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/

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.

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:

• Our Portland EVENTS LIST
• Portland Videos
• PDX Pipeline Vimeo group

Posted by Mike Harper

Oh So Saintly…

The 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+

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 `sort of way, with Byrne playing a mysterious but gregarious visitor to a small Texas town – the kind of place where people wear leisure suits with golf shirts and Velcro-sneakers, a place that operates around its shopping mall and silicon-microchip factory. He speaks mostly to the audience, delivering insights on contemporary American life and dismissing insight just the same. On the subject of highways, for instance, he mentions that “some would call them the cathedrals of our time. Not me.” The film also features John Goodman, in one of his first prominent roles, playing Louis Fyne, a kind hearted bachelor looking for love in all the wrong places. In many ways, the film is about people like Louis, trying to find love in a factory or at a karaoke bar, people with real human emotions leading a “scientific lifestyle.” As one woman, a gossipy assembly line worker, puts it, “I like a hairy man. Jesus was hairy.”

But Byrne is also interested in the transformation of the American landscape. He begins the film with a brief history of Texas – from the time it was covered in water, then populated by dinosaurs, then fought over by Indian tribes, Spanish colonists, Texans and the American government. He sees America as a dynamic, fluid being that is growing and changing, and finds in the fictional town of Virgil a place that embodies the change of the 1980’s. He’s not necessarily concerned with political or economic transformations, but how the changing social climate affects people’s interactions with themselves and with each other. As he strolls through a shopping mall, for instance, he notices that “shopping malls have replaced the town square as the center of many American cities. Shopping itself has become the activity that brings people together. In here, music is always playing. What time is it? No time to look back.”

Saturday February 6th @ 7PM
Whitsell Auditorium
1219 SW Park Avenue
Portland, OR 97205

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:
Things 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

• From Pipeline: 50+ Portland First Thursday Art Events & Parties
• The Phunktion w/ Philly’s Phunkestra Soul Orchestra @ Crown Room (live New Orleans funk, $2 pints and $2 rum n cokes)
• Krushgroove Throwback @ Bar XV (old school hip hop, funk and throwback jams)
• The Fix @ Someday Lounge (hip hop dj’s)
• Savoir Faire Burlesque & Vaudeville Performance @ Hawthorne Theater (barroom fare)
• Lizard Lounge First Thursday @ Lizard Lounge (tons of items on sale, free beer, music)
• By Land, Sea & Air @ Compound Gallery (art art art)
• Chocolate Cheeks Book Release Event @ Floating World Comics (art art art)
• HA:lf Show Opening@ Doppler PDX (art art art)
• Ashley Montague Art Opening @ Hawthorne Albina Press (art art art)
• Wild Kingdom Art Opening @ Groove Suite (art art art)
• Dan Duval Sextet @ Tugboat Brewery (jazz)
• Oracle CD Release show w/ Storm Large @ Dante’s (rock)
• Unity Creates Strength Haiti Benefit Show @ Rotture (dubstep, glitch, electro)
• It’s Not Me, It’s You: Stories from the Darkside of Dating @ Bagdad Theater (reading performance)
• From Pipeline: First Thursday @ Core Gallery – Chris Haberman: I Love Myself and Want to Live
• From Pipeline: Slow Food Portland and Ecotrust present “From Bean to Buzz”
• From Pipeline: First Thursday @ Tribute Gallery – Portland debut of Tyler Kohlhoff

Friday, Saturday, Sunday after the break…

Portland Friday Events, February 5

• And I Was Like, What?, Horde & the Harem, Tiger House @ Ash St. Saloon (awesome showcase of folk Americana, indie rock, dance pop)
• Hot Mess w/ Lions Den & Dr. Adam @ Tube (silliest and sweatiest dance party in PDX)
• Where It’s At w/ Slim Kid Tre of the Pharcyde @ Groove Suite (hip hop dance party)
• Duets Art Show Opening @ Monkey Studio (art art art)
• From Pipeline: First Friday: Portland Bike Contest & Art Show | NEMO Backyard Blam
• The Skunky Bunch @ Twilight Room (live funk)
• Burnination @ Whiskey Bar (breaks dj’s)
• Zoppa Room Studio Opening @ Zoppa Room (music, drinks, tour of the new space)
• Y La Bamba @ Mississippi Studios (gypsy folk)
• Guidance Counselor, Champagne Champagne, Rainbow Bridge @ Rotture (electro rock and rap)
• Wax Fingers, Gavin Castelon, Wester Daywick @ Kenton Club (indie rock)
• Bambu Station @ Berbati’s (reggae)
• Notes From the Underground @ Kelly’s Olympian (jazzy hip hop)
• Catsup! Trance Party @ Mt. Tabor Theater (techno and trance with a visual light performance)
• Lillie Boutique Trunk Sale & Chocolate Tasting @ Lillie Boutique (clothes & chocolate)
• Art Party @ Branx (dance performance, dj’s, art show, live music)
• Carnival Artists Photo Show @ Newspace Gallery (art art art)
• Here Comes A Big Black Cloud & Magic Johnson @ Duckets (indie rock)
• WeMa Designs Open Studio @ WeMa Studios (fashion, drinks, shopping)
• From Pipeline: Until The Light Takes Us at Clinton Street Theatre (http://www.blackmetalmovie.com/)
• From Pipeline: Star Trek (2009) & Keep Your Fork, There’s Pie @ New Multnomah Indoor Cinema | Free
• From Pipeline: Multnomah Arts Center’s “Benefit for Haiti” Art Sale
• From Pipeline: Portland Seafood & Wine Festival
• From Pipeline: Jubel 2010 Release Party @ Deschutes Brewery
• From Pipeline: Native Son Chris Botti Returns For One Night Of Cool Jazz
• From Pipeline: First Friday – Group Show, pushdot meets Plywerk @ Pushdot Studios
• From Pipeline: First Friday Opening Reception: Brent Pruitt’s FELT UP
• From Pipeline: Rose City Rollers Volunteer Mixer @ Nightlight Lounge

Portland Saturday Events,  February 6

• Ante Up presents RAW @ Crown Room (hip hop dance party)
• Enchanted Corsets Bridal Fashion Show @ Lotus Seed Center (fashion show)
• Various @ Branx (dubstep)
• Electropolis w/ Very International Love, Serious Business, Sex Life, Arohan, Soft Metals @ Someday Lounge (local electro dance showcase)
• Saks 5th Ave Sneak Peak Dress Show @ Saks 5th Ave (wine, cheese, dress shopping, mud wrestling – one of these things does not belong)
• PDX Browncoats/Mercy Corps Fundraising Event for Haiti @ Moon & Sixpence (movies & drinks)
• The Bitchins & King Fader Super Bowl Pre-Party @ Whiskey Bar (cover band with 7 piece horns)
• Super Secret House Show w/ Copy @ Mystery Location (look online for details)
• Hip Happening @ Sellwood Masonic Lodge (arts and crafts fair)
• Rock the 6 Benefit Concert w/ Linda Hornbuckle Gospel Group, Diezel P, Luck One, LaRhonda Steele Band @ Jefferson HS (tons of r&b, gospel and hip hop)
• Delicious Triple Party @ Muddy Waters on Belmont (burlesque dance, gypsy violin, magicians)
• Gumar’s Magical Midi Band, Sista Fist, Rap Class @ Parlour (costume indie pop dance party)
• Beaux Arts Ball @ Portland Art Museum (fancy schmancy)
• Astronautalis, Rafael Vigilantics, Sleep, She’s On Drugs @ Rotture (hip hop, spoken word, electro rap)
• Bob Marley Bday Celebration @ Mt. Tabor (reggae)
• After Dark w/ Brian Lyons & Karl K. @ Groove Suite (house music)
• St. Vincent @ Doug Fir (melodic vocals)
• From Pipeline: Until The Light Takes Us at Clinton Street Theatre (http://www.blackmetalmovie.com/)
• From Pipeline: Multnomah Arts Center’s “Benefit for Haiti” Art Sale
• From Pipeline: Portland Seafood & Wine Festival
• From Pipeline: Grindhouse Film Festival presents THE LATE NIGHT EUROPEAN HORROR SERIES at Cinema 21 – DEMONS (1985)
• From Pipeline: Cat Show – Oregon Cats Classic @ Portland Expo Center
• From Pipeline: Portland Trail Blazers vs Los Angeles Lakers @ Rose Garden
• From Pipeline: Portland Parks & Recreation’s Work Party Garden Clean-up | Free
• From Pipeline: St.Vincent at the Doug Fir | All Ages + Adult Show
• From Pipeline: True Stories @ Whitsell Auditorium | Reel Music Film Festival

Portland Sunday Events,  February 7

• Sinferno Cabaret @ Dante’s (fire dancing, strippers, magicians)
• Zoo Bombers @ Zoo Bomb Monument (mini bike madness)
• Soulstice @ Groove Suite (deep house)
• Anime Hentai @ Paris Theater (sex cartoons)
• Bike Polo at 2pm @ Alberta Park (bring a bike and a mallet)
• Soft Sundays w/ Gretchen Mitchell @ Club Calabash (r&b, blues, soul)
• Band Showcase @ Rontoms (bands, beer, hipsters)
• From Pipeline: OMSI $2 Day
• Meydan @ Marino’s Adriatic Café (music from the Ottoman Empire)
• Heart of Craft Fair @ The Woods (crafts goodies)
• Stefanefit @ Echo Theater (acrobats, cirque de soleil type performance)
• Housefire, Water & Bodies, By Sunlight @ Rotture (electronica rock)
• Bargain Hunting 101 @ Crystal Ballroom (craft fair)
• Eyedea & Abilities, Animal Farm, Dosh @ Hawthorne Theater (hip hop)
• Super Bowl @ Some Comfortable Place to Eat & Drink (are you ready for some football?)

UPCOMING (just a taste of things to come…)
◊       2/13 – OPEN BAR Party w/ Grand Puba, Ohmega Watts, Philly’s Phunkestra @ Crown Room (make sure to rsvp to get in for the open bar portion)

◊       2/27 – Massive Sweet 16: Have Your Cake And Spend It Too w/ DJ Zimmie, Risk One, Dr. Adam and Illaj @ Crown Room (the last one was ridiculous, I’m already ready for the next one)

Portland’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:

• First Thursday @ Floating World – “CHOCOLATE CHEEKS” Book Release & Art Exhibit w/ Steven Weissman
• First Thursday @ Tribute Gallery – Portland debut of Tyler Kohlhoff
• First Thursday @ Core Gallery – Chris Haberman: I Love Myself and Want to Live

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 break…

More @ Everett Station Lofts

• 231. SHOW & TELL [showandtellgallery.org] – Coffee, cookies, live music, and art!
• 102. IGLOO [iglooart.blogspot.com ] – “Floater” featuring works by Kelly O and film screening by Mark Escribano
• 115. ERRATA [erratagallery.wordpress.com] – “Sight + Smell”, photography by Nyree Watts
• 117. TRIBUTE GALLERY [thetributegallery.com] – “Inland Empires”- New Work by Tyler Kohlhoff
• STUDIO COEUR [corepdx.com] -”i Love Myself and Want to Live”, New Work by Chris Haberman.
• 110 SEA CHANGE [seachangegallery.org] – Hometown heroes Matt Warren and Nicole Paterson.
• 114. TRACTOR [tractorpdx.com] – “T9″, new works by Lindsay Aucoin
• 105. PONY CLUB[ponyclubgallery.com] – “Self Psyche”, Self portraits from Pony Club members and artists from around the world.
• 111. HALF/DOZEN [halfdozengallery.com] – “The Quadratic Logogram of Almost Everything:The Democracy of the Contemporary Art Object”, curated by Derek Franklin
• 113. SEQUENTIAL ART [sequentialartgallery.com] – Select works from Derek Stubbs
• ANKA GALLERY [ankagallery.com] – BAM presents SuperTrash Portland Feb-March 2010 at Anka Gallery

Also open on First Thursday (@ Everett Station): 103. MODEST – 104. EYEFUL – 105. PONY CLUB – 107. THE LIFE – 108. DARRAS – 109. DOPPLER – 116. TYSON SPACE – A MOOD CHANGE – OGLE – VIRTUOSO STUDIOS

More OLD TOWN CHINATOWN

• p:ear GALLERY [pearmentor.org]- “Evelove Glimerous”, featuring work by Michael T. Hensley and Felicity Fenton complimented with p:ear youth artists.
• FLOATING WORLD [floatingworldcomics.com] – “CHOCOLATE CHEEKS” book release & art exhibit with Steven Weissman(Yikes!)
• BUTTERS GALLERY [buttersgallery.com] – “Little Gems”, Recent small scale works by gallery artists.
• UPPER PLAYGROUND [fifty24sf.com] – “Character Assasination” by David Choe
• FONTANELLE GALLERY [fontanellegallery.com] – “Our Songs of Experience” by Julianna Bright
• SOMEDAY LOUNGE [somedaylounge.com] – The Fix, Rev. Shines, Kez, Dundiggy 9pm, FREE!

Also open on First Thursday: GRASSY KNOLL GALLERY – NRFCU – 24 HOUR CHURCH OF ELVIS – CANAL ROAD – HECKLEWOOD – BERBATI’S – – FORTUNATO ARTWORKS – MORGAN COLE PASINSKI – BACKSPACE – COMPOUND GALLERY – ATTIC GALLERY

OTHER NW GALLERIES

• BEPPU WIARDA [beppugallery.com] – Resin Paintings by Alan Fulle
• FROELICK GALLERY [froelickgallery.com] – “Interiors: An Invitational Group Exhibit”
• AUGEN NW [augengallery.com]- Work by Bernhard Epple; “Made in California” Group Show with Francis, Lichtenstein, Thiebaud and others
• BLACKFISH [blackfish.com] – “Migrating Messages” – colloboration between artist Steve Tilden, writer Paul Merchant, and composer Tomas Svoboda
• CHAMBERS @ 916 [chambersgallery.org] – “Patterning” by Scott Wolniak
• GALLERY 114 -New Member Show
• LAURA RUSSO [laurarusso.com] – “Abstract City” recent work by Margot Voorhies Thompson, “Hard Pressed” New Monotypes byBetty Merken
• MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY CRAFT [museumofcontemporarycraft.org] – “Gestures of Resistance”;
• PDX CONTEMPORARY ART [pdxcontemporaryart.com] – Group Show; Incidence and Pattern by Bean Finneran
• WATERSTONE [waterstonegallery.com] – New and recent work by Waterstone Gallery Artists
• LITTLE GREEN GROCER – Works by Abraham Wylie
• BULLSEYE GALLERY [bullseyegallery.com] – “Reflect” – work by April Surgent
• 3D CENTER [3dcenter.us] – Sacred Sites by Dale Walsh; Int’l Stereoscopic Union “Code 2″ by photographers from around the world
• PACIFIC NORTHWEST COLLEGE OF ART [pnca.edu] -Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now.

Also open First Thursday: TENDER LOVING EMPIRE – PACIFIC NORTHWEST COLLEGE ART – POWELL’S – BELLA PERLA – CAROLEZOOM STUDIO – GALLERY 815 – CHILDREN’S HEALING ART PROJECT – VINO PARADISO – CAPLAN ART DESIGNS – PULLIAM DEFFENBAUGH – QUINTANA GALLERIES -OREGON JEWISH MUSEUM – ELIZABETH LEACH GALLERY – BLUE SKY GALLERY

ART IN SW

• AUGEN GALLERY [augengallery.com] – Group Show: Master Prints, with work by Dine, Frankenthaler, Motherwell and others
• Gallery Ren [www.insidesourcemedia.com/gallerieren] – ” Reflections” paintings by Julia Peltz Peltz
• Shaffer Fine Art [shafferfineart.com] – The Art of Romance, works by Hessam, Gaylord Ho, and Stephen Quartly. Live music by violinist Aaron Meyer.
• Attic Gallery [firstthursdayportland.com]- paintings by Alfred Currier and Anne Schreivogl. Music by Blues guitarist Mary Flowe.

From our partners at Oregon Symphony:

NATIVE 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.

• This is another homecoming for Botti, who was born in Portland and raised in Corvallis and whose Oregon roots run deep: As a teen in Portland: he performed at Delevan’s, played in Ron Steen’s band and studied with former Oregon Symphony principal trumpeter Fred Sautter.
• Botti performed two holiday concerts with the Oregon Symphony in December 2008. This time it’s just Botti and his backup band; the Oregon Symphony does not perform.
• Since the release of his first solo album in 1995, Botti has built a sui generis career that seamlessly blends pop, the classics and contemporary jazz and has made him the best-selling American jazz instrumentalist.
• Over the past three decades, Botti has recorded and performed alongside many of the biggest names in music, including Frank Sinatra, Sting, Josh Groban, Paul Simon, John Mayer, Andrea Bocelli and Joshua Bell.

Tickets: $25 to $130; at the Oregon Symphony Ticket Office, 923 SW Washington St., in downtown Portland. Ticket office hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. Tickets may also be purchased by phone at (503) 228-1353 or (800) 228-7343 during the same hours, at the concert hall box office starting two hours before the performance, or online at any time from the orchestra’s web site, OrSymphony.org. Tickets are also available from Ticketmaster.com.

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

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:
NEMO 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.

Posted by Mike Harper

The era of the folk orchestra hasn’t given up its bloom with the new decade. Layers of musicians pile into tiny venues and pack stages like nearly lit matches huddling in a matchbox – percussive smashing of random objects, toy pianos and brass instruments shining against the floating tones of melting guitar strings wrapped around violin whispers! In the vein of Zach and everyone’s favourite Sufjan comes one Berkeley via Missouri composer that has landed in Portland like an origami crane folded from sheet music. Having toured through Portland with Bearkat in 2008, Kyle Butz set his sights on this town, orchestrating his return by way of cross-continental tour, gaggle of musicians and accordion in tow.

Bootz Orchestra channels large Balkan beats through the four strings of Kyle Butz’s ukulele, buried alive beneath a shuddering brass section and the soaring violin of Ashley King.  “Mollifying Whirl,” from Bootz’s EP Bony Jars, begins with a slight eruption of trombones and trumpets waltzing with sparse piano over ukulele strings peppering subdued drumbeats. The slow building climb and escape between recurrences of soft strums behind slightly thought-strangled singing brims with suspense, cascading into a soft-landing at its end. The running bass of “Our Daughters” chases the metronome-banjo that leads a cloud of instruments, outrunning the “grey ghosts in tight knitted bones” of the first line, weaving between a wave of circling notes and glockenspiel droplets. The EP

Bony Jars is available now with new songs in the works. Keep your eyes alive for the orchestra cavorting around town with accordions, banjos, guitars, ukuleles, trombones, violins, tambourines, melodicas and all!

Next Show: Feb. 19: The Parlour – Bootz Orchestra w/ Johan

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Mike Harper has his books and his poetry to protect him. Also, a formidable vinyl collection, his head in a cloud of music, and his hands hovering loudly over the clanking keys of a typewriter. He writes for BBQCHICKENROBOT.COM and edits the poetry/art zine Lexicon Polaroid (www.lexiconpolaroid.com). You can find him at the bottom of a demi-tasse, a pint glass, or just follow him @openmikeharper.

Nightly Notable: Andre Miller Drops 52 on Dallas
January 30, 2010
Video by nbaus

Andre scored a career -high 52 points last night against the Dallas Mavericks. From what I remember/heard while watching, the Blazer game scoring record is 54 points by Damon Stoudamire.

• From Blazersedge: Andre Miller Went Off
• From Oregonian: Dre Day: Andre Miller drops career-high 52 in win over Mavs
• From Ball Don’t Lie: Andre Miller drops 52 points
• From Canzano: Can Brandon Roy and Andre Miller work together?

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• Portland Videos on Pipeline
• PDX Pipeline Vimeo group

Portland Tweed Ride 2010
Video by allenink

On the Twitter? Follow @pdxbikes for Portland Bike tweets.
Some great Tweed Ride pictures after the break…

Portland Oregon Tweed Ride
January 30, 2010
Photo by william200549

Portland Oregon Tweed Ride
January 30, 2010
Photo by william200549

Portland Oregon Tweed Ride
January 30, 2010
Photo by Mega Monkey 9000

“High Tea at Overlook House”
Portland Oregon Tweed Ride
January 30, 2010
Photo by BikeRanger

Portland Oregon Tweed Ride
Skidmore Fountain
January 30, 2010
Photo by BikeRanger

—————————————————-Related info

• From BikePortland.org: A smashing time at the Tweed Ride
• Original Pipeline info: This Saturday: Portland Biking With Style | The Tweed Ride
• 30 second video clip from Robert Holler on Vimeo
• Portland Videos on Pipeline
• PDX Pipeline Vimeo group

Related: Our Portland EVENTS LIST

From the large weekend list compiled by Leigh Feldman & supplemented by Pipeline. 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.

Portland Sunday Events, January 31

• Sinferno Cabaret @ Dante’s (fire dancing, strippers, magicians)
• Zoo Bombers @ Zoo Bomb Monument (mini bike madness)
• Soulstice @ Groove Suite (deep house)
• Anime Hentai @ Paris Theater (sex cartoons)
• From Pipeline: Rontoms 100th Free Show Extravaganza | Nine Local Bands | Free
• Bike Polo at 2pm @ Alberta Park (bring a bike and a mallet)
• Soft Sundays w/ Gretchen Mitchell @ Club Calabash (r&b, blues, soul)
• 5th Annual Chocolate Fest @ World Forestry Center (tons of sweets)
• From Pipeline: 100th Free Show Party @ Rontoms | 8 free bands
• Lizard Lounge & Nau Warehouse Sale @ 525 NW 10th (tons of items on sale)
• Motoyo Nakamura Photo Exhibit @ Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center (art art art)
• Bridgetown Sextet @ Brassiere Montmare (jazz)
• Portland Poetry Slam @ Backspace (aggressive poetry)
• Crystal Ballroom Bday Show @ Crystal Ballroom (full day of free music)
• Boat Drinks @ East End (yacht rock)
• Record Hop w/ AM Gold @ Spare Room (rockabilly, r&b, soul)
• A Novel Romance Bridal Fashion Show @ Ace Cleaners (fashion show)
• Fleshtone @ Mississippi Studios (electro italio dance)
• Explode Into Colors/DJ Anjali @ Kennedy School (electro rock & bhangra dj)
• Prefuse 73, Gaslamp Killer, J Roby @ Holocene (glitch beats)
• From Pipeline: The Oregon Symphony wants YOU! Join us for “Join the Audience.”
• From Pipeline: International Allbreed Cat and HouseHold Pet Show & Benefit for the Oregon Food Bank
• From Pipeline: Portland Parks & Recreation’s Community Gardens Winter Gardening 101 class | Free

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From our partners at Massive:

Last Saturday – Jan. 30th – Massive 15: Quinceanera Classic
9pm. $5. 21+ – The Crown Room (205 NW 4th Ave)
Tony Touch aka Tony Toca
Dr. Adam & Epp Saheed

Free before 10PM when you say “Life is a Party”

What is Massive? – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVDVTWXNbEk

Tony Touch: TONY TOUCH aka Tony Toca continues to be a force to be reckoned with. TONY TOUCH, an icon in Hip-Hop and in the Urban Hispanic genre plus seasoned player in the game, is a true innovator and has revolutionized the DJ game over and over.

From his legendary mixtapes, to his skills on the 1’s and 2’s, to becoming Hip-Hop’s most recognized DJ. This C.E.O/Artist/ Producer, is now currently working on his eighth commercial release titled “The PieceMaker 3 …The Return of the 50 Mc’s” and is expected to make history once again.

In 2000, Tony released “The Piece Maker” on Tommy Boy Records. This album sold 400,000 units worldwide and featured legendary artists like Big Pun, Cypress Hill, Wu-Tang Clan, Busta Rhymes, Eminem, Gang Starr and much more. The single “I Wonder Why” featuring Total was a hit and the video featured cameos from John Leguizamo, Rock Steady Crew, Grand Master Flash, Marley Marl, DJ Premier and more. Since then Tony Toca has released “The Piece Maker 2” which also had an all-star line up with features such as P. Diddy, Fat Joe, Sean Paul, Snoop Dogg and legendary Ruben Blades. Toca is also known to represent the urban Latino community to the fullest with his Spanglish lyrics and Salsa roots. It is the result of growing up with Salsa at home and Hip- Hop influence in his lifestyle. We are excited to be bringing him to Portland to headline Massive!

Epp Saheed: You’ve probably heard him on FreshSelects or Jammin 107.5. If not you are about to hear a lot more of him with future projects T&E (Tope & Epp) and on the collective recording compilation for Wajeed of Platnium Pied Pipers.

Dr. Adam: Massive resident DJ Doctor Adam, whose mixtape for street wear site Karmaloop hit over 20,000 downloads (grab it here if you don’t have it – http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ixmkyxx5i5f) will be holding it down as he always does for PDX’s fashion show/dance party. Those that don’t know his name must not live in Portland as his name is everywhere! Massive is the perfect opportunity to see what he does perfectly, which is make you want to dance.

Massive 15 will also feature a fashion show by local boutique/designer Gypsy Yardsale and will be hosted by local personality Ronin Roc.