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The Lovecats [Cure Tribute] @ Crystal Ballroom | w/ New Sensation [INXS] & Louder Than Moz [Smiths]
August 25 @ Crystal Ballroom – The Lovecats The Cure tribute rotates nearly 2-hours of the emotion, look, and sound of an album-quality early-era Cure performance.
Read MoreWin Tickets ($30): The Girl, Interrupt’r Comedy Tour @ Mission Theater | Featuring Pallavi Gunalan, Monica Nevi & Elena C. Hayden
September 13 @ Mission Theater – The Girl, Interrupt’r Comedy Tour featuring Monica Nevi (Big Step-Dad Energy, ESPN) and Pallavi Gunalan (Netflix is a Joke, Laugh Factory Fresh Faces) kick off the first ever “Girl, Interrupt’r” West Coast Women of Comedy Tour, presented by Oregon Roots and Rip City Comedy.
Read MoreWin Tickets ($40): Shafty @ Crystal Ballroom | Portland’s Tribute to Phish
September 16 @ Crystal Ballroom – Since February 2012, Shafty – Portland’s Tribute to Phish has brought masterful improv to the stage using the decades-deep Phish catalog as a trampoline for creative expression.
Read MoreWin Tickets ($40): Stop Light Observations, Little Bird @ Mission Theater | Rock, Pop, Indie
Stop Light Observations is a dynamic five-piece hailing from Charleston, South Carolina. Their sound is a unique blend of rock, pop, and indie, infused with electronic beats and soulful vocals. See them November 7 at Mission Theater.
Read MoreWin Tickets ($40): Vacancy Side Street Block Party | w/ Bobby Raps, Common Apparel + Fam Jam, Live Music, Skateboarding, Shopping
Vacancy’s side street Block Party features Bobby Raps, Sean Anonymous, Demon Marcus, Rainezra, Onry Ozzborn & more!
Read MorePHAME Presents Stop Making Sense @ Revolution Hall | Featuring Laura Gibson, Lost Lander, Blitzen Trapper’s Brian Koch, Stephanie Strange & Matthew Gailey
PHAME Academy is taking on their most ambitious project yet — an all-Talking Heads multimedia extravaganza inspired by Jonathan Demme’s legendary 1984 concert film Stop Making Sense, live onstage at Revolution Hall on August 26-27.
Read MoreWin Tickets ($90): Richard Cheese & Lounge Against The Machine @ Crystal Ballroom | Perhaps the Last Ever Tour, Swingin’ Vegas Rock and Rap
September 13 @ Crystal Ballroom – America’s loudest lounge singer Richard Cheese performs swingin’ Vegas versions of rock and rap songs, “swankifying” popular Top40 hits into retro vocal standards.
Read MoreWin Tickets ($130): Jamie Cullum @ Crystal Ballroom | Jazz Pop Singer
September 26 @ Crystal Ballroom -Jamie Cullum is a celebrated musician the world over with loyal fans in every corner of the globe.
Read MoreWin Tickets ($90): Sabertooth 2023 @ Crystal Ballroom | w/ Yob, Ludicra, Uada, Ghost Bath, WILL & More!
McMenamins, Nanotear, Portland Mercury, and X-Ray Present proudly host Sabertooth 2023 on September 2, bringing a stoner metal edge to this celebration of the Crystal Ballroom’s psychedelic history.
Read MoreWin Tickets ($80): Grammy Nominee Sonny Landreth @ Aladdin Theater | Blues, Country, Zydeco
August 31 @ Aladdin Theater – A percussive burst of acoustic resonator guitar pushes the narrator on a journey “between the life I left and the edge of next” in the title cut of guitarist, songwriter and bandleader Sonny Landreth’s 14th album.
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