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Hotels

iluvrobots@gmail.com (Rachele) — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:01:00 +0000

Thursday April 2nd at Doug Fir Lounge (830 E Burnside), 9pm, $6, 21+ w/Hotels, Iretsu and The Animals at Night.

theXplodingboys

iluvrobots@gmail.com (Rachele) — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:57:00 +0000

Saturday April 11th at The Know (2026 NE Alberta St), 8pm, $3, 21+ Bar/All Ages w/theXplodingboys, Forgeries and DJ Wednesday.

Portland's own cure tribute band theXplodingboys are headed up north... to north portland, that is. theXplodingboys are pleased to announce a show at The Know with Forgeries and DJ Wednesday! tXb will be playing a stripped-down (ok, only one keyboard) show. the Forgeries, with members of Once in the Sun, Princess Ugly and and Faith and the Muse, will open the evening by slathering you with dark and danceable indie rock and post-punk goodness, and DJ Wednesday will fill in the blanks. be sure to dress warmly.
$3 (cheap!) doors open at 8pm and theXplodingboys are on shortly after 9pm.

Beyond Veronica Friday Night

iluvrobots@gmail.com (Rachele) — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:26:00 +0000

Friday March 20th at Kelly's Olympian (426 SW Washington), 10pm, $5, 21+ w/Beyond Veronic a and Catfight.

Barons in Trees

iluvrobots@gmail.com (Rachele) — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:19:00 +0000

Thursday April 9th at Mississippi Pizza Pub (3552 N Mississippi Ave), 6pm, Donation, 21+ Bar/All Ages w/Barons in Trees.

Wax Broker Riot

iluvrobots@gmail.com (Rachele) — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:13:00 +0000

Friday April 3rd at IT'S A BEAUTIFUL PIZZA (3342 SE Belmont), 9pm, Free, All Ages w/Standing 8 and Clarence Duffy.

Soul/funk/jazz vinyl sale and live DJ sets! Dancing! Vinyl! Beer! Pizza!

Deep Roots Music Project Fundraiser

iluvrobots@gmail.com (Rachele) — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:36:00 +0000

Friday March 13th at Mississippi Pizza Pub (3552 N Mississippi Ave), 6pm, Free, 21+ Bar/All Ages w/Barons In Trees.

Special note: this show will be a benefit fundraiser for the Deep Roots Project! This innovative program at Roosevelt High School teaches creative writing skills in part by enlisting professional musicians to help students compose their own song lyrics and create cd's.

Through this process, this year the students are exploring the issue of civil rights, connecting their own experiences to the politics, music, writings, and film of the 1960's civil rights movement. As a culmination of their studies, the students will spend their spring break on a field trip to Selma, Alabama, to trace the footsteps of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Each student must raise $800 for the trip...no small effort. All money collected at this show will go to the students and the program. Many of them will also be at the show and the songs they've written will either be performed live or at least be played from a cd.

Please come and help the kids out! Or at least get some pizza and enjoy the show. We also have several new songs that we can't wait to share with you all.

Learn more about Deep Roots here: http://www.deeproots.com/

Black Mercies

iluvrobots@gmail.com (Rachele) — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:33:00 +0000

Saturday March 21st at Dante's (1 SW 3rd Ave), 8pm, $12, 21+ w/Black Mercies and Floater.

System and Station

iluvrobots@gmail.com (Rachele) — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:44:00 +0000

Sunday March 8th at Doug Fir Lounge (830 E Burnside), 8pm, $5, 21+ w/System and Station, Little Brazil and Ladyfinger.

In the news: We are playing this coming Sunday march 8th at The Doug Fir here in Portland with our great friends from Omaha, NE Little Brazil and Ladyfinger (Saddle Creek). Both are amazing bands and both will melt your face so by the time you get to us you might not have a face left but that’s OK because we have been known to do a little skull humping with the power of Rock and Roll as our contraceptive. We need you to be there though; this is the trick, because it isn’t a show without y’all so we need your assistance please. These fellas have come a long way and we need to show them that Portland still knows how to rock it out.

Destroy Nate Allen

iluvrobots@gmail.com (Rachele) — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:34:00 +0000

Thursday March 12th at The Rodgers House (6128 SE 76th Street), 7pm, $5, All Ages w/Bradley Hathaway, Backseat Goodbye and Destroy Nate Allen.

This is a family friendly show!

The Harvey Girls

iluvrobots@gmail.com (Rachele) — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:26:00 +0000

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Thursday March 12th 2009 at The Know (2026 NE Alberta St), 8pm, Free, 21+ w/The Harvey Girls, Someday Tricycle and Solyoni.

Free and Early show.

the angry orts

iluvrobots@gmail.com (Rachele) — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:15:00 +0000

Saturday March 7th at Slabtown (1033 NW 16th), 9pm, $7, 21+ w/The Pack A.D., the angry orts and Cicada Omega.

Chamber of Commerce

iluvrobots@gmail.com (Rachele) — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:43:00 +0000

Friday February 20th at Portland Center for the Performing Arts (1111 SW Broadway), 9pm, Free, All Ages w/Chamber of Commerce (Blue Cranes + Paxselin).

ON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, IN THE ATRIUM OF PORTLAND'S CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, BLUE CRANES AND PAXSELIN QUARTET WILL COMBINE AS THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO UNVEIL OUR 2009 JOINT ECONOMIC POLICY STATEMENT. WE HOPE YOU WILL BE PRESENT FOR THIS MOMENTOUS OCCASION.

Perfect Zero

iluvrobots@gmail.com (Rachele) — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:40:00 +0000

Wednesday February 25th at The Goodfoot Lounge (SE Stark + 29th), 9:30pm, $5, 21+ w/Perfect Zero and Subatomic.

Lowenbad

iluvrobots@gmail.com (Rachele) — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:38:00 +0000

Saturday February 14th at Ash St. Saloon (225 SW Ash), 9:30pm, $5, 21+ w/Lost History, Levon Levan, Lowenbad and Cellar Door.

5 dollars; 5 amazing bands

iluvrobots@gmail.com (Rachele) — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 03:05:00 +0000

Monday March 16th at Plan B (1309 SE 8th Avenue), 8:30pm, $5, 21+ w/Blowupnihilist, Abominable Iron Sloth, Nine Worlds, Mongoloid Village and Microtia.

Come support Salt Lake City's post metal darlings, Nine Worlds. Also appearing are Portland locals Microtia (exigent records) and the smokey stoner sounds of Mongoloid Village. Vancouver/Portland to Seattle transplant, Blowupnihilist will perform his one man show and also play drums for Chico to Portland to Ventura screaming doom/crust/grinders The Abominable Iron Sloth.

A thrilling night of quality metal

iluvrobots@gmail.com (Rachele) — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 02:56:00 +0000

Tuesday March 31st at Kelly's Olympian (426 SW Washington Street), 8:30pm, $5, 21+ w/Paranaut, Nanda Devi, Battlefields and Irepress.

First off will be the double shot of post-metal from distant lands as Translation Loss Records artists, Irepress(Boston, Mass.) and frozen tundra metallers Battlefields (Minnesota) lay waste to downtown Portland. Then local favorites, Nanda Devi bring their on icy-warm metal, and the reborn doomsters, Paranaut swing a heavy sludgehammer on the Kelly's stage this night!!

System and Station

iluvrobots@gmail.com (Rachele) — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 02:53:00 +0000

Friday February 13th at Slabtown (1033 NW 16th AVE), 9pm, $5, 21+ w/System and Statio n, The Days The Nights and Ley Lines.

Black Mercies

iluvrobots@gmail.com (Rachele) — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 02:32:00 +0000

Saturday February 14th at Kelly's Olympian (426 SW Washington), 9pm, $5, 21+ w/Black Mercies and Monody.

Oh Captain My Captain

iluvrobots@gmail.com (Rachele) — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:49:00 +0000

Thursday February 5th at Holocene (1001 SE Morrison St), 8:30pm, $6, 21+ w/Oh Captain My Captain, Mimicking Birds and Morning Teleportation.

Brain eating goodness!

iluvrobots@gmail.com (Rachele) — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:43:00 +0000

Saturday May 16th at Bossanova Ballroom (722 East Burnside), 9pm, $TBD, 21+ w/Writhe In Agony (aka Written In Ashes).

DJ Kenny

iluvrobots@gmail.com (Rachele) — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:40:00 +0000

Saturday February 7th at Lola's Room (1332 W. Burnside), 9pm, $10, 21+ w/theXplodingboys, Adrian and The Wounds and DJ Kenny.

The Ultimate Cure Tribute Band, theXplodingboys as well as a CD release party for Adrian and The Wounds...with 80's new wave, goth, and synth pop in between.

Wayne Horvitz

iluvrobots@gmail.com (Rachele) — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:38:00 +0000

Saturday January 31st at Goodfoot (2845 SE Stark), 9pm, $10, 21+ w/Wayne Horvitz and Blue Cranes.

Restiform Bodies

iluvrobots@gmail.com (Rachele) — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 05:19:00 +0000

Thursday February 19th at Backspace (115 NW 5th Ave), 9pm, $5, All Ages w/Restiform Bodies, EGADZ! and (N1nth) Cloud.

Meyercord

iluvrobots@gmail.com (Rachele) — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 03:44:00 +0000

Sunday February 1st at Mississippi Pizza (3552 North Mississippi Ave), 9pm, $5, 21+ w/Meyercord, Black Heart Moon and Dhani Rosa.

OCMC

iluvrobots@gmail.com (Rachele) — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 03:41:00 +0000

Saturday January 31st at Backspace (115 NW 5th), 9pm, $5, 21+Bar/All Ages w/Oh Captain My Captain, Black Whales and Y La Bamba.