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​Do I Look Like I’m In Love?, the new full-length from The Prids, illustrates the Portland dark pop band’s mettle through keen lyrical observations, but also in its attention to sonic detail and song craft—this record couldn’t have been made by any other band at any other time. “Do I Look Like I’m In Love?” and “The Shape” both swirl and build like dreams filled with grey skies and the flickering faces of past friends and lovers.

Celebrate one year of Wahala with DJs Chaach + Songo + Wabbi + Floyd Vader + Hans Barklis. Afrobeat sets with live percussion. Free, no cover.

METHODS BODY (Portland, OR) creates original sound art and music using custom tuning systems, involuted polyrhythms, and the cadences of language. John Niekrasz (Ecstatic Peace, ESP-Disk') and Luke Wyland (The Leaf Label, Hometapes, Aagoo Records) use bespoke live-sampling technologies and spontaneous composition to inhabit waves of subliminal melody and deep, uncanny grooves. METHODS BODY's second LP, Plural Not Possessive, is out on Beacon Sound in June of 2023.

Boogie, funk, soul etc all vinyl DJ dance party. Free, no cover.

Boogie + disco + dance music. Free, no cover.

‘and/or you’ is the current recording and performance alias of Portland-based composer, bassist, producer Andrew Jones. Jones sings his lyrical depictions of the postmodern predicament in dastardly counterpoint with his 100 year old contrabass and a laptop providing virtual synthesizers and drum machine, the latter often replaced by a collaborator on drum set. This project draws together the worlds of songcraft, EDM, contemporary classical, hip hop and jazz and wrings them into a deeply personal and densely coherent ‘pop’ form.

Math rock, post-hardcore, and experimental folk walk into a bar. The sound person only provides them with 4 drink tickets, because they are a two-piece band called Mouthbreather. Dynamic song structures and time signatures with no shortage of distinct melody and thoughtful lyricism. Something for everybody! Except maybe your aunt who might say “I don’t get why he has to do all that yelling.”

A night of world, house + groovy music. Free, no cover.

Disco, boogie, soul, R&B, Italo DJ dance night. Free, no cover.

Halfbird is a free-jazz/punk/freakout trio from Portland, OR composed of Ben Kates (alto and baritone sax), Grant Pierce (drums), and Brandon Conway (guitar). Their improvised music is a mix of chromatic confusion, layered tempos, and walls of noise brought together into intuitive forms via listening and luck. Halfbird has released several digital albums and has a tape out on SDM Records.