We are giving away a pair of tickets for the KPSU Kruise aboard the Portland Spirit with Unknown Mortal Orchestra & Radiation City. To win, comment on this post why you’d like to attend. Winner will be drawn and emailed Friday, August 24.
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From our partners at KPSU:
KPSU Kruise w/ Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Sunday, August 26, 2012
10:30 p.m. | $20 | All Ages
Purchase Tickets at www.portlandspirit.com/kpsu
Portland Spirit
Salmon Street Springs Fountain
1000 block of SW Naito Parkway, Portland, OR
An evening on the Portland Spirit with Unknown Mortal Orchestra & Radiation City. Proceeds benefit KPSU, the student ran radio station at Portland State University, fundraising for an LPFM license. A full bar will be available on board for 21+. 10:30pm boarding time, 11:00pm departure, & 1:00am return.
The self-titled Unkown Mortal Orchestra disc is really an amalgamation of hip-hop, Motown-era soul and psychedelic guitar-rock. “I got into Wu-Tang before I got into the Beatles,” Nielson says of his genre-fucking analog aesthetic. “I really think those bands have a lot in common.”
Radiation City’s (Willamette Week’s Best New Band of 2012) handcrafted sound is harder to describe than its internal dynamics. At the core of the band’s first two releases—last year’s full-length, The Hands That Take You, and the Cool Nightmare EP released in March—is a collision of old and new. Drum machines mingle with bossa nova rhythms, and Phil Spector-style echo-chamber vocals fall over Pulp-esque guitar grooves. Always, especially in the voices of Rad City’s two female singers, there’s a healthy dose of soul.
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Water, music, food, and boats go well together. Count me in!
Pick-me pick me pick me pickme pick me pickme pickme pick me pickme pickme pickme Please PLEASE pick me.Because I really want to go.
OMFG, I must go to this. Love KPSU, love parties on the water. And I bring a party wherever I go…
Oh to be on the sea
And listening to bands rock thee
and drinking spirits done by me
Sounds awesome! I would love to take my husband for our upcoming anniversary!
This sounds amazing. I promise if I win I won’t embarrass PDX Pipleline…too much.
I need to get out into the physical world and experience a portion of the Willamette with great music none-the-less!! Let my senses come alive.
“How can you love me, if you don’t PICK ME, baby???”
Pick ME for the free tickets, I could really “find them of use!”
I’ve never seen the Willamette before from anywhere other than the shore.
I just moved to Portland in April and haven’t gotten a chance to do anything fun yet! I’ve never been on a boat and would love to see UMO on the river while supporting college radio!
Unknown Mortal Orchestra is a GREAT band, I really regret not having seen them yet! Psychedelic indie pop rock grooves, a bandcamp starter band from Portland. Shoulda-coulda-woulda type thing, but this is such a great opportunity! I’ve always wanted to go on the Portland Spirit. Haven’t done anything like it in Portland thus far. I would just love to do this.
Radiation city are a great live band, opening for another great band, on a boat.
Who wouldn’t want to cruise the Willamette with Radiation?!
I would LOVE to do this with my best friend on Sunday :) Cheers to Sunday Funday!!!
I missed UMO in Richmond when I was living there, only just found out they were from PDX. Sounds like an amazing chance to see them.
I would love to surprise my girlfriend with these tickets!!
I’m not sure how I’ve managed to live my whole life in Portland and never get on the Portland Spirit. This is as good as an excuse as I’ll ever get!
This sounds like it will be AMAZING! I’ve never been on the Portland Spirit, and am always down for some good hip-hop!
COOL!
this sounds like fun. I am a HUGE fan of fun!
I am broke as a really funny joke! that may be a bad simile but whatever. I want tickets!
Yes please. I would adore two free tickets.
Anything to do with KPSU is all right with me.
I can’t swim!
Oooh weee Baby! Won’t you let me take you on a sea cruise. Or down to Skipper’s for some Seafood!!
I’d love to see Unknown Mortal Orchestra after missing them several times… pick me!
As it turns out, I am Portland’s ‘Best New Fan’, so attendance is mandatory (and the resulting double-dose of radiation may cause an explosion).
We miss the Portland Spirit, we’d love to go cruise again!
I have the spirtit! I need to take my son on this dreamcruise cause he’ll be turning 16 at midnight. Hook us up and I will be your best friend… The best friend you could ever have.
Two rad Portland bands, and a booze cruise that is supporting college radio?? I love all of these things so very much. I’d love to go!
I would love to go because I’ve never been on the Spirit before and this sounds like a fun event!
I would love to go because I’ve never been on the Spirit before and this sounds like a fun event!
…I will get LAND SICK if I don’t see my two favorite Portland bands rock the waters of the Willamette Sunday. Please hook us up and YOU’LL ROCK FOREVER, my dear pdxpipeline.
I’d love to be picked for this! I’ve never been on the Spirit and I need some Salsaness to brighten my weekend! :)
I’m on a boat!!!
I’ve never been on a boat on the Willamette, let alone a concert in a boat!
Hopefully I can get some boating in… I miss the Puget sound, what a fantastic 4 year anniversary I could have!
I wanna be on a mutha-effing boat!
I might be too late, but I’ve only been on a paddle boat before, so this would be super rad.
Sounds rad! Love Radiation City and am too broke for this one. Sure to be a memorable night!
Portland State Radio on a cruise? How could you lose?
My name is Adam. I like both of these bands. I would very much enjoying seeing these bands on the Portland Spirit.