Portland Music Mondays: A. King + Download

Posted by Mike Harper

A. King Can Sing

Her guitar gently weeps, and her violin smiles sad melodies across strata of music. Sleight jazz hides under waves of a present guiding bassline, often times running from wisps and whistles to climbing a wall built of organ pipes, distorted amps, and bent keys competing with A. King’s less-than-mellow-while-still-spot-on voice.

Weaving spot on melodies between her six strings with pent energy, Ashley wraps softly haunting lyrics around an energetically crying violin on her track “You Don’t Mind”. A tambourine chases her violent strum that keeps you at the edge of your headphones till a break of echoes charms your ear like a surrounding line of smoke tip-toeing through delay before crashing back into a burst and end.

Drawn to the Northwest following a brick road of family and friends, A. King’s saintly spirit will fit right in in Portlandtown!

A. King’s next show: February 9th @ Ash Street Saloon

Download “You Don’t Mind” here: www.zshare.net/audio/723224233f3a0579/

Portland Valentines Day With Storm Large + Meet Storm Backstage | Arlene Schnitzer

From our partners at Oregon Symphony

Announcing our Valentine’s Crazy Deal for Storm Large’s Crazy Love concert debut with the Oregon Symphony.
See Storm at her sexiest and sassiest with this fantastic package offer.

Feb. 13, 2010, 7:30 p.m.
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

Brimming with treats and surprises, this package includes …
– Dinner for two at Nel Centro before the concert
– Two Dress Circle seats – the best in the house
– One great bonus: You get to meet Storm backstage!

Bring a date, or invite friends to get in on the package with you. Make it an unforgettable night!
An evening like this is simply a click away. Just go here to buy tickets.
But don’t wait — because bidding ends at 10 a.m. Feb. 10.

Regular tickets can be purchased here.

Video: Clare and the Reasons – “All The Wine” + Mississippi Studios Show


Clare and the Reasons – All The Wine
www.clareandthereasons.com

Great video from Brooklyn-based group Clare and the Reasons. They will be at Mississippi Studios on February 10th with Van Dyke Parks. You can also download their mp3 of “That’s All” here.

Related from PDX Pipeline:

Today & Tonight: St.Vincent at the Doug Fir | All Ages + Adult Show

Posted by Mike Harper

Oh So Saintly…

St. vincentThe calm croon of Annie Clark’s voice can be a smiling trap  to capture you in a cascading lull as her gut-pulling guitar will tear at your ears with the lovely contrasting blows of string-bending and wall-of-sound instrumentation. Seeing her is like a glimpse of a nymph (one who listened to a good bit of Beatles), her small stature a misleading element of her raucously perfect musical wave that combines the sound of destruction and whispers of sonnetesque ballads.

St. Vincent is gracing the Doug Fir with not one but two sets on Saturday, February 6th, including one ALL AGES matinee at 5pm ($15). Catch her later at 9pm for just two bucks more!

St. Vincent with Wildbirds & Peacedrums
Saturday Feb 6 @ The Doug Fir
5pm $15 ALL AGES
9pm $17 21+

Tonight: True Stories @ Whitsell Auditorium | Reel Music Film Festival

Related: 75+ Portland Weekend Events, Parties & Free Tickets | February 4-7

Posted by Jeff Guay

True Stories is a surreal sociological musical – or a magical-realist anthropological music video – in which David Byrne floats about a fictional town called Virgil, Texas, wearing a cowboy hat and bolo tie. Byrne, who wrote and directed the film, was artistically ahead of his time with this 1986 cult classic – but hasn’t he always been ahead of his time? Here he boldly breaks and expands cinematic convention and stretches the concept of genre to its limits, but to suggest that True Stories is artsy-fartsy indie-film stuff would be like calling

The Talking Heads music ‘esoteric.’ In fact, the film is hilarious in a perfectly dead-pan Read the rest of this entry »

75+ Portland Weekend Events, Parties & Free Tickets | February 4-7

Leigh sent out his weekly email of Portland weekend events earlier today. It is reproduced below with some additions by Pipeline. You can get the email and your chance to win hookups for shows and deals by emailing leighfeldman3 @ gmail and asking to join

There are many listings so we have put events in red (blue = linked!) that we think will be good, well attended, or should be interesting.

Reminder: We give out free tickets to our Portland Facebook Group including to many of the top music and art venues in Portland. Join it if you like free stuff.

Related From Pipeline: Portland Monthly EVENTS LIST

From Leigh Feldman:
Portland Weekend EventsThings I’m currently jocking…

Free ish… We have quite a few tix this week! Tix to Where It’s At w/ Slim Kid Tre of The Pharcyde (plus drink tickets), a bracelet to the Slabtown Bender weekend festival, 3 tix to the Oracle CD Release Show w/ Storm Large, a pair of tix to St. Vincent, tix to Eyedea & Abilities, Wilco (only one ticket), a pair of tix to Various, two pairs of tix to And I Was Like, What? and two passes to RAW!

Wanna win any of them? Forward this email to a friend, have them write us asking to join the group and we’ll enter you both in a drawing to win! (These are from Leigh, not Pipeline. Email him to join his list & win: leighfeldman3 @ gmail)

Free music ish… This mix from DJ Risk One. He, along with DJ Zimmie and a few other guests will be rocking the next Massive on Feb 27th (special thanks to everyone involved in Massive last weekend, if you have photos send ‘em my way!) If you’ve heard Risk before you know the deal, if not, check his part on the new Super 7 mixtape.

Life is a party, everyone is just waiting to be invited.
See you all out and about! Leigh Feldman

Portland Thursday Events, February 4

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50+ Portland First Thursday Art Events

First Thursday @ Everett Station Lofts, Portland, OregonPortland’s monthly First Thursday event is tomorrow night with over 50 (probably 100) galleries having openings.

We have a very large list below thanks to Sequential Art Gallery (328 NW Broadway). They  compile an email called the  “[h]IT LIST” of events every month. You can join it by emailing them @ sequentialart @ gmail dot com. We have reproduced much of it below with permission.

Related: Portland EVENTS LISTINGS

Are you on Twitter? Follow @FirstThursday to see what people are posting about it. Use @firstthursday or the #firstthursday hashtag when tweeting about the event. We will retweet many. You can also follow Sequential art on twitter: @sequentialart

From Pipeline Listings:

This month at Sequential Art Gallery
{328 NW Broadway #113}
SELECTED WORKS BY DEREK STUBBS

February at Sequential Art Gallery will showcase the comics art of Derek Stubbs. Interested in more than just “final” art, Derek is intrigued by the process of creating. The “how” of the art is as fascinating to him as the “what.” To that end, his solo show at the gallery is his attempt to share the process of putting the pieces together. The show will open First Thursday on February 4th, 6-10pm, and run through the end of the month.

After a short stay at the New York State Psychiatric Institute in 2006, Derek found that marrying words and pictures was what he wanted to do with his life. The result of this has been his immersion into the world of comic art, and projects like TheMin, Mr. Popularity, Oh Snap! A Series on the Hazards of Portland, Filthy Comics and others. He moved from New York City–his home for the previous 15 years–to Portland in 2007, and is glad he did.

<<<<<<<Tons of Portland First Thursday art openings after the breakRead the rest of this entry »

Native Son Chris Botti Returns For One Night Of Cool Jazz | February 5

From our partners at Oregon Symphony:

Oregon Symphony Chris BottiNATIVE SON CHRIS BOTTI RETURNS FOR ONE NIGHT OF COOL JAZZ

When and Where: One performance only, at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 5; Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.

The Performers: Globe-trotting jazz trumpeter Chris Botti returns home to Portland with his stellar ensemble of back-up musicians. Please note: The Oregon Symphony does not perform.

The Program: A wide sampling of the jazz standards and pop tunes Botti’s fans have come to expect.

Spesus Christ Live

Posted by Rondell McCalip

Electronic beats, Melodic undertones and lots of fun for all. Vote yes on “Spesus Christ.” Whenever I listen to this band i get an immediate feeling of the camaraderie circulating through the group. Both on and off the stage. This always makes for a better feeling show and when people feel good they look good and more importantly in this arena they sound good. From the crooning on “Truce” to the seemingly impromtu trip-hop spoken word interlude that laces “Airport Gate.” It is inevitable that at some point during their set your eyes will be wide shut and and your foot jamming along to the bass line.

All this happens before you start dancing your face off. This band does a brilliant job of balancing ambient background music you can just kick it to with a style that may perhaps incite one of those head back introverted dance frenzy’s that only you and whatever god you pray to can understand.

They will be blazing “The Parlour” located at 26th and Powell on Feb. 27th @ 9pm.
Website/Music: myspace.com/spesuschrist

First Friday: Portland Bike Contest & Art Show | NEMO Backyard Blam

We are coming on yet another weekend of Portland First Thursdays & Fridays. This one at Nemo looks liek a standout especially if you have bike skills.

On the Twitter? Follow @pdxbikes for Portland Bike tweets.
Related: Our Portland 2010 February Events List

From NEMO:
PORTLAND, OR -- NEMO hosts the Backyard Blam presentation of Bridgetown Hustle, art show and contests, Friday, February 5, 2010, 6pm to 10pmNEMO hosts the Backyard Blam presentation of Bridgetown Hustle, art show and contests, Friday, February 5, 2010, 6pm to 10pm.

Bike Art Show
Custom bikes, photography, and much more.

Bunny Hop Contest
So. You think you can jump? Prove it at 7:30.

Roller Sprints
Open sprints is a head-to-head bike race on stationary bikes.
Races are on Giant Bowerys that double as grand prizes! Races at 8:00.

Trick Comp
Take it out to the parking lot and show us what you got. Best tricks can win big. Takes place just after sprints.

$5 to participate in the contests. Mad prizes.