Portland Show Calendar: October 23-30

Greetings, listeners. Another week has gone, and another week approaches. Here is your weekly show calendar. As usual, there is a lot going on. This time around I have included some band and venue hyperlinks where available, so you may more closely examine the artists and venues.
This week sees the continuation and culmination of the Creative Music Guild’s 2022 Improvisation Summit of Portland, so expect to see a lot of experimental electronic and improv electroacoustic shows.


Sunday 10/23

Long Knife, Decomp, Blade

The Coffin Club (421 SE Grand Ave)

For fans of: hardcore punk, d-beat, crust punk


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 Nightlight

No Fun (1709 SE Hawthorne Blvd)

For fans of: indie rock, surf rock, indie pop, bedroom pop, experimental, slowcore


Live Dungeon Odyssey with Wraith Knight and Cold Sanctum 

Star Theater (13 NW 6th Ave)

For fans of: dungeon synth, ambient, orchestral


Monday 10/24

Halfbird, Maxx Katz, Touch System, meroitic (Creative Music Guild’s Improvisation Summit of Portland 2022)

Turn! Turn! Turn! (8 NE Killingsworth St)

For fans of: experimental, free jazz, free improvisation, noise, punk, doom metal, experimental metal, dark ambient, cosmic soundscapes


Tuesday 10/25

Vision Video, NITE, Ritual Veil

The Coffin Club (421 SE Grand Ave)

For fans of: goth, new wave, post-punk, darkwave, synthpop 


“Ramasser Experience” featuring Maarquii, nonbinary girlfriend

Holocene (1001 SE Morrison St)

For fans of: hip hop, rap, R&B, pop, lo-fi, indie rock


Matt Mayhall’s Sift, Logan Strosahl’s New Normal (Creative Music Guild’s Improvisation Summit of Portland 2022)

No Fun (1709 SE Hawthorne Blvd)

For fans of: free jazz, instrumental, improvisation, chamber jazz, modern classical, experimental


Wednesday 10/26

Haru Nemuri, Frost Children

Hawthorne Theatre (1507 SE 39th Ave)

For fans of: indie pop, coldwave, noise, post-hardcore, post-punk, post-rock, electronic


Orchid Tooth (EP release/music video premiere/listening party), Ki, .oOSadieOo., Lenny Beach (visuals)

Kelly’s Olympian (426 SW Washington St)

For fans of: ambient, experimental, industrial, noise


Shadowgraphs, Spirit Award, Raincult

Mississippi Studios (3939 N Mississippi Ave)

For fans of: psychedelic pop, dreampop, indie rock, garage rock


Argyle

Starday Tavern (6517 SE Foster Rd)

For fans of: jazz, funk, fusion, instrumental, synth funk


Aesthetic.Stalemate, Avola / Vo, Crystal Quartez (Creative Music Guild’s Improvisation Summit of Portland 2022)

Xhurch (4550 NE 20th Ave)

For fans of: experimental, electronic, drone, industrial, noise, synthesis, ambient, field recording, meditation


Thursday 10/27 

Soft Kill (record release tour), Human Leather, Gag, Of Feather & Bone, Underpass, Candy Apple

Bossanova Ballroom (722 E Burnside St)

For fans of: indie rock, indie pop, post-punk, new wave, synthpop, hardcore punk, death metal


Hungry, Diane?

Hawthorne Hideaway (2221 SE Hawthorne Blvd)

For fans of: punk rock, pop punk


Visible Cloaks, {arsonist}, The Garbage Man (DJ set)

Holocene (1001 SE Morrison St)

For fans of: experimental, electronic, ambient, sound art, modern classical


Methods Body, Cate Kennan, Moss Wand

No Fun (1709 SE Hawthorne Blvd)

For fans of: experimental, avant-garde, improvisation, modular synth, ambient electronic, deep techno, meditation, sound bath


Friday 10/28

Innumerable Forms, Lexicon, Myconid

Black Water Bar (835 NE Broadway)

For fans of: death metal, doom metal


Priest, Julien-K, Die Robot, DJ Lu, Dj Skully

The Coffin Club (421 SE Grand Ave) 

For fans of: electronic, synthpop, techno, industrial rock, darkwave, electronic body music


Death Ball 2022: Robots of the Ancient World, Karen Caskets, Tit Sweat

Dante’s (350 W Burnside St)

For fans of: desert rock, stoner rock, stoner metal, indie rock, grunge, garage rock


Reptaliens, Bijoux Cone, Buddy Wynkoop (venue grand opening)

The Lollipop Shoppe (736 SE Grand Ave)

For fans of: synthpop, art pop, art punk, garage rock, goth pop, emo jazz


Holy Catholic Social Club, Black Shelton, Gawky Runt, The Hatchets

No Fun (1709 SE Hawthorne Blvd)

For fans of: garage rock, punk rock, blues rock, psych rock


Forty Feet Tall, Yuvees, Shaylee

The Six Below Midnight (3341 SE Belmont St)

For fans of: indie rock, post-punk, psychedelic rock, post-rock, power pop, noise rock, mutant disco


Spellling, Spacemoth, Sun Atoms 

Star Theater (13 NW 6th Ave)

For fans of: experimental pop, synthpop, synthwave, krautrock, psychedelic, space rock, art pop


Mnemonic Pulse, Contact Cult, Perimeters

Turn! Turn! Turn! (8 NE Killingsworth St)

For fans of: electronic, ambient, synthpop, space drone, indie pop, post-punk, shoegaze


Saturday 10/29

The Hague, Luna Vista, Oh Lonesome Ana

Firkin Tavern (1937 SE 11th Ave)

For fans of: Indie rock, emo, post-rock, post-hardcore, math rock, alternative country


Velvet Merkin, The Last Responders, Vicious Cycle, Baby Gravez

Hawthorne Hideaway (2221 SE Hawthorne Blvd)

For fans of: roadhouse rock, punk rock, street punk, folk punk


Pan Amerikan-Native Front, Pig’s Blood, hellshock

High Water Mark Lounge (6800 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd)

For fans of: death metal, black metal, blackened death metal, thrash metal, crust punk, hardcore punk


“Discordance” hosted by Caspar Sonnet

Gabie Strong, Ian Wellman / Caspar Sonnet, Leather Jester, Cody Bryant (Creative Music Guild’s Improvisation Summit of Portland 2022)

Leaven Community (5431 NE 20th Ave)

For fans of: experimental, drone, noise, improvisation, ambient, field recording


“Cyberpunk Halloween” Strict Tempo hosted by Vox Sinistra, featuring Trust Anchor, Sea_wraith

Shanghai Tunnel (211 SW Ankeny St)

For fans of: electronic, techno, electronic body music, cyberpunk


Sunday 10/30

Moving Targets, Right Lane Ends, The Unquotables, Charts

High Water Mark Lounge (6800 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd)

For fans of: punk rock, pop punk, hardcore punk, progressive rock, garage rock, lo-fi rock


In The Mourning, Lana Shea, To Bloom

Kelly’s Olympian (426 SW Washington St)

For fans of: pop punk indie rock, pop rock, emo, post-hardcore, progressive rock, hip hop, R&B, acoustic, folk


That’s it! Thanks for checking it out. If there are any events I did not include and you feel I really should have, leave a comment and let me know! I do my best to feature every live show I can, but I’m only human! Get out there, take care of each other, and Keep Portland Feared.

  • dj zen_hound, host of WHOA THIS IS HEAVY, airing on Freeform Portland Community Radio Fridays 2-4pm

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