friday 9 Device Grips HIP-HOP—Portland-based psychedelic hip-hop act Device Grips blends dreamy, jam-band intros with bluesy riffs, funky horns and a rap-styled lyrical delivery. The band claims to channel an Olympic heritage, drawing on Greek mythology to align itself with the four elements—earth, fire, air, and water—transformed by the beat to create a timeless balm. […]
Woebegone
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Don’t Look So Woebegone
Members of Larry and His Flask return with new side project
What’s an underemployed musician to do when—after 10-years, five full-length albums, and hundreds of thousands of miles driving every direction on every highway in the US, Canada and Europe—he and his band decide to take a yearlong break? Guitarist and vocalist of Larry and His Flask, Ian Cook, and the rest of the band are […]
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Our Picks 1/7-1/15
thursday 8 The River They Saw FILM—In the 1860s, photography took a big technical leap forward, and amazingly some of the original photographs of the Columbia River still exist. OPB strings together the changes in its flow, its fish, and its people in documentary film to tell a great story. 6 pm. High Desert Museum, […]