alcohol. You get the sense, like a traveler newly arrived in a foreign land, Expatriate is still finding its bearings. REBECCA JACOBSON. Rob Daiker, One From Many

Doug Fir Lounge

David Friesen

Jack London Bar

830 E Burnside St. Charli XCX, Kitten

529 SW 4th Ave. Erotic City (Prince tribute)

Dublin Pub

Jade Lounge

6821 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway Sons of Malarky

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Bill Rhoades & The Party Kings

Fifteenth Avenue Hophouse

1517 NE Brazee St. Hot Club Time Machine

Fire on the Mountain 3443 NE 57th Ave. Mountainfest 2013: Bison Bison, Jackstraw, Transcendental Brass Band, Shocks of Sheba

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. Eldridge Gravy, Radula

Hawthorne Hophouse 4111 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Karyn Patridge

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE 39th Ave. D.O.A., 800 Octane, Absent Minds, Clackamas Baby Killers (theatre); Kivett Bednar, Session, White Chocolate and the Cigarettes (lounge)

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St.

2346 SE Ankeny St. Brahnanas & the Brahs

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Andrew Woodworth, Throwback Suburbia, Jordan Harris

Katie O’Briens

2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Minty Rosa, Sugar Tits, Lexxi Vexx & The Bastards

Kells Brewpub

210 NW 21st Ave. Sami Rouisi

Kells

112 SW 2nd Ave. Coming Up Threes

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Lil Ass Boom Box Festival: A Happy Death, Pictorials, Tiananmen Bear, the Century, Bevelers, Muscle and the Marrow, Hands In

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Blood Cobra, Medicine Family, Death By Bunga Bunga, Mark Brown One Time Only Last Show Ever Band

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St. Ridge Runners

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Hoot Family Showcase, the Western Front, Denim Wedding, Mike Coykendall

The Analog

720 SE Hawthorne Particle Son, Die Robot, Dead Animal Assembly Plant, Ghost Motor, the Bloody North, Three Five Seven, Sandi Leeper, Regulio Junior

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Franco Paletta and The Stingers

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. NW Hip Hop Fest Kickoff Party: Bad Habitat, Bad Tenants, Beejan, Das Leune

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. A Volcano, Cerberus Rex, Vultures In The Sky

The TARDIS Room

1218 N Killingsworth St. Disenchanter, Kazumis

Tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway Mechanism, Tetramorphic, Wicked Haven

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. s4s, Crooked Toad, The Stein Project

Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Tony Starlight, John Gilmore

Torta Landia

4144 SE 60th Ave. Jeremy Junkin

Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Soul Vaccination

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Rob Wynia, Mr. Feelgood

Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Devin Phillips Quartet

SUN. SEPT. 1 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Heliogoats

Alhambra Theatre

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Rite Hosking, Brad Parsons, Sam Cooper, Brian Francis, Douglas County Daughters

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Doomsower, Serpent Crown, Disenchanter, Heavy Baang Staang

Beaterville Cafe

2201 N Killingsworth St. Roots Sundays: Jack DeVille

Blackwater Records

1925 SE Morrison St. Las Otras, Autistic Youth, Life Form, Wounds

Clyde’s Prime Rib

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. Chanel Art Show, Long Knife, Bellicose Minds

Ford Food and Drink 2505 SE 11th Ave. Tim Roth

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE 39th Ave. Summer’s Not Over Yet Rock Fest: Fast Fox

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Jim Templeton

Jack London Bar 529 SW 4th Ave. Club Love

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. The Dreadnoughts, Wadhams and Huston, Olivia Stone

Kells

112 SW 2nd Ave. Pat Buckley, Irish Sessions

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Orgami Ghosts, Freak Mountain Ramblers

Marylhurst University

Battle of the Lawyer Bands

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Glass Houses, How Long Jug Band

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Irish

NEPO 42

5403 NE 42nd Ave. Open Mic

Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery 206 SW Morrison St. Chris Margolin

Rontoms

600 E Burnside St. Banana Stand Compilation 2 Release Party: Au Dunes, Mothertapes

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Terror-dactyl, Bah Humbug, Postcard Artisan

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Kevin Selfe and the Tornadoes

The Conga Club

4923 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Suite 102 VYBZ Reggae Night

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Motrik, Freak Heat Waves, Viet Cong

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. The Defendants

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. Gary Numan, Cold Cave

MON. SEPT. 2 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Heliogoats

Aladdin Theater

5736 NE 33rd Ave.

Kells

112 SW 2nd Ave. Pat Buckley

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Eye Candy VJs

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Health Problems, Valkyrie Rodeo, Tyrants

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St. Saturday Night Drive

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Kung Pao Chickens, Portland Country Underground

McMenamins Edgefield 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Skip vonKuske and Cellotronik

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Bob Shoemaker

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Lloyd Jones

Pub at the End of the Universe 4107 SE 28th Ave. Open Mic

Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery 206 SW Morrison St. Open Mic

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Labor Day Uprising: Turn Me On Dead Man, The Spiral Electric

The Elixir Lab

Dante’s

McMenamins’ Kennedy School

210 NW 21st Ave. Traditional Irish Jam Session

Camellia Lounge

McMenamins Edgefield

10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Irish Sundays

Kells Brewpub

The Blue Diamond

17600 Highway 43 3 Leg Torso

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

1507 SE 39th Ave. The Acacia Strain, Within the Ruins, Xibalba, Fit For An Autopsy, American Me

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. ZZ Ward, the Wild Feathers, James Bay 510 NW 11th Ave. Vocalists’ Jazz & Blues Jam: Joe Millward

2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale MGMT, Black Bananas, Kuroma, Michele Van Kleef

Hawthorne Theatre

350 W Burnside St. Karaoke From Hell

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Matt Pond

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. Sonic Forum Open Mic

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. Metal Mondays

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Sumo 2738 NE Alberta St. Moonshine Monday: Michael the Blind

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Glass Knees, Mines, Campfires

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Josh Cole

TUES. SEPT. 3 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Heliogoats

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Phreak: Ogo Eion, Ras Mix, Sunfalls, Grom Irasci, Forgotten Rites, Dr. Strangeknob, Tailster, Black Tape Cello

Blackwater Records

1925 SE Morrison St. Ruleta Rusa, No Problem, Criminal Damage, Long Knife

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Nerve Beats, Mustaphamond, Soup Purse

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St. Alt-J

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. MFNW: Redd Kross, Black Bananas, Summer Cannibals

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Dover Weinberg Quartet

Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Radula (free)

Hawthorne Theatre 1507 SE 39th Ave. (hed) PE, Howitzer, Rendered Useless

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Speaker Minds, Fault Lines, Tiger House

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Weber Iago

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Septet

Kells

112 SW 2nd Ave. Pat Buckley

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St. Honky Tonk Union

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Jackstraw

McMenamins Edgefield 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Ian McFeron Band

Roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave. MFNW: Joey Bada$$, Antwon, Nacho Picasso, Gang$ign$

Shaker and Vine

2929 SE Powell Blvd. Ryan Meagher

The Elixir Lab

2738 NE Alberta St. Kafana Klub

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Atom Bound, Radion

McMenamins Edgefield

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MUSIC CALENDAR

2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Death Cab for Cutie, Deep Sea Diver

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Bradley Wik and the Charlatans

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Redray Frazier, Kenchucky Darvey, Succotash

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Naomi Punk, Formica Man, Roses, Past Desires

Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. Modern Pantheist

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Paul Chasman

Original Halibut’s II

2527 NE Alberta St. Steve Kerin and Jim Miller

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Includes two hour cruise and live entertainment. Bistro style menu and beverage from our full service bars available for purchase on board Discounted group pricing available. THEY’LL LEAVE THE LIGHT ON FOR YOU: Quadrant & Iris spin at the Rose on Friday, Aug. 30. DJ Zimmie

Fez Ballroom

316 SW 11th Ave. White Party: DJ Le Freak, DJ Risk One

Future Shock

WED. AUG. 28 Andrea’s Cha Cha Club 832 SE Grand Ave. Salsa: DJ Alberton

Beech St. Parlor 412 NE Beech St. Bill Portland

Berbati’s

231 SW Ankeny St. DJ Seleckta YT

Dig a Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. Pussy Control: Nathan Detroit, Freaky Outty

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Dig a Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. Pussy Control

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. TRONix: Megaphysics, DJ CEV

Savoy Tavern & Lounge

2500 SE Clinton St. DJ Dirty Red

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Queer Night: DJ Bitch Slap

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ OverCol

The Firkin Tavern 1937 SE 11th Ave. Eye Candy VJs

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Psychopomp: Ogo Eion

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. Tony Remple

THURS. AUG. 29 Beech St. Parlor 412 NE Beech St. Tiny Vinyl

Berbati’s

231 SW Ankeny St. Studyhall: DJ Suga Shane

Dig a Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. Cuica and Sahel Sounds

2045 SE Belmont St. Initials B.B.

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Ninth Wave: DJ Acid Rick, DJ Fogg Machine

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Lorax

FRI. AUG. 30 Berbati’s

231 SW Ankeny St. Cloud City Collective

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St. ‘80s Video Dance Attack: VJ Kittyrox

Dig a Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. Jprez and Mixed Emotions

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. DJ Aquaman’s Soul Stew

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. 88 MPH Arcade: DJ Simon Galaga

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Snap!: Dr. Adam, Colin Jones, Freaky Outty

Rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave. Blown

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. TRNGL: DJ Rhienna

The Rose

111 SW Ash St. Juice: Quadrant & Iris, Advisory, Homemade Weapons

The Whiskey Bar

31 NW 1st Ave. Red Cube: Brillz, Benny Rox, Night City

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. Beacon Sound

SAT. AUG. 31

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Club Crooks: DJ Izm, Dev From Above, Mr. Marcus

Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St. Come As You Are: 90s Dance Flashback

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Andaz: DJ Anjali, DJ the Incredible Kid

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. DJ Horrid

The Rose

111 SW Ash St. Casual Encounters: Big Bully, Tyler Morrison, Ctrl_Alt_Dlt, Roddimus

The Whiskey Bar

31 NW 1st Ave. Evan Alexander, Eddie Pitzul, Colin Lake

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ RW

SUN. SEPT. 1 Berbati’s

231 SW Ankeny St. DJ Linkus EDM

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. DJ Nate C.

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Baby Lemonade

MON. SEPT. 2 Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. DJ Brux Blackhawk

CC Slaughters

219 NW Davis St. Maniac Monday with DJ Robb

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Departures: DJ Waisted, DJ Anais Ninja

1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd. Off The Cuff: DJ Nature

Berbati’s

Eagle Portland

Holocene

Dig a Pony

511 NW Couch St. Bryan Zentz

Hawthorne Theatre Lounge

1001 SE Morrison St. Laid Out: Gossip Cat, Pocket Rock-It, Misti Miller

Pix Patisserie

2225 E Burnside St. DJ Eric Beats

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St.

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The Conquistador

1914 E Burnside St Future Shock Grand Opening: DJ Frane, Nik Fury, King Tim 33&1/3, Davis Cleveland, Lono

Beech St. Parlor

Ground Kontrol

DJ Dirty Red

412 NE Beech St. DJ Shrimp Tempura, DJ Booty Futures 231 SW Ankeny St. DJ Mellow Cee 736 SE Grand Ave. Doc Adam

East End

TUES. SEPT. 3 835 N Lombard St DMTV with DJ Danimal

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Hideous Racket: DJ Flight Risk

203 SE Grand Ave. One Night Stand: DJ Keith Slogan, DJ Showbiz Pig

Star Bar

EastBurn

421 SE Grand Ave. TRNGL: DJ Rhienna

1800 E Burnside St.

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Smooth Hopperator

The Lovecraft

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= WW Pick. Highly recommended. Most prices listed are for advance ticket sales. At-the-door increases and so-called convenience charges may apply, so it’s best to call ahead. Editor: REBECCA JACOBSON. Theater: REBECCA JACOBSON (rjacobson@wweek.com). Dance: AARON SPENCER (dance@wweek.com). TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit information at least two weeks in advance to: rjacobson@wweek.com.

THEATER Chicago

The touring Broadway production of the long-running show—a razzledazzle tale about a salacious murder case, if you’ve been under a rock since 1975—makes a weeklong stop in Portland. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 800-745-3000. 7:30 pm Tuesday-Friday, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturday, 1 and 6:30 pm Sunday, Sept. 3-8. $36.35-$83.90.

Cinnamon and Cigarettes

Salt and Sage Productions, a new company that aims to put the female experience in the spotlight, begins its first season with Jenny Newbry’s original solo piece. The hourlong play recounts Newbry’s childhood friendship with a boy named Jeremy, who went on to lead a reckless, turbulent life. The Back Door Theater, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 8 pm ThursdaysSundays through Sept. 7 and 3 pm Sunday, Sept. 7. $10.

Comedie of Errors

Claiming to stage Shakespeare’s plays the way they were done in the Bard’s day, the Oregon Shakespeare Practice Festival sets its shows outside, with minimal rehearsal, plentiful audience interaction and actors who switch roles for each performance. Shakespeare’s tale of two sets of twins and mistaken identities is a perfect fit for OPS Fest, and this adaptation flourishes as the actors improvise their way through bawdy humor and mix-ups. The actors are equally comfortable wielding swords as they are quoting Ghostbusters and The Princess Bride or confessing their love for specific audience members. JOE DONOVAN. Multiple locations, 8906944. Various Saturdays and Sundays through Sept. 29; see opsfest.org for exact times and dates. Free.

Julius Caesar

Post Five Theatre’s production of Julius Caesar ditches the togas for hoodies and spray paint, and the heavily graffitied setting feels more like Bosnia circa 1993 than it does ancient Rome. Slimmed down to about 90 minutes, director Ty Boice has taken heavy liberties with the original material. While everyone still speaks in Elizabethan English, Portia (Veronika Nunez) spends the entirety of a scene—the only one in which she appears—yelling at Brutus (Paul Angelo) in Spanish. The military fatigues worn by the cast in later scenes make everything feel even more surreal. One notable and very welcome addition is a 15-minute precurtain lecture that explains the story’s historical context, but the play has been so truncated that many characters appear only once, meaning those unfamiliar with Shakespeare may wonder just who the hell they were and why they mattered. The actors, however, have energy and passion, and they invite the audience to crowd around Caesar’s body as they chant and demand justice. As fake blood flies, the kids in the audience seem to enjoy learning that it’s all right to murder politicians you don’t agree with, just as long as you say it’s for the good of the country. RICHARD GRUNERT. Milepost 5, 850 NE 81st Ave., 971-258-8584. 7:30 pm FridaysSundays through Sept. 29. “Pay what you can.”

Licking Batteries

An electric current runs through Portland playwright Ellen Margolis’ new work, Licking Batteries. With fireflies, lightning storms, static electricity and an arcane contraption of tangled wires and a lemon, the production looks for sparks everywhere—and, ultimately, in too many

places. The play, joltingly directed by Ryan Reilly, revolves around Lucy (Rachel Rosenfeld), a girl grappling to unravel the mysteries of electricity in hopes of better understanding her mother, Louise, who’s undergone electroshock therapy as treatment for mental illness. Louise’s memories are fuzzy, her thoughts confused, her body weak. Is electricity to blame? Or could it be Louise’s savior? Blending realism and fantasy, Licking Batteries zaps between flashbacks, dreamlike sequences and several tiresome scenes that require actor David Knell to affect overblown foreign accents. The most compelling moments occur when characters collide in uncomfortable situations, as in a positively combustible lab scene with Lucy, her boyfriend and her father. But scenes that stretch for emotional profundity come up short, hampered by hackneyed dialogue (“Do you ever feel you’ve been wandering in the pitch black for years?”) and thematic overextension. Characters’ exchanges hint at issues of anxiety, despair, loss and mania, but the story’s wiring is tenuous, and the mysteries surrounding electricity so opaque that they frustrate more than they intrigue. With a cast that’s uneven though good-natured, this production never manages to hold a steady charge. REBECCA JACOBSON. The CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 715-1114. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 pm Sundays through Aug. 31. $25; Thursdays “pay what you will.”

The Mountaintop

The 32-year-old quickly rising playwright Katori Hall has been hailed as a luminary, but her work has also been the subject of sharp criticism and frustration. The Mountaintop, her 2009 two-hander, made Londoners drool and won the Olivier Award for best new play, but when it hopped the pond and opened on Broadway, some American critics likened it to a cross between a Tony Kushner play and a Tyler Perry movie. Set in Memphis’ Lorraine Motel the night before Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, the surrealistic one-act play imagines a conversation between King and a young hotel maid. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Sundays, 2 pm alternating Saturdays and Sundays, and noon Thursdays through Oct. 27. $40-$55.

Ruckus in the Lobby

Traveling Lantern Theatre Company, a touring troupe that presents interactive children’s theater, brings a series of Saturday-morning performances to the Artists Rep lobby. Performances last about 45 minutes and are recommended for kids in kindergarten through sixth grade. See travelinglantern.com for full schedule. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 10:30 am Saturdays through Dec. 28. $5.

Sacred Candy

Portland isn’t the only city teeming with adult puppet troupes—Sacred Candy unites Brooklyn’s foul-mouthed Jawbone Puppet Theater with Puerto Rico’s experimental art collective Poncili Company for an evening of disemboweled T. rexes, mutant cows and retellings of biblical stories featuring graphic puppet sex. Lightbox Kulturhaus, 2027 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. 8 pm Wednesday, Aug. 28. $5-$10.

Steel Magnolias

Before Julia Roberts was an illnessstricken Southern belle in a Louisiana beauty parlor, Steel Magnolias was a stage play by Robert Harling. Here, it’s presented by Circle Theatre Project. Miracle Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., 236-7253. 7:30 pm Fridays-

to Portland. Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 8 pm Saturday, Aug. 31. $47.

Saturdays and 1 pm SaturdaysSundays through Sept. 1. $28.

The Tale of Cymbeline

Secret Weapon Comedy Show

Portland Actors Ensemble continues its season with Shakespeare’s phenomenally convoluted romance. Performances take place in parks across the city. Multiple venues. Times and dates vary; see portlandactors.com for details. Free.

Jon Washington hosts a standup showcase featuring Jimmy Newstetter, Brock Wilbur, Marcia Belsky, Andie Main and Phil Schallberger. Mississippi Pizza, 3552 N Mississippi Ave., 2883231. 9:45 pm Wednesday, Aug. 28. $3-$5 suggested.

XPat Stories: Tales From Beyond the Comfort Zone

Weekly Recurring Humor Night

Whitney Streed hosts a weekly comedy showcase, featuring local comics and out-of-towners. Tonic Lounge, 3100 NE Sandy Blvd., 2380543. 9:30 pm every Wednesday. “Pay what you want,” $3-$5 suggested.

In a town where it can seem that locals are rarer than unicorns, asking foreigners to recount their Portland stories seems curious. But former Portland filmmaker Robin Willis, who now lives in Spain, has corralled a compelling lineup of Portland transplants— from Iraq, Hungary, France and even the exotic Midwest—to tell it straight. Mississippi Pizza, 3552 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3231. 9 pm Thursday, Aug. 29. $8.

Hump Day Happy Hour Sip and Strip

Certainly one of the earliest burlesque

COMEDY & VARIETY Anon & On & On...

Shakespeare-inspired improv from a capable cast that creates a full-length, fully unrehearsed production on the spot. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 7:30 pm Saturdays through Sept. 7. $10-$12.

Big Brother League

Like that awful reality television show Big Brother, but this time with improv troupe the Unscriptables playing superheroes, and a storyline shaped by audience suggestions. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., 841-6734. 7:30 pm Saturdays through Sept. 28. $10; Aug. 31 “pay what you want.”

Camp Spectravagasm

The third installment of Post5 Theatre’s sketch-comedy series promises to lampoon Portland’s theater scene. Provided writer-director Sam Dinkowitz doesn’t go excessively insider, it could be a hilarious sendup. Milepost 5, 850 NE 81st Ave., 729-3223. 10 pm Fridays-Saturdays through Sept. 7. “Pay what you can.”

Control Yourself: A Showcase of Funny

A comedy showcase featuring long-form improv from local group Whiskey Tango, as well as standup from Anatoli Brant, Steven Wilber and Curtis Cook. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., 841-6734. 8 pm Thursday, Aug. 29. $5.

Dom-Prov

If your idea of fun is playing improv games with a leather-clad dominatrix as an audience hurls marshmallows at you, this Unscriptables show is for you. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., 309-3723. 10 pm every Saturday. $10.

Entertainment for People

Dan Kennedy—whose voice you might recognize fromThe Moth podcast— hosts what’s sure to be a lively installment of the variety show, featuring humorous readings, video shorts and comedy of all variety. Kennedy is joined by, among others, comedian Barbara Holm, writer Kevin Sampsell and performance poet Mindy Nettifee (who will be accompanied by Loch Lomond’s Ritchie Young). Disjecta, 8371 N Interstate Ave., 286-9449. 8 pm Wednesday, Aug. 28. $12-$15. 21+.

Friday Night Fights

Competitive improv, with two teams battling for stage time. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 10 pm every first and third Friday. $5.

Micetro

Brody Theater’s popular elimination-style improv competition. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8 pm every Friday. $9-$12.

Russell Brand

Brand—the logorrheic ex-husband of Katy Perry and self-promoter who has described his life as “a carnival of narcissism”—brings his Messiah Complex world standup comedy tour

offerings Portland has ever had, this weekly show allows performers to strip down during the heat of the day—when audience members would probably like to as well. Analog Cafe, 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 6:30 pm Wednesday, Sept. 28. $5.

Salsa en la Calle

The ninth annual Salsa in the Streets lasts until 11 pm with salsa star Oscar D’Leon. The outdoor music festival is one of the largest Latin community gatherings in the Pacific Northwest and features traditional Latin food and a beer garden. Beginning salsa dance classes are also available. Eastbank Festival Plaza Southeast Main Street and Water Avenue. 11 am Sunday, Sept. 1. $20-$25.

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Brian Posehn has been earning a living making people laugh for more than two decades, primarily by telling fart jokes. Recently, though, Posehn has done something he once vowed to avoid: tell jokes about being a father. “I had talked about it on my last CD, before my son was born, just about how I never wanted to be one of those comics,” Posehn says. “The old joke was, if I ever talk about how precious my kid is, I want you to punch my baby.” To deal with the conundrum of creating material about a topic he once considered hacky and worn out, Posehn decided to do what he does best: make more fart jokes. On his latest standup album, the aptly titled The Fartist, Posehn manages to tackle the more difficult aspects of raising his now 4-yearold son—like how best to introduce him to the original Star Wars trilogy—while maintaining the edge that’s made him a favorite in the alt-comedy world. “I started to notice that it didn’t matter what the topic was if the comic is good,” Posehn says. “When I first started seeing Louis C.K. talk about his kids, I was like, ‘This can be done in a fresh way if you just do your spin on it.’ I found my angle. I always knew in my heart I would find a fresh way of talking about it.” Fatherhood isn’t the only recent change in Posehn’s life. A featured comedian in the 2007 documentary Super High Me, Doug Benson’s love letter to pot, Posehn has been weed-free for two years. By becoming a dad and swearing off marijuana, Posehn has proven it’s never too late to grow up, even at 47. But have the changes in both lifestyle and material had a negative impact on a comic with a decidedly heavy-metal fan base? Posehn says not at all. Chalk it up in part to some fans becoming fathers themselves, along with the staying power of various Posehnrelated projects such as The Comedians of Comedy and Mr. Show. Or maybe it’s just because, like a fine wine, the best fart jokes get better with age. “There’s a little disappointment every once and a while where [a fan] will go, ‘Hey, man, I rolled you one but I know you don’t do that anymore,’” Posehn says. “[But] there’s been no backlash at all because I’m doing my thing. It’s still me. I haven’t really changed.” MIKE ACKER. SEE IT: Brian Posehn is at White Owl Social Club, 1305 SE 8th Ave., on Thursday, Sept. 5. 10 pm. Free with MFNW wristband, $20 general admission. 21+. Willamette Week AUGUST 28, 2013 wweek.com

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turds. Many are adorned with text such as “SHIT SNAKE,” “PRECIOUS KING SHIT ASS KING PUMPKIN” and “RIDE HOT. RIDE HARD. RIDE WET. WITH LASER BEAMS N’ SHIT.” It is either a credit to Paintallica or a discredit to the Portland art scene that this is one of the most compelling shows recently mounted in the Northwest. Through Sept. 15. Rocksbox, 6540 N Interstate Ave., 971-506-8938.

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In Augen’s front gallery, George Johanson’s dreary monotypes make little impression. Gallerygoers who venture farther back into the space, however, will be rewarded with an astonishing collection of prints by world-renowned historical artists. Highlights are works on paper by two second-generation Abstract Expressionists, Joan Mitchell and Sam Francis. Both prints are small masterpieces of jubilant color and form, superimposing organic shapes atop immaculate backgrounds. Mitchell’s and Francis’ work differed from first-generation Ab-Ex exemplars such as Jackson Pollock, in that their compositions exploited the figure/ground relationship rather than the “all-over-ness” of filled-tothe-gills picture planes. Mitchell and Francis were among the top talents of the Ab-Ex movement, and therefore of modern art itself. Through Aug. 31. Augen DeSoto, 716 NW Davis St., 224-8182.

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Hayley Barker: My Dark House Is Full of Comets

Following her recent sunshinethemed show at Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, talented painter Hayley Barker exhibits a suite of nine works that originated during a recent residency at Caldera in Central Oregon. While there, Barker made outdoor drawings at dawn and dusk, later using those drawings as the basis for paintings, which she created afterward in her studio in Portland. The works explore the neither-herenor-there feeling inherent in these transitional times of day, when light and dark commingle and diametric worlds seem to merge. Through Aug. 30. Gallery 214, 1241 NW Johnson St., 821-8969.

Henry Horenstein: Animalia

If you’re not an animal-rights advocate, you might be by the time you’re finished walking through Henry Horenstein’s show, Animalia. The Boston-based photographer’s images of animals capture such individuality and intelligence, it’s hard not to anthropomorphize them and empathize. Whether dog, pig, fish or hippo, the animals we see through Horenstein’s lens are so endearing, you can hardly imagine killing and eating them. Through Sept. 1. Newspace Center for Photography, 1632 SE 10th Ave., 963-1935.

Joseph Harrington: Landscape Portraits

What do New Mexico, the Pacific Northwest, and the southwest of England have in common? They’re all inspirations for artist Joseph Harrington’s new sculptures, titled Landscape Portraits. Harrington uses a novel technique to evoke these landscapes. Using a block of ice, he rubs salt that selectively hastens the melting process and imbues the surface with textures. He then casts the block into a mold, from which a kiln-formed glass sculpture emerges. The sculptures alternate between smooth and gritty, transparency and opacity, leading to startling formal and thematic juxtapositions. Through Aug. 31. Bullseye Gallery, 300 NW 13th Ave., 227-0222.

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June Yong Lee: Torso Series

In Blue Sky’s front gallery, June Yong Lee offers an arresting suite of photographs called Torso Series. Lee, who is South Korea-born and Pennsylvania-based, has photographed dozens of people’s chests and abdomens, then digitally elongated the images into rectangular compositions. The differences in skin color, freckles, fat and body hair create vastly divergent corporeal terrains, which share more in common with landscape photography or abstraction than portraiture. Through Sept. 1. Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., 225-0210.

Marne Lucas: Mandwich

In addition to Michael Alago’s portraits of musclebound stud-muffins, Cock Gallery features the latest entries in Marne Lucas’ Mandwich series. Lucas works across a gamut of media, but some of her bestknown works are pin-up portraits of glamorous women. A corollary series, Mandwich, portrays male subjects with the same mingled sense of playfulness and sensuality. The portrait Christopher, Giraffe, for example, shows a tall, bearded redhead standing on a New York stairwell, wearing nothing but a pair of red-and-black tube socks and yellow-striped underwear. The man is hugging a giant inflatable giraffe, which just happens to match the pattern of his briefs. It’s a sexy non sequitur, which only an artist with Lucas’ chutzpah could pull off. Through Aug. 31. Cock Gallery, 625 NW Everett St., No. 106, 552-8686.

Paintallica: Smell the Bar Oil…

The artist collective known as Paintallica is so hipper-than-thou a press release didn’t even list the names of the group’s members. (For the record, they are: Dan Attoe, Jamie Boling, Jesse Albrecht, Jeremy Tinder, David Dunlap, Jay Schmidt, Shelby Davis, Gordon Barnes and 13 other occasional contributors.) From this almost completely male assembly, we get a highly testosteronic, staggeringly sophomoric grouping of sculptures and drawings, replete with depictions of dicks, balls, pussies and

Art superstar Sherrie Levine made a name for herself in the 1970s and ’80s as part of the “Pictures Generation” and appropriationist movements. Essentially, she has based her career on reproducing and recontextualizing the work of other artists, and the Portland Art Museum’s exhibition of her work illustrates this tactic well. On display are two vintage Levine pieces and three that were made during the past two years. But the pièce de résistance is a series of 16 paintings riffing on Claude Monet’s famous and ubiquitous Water Lilies. Through Oct. 13. Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave., 226-0973.

Silver

To celebrate 25 years in business, Butters Gallery asked its stable of artists to create works predominantly silver in color. To see what dozens of artists did within the confines of this theme, was intriguing and impressive. The cold, metallic luster of silver is offset by the invariably warm, cozy atmosphere of this family-run gallery. Patriarch and matriarch Norm and Carolyn Butters, sons Jeffrey and David, and daughter-in-law Kristina make their namesake gallery one of the friendliest in town. Through Aug. 31. Butters Gallery, 520 NW Davis St., second floor, 248-9378.

Zach Johnsen: House of Uncommons

Zach Johnsen’s House of Uncommons takes for its theme a fictionalized version of the British House of Commons. Mostly the show consists of poorly executed paintings of grotesque faces, skulls and figures in Chinese masks. The only works of any merit whatsoever—which is not saying much— are the wall sculptures Lord Spiritual and Lord Temporal. They’re monochromatic images of a face, with cutouts where the eyes and mouths would be. The pieces have a sense of humor lacking elsewhere in the show. With its overblown, fantasyinspired concept and lowbrow execution, the show would be more appropriate at Burning Man than in a Portland gallery (and I write that as a proud Burner myself). Through Aug. 30. Hellion Gallery, 19 NW 5th Ave., No. 208, 774-7327.

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collecting tales from fellow expatriates both leaving and coming to America, and has assembled a lineup for the show “XPat Stories: Tales From Beyond the Comfort Zone.” Sharing their stories will be Israa Hasani, an Iraqi in Portland; Kipp Baratoff from Africa by way of New York; Hungarian-born Lajos Balogh; Mike Gust, a Midwesterner transplanted to the big city; French-born chef Pascal Sauton; and standup comedian Rachel Arieff, who took her act to Spain and will be joining the lineup live via Skype. Atlantis Lounge, 3552 N Mississippi Ave. 9 pm. $8.

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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 28 Entertainment for People

Dan Kennedy, host and performer on The Moth storytelling showcase in New York City, comes to Portland for the indie-variety show Entertainment for People. Joining the cornucopia of talent will be writer and director Arthur Bradford, comedian Barbara Holm, performer and Portland Mercury editor William Stph. Humphrey, author Kevin Sampsell, performance poet Mindy Nettifee, Back Fence PDX masterminds B. Frayn Masters and Jason Rouse and musician Ritchie Young. Damn. Disjecta, 8371 N Interstate Ave., 286-9449. 8 pm. $12 advance, $15 door. 21+.

Write Around Portland

Write Around Portland, which hosts writing workshops in places like prisons, homeless youth shelters, hospitals, senior centers and treatment facilities, will be celebrating the release of its 42nd anthology of writing from its 2013 spring workshops. The book, Concrete/Concreto, will be available for purchase, and a variety of the contributors will be reading their work. First United Methodist Church, 1838 SW Jefferson St., 234-4077. 6:30-8 pm. Free.

OMSI After Dark

One of the best parts of traveling is eating new and strange things. So for this edition of “OMSI After Dark: Tasty Travels,” it’ll be an exploration of food science from around the world, including making ice cream in a Ziploc bag, crafting the soft Indian cheese paneer, modernist cooking with three types of caramel and the so-called “super-tasters” put to the test with wine. OMSI, 1945 SE Water Ave., 797-4000. 7 pm. $6-$12. 21+.

Michael Perry

Like a badass version of Tuesdays With Morrie, journalist and author Michael Perry shares the stories of his longtime elderly neighbor Tom Hartwig (best known for building and firing homemade cannons and railing against the four-lane highway that was built through his front yard in 1965) in his new book, Visiting Tom: A Man, a Highway and the Road to Roughneck Grace. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 2284651. 7:30 pm. Free.

Life is really just a series of traumatic events that we try to navigate with a sense of humor (if we’re lucky). Author and psychiatrist Mark Epstein argues the fault of Western psychology is its suggestion that trauma can be left behind rather than recognizing it as an inseparable part of life. His new book, The Trauma of Everyday Life, explores how to use the transformational potential of traumatic situations. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

FRIDAY, AUG. 30 Bards and Brews

Featuring five authors from a variety of genres on the last Friday of each month, the Bards and Brews reading series aims to both entertain and inspire hopeful writers with readings, discussions and book signings. Joining the lineup this month will be Laurence Overmire (The One Idea That Saves the World), Sandra de Helen (The Hounding), T.J. Brown (Summerset Abbey: Spring Awakening), April Aasheim (The Witches of Dark Root) and Chelsea Cain (Let Me Go). Primrose & Tumbleweeds, 248 E Main St., Hillsboro, 703-8525. 7 pm. Free. 21+.

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TUESDAY, SEPT. 3 George Johanson

Renowned Portland artist George Johanson will discuss the art found in the Paleolithic caves of France and Spain and what makes it so compelling from an artist’s point of view. The lecture, “An Artist Looks at Ice Age Art,” will relate the pieces to modern artwork and touch on topics that Johanson covers in his new book on the subject, which will be available at the lecture. OMSI, 1945 SE Water Ave., 797-4000. 7 pm. Free.

Willamette Writers

Although screenwriters might seem like the antithesis of serious fiction authors, there are lessons to be learned for those willing to pay attention. Willamette Writers hosts Portland screenwriter, playwright and author Johnny Shaw (Dove Season, Big Maria) to speak about what fiction writers can learn from screenwriting—from crossover techniques to developing ideas. Listen up and you could be the author of the next bestselling novel based on a child’s board game. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 222-2031. 7 pm.

THURSDAY, AUG. 29 XPat Stories

Making your home in a new country can be terrifying, hilarious and beautiful. Former Portland filmmaker Robin Willis (who now lives in Barcelona, Spain) has been

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20 Feet From Stardom

A- Life is unfair, and the music indus-

try is worse. Morgan Neville’s 20 Feet From Stardom turns the spotlight on several career backup singers, most of whom seem resigned to their roles in the musical ecosystem. Whether that’s noble or a con, Neville never judges. He just lets them sing. And, in a more perfect universe, that would be enough. MATTHEW SINGER. Living Room Theaters, Hollywood.

Austenland

D For the briefest of moments near

the end of Austenland, it seems the rom-com might buck the trappings of its genre. But don’t hold your breath—the film, directed by Napoleon Dynamite screenwriter Jerusha Hess and produced by Twilight author Stephenie Meyer, has no interest in resisting convention. Unfunny and unimaginative, it centers on a plain Jane named Jane who’s obsessed with Jane Austen. Perpetually unlucky in love, this Anglophile (played by an eager but ineffective Keri Russell) decides to blow her savings on a trip to an Austen-inspired paradise, where the female guests cram themselves into corsets and the male staff are paid to woo them (but no touching allowed). It’s a predictably garish place, the snooty proprietor married to a lecherous, burping old man who has inexplicably evaded charges of sexual harassment. The other guests are reduced to irritating stereotypes: There’s a lusty piece of trailer trash (Jennifer Coolidge) and a lusty British rose (Georgia King), but neither character amuses. Austen’s material has inspired heaps of adaptation—like, hello, Clueless?—but this one deserves to go straight into the rubbish bin. PG13. REBECCA JACOBSON. Fox Tower.

B-Movie Bingo: Cyber-Tracker 2

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL, GAMES] Tick off the genre clichés in this Robocop ripoff, which features lots of shiny silver stuff and plenty of explosions. R. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, Sept. 3.

Before Midnight

A In 1995’s Before Sunrise, Ethan

Hawke met Julie Delpy. The two didn’t reunite for nine years, in 2004’s luminous Before Sunset. And now, again nine years later, they’re back in the nearly perfect Before Midnight. R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Laurelhurst.

Blackfish

A Blackfish tells the story of Tilikum,

the 6-ton bull orca that killed veteran SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau in 2010. It’s a brilliant advocacy film— nail-biting, upsetting, maddening and at times even uplifting. PG-13. RUTH BROWN. Living Room Theaters, Hollywood.

Blue Jasmine

B Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine isn’t

so much a fish-out-of-water movie; it’s a horse-with-a-broken-leg-in-water movie. You know how this thing’s going to end. Cate Blanchett’s Jasmine is a rarefied, half-delusional socialite tossed roughly down the slopes of her husband’s financial pyramid scheme after he is arrested. She lands in a strangely Bronx Guido version of San Francisco inhabited by her low-rent sister Ginger (played with wonderful sympathy by Sally Hawkins). Blue Jasmine cannot reconcile its broad comedy and pathos into coherence, but all the more impressive, then, that Hawkins’ and Blanchett’s twinned performances still manage to pick up most of the pieces. PG-13. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Moreland, Lloyd Center.

The Burning

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] The Hollywood ends its summercamp series with a visit from Camp

Stonewater’s horrifying groundskeeper, Cropsy. R. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Thursday, Aug. 29.

Charles Bradley: Soul of America

B+ [ONE NIGHT ONLY] Apologies to the Dude, but the Eagles saved Charles Bradley’s life. As the 64-yearold soul singer (and MFNW performer) tells it in Pouell Brien’s documentary, he was sitting in a pizza shop in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., after losing his job and getting harassed by the cops, trying to build up the nerve to throw himself in front of a bus and “get out of this body” for good. Then “Take It to the Limit” came on the jukebox. “It seems like it was God talking to me,” says Bradley in his raspy patois, “because I was at the end of my rope.” Actually, it was just rarely touted Eagle Randy Meisner. But the fact remains that, in that moment, Bradley decided to keep pushing, which led, years later, to one of the more remarkable late-period career resuscitations in American music. Soul of America follows the Florida-born, New Yorkraised artist in the days leading up to the release of his 2011 debut, No Time for Dreaming, easily the most authentic entry in the retro-soul revival. Unlike his backward-gazing peers, Bradley’s music doesn’t feel like it was made to soundtrack a period piece on ’60s R&B. (Although he did, for a time, make his living impersonating James Brown.) His life is a blues song, filled with poverty, death—from his childhood pet chicken to his brother, murdered in a robbery—and suffering; his face appears creased into a permanent expression of anguish. His story doesn’t need much embellishing, and aside from staging a few, largely unobtrusive re-enactments, Brien lets Bradley tell it—and, in the searing live footage, scream it—in his own words. MATTHEW SINGER. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Wednesday, Aug. 28.

Despicable Me 2

C This sequel to 2010’s blockbuster shoehorns Gru into the service of a global super-spy league for the flimsiest of reasons, arriving packed with exposition and shorn of coherency. PG. JAY HORTON. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Indoor Twin.

Drinking Buddies

B- The dozen-odd films Joe Swanberg

has written and directed since his 2005 debut are talky, inexpensive and unlikely to screen at a theater near you. Drinking Buddies may be his commercial tipping point. Set in part at a craft brewery, the film more than lives up to its title: Alcohol factors into almost every scene, fueling a cycle of questionable decisions and subsequent regret as two couples (Olivia Wilde is dating Ron Livingston, while Anna Kendrick is semi-engaged to Jake Johnson) work their way through their respective relationships. If beer tastings and walks of shame factor into your weekends (or, indeed, weeknights), you’re likely to find these characters not only believable but familiar; the eponymous quartet behaves in a far more plausible manner than the tired archetypes populating the average romantic comedy. But the characters’ familiarity is a doubleedged sword, as it makes their loverectangle trajectory easy to detect from the film’s earliest scenes—tell me you don’t know exactly where things are headed the moment Kendrick and Livingston first meet at the brewery where Wilde and Johnson work. Though the question is usually when the expected will occur in Drinking Buddies, not if, anticipating what’s coming next doesn’t entirely diminish the impact once these recognizable pieces fall into place. MICHAEL NORDINE. Hollywood.

Elysium

B+ In the year 2154, we’re told, the

rich don’t care about the poor. Neill

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If there’s something Portland doesn’t need, it’s another film festival— much less one with a name so similar to the city’s biggest cinematic celebration, the Portland International Film Festival. But into the fray comes the Portland Film Festival, which began Aug. 27 and continues through Sept. 1. Festival director Josh Leake has grand ambitions, imagining PFF as Portland’s answer to Sundance: a showcase of independent film that brings together those who make movies and those who love them. The fest snagged Chuck Palahniuk, who’ll do a Q-and-A after a screening of Romance, and the man behind the Honey Badger YouTube videos. Three of the 20-some feature films will play outdoors, for free, at the Fields Park. Here’s to PFF!

Furever

B More and more, people treat pets

like family. “They’re my children,” one woman says. But most people probably wouldn’t freeze-dry their dead child and place the preserved corpse in a stroller for nightly walks. But in Amy Finkel’s documentary, that is precisely what one couple does with their dearly departed beagle. Viewing pet loss through the eyes of grieving owners and the businesspeople who help preserve the dead animals (taxidermists, coffin salesmen, members of an Egyptian-inspired religion that specializes in costly mummification), Finkel doesn’t judge or poke fun. It’s a slightly disturbing and, ultimately, very sad look at the impact our fourlegged friends have on our lives—and some people’s inability to let them rest. AP KRYZA. Bagdad, 6:30 pm Wednesday, Aug. 28.

Forev

B- Quirk alert: A capricious struggling actress and an adorkable boy take a hastily planned road trip, during which they decide to get married and buy matching vintage trucker caps. Wordy banter and freespirited hijinks ensue. This road-trip rom-com does an admirable job with a small budget, keeping its scope small and employing strong and likeable leads who pull off what is essentially two hours of talking without ever making us feel like we’re watching an episode of Gilmore Girls. But Forev is one long drive without enough fuel in the tank; as with a real car trip, you eventually get sick of everyone on board and just want it to be over. RUTH BROWN. Living Room Theaters, noon Thursday, Aug. 29. The Fields Park, dusk Saturday, Aug. 31.

Romance

B Local director Andy Mingo’s perverse 26-minute film, adapted from a Chuck Palahniuk story, hews closely not just to the spirit but to the actual language of the original text. For the first minutes, the film is essentially a multimedia reading, offering images and real, honest-to-god people to flesh out the narrator’s musings. This works surprisingly well—the voiceover doesn’t blunt the pacing, and the natural ironies between audio and visual are brought to full effect. The film loses none of the original comedy but amps up the discomfort as we learn that something may be going terribly wrong with a schlubby Northwesterner’s perfect romance with the hottest stoner ever. The twist in the film is gentle, however—much more so than in the original story. By the end, you think: What’s the harm? MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Bagdad, 6:30 pm Thursday, Aug. 29.

Danland

B+ Dan Leal wants to find a nice girl, settle down and get married. There’s just one thing holding him back— Leal is a prolific producer and star of amateur porn films, and, according to his friends, a sex addict. Alexandra Berger’s documentary spends three years following Leal, better known by his very creative screen name, Porno Dan, as he balances his desire for true love with his desire to ram his dick into anything moist and circular. If that last sentence made you cringe, Danland may not be for you. Graphic footage of very unattractive naked people having gangbangs in cheap motel rooms features prominently. But the most candid scenes are simply those of Leal’s everyday

life. This is a guy used to letting it all hang out on camera (and you will see all of Leal, an anti-James Deen who spends most of his life in, or out, of sweats), and he lets us into his heartbreak, failed relationships and troubled childhood. He’s an everyman to root for, even though we know he’ll just keep screwing it up—literally and figuratively. RUTH BROWN. Bagdad, 10:45 pm Thursday, Aug. 29. Cinema 21, 10:45 pm Friday, Aug. 30.

Growing Cities

B- A cross-country tour of urban farms, rooftop gardens and backyard beekeeping, Growing Cities is the feature-length debut of two 20-somethings, Dan Susman and Andrew Monbouquette. These childhood friends from Omaha bring to their endeavor an aw-shucks Nebraskan earnestness that’s alternately appealing and eye roll-inducing. The documentary introduces us to beekeepers in Los Angeles, ex-cons in Chicago, and even kids at Portland’s Zenger Farms. But in trying to cover so much ground, some interviewees get short shrift, namely activist Malik Yakini in Detroit, who asks fascinating and thought-provoking questions about race and economic viability. With Susman and Monbouquette so eager to ham for the camera—at one point, they dance goofily below road signs— their film proves well-meaning but not particularly enlightening. REBECCA JACOBSON. Living Room Theaters, 11:15 am Friday, Aug. 30. The Fields Park, dusk Sunday, Sept. 1.

Mon Ami

C+ The slackers-go-dark genre mashup has been a staple of indie cinema for decades, but few films have taken such sadistic glee in the apathetic violence doled out by half-wits as Mon Ami. Canadian director Rob Grant tells the tale of two dopes whose plot to hold their boss’s daughter for ransom goes horribly awry. With a budget of $10,000, Grant has created an impressive visual spectacle that’s prodded along by some guffaw-worthy moments. Alas, as with most jetblack comedies, the film loses control of its tone just as its protagonists lose control of the situation. What begins as an almost Coen-brotherly look at doofuses in a kidnapping scheme soon wallows a little too gleefully in its own filth, misogyny and amorality. AP KRYZA. The Fields Park. Dusk Friday, Aug. 30.

SEE IT: The Portland Film Festival screens at multiple venues through Sunday, Sept. 1. For full schedule and ticket info, see portlandfilmfestival.com.

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Frances Ha

A- People have been trying to figure out twentysomethings at least since Dustin Hoffman unzipped Anne Bancroft’s dress. In 2010, The New York Times Magazine ran a late-tothe-game article about a “new” life stage called “emerging adulthood” (a phrase coined by a psychology researcher a decade before) when self-indulgence and self-discovery collide. The exuberant and disarming Frances Ha is a portrait of one such emerging adult, shot in resplendent black-and-white and scored like a French New Wave film. R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Laurelhurst.

in In a World…, which she wrote, directed, produced and stars in. But as funny as that sendup is, it’s still far from the best thing in the film, which takes us into the idiosyncratic and competitive realm of voice-over artists. Bell plays Carol, an aspiring voice-over artist with a bear of a father (Frank Melamed) who’s big in the biz. But rather than help Carol get her foot in the door, he’s as vain and sexist as the rest of his industry. But Carol, a graceless but tenacious 30-year-old who favors overalls and babydoll dresses, ends up vying for voice-over work on the trailers for an action “quadrilogy,” a hilarious Hunger Games-style spoof. The movie is overstuffed, but its unassuming tone, its generosity of spirit, and Bell’s skillful performance redeem the uneven pacing and bumpy storytelling. But most of all, In a World… succeeds for the way it

calls bullshit on Hollywood’s gender dynamics and the dreck that passes for feminist cinema. R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Living Room Theaters.

Jobs

C Jobs is a film that wastes potential and oozes mediocrity, but it turns out Ashton Kutcher in the title role isn’t the reason for its failure. Joshua Michael Stern’s biopic about Apple co-founder and visionary Steve Jobs spans the time between his dropping out of Reed College in the early ’70s and the launch of the iPod in 2001. But rather than focusing on the internal struggles of an ambitious man, Jobs is more a series of product launches, and about half the film is spent watching boring old men argue in boardrooms. The two-hour film spans too

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Blomkamp, whose debut film was the alien-apartheid fantasy District 9, pretty much takes this for granted. His sophomore film, Elysium, is essentially a political metaphor gone fiercely rogue in the physical world. Not only do the rich not give two flying figs about the poor, but they live in a utopian space station in the sky. Below, on Earth, the abandoned residents of Los Angeles languish in a dreamily intricate slum that has fallen into apocalyptic steampunk, a world of shit and piss and dirt. The film is what a sci-fi epic should be: a fantastical machine fueled by our own dreams and fears, made believable by its absolute devotion to these dreams. R. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, CineMagic, Mill Plain, Forest, Oak Grove, Lloyd Center, Sandy, St. Johns Twin.

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Ethan Hawke plays a burned-out racecar driver; Selena Gomez is a young hacker who tries to help Hawke find his kidnapped wife. Screened after WW press deadlines, but look for Richard Grunert’s review at wweek.com. PG-13. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain.

The Grandmaster

B- “Time seems to pass,” writes Don

DeLillo in The Body Artist. Wong Kar-wai’s The Grandmaster would heartily concur, with the Hong Kong auteur reminding us at several points that kung fu and the passage of time are inextricably linked. Few working filmmakers can imbue mundane events with as much majesty and grace as Wong, so when news broke about his long-awaited story of Ip Man—still best remembered as the martial-arts expert who trained Bruce Lee—it appeared as though we were in for a rare treat. And though it might just be this incarnation of the tale (the original Chinese cut is some 20 minutes longer), The Grandmaster takes too little time to cover too many events, not giving them enough weight or space. Wong is a master of small, melancholy moments that appear to contain all the beauty and sadness of the world, a strength The Grandmaster plays to only rarely. But when it does, the effect is mesmerizing. Every frame of this film could be hung on the wall in an art museum, but the awkward editing relies too heavily on expository voice-over and intertitles and not enough on Wong’s magisterial visuals. MICHAEL NORDINE. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Lloyd Center.

Grease

[ONE WEEK ONLY, REVIVAL] An Aussie girl perms her hair. PG. Academy.

The Great Gatsby

C Baz Luhrmann’s Great Gatsby is often effective in roping the viewer in, but it has all the subtlety of a young drunk who’s just been left by his girlfriend. PG-13. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Laurelhurst.

In a World...

B+ Lake Bell is on a crusade against

“sexy baby voice.” For those unfamiliar with this obnoxious tic, imagine if Betty Boop incorporated some of Ke$ha’s vocal fry—that low, guttural vibration—and ended every sentence as if it were a question. That’s Bell’s pet peeve, and she lampoons it to pitch-perfect effect

DUST-CLOGGED DRAMA: Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck as ill-fated lovers.

AIN’T THEM BODIES SAINTS Crime and punishment in a Texas town.

Ain’t Them Bodies Saints wants to be murky and oblique. I wanted to rewind it. Not for its dusky visuals or folksy dialogue—I wanted to re-see scenes so shrouded in darkness that I could barely make out the characters’ faces. With Ain’t Them Bodies, writer-director David Lowery has made a mahogany-tinged, neo-noir Western set in an arid Texas of the 1970s. But in striving for moody melodrama, he’s forgotten to keep his actors’ faces (and their dialogue) discernible. The film revolves around a young couple who’ve committed a robbery and left a police officer shot and wounded. The pregnant Ruth (Rooney Mara) pulled the trigger, but Bob (Casey Affleck) takes the rap, and he goes off to prison while she stays in their small dusty town to raise their predictably sweet daughter. Bob escapes from jail; there’s a nighttime foot chase through a swamp (that scene could have used brighter moonlight); someone bleeds out by film’s end. The problem is that Lowery’s initially successful spare approach—he shows the aftermath rather than the crime itself, the tears that follow the bad news rather than the message itself— turns agonizingly muddy as the film progresses. He either shrouds significant scenes in shadow or signifies them with a hand clapheavy score that quickly loses its novelty. Perhaps as a way to obscure the well-worn narrative arc, cinematographer Bradford Young casts the whole film in shades of caramel, sepia and amber and then covers it all in a film of dust and a cloud of smoke, just to be sure. But we’ve seen this sooty rendering of naively lawless, pretty young things in rural Texas before, this world of chiaroscuro saloons, splintery clapboard houses and fields forever caught in magic-hour light. Here, the whole thing feels tired. Even so, both Mara and Affleck turn in impressive performances, neither of which stumbles into cliché: She’s maternal but determined and hard; he’s wounded but ardent and dignified. The supporting actors are strong as well, including an understated Ben Foster as the wounded cop who winds up courting Ruth, and Keith Carradine as the town’s tough and protective patriarch. But with everything else so cloaked in darkness and dust, these powerful performers just get swallowed up. REBECCA JACOBSON.

C+ SEE IT: Ain’t Them Bodies Saints is rated R. It opens Friday at Cinema 21.

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many years to truly explore Jobs’ character, and we’re instead left with the CliffsNotes to his life— and heavily abridged ones at that. PG-13. RICHARD GRUNERT. Cedar Hills, Clackamas.

Kick-Ass 2

C- If Kick-Ass 2 manages to distinguish itself at all, it’s by establishing a new standard for the lack of interest a film can show in its title character. The film instead focuses its attention on Hit-Girl (Chloë Grace Moretz). It’s little wonder that writer-director Jeff Wadlow has hitched his film to the dynamic Moretz. But here, she seems slightly aggrieved to be repeating herself. Despite all the limbs snapped in Kick-Ass 2, it’s ultimately the shoddy filmmaking that leaves you wincing. R. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Oak Grove, Sandy.

King: A Filmed Record... From Montgomery to Memphis

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] On the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, the Clinton Street Theater presents the full—185-minute—documentary from 1970. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Wednesday, Aug. 28.

The Kings of Summer

B+ Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts’

playful debut feature follows three boys who ditch their parents, unannounced, to build a house in that enchanted clearing. It’s an impressive but whimsical palace of pilfered planks, an indoor slide and a Porta-Potty front door. Though occasionally too sweet or thin, the film still manages to enchant. R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Laurelhurst.

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Labyrinth

[THREE DAYS ONLY, REVIVAL] David Bowie, Muppets, goblins. PG. Fifth Avenue Cinema. 7 and 9:30 pm Friday-Saturday and 3 pm Sunday, Aug. 30-Sept. 1.

Lee Daniels’ The Butler

D Every time a character in The Butler goes on a trip, somebody offers him a ham sandwich. Director Lee Daniels does much the same for the viewer— in every single scene. It isn’t hard to see why Daniels wanted to tell this story, which is based (very) loosely on truth. It’s kind of irresistible: A black White House butler, Cecil Gaines (Forest Whitaker), serves closely with every U.S. president during the civil rights era and lives to be invited back to the White House by Barack Obama. But the writer of The Paperboy treats 50 years of U.S. history with as much depth as a Forrest Gump montage, although the politics here are triumphally progressive. As a movie, The Butler is a blundering oaf with good intentions, effusively sentimental but cursed with hands made of mutton. PG-13. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Lloyd Center, Roseway, Sandy, St. Johns Twin.

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C- [ONE WEEK ONLY] The Lifeguard is about as exciting as listening to someone talk about their quarter-life crisis. Writerdirector Liz W. Garcia’s debut film follows a young New York reporter named Leigh (Kristen Bell) who, due to a secret affair gone awry, crawls back to the Connecticut suburban wasteland of her youth. Reliving her high-school years, she smokes pot with her hometown friends, hangs out with skateboarders at the gas station and picks up work as a lifeguard at a local apartment building. She insists it’s acceptable because, technically, she’s only 29 and 10 months. Viewers, though, have no other reason to sympathize with her. The plot is unoriginal and slow-moving, and the bubblegum-pop soundtrack does it no favors. Besides her moving home to escape the big

city and an ill-fated romance, it’s unclear whether Leigh has a goal for this whole “transition period.” Instead, we watch as she wallows in self-pity about her affair and her failed stab at being a successful city woman. Performances are decent, but the script is so cheesy the effort feels wasted. In one cringe-inducing scene, Leigh dramatically recounts the story of a tiger that’s locked in a city apartment and dies—and then describes how she sees herself as the trapped animal. If it wants any shot at success, The Lifeguard will need a life preserver to keep it afloat. R. HALEY MARTIN. Clinton Street Theater.

Low Movie (How to Quit Smoking)

C [ONE NIGHT ONLY] Low’s creative relationship with filmmaker Philip Harder has been just as important to the band’s evolution as the marriage between Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker, the leaders of the slowcore group. As the trio’s sound has shifted from stark, delicate coos to full-bodied, multitiered roars, so too has Harder transformed his approach to making music videos. While he once relied on grainy 16 mm footage of Low trying to walk on the frozen surface of Lake Superior, he’s since moved to CGI alien abductions and weird stop-motion animation. The production value may have improved dramatically, but that jump has rarely served the band’s music. When it does—as with “Everybody’s Song,” which puts a politically critical spin on the classic silhouetted iPod ads—the combination of sound and image can be breathtaking. But all too often Harder lets the budget drive the video, throwing in UFOs and other post-production effects that are downright distracting. What will keep viewers engaged is Low’s music. If nothing else, the film offers an excuse for fans to take the band’s albums for another spin. ROBERT HAM. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Friday, Aug. 30.

Man of Steel

C Approaching Superman in the post-Dark Knight era means either altering fundamental aspects of the character or embracing full-blown camp. Or, y’know, doing what Zack Snyder does in Man of Steel: recycling the origin story with stonefaced seriousness, and blowing shit up for 2½ hours. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Academy, Mt. Hood, Valley, Milwaukie.

Monsters University

B Although not the best of Pixar’s lineup, there’s enough slapstick comedy for the kids and fast-paced banter for the adults to make it at least good for a laugh. G. KAITIE TODD. Academy, Avalon, Bagdad, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Edgefield, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst, Milwaukie, Mt. Hood, Oak Grove, Sandy, St. Johns.

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

D+ Cassandra Clare’s bestselling series of young-adult novels cribs liberally from Harry Potter in telling the story of a nonmagical girl who discovers she really is magical when forced into a world of demon-slayers, vampires, werewolves, curses and parental-abandonment issues. But the books are decidedly original compared to Harald Zwart’s adaptation of the first novel, which steals elements of Potter and throws in some Buffy, Blade II and Twilight for the hell of it. And so we have Clary (Lily Collins), whose quest to find her missing mother lands her in the middle of a centuriesold war between the forces of good and evil. The aforementioned demons, slayers, vampires, werewolves and witches are all fighting to get their hands on Lily. Yet fun is one thing Zwart forgot to steal from all of those superior works. Say what you will about 50 Shades

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Museum Hours

A- Museum Hours might be Jem

Cohen’s first narrative feature, but it nonetheless carries shades of his career as documentarian: Cohen set up his cameras unobtrusively in an art museum in Vienna, so his fictional characters must interact with a living world. Indeed, even his characters seem less like performers than like lonely people caught at moments of extreme vulnerability. Non-actor Bobby Sommer plays a museum security guard who befriends a Canadian woman (musician Mary Margaret O’Hara) stranded in Vienna by a friend’s illness; Cohen uses the protagonists’ unusual bond to explore our intense relationship with art and its role as balm, company and incitement. Cohen’s patience and diffuse narration lead to what is perhaps a false sense of calm: This film is an intense experience, a meditation on consuming loneliness and the solace of history. The initial story submerges by the end of the film, and we are left simply with naked humanity (literally, in one scene), sadly and searchingly at sea in a world that is always beautiful. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Living Room Theaters.

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Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters

C- The opening installment of the Percy Jackson franchise strolled onscreen in 2010, presuming itself the rightful heir to Harry Potter’s throne. Instead, it learned that it takes more than a serviceable premise to capture the public’s imagination. Returning duly humbled and considerably scaleddown, this second chapter has a mechanical bull seemingly ripped from Guillermo del Toro’s sketchbook and a cheeky Nathan Fillion cameo. But such glimmers of life are snuffed out by leaden storytelling and insipid humor. PG. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Sandy.

Planes

B+ Planes is a straightforward lark

about a plucky crop-duster afraid of heights who manages to qualify for a round-the-world race. Buckle up, it’s gonna be a smooth ride. PG. JAY HORTON. 99 West Drive-In, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Sandy.

Prince Avalanche

B Alvin and Lance react differently to the great outdoors. For the prickly Alvin (Paul Rudd), the wilderness provides a cleansing experience. Party-animal Lance (a Jack Black-esque Emile Hirsch) is not so placid. “I get so horny out here in nature,” he says. “Don’t you?” It’s 1988, the year after a wildfire has swept through central Texas,

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of Grey, perhaps the most famous fan-fic of all. At least it knew how to titillate, and its whips weren’t even electric. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Lloyd Center, Sandy.

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Now You See Me

C In an early scene in this magicheist movie, Jesse Eisenberg’s character gives an audience a piece of advice. “The more you think you see,” he says, “the easier it will be to fool you.” That’s apparently a tip director Louis Leterrier tried to follow, pulling from his bag of tricks plenty of glitz, a throbbing techno soundtrack and a camera that swirls as if on a merry-goround. Unfortunately, being fooled by this flashy flick is no fun. PG-13. REBECCA JACOBSON. Academy, Bagdad, Edgefield, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst, Milwaukie, Valley.

Ondi Timoner

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Documentarian Ondi Timoner recently visited Portland to film the annual Pickathon festival, and tonight she’ll be in attendance for screenings of two earlier films: 2006’s We Live in Public (7 pm), about Internet pioneer Josh Harris, and 2004’s highly lauded Dig! (9:30 pm), which traced the rivalry between rock bands the Brian Jonestown Massacre and Portland’s Dandy Warhols. Mission Theater. Friday, Aug. 30.

One Direction: This Is Us

B+ Victory laps in big-screen form

are becoming the norm for the pop-music world, with superstars like Katy Perry and Justin Bieber blazing multimillion-dollar trails. So, it should come as little surprise that U.K. sensation One Direction was next in line for a glitzy combination of concert film and tour documentary. Instead, the surprise is how ridiculously enjoyable this whole publicity stunt manages to be. It helps that the boy band’s five members are as charming as can be, and quite often seem as awed by their meteoric rise to worldwide ubiquity as any right-thinking person would. And as with any documentary like this, it’s the human moments that keep things truly interesting: the five boys catching what sleep they can muster in an airport lounge, the brooding Zayn Malik looking close to tears as he talks to his mother on the phone. The rest of the picture is taken up with plenty of onstage footage during which One Direction strives to avoid every boy-band cliché in the book. There are no choreographed dance moves or matching outfits. Just five skinny lads trying to maintain their sanity and enjoy the spotlight while it lasts. ROBERT HAM. Mill Plain, Cornelius, Cinema

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CLOSED CIRCUIT A generic paranoid thriller, now relevant by happenstance.

British thriller Closed Circuit opens with a frightening image that’s become all too familiar: A grid of security camera footage fills the screen, allowing us glimpses of people going about their lives in a London marketplace. Teenagers gossip. A businessman paces while on his phone. A mother pushes a stroller. Then, suddenly, there’s an explosion, turning all screens gray with dust. Director John Crowley’s paranoid thriller seems ripped from recent headlines, with memories of the National Security Agency scandal and the Boston Marathon bombings evoked within seconds. For Portlanders, there’s a layer that will recall Mohamed Mohamud’s attempted attack on Pioneer Courthouse Square. It’s scary, real-world stuff, seemingly the work of a filmmaker so tapped into current events that he can speak to worldwide fears. Except Crowley’s film doesn’t address anything particularly new or relevant. Sure, Closed Circuit seems like it’s responding to Boston and the NSA through a fictionalized lens, but—unless it’s the most rapidly completed studio film in history—what we have here is a standard conspiracy film that benefits from being released at just the right time. It’s the kind of generic “trust no one” flick that’s been floating around multiplexes for decades, from The Manchurian Candidate to The Conversation to Enemy of the State, a film built on age-old fears that could be viewed and re-viewed in any context and still be relevant. That’s not to say it lacks merits. As the defense lawyer investigating the circumstances of the attacks and charged with clearing the name of a reluctant suspect, Eric Bana is superb as always. As the suspect’s “special advocate,” Rebecca Hall exudes intelligence and fear in equal measure, and as the film jumps from one paranoid nightmare to the next, she and Bana create a palpable tension, especially when pursued by various spooks who try to alter the truth to fit their own devices. It’s part courtroom drama, part detective procedural and part foot-chase flick. Which is to say it’s part riveting, part boring and part suspenseful. What it is not, though, is topical or up-to-date. Crowley may have crafted a decent pulp thriller, but there’s no sense in elevating Closed Circuit because its release date seems to make it more than simple—and, frankly, mediocre—entertainment. AP KRYZA.

C+ SEE IT: Closed Circuit is rated R. It opens Wednesday at Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Lloyd Center.

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and these two are painting yellow divider lines along rural roads. David Gordon Green’s remake of the 2011 Icelandic film Either Way represents a move away from his more recent work—namely stoner comedy Pineapple Express—and back to his more minor-key, character-driven films. Rudd and Hirsch have an easy, believable chemistry, but the best moments are those without dialogue: lovely shots of rain spattering on a pond thick with algae, a hawk flying over a stand of scorched trees, and a caterpillar creeping along a mossy branch, itself cutting a yellow line down an unfamiliar path. R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Living Room Theaters.

Rewind This!

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ATTENDING] At first glance, Rewind This! seems too niche for its own good. Comprising interviews with collectors, video-store owners and film-biz professionals, Josh Johnson’s 90-minute film dives into the world of people obsessed with VHS tapes. But in celebrating VHS as a way to revisit the past in an authentic way, Rewind This! becomes relevant to all of us, not just to those who prowl yard sales for rare and trashy old movies. Rather than simply celebrating obscure titles or a humongous collection, Johnson presents a golden rule for tapes: The parts that are really beat-up are the most important, because those are the scenes some guy watched over and over and over again. That nude scene or bomb explosion? Once upon a time, it was really significant to someone. With each scratch telling a story, a VHS tape is like an archeological dig of what life was like back in the day. JOE DONOVAN. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Monday, Sept. 2.

Rock N Roll Mamas

C- [ONE NIGHT ONLY, DIRECTOR

ATTENDING] Could anything seem more antithetical to the rock-’n’-roll lifestyle than child-rearing? Portland filmmaker Jackie Weismann’s portrait of musician mothers (and, tangentially, fathers) holds an inherent allure. Weismann follows three artists, all with Portland connections, at different stages in their careers: the Dandy Warhols’ Zia McCabe, hip-hop MC Ms. Su’ad, and Kristin Hersh of Throwing Muses and 50 Foot Wave. Over the course of 60 minutes, Rock N Roll Mamas cycles through interviews with each woman, lazy Susan-style. But the film’s brevity does its subjects a disservice, flattening out what makes each mother’s situation unique and glossing over major events ranging from divorce to homelessness. By letting talking heads dispense sound bites rather than shooting, say, flyon-the-wall style, the documentary also misses opportunities to convey more organically the erratic rhythms that constant touring and performing introduce into family life. But then again, the cutesy title— along with the brightly colored animated interstitials featuring the ladies rocking out with their kids— should’ve tipped us off: Though the film tries to examine some distinctive parenting challenges, it’s not built to accommodate a satisfying exploration of the darkeredged complexities of the work-life balance. KRISTI MITSUDA. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Wednesday, Aug. 28.

The Smurfs 2

D+ At the end of The Smurfs 2, a 9-year-old viewer told me he felt too old for the movie. I would push back the recommended viewing age even further. PG. RICHARD GRUNERT. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport.

The Spectacular Now

B The Spectacular Now opens with

a male voice-over lamenting a recent breakup. That’s the same way (500) Days of Summer—the previous film from screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber—began, but here the narration comes courtesy of high-school senior Sutter

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THE WORLD’S END (Miles Teller). It’s accompanied by a montage of Sutter pounding shots among packs of friends, sometimes poolside: This hard-drinking bro just wants to have fun, and he’s down about losing his ex, because, he plaintively says, “We were the life of the party.” Given the film’s pedigree and setup, you half expect a manic pixie dream girl to come along and school Sutter on being real. So that Sutter befriends and then falls for off-the-radar Aimee (Shailene Woodley) feels all the more refreshing. But if the film’s lesson—that Sutter must make peace with his past in order to confront his future— seems a bit pat, well, arriving at a personal understanding of such clichés is part of coming of age. R. KRISTI MITSUDA. Living Room Theaters, Bridgeport.

Star Trek Into Darkness

B Star Trek Into Darkness can’t

match the verve of J.J. Abrams’ first outing, but it eclipses it in terms of character development and humor. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Academy, Bagdad, Cornelius, Laurelhurst, Oak Grove, Valley.

Swing Time

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers escape their own weddings to be with each other. Part of the NW Film Center’s Top Down: Rooftop Cinema series. Hotel deLuxe, 729 SW 15th Ave. Dusk Thursday, Aug. 29.

The Way, Way Back

B The Way, Way Back is a movie

about a boy—awkward and introverted 14-year-old Duncan, all hunchback slouch and downcast eyes—who learns to become a man. It’s a well-worn model, but Nat Faxon and Jim Rash manage a film saturated in both summery charm and gratifying laughs. PG-13. REBECCA JACOBSON. Hollywood.

We’re the Millers

B- Up until now, I only tolerated Jennifer Aniston. But her performance as a caustic stripper in We’re the Millers is a sort of remedy for all those years of good-girl typecasting (save her role as a rapey dentist in Horrible Bosses). Is the novelty of a squeaky-clean Aniston working the pole yet another cheap Hollywood ploy to sell movie tickets? Absolutely. But it turns out she has the range to pull it off with surprising depth and feeling. R. EMILY JENSEN. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Lloyd Center, Sandy.

The Wolverine

B Wolverine’s story is seemingly

the most cinematic and easily translatable of all the mutants in his universe. The dude has been alive for hundreds of years. He’s pissed. He has gigantic metal talons that, when experiencing the aforementioned pissed-offedness, he plunges into people. Or into robots. Or into people operating robots. Sometimes into himself. Yet the poor guy has been stuck in a cycle of increasingly crappy movies. But The Wolverine is a completely different beast. It’s

basically a high-budget take on an old-school samurai flick, with Wolverine as the ronin. And it’s as awesome as it sounds. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Indoor Twin.

The World’s End

B+ Hyperkinetic director Edgar

Wright’s previous collaborations with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost— Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz— share the same DNA, and not just in the surface-value genre-mashing that makes the films both disarmingly hysterical and unexpectedly touching. Beneath the blood-soaked zombie apocalypse, or among the spent bullet casings of a buddycop shootout, the team explores the fears of men who were once the boys weaned on these very genres: abandonment, uncertainty of the future, the inability to grow up, and, chiefly, the increasing inability to deal with hangovers. It’s no surprise, then, that Wright, Pegg and Frost have rounded out what is unofficially named the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy with The World’s End, a film that dives deep into the fractured friendship of a group of small-town pals drawn back home to re-attempt the Golden Mile, a 12-stop pub crawl that bested them two decades before. Tempers flare, painful memories resurface, regrets are aired and friendships are laid bare. It’s kind of like The Big Chill, but without the heavy-handedness. And with a legion of murderous, body-snatching robots disguised as the townfolk and bent on taking over the universe. Yet, despite its many strengths, The World’s End remains the weakest film of the trilogy. It’s the most straightforward and accessible, but it’s also the most morose. It’s a strange approach for a movie about a robot invasion, but a perfect way to cap such a wonderful series: As soon as the credits roll, fans have to face the fact that this tremendous series is over. R. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Lloyd Center.

You’re Next

B- For every surprisingly decent horror film there are a dozen disappointments, and the former are so rare that they become cause for celebration. Adam Wingard’s You’re Next seeks to be such a film. Centering on a family reunion gone horribly awry, the film believes that the only thing more terrifying than a home invasion is a home invasion carried out by people wearing spooky masks. But its promising (and, at times, even enthralling) first half gives way to a second act that’s ultimately more interested in showcasing increasingly ghoulish methods of dispatching unsuspecting victims than it is in maintaining suspense. While it’s nothing new for a horror flick to treat its characters as little more than cannon fodder, that’s a disappointing tack for a movie that seems poised to transcend its genre’s more tired conventions. R. MICHAEL NORDINE. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Sandy.

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DO YOUR HOMEWORK: It’s hard to imagine—especially after two consecutive summers headlining the biggest film in the world—that until his first turn as Tony Stark, Robert Downey Jr.’s biggest hit was Rodney Dangerfield’s Back to School, the story of a party-hardy old man who goes to college to help his idiot son fit in. Though this 1986 film hasn’t aged particularly well (really, has anything starring Dangerfield, Caddyshack included?), there are some capsule moments that make the late-summer mainstay a classic, among them cameos by Kurt Vonnegut and Oingo Boingo. And, of course, there’s Downey, honing his trademark smugness decades before he rose to leading-man status and earned the respect that had often eluded him…but, for some reason, clung to Dangerfield despite his claims to the contrary. AP KRYZA. Showing at: Laurelhurst. Best paired with: Coalition Simple ISA. Also showing: Grease (Academy), The Way, Way Back (Hollywood). St. Johns Twin Cinemas and Pub

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Avalon Theatre & Wunderland

3451 SE Belmont St., 503-238-1617 RED 2 Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 05:05, 09:10 PACIFIC RIM Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:05, 02:25, 07:15 WHITE HOUSE DOWN Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 04:45, 09:35 MONSTERS UNIVERSITY Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:05, 03:05, 07:10

Bagdad Theater and Pub

3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-249-7474 MONSTERS UNIVERSITY Fri-Sat-Sun 02:00 NOW YOU SEE ME Fri-Sun-Mon-

Tue-Wed 06:00 ANIMAL HOUSE Sat 10:00 STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 08:45

Cinema 21

616 NW 21st Ave., 503-223-4515 AIN’T THEM BODIES SAINTS Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 04:30, 07:00, 09:00

Clinton Street Theater

2522 SE Clinton St., 503-238-8899 THE LIFEGUARD FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:00, 09:00 THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW Sat 12:00 GATHR EVENT Mon 07:00 LED ZEPPELIN: CELEBRATION DAY

Laurelhurst Theatre and Pub

2735 E Burnside St., 503-232-5511 THE KINGS OF SUMMER Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:00 FRANCES HA FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:15 THE GREAT GATSBY Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:00 NOW YOU SEE ME Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 06:30 PACIFIC RIM Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:30 STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 06:45 BEFORE MIDNIGHT Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:15 BACK TO SCHOOL Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:45 MONSTERS UNIVERSITY Sat-Sun-Mon 01:30

Moreland Theatre

6712 SE Milwaukie Ave., 503236-5257 BLUE JASMINE Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 05:30, 07:40

Roseway Theatre

7229 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-282-2898 LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:30, 04:45, 08:00

8704 N Lombard St., 503-286-1768 LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:25, 07:15 ELYSIUM Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 05:00, 07:30

CineMagic Theatre

2021 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-231-7919 ELYSIUM Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 05:30, 08:00

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4040 SE 82nd Ave., 800-326-3264-952 ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue 12:00, 05:00, 07:30 MONSTERS UNIVERSITY Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue 02:15, 04:55 WORLD WAR Z Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue 07:45, 10:30 PLANES Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue 04:10, 09:15 PLANES 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue 01:40, 06:45 DESPICABLE ME 2 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue 12:10, 02:50, 05:20 KICKASS 2 Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue 12:25, 02:55, 05:25, 07:55, 10:25 WE’RE THE MILLERS Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue 01:50, 04:40, 07:25, 10:10 2 GUNS FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue 07:20, 09:55 YOU’RE NEXT FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue 12:40, 03:00, 05:30, 08:00, 10:25 THE CONJURING Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue 07:40, 10:20 GETAWAY Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue 12:15, 02:45, 05:15, 07:45, 10:15 THE SMURFS 2 FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue 01:55, 04:35 ELYSIUM FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue 12:00, 02:35, 05:15, 07:50, 10:30 PERCY JACKSON: SEA OF MONSTERS Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue 02:00, 04:45, 10:10 PERCY JACKSON: SEA OF MONSTERS 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue 07:35 THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue 12:20, 03:40, 06:50, 09:50 BLUE JASMINE Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue 12:05, 02:40, 05:10, 07:35, 10:05 LEE DANIELS’ THE

510 SW Hall St., 503-725-3551 LABYRINTH Fri-Sat-Sun 03:00

Hollywood Theatre

4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-281-4215 20 FEET FROM STARDOM Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 06:45, 09:00 DRINKING BUDDIES Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 07:15, 09:15 BLACKFISH Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 07:00 THE WAY WAY BACK Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 08:45 LOW: MOVIE - HOW TO QUIT SMOKING Fri 07:30 OFF LABEL Sat-Sun 02:45 REWIND THIS! Mon 07:30 B-MOVIE BINGO: CYBERTRACKER 2 Tue 07:30

St. Johns Theatre

8203 N Ivanhoe St., 503-249-7474-6 MONSTERS UNIVERSITY Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 06:30 PACIFIC RIM SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:00, 09:00

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Academy Theater

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57 Spin around 61 Snack 62 Singles bar thought, in Prague? 64 Alternative to a .wav file 65 Harold’s friend, in a 2004 movie 66 She was “The Little Mermaid” 67 Character in a TV episode called “Space Madness” 68 Laziest of the deadly sins 69 Best Picture nominee of 1975 Down 1 Cosby show redone as a 2002 Eddie Murphy movie 2 Comic strip with an allbird cast 3 Suffers discomfort 4 Hemoglobin-deprived condition 5 Labor leader Chavez 6 Hoodwink, politically incorrectly 7 “Goodbye ___” (Dixie Chicks song) 8 Cuisine with peanut sauce 9 Knock on the head 10 Ox collars 11 Best parts of the tennis racket, in Uppsala? 12 Brand of cerveza 13 One who won’t share, as with blankets 18 Snake mentioned in “Baby Got Back” 22 Show opener

24 Worked in a mailroom 26 Bovine of burden 27 Bullfighting shout 28 Big crooner in Copenhagen? 30 Rte. running from Key West, FL to Port Kent, ME 31 Nikon competitor 32 They guzzle a bunch 35 Yes, in Yokohama 36 Silo stuff 40 Got the medal 41 Electric guitarist Paul 43 Duck docs, perhaps 45 Show up, as in a vision 46 Split in two 48 “Modern Humorist” genre 50 Backwoods types 52 Like points at zero amplitude, on waves 54 Blue, in Bolivia 55 Fish in a Pixar pic 56 Rather gross fetish 58 Not “fer,” to hillbillies 59 Some govt. agents 60 Sorta fishy, sorta snaky 63 Abbr. for a king or queen

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Across 1 Oldest member of Hanson 6 Just barely make it 11 Inst. 14 Movie with Geoffrey Rush as David Helfgott 15 Brand name yodeled in ads 16 It’s pitched while courting 17 Plays April Fools on, in Krakow? 19 Rowing machine unit 20 Smithers, e.g. 21 How hard workers work 23 Nest eggs of sorts 25 ___-stealer 26 Talks like this he does 29 Overthrow attempts 33 Ruler, once 34 Pie ___ mode 35 Flog but good 37 “Jeopardy!” uberwinner Jennings 38 “Mary, Queen of Scots” biographer Fraser 39 Hooters mascot 42 “So it would seem!” 44 Tub temperature tester 45 Makers of the Giant Rubber Band and Dehydrated Boulders 47 “Have I got ___ for you!” 48 ID’s used in identity theft 49 “The Bell Jar” poet 51 “Hercules: The Legendary Journeys” spinoff 53 Cats that look like big puffballs

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MCMENAMINS GRAND LODGE in Forest Grove is now hiring LMTs and NAIL TECHs! Qualified apps must have an open & flex sched including, days, eves, wknds and holidays. We are looking for applicants who have prev exp related exp and enjoy working in a busy customer service-oriented enviro. We are also willing to train! We offer opps for advancement and excellent benefits for eligible employees, including vision, med, chiro, dental and so much more! Please apply online 24/7 at www.mcmenamins.com or pick up a paper app at any McMenamins location. Mail to 430 N. Killingsworth, Portland OR, 97217 or fax: 503-221-8749. Call 503-952-0598 for info on other ways to apply. Please no phone calls or emails to individ locs! E.O.E.

McMenamins Historic Grand Lodge Property Located in Forest Grove, OR is now hiring for Executive Chef. This position is responsible for managing all kitchen operations. Qualified applicants must have at least 5 years previous experience, enjoy working in a busy customer service-oriented environment, have an open & flex schedule including, days, evenings, weekends and holidays. We offer an excellent work environment, along with a competitive benefit package. We are interested in people who want a long term career in the hospitality industry. Please apply online 24/7 at www.mcmenamins.com or mail cover letter and resume to 430, N. Killingsworth, Portland OR 97217 attn: Human Resources. Dead line to apply is 9/3/13. Please no phone calls or emails to individual locations! E.O.E.

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PETS screaming but some older kiddos to hang out with would be fine. If you’re into screaming endlessly at the tv for football games that might be a bit much too but if you’re into the cooking channel I am your girl!!! I do great with other doggies and would love a confident male doggie to follow around and admire. I am playful and plenty active to join you on grand adventures and hikes but am also a loving cuddler. I am house trained and have good house manners and will make a lovely pet! I am six years old, I am fixed, vaccinated and microchipped. My adoption fee is $220.

Hoodina I am Hoodina a 12 week old girl that is as good natured as Mother Earth! I am extremely affectionate and maternal – I make sure all my siblings clean behind their ears at bath time! I know my “please” and “thank yous” and will make an amiable companion for any household. I know all about cats and dogs, can mend socks and always use the litter box! I’m just looking for a nice person to rest

my head on their shoulder. Do I sound like the lovely cat you have been looking for? Then fill out an application at pixieproject.org so we can schedule a meet and greet! I will be fixed, vaccinated and microchipped with my adoption. My adoption fee is $135. I am currently living in foster care. Because I am so young it is a requirement that I go to a home with other animals or be adopted with another cat.

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CHATLINES Tired of talking to your cat?

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You seem primed to act like a ram, the astrological creature associated with your sign. I swear you have that look in your eyes: the steely gaze that tells me you’re about to take a very direct approach to smashing the obstacles in your way. I confess that I have not always approved of such behavior. In the past, you have sometimes done more damage to yourself than to the obstruction you’re trying to remove. But this is one time when the head-first approach might work. There is indeed evidence that the job at hand requires a battering ram. What does your intuition tell you? TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” is a raucous love song by the Scottish band The Proclaimers. In the chorus, the singer declares, “I would walk 500 miles / And I would walk 500 more / Just to be the man who walked 1000 miles / To fall down at your door.” In 2011, a Chinese woman named Ling Hsueh told her boyfriend Lie Peiwen she would marry him if he took the lyrics of this song to heart. In response, loverboy embarked on a thousand-mile hike to the distant city where she lived. His stunt seemed to have expedited the deepening of their relationship. The two are now wed. In accordance with your current astrological omens, Taurus, I encourage you to consider the possibility of being a romantic fool like Liu Peiwen. What playfully heroic or richly symbolic deed might you be willing to perform for the sake of love?

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Mystic poets find the divine presence everywhere. The wind carries God’s love, bestowing tender caresses. The scent of a lily is an intimate message from the Holy Beloved, provoking bliss. Even a bowl of oatmeal contains the essence of the Creator; to eat it is to receive an ecstatic blessing. But those of us who aren’t mystic poets are not necessarily attuned to all this sweetness. We may even refuse to make ourselves receptive to the ceaseless offerings. To the mystic poets, we are like sponges floating in the ocean but trying very hard not to get wet. Don’t do that this week; Scorpio. Be like a sponge floating in the ocean and allowing yourself to get totally soaked. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): James Caan is a well-known actor who has appeared in more than 80 movies, including notables like The Godfather, A Bridge Too Far, and Elf. But he has also turned down major roles in a series of blockbusters: Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Kramer vs. Kramer, Blade Runner, and Apocalypse Now. I present his odd choices as a cautionary tale for you in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. Don’t sell yourself short. Don’t shrink from the challenges that present themselves. Even if you have accomplished a lot already, an invitation to a more complete form of success may be in the offing. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real,” says a character in one of Miranda July’s short stories. I’m offering similar advice to you, Capricorn. The “something real” you would get by sacrificing “something wonderful” might seem to be the more practical and useful option, but I don’t think it would be in the long run. Sticking with “something wonderful” will ultimately inspire breakthroughs that boost your ability to meet real-world challenges.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness,” said the painter Joan Miró in describing his artistic process. I recommend a similar approach to you in the coming weeks. Identify what excites you the most and will continue to inspire and energize you for the foreseeable future. Activate the wild parts of your imagination as you dream and scheme about how to get as much of that excitement as you can stand. And then set to work, with methodical self-discipline, to make it all happen.

barbarian repellant, dinosaur eggs, time travel sickness pills, a centurion’s helmet, a portable wormhole, and a samurai umbrella. I have no financial tie to this store. So when I recommend you consider purchasing something from it or another company with a similar product line, it’s only because I suspect that sometime soon you will be summoned to explore and possibly even alter the past. Be well-prepared to capitalize on the unexpected opportunities. (Here’s the Time Travel Mart: http://826la.org/store.)

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The Japanese word senzuri refers to a sexual act of self-love performed by a man. Its literal meaning is “a hundred rubs.” The corresponding term for the female version is shiko shiko manzuri, or “ten thousand rubs.” Judging from the astrological omens, I’m guessing that the applicable metaphor for you in the days ahead will be shiko shiko manzuri rather than senzuri. Whatever gender you are, you’ll be wise to slowww wayyyy down and take your time, not just in pursuit of pleasure but in pretty much everything you do. The best rewards and biggest blessings will come from being deliberate, gradual, thorough, and leisurely.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): My vision of you in the coming week involves you being more instinctual and natural and primal than usual. I have a picture in my mind of you climbing trees and rolling in the grass and holding bugs in your hands and letting the wind mess up your hair. You’re gazing up at the sky a lot, and you’re doing spontaneous dance moves for no other reason than because it feels good, and you’re serenading the sun and clouds and hills with your favorite songs. I see you eating food with your fingers and touching things you’ve never touched. I hear you speaking wild truths you’ve bottled up for months. As for sex? I think you know what to do.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.” So says a character in Oscar Wilde’s play The Importance of Being Earnest. I could envision you speaking those words sometime soon. Plain old drama could creep in the direction of passionate stimulation. High adventure may beckon, and entertaining stories might erupt. Soon you could find yourself feeling tingly all over, and that might be so oddly pleasant that you don’t want it to end. With the right attitude -- that is, a willingness to steep yourself in the lyrical ambiguity -- your soul could feed off the educational suspense for quite a while.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct,” wrote science fiction author Frank Herbert. I urge you to heed that advice. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you will oversee the germination of several new trends in the coming weeks. Future possibilities will reveal themselves to you. You will be motivated to gather the ingredients and formulate the plans to make sure that those trends and possibilities will actually happen. One of the most critical tasks you can focus on is to ensure that the balances are righteous right from the start.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “There is more truth in our erotic zones than in the whole of religions and mathematics,” wrote the English artist Austin O. Spare. I think he was being melodramatic. Who can say for sure whether such an extreme statement is accurate? But I suspect that it’s at least a worthy hypothesis for you to entertain in the coming weeks, Aquarius. The new wisdom you could potentially stir up through an exploration of eros will be extensive and intensive. Your research may proceed more briskly if you have a loving collaborator who enjoys playing, but that’s not an absolute necessity.

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