I am honored to be a part of this very fun event tonight, as curated by UrHo buddy DJ Safi, and presented by Connie’s rad DJ collective thing, Stylus 503. It’ll be really fun, so come out!
PS: Can you guess which one is me?
October 15, 2005
September 12, 2005
TONIGHT: PDX Katrina Benefit Auction
For the past couple weeks some good friends of mine have been working on a benefit auction and show, proceeds from which will go to the Red Cross Katrina Relief effort. They’ve been hand-decorating custom auction paddles, baking things, rounding up donations from our beautiful, creative community. It’s been an inspiring thing to watch, even if I have been a little too distracted to contribute in any meaningful way. It’s going down TONIGHT at Holocene, so please COME OUT! It’s pay-what-you-can, so bring $5, or drop $500 on some awesome art or a really tasty cookie. And did I mention dancing? DANCING. See you there!
UPDATE: Looks like I’m gonna be playing some records at this tonight! I start aroung 9:30. Fun!
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A smorgasbord of performances by Portland favorites, with intermittent, heated, and impromptu auctioning of goods and services from local Portland artists and businesses.
All proceeds from the door, auction, and bar will go to benefit the American Red Cross. Bring clothes to donate to Portland’s refugee population (yes, we have one).
These plus 15 other auction prizes of equal intrigue!
***Homemade art-filled pinata
***4 Passes to TBA Main Stage (PICA)
***One Room of Your House Professionally Painted
***Serenades by local bands (you name the time and place!)
***a DJ slot on KPSU
***a mural painted in your home by Johnne Eschelman
***Carte Blanche evening at Holocene (entry, drinks, food…)
***Custom Cupcake Telegram
***Bike Tune-Ups
***Massage Therapy
***CD Cover Art and Design (multifresh)
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August 5, 2005
LET’S DO THIS!!!
Holy crap. After working on this thing for the better part of a year, the second annual PDX POP NOW! (exclamation mandatory) festival will be starting in a little over one hour. I am stoked. STOKED!!!!! It was a shit-ton of work coordinating the booking schedule with 49 bands – all graciously donating their time – but oh so worth it: we have a great and weird mix of bands (hillstomp + fogatron + strength = free yr minds!!), it’s free and all ages (one of our raddest volunteers is 18!), and people are getting stoked on their community. Hopefully that love spreads out and circulates through the general music-going population in Portland or maybe-just-maybe increases those ranks a little bit. No matter what, it’s gonna be one fun-ass weekend. I’ll be there for the whole damn thing – meet me at the soda bar!
FAMOUSNESS UPDATE: I was on the Village Voice website yesterday. What?!?
July 23, 2005
Playing Records Tonite
It’s sunny out so I’ll keep this brief. Tonight, Saturday, I will be playing records from 7 to midnight at Homestar (37th & Hawthorne). It’s an art opening for lovely PDX artist Trish Grantham as well as a celebration of Homestar’s recent liquor licensure. Beer and stuff is free early on and these Homestar dudes are really nice people. I plan on dropping the aforementioned Jamie Lidell and maybe some new Vector Lovers stuff and this awesome Brooks/Hot Chip remix I just picked up.
Also planning on checking this out later on (reposted from Connie on Friendster):
You are personally invited to come down to ACME (se 8th &
main) Tonight, Saturday July 23rd for the Stylus503
Showcase. (SORRY PDX ONLY!) But it’s FREE!!!!
What is Stylus503 you ask? It is Portland’s Premier DJ
Collective with PDX finest DJ’s in the house…
Just check the schedule…
8;30-9:30pm: DJ Safi
9:30-10:30pm; DJ Dan Blaker of Soul Explosion
10:30-11:30pm: DJ Stay in School of Knotty Disco
11:30-12:45: DJ Shines of The Lifesavas
12:45-2:15ish: Dj Anjali & The Incredible Kid of Atlas & Andaz
Unfortunately, DJ Chris Funk & DJ Beyonda will not be in
attendance.
please check www.stylus503.com for more info. about our
dj’s.
July 14, 2005
house show w/ hustler white, we quit, good bands
UPDATE: This show was great and Mikaela’s Fiend is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!! Photos and words on Team Tinnitus soon.
ripped straight out of the friendster/myspace negiverse:
people! my band clap amp is playing a most excellent house show tonight and you should all come. we go on first i think, like 9ish. our set is SHORT so get their early if you want to view our music.
the house is at 404 SE 10th at the corner of 10th and oak, a block north of stark
this is a great group of bands put together by the super nice people in hustler white, and it’s FREE – come out!
here’s some info someone else wrote
Mikaela’s Fiend (twisted variant on the post Lightning Bolt scuzz annihilation, best new band from Seattle)
Hustler White (skronky fugged up art noise with big energy)
We Quit (also treading in Lightning Bolt water co-ed duo with punkish attack and super catchy pop songs..great new PDX band)
Eva Inca Ore (disembodied voice from Alarmist)
Clap Amp (another great new PDX band..skronky, caustic Numbers style moog punk with Ex Models styled vocal edge)
June 8, 2005
VOTE POP NOW
Javan and I have been sweating out the details on the PDX Pop Now 2005 Festival Voting Form ™ and we’re finally all done. Voting went live this morning (late because I slept in) and runs till the end of the month. It would be awesome if you would vote for the bands you wanna see play the festival this year, and you can do that here. Also check out this rad write-up courtesy of none other than Pitchfork. STOKED!!!
June 3, 2005
CLAP AMP TONIGHT
Breaking news for blog-reading friends! The band I’m in, Clap Amp, just hopped on this awesome house party show last minute and it’s going to RULE. This will be our second show EVER, and we are so stoked. This house is right around the corner from my house, which means the neighborhood is super quiet, so the music is early. We are the first band so get there at 8PM FOR REAL if you want to see us. The other bands are awesome too, all of them.
8PM >>> CLAP AMP, WE QUIT, CHEVRON, JESSICA JONES >>> 10PM
playing
at
4221 se washington. one block south of stark
music starts at 8, ends at 10
free
(stoked)
April 8, 2005
Promo Addendum
Also, you should go to this rad show tonight:
NOTES:
* It’s at Holocene.
* That really tiny text says 5 bucks for PICA people.
* The first band features Raymond Bettibon and Hans Weigand.
* I swear to god my DJ name is not DJ Matt Wright. I just don’t have a solo DJ name (CUM LAZER is me and my dog Steve) so Scott put that on there. I’m thinking DJ Deluxe Vinyl Poncho. Thoughts, anyone?
February 16, 2005
I’m starting to get really excited about the Blitzen Trapper CD release show, taking place this Friday at good old Berbati’s Pan. I booked the whole thing myself, which I don’t usally do. I’m very stoked about how the lineup came together – varying degrees of “artsy” and “poppy” overlapping in nice ways. These are three of my favorite bands in town on one bill and it feels good to be a part of that. Check out the long-winded press release I wrote for it here.*
Here’s my first ever MP3-bloggy link:
Here’s the awesome poster, designed by the B.Trap:
fig 17: cum, join us.
Do get there early so you can catch the Graves, who never play out and are very talented in a low-key way. Just listened to their first album again this weekend, and yeah it’s still very nice. The Kingdom are great too, and I’m not the only who thinks so – they just got signed to the only biggish label in town.
Steve and I (CUM LAZER) will be in full effect too, dropping poorly mixed heat between bands and afterwards. I’m hoping to instigate full-on dance party action before the night is out, which would would be a first for me in those vaunted Greek halls.
Sort of funny story: the wonderful lady who books Berbati’s, Chantelle Hylton, took the liberty of putting us on the venue calendar as “special guest superstar deejay duo CUM LAZER!!”. I thought that was cute. I also mentioned us in the press release for the show as CUM LAZER DJs – so as not to imply bandness. The end result? The “superstar” bit made it into all the calendar ads in the papers, and the Mercury listed us as CUM LAZER DJS (which sounds like the lazer coming back from the future to save the present). Thus my attempts to avoid confusion only create more weird ambiguity, which makes perfect sense. CUM LAZER: it’s all in yr mind. TRIPPY!
Also, ramen actually smells really good after all the water in the pot has evaporated due to compulsive blogging whilst boiling noodles, some of which are now cemented to the bottom of said pot in an appealing brain-like pattern. They smell like mac ‘n’ cheese when you leave it in the stove longer than you’re supposed to, which I do, because Grandma always made them that way. In short: I *heart* burnt noodles. Not sure about the band though (figure 18).
fig 18: burnt ramen (butchered hens rule)
* (I don’t think I’ve mentioned this yet on the ol’ blog, but I do music-related publicity for my (meager) living, and one of the things I’m doing right now is promoting this album. I booked this show and sent out a press release, hoping that local music scribes might take the occasion to get PUMPED on the Trapper and inform the public, thereby causing all of Portland to realize the pop genius lurking in our midst. The cynical/smart among you will be reading $$$ into my enthusiasm, but trust me: I feel this band, LOTS. They are indeed wonderful and they deserve to be heard. This is my mission.)
