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MUSIC CALENDAR WED. OCT. 11 Aladdin Theater 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Shawn Mullins Alberta Rose Theater Hawthorne Theatre [ OCT. 11-17 ] For more listings, check out wweek.com. LAST WEEK LIVE Turn! Turn! Turn! THOMAS TEAL = WW Pick. Highly recommended. Editor: Matthew Singer. TO HAVE YOUR EVENT LISTED, send show information at least two weeks in advance on the web at wweek.com/ submitevents. Press kits, CDs and especially vinyl can be sent to Music Desk, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Please include show or release date information with all physical mailings. Email: music@wweek.com. 1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd The Cribs Mississippi Studios 3939 N Mississippi Ave 8 NE Killingsworth St The Dreaming Dirt Twilight Cafe and Bar 1420 SE Powell Revolution Hall The Rocketz, The Silver Shine, The Brainax, Misfortunes of Mr. Teal P.O.S., Sean Anonymous 1300 SE Stark St #110 White Eagle Saloon Noggin Fest The Mavericks 836 N Russell St Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall The Goodfoot 2845 SE Stark St Cow Paddy Stompers; Szlachetka & Tyler Fortier 3000 NE Alberta St 1037 SW Broadway Qbala, Galaxe, Signal Bath The War on Drugs, Phoebe Bridges The Know Ash Street Saloon Sashay, Cockeye, Man Repellant 225 SW Ash St Rosetta, North, A//TAR Bossanova Ballroom 722 E Burnside St City of Caterpillar, Thou, Dreamdecay, Longclaw MON. OCT. 16 3728 NE Sandy Blvd Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 1037 SW Broadway The Liquor Store 3341 SE Belmont St Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony Sisters, Rare Diagram, Sheers Bossanova Ballroom The Old Church 722 E Burnside St 1028 SE Water Ave This Is The Kit Cattle Decapitation, Revocation, Full of Hell, Artificial Brain Kim Boekbinder The Secret Society Bunk Bar 116 NE Russell St 1028 SE Water Ave Thursday Swing featuring the Cherry Blossom Hot 4, Pink Lady & John Bennett Jazz Band Fire Nuns, Sam Coffey & The Iron Lungs, PennyMart Turn! Turn! Turn! La Femme, Wet Dream, Future Twin Bunk Bar Dante’s 350 W Burnside St The Angry Lisas, the Jarrod Tyler Band Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St Torres, The Dove & The Wolf Fremont Theater 2393 NE Fremont St Mark Guiliana Jazz Quartet LaurelThirst Public House 2958 NE Glisan St Shelley Short and Jessi Adele Mississippi Studios 3939 N Mississippi Ave Ghost of Paul Revere, The Last Revel The Analog Cafe 1422 SW 11th Ave Luthor Maggot, Baronic Wall, Jock Worms 1028 SE Water Ave READY, WILLING, ABEL: Back in 2012, I remember speaking with a friend who had attended Coachella for the sole purpose of catching the Weeknd’s first U.S. show, only his third-ever live performance. My friend was disappointed, to say the least. On the previous year’s trilogy of introductory mixtapes, the singer, born Abel Tesfaye, crafted a seductive version of indie-friendly R&B, but all that cool was apparently stripped away when Tesfaye no longer had vocal effects and blog hype to hide behind. His stop at Moda Center on Oct. 6 proved this is no longer the case. The Starboy himself arrived by beaming up through the floor. The stage featured a catwalk that jutted out deep into the floor seats, and over that hung a color-changing platform that looked like Damocles’ star destroyer when suspended a mere feet above Tesfaye’s impressive coif. This was a downright spectacle, and the music wasn’t shabby either. Tesfaye’s voice is markedly improved from his early days, and so is his stage pres- ence. And his three-piece band plowed through the songs with precision and dexterity. Some of it bordered on schmaltzy, with “Real Life” and “Earned It” making an eventual Vegas residency seem almost inevitable. “The Morning” and “Wicked Games,” both from his debut mixtape, appeared back-to-back, relatively unadorned and stripped down in comparison to the rest of the show. Belting those songs’ soaring hooks that first appeared shrouded in digital reverb, Tesfaye showed just how far he’s come. PATRICK LYONS. Keeper Keeper, Alvie & The Breakfast Pigs, Mobilities The Firkin Tavern Crystal Ballroom 1937 SE 11th Ave Twilight Cafe and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd Stump Tail Dolly, Whiskey Dick, James Hunnicut, Shootdang White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St Fox and Bones, CORNER FRI. OCT. 13 Aladdin Theater 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Bob Howard, Pretty Gritty The Goodfoot Bunk Bar 2845 SE Stark St Brothers Gow The Know 3728 NE Sandy Blvd Yardsss, Indira Valey, Halloweener, Coleman Stevenson 830 E Burnside St 8 NE Killingsworth St Sun Kil Moon featuring Magik*Magik Orchestra, Josh Haden 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd Doug Fir Lounge The Lovecraft Bar Nick Murphy, Charlotte Cardin & Heathered Pearls Vardaman Ensemble, James Powers Wintet, Coloring Electric Like 421 SE Grand Ave Dante’s The Fixin’ To Pleasure Curses, Sex Park 350 W Burnside St The Old Church Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band 1422 SW 11th Ave 1332 W Burnside St Doug Fir Lounge 8218 N. Lombard St Star Club, Smokin’ Ziggurats, Dusty, Because The Know Balmorhea, Benoit Pioulard 830 E Burnside St Tonic Lounge Protomartyr, Hurry Up, the Woolen Men Don’t, Petite, The Countdown, Gutknife Hawthorne Theatre The Old Church 3100 NE Sandy Blvd Hissing, Vitriol, Taarna, Hexenight Turn! Turn! Turn! 1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd 8 NE Killingsworth St The Last Internationale Cynthia Nelson Band, Jessica Dennison + Jones, Ali Clarys Hawthorne Theatre White Eagle Saloon JR JR, Hembree 836 N Russell St Jack London Revue Unlikely Saints 529 SW 4th Ave 1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd Dennis Bradford THU. OCT. 12 Bunk Bar 1028 SE Water Ave Ape Machine, Year of the Cobra, Robots of the Ancient World Dante’s 350 W Burnside St Barb Wire Dolls, Svetlanas, 57 and the U.S. Wage Slaves Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St LÉON Fremont Theater 2393 NE Fremont St The Bluegrass Special presents Jeff Scroggins and Colorado Kelly’s Olympian 426 SW Washington St J.Lately, DJ Nocturnal, Space Cadet Kenton Club 2025 N Kilpatrick St Crystal Lake, Meterse, Heavÿ Baäng Stäang Mississippi Studios 3939 N Mississippi Ave 3728 NE Sandy Blvd 1422 SW 11th Ave Minor Key Series presents Chuck Prophet The O’Neil Public House 6000 NE Glisan St Alexa Wiley & the Wilderness The Secret Society 116 NE Russell St Pete Krebs and his Portland Playboys Tonic Lounge 3100 NE Sandy Blvd Cauldron, Amulet, RIP, Magnabolt Turn! Turn! Turn! 8 NE Killingsworth St Paul Metzger, John St. Pelvyn, White Shark, This Sax Kills Fascists The Jenny Finn Orchestra; Debra Arlyn & The Goodness, Brian Copeland Band 11th Annual Oregon Music Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony JAM’N 107.5 presents Boo Bomb 4: Chingy, Bone Thugs N Harmony, Lloyd, Warren G, Ying Yang Twins, Montell Jordan, Too Short and more Revolution Hall Alberta Street Pub 1300 SE Stark St #110 1036 NE Alberta St Cloud Catcher, Smokey Kingdom North Mississippi Allstars Matty Charles & Katie Rose, Amanda Breese & Jenna Ellefson Turn! Turn! Turn! Roseland Theater 8 NE Killingsworth St 8 NW 6th Ave Jernigan, Dustin Scharlach, Donald Beaman SAT. OCT. 14 Aladdin Theater 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall RL Grime Star Theater Tonic Lounge 3100 NE Sandy Blvd Twilight Cafe and Bar 1037 SW Broadway 13 NW 6th Ave 1420 SE Powell Blvd Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Flamingosis Leathurbitch, Skelator, Gorgon Stare, Warpfire Bunk Bar St. James Lutheran Church White Eagle Saloon 1315 SW Park Ave The Adarna & J.Graves; King Columbia 1028 SE Water Ave The Strypes Community Music Center Oregon Renaissance Band The Analog Cafe 3350 SE Francis St 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd Delgani String Quartet SWMRS, The Interrupters, Sharp/Shock; Versus, Redeem/Revive, Villain of the Story Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St Stone In Love (Journey tribute) Hawthorne Theatre 1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd Touché Amoré Jack London Revue 529 SW 4th Ave Ty Curtis Band 836 N Russell St The Firkin Tavern 1937 SE 11th Ave SUN OCT. 15 Al’s Den at Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave Dylan Lee Johnston Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall LaurelThirst Public House Star Theater 13 NW 6th Ave Wonder Ballroom 1314 SW Park Ave The Expanders, Iya Terra, For Peace Band 128 NE Russell St Northwest Art Song & The Ensemble The Secret Society Balto, Smokey Brights, Weezy Ford 116 NE Russell St First Christian Church Nik Turner’s Hawkwind, Hedersleben, Children of the Mushroom Turn! Turn! Turn! 8 NE Killingsworth St Johanna Warren, Julia Lucille, Moses Nesh Twilight Cafe and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd 128 NE Russell St The Afghan Whigs, Har Mar Superstar TUE. OCT. 17 Artists Repertory Theatre Paul Kelly Screaming Females, Street Eaters, Macho Boys Mississippi Studios Portland City Hall 1221 SW 4th Ave Doug Fir Lounge Moda Center 3100 NE Sandy Blvd 830 E Burnside St The Not-So-Secret Family Show feat. Tallulah’s Daddy, Fernando Jacob Westfall Tonic Lounge 3939 N Mississippi Ave 116 NE Russell St 836 N Russell St Phantom Family, Revolution Bummer, Bothers Mississippi Studios The Secret Society 830 E Burnside St 3728 NE Sandy Blvd Organic Nation Listening Club Rachel Lark Volt Divers The Know Hot Club of Hawthorne; BINGO and friends “Church” 350 W Burnside St Stephen Ashbrook Bitches of the Sun, Piefight, Terms of Youth 2958 NE Glisan St The Trashies, Bobby Peru, VOG, Negative Option The Lovecraft Bar 1937 SE 11th Ave 1515 SW Morrison St Dante’s The Kooks Bad Suns Carnage The Executioner 3728 NE Sandy Blvd 421 SE Grand Ave 1 N Center Ct St 832 N Killingsworth St The Know White Eagle Saloon The Firkin Tavern Killingsworth Dynasty Sound of Ceres, Pavo Pavo 8 NW 6th Ave 3939 N Mississippi Ave Native Harrow, Huntsman, Holly Ann 3341 SE Belmont St Roseland Theater Call Me Karizma, A Summer High, Sky Haven Wonder Ballroom 426 SW Washington St The Liquor Store anothernight, Isaac Pierce, Oceans Are Zero, Mere Mention 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd Kelly’s Olympian Terror, Blind Justice, Safe and Sound Walkman Coffin Tour The Analog Cafe Dead Lakes, Modern Color, Glasghote, Outlier, Worws 722 E Burnside St 426 SW Washington St Tera Melos, Speedy Ortiz Portland Gay Men’s Chorus The Bandulus & Wicked Shallows 1420 SE Powell Blvd Mississippi Studios 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd Bossanova Ballroom Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony Twilight Cafe and Bar Marc Broussard Kaul Auditorium (at Reed College) 8218 N Lombard St The Fixin’ To 1037 SW Broadway Revolution Hall 1300 SE Stark St #110 Tei Shi, Twelve’len Portland Hip-Hop Day: Rasheed Jamal, WYNNE, Brookfield Duece & Friends, Fountaine, DJ OG One, hosted by StarChile Fake Fireplace, Games, Azul Toga Palehound Kelly’s Olympian Holocene 1001 SE Morrison St Holocene 1001 SE Morrison St Tonic Lounge 3100 NE Sandy Blvd War Curse, Dismantle, Curtains Doug Fir Lounge 3939 N Mississippi Ave The Wild Body, Miss Rayon Star Theater 13 NW 6th Ave Generationals, Benjamin Jones The Know 3728 NE Sandy Blvd Cay is Okay, Dim Wit, Sad Horse Twilight Cafe and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd Spanish Love Songs, Chris Hahn Band, Ducking Punches, Question Tuesday White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St The Half-Hearted Wonder Ballroom 128 NE Russell St Alison Wonderland Willamette Week OCTOBER 11, 2017 wweek.com 35
