portland friday 22 Poliça With the exception of 17-year-old New Zealand sensation Lorde, vocalist Channy Leaneagh is the most adorable female musician making it big right now. We’re fairly sure if Lorde and Poliça ever shared a stage our brains would explode from a sheer cuteness overload. Oh, talent too! From Minneapolis, Leaneagh has teamed […]
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Out of Town 11/13- 11/21
portland through saturday 16 Northwest Filmmakers Festival For 40 years running, the Northwest Filmmakers Festival has collected independent flicks of all lengths and genres from filmmaking hotbeds like Seattle and Portland. Selections from more than 400 entries from Alaska, British Columbia, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington make up this year's program covering a range of […]
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Out of Town 11/6 – 11/14
portland friday 8 Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks Front man of Pavement, one of the most influential bands to emerge from indie-ist of indie ’90s lo-fiers, Stephen Malkmus has been praised as a genius by more music critics than just about anyone. This one-off show is a rare opportunity to see The Jicks in the […]
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Out of Town 10/30 – 11/7
portland friday 1 Cut Copy Cut Copy is everything that is awesome about psychedelic electronic house music. Acid house is an extremely danceable genre that the Melborne, Australia group has nearly perfected, weaving deftly placed samples seamlessly with live instrumentation and catchy pop hooks. Sounds like New Order mixed with Hot Chip, Duran Duran and […]
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Out of Town 10/23-10/31
portland friday 25 Samantha Bee The longest-running “Daily Show” correspondent ever (take that Colbert!), Samantha Bee built a career by effortlessly caricaturizing and skewering unsuspecting interviewees across the political spectrum. Her most recent stunt was taunting Rep. Scott Rigell (R-VA) with chicken noises and attempting to hold her breath in a tantrum until he did […]
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Out of Town 10/16- 10/24
seattle saturday 19 Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar Kanye West’s most recent big-headed crazy-pants claim is that he’s the no. 1 rock star on the planet. Perhaps that’s why there are $900 tickets available for the front rows of his upcoming Seattle concert with Kendrick Lamar. The Key Arena show marks the kickoff of West’s first […]
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Out of Town 10/9 – 10/17
portland thursday 10 Tim Kasher One of Connor Oberst’s cohorts from Omaha, Neb., Tim Kasher is the front man of Cursive and The Good Life, both longtime Saddle Creek recording groups. Kasher’s style is Pavement-esque pop rock that ranges from emotional waltzes about feeling dejected to aggressive and discordant hate rock—both extremes are rumored to […]
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Out of Town 10/2 – 10/10
seattle saturday 5 Man Man Man Man are an instinctually autumn-sounding band. Their obsession with vintage and obtuse instruments, especially their staple Rhodes piano (sounds like a cross between a classic organ and a reverb-filled modern keyboard) and a cocktail of xylophones, synthesizers, horns and diverse percussion (everything from pots and pans to toy noisemakers, […]
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Out of Town 9/25 – 10/3
portland friday 27 Maroon 5, Kelly Clarkson, Rozzi Crane Rock out with Adam Levine—and those other slightly less attractive guys! Get pumped for the weekend with the pop/alternative-rock champions of the Top 40 charts. Angry, brokenhearted-pump up jams, heart melting ballads (cue swooning), and songs chock full of sexy innuendos. Kelly Clarkson and Rozzi Crane, […]
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Out of Town 9/18 – 9/26
forest grove saturday 21 Chalk Art Festival Last year, 400 different entries decorated 400 different sidewalk blocks in this vineyard town, turning the gray squares into elegant and colorful masterpiece. Oh, sure, there were a few stick figures and lame chicken-scratched lyrics, but mostly these were entries that would make Van Gogh cut off his […]