Win Tickets ($136): Dogstar w/ The Backfires @ Crystal Ballroom | Keanu Reeves, Alt-Rock

We are giving away a pair of tickets to Dogstar w/ The Backfires @ Crystal Ballroom on September 17. To win, comment below on this post why you’d like to attend. Winner will be drawn and emailed September 14.

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From our sponsors:
Dogstar w/ The Backfires
September 17, 2026
6:30PM doors, 8PM show | $68 | All Ages
Purchase Tickets: crystalballroompdx.com

Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St, Portland, OR 97209

Let the record show that here in 2026, Dogstar is clearly All In Now.

After a long 20 years of silence as a band, this California-based power trio – guitarist and lead singer Bret Domrose, drummer Robert Mailhouse, and bassist Keanu Reeves – surprised many and perhaps even themselves when they returned in fine form in 2023 with a new album that found the three joyfully making music again and doing it all Somewhere Between the Power Lines and Palm Trees. Only two years later – after extensive touring in America and around the world playing everywhere from sweaty rock clubs to giant outdoor festivals – Dogstar is returning with strong new songs that leave no doubt that this little band that could is back for good with a powerful sound that is bigger and better than ever before.

Dogstar is a group of three friends who have slowly yet surely become a band of brothers – a group with multiple talents committed to picking up the pace and locking into life as a working and increasingly beloved rock band who are excited to get back on the road this summer.