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Win Tickets ($90): An Evening with Goose @ Pioneer Courthouse Square | Indie Groove
August 25 @ Pioneer Courthouse Square – Fluidly traverse genres with head-spinning hooks, technical fireworks, and the kind of chemistry only possible among small town and longtime friends.
Read MoreWin Tickets ($30): AMP (Asebroek, McLean, Prescott) @ The Goodfoot Pub & Lounge | Featuring Members of Fruition, G. Love & Special Sauce, and World’s Finest
August 20 @ The Goodfoot Pub & Lounge – A pandemic-era revelation, AMP draws from the original music of these three members’ main projects.
Read MoreWin Tickets ($40): FULL STURGEON MOON: Animal Feelings, Chris Dingman @ The Old Church Concert Hall | Ambient Soundscapes, Electronic, Indie
August 12 @ The Old Church Concert Hall – ANIMAL FEELINGS is the musical love child of producer and pianist Oli Chang. From introspective piano pieces to sprawling indy anthems, Animal Feelings ranges from ambient soundscapes to unexpected electronic drops.
Read MoreWin Tickets ($70): Animals As Leaders @ Crystal Ballroom | w/ Car Bomb, Alluvial, Instrumental Progressive Metal
November 1 @ Crystal Ballroom – Armed with palette-expanding eight-string guitars, rich synths, and pummeling percussive grooves, Animals as Leaders is beloved by metalheads, aspiring virtuosos, jazz fanatics, and casual listeners alike.
Read MorePlacebo @ Crystal Ballroom | Pop Rock, Industrial, Britpop
May 16 @ Crystal Ballroom – Called ‘Never Let Me Go’, Placebo’s 8th studio album channels all their skill as songwriters and sound-makers into music that satisfies their near-brutal appetite for self-expression.
Read More2022 Oregon Zoo Nights | Portland Outdoor Summer Music Featuring Afrobeat/Juju w/ Jujuba
August 12 @ Oregon Zoo – We’re keeping the zoo open late on select Fridays this summer, and enhancing the already-spectacular experience with additional food carts, beer & wine sales, live music, keeper talks and educational fun for kids and adults alike.
Read MoreWin Tickets ($100): Echo & The Bunnymen @ Roseland Theater | Celebrating 40 Years of Magical Songs
Echo and the Bunnymen will celebrate their 40th anniversary by embarking on a North American tour in Summer 2022.
Read MoreWin Tickets ($36): Mdou Moctar @ Revolution Hall | Rock, w/ Lithics
August 24 @ Revolution Hall – Prodigious Tuareg guitarist and songwriter Mdou Moctar boldly reforges contemporary Saharan music and “rock music.”
Read MoreWin Tickets ($90): The Tubes @ Aladdin Theater | Featuring Fee Waybill, Rock
August 21 @ Aladdin Theater – The Tubes formed in 1972 in San Francisco from two bands that moved there from Phoenix, The Beans along with the Red, White and Blues Band.
Read MoreWin Tickets ($90): Modest Mouse @ Pioneer Courthouse Square | Rock, w/ Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever (Saturday)
August 19-20 @ Pioneer Courthouse Square – Over the past quarter century, Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock has served as indie rock’s resident backwoods philosopher, pondering his infinitesimal place in the world at large and seeking balance in a universe governed by polar opposites.
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