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
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
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
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