Hello again, Freeformers! dj zen_hound returns with another weekly show guide.
I’ve assembled a list of 48 shows happening in Portland this week, which you may peruse below at your leisure.
The big event has to be the Creative Music Guild’s Improvisation Summit of Portland, which will be summoning artists from across the realms of improvised, experimental, avant-garde, jazz, electronic and electroacoustic music to at least six different venues this week, with more events scheduled until the 29th of October. You can find more information at https://creativemusicguild.org/improvisation-summit-of-portland-2022/
Not really your bag? Don’t worry, there’s plenty of other stuff going on in the dive bars and ballrooms of Portland. Observe.
Sunday 10/16
Napalm Death, Brujeria, Cryptic Slaughter
Bossanova Ballroom (722 E Burnside St)
For fans of: death metal, grindcore, hardcore, thrash metal
Kontravoid, Kris Baha, Puerta Negra, Major Hex
The Coffin Club (421 SE Grand Ave)
for fans of: techno, industrial, electronic body music, darkwave
Otoboke Beaver, Hell Baby
Doug Fir Lounge (830 E Burnside St)
For fans of: punk rock, hardcore punk, indie rock
Jake Rozier, Bailey Allen Baker, Jed Wyatt Smith, Devolver
Misdemeanor Meadows (6920 SE 52nd Ave)
For fans of: country, americana, folk, acoustic
Monday 10/17
Collate, Love In Hell, Unseen Ways
Turn! Turn! Turn! (8 NE Killingsworth St)
For fans of: garage rock, art rock, art punk, post-punk, no wave
Tuesday 10/18
Itasca, Half Shadow, Gabriel Seaver
The Fixin’ To (8218 N Lombard St)
For fans of: folk, acoustic, avant-folk, experimental
Unkle Andy & The Fuck Around Gang, Pegzilla, Luna Negra
High Water Mark Lounge (6800 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd)
For fans of: hard rock, stoner rock
Johnny Franco, Pleasure Pak, The Vagilantes, Atomic Momma
Kelly’s Olympian (426 SW Washington St)
For fans of: psychedelic rock, garage rock, light rock
Abrasion, Extinguish, Big Boy, By All Meanz
Mano Oculta (1420 SE Powell Blvd)
For fans of: hardcore punk, metallic hardcore
Noah Simpson, Domo Branch, Mike Gamble, Space Jammerz (Creative Music Guild’s Improv Summit of Portland)
No Fun (1709 SE Hawthorne Blvd)
For fans of: jazz, improvisation, experimental, avant-garde
Wednesday 10/19
Max Kutner, Casual Decay, Lorin Benedict (Creative Music Guild’s Improv Summit of Portland)
Speck’s Records & Tapes (8216 N Denver Ave)
For fans of: experimental, improvisation, avant-garde, drone, electronic, modular, ambient
Drop Shadow
Turn! Turn! Turn! (8 NE Killingsworth St)
For fans of: jazz, experimental
Thursday 10/20
Blood Handsome, Soft Vein, Nite Hike
The Coffin Club (421 SE Grand Ave)
For fans of: darkwave, electronic, industrial, dance rock, disco rock
Molly Nilsson, Launderette, Vacant Stares
Dante’s (350 W Burnside St)
For fans of: electronic, synthpop, synth punk, goth, dreampop, coldwave
Help, Divers, Hell Nancy
Doug Fir Lounge (830 E Burnside St)
For fans of: indie rock, punk rock, noise rock, garage rock
Lies We Were told (album release), Masonique, Luscious Apparatus
The Fixin’ To (8218 N Lombard St)
For fans of: synthpop, krautrock, post-punk, gothic rock
The Body, Dis Fig, Nonzerosum
High Water Mark Lounge (6800 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd)
For fans of: experimental, electronic, club, noise, sludge, ambient
And/or (Andrew Jones/The Crenshaw), meroitic, Machado Mijiga, Lorin Benedict (Creative Music Guild’s Improv Summit of Portland)
Holocene (1001 SE Morrison St)
For fans of: avant-pop, noise, dark ambient, experimental, jazz
Snake Father, VileGloom, Bare King
Mano Oculta (1420 SE Powell Blvd)
For fans of: death metal, deathcore, djent, metalcore
Tiny Jackets, Tigerbite, The Loved
The Six Below Midnight (3341 SE Belmont St)
For fans of: indie rock, garage rock, indie pop
Philthy Dronez, Terror Cactus, LaPaushi
Swan Dive (727 SE Grand Ave)
For fans of: cumbia, dub, hip hop, reggae
Sit Pretty, Grimes, Banana Creatures
Turn! Turn! Turn! (8 NE Killingsworth St)
For fans of: indie rock, shoegaze
Friday 10/21
Thomas Dimuzio, Scot Jenerik, MoonBladder, noisepoetnobody
Azoth (NE 87th and NE Sandy)
For fans of: experimental, electronic, improvisation, modular, avant-garde, industrial, sound art
Minuit Machine, Panterah (aka Fee Lion), L
The Coffin Club (421 SE Grand Ave)
for fans of: industrial, electronic body music, darkwave, synthwave, techno, experimental
Panthervision, Quags, Lions Of The Interstate
Hawthorne Hideaway (2221 SE Hawthorne Blvd)
For fans of: indie rock, power pop, psychedelic, garage rock
Usnea, Aequorea, Glasghote
High Water Mark Lounge (6800 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd)
For fans of: doom metal, death metal, post metal, sludge metal
A.B. Corduroy, Alminiana, Tigers Of Youth, Meeyan Punch
Honey Latte Cafe (1033 SE Main St)
For fans of: drone, noise, experimental, indie rock, pop, alternative rock, power pop
Lord Master, Roller Dome, Rad Max
Kenton Club (2025 N Kilpatrick St)
For fans of: glam rock, pop punk, dance rock, new wave
David Torn, John Niekrasz, Mike Gamble, Alexis Mahler, Lindsay Dreyer, Mike Lockwood’s Safe Travels (Creative Music Guild’s Improv Summit of Portland)
Leaven Community (5431 NE 20th Ave)
For fans of: improvisation, experimental, ambient, noise, instrumental, electroacoustic
Spectrum/Static, The Carotids, Sorcery Of The Rabbits
Misdemeanor Meadows (6920 SE 52nd Ave)
For fans of: noise rock, punk rock, indie rock, garage rock, hard rock, alternative rock
ex-Ports, Tuna Head, Hopeful No One
No Fun (1709 SE Hawthorne Blvd)
For fans of: garage rock, street punk, indie rock
Maria DeHart, The Moon Caravan, Brady
The Six Below Midnight (3341 SE Belmont St)
For fans of: dream pop, bedroom pop, shoegaze, Caribe
Avola, Leather Jester, Golden Donna, Cosmic Surveillance
Turn! Turn! Turn! (8 NE Killingsworth St)
For fans of: experimental, noise, electronic, industrial, synthesis
Saturday 10/22
Change, Jade Dust, Dry Socket
Black Water Bar (835 NE Broadway)
For fans of: hardcore punk, post-hardcore, youth crew
Blister, Havania Whaal, Plume
The Fixin’ To (8218 N Lombard St)
For fans of: hardcore punk, death rock, post-punk, garage rock
Terminal Dusk, Paradigm Shift, Anatoray, Dreadlight
Hawthorne Hideaway (2221 SE Hawthorne Blvd)
For fans of: symphonic metal, gothic metal, hard rock, heavy rock
Triumvir Foul, Caustic Wound, Jonathan Canady
High Water Mark Lounge (6800 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd)
For fans of: death metal, grindcore, heavy electronics
Hotel Neon, Patricia Wolf, Benoit Pioulard, Viul
Holocene (1001 SE Morrison St)
For fans of: ambient, experimental, electronic, drone, noise
Queen Chief, Marble, Kinghorn
Mano Oculta (1420 SE Powell Blvd)
For fans of: post-hardcore, post-metal, post-rock, garage rock, indie rock, alternative rock
Atomic Momma, The Wizard, Ultraviolet Communication
No Fun (1709 SE Hawthorne Blvd)
For fans of: psychedelic rock, garage rock, hard rock
David Torn + Corzi și Arcuri (Strings and Bows) “Tall Tales (direct translations from the lost tongue” – Michelle Alany, Isabel Damman, Chibia, Alexis Mahler, Harlan Silverman, Mike Gamble, Alex Callenberger, Ryan Miller (Creative Music Guild’s Improv Summit of Portland)
The Old Church (1422 SW 11th Ave)
For fans of: experimental, electronic, improvisation, instrumental, ambient
Kahn + Neek
The Six Below Midnight (3341 SE Belmont St)
For fans of: dub, dubstep, drum&bass, techno, basement, hardcore, grime
Waves Crashing, Tired, Spooky Boys
Turn! Turn! Turn! (8 NE Killingsworth St)
For fans of: indie rock, shoegaze, surf rock, pop rock
Sunday 10/23
Haley Heynderickx, Denzel Mendoza, Alexander Thomas, Matthew Holmes, Logan Strosahl, David Berry, Lorin Benedict (Creative Music Guild’s Improv Summit of Portland)
The Fixin’ To (8218 N Lombard St)
For fans of: acoustic folk, indie folk, experimental, ambient electronic, synth, instrumental
Mare, Kill Michael, North By North, The Wild Jumps
High Water Mark Lounge (6800 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd)
For fans of: hard rock, grunge, garage rock, punk rock, power pop
White Bike, Low Flyer, Seabug
Honey Latte Cafe (1033 SE Main St)
For fans of: garage rock, indie rock
Marisa Anderson, Fronjentress, Mouth Painter
Mississippi Studios (3939 N Mississippi Ave)
For fans of: experimental guitar, instrumental guitar, folk, country, alternative folk, psychedelic
Loose, Tom Connelly, World Record Winner, Bombshell Nighlight
No Fun (1709 SE Hawthorne Blvd)
For fans of: indie rock, surf rock, indie pop, bedroom pop, experimental, slowcore
And that wraps up another weather report! Be safe, have a blast, watch each other’s backs, and Keep Portland Feared.
- dj zen_hound, host of the program WHOA THIS IS HEAVY, airing weekly on Freeform Portland community radio Fridays at 2pm