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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:
Things 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

• Pin Me Apparel Sale @ Mississippi Location (sale sale sale!)
• Dr. Sketchy's Burlesque Show @ Hawthorne Theater (live nude drawing)
• Sinferno Cabaret @ Dante's (fire dancing)
• Ice Cream Sunday @ East End (dance party!)
• From Pipeline: Handmade Nation Portland premiere
• DJ Nealie Neal @ Moloko Plus (funk and soul gems)
• From Pipeline: Faux Film Festival at Hollywood Theater
• Portland Fiction Project Release Party @ Hipbone Studios (readings from authors, free beer and wine, dj's)
• Curious Fools Comedy Festival @ Curious Theater (sketch and improv comedy)
• Circus Gatti @ Memorial Coliseum (get twenty of your friends, cram into a VW bug and ride together)
• From Pipeline: PDX Pedicab Old Town Tours | Eco-Tourism | Every Sunday
• Nurses @ Someday Lounge (rock)
• Build Less Bridges Rally @ Morrison Bridge (come support bicycle safety and the people against the I-5 expansion)

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Posted By Julian Chadwick

Yes, I took this terrible picture at Quasi's last Doug Fir show. My photography skills are not the POINT! The point is I was there standing for hours (seriously, it was an hour! between bands), sweating my ass off  in the middle of these masses. I hate waiting. I hate masses. I hate sweating. I don't like standing that much.

But I likes me some Quasi and I dealt with it b/c that is how good this band is. Also, I think I paid $12 for that ticket and this one is only $8! Ridiculous.

Not only is that cheap, but we are going to give a pair of tickets away to it (and many others) to our Facebook group friends around 3PM today. You better that join that group right now.

More Portland April Events and Free Tickets here

From Backspace:

Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss of super-group Quasi are considered local heroes by many. Sharing members with Stephen Malkmus, appearing on multiple Built To Spill albums and being able to call Elliott Smith a former band mate, puts you high on the list of indie rock royalty, doesn't it?Sam, Janet, and now official bassist Joanna Bolme are busy writing new tunes and will be recording a new, spanking good album at Jackpot! studio beginning in early April.

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Posted By Samantha Herman

Portlanders revel in faux – faux fur for the PETA members, faux turkey for the vegans, and faux pas committed by Sam Adams. The Faux Film Festival is three nights full of mocumentaries, spoofs, satirical shorts, and parodies.  This year, two of the three feature films are international submissions from Russia and Scotland. According to Mike Shklonik, Festival Director, "Of the five years I've been doing this, [this year's festival] will have more international films than any previous year." So in addition to your keen sense of humor, be sure to bring your reading glasses because there will be subtitles.

On Sunday night, when the chuckles have subsided and there's nothing left to poke fun at, awards will be handed out for the best films. Expecting to see a trophy that closely resembles the gold Oscar statuettes? Not at the Faux Film Festival. "I bought two boxes full of bowling and karate trophies from Wacky Willy's," says Shklonik, referring to the quirky surplus store that closed in 2006. Now that sounds more like it.

Click here for the movie schedule.

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Posted By Kimberly Gehl

If you haven't heard of Dredg, an awesome alt-rock/progressive/experimental band whose birthplace is just 675 miles south of Portland, then you are in luck. Four years after the release of their album Catch Without Arms, they are traveling across North America to promote the release of their much-anticipated new record, The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion.

The word on the street is that eager fans who venture to see them play at the Hawthorne Theatre Friday night can expect to hear songs old and new, hard and soft, energetic and relaxing, all of which will fuse together to create a supernova of melodic aural ecstasy.

Doors open at 8 p.m. and the show starts at 9 p.m. For a mere $20 after service charge, you will be treated to the full spectrum of metal, post-rock, experimental, progressive and politically- and spiritually-charged genius, including opening bands Torche and From Monuments to Masses.

More Portland April Events and Concerts (and FREE tickets) here

Good morning Portland,

Our neighbors to the North sent the first (and partial) Bumbershoot Lineup around 6:30 this morning.  In addition, information on a new kid-friendly “Youngershoot” plus ways that Bumbershoot is striving to sustainable. The full press release below:

From Bumbershoot

BUMBERSHOOT®: SEATTLE'S MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL,PRESENTED BY SAMSUNG MOBILE
ANNOUNCES PARTIAL 2009 LINEUP INCLUDING:

SHERYL CROW, MODEST MOUSE, KATY PERRY, MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD,
DE LA SOUL, RAPHAEL SAADIQ, ISOBEL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN,
THE LONG WINTERS, SLY & ROBBIE & THE TAXI GANG, WORLD PARTY, MSTRKRFT,
ROY AYERS, COMMON MARKET, UH HUH HER AND MANY MORE!

The 39th Annual Festival will also offer three stages of comic genius,  plus authors and artists, dance and theatrics, the 1 Reel Film Festival, urban crafts, and Youngershoot: a Festival focus on family and fun!

Buy early: advance 3-day passes on-sale now for only $80! Read the rest of this entry »