75+ Portland Weekend Events: April 2-5

Leigh just sent out his weekly email of Portland weekend events. It is reproduced below. You can receive the email as well by writing Leigh at twocliche@gmail.com.We also listed 20 or so Portland April Events here and shows that we have free tickets for.

There are many listings so we have put events in red that we think will be good, well attended, or should be interesting. Also, we give out free tickets every Thursday on our Facebook Group. So Join it if you like free stuff.

From Leigh Feldman:
Portland SkylineThings I am currently jocking….

Last weekend… Wow. That was a ridiculous Thursday, Friday,Saturday, Sunday. Massive was, well, massive. If anyone has picture links send ‘em my way. You can see photos of all the backstage craziness here flickr.com/photos/typicalspoon

This weekend… Hot Mess. It's Portland's craziest, sweatiest and best dance party. First Friday's at Tube at 10pm. This month has two of the best dj's you can get. Check below and see why.

These mixes by Hot Mess guests DJ Nature and Dr. Adam. You can see them Friday night for free at Tube at 10pm. Dr. Adam's ‘Swallowing Dust and Razzi's' Mix – divshare.com/download/6995832-862 and DJ Nature's ‘Ante Up — Miami Edition' Mix -divshare.com/download/6940915-7b0.

See you all out and about this weekend! Leigh Feldman

Sunday, April 5

Thursday, April 2

  • Lil' Weezy @ Rose Garden (I heard he is going to perform sober .. Ha! Late April Fool's)
  • Electrique @ East Chinatown Lounge (live art, solid dj's, great venue)
  • Dapper Cap First Thursday @ Dapper Cap on NW 23rd (free beer, dj's, live art)
    Placebo Effect @ Groove Suite (house/techno)
  • DJ P @ Dante's (it's also the X-otica Go Go canned food drive, so bring something to donate)
  • Delicious @ Crown Room (alternative dance party)
  • Handmade in NW @ NW ActivSpace (a crafty co-op show in the space on NW 17th & Lovejoy)
  • Terpischore Daughter's @ CaroleZoom Studio (a vaudevillian photography exhibit)
  • SPL @ Lounge 221 (drum n bass and dubstep)
  • The Fix @ Someday Lounge (hip hop)
  • Flavour @ Agency (new weekly dance party)
  • From Pipeline: 2009 Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival tickets go on sale
  • Guidance Counselor @ Backspace (rocking good time)
  • Chores @ Rotture (rocking good time)
  • Meth Teeth & White Fang @ The Artistery (also a rocking good time. Everyone plays rock now. Even Lil' Wayne)
  • Uplift w/ DJ Rafa @ Saucebox (vibe setting electro)
  • Iretsu @ Doug Fir (dreamy pop)
  • Everyday Prophets @ Goodfoot (electronic reggae)
  • Burlesque Party @ Hawthorne Theater (women dancing)
  • Movie-Music-Art Party @ Mission Theater (well, there will be a movie, some music and I am going out on a limb here, maybe some art. Oh, and it will be a party)
  • Widmer 25th Anniversary Party @ Widmer Gasthaus ($1.50 pints all day)
  • 50 Steps Back Art Show @ Alpern Gallery (art art art)
  • Plants @ Holocene (indie rock)
  • Ippei Gyoubue Art show @ Compund Gallery (this looks amazing)
  • Ella Street Social Club Opening Party @ Ella Street (the old Towne Lounge re-opens!)
  • Shadows of the Realm Art show @ Upper Playground (art art art)
  • Death AD & Beef Stallion @ Ground Kontrol (metal)
  • Dust @ Radish Underground (art and apparel show)
  • Ryz Footwear Launch Party @ Lizard Lounge (free beer, awesome designs)

Friday. April 3

  • Hot Mess @ Tube (Portland's best dance party w/ two dj's back from their respective short run tours)
  • Resurrection Show @ Good Gallery (zombie party and Groovebomb performers)
  • From Pipeline: Museum of Contemporary Craft presents Handmade Nation
  • Pretty Vacant art show @ Worksound Gallery (art art art)
  • Fresh w/ Mike Slott & Samiam @ Crown Room (if you like glitch hop this is the place to be, but then again, if you like glitch hop you already knew that)
  • Quasi @ Backspace (indie rock!)
  • Excellent Gentlemen & Tony Ozier @ Someday Lounge (live soul band!)
  • Mortified @ Someday Lounge (readings of people's most embarrassing stories)
  • Fist Fite @ East End (basement rock jam)
  • From Pipeline: El Grito Del Bronx at Miracle Theater Opening Night
  • SPL, Pulp Friction, Victor Knox @ BC's (drum n bass and dubstep)
  • From Pipeline: Faux Film Festival at Hollywood Theater
  • Seventeen Magazine & Paul Mitchell School Fashion Show @ Barra, at ba, at barracu, oh it's just too hard to type! It's at Barracuda (Silver Fox Alert!!)
  • From Pipeline: Dredg/Torche/From Monument to Masses @ Hawthorne Theatre
  • April Fool's Party w/ Chervona & Danbert @ Dante's (Balkan Brass band and weird folk played by one of the dudes from Chumbawumba. No joke)
  • From Pipeline: Handmade Nation Portland premiere
  • From Pipeline: Vice: Ft djs HiMay, Evan Alexander, and Echoik @ GrooveSuite (house/dance music)”
  • Starfucker @ Lewis & Clark Student Auditorium (great band, not so sure about the venue)
  • Rai's Art Opening Party w/ Rafel Vigilantics & Pegatron @ E Room (hip hop, art and fire shows)
  • Grayskul & Sleep @ Satyricon (local hip hop)
  • Point Juncture, WA & Alan Singley @ Mississippi Studios (folk and lounge act songs)
  • Night Shade Shadow Theater @ Disjecta (intricate shadow puppets and ghost stories)
  • Melao de Cuba @ Mississippi Pizza (samba salsa soul)
  • Black Electro Benefit Event @ Holocene (electro performance by Thavius Beck)
  • DJ Risk One @ Agency (one of Seattle's best dj's party rocks in PDX)
  • Wax: Broken Riot @ It's A Beautiful Pizza (vinyl sale!)
  • First Friday Super Jam @ Goodfoot (funk and breaks for the bboys)
  • A Time For Lions Art show @ Nemo (art art art)
  • Seoul Bro #1 @ Beulahland (funk and soul)

Saturday, April 4

  • Lunacy Stageworks Open Mic @ Sellwood Masonic Lodge (singers, dancers, jugglers, poets, costume wearers … it's a performance open mic and this is Portland. Expect anything)
  • The Stalkers & Nice Boys @ East End (rock party)
  • Shaky Hands, Reporter, White Denim, Swim Swam Swum @ Holocene (put on your skinny jeans)
  • Beau Breedlove Magazine Signing Paarty @ Fantasy Adult Video
  • United Voices Benefit @ Audiocinema (multiple bands and dj's)
  • Reverse Dotty & The Candy Cane Shivs @ Backspace (electro party rock)
  • From Pipeline: Faux Film Festival at Hollywood Theater
  • Alpaca @ Goodfoot (jam band fun)
  • Mannequin Burlesque Show @ Hawthorne Theater (burlesque and fire dancing)
  • Bobby Torres Ensemble @ Jimmy Mak's (latin jazz)
  • From Pipeline: Handmade Nation Portland premiere
  • Anchor Down CD Release Party @ The Know (thinking about the amount of beer that will be consumed at this makes me feel drunk)
  • Aleotoric @ Fez (minimal electro)
  • Frances May Anniversary Sale @ Frances May Boutique (clothing and cupcakes!)
  • Mortified @ Someday Lounge (readings of people's most embarrassing stories)
  • Filmistan @ Someday Lounge (bhangra and bollywood films after Mortified)
  • Sleeze Ball @ Tiger Bar (bands and dj's)
  • Curious Fools Comedy Festival @ Curious Theater (sketch and improv comedy)
  • The DaVinci Challenge @ OMSI (an inventor showdown!)
  • Final Feature Snowboarding Contest @ Timberline Lodge (half pipe competition)
  • Maxwell Bendetti Art show @ Skeleton Key (art art art and pbr)
  • Tommy Largo @ Groove Suite (house music)
  • Josh Funky1 @ Pala (house music)
  • Various @ Branx (dubstep)
  • Zoo @ Dunes (hard electro)
  • Circus Gatti @ Memorial Coliseum (get twenty of your friends, cram into a VW bug and ride together)



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  1.   iZm Says:

    hey ya, as well as all that great stuff! DJ IZM will be at East Chinatown Lounge on Friday for East Infection. Free HipHop, Electro, and Philly/Bmore Club!
    322 NW Everett. represent for a Portland legend, NOT Beau Breedlove!

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