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Update: Six Bands To See @ 2010 PDX Pop Now! Festival | July 30 — August 1

Portland's “PDX Pop Now” Music Festival is a little over a week away, but you can get a preview this Thursday at City Hall. Just another great summer music event in Portland

Related Events and Info:

• PDX Pop Now! 2010 Fest Line-Up + Compilation CD
• Portland Concerts in the Park Schedule
• Free Portland Concerts Every Thursday Of July @ Ecotrust
• Free Portland Sunday Concert Series @ Rontoms

From Mayor Adams Website:

PDX Pop Now! at City Hall 2010
Thursday, July 22
5:30-8:30pm
1221 SW 4th Ave. (between Madison & Jefferson)
Free / All Ages / Outdoors
www.pdxpopnow.com

We have all waited very patiently for the summer to arrive this year, bringing with it all of the outdoor arts events that help make the warm, sunny months in Portland so special.  And now that it's here, there is theater to be seen in the parks, dancing to be done in the streets, and — here's where we come in — live music to be heard at City Hall.

We are proud to partner with local music advocacy organization PDX Pop Now! for the fourth year to bring a free, all-ages, early evening concert of Portland music to the steps of City Hall.  Whether you like rock, jazz, folk or electronic music — or even just watching an eclectic crowd of locals and visitors mixing to a local soundtrack in the City Hall courtyard — it will be worth your while to swing by between 5:30 and 8:30 pm to be a part of this annual tradition that honors the important contributions of local musicians to our city, and provides the public with a free, inclusive, accessible opportunity to discover them.

Concert-goers will be treated to performances by: Read the rest of this entry »

The still-shot preview on this video might be the best ever. The Mayor looks like he was having a good time out there. Only two days away until this year's festival!

Also, you can WIN a $50 package to the Oregon Brewers festival here from us.

Reminder: We give out 100s of $$$ in free tickets every month to our Portland Facebook Group for many of the top events & venues in PDX. Join it if you like free stuff. Not on Facebook? Join our email list and win there.

Related from PDX Pipeline:

• Oregon Brewers Festival Pictures & 2010 Info + Win $50 Package
• 2010 Oregon Beer (Brewers) Festival @ Waterfront Park | July 22-25
• Our Portland EVENTS LIST

Add your Portland videos to our vimeo group.
More Portland Videos here on Pipeline.

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2011 Update: Win Beer Package: Oregon Brewers Festival (OBF) | Portland Waterfront Park, 80+ Beers, 80,000+ Attendees

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Oregon Brewers Festival
Photo by richtpt

Pipeline is giving away another $50 packages (two mugs, 40 tokens, one program!) to the Oregon Brewers Festival. To win: Comment on this post why you would like to attend. If you have already commented/entered here, you don’t have to enter again. We’ll draw the winner on Friday (July 23) @ noon.

Reminder: We give out 100s of $$$ in free tickets every month to our Portland Facebook Group for many of the top events & venues in PDX. Join it if you like free stuff. Not on Facebook? Join our email list and win there.

Related Events & Info From Pipeline:

• Taplister Tweet-Up For Oregon Brewers Festival Parade
• 2010 Oregon Beer (Brewers) Festival @ Waterfront Park | July 22-25
• Portland Video: Oregon Brewers Festival Parade + Mayor Sam Adams

- More Portland Pictures here on Pipeline
- Add your Portland pictures to our Flickr group here.

More Oregon Brewers Festival  pictures after the break… Read the rest of this entry »

Related: Win Tickets To Crystal Ballroom Shows: Wolf Parade, Big Head Todd & More

From our Partners at Crystal Ballroom:

Big Head Todd And The Monsters
Truth & Salvage Company
Crystal Ballroom | Thursday, July 22

8 p.m. doors, 9 p.m. show |
$24 advance, $27 day of show |
21 and over | Buy Tickets

About Big Head Todd And The Monsters
Big Head Todd and The Monsters' ninth studio album Rocksteady – due July 20 on the group's Big Records imprint, distributed by Warner Music Group's Independent Label Group – finds the veteran Colorado band returning to their DIY roots and forging into surprising musical territory.

Rocksteady is the latest chapter in a rock ‘n' roll career that stretches back nearly 25 years. Founded in 1986 by Mohr, Squires, and Nevin, then University of Colorado students, Big Head Todd and The Monsters became one of the region's most popular acts through constant touring. After issuing two popular independent releases on their Big imprint, the band hooked up with Irving Azoff's Giant Records for the platinum album Sister Sweetly (1993). The Monsters issued four chart albums on Giant and Warner Bros.

Their formidable reputation rests on their stage performances; Big Head Todd and The Monsters Live was recorded on the fabled H.O.R.D.E. tour. Over the years, the group has developed a close relationship with their fans: Their last album, All the Love You Need, was released as a free download, and was snapped up by half a million of The Monsters' followers. Read the rest of this entry »

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2011 Update: 8th Annual Tour de Coops in East Portland | Meet Chickens

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People often say that Portland has the most vibrant urban chicken coop scene in the country. It’s hard to disagree when our own mayor has one. You can view his and 24 others this coming Saturday for the 7th annual Tour de Coops. Related: Our Portland Events List

From Press Release:

Tour de Coops
7th annual chicken coop tour
presented by Growing Gardens
Saturday, July 24 — 11am-3pm

Tour de Coops is a fun and affordable community event for you, your whole family and all your friends!  Chicken owners throughout Portland will open their yards so you can see their coops and meet their chickens during this self-guided tour. You’ll have the opportunity to visit 25 backyard chicken coops all over East Portland, including Mayor Sam Adams coop. Coops are clustered to encourage biking and walking.

Enter the raffle to win one of two coops (made by The Garden Coop and ModernCoop.com), chicken feed and gift certificates donated by local nurseries and feed stores!

Booklets are $15 and include coop photos, descriptions, maps and suggested biking/walking routes. Booklets will go on sale with raffle tickets starting July 17th through July 23rd at: Concentrates Inc, Naomi’s Organic Farm Supply, People’s Coop, Urban Farm Store, Garden Fever, Livingscape Nursery and Hollywood Whole Foods Market.

On July 24th, we’ll have Read the rest of this entry »

From our partners at Rontoms (photo from Portland Hamburgers):

Special Performances from the Golden Hours, Orca Team, and El Rey!!
Sunday, July 18th, 9pm FREE. IT'S FREE! It's Always Free…

Thanks to everyone who made last week's Loch Lomond show a smashing success, this week we welcome three very different, totally killer lo-fi(ish) pop groups — the Golden Hours,  Orca Team, and El Rey!!

Headlining tonight's show, The Golden Hours are as sweet and fuzzed out a pop band as you could ever hope to find. This quietly prodicious four piece recall a sweeter Raveonettes, a poppier Thee Oh Sees, and a rougher Yo La Tengo in equal measure.  Singer Eliza Sohn uses the fuzzier vocal effects expertly, never hiding behind them, instead enhancing the songs themselves with a richer, fuller pop vibe.  It's no understatement to say that the unitiated will walk out smitten, flabbergasted not to know them already.

Joining The Golden Hours is the wonderful Orca Team, who lean a bit more lo-fi than the Golden Hourss brighter, twinklier tunes. A perfect compliment to tonight's other bands, Orca Team's minimal, spaced-out kick is oddly timeless. Rooted in early experimental rock without sounding derivative or, Orca Team take a sound that, in the wrong, hands, might sound oddly retro, but in theirs is wonderfully futuristic.

Rounding out the bill, El Rey embrace their throwback underpinnings for a delightfully 60's rock sound!

Click here to download “Satellite” from the Golden Hours, and join us for (seriously) some of the best pop in Portland!!

AND COMING SOON… Read the rest of this entry »

From the large Portland weekend event 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. Not on Facebook? Join our email list and win there.

Portland Sunday Events, July 18

• Zoo Bombers @ Zoo Bomb Monument (FREE — mini bike madness)
• Anime Hentai @ Paris Theater (FREE — sex cartoons)
• Bike Polo @ Alberta Park (FREE — come watch or participate!)
• Band Showcase @ Rontoms (FREE — bands, beer, hipsters)
• International Beer Fest @ NW Park Blocks ($25 — beer, beer, beer)
• 30th Anniversary of the Cathedral Park Jazz Festival @ St. John's Bridge (FREE — jazz)
• Sand in the City @ Pioneer Square ($3 donation — one huge sandcastle competition)
• From Pipeline: 2010 Trek In The Park @ Woodlawn Park
• From Pipeline: 2010 Portland Summer "Movies In the Park" Schedule
• From Pipeline: East Portland's Sunday Parkway
• From Pipeline: Ramona Street Fair In Lents | Food, Music, Crafts
• From Pipeline: Suck My Flick Open Film Screening @ Curious Comedy
• From Pipeline: Free Summertime Outdoor Acoustic Music Series @ Mississippi Studios (3pm-7pm, free, all ages, drink specials)
• From Pipeline: Portland Concerts in the Park Schedule
• From Pipeline: East Portland Expo: Music, Movies, Entertainment
• From Pipeline: Saraveza Imperial IPA Festival | Portland, Everett, Gorge
• From Pipeline: Coho Productions' Live Girls: Play About Portland Strip Clubs
• From Pipeline: End Of An Era: Malice Is Leaving Portland + Final Dates @ Sassy's
• From Pipeline: Free Movie Nights in Portland
• From Pipeline: ‘CROPSEY' Horror Documentary Film Premieres @ Hollywood Theater

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2011 Update: East Portland Exposition This Weekend: Music, Movies, Food, & More | 13 PDX Neighborhoods

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Hey guess what? There is another huge free event this weekend in Portland called the East Portland Expo. It is co-sponsored by ALL 13 East Portland Neighborhoods. Oh, and it is also partnered with two other large free events and right next to  another one.

There is a lot of entertainment at this one and you probably need to go the website to see it all. Good luck deciding on how to plan this Saturday and Sunday.

Related events and info from PDX Pipeline:

• 75+ Portland Weekend Events, Parties & Free Tickets | July 15-18
• 2010 Portland Summer “Movies In the Park”
• Ramona Street Fair In Lents | Food, Music, Crafts
• East Portland’s Sunday Parkway

From Press Release:

The East Portland Exposition (EPO XPO) is a two day community event that will be held at Ed Benedict Community Park, located along SE Powell Boulevard at SE 102nd Avenue in East Portland July 17 and 18, 2010.  The gates open at 11 a.m. on Saturday and 10:00 a.m. on Sunday.  EPO XPO is co-sponsored by all 13 East Portland Neighborhoods.

The event features 11 live bands and Read the rest of this entry »

Leigh sent out his weekly email of Portland weekend events earlier today. It is mostly 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. Not on Facebook? Join our email list and win there.

From Leigh Feldman:
Things I'm currently jocking…

Free ish… We have tix here and will be giving away some on twitter (add @leighfeldman3) to Mortified (tonight), Passes to the Int'l Beer Fest (fri), tickets to Philly's Phunkestra & Marv Ellis (fri) and to the Scarub of Living Legends + Very, AfroClassics tour next weekend (7/23)! 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 — or you can find us on facebook at facebook.com/LifeisaPartyFB to get tickets, music and info on weekly events.

Free music ish… This mix from Supa Qool DJ Quartermaine. http://www.mediafire.co m/?2dm2wzvy3zt. It's big on the originals into sample using tracks, but for anyone having a barbq or a fan of hip hop, this is a mix you should grab.

Awesome Ish… After a long wait, Portland is finally getting its own world-class comedy club!! Portland's Auggie Smith, from Comedy Central's “Live at Gotham” and NBC's “Last Comic Standing,” will be performing at the opening weekend of Helium Comedy Club Thursday July 29 to Sat. July 31st. They also have comedians from Reno911, Chelsea Lately and Whose Line Is It Anyway booked for the next few weeks! Head to www.heliumcomedy.com for tickets, schedule information, clips and advance rsvp to see Maria Bamford, Bill Burr, Todd Glass and Greg Proops!

This list is growing by leaps and bounds. Turn to the person next to you and see if they are reading the same email. If not, forward it to them and tell them to join the community.

Life is a party, everyone is just waiting to be invited.
See you all out and about! Leigh Feldman

Portland Thursday Events,  July 15

• Mortified @ Mission Theater ($12 — win tickets on list! part comedy, part literary event, one fun gathering of people reading embarrassing stories)
• Art Spark w/ DJ Global Ruckus @ Rose Festival HQ (FREE — music, art, drinks)
• Night Dedicated to House @ Couture (FREE — house music, big room, progressive)
• The Fix w/ Klipmode @ Someday Lounge (FREE — hip hop, funk, soul)
• Ecotrust Sundown Shows @ Ecotrust Building (FREE — music, food, beer)
• Steady Rockin w/ Deff Ro & Mighty Moves @ Bar XV (FREE — hip hop, funk, r&b)
• Blast Thursdays @ Crown Room (FREE — glitch, bass, dubstep, electronica)
• Love Loungers & Gretchen Mitchell @ Dapper Cap (FREE — music, beer, wine, hats)
• From Pipeline: Colin Hay (of Men at Work) Jake Oken-Berg @ Crystal Ballroom
• From Pipeline: Dairy Queen Blizzard Mobile In Portland | Free Blizzards
• From Pipeline: Comedy In Session with host Ben Varley @ Tanker Bar | FREE
• From Pipeline: 2010 Portland Summer "Movies In the Park" Schedule
• From Pipeline: Portland Concerts in the Park Schedule
• From Pipeline: Old Spice Guy (Isaiah Mustafa) Loving Portland & Powells
• From Pipeline: Coho Productions' Live Girls: Play About Portland Strip Clubs
• From Pipeline: Free Movie Nights in Portland
• From Pipeline: End Of An Era: Malice Is Leaving Portland + Final Dates @ Sassy's
• From Pipeline: Saraveza Imperial IPA Festival | Portland, Everett, Gorge

Friday, Saturday & Sunday events after the break… Read the rest of this entry »

Well, sad news for Portland. Our most famous adult entertainer is moving to LA at the end of this month. I contacted Malice to see if she had any last dates here in Portland and she'll be at Sassy's Thursday-Saturday through the end of July. I imagine that last day, July 31, will be quite a scene over there.

Portland (& the 97214) will miss you. Check her out before she's gone.

Related Malice stuff from Pipeline:

• From 2009: Interview & Photos With Malice: Let Her Entertain You
• From 2008: Portland Tattoo Exhibit (Skinvisible) @ Portland Art Museum
• From 2007: Daily Stank Image Bank: Malice at the Holiday Ale Festival
• From 2007: Is The Willamette Week Taking On The Mercury's Savage Love?